Episode 55: S3E21&22 Graduation Day
October 3rd, 2011 by bthomas
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.
Podcast Length: 42:52
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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.
A sarcophagus which contains the turned-to-stone body of a demon called Acathla, who can suck the entire world into hell, is unearthed in Sunnydale and Angelus is determined to awaken him and end history altogether. J. and Brian slice their way through Becoming.
Sunnydale High is haunted by the ghosts of a student and teacher from the 1950s. The night of the Sadie Hawkins dance he killed her in a fit of rage before killing himself. Now Buffy’s classmates, school officials, & the like are being possessed by these ghosts as they replay their final moments with each other.
Angelus’ terror campaign against Buffy and the gang escalates to a new level going as far as to sneak in and watch her sleep at night and leaving drawings of the scene. Angelus is also still getting under Spike’s wheels with his obvious flirtation with Drusilla.
Picking up where Surprise left off, we see Angel in pain in the rainy street. A woman approaches and in a flash Angel, in vamp face, drinks her dry and declares he feels fine. It appears his night of passion has transformed him again into Angelus.
While the gang plans Buffy’s surprise birthday party, Dru and Spike are hard at work to reassemble an indestructible demon called the Judge, who can burn the humanity out of people.
Buffy gets a visit from an old friend/crush Billy “Ford” Fordham, who is transferring to Sunnydale High. That night at the Bronze, Ford sees Buffy stake a vampire, but he already knew she was the Slayer.
