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Something is rotten in the state of Sunnydale High. If you're Buffy. She's one step from expulsion, her GPA is a disaster and Parent's Night is in a few days time. That's the badness she knows about. The Night of St. Vigeous is approaching, when the power of all vampires will be at its peak. All that, however, is the good news. There's two new faces in town. One of them's under a bleach blond haircut and over a black leather trenchcoat, the other's in front of a criminally insane clairvoyant brain: Spike and Drusilla. Spike decides to crash Parent's Night, which actually does Buffy a favor, since she's trying her best to keep Joyce from Snyder. Spike nearly gets the better of Buffy till Joyce brains him with a fire axe. Women! Later, Spike kills the Annointed One, and sets up shop as ruler of Sunnydale. After he and Dru see what's on television, of course. — Short synopsis by Bruce.
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| Number: |
Episode 15 |
| Titel: |
School Hard |
| Book: |
Joss Whedon(Story)
David Greenwalt(Story + Teleplay) |
| Direction: |
John T. Kretchmer |
| on TV: |
USA: 29.09.1997 / |
| Guests: |
Mrs. Joyce Summers Kristine Sutherland
Ms. Jenny Calendar Robia La Morte
The Anointed One Andrew J. Ferchland
Spike James Marsters
Drusilla Juliet Landau
Principal Snyder Armin Shimerman
Sheila Martini Alexandra Johnes
Brian Kirch Alan Abelew
Parent Keith MacKechnie
Helpless Girl Joanie Pleasant
Sheriff Brian Reddy |
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Poor Buffy — Principal Snyder has sentenced her, on pain of expulsion, to set up the upcoming Parent/Teacher night. "Parents'll love it," says Xander, trying to reassure her. "As long as nothing bad happens..." Uh-oh — a jinx!.
Something bad has indeed happened. Two new vampires have moved into Sunnydale, a cheerfully homicidal maniac named Spike and his spacey girlfriend Drusilla. They make a deal with the Anointed One to take care of his Slayer problem — Spike has personally killed two Slayers himself. And to make things worse, Giles and Ms. Calendar have discovered that this coming Saturday is the Night of St. Vigeous, when the vampires' power will be at its peak. Much to Giles' dismay, Buffy has other things on her mind — she's getting increasingly nervous over Parent/Teacher night. She's terrified of what her teachers, not to mention Principal Snyder, will tell her mom. That night at the Bronze Spike stages a ploy, getting Buffy to reveal herself as the Slayer. Now he knows who to kill.
Buffy completes her preparations for Parent/Teacher night (although the lemonade could use a little more sugar), but Willow's best efforts can't keep Buffy's mom from meeting with Principal Snyder. The meeting apparently does not go well, but the impending grounding is interrupted by some sudden visitors who crash through the window of the lounge — Spike got impatient and couldn't wait until Saturday.
He and his army cut the power and the phones in the school, but Buffy manages to get her mom and Principal Snyder and most of the others safely locked in the science room. Then she goes after the vamps one by one. Meanwhile, Xander gets out through the stacks and gets Angel, who tries to convince his former pupil Spike that he's still a bloodsucking killer. Spike doesn't buy it.
Buffy rescues her mother and the others, who get out of the school okay while Buffy goes back to confront Spike. It looks like the vampire's about to add a third Slayer to his kill record when he's hit from behind with an axe — Buffy's mother has come to the defense of her daughter. Spike runs away, the school is saved, and it even looks like Buffy's grounding has been averted... for now. "A Slayer with family and friends... that sure as hell wasn't in the brochure," says a defeated Spike, just before he kills the Anointed One and takes over as the clear vampire leader in Sunnydale...
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Principal Snyder: "Your parents, assuming you have any, will meet your teachers, assuming you have any left."
Spike's wonderfully theatrical entrance: "You were there? Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move."
Spike: "You've got Slayer problems. That's a bad piece of luck. Do you know what I find works real good with Slayers? Killing them."
The workings, such as they are, of Drusilla's mind: "The boy doesn't trust you. They follow him. I think sometimes that all my hair will fall out and I'll be bald."
Buffy: "Do we really need weapons for this?"
Spike: "I just like them. They make me feel all manly."
Joyce, after braining Spike with an axe: "You get the hell away from my daughter!"
Spike: "A Slayer with family and friends. That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure."
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Nickel - "1000 Nights" and "Stupid Thing" (From Stupid Thing, Sensitive Man Music, 1997)
Nickel is the band playing live in the Bronze. "1000 Nights" plays first, as Willow tutors Buffy in French, and then "Stupid Thing" as Xander coaxes them out to the dance floor.
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