At the Bronze, Xander rehearses asking Buffy out to the prom by trying his speech
out on lovesick Willow. Meanwhile, Buffy is having a closer call than usual with her
vampire attackers. Giles reads a frightening prophecy about the Master and the
Slayer, and an earthquake hits Sunnydale.
Buffy tells Giles about her attack, and lets him know that she's starting to get
scared. When Xander finally gets the nerve to ask her out, she turns him down,
saying she doesn't think of him "that way" and doesn't want to spoil their
friendship. In the library, Giles and Ms. Calendar discuss the prophecy: the
earthquake, along with several strange occurrences in Sunnydale, seem to confirm
that the apocalypse is near. Buffy overhears Giles telling Angel, "Tomorrow she'll
face the Master and she will die." Buffy freaks out and tells Giles she wants to
quit. More signs of the end appear: a roomful of students, including Cordelia's new
beau, are found dead at school, totally unnerving Willow, who discovers their
bodies. Buffy decides that even though she's afraid, only she can try to save the
world by facing the Master. She goes out with a crossbow, and the Anointed One
leads her to the Master. Meanwhile, Xander enlists Angel's help in trying to protect
Buffy.
The Master bites Buffy, and she drops into a puddle. This allows him to break
through to the "other side." Xander and Angel find Buffy, and Xander is able to
revive her using CPR. Meanwhile, Cordelia, Willow and Ms. Calendar find
themselves driving through a sea of vampires in the streets. They try to escape to
the library, but the undead follow them. As they try to fight them off, a huge, horrific
monster comes up through the floor and attacks them. Buffy makes it back to the
school and fights the Master on the roof. She throws him through the roof window
and he falls through, getting impaled on the way down. He disintegrates, and the
monster and the vampires disappear with him.
"We saved the world. I say we party," exclaims Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
