The gang is at Buffy's house for a
meeting organized by Giles. He informs them that the
Watchers Council is coming to Sunnydale because they have
info on Glory but Buffy really doesn't want the Council
interfering with her work. Meanwhile a faint and weak
Glory is waiting desperately for her minions to bring her
a human. They do so and she drinks his energy from his
brain with her fingers, restoring her energy.
The next day Giles is helping customers
at his store when in walk six members of the Watcher's
Council, including Quentin Travers. Some Watchers
criticize Giles' stock as too dangerous and close the
shop down for the time they plan to be in town. Quentin
informs Giles that he has info on Glory but he will only
hand it over to them after he has put them through a
review and that he's confident they can handle the
information. Giles does not want Buffy put through
another one of their tests. Meanwhile Buffy is in class
getting grief from one of her teachers for mentioning a
different point of view. Angry, Buffy goes hunting that
night, only to have Spike finish off her vampire, which
she's none too pleased about. Over at the hospital Ben is
approached by Glory's minion, Jinx. Glory wants info on
Buffy, the Slayer, but Ben refuses to give up any info.
Buffy returns from her hunt to Giles' shop to find the
Council waiting for her. They plan to check her fighting
skills, her mindset and interview her friends. If she
refuses their review they will leave Sunnydale with their
info, close down Giles' shop and have Giles deported back
to England. Giles and Buffy are left alone and Buffy's
worried that she won't pass the Council's tests making
her unable to defeat Glory and protect Dawn. The next day
Council members interview Buffy's friends; which goes
rather bizarrely, as they interview Spike too, who does
nothing to help Buffy's situation. They physical test
comes later: Buffy is blindfolded and told to protect a
dummy from the attacker while she's instructed in
japanese. It doesn't work for her so she does it her way;
she beats the attacker up but accidentally throws the
weapon into the dummy's chest.
Buffy returns home to find Glory waiting
for her. Glory wants the key and she's convinced that
Buffy knows where it is. Dawn shows up in the room and
after seeing her, Glory tells Buffy that she'll kill her
family next time if Buffy doesn't tell her where the key
is hidden. Glory leaves and Buffy orders Dawn and Joyce
to pack a bag. She takes them to Spike and asks him to
keep them safe while she deals with Glory. Buffy is
heading back to the shop, where the gang and Council
members are waiting for her, when she's attacked by
several men who are identified as Knights of Byzantium.
She takes them out and the last one left us a guy with a
bold tattoo on his forehead. Apparently they're in
Sunnydale looking for the key and so long as Buffy
safeguards the key, she is there enemy as they are here
to destroy it.
Buffy eventually makes it back to the
shop and tells Quentin there won't be anymore review. The
Council came back to Sunnydale because they need her.
People are trying to tell her what to do because she has
power and this bothers them. So now she's going to exert
her power. She tells the Council that she wants all their
info on Glory, Giles reinstated as Watcher as well as a
couple other things. Quentin agrees to the terms then
tells them that Glory isn't a demon, she's a god.
Well the big truth about Glory is out.
She's a god. Somehow this really didn't come as a
surprise to most of us. She's been impossible to fight,
never gets hurt so it's kind of obvious that she wasn't
some normal demon. So she's a god. Now what do we do? How
the hell do you fight a god? Well it's... ooo! Sudden
idea! So Willow and Tara cast some spell to get rid of
all Glory's god like qualities. Like invincibility, which
leaves Glory stuck in her human form, so then she'll
fight Buffy that way. Which leaves us an awesome fight
scene, a great spell and a satisfying ending. But wait...
what about Dawn? We gotta get rid of her somehow. I
personally see her going out with a big flash of light...
She is a key and can't last. Or at least I hope she
doesn't last. I want the big emotional scene like we had
at the end of Season 2. The big sha-bang. Anyway, back to
this episode. Quentin Travers does nothing but aggravate
me. Ugh... and what happened to him anyway? It looked
like he'd aged 20 years! Glory's a lot of fun too. I like
how she's pissing off Buffy cuz I'm having fun with her.
Buffy's getting a little too damn testy about it all.
Course I kinda understand; her family in jeopardy, yadda
yadda yadda, but still, when she gets infuriated she just
stays in that attitude for a really long time. Anyway,
there's plenty to learn from upcoming episodes!
