The whole gang is in the hospital waiting for
results on Joyce's surgery. Eventually the doctor comes out
of surgery and tells her he managed to get all of the tumour
out. Dawn is sent to Xander and Anya's apartment so that
Buffy and Riley can have some alone time. Buffy and Riley are
holding each other by the light of some candles in Buffy's
living room. Buffy's incredibly happy that her mom isn't
going to be having anymore problems. Buffy and Riley make
love while Spike stands outside her house. As soon as Buffy
drifts off to sleep Riley leaves the house. Spike spots him
and follows him at a safe distance. He follows him to a
rundown house in the bad area of town. The next day Buffy
visits her mom in the hospital but her mom thinks that she
should go out and see Riley. Buffy says that she can see him
anytime and she'd rather take care of her mom right now.
Meanwhile the military guys are planning on leaving Sunnydale
on a mission to Belize and they want to take Riley with them.
That night, while Buffy is in bed, Spike barges in and tells
her that he has something important to show her. He takes her
to the rundown house that riley went to the other day. Inside
are vampires feeding off of willing humans. Spike takes her
upstairs to a room where a vampire is feeding off Riley's
arm. Buffy can't believe what's she seeing and runs off.
Riley spots her and doesn't know what to say. Riley heads
back to his apartment where he's greeted by the army men.
They tell him about the mission in Belize. They leave
tomorrow at midnight and it's his decision whether or not he
wants to go with them.
Buffy barges into Giles' store the next day
and asks the group if they know anything about a vamp nest
downtown where humans pay to be bitten. None of them have
heard anything about this. Buffy vows to kill the entire nest
with or without her gang as backup. Anya stays to watch the
shop while the core Scooby Gang head to the house. Buffy gets
angry when she finds the place deserted and torches the
place. Meanwhile Riley knocks down Spike's door and stabs him
through the heart with a stake. It's only a fake stake and
Riley was trying to shock Spike because of his nasty trick
last night (of showing Buffy where he was). Spike tells Riley
that he's not going to be with Buffy for long and he knows
it. Spike admits that he's envious of Riley for being so
close to her.
Buffy is in the backroom of the shop beating
the stuffing out of a punching bag. Riley shows up and heads
into the back room, wanting to talk to her. He tells her that
he did this because he wanted to know why vampires seem to
have so much power over her (Angel, Dracula, etc.). He wanted
to know how she felt when she was bitten by them. He says
that those vampires that fed off of him needed him for his
blood and that he felt passion from them for needing him so
much. Riley feels that she's keeping him at a distance and
she doesn't let him in to her true feelings. Buffy doesn't
know what else she can give him because she feels she's
already given him everything she has. But he doesn't feel
that. Riley then tells her that the military wants him back
and they leave tonight and if he goes he'll have no outside
contacts with the world. She can't believe he's giving her an
ultimatum. She walks past him and he tells her that he's
leaving tonight unless she gives him a reason to stay. Buffy
walks out into a back alley where she's quickly surrounded by
eight vampires, the ones who's house she burned down. She
stakes them all in a quick frenzy. The last vampire she
stakes is the vamp that was feeding off Riley. Xander then
appears in the alley. She doesn't want to listen to him but
he tells her he's surprised that she didn't see any of this
coming. Xander tells her that Riley will disappear forever if
she doesn't do something to stop him. He tells her that she's
been treating Riley like the rebound guy and that she hasn't
opened up to him; hasn't loved him. Buffy begins to realize
what she's been doing. It's very close to midnight and Xander
tells her to run. And she does; as fast as she can. Riley is
standing out by the helicopter looking around but she never
shows so he gets into the helicopter. She gets there just as
the helicopter is above her head. She screams for him but he
can't hear her and he never looks down. Desolate, Buffy walks
home. Meanwhile Xander goes home to Anya and tells her that
he's completely in love with her, and he's never felt like
this for anyone before. At home Buffy's in shock and can only
stare straight ahead of her while Riley is heading towards
Belize.
Summary written by
Nika
My Rating
4.5/5
Nika's Review
Okay, no one seems to like Riley. But I
did, I really did. He was fun to watch and even though I
didn't really like where he was going with this whole
vampire suckage thing he was still good for Buffy. She
needed him and they were good together. It was so sad the
way he left the show too. I mean, she missed him by,
like, two steps. How sad is that? Realizing that you had
everything you needed and then losing it just because you
couldn't run fast enough? That you missed it all by two
steps? I really felt bad for Riley too because now he
won't know that Buffy realized she was wrong. Crap this
sucks. I also don't like where this whole thing is going
with Spike. Just get the bloody chip out of his head. I
don't like him as a pansy and a love-sick puppy. It's not
the Spike I love and it's making me sick! Also, the other
members of this show are really getting thrown into the
background and it's kind of sad. When was there last a
storyline about Willow? Or even Giles?
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