Season Seven Reviews

TITLE RATING PLOT/MINI-REVIEW
Lessons
W: Joss Whedon
D:  David Solomon
 		8.5 The new Sunnydale High School, which is built on the site of the old one, opens its doors for business with Dawn beginning high school. Buffy is especially wary for her younger sister and while checking out the new campus encounters some spirits who have a vendetta against the Slayer. Meanwhile in England, Giles attempts to help Willow come to terms with her power and her actions as Dark Willow. 
Beneath You
W: Doug Petrie
D:  Nick Marck
 		9.0 Buffy starts her new job at Sunnydale High School, trying to keep her role as Slayer from Principal Wood. Meanwhile, a strange worm-like creature is running amok under Sunnydale, forcing Buffy into an uneasy alliance with Spike to hunt down the creature. However, the creature may or may not be a demon..
Same Time, Same Place
W: Jane Espenson
D:  James A. Contner
 		7.0 Willow returns home to Sunnydale but she can't find the Scooby gang and they can't find her. Buffy fears that Willow may not be ready to return to life in Sunnydale and the fear is only compounded when the gang discovers a body that has all its skin removed...
Help
W: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
D: Rick Rosenthal
 		7.5 Buffy's first full week as guidance counselor at the new Sunnydale High finds her dealing with a variety of students--from those wanting to get out of class to some of the more social inept trying to find a date. However, one girl, Cassie, strikes a chord with the Slayer. Cassie believes she has seen her own death on Friday and Buffy jumps into action to prevent this from happening.
Selfless
W: Drew Goddard
D: David Solomon
 		10.0 A college student wishes vengeance upon a group of fraternity boys for "ripping her heart out" and Anya complies--literally. Anya is torn apart by her responsibilities but faces even graver consequences when Willow discovers the carnage and alerts the Scooby gang, forcing Buffy to make a difficult decision. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal happier times in Anya's life, including how she became a vengeance demon...
Him
W: Drew Greenberg
D: Michael Gershman
 		9.0 Dawn falls for the quarterback of the Sunnydale football team, R.J. Her attempts to get his attention include pushing a rival down stairs to ensure R.J. doesn't lose his starting position and a new fashion sense that alarms Buffy. Buffy confronts R.J., only to feel the pangs of attraction herself. Meanwhile, Anya finds her way back into the Scooby gang and Spike moves in with Xander.
Conversations with Dead People
W: Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard
D: Nick Marck
 		10.0 Voices from the past come back to haunt several of Sunnydale's residents. Buffy tangles with an old high school classmate turned psychologist and vampire while Willow is able to contact Tara and Dawn thinks her mother is haunting the Summer's home. Meanwhile, Andrew and Jonathan return to Sunndydale with a plan to work their way into the Scooby gang....
Sleeper
W: Jane Espenson and David Fury
D: Alan Levin
 		8.5 Buffy is concerned that Spike may be killing again and sets about trying to find definitive proof that he is up to his old vampire ways. Willow and Dawn attempt to recover from their ghostly visitors. Meanwhile, in England, another Slayer in training and her watcher are murdered by the men in robes.
Never Leave Me
W: Drew Goddard
D: David Solomon
 		9.0 Buffy is forced to restrain Spike to keep him from escaping and converting more vampires. She also attempts to learn what is manipulating the vampire. Meanwhile, Willow runs into Andrew, who is getting supplies for the Big Bad at the local butcher shop. Principal Wood stumbles across Jonathan's body in the basement of the school and takes steps to cover it up and the Watcher's Council frets over not being able to determine Giles' whereabouts...
Bring on the Night
W: Marti Noxon and Douglas Petrie
D: David Grossman
 		8.0 Giles arrives in Sunnydale with reinforcements--three Slayers- in-training who have not yet been killed by the First. But he also comes bearing the bad news of the Council's destruction, including vital information on the First. Meanwhile, Spike is tortured by First, who appears to have to as Druscilla to try and break him and Buffy runs up against the resurrected vampire...and can't stop it.
