Hey!  Miss Newman was the chick from "The Journey of Natty Gaan"!  Talk about this episode on the Board.

We open at the Bronze, where Buffy's moping.  A guy from one of Buffy's classes the year before comes up and asks Buffy to go to the dance with him the next night.  Buffy back-pedals, saying basically that she doesn't want to see anyone for awhile.  She's still down about the whole Angel thing, and has decided to stop being so impulsive.  As Willow tries to convince Buffy to give love a second chance, we cut to the school, where a man and woman argue.   Apparently, the relationship is over, but the guy can't accept it.  Saying that you don't just wake up one day and stop loving someone, and that love is forever, he pulls out a gun.  The girl turns to run, the guy shouts "Don't walk away from me, bitch!", and Buffy shows up, knocking the gun out of the guy's hand.  The janitor, who was nearby, intercedes as well, but doesn't see the gun anywhere.  The couple express confusion over what just happened, saying that they hadn't even been fighting a minute before.  At school the next day, Snyder is convinced that Buffy started the trouble the night before, and says there was no gun found at the scene.  Making her wait in the office, he leaves.  Alone in his office, Buffy is startled when a 1955 yearbook seems to fall off of the shelf by itself.  In Jenny Calendar's old classroom, Willow finishes up teaching the class for the day, and Giles enters, to see if she need any help.  Willow says that she's doing okay, and enjoying the teaching.  She says also that she found some pagan and wicca sits on Jenny's computer, and finds it all very interesting.  In class, Buffy appears to doze off and flashes back to the same classroom, but everyone's dressed in 1950's garb.  Students file toward the desk, turning in papers, and Buffy witnesses a teenaged male student and the female teacher making eyes at each other.  Coming out of the trance, or dream, or whatever, Buffy tries to follow what her teacher in the present is saying, but is distracted by what he's written on the board "Don't walk away from me, bitch!".  Acting confused, the teacher erases it from the board.  Walking down the hallway, listening to Buffy go on about how weird these occurrences have been, Xander opens his locker only to be almost yanked into it by an arm.  Buffy pulls him away and slams the locker door shut.  When they open it back up, there's no arm in the locker.  They go to the library and inform Willow and Giles what happened......Giles thinks that it might be a poltergeist, and says they need to figure out what issues the ghost has, so they can make it go away.  That night, the janitor's cleaning up as a female teacher is walking by to go home.  Suddenly they both stop and suddenly engage in an odd dialogue.  The teacher says their relationship is over........it has to be.  The man says it can't be......"you don't just wake up one day and stop loving someone.  Love is forever."  She tries to run away, but he shouts at her.  In the library, Giles hears him shouting, and starts out of the library.  He hears whispering, and says "Jenny?".  He walks out and sees the janitor aiming a gun at the teacher.  The janitor pulls the trigger, and the teacher falls over the ledge to the courtyard below....dead.  The janitor sees her dead body below and starts to run away, but Giles tackles him.  Falling to the floor, the gun slides across the linoleum, dissolving into nothing.  He asks what's going on, and Giles informs him he just shot a woman. Cut to a mansion, which is going to be Angel, Spike and Drusilla's new home.  Spike doesn't like it, but Angel taunts him, and flirts with Drusilla.  Back at the library, Giles tells the gang of how the janitor has no memory of killing the woman.  Giles thinks that Jenny's the poltergeist, but the gang disagrees.  Obsessed, Giles disregards them.  The gang (sans Giles) head to Jenny's old classroom where they try to find alternative ghost theories.  They do a cross reference on shootings at the school, and find the 1955 murder of a teacher by her lover, a senior on the football team, that took place on the night of the Sadie Hawkins Dance.  He shot and killed her, then went to the music room and shot himself.  Buffy goes and gets the yearbook that jumped out at her the day before, and realizes that the student and teacher are the same ones she dreamt about.  Xander reflects that Buffy's dreams are getting 'wicked accurate', and Buffy seems to be even more pissed than usual at the bad guy in this instance.  They all go to get lunch, when suddenly snakes appear in the cafeteria.  Outside, the chief of police is pressuring Snyder to come up with some kind of reason for the occurrence, and Snyder tells everyone that the sewer backed up.  To the police chief, however, he says "Look, we're on a Hellmouth..sooner or later people are going to figure it out."  The chief is not impressed, and says that if Snyder can't handle it, he'll go to the mayor.  (see Thoughts on the Episode, below).     At Buffy's house that night, Willow proposes an exorcism of the poltergeist at the school.  Xander notes that the ghost, James, seems to be focusing on Buffy, and worries that she might be in danger.  At the school, Willow, Cordelia, Xander and Buffy show up to start the exorcism, and are locked in by an unseen force.  At the mansion, Drusilla gets a vision that the slayer is ready for Angel, and after torturing Spike with insinuations about him and Dru, he leaves.  