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Season
Three -
In
War Zone, bringing up baby is on the mind of
Rupert Giles and his wife Becca, leading the
elder watcher to a decision to retire from the
Watchers Council.
Meanwhile, a giant sand demon threatens
to wipe out U.S. troops in the hostile desert
warzone of Iraq.
While Giles pays a call to Alex Neel and
is introduced to Lucifer – looking very much
like someone from Giles’s past -- a crack team
of wiccans and slayers, including Buffy Summers,
visit the war-torn Middle East.
In Maternal Instincts, Faith’s past
catches up with her as memories of Richard
Wilkins stand to help or hinder her in saving
her son, Norman, from death’s door as Robin
attempts to reconcile himself to a new way of
life without his leg.
Meantime, Shannon, a young slayer with a
mean baseball swing bonds with the boy while the
watchers and the slayers search for a demon
horde looking for a surrogate mother.
In Both Sides Now - Rowena learns the
hard way that rank has its disadvantages as well
as its privileges when she must call Xander, Vi,
and Willow before a council tribunal on charges
of negligence in the death of several slayers
and the fall of the Vancouver Watchers Council.
With Just the Facts, the council meets
reporter Robert Devlin who is trying to piece
together what happened to a group of young women
who died mysteriously in Vancouver. In doing
such he stumbles onto the story of the century
in the form of the Watchers Council and its
work. Rowena
and the other heads of the Cleveland Council
must decide whether to work the Tabula Rasa
spell and remove Devlin’s memory, or take
Devlin into their confidence and hope that he
will understand why their story cannot be
written. As
Willow and Rowena square off, this time over the
moral implications of using the Tabula Rasa,
Bonnie, Brell, and the Council heads put Devlin
to the test.
In Trial By Fury - Fangs and claws come
out for Willow and Rowena, still at odds over
the spell Rowena and Kennedy did on Devlin and
for Kadin Van Helsing who is put on trial by a
special order of werewolves dedicated to living
with mankind peaceably. Kadin must relive a
painful chapter from her past while proving her
innocence in the killing of a group of
werewolves from The Brethren.
As Kennedy lends support, Kadin’s life
hinges on the decision of the jury of werewolves
and the cunning abilities of her lawyer Elana
Velmont. Meanwhile,
Rowena and Willow’s fangs are showing too, as
their resentments toward each build to a fever
pitch while an unsuspecting Skye has a
disturbing encounter with the psychologically
unstable slayer, Dana. In Luna the Watchers
wonder what do James Bond, a stuffed cat named
Madame Fliffertop, a lovesick Andrew, and an
army of bugs have in common?
Throw in a death squad of laser
squirrels, a jump-start to a reconciliation
between Willow and Rowena, and a vampire
twelve-step program that takes abstinence to a
new level.
Lives
and love are ‘In the Balance’ when a lost
Monarch and Idol and a quest for closure come
into head-on conflict.
As Rowena and Willow rekindle their
relationship, Kennedy forges a new bond with
Kadin Van Helsing and an old man, Gregor
Kalderas, a relation of her birth mother’s.
Meanwhile, Dawn must come to grips with
the fact the missing Skye may be gone forever.
With the kidnappings of Reteesk and
Tracey everyone especially Dawn and Rowena must
work together, with a little help from Giles and
Brell, to find the balance between the personal
and the professional without sacrificing their
loved ones nor losing to the new demons in town.
In Loves Labours Lost, young Richard Caperlet
and his demon lover, Erios Montager, face off
against their warring families and an ages-old
feud. Rowena,
Willow Robin and Faith must find a way to safely
bring the two bitter factions to a truce long
enough to keep the star-crossed lovers from
fleeing home to wed.
In the meantime, a seemingly well-meaning
doctor returns a slightly amnesiac Skye to the
Watchers Council.
Willow takes time to look into Giles’
ghost problem of his new house while an unwell
Gregor Kalderash tries to hand down generations
of their family’s tradition and legacy to
Kennedy. In No Mercy, Gregor Kalderash begins to
wine and dine the best and brightest at the
Watchers Council as Rowena considers adding him
to the group.
But when he makes a dire prediction about
Willow’s and Faith’s futures, the two are
left with an agonizing decision.
In the meanwhile, the recently returned
Skye seems to be less available than she was
when she was missing, setting Dawn on edge.
A chance meeting in a bar for Skye and an
unexpected face-off for Kennedy and Gregor leave
no room for mercy. In Birthright, Kadin Van
Helsing finds the mystical ‘other half’ of
the medallion left to her by her father and she
begins a quest for her Birth Right as the heir
of a long line of vampire hunters.
