Prophecy Girl (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode)
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| "Prophecy Girl | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 12 | ||
| Directed by | Joss Whedon | ||
| Written by | Joss Whedon | ||
| Production code | 4V12 | ||
| Original air date | June 2, 1997 | ||
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| ← Previous "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" | Next → "When She Was Bad" | ||
| List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes | |||
"Prophecy Girl" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's first season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the 12th episode of the series. The episode first aired on June 2, 1997 with the series acting as a midseason replacement for Savannah. Series creator Joss Whedon wrote and directed the episode.
The narrative features vampire Slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) working to prevent vampire the Master (Mark Metcalf) from rising to power despite a prophecy predicting her death at his hands.
Due to the first season of the show serving as a mid season replacement, all twelve episodes were produced before the first episode aired (and as such, the conclusion of the episode serves to wrap the series up in case it were not renewed). All following seasons commenced from September to October and received twenty-two episode pick-ups.
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[edit] Plot
Xander is practicing lines on Willow in the Bronze, wanting to ask Buffy to the Spring Fling. Cordelia is in a car making out with Kevin, as Buffy slays a vampire nearby. Giles is researching the prophetic book that Angel gave him and discovers that the Master is destined to rise and that it means danger for the Slayer. An earthquake is felt all over town, and the Master revels in it.
The next morning, Buffy is meeting Giles in the library, the balcony of which has sustained significant damage from the earthquake. Buffy explains the vampires are rising in number and getting braver, but Giles is distracted by his thoughts. After biology class, Willow finds an excuse to leave, leaving Xander to ask Buffy to the dance. Xander takes Buffy's rejection badly, and goes home to "listen to country music, the music of pain."
Miss Calendar interrupts Giles' study in the library, telling him that she sees apocalyptic portents. She tells him Brother Luca, a monk in Cortona, is e-mailing her about the Anointed One. Giles asks her to get more information about this, promising he will explain everything later. In the school hall, Kevin and Willow promise to help Cordelia set everything up in the Bronze for the dance. Willow sees Xander wallowing in his misery, and offers sympathy. When Xander asks her to the dance, she refuses, not wanting to settle for being his second choice.
That evening, Buffy uses the restroom at school and finds that the faucet is running with blood. As Buffy enters the library she hears Giles telling Angel that the prophecies say that she will face the Master and die. Buffy, shocked, yells that she is quitting, throwing the cross Angel gave her on the ground. She goes back home and tries to convince her mother to go away with her for the weekend. Joyce, instead, gives her a white evening gown and tells her to go to the dance.
The next day, at school, Cordelia and Willow find the AV club slaughtered by vampires. Buffy, having heard, shows up in her evening gown at Willow's who expresses fear of their world being taken over by the vampires. Buffy goes back to the library, where Giles has explained to Miss Calendar that Buffy is the Slayer. Buffy reinstates herself as the Slayer, knocks Giles out when he tries to stop her and goes to kill the Master. Outside of school, Collin leads her to the Master's lair.
Willow and Xander show up at the library, where they hear that Buffy has gone off to see the Master. Xander leaves, only to show up at Angel's apartment where he forces Angel to lead him to the Master's lair. The Master tells Buffy that it is her blood which will free him, as he drinks from her and leaves her to drown in a shallow pool. Willow and Ms. Calendar decide that the Hellmouth is underneath the Bronze and try to leave; they are stopped by vampires. Cordelia rescues them in her car and drives it straight into the library. Buffy is found; Xander saves her with CPR after Angel tells him that he [Angel] cannot perform CPR, as "[vampires] have no breath."
As Cordelia, Willow, Giles and Jenny fight off vampires trying to enter the library, a tentacled creature smashes through the floor, revealing that the Hellmouth is directly underneath the library itself. Buffy, now on the roof, tosses the Master down into the library, where he is impaled on broken furniture. He partly dusts, leaving only his skeleton. The world goes back to normal and everyone goes to the Bronze. (Buffy: "We saved the world. I say we party.")
