In the beginning of the episode, Buffy and Giles are in the cemetery watching for vamps, and practicing for her SAT's at the same time, when a vampire jumps out and Buffy fights him.  Staking him with her number two pencil, Giles gives Buffy another one and they continue.  At the mayor's office, Mayor Wilkins discusses with Mr. Trick their next course of action.  While they talk, the mayor opens up a cabinet in his office to reveal a whole bunch of voodoo looking stuff, and he discusses 'sub-contracting' through a guy Mr. Trick knows.  Someone who's 'worked this town before'.  At school the next day, Principal Snyder hands out boxes of candy, telling the students (including Buffy and the gang) that it's to raise money for uniforms for the band, and they've all got to sell it.  At home, Buffy sells 20 bars to her mom, who denies Buffy permission to go out for her license.  Buffy heads off for a training session with Giles, who is testing her ability to fight unseen enemies.  She passes with flying colors, and leaves to go see Angel, who is performing Tai Chi at the mansion.  She watches as he moves in slow motion (ah, what a heavenly image!), then rushes forward to help him when he almost collapses afterward.  Inside by the fireplace, Angel asks how Scott is, and Buffy elects not to tell him that they've broken up.  He asks her if she's being careful in her slaying, and says he worries about her.  When she says she worries about him too, he replies that he's getting stronger.  Buffy reflects that pretty soon he won't even need her anymore, and he says "that'll be better." At home, Buffy is confronted by Joyce and Giles; she'd told them each that she was going to be with the other.  Buffy says that they're pushing her too hard, and scheduling her for all of the accountable hours in a day.  They don't hear anything she says, and send her to her room...then continue munching on candy bars.  Elsewhere, we see a factory in which the candy bars are being packaged.  We also see Ethan Rayne ("Halloween" and "The Dark Age", last season) supervising the packaging.  In school the next day, Willow and Xander play footsies underneath the table as a sub comes in to watch the study hall that Giles was supposed to supervise.  Buffy goes to Giles's house after school to check on him, and finds Joyce there with him.  They tell her they're working out a structured schedule for her, and ask her for a little more time.  Joyce gives her keys to Buffy, and Buffy takes off without a second's thought.  As soon as she leaves Giles lights up a cigarrette, and he and Joyce start listening to his old records.  They decide to go out and 'tear things up a bit'.  Cut to the Bronze, where Buffy and Willow have gone.  It's an odd scene, as all the adults in Sunnydale seem to have gone crazy, and are partying it up at the Bronze.  Buffy remarks that all of the grown ups are acting like kids.  Especially Snyder, who keeps coming back to Willow and Buffy and Oz, talking about how stoked he is.  When the three leave, Snyder tags along.  They head off to Giles's place, worried that Giles has reverted to the way he was when he was a kid and in his whole "ticking time bomb phase".  Elsewhere, Giles and Joyce walk down the street together, Giles's arm around Joyce's shoulders.  Joyce sees a jacket she likes in a store window, and Giles breaks the glass with a garbage can, retrieving the jacket for her.  A cop shows up and holds a gun on them, but Giles disarms him and knocks the guy out.  He and Joyce then start making out on the hood of the cop's car.  At a nearby intersection, Buffy and the gang get hit by another car.  They get out and realize that all of the houses are defenseless, since all of the adults are outside being kids.  The figure out that it's the candy causing everyone to act as they are.  Buffy and Snyder head to the candy distribution center, where Buffy finds Giles making out with her mom.  Freaking out, she separates them and gets wailed on by both of them, who are both really irrational.  She tells Giles to take her mom home, but he doesn't listen to her and he and Joyce and Snyder follow her inside.  There they find Ethan Rayne.  He tries to run, but Buffy and Giles take off after him.  Giles showing an unimaginable amount of dexterity and agility.  I think I just got used to him in tweed and pretty much just walking everywhere.   ;)   They catch him, and the scene switches to Joyce and Snyder, left behind in the main room.  Snyder comes on to Buffy's mom, but she rolls her eyes and walks away.  Back among the crates, Buffy questions Ethan about the candy.  Giles keeps prompting her to hit him, but Buffy doesn't until Ethan won't answer her, and then Ethan spills.  Apparently there's supposed to be this 'tribute' for this demon guy, Laconis.  Ethan's job was to provide not only the distraction (all of the adults acting like kids and not paying attention), but the escape (afterwards the adults would all feel so guilty and responsible for the loss of the tribute that they would blame themselves).  The tribute :   four babies stolen from the hospital.  Buffy calls Willow to let her know what's going on, and while she's on the phone Ethan tries to wack her with a crow bar.  Giles pulls the gun he got from the cop on him, but Buffy takes it away after knocking Ethan out.  They go to the hospital to find that the babies have already been kidnapped, and Buffy wonders how to figure out where they've been taken.  Young Giles acts all excited because he "knows this".  He recites what he knows about Laconis, and how they can find him in the sewers.    Buffy tells Snyder to go home, and she, Giles and her mom take off to the sewers.  In the sewers, Mr. Trick and the Mayor stand by while some demons in robes perform the ceremony.  Suddenly Buffy, her mom and Giles show up.  Joyce gets the babies out safely, and Giles takes on Mr. Trick.  The Trickster throws Giles at the monster Laconis, that Buffy defeats by setting fire to it.  At the mayor's office, we find out that the Mayor had arranged this whole tribute thing as a payment on some campaign favors (hey, don't blame me, I didn't write that crap) by Laconis.  Mr. Trick thinks he's done the mayor a favor by getting rid of this demon, and Mayor Wilkins tells him to be very careful how many 'favors' he performs for him.  At school the next day, Giles walks Buffy out to her car where Joyce is waiting.  When Buffy goes to the car, Joyce and Giles are left staring at each other in an awkward fashion, and we the viewers wonder exactly how far they went?   FLAWS:          None found.  Although some of the script was so bad it should COUNT as a flaw.  I mean come on....I have to pay a tribute to this demon because I owe him a campaign favor? Gimme a break. THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE:          This is the first episode of this season that I generally liked as a whole, and not just because Angel was in it.  I absolutely loved Giles running around acting like a teenager.  Only after re-watching this so I could do the episode guide did I realize why that might be.  He acts like a total Spike in this ep! I mean think about it, he's violent, he's british, and he's acting kinda youngish... it's almost Spike to a tee, except without the cute bleached hair and the awesome duster.  One other kind of annoying thought.  They figure out that the Laconis demon is in the sewers, so they head down to find it.  Naturally, they do (find it).  So how come every time they go looking for something in some weird place like that, they find it? And nothing else? I mean, how many times have they been in the sewers, you know? They've never come across this Laconis guy before..but now that they're going down there just for him, ope, there he is! Just curious. BEST LINE:   A couple from Giles, actually.  The first is when he's training Buffy blindfolded in the library.  Buffy asks "Why do I put up with this?" and Giles replies "Because it is your destiny.....and because I just bought 20 cocarific candy bars."     I think the best part of the episode, though, is when Buffy and Giles catch up with Ethan Rayne, and Giles keeps saying "hit him! Look, you're my slayer, now knock his teeth down his throat!"  And when she finally does, he jumps up and shouts "yes!"

"Band Candy"