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Season 2, Episode 17
Written by Ty King
Directed by Michael E. Gershman
Original Airdate: 24 February 1998
"It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If
we can live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we
would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dark. Without passion, we'd be
truly dead."
Angelus
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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At the Bronze, Buffy and Xander are dancing while
Angelus watches from the background. Buffy, Willow, Xander and Cordelia
leave the Bronze hand in hand as Angelus watches from the shadows. That
night in Buffy's room, she cautiously checks around and then goes to
sleep. Angelus appears in the window and then comes to sit by her side.
He strokes her face and watches her sleep. The next morning Buffy awakes
to find an envelope by her. She opens it and sees a charcoal picture of
herself as she sleeps. The next morning Buffy goes to Giles for a way to
keep Angelus out of her room. Cordelia overreacts and gets worried
because she invited him in her car.
They leave the library and Buffy ponders telling her mother the truth,
but Giles urges her not to. In Jenny's computer class, Jenny asks Willow
to cover her class if she happens to be late. Willow is happy, then
worried, then happy again at the thought of all that power. Buffy and
Giles enter to get Willow and an awkward few words are passed between
Jenny and the others. As the girls leave, Giles remains to talk to
Jenny. She gives him a book that should help keep Angelus out of Buffy's
house. Jenny apologizes and Giles attempts to tell her off but their
feelings for each other make it difficult.
That night, Willow is talking to Buffy on the phone as she gets ready
for bed. She goes over to feed her fish. She notices an envelope on her
desk and opens it. She pulls out a string with her fish hanging from it.
Willow ends up spending the night at Buffy's with garlic adorning the
bed and weapons in their hands. Early that morning in the factory,
Drusilla presents Spike with a puppy to eat. He refuses to be treated
like a child. Angelus arrives and worsens the vibe between him and
Spike. Drusilla has a vision that someone is going to harm them. That
day Jenny goes to a store where she asks to get an Orb of Thesulah. When
asked why she needs it, she tells the store owner that she plans to
restore a friend's soul. At school, Willow and Buffy arrive together and
meet up with Xander. Willow leaves to teach her class just as she sees
Jenny arrive. Buffy confronts Jenny, but can't get the words out right
away. She works her way to telling Jenny that Giles misses her. Inside,
Buffy meets up with Giles and is relieved to find that he has found a
spell to keep Angelus out.
That night, Jenny stays late to work on translating the text for the
spell to bring back Angel's soul. Giles interrupts and they agree to
meet later at his apartment. While protecting Willow's house, Cordelia
finds a picture of Joyce drawn by Angelus. Meanwhile, Joyce drives up to
the house to find Angelus out front. He confronts her and scares her by
telling her how he can't live without Buffy. Then he accidentally
mentions the passionate night he spent with Buffy. Her mother rushes
inside and he tries to follow but Buffy and Willow have gotten there
first and Willow is just finishing the spell. Later on, Giles comes over
to get the book and questions intervening on Buffy's "talk" with her
mother. Realizing he has nothing to say, he leaves.
Jenny translates the text to English and quickly saves it on a disk.
Then she prints it. As she looks over the printing text, she sees
Angelus in the back of her classroom. She realizes he got in by the
welcome sign out front that welcome all that seek knowledge. He takes
the Orb of Thesulah and smashes it against the chalkboard. He also
smashes her computer and burns the printed text in the fire created by
the damaged machine. Jenny tries to escape but is thrown against the
door. She quickly gets up and runs, searching for a way out. Many of the
doors are locked and she finds herself trapped. She finally finds a way
outside and runs from Angelus. He gets closer and she doesn't know what
to do. She rushes to a door but it is stuck. As he gains on her she
pushes it open and runs for the nearest escape pushing anything she can
into his way. When she finally believes him down, she flees up a flight
of stairs, only to run straight into Angelus. He taunts her and without
pause, he snaps her neck.
Giles arrives at his apartment to find a rose on the door. He enters and
finds champagne. He follows some candles and the rose petals upstairs.
As he looks on the bed, he finds Jenny dead and drops the champagne. He
remains in awe as the police arrive and ask him to come with them. He
requests a phone call and he calls Buffy at her house. She receives the
news as Angelus watches outside. Willow picks up the phone and bursts
into tears. A smile comes over Angelus' face. Xander and Cordelia drive
up to Buffy house and then they all head to Giles' place in hopes of
saving him from getting himself killed. They arrive to find that he has
taken all of his weapons and has headed out.