Back at school, Willow runs into Giles, who is trying to channel Jenny.  The rest of the gang spreads out to form a triangle that they need to be in to perform the spell.  Cordelia ends up in a bathroom, Willow's at the top of some stairs, and Buffy's at the hotspot where the murders occurred.  Suddenly, Willow is dragged down into a spinning vortex in the floor.  She calls to Giles, who comes running out of the library and pulls her out.  Cordelia's image in the mirror suddenly takes on demonic proportions and she screams.  Buffy sees a vision of James and the teacher dancing in the music room to an old song ("I only have eyes for you"), and then flashes of the teacher's murder.  Giles realizes that the poltergeist can't be Jenny........she would never be so mean.  The clock strikes midnight, and the gang lights their candles and perform the spell simultaneously.  Suddenly the school is over-run by a huge swarm of bees, chasing the gang out.  Back at Buffy's house, Buffy states that she thinks James wants forgiveness for his act, and that's why he keeps reaching out.  Giles says she's probably right, but forgiveness is almost impossible, since James is doomed to keep killing Miss Newman over and over again.  Buffy says it's good, because he shouldn't be forgiven for what he did......wiping out the person he loved most in the world in a blind moment of passion.  Buffy is obviously identifying herself with James, as she feels responsible for the loss of Angel's soul.  She gets upset and leaves the room.  While the rest of the gang tries to decide what to do, Buffy heads back to the school.  They realize it shortly, and head after her, but can't get back into the school because of the swarm of bees.  They think that James has possessed Buffy to be the Miss Newman of the scenario, and Buffy's going to get shot.  But Giles says that there's no man in there to act the scenario out with, and therefore Buffy should be okay until they can find a way to get her out.  However, inside, as Buffy's wandering around under James's spell, Angel shows up.  Contrary to what Giles had thought, Buffy is not possessed by the spirit of Miss Newman, but of James'.   They start the dialogue that each of the other couples have engaged in prior to the shooting, and through flashbacks we see James and Miss Newman saying the same words.  Miss Newman / Angel runs out to the balcony, where Buffy / James shoots her / him.  Angel falls over the ledge to the ground below.  Buffy, as James, runs to the music room to follow through with the second part of the re-enactment.  On the ground below, Angel opens his eyes.  In the music room now, Buffy / James puts on the "I only have eyes for you" record.  She takes the gun and is about to shoot herself when Angel / Miss Newman enters.  Angel, as Miss Newman, forgives James for killing Grace Newman, and says that he loves her (forgive my persons and tenses, this is hard to write out effectively).  They kiss, and a blinding light erupts in the music room, taking the souls of James and Grace away. Buffy and Angel are left holding each other.  Buffy looks at him for a moment.  She says his name in a whisper and he throws her from him with a snarl, and leaves.  In the library, Buffy relates to Giles how Grace was able to forgive James for killing her, and on some level, she feels a little less self-loathing for what she caused Angel. Back at the mansion, Angel scrubs himself vigorously after having been 'violated' by love, and he and Dru leave to go hunt before sunrise, telling Spike to have fun there without them.  The camera pans down to Spike's feet, which move off of the wheelchair rests, and he stands, saying "Oh I will mate.....sooner than you think."  The cool music fades up, and Spike kicks the crap out of the wheelchair. FLAWS:        When Giles comes to see Willow in Jenny Calendar's old classroom, Willow tells him that she found Jenny's lesson plans on her computer, as well as a bunch of pagan and wicca sites.  How'd she do this, exactly, considering that Angel destroyed and burned the computer in "Passion"?,    Also, even though their use of the Flamingoes version of "I only have eyes for you" as a backdrop for all the drama was really cool......that song wasn't out in 1955.  Indeed, that version was not released until 1959. Secondly, as cool as it is that Spike's now walking around and stuff, I don't buy the whole 'healing' thing.  Vampires, as dead people who don't breathe, or have a heartbeat, shouldn't be able to heal.  They frequently abuse this idea on this show. THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE:        They gave us a little more detail on the Snyder conspiracy thing.......insinuating that he was brought to Sunnydale for a purpose.  As I mentioned in "Puppet Show" and "School Hard", I was really disappointed that this never really seemed to pan out.  This is really the last anything that we get about Snyder.  Even when he interacts with the Mayor in the next season, we never get any answers about him.  The only important thing in the on-going storyline is that we learn Spike's got something up his sleeve.......what it is, we find out in "Becoming pt2" BEST LINE:        When Xander's relating the locker monster story, he says "No, this was no wimpy chain rattler.   This was 'I'm dead as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!' "

"I Only Have Eyes For You"

Hey!  Miss Newman was the chick from "The Journey of Natty Gaan"!  Talk about this episode on the Board.