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The episode opens with the gang dancing at the Bronze, where Angelus watches Buffy from the shadows.  They leave, and walk right past Angelus feeding on a woman in the alley.  He follows.  At home, Buffy sleeps while Angelus sits by her bed and watches her.  This is a very cool opening sequence with a monologue from Angel, speaking of how Passion rules everyone.  The next morning, Buffy wakes up and finds a sketch (of herself sleeping) on the pillow beside her.  At school, Buffy tells Giles what happened, and asks if there's a way to revoke his invitation into her house.  Buffy worries that Angel might go after her mom, and wants to tell her the truth.  Giles says she can't involve her mother.  In class, Jenny Calendar asks Willow if she can cover the class a little the next day, as she might be late.  Willow agrees.  Buffy and Giles show up, and Buffy and Willow leave together.  Jenny apologizes to Giles, saying that she didn't come to Sunnydale to hurt anyone; that she didn't know what would happen, and she didn't know she would fall in love with him.  Giles is moved, but tells her that he's not the one she needs to make it all up to.  At home that night, Buffy gives her mom a G-rated version of her relationship with Angel, and warns her that he might show up.  Later, Buffy's on the phone with Willow when Will finds all of her fish in an envelope on her bed........dead.  She ends up spending the night at Buffy's house.  Buffy reflects that it's weird how everytime something like this happens her first instinct is to run to Angel.......except that he's the one doing this.  Willow agrees that things are very different now, but that Buffy's still the only thing Angel thinks about. At the factory, Dru has brought a puppy for Spike to eat, but he's walking the thin line between pride and resentment, and won't accept it.  Angel mocks him for his weakness, and insinuates that he and Drusilla are 'involved'.  Drusilla laughs at their sparring, and then swoons suddenly, saying that an old enemy of theirs plots against them.  Cut to the resident magic shop, where Jenny Calendar purchases an 'Orb of Thessela'.  The shopkeeper tells her the translations of the ancient texts have been lost, rendering the orbs of Thessela virtually useless.  Jenny remarks that she's working on a computer program that'll do the translation, and says that she needs the orb to conjure a present for a friend of hers....to give him his soul.  At school, Buffy confronts Jenny, telling her basically that she's glad Jenny feels bad about what happens.  She then goes on to say that Giles misses her, and Buffy doesn't want him to be lonely.  Buffy meets up with Giles inside, who says that he's found a spell to cast to revoke Angel's invitation.  They perform the spell first at Willow's, where they find another envelope......this one is a sketch of Joyce Summers sleeping.  At the Summers home, Joyce parks in the driveway to find Angel waiting for her.  She recognizes him after Buffy's warning, and tells him to stay away from Buffy.  Angel tells Joyce that he hasn't been able to sleep since the night they made love, and Joyce freaks out.  She gets inside and Angel makes to follow her, but finds himself blocked from the spell that Buffy and Willow just finished performing.    Cut to the school, where Jenny's working on the translation program.  Giles enters and Jenny tells him that she doesn't want to say anything until she's sure, but she may have some news.  They arrange for her to come to his house later.  At the magic shop, Drusilla shows up and questions the shopkeeper about Jenny and what she purchased, and then kills him.  Back at school, Jenny's program works, and she saves it to a floppy disk.......also printing a copy.  Just then she notices Angel in the classroom, who shatters the orb and the computer, and burns the printout.  Jenny runs from the room, and Angel chases her through the darkened hallways of the school.  He finally catches her and breaks her neck.  At Buffy's house, the Buffster's getting 'the talk' from her mom.  Actually it's more like a Spanish Inquisition.  Joyce is mad, but they talk about it, and seem okay with each other afterward.  At Giles's place, Giles arrives at his door to find a rose in the knocker, and opera music coming from within.  Thinking that Jenny has arranged all of this, he enters to find champagne on ice, and a note (on the same paper that the portraits were sketched on) reading only "upstairs".  He takes the wine and goes up the candle-lit steps to find Jenny's body in his bed.  Realizing that she's dead (this is such a sad moment for Giles!), he drops the champagne bottle and glasses.  During another voice-over from Angel, who is watching in Buffy's window, we see Buffy get the phone call from Giles about Jenny.  In shock, she hands the phone to Willow, who starts crying when she hears what Giles has to say.  Buffy sinks to the floor while Angel smiles from the window at her reaction.  Buffy, Willow, Xander and Cordelia take off in Cordy's car to Giles's place.  They arrive just after Giles leaves with a bag full of weapons.  They take in the scene, and realize that Angel did all of it to make Giles's pain that much more unbearable.  The find that his weapons are missing, and determine that he's gone to the factory to kill Angel.  At the factory, Spike berates Angel for pulling his little pranks, saying all it's gonna do is make the Slayer even more 'brassed off'.  Angel tells him not to worry, that he's got everything under control, just as Giles announces his arrival by throwing a molotov cocktail down onto the table in front of the vamps, setting it ablaze.  The vamps start to run (or in Spike's case, wheel) away, but Giles shows up and shoots Angel through the shoulder with a crossbow.  He then lights a wooden torch from the burning table, and uses it to beat Angel...whacking him a full ten times before Angel's able to recover (go Giles! this part was awesome :).  Just as Angel gains the upper hand and is about to kill Giles, Buffy shows up and starts pummeling Angel.  Giles drops to the floor, unconscious, dangerously close to the approaching flames.  Buffy and Angel fight, but Angel distracts her with Giles's impending fiery death, and escapes.  Buffy gets Giles out of the factory and he recovers consciousness outside.  He yells at Buffy, telling her that this wasn't her fight.  Buffy punches him, then falls to the ground and hugs him while he cries.......saying "are you trying to get yourself killed?! You can't leave me...I can't do this alone." In the conclusion of Angel's monologue, we see Giles returning brokenly to his home.  The next day he and Buffy lay flowers on Jenny's grave, and Giles reflects that in all the people he's lost in all his years, Jenny was the first he loved.  Buffy apologizes that she couldn't kill Angel when she had the chance.  We then have a voice-over from Buffy, saying that she wasn't ready before, but now she is.  That she can't hold onto the past anymore, that Angel is gone, and nothing is ever going to bring him back.  As she says this, Willow sits at Jenny's desk in the classroom and accidentally brushes the disk that the restoration translation is saved on in between the the desk and the file cabinet..........and doesn't notice. FLAWS:      Just one oddity.  When Jenny discovers Angel in the classroom, she asks him how he got in there.  He says that the inscription on the front of the school (enter all ye who crave knowledge, or something) allowed him to enter.  Why did they even go there? First of all, this isn't a dwelling.......he can come and go as he wishes.  Secondly, he's been in the school before....plenty of times. Even times when Jenny was there, too.  Why all the sudden did they make a big issue over an invite that wasn't even necessary? THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE:       This was an awesome episode.  We get the first real taste as to how evil Angelus really is......and we were all shocked by the permanence of Jenny's death.  We also get a little setup for Becoming parts 1 and 2, in the mis-placement of the disk, and in Spike's feelings on Angel, which are quickly turning to hatred.  BEST LINE:       When Giles is beating the crap out of Angel, Drusilla moves to help him but Spike grabs hold of her and says "Uh-uh......no fair going into the ring unless he tags you first"

"Passion"

Oooooh, Angelus is *bad*!!!  Myself, I prefer him for the leather pants  ;)  Discuss the hotness of David Boreanaz on the Board.