Season: Episode 9 of Season 2
Original Air Date: 11/17/1997
Written by: Howard Gordon & Marti Noxon
Directed by: David Solomon

<b>Notes:</b>

Spike finds the key to Drusilla's recovery and sics the Order of Taraka on Buffy.

<b>Plot Highlights:</b>

School Career Fair starts Buffy complaining about the burden of Slayerhood. Dalton is not translating to Spike's satisfaction. Buffy wishes she & Angel could be regular kids. Buffy spots Dalton stealing Du Lac's cross. Spike decides to invoke the Taraka. Willow meets Oz at a recruiting event. Buffy gets snippy with Giles about being the Slayer. Angel & Buffy go ice-skating, fight the first assasin. Angel shakes down Willy. Kendra imprisons Angel in a soon-to-be-sunny cage. Xander & Cordy look for Buffy at her house. Buffy fights Kendra, thinking her another assassin, until she names herself.

<b>Quotes:</b>

(Angel is waiting for Buffy in her room when she climbs in the window)

ANGEL: Buffy! You scared me.

BUFFY: Now you know what it feels like, Stealth Guy. Just dropping by for some quality time with Mr. Gordo?

ANGEL: Excuse me?

BUFFY: The pig.

ANGEL: Oh. I, uh...

BUFFY: What's up?

ANGEL: Nothing.

BUFFY: Only you don't have a nothing face. You have a something face. And you don't have to whisper. Mom's in L.A. till Thursday. Art buying, or something.

ANGEL: Then why'd you come in through the window?

BUFFY: Habit.

ANGEL: I wanted to make sure you're okay. I had a bad feeling.

BUFFY: There's a surprise. Angel comes with bad news. Oh, God, I'm sorry. Look, I've been Cranky Miss all day. It's not you.

ANGEL: Well, what is it then?

BUFFY: It's nothing. Uh, we're having this thing at school.

ANGEL: Career week?

BUFFY: How did you know?

ANGEL: I lurk.

BUFFY: Right. Well, then you know it's a whole week of 'what's my line', only... I don't get to play. Sometimes I just want...

ANGEL: You want what? It's okay.

BUFFY: The Cliff Notes version? I want a normal life. Like I had before.

ANGEL: Before me.

BUFFY: No, Angel, it's not you. You're the one freaky thing in my freaky world that still makes sense to me. I just get messed sometimes. I wish we could be regular kids.

ANGEL: Yeah. I'll never be a kid.

BUFFY: Okay, then a regular kid and her cradle robbing, creature-of- the-night boyfriend.