With Kennedy at her side, a trip to a
mysterious cave in Amsterdam will test more than
Kadin’s hunters’ instincts.
In the meantime, Dawn grows more
concerned over Skye’s unusual behavior while
Vi comes to grips with having killed Kennedy’s
Uncle Gregor to save Willow and Faith. In Rule
of Three - A baseball card, a unique friendship,
and a bitter lesson in what
goes-around-comes-around is in store for Shannon
as she struggles with adjusting to the death of
her grandfather and becomes the target for more
bullying than she can take from another slayer.
Rejecting Dawn as her new Watcher and
feeling confused and alone she seeks comfort in
befriending a deranged creature and a newly
returned Ethan Rayne only to find that neither
is quite what they seem and that the Rule of
Three doesn’t always hold true the way one
expects. In Roses are Red a
fight with a necromancer and a bloodstained
knife wreck havoc on Xander and Vi via a little
ghost-girl named Rose who begins to haunt Xander
and the Council.
Fearing for the lives of his friends and
colleagues and with no super powers of his own,
the all-too-human Xander must play along until
he can elicit help from Willow.
But there is no way to defeat the ghost
unless Xander spills Vi’s blood in a dark
ritual to kill the slayer.
Meanwhile, Skye kills Bonnie and Slayer
Dana, which ends up putting Faith and Kennedy in
a knockdown, drag-out fight…as well as Faith
leaving the council without so much as a
goodbye.
Faith’s own faith in herself is put to the
test in The Night In Question. The senior slayer
finds herself magically plucked from the highway
as she flees her life and career with the
Cleveland Watchers Council only to be
transported to a place where she never became
anything more than a rogue slayer. Here new
surroundings are all but a wonderful life as
Faith battles with herself in an alternate
reality had the Mayor ascended. Next, with the
Watchers Council searching for the escaped
vampire Skye, Andrew and Tracey aren’t certain
whether they’ll ever be able to spend some
private time in A Road Trip To Remember. They
are thrilled when they are cleared for a
Valentine’s getaway to Orlando, only to find
themselves pressed into service. A harrowing
trip on the Everglades, a cryptic message about
good-guys and bad-guys, and proof of the
existence of angels turns their romantic
vacation into something more sinister, while in
Cleveland, Kennedy must search for Skye and for
some inner acceptance of the beating she herself
took at Faith’s hands. With the capture of
Skye, Buffy Summers must accept that her little
sister Dawn has grown up as Dawn struggles to
accept that Skye is lost to her. In 59:23, less
than an hour is all it takes for the Council to
be put to the severest test of its strength and
its weaknesses. In a race against time, the
entire Cleveland Council must stop the
detonation of a mystical bomb -- with the
destructive force of cataclysmic proportions --
hidden somewhere in Cleveland before the hour
runs out. As they disperse throughout the city,
the Watchers, Slayers and Wiccans, and the
maverick vampire Skye, must work in small,
unusual teams under a new kind of pressure –
incompatibility. In the next episode, beauty’s
only Skin Deep – but there are some wounds
that go even deeper as Willow, Ro, Ken and Faith
all discover. Reaching a crossroads in their
relationships, Willow and Rowena must come to
terms with the inherent differences in their
perspectives on life and the Council, while
Kennedy and Faith must choose to either
strengthen their friendship or abandon it
entirely. As Xander and Vi finally settle back
into a comfortable rapport, Willow befriends a
woman whose life has been spent trying to escape
her own demon and Rowena gains two quiet new
friends to help her get through some lonely
nights, two cats she names Marco and Polo. In
Strange Bedfellows, Kadin’s testing days are
never over, it seems, as the Watchers Council
tries to determine if she is cut out to be a
member of their force. Quick to act first and
obey orders later, Kadin’s hunter reflexes are
proving to be a sticking point for the Watchers
leadership and slayer patrols. While Dawn and
Jeff search tome after tome for a spell or a
curse that will help to restore Skye’s soul,
Kennedy is pressed into service to test
Kadin’s ability to adapt from loner to team
player. The hunter and slayer’s trust of one
another is also put to the test when they are
sent to exterminate a nest of vampires, unaware
of the two queens at the center of the nest are
Harmony and Luna; the strangest of Strange
Bedfellows any hellmouth ever saw. With Very Bad
Ideas, more than one person has come up with
Very Bad Ideas as Dawn discovers a way to re-ensoul
Skye, a Fellowship of less than Tolkien-esque
ideals begins to spread its reach into the city
of Cleveland, and Andrew gets the gang involved
in the home version of the Newlywed Game.
