Season 5 Epsiode Guide:

Buffy vs Dracula

The scooby gang meets the famous Dracula, who ironicly, has come to Sunnydale to meet the famous Slayer that he's heard so much about. However Buffy has became powerless under his charm and Xander has become Dracula's "butt monkey" and helps his "master" in a plan to hurt the slayer and his friends. With some help from Spike Giles, and Riley find Draculas hideout and knock both Xander and Buffy out of Draculas spell.
Directed by: David Solomon
Written by: Marti Noxon

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Real Me

Harmony's back and shes brought minions, basically shes trying to kill the slayer and doing a poor job of it. They plan to kidnap Buffy's little sis Dawn, but the plan is foiled when Buffy kills them (except harm she got away). Giles has decided to buy the local magic shop, after its owner was killed, so his life can have some purpose again.
Directed by: David Grossman
Written by: David Fury

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The Replacement

An evil Xander clone has taken over his life and is doing it more sucessfully than he ever could. Xander has noone to turn to as the evil double has gone to all his friends saying hes the real Xander, can life be anymore confusing?
Directed by: James A. Contner
Written by: Jane Espenson

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Out of My Mind

Riley is in deep trouble the little experiment with the intiative has got him sick, like dying, and he refuses to let the initiative doctor touch him, so he goes into hiding. But when Buffy turns to Spike for help, he and Harmony double cross the slayer and uses the information for his own personal gain, but kidnapping the doctor and having him remove the chip.
Directed by: David Grossman
Written by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner

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No Place like Home

Buffy cast a spell that helps her try to see if a demon is hurting her mother, and discovers that her sister Dawn isn't who or what she claims to be. After the spell is over and she talks to Giles, Buffy feels bad for the way she behaved toward Dawn, and vows nothing will hurt her little sister.
Directed by: David Solomon
Written by: Douglas Petrie

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Family

Tara's family has dropped in for a visit and is trying its hardest to make Tara return home, saying that her friends would find out that she was a demon. Attempting to prevent them from finding out her dark secret Tara cast a spell over them not leting them see any demons, which almost gets them all killed. Spike figures it out first and punches Tara in the nose, hurting both Tara and himself proving Tara to be human and that her family was just trying to control her.
Directed by: Joss Wheadon
Written by: Joss Wheadon

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Fool for Love

Buffy and Spike take a stroll down memory lane as Spike tells Buffy the tales of how he bagged two slayers in his day, as well as the tale of William the Bloody, and how he was turned. (after Buffy pays him of course.)
Directed by: Nick Marck
Written by: Doug Petrie

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Shadow

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Listening to Fear

A alien demon has come to Sunnydale to clean up Glory mess of crazy people, has one person imparticlar in mind to get Buffy's mom. It follows her home from the Sunnydale Hostipal after her brain surgry and starts terrorizing her.
Directed by: David Solomon
Written by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner

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Into the Woods

Spike takes Buffy to a pub and shows her how Riley has been spending his nights, letting vamps feed off of him. Seeing this lights the spark for all their realationship problems, Riley and Buffy break up and Riley goes back to the government going on a top secret mission to the Rain Forest somewhere.
Directed by: Marti Noxon
Written by: Marti Noxon

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Triangle

Giles goes out of town leaving Anya in charge of the Magic Box, While Buffy is getting over the Buffy still doesn't get the perfect moment drama. Willow and Anya are having a tiff over Xander, and somehow end up conjuring up a troll from another demension.
Directed by: Christopher Hibler
Written by: Jane Espenson

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Checkpoint

Buffy is paid a surprize visist from the Watcher's Council, regarding information about Glory. However they also have decided that Buffy must pass a test to prove her worthiness of the information. She plays along until a brotherhood of "" try to kill her, and say they won't stop until the key and its protector are dead. It is then Buffy realizes that she has the power over the council, making them reinstate Giles and sending them on their merry way back to England.
Directed by: Nick Marck
Written by: Jane Espenson & Douglas Petrie

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Blood Ties

Dawn is tired of the way everyone is talking about her, so Spike and her break into the Magic Box, where she discovers that shes the key. Freaked she returns home to confront Buffy and her mom about the shocking news, only to caught her room on fire and run away again. Its up to the scoobies to find Dawn and return her to where she can be protected.
Directed by: Michael Gershman
Written by: Steven S. DeKnight

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Crush

Spike lets his true feelings for the Slayer out, and is denied so much as I like you back, which drives him back to his wicked ex-lover Dru who has come crawling back to him and intends to make her Spikey his old self again. He kidnaps both Buffy and Dru and tries to prove his love to Buffy by killing his ex.
Directed by: Dan Attias
Written By: David Fury

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I was Made to Love You

A strange new girl is in town, and causing mischeif, her name is April and shes looking for her boyfriend Warren. The catch shes a robot and Warrens her creator, and shes hurting people to find him, its up to Buffy to stop her, or well keep her busy til her battery dies anyway.
Directed by: Jane Espenson
Written by: A. Contner

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The Body

Just as everythings starting to return to normal in Buffy's life, her moms recovery and all, she comes home to find her mom's lifeless body lying in the living room. Buffy must pull herself togther and be strong for Dawn and her friends.
Written: Joss Wheadon
Directed: Joss Wheadon

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Forever

After their mothers untimly passing Buffy and Dawn have trouble dealing. Buffy finds comfort in her one and only love Angel who returns to Sunnydale after hearing about Mrs. Summers, while Dawn takes another road to dealing by attempting to bring Joyce back with a little help from Willow and Spike.
Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: Marti Noxon
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Intervention

Buffy and Giles go on a spiritual journey for the Slayer, meantime in Sunnydale Spike had Warren create a Buffy bot which starts to cause confusion for the gang. Spike is napped by Glory's minions who believe he is the key, but Spike does the noble thing and protects Dawn.
Directed by: Michael Gershman
Written by: Jane Espenson

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Tough Love

After having a fight with Willow Tara goes to the Multi Cultural Festival alone where Glory meets her and is convinced that Tara is the key. Discovering that shes not the key Glory eats some of Taras brain and breaks her hand, in her crazy state she lets it slip that Dawn is the key.
Directed by: David Grossman
Written by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner

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Spiral

Now that Dawn is unmasked and Glorys hot on their trail the gang gets a RV and runs from Sunnydale only to be chased by those werid brotherhood guys. They must stop when one of their own is hit with an arrow, Ben is brought in to save him, only to have him turn into Glory and take Dawn and run.
Directed by: James A. Contner
Written by: Steven S. DeKnight

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The Weight of the World

Buffy slips into vegatable mode after Dawn is taken, Willow goes into her mind and tries to ease her back into reality. The spell is sucessful and the gang start planning to take on Glory and save Dawn.
Directed by: David Solomon
Written by: Doug Petrie

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The Gift

Glory has taken Dawn and has every intention of opening her portal with "the key" however Buffy and her friends are determined to stop her at all costs. They put on a good battle and restore Tara to full health, and use the Buffy bot as a decor, but its to late the portal is opened and the only way to stop it is to kill the key. Buffy finally figures out that she and Dawn are made by the same blood and that as long as one of them goes through it can save the world, so she makes the ultimate scarifice and kills herself to save her sister.
Directed by: Joss Wheadon
Written by: Joss Wheadon

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