At the factory, Spike questions whether Angelus is ever going to kill
the Slayer. Suddenly fire spills over the dinning table as Spike and
Drusilla back up and Angelus moves to find out what's happening. A
crossbow arrow is shot into his shoulder. Giles comes walking in with a
stick with gasoline at the end. He lights it with the fire on the table
and proceeds to attack Angelus with it. After several hits, Angelus
grabs Giles by the throat. Before he can do much damage, Buffy takes him
and throws him into a wall. They fight, but then Angelus distracts Buffy
with the thought of Giles dying. She is thrown off the edge of a
platform and rushes to his side. As they escape, Giles shoves her off.
She hits him and then bursts into tears. She tells him she can't do this
alone and she doesn't want to loose him.
The next day, Buffy and Giles go to visit Jenny's grave. Buffy
apologizes for not being able to kill Angelus. At school, Willow takes
over for Jenny temporarily until the new teacher can get there. As she
tries to clear the desk, she knocks Jenny's disk off the table, where it
slides between the furniture.
TRIVIA
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Angelus kills Jenny by snapping her neck in
the school. It's a shocking moment, made sadder by Anthony Stewart
Head's sweet performance as Giles, and the voyeuristic Angelus watching
Buffy and Willow discovering the news on the telephone. Jenny's grave
has no year of birth or date on it. It simply says "Jennifer Calendar".
This isn't the last we see of Jenny and she reappears in
Becoming (Part 2) and
Amends.
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Alyson Hannigan had this to say about the
death in this episode. "Angel...had to kill somebody we loved - we were
all warned about that. Actually, I think it was supposed to be Oz that
was killed, then they decided they'd keep Oz around and they killed
Jenny." It wouldn't be the first major death in Buffy history: Joyce and
Tara would follow in The Body and
Seeing Red, respectively.
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Robia LaMorte had been informed of her
character's death, but reveals that shooting the scenes were not
especially easy: "The filming of the confrontation in the classroom was
one day in itself, that took probably four or five hours because of all
the fire and explosions...On a separate day we did the rest...to the
point of my death. A lot of running in high heels! The good thing about
TV is, as soon as the camera goes to those tighter shots, put those
sneakers on."
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The factory set was torn down after this
episode to make room for Angelus' mansion for the end of the season.
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When a vampire is invited into a home once,
it can enter again at any point, unless a reversal spell is done, as in
this episode. A vampire can enter a public place such as a school or
hospital. Angel says the sign outside the school says 'Romatia
transicara edicatorum' which translates to 'Enter all ye who seek
knowledge' (see Goofs). The last words of the incantation (read by
Willow at Buffy's house) are "Hicce verbis consensus rescissus est,"
which translates into English roughly as "By these words permission is
rescinded." The spell is done at Buffy and Willow's houses, and
Cordelia's car. When Giles leaves Buffy's house, he takes the spell book
containing the spell to uninvite vampires. He says to Willow, "I suppose
I should do my house next." Angel has never been in Giles' flat onscreen
however.
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Anthony Stewart Head performs the vocals on
the music at Jenny's funeral.
CONTINUITY
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In Becoming (Part 1)
, Giles says to Willow that he has an Orb Of Thesulah which can restore
Angel's soul - he uses it as a paper weight. In this episode, the owner
of the Occult shop says to Jenny that someone bought an Orb but the
person that bought it was going to use it as a paper weight, so he must
have been talking about Giles. This comes as a sharp twist. If Jenny had
informed Giles of her plans, then she would likely still be alive.
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Jenny's fallen computer disk isn't found
until Becoming (Part 1) and is used
by Willow to restore Angel's soul.
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Willow becomes a temporary teacher in this
episode and through to the season's end.
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Cordelia remembers that she invited Angel
into her car in Some Assembly Required
and eventually swaps it with her grandmother so he can't get in it. Off
course, it's all pointless.
GOOFS
When She Was
Bad |
Some Assembly Required |
School Hard |
Inca Mummy Girl |
Reptile Boy
Halloween |
Lie to Me |
The Dark Age |
What's My Line? (Part 1) |
What's My Line? (Part 2) |
Ted
Bad Eggs |
Surprise |
Innocence |
Phases |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
Passion
Killed by
Death |
I Only Have Eyes for You |
Go Fish |
Becoming (Part 1) |
Becoming (Part 2)
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