Potential
W: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
D: James A. Contner
 		7.0 After Buffy takes out UberVamp, the First takes time off to regroup, leaving Buffy with the chance to step up her training of the potential Slayers. Meanwhile, evidence that there is another potential Slayer on the loose in Sunnydale sets Willow and the rest of the Scooby gang about finding her.
The Killer in Me
W: Drew Z. Greenberg
D: David Solomon
 		7.0 While Giles takes the potential slayers on a vision-quest retreat into the desert, Kennedy feigns illness to spend time with Willow. After an evening at the Bronze, Kennedy kisses Willow, causing her to revert into form of Warren physically and soon he is attempting to take over Willow's personality. Meanwhile, Spike's chip begins to have major malfunctions, causing the vampire severe pain...
First Date
W: Jane Espenson
D:
8.0 Buffy accepts a date with Principal Wood in an attempt to find out if he somehow connected to the First Evil. Xander meets a beautiful woman who he asks out for coffee. Meanwhile, Giles reveals how he escaped certain death at the hands of the Harbingers and Buffy informs Giles that she had Spike's chip removed.
Storyteller
W: Jane Espenson
D: Marita Grabianak
 		8.5 Andrew decides to make a documentary about Buffy's life and her battle with the First, which meets with a wide variety of reactions from members of the Scooby gang. Meanwhile, Sunnydale High School begins to go crazy with supernatural happenings due to the seal in the basement and Buffy and Principal Wood seek a way to bring the violence under control.
Lies My Parents Told Me
W: Douglas Petrie & Drew Goddard
D:
9.0 Buffy and company use mystical means to get inside Spike's mind and de-trigger his trigger. However, the spell brings back flashbacks of Spike's relationship with his mother. Meanwhile, Robin Woods decides that the time has come to destroy Spike--and he enlists Giles to help him.l.
Dirty Girls
W: Drew Goddard
D: Michael Gershman
 		7.5 Two new players in the battle arrive in Sunnydale—Faith and a mysterious priest named Caleb, who has aligned himself with the First. Caleb sends Buffy and the rest of a potential a message in the form of a beaten and close-to-death potential, saying he has something that belongs to her. In retaliation, Buffy decides to lead the potentials into battle to get it back—whether they are ready or not.
Empty Places
W: Drew Z. Greenberg
D: James A. Contner
 		8.0 Buffy and the gang attempt to recover from the results of their attack on Caleb in various ways. Faith takes the potentials out for a night at the Bronze, much to the chagrin of Buffy. Giles and Willow hunt down information on Caleb that sends Spike and Andrew on a road trip to find out more abou the strangely powerful preacher. And Buffy has another meeting with Caleb that leads her to want to make another attack against him, but dissension is among the ranks.
Touched
W: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
D: David Solomon
 		8.5 Faith takes the leadership of the potentials while Buffy searches for somewhere to stay in the increasingly deserted Sunnydale. Faith and the potentials kidnap a Bringer in an attempt to extract information about Caleb and the First from it. Meanwhile, Spike and Andrew return from their mission with information that Caleb may indeed have something of Buffy's.
End of Days
W: Jane Espenson & Doug Petrie
D: Marita Grabiak
 		7.5 Buffy recovers a mystical scythe from Caleb's lair and puts it to use rescuing the potentials and reclaiming her spot as their leader. Willow and Giles hit the heavy research mode to find out more about the scythe, its origins and its possible role in the upcoming battle with the First. Meanwhile, Anya and Andrew break into a local hospital to get supplies to help the wounded potentials and Buffy gives Xander a special mission involving Dawn…
Chosen
W: Joss Whedon
D: Joss Whedon
 		10.0 Angel returns to Sunnydale, bringing Buffy an amulet to give to a champion in the upcoming battle with the first. After sending Angel back to L.A., Buffy comes up with a plan that could possibly stop the First--but in order to do so, she and her army must enter the Hellmouth....