Episode 146: S7E21 End of Days
May 27th, 2014 by bthomas
Buffy again faces off with Caleb, this time armed with a powerful new weapon: the Scythe, which she slides effortlessly from its rocky resting place. But before Buffy can deploy her new toy, Caleb reveals that Faith and the potentials have fallen victim to his latest experiment in demolitions. Buffy rushes off the find Faith injured, several potentials dead, and three über-vamps on the loose.
Podcast Length: 32:30
Podcast Format: MP3
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After Joyce’s funeral, Dawn stays with Willow and Tara and tells them that she wants a spell to bring her mother. The two witches insist it cannot and should not be done though Willow points Dawn in the right direction by revealing a book on witchcraft history.
At the groundbreaking ceremony for a new cultural center, Xander, working for the construction crew, accidentally discovers ancient tribal ground of the natives which was buried in an earthquake. While in the area, Xander releases Hus, a Native American vengeance spirit, looking to payback the “white settlers” who took his people’s land.
The gang prepares for graduation which Willow views with gleeful reminiscent excitement, Xander fears, and Buffy sees as pointless. Meanwhile Mayor Wilkins is preparing for the Ascension and dispatches Faith to kill a local geology professor who we later learn may have discovered the body of a very old, very large demon. Buffy goes to Angel to investigate the dead professor some more but Faith shoots him with a poisoned arrow which slowly begins to kill him. Wesley tells Buffy the Watcher’s Council refuses to help Angel because he is a vampire. Buffy promptly quits the council dismissing Wesley’s authority once and for all. 
Angel, reeling from the Mayor’s talk, decides to do the right thing and breaks up with Buffy knowing he can never give her a real life. Buffy has to put her pain aside when a group of hell hounds trained to attack people wearing formal clothing besiege Sunnydale. 
A demon makes an offer to Buffy while on patrol – $5000 for the Books of Ascension which The Mayor needs. Before the deal can be made, Faith is sent by The Mayor to retrieve the books which she does after she kills the demon.
Buffy undergoes a test for Slayers who make it to their 18th birthday where she is slowly made weak and powerless by Giles. We learn that the ultimate culmination of this test is to have the weakened Slayer fight a vampire without her powers, relying on training and instinct. If she survives, she passes.
As Buffy et. al. prepare for Christmas vacation, Angel’s dreams are haunted by people he’s killed during his 240+ years as a vampire which is slowly driving him mad. He is being tormented by a mysterious force called the First Evil who takes on the form of any dead person – including Ms. Calendar – and tries to convince Angel to kill Buffy.
Spike returns to Sunnydale distraught as he was recently dumped by Drusilla. He is seeking revenge on Buffy and Angel as he blames both for driving a wedge between him and Dru. After encountering Willow in the magic shop, Spike decides that he would rather use witchcraft to win Dru back. 
