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The career fair at school has Buffy down, for as the Slayer what kind of future can she have? Meanwhile, Spike, wrestling with a difficult translation of the book he stole from Giles, is planning to make that point moot for Buffy by killing her.
On patrol, Buffy comes across a pair of vampires stealing something from a mausoleum. She kills one, but the other gets away, thus further dampening her spirits. She takes it out on Angel, who suggests an ice-skating date to cheer her up. The next day, Giles is more than a little disturbed by Buffy's report of the kleptomaniacal vampires, and Spike decides to "bring in the big guns" to get rid of the Slayer: demonic bounty hunters known as the Order of Taraka.
A follow-up trip to the mausoleum confirms Giles' fears — the vampires robbed the tomb of Josephus du Lac, a theologian and mathematician who wrote the stolen book, a book of evil spells. Sunnydale has some new arrivals: a brutish man who gets off the bus from L.A., a mousy salesman who offers a woman free beauty care samples but whose entrance into her home is followed by a scream, and an exotic beauty who knocks an airport worker unconscious before emerging from a plane's cargo hold. Buffy's ice-skating is interrupted by the brutish man, who tries to kill her but is stopped by Angel. Together, Angel and Buffy dispatch the assassin, then share a romantic moment, unknowingly watched by the exotic beauty. 
Giles explains to Buffy that the Order of Taraka is unstoppable, and that she should probably find somewhere to hide. Rattled, Buffy disappears. She doesn't go home (which, unbeknownst to her, is being staked out by the mousy salesman, who sits next to the maggot-covered corpse of the woman who let him in while his arm forms out of maggots). She instead goes to Angel's place, but he isn't there. He's at a bar, trying to find out from the vampire-friendly bartender who sent the Order after Buffy. Before he gets any useful information, though, he is attacked by the exotic beauty.
The beauty overpowers Angel and locks him in a steel cage that in six hours will be exposed to direct sunlight, then goes off to find Buffy. Giles has figured out that the book the vampires stole contains a spell to restore an ailing vampire to health — a vampire like Drusilla. Xander and Cordelia go to Buffy's house, trying to find her. They don't, but the maggoty salesman shows up and, enticed by his offer of free cosmetics, Cordelia lets him in. Buffy is awakened when the exotic beauty attacks her with a hatchet. They fight each other to a stalemate, and Buffy asks the girl who she is. "I am Kendra," the newcomer announces, "the Vampire Slayer." To be continued...
Buffy convinces Kendra to meet Giles. When she does, it turns out that Kendra's telling the truth: when Buffy drowned to death in the Master's lair, the next Slayer was activated. Kendra has been sent to Sunnydale by her Watcher, Sam Zabuto, because signs point to something terrible happening there soon. Meanwhile, Willy saves Angel from the cage just in the nick of time... but delivers him to Spike. Cordelia and Xander are attacked by the salesman, who explodes into a mass of worms and chases them around Buffy's house until they barricade themselves in the basement. Spike brings a weakened Angel to Drusilla, saying that all they need is that night's full moon and Angel's death for Drusilla to be fully restored to health. 
Buffy wonders if it would be so bad to let Kendra be the Slayer so she can have a normal life. Trapped in Buffy's basement, Cordelia and Xander get to arguing, which leads to kissing. Creeped, they make a desperate escape. Willow is charmed by Oz, and when the policewoman at career day turns out to be the third assassin, Oz takes a bullet to save Willow. Kendra saves Buffy, but the assassin gets away. Everyone meets at the library, and Giles reveals that the rest of Drusilla's cure will require the death of her sire. Buffy knows that means Angel, and now she's mad. "Nobody messes with my boyfriend," she says dangerously.
Drusilla tortures Angel before the ritual, exacting revenge for the way he killed her family. Buffy and Kendra bond, while Xander discovers how to kill the worm-man. Then they go to get the truth out of Willy the bartender. After the girls threaten him, he agrees to take them to where the ritual will take place. Kendra thinks they should go to Giles first, but Buffy doesn't want to wait. Willy takes her to the church... delivering her right into the hands of the waiting assassins.
The ritual is underway: in five minutes, Angel will be dead, and it looks like Buffy could be dead by then too. But Kendra arrives with Giles and the kids, and a melee ensues. After Xander and Cordy dispose of the worm-man and Kendra deals with the third assassin, Buffy interrupts the ritual half-way. Spike sets fire to the church and tries to escape with Drusilla, but Buffy beans him with the brazier, collapsing the organ on top of the fleeing vampires. Kendra helps Buffy get Angel out of the burning church. The next day, Oz charms Willow yet again, Xander and Cordy argue and kiss yet again, and Buffy bids goodbye to Kendra, who tells her that Slaying isn't a job. "It's who you are," she says. And in the burned-out ruins of the church, a rejuvenated Drusilla carries a weakened Spike away to recuperate.
summary from buffy.com
Dalton: "It could be, uh, 'deprimere ille bubula linter.'"
Spike: "'Debase the beef...canoe.' Why does that strike me as not right?"
Drusilla: "Now will you dance?"
Spike: "I'll dance with you, pet, on the Slayer's grave."
Willow: "Goody! Research party!"
Xander: "Will, you need a life in the worst way."
Kendra: "Who are you?"
Buffy: "Who am I? You attacked me! Who the hell are you?!"
Kendra: "I'm Kendra...the Vampire Slayer."
Willy: "What are you gonna' do with him, anyway?"
Spike: "I'm thinkin' maybe dinner and a movie. I don't want to rush into
anything. I've been hurt, you know."
Buffy: "I don't take orders. I do things my way."
Kendra: "No wonder you died."
Giles: "After meeting you, Buffy, I realized that the Slayer Handbook would be
of no use in your case."
Buffy: "Well, what do you mean it would be of no use in my case? What--what's
wrong with my case?"
Spike: "I'll see him die soon enough. I've never been much for the pre-show."
Angel: "Too bad. That's what Drusilla likes best, as I recall."
Drusilla: "Don't worry, dear heart. I'll see that you get strong again...like me."
Regulars:
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz as Angel
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Guest Stars:
Seth Green as Oz -part 1&2
Bianca Lawson as Kendra part 1&2
James Marsters as Spike part 1&2
Juliet Landau as Drusilla part 1&2
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder part 1
Cast:
Eric Saiet as Dalton-part 1
Kelly Connell as Worm-man- part 1&2
Saverio Guerra as Willy-part 1&2
Michael Rothhaar as Suitman-part 1
P.B. Hutton as Mrs. Kalish-part 1
Danny Strong as Hostage Kid-part 2
Spice Williams as Patrice-part 2
Cast list from Buffyguide.com