Season Four Episode Guide
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401 - The Freshman
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 Trying
to adjust to college life proves to be harder than Buffy imagined. Willow
is overly enthused about college life and her romance with Oz, and Xander
returns from his self-discovery adventure. Elsewhere, Giles seems to
be enjoying his life away from being a librarian and a Watcher. |
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402 - Living Conditions
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 Dorm
life proves to be quite an adjustment for Buffy when her roommate drives
her crazy and the gang must find away to get her to move out. Away from
the dorm, Buffy meets Parker Finch, aolder classman who is the first
guy Buffy has been attracted to since her break-up with Angel. |
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403 - The Harsh Light of Day
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 Spike
returns to Sunnydale in search of a mythical relic that supposedly gives
the wearer with unimaginable powers, and it's up to Buffy to stop him.
Meanwhile, Buffy is distracted as she deals with her feelings for a new
boy who is not a vampire, but is equally as difficult to understand. |
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404 - Fear, Itself
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 Buffy
reluctantly agrees to join Willow, Oz and Xander at a Halloween party
where they stumble into a real-life house of horrors masquerading as
an innocuous fraternity. Meanwhile, Giles is called upon to help out
the college crowd when all he wants is to get into the spirit of the
holiday. |
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405 - Beer Bad
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 When
Buffy is befriended by a group of upperclassmen who convince her to drown
her sorrows, Xander becomes suspicious when Buffy and her new friends
return to their primordial roots. Back at The Bronze, Willow is aware
of Oz's attention being turned to a new performer. |
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406 - Wild At Heart
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 Buffy
does her best to console Willow when Oz is undeniably drawn to another
woman, Veruca. Even after it is discovered that his attraction stems
from the fact that she is also a werewolf, his powerful primitive instincts
may be too innate to ignore. |
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407 - The Initative
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 Unbeknownst
to Buffy and the gang, Spike is captured by a commando squad for The
Initiative, a mysterious underground laboratory beneath the streets of
U.C. Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Buffy's Psych T.A., Riley, has a major slayer
crush and turns to Willow for advice on ways to woo. |
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408 - Pangs
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 Unbeknownst
to Buffy, Angel lurks in the shadows of Sunnydale trying to protect her
and keep her safe, while her perfect Thanksgiving is disrupted by an
army of Chumash Indians, the original inhabitants of Sunnydale, whose
spirits have come alive to recreate the wrongs done to their people. |
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409 - Something Blue
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 Willow,
pining over the disappearance of Oz, tries to imbue herself with the
power to have her will done. The fallout includes Buffy falling in love
with Spike and planning to marry him, Giles going blind and Xander becoming
even more of a demon magnet |
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410 - Hush
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 A
silence falls over Sunnydale when otherwordly beings come to town and
steal the power of speech from all the residents. Meanwhile, Riley gets
his first clue to Buffy's slayerside when they have a fight with the
outside visitor, and Willow attends a wicca group that's not all she
had hoped. |
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411 - Doomed
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 The
reopening of the Sunnydale Hellmouth sends Buffy and the gang back to
high school to prevent impending apocalypse. Meanwhile, Spike has lost
all will to live without the ability to kill, but he grows heartened
by the approaching end of the world. |
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412 - A New Man
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 Buffy
and Riley explore the extent of each other's powers as they become more
romantically entwined. Feeling left out, Giles turns to his old buddy
Ethan Rayne, but Giles must rely on an unlikely source when he is transformed
into a demon and mistakenly hunted down by Buffy. |
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413 - The I In Team
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 Buffy's
friends become hurt and concerned when her involvement with Riley and
the Initiative becomes more intense. Meanwhile, Professor Walsh sends
the slayer on a mission that brings her close to revealing a dangerous
secret. |
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414 - Goodbye Iowa
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 Buffy
and Riley's relationship is put to the test when she investigates Professor
Walsh's death and comes up against the Initiative's secret weapon. Riley
becomes paranoid and delusional and challenges Buffy when he discovers
that his mentor has been killed. |
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415 - This Year's Girl
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 Buffy
problems are just beginning when she learns that Faith has awakened from
her coma and has gone seeking revenge to the only home in which Faith
remembers Buffy living. Meanwhile, once she is set free, Faith receives
a mysterious gift left behind from the Mayor. |
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416 - Who Are You?
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 Buffy
battles to escape the clutches of the Watcher's Council, while Faith
continues to wreak havoc in the lives of Buffy's family and friends.
Meanwhile, it's Willow and Tara who figure out Buffy's whereabouts, but
not before Faith has done some serious damage to Buffy's relationship
with Riley |
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417 - Superstar
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 Buffy,
still reeling from the discovery that Riley was intimate with Faith,
must put aside her personal emotions and summon the strength to uncover
why the entire town thinks that former high school nerd, Jonathan, is
Sunnydale's newest version of a superhero. |
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418 - Where The Wild Things
Are
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 Buffy
and Riley unleash a powerful supernatural force that awakens and causes
everyone's hormones to kick into overdrive, threatening the very lives
of Buffy and Riley. In order to free them, the gang must battle the spirits
of children who have come back to avenge past abuses. |
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419 - New Moon Rising
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 Willow
and her friends are stunned when Oz returns to Sunnydale claiming he
still loves Willow and has his full moon frolics under control. But when
the moon sets, a transformed Oz is captured by The Initiative and an
unlikely source breaks his alliance to come to the rescue. |
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420 - The Yoko Factor
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 Buffy
is even more certain of her love for Riley when Angel's surprise visit
to Sunnydale brings Riley and Angel to blows. Meanwhile, Spike joins
forces with Adam and devises a plan to tear the Slayer apart from her
gang, leaving her wide open for her enemies to attack. |
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421 - Primeval
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 Buffy's
estrangement from her friends threatens to keep the group from stopping
Adam's plan. Elsewhere, Riley is captured by Adam and learns that before
Professor Walsh death, she had implanted Riley with a chip that could
destroy his power and bond him to Adam forever. |
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422 - Restless
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 A
primal animal force stalks Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles in their nightmares
as they each come face to face with their worst fears. |