Jeff’s urging leads Dawn to begrudgingly seek
the Coven’s help in retrieving Skye’s soul,
while the Fellowship of Shadows retrieves a
she-wolf from confinement and Marsha the dragon
sniffs out Ethan Rayne in his usual place – in
the middle of all the trouble. But things stand
to get worse when Rowena receives a missive from
the other Councils. The Watcher chooses love
over duty and looks for a replacement.
In Rules of Engagement, a nest of Strieaufix
demons is in the slayers’ sights. At the same
time, Buffy Summers is brought to the Watchers
Council by Rowena to man her chair while Dawn
strikes out on her own in a bid to get Skye’s
soul back. An unexpected meeting with an old
acquaintance and a dire warning may not be
enough to keep Dawn from a path that could have
future repercussions. In the meantime, Faith,
now stripped of her Council duties, goes
head-to-head with a barroom full of demons,
unaware of the insidious presence of the
mysterious Dr. Wagner. More -- and now highly
visible -- attacks against the citizens of
Cleveland and a demon’s odd comment about an
impending battle stand out in warning to the
Watchers. In Foucault’s Pendulum, an encounter
with a harbinger of a doomed future for the
Watchers and Slayers along with an alliance with
Council members destined to be born three
hundred years from now, are at the epicenter of
Foucault’s Pendulum. Buffy has gone on a trip
to help lay the groundwork for bringing all the
world’s Watchers Councils together in one big
dialogue. But a dialogue of another sort is
going on between Rowena and a mysterious time
traveler claiming to be the last of the Watchers
and who brings with him a message of three
devastating wars that pit slayer against slayer.
There is only one slayer in all the world who
can counter the pendulum of history’s
never-changing course. But will it be enough to
counter all the tragedies that lie ahead for her
friends and for the Council? In the next
episode, The Secret Life of DJ Trace, What do
vampires juiced on juiced-up victims, freelance
slayers playing by their own rules, a computer
professor with a knack for robotics, Darth
Vader, Reteesk, Romeo and Juliet, and a chorus
line to end all chorus lines have in common?
They’re all part of just another ordinary week
at the Watchers Council as Tracey’s college
radio show turns into more than just background
noise for studious geeks in the Secret Life of
DJ Trace. With less than a little prodding,
Tracey fights for a strange little boy, her
grades, and her listener’s attention as she
takes her audience on a magical mystery tour,
Watchers-style.
In
Ouroboros, a strange temple
is unearthed on a construction site and the
Watchers Council is called in to investigate the
unlikely archeological find. The appearance of
two sets of lawyers, whose interests in the
Temple are both strong but unspecified, puts the
Council on notice. Needing brains more than
brawn on the case, Willow and Giles begin to
unravel the mysteries of the Ouroboros only to
find themselves trapped in the collapsed ruins.
As each minute passes, Giles’s life fades
while family and friends tearfully gather about
the elder Watcher. But Giles’s mind and soul
follow the lead of a surprise guide through a
temple out of time and space. Will the Watchers
Council be doomed to devour itself or will the
Watcher of the last Chosen One be able to pass
on the lesson of the Ouroboros? In Shomer an
angel appears…“For behold, I bring you
tidings of great. . .” Doom. That’s what’s
in store for the world as the Council members
are caught off-guard by a hidden herald and a
smart-mouthed lawyer who just may be right about
one thing – that the world is not better off
for the presence of the Watchers Council, but
just the opposite! As Faith is allowed a unique
revelation about slayers, the Cleveland Coven,
with the help of Skye, calls Gaia – Mother
Nature – for help. Buffy and Faith try to save
the Council itself as Cleveland and the world at
large are suddenly rent by the worst
combinations of demonic and natural disasters
ever seen. The Watchers Council’s last act may
prove to be that of the ultimate Shomer, paying
for its negligence to the world and the greater
good. In the season finale, Megiddo, the world
won’t listen. And what begins in Megiddo,
Israel, may end in the suburbs as well as the
back-alleys across the world as Hellmouths crack
open with a vengeance. In spite of their best
efforts to prove there are such things as
monsters to the world’s citizens, the Watchers
Council faces the worst enemy they have ever
met: human apathy. As a pregnant Becca fights
for the life of her unborn child and baby
Elizabeth, Vi and the other slayers suffer
losses too horrible to imagine. A temple, in the
lost city of ‘Atlantis,’ holds the key to
winning the fight. A devilishly tempting bargain
is offered to Rowena while winged demons ravage
the earth. But not all winged creatures are
demons, the Council finds out when angels appear
to lend a hand. Faith begins to fill a role and
accept a fate that may turn the tide for all
mankind and good demons everywhere but not
without paying a price. (CLICK
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