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.ib-tv-episode-guests{margin:0;padding:5px;padding-left:1em;text-align:left}</style><table class="infobox ib-tv-episode vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">"<b>Helpless</b>"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i> episode</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Episode <abbr title="number">no.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data">Season 3<br />Episode 12</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/James_A._Contner" title="James A. Contner">James A. Contner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/David_Fury" title="David Fury">David Fury</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Production code</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">3ABB12</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Original air date</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">January 19, 1999<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1999-01-19</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary"><span class="nowrap">Guest appearances</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data ib-tv-episode-guests"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kristine_Sutherland" title="Kristine Sutherland">Kristine Sutherland</a> as <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Summers" title="Joyce Summers">Joyce Summers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Kober" title="Jeff Kober">Jeff Kober</a> as Zachary Kralik</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Yulin" title="Harris Yulin">Harris Yulin</a> as <a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_characters#Quentin_Travers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters">Quentin Travers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominic_Keating" title="Dominic Keating">Dominic Keating</a> as Blair</li> <li>David Haydn-Jones as Hobson</li> <li>Nick Cornish as Guy</li> <li>Don Dowe as Construction Worker</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header noprint summary">Episode chronology</th></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width: 100%; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0; text-align: center;">← <b>Previous</b><br />"<a href="/wiki/Gingerbread_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Gingerbread</a>" </td> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0 0.2em 0.1em; text-align: center;"><b>Next</b> →<br />"<a href="/wiki/The_Zeppo" title="The Zeppo">The Zeppo</a>" </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_3" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3"><i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer </i>season 3</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_episodes" title="List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes">List of episodes</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Helpless</b>" is the twelfth episode of season three of the television show <i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i>. It was written by <a href="/wiki/David_Fury" title="David Fury">David Fury</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/James_A._Contner" title="James A. Contner">James A. Contner</a>, and first broadcast on <a href="/wiki/The_WB" title="The WB">The WB</a> on January 19, 1999. Giles and the <a href="/wiki/Watcher_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Watcher's Council</a> administer a test which drains Buffy of her <a href="/wiki/Slayer_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Slayer</a> powers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helpless_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the library, <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Giles" title="Rupert Giles">Giles</a> shows <a href="/wiki/Buffy_Summers" title="Buffy Summers">Buffy</a> a variety of crystals, ostensibly to teach her how to identify them. Later, on patrol, Buffy's strength suddenly deserts her and she is nearly killed by a vampire. Buffy reports the problem to Giles and demonstrates her poor performance when throwing knives at a target. At home, Buffy is disappointed to find that her father is too busy to take her to the ice show for her 18th birthday; she suggests to Giles that he could take her instead. Giles has Buffy stare at a crystal until she falls into a trance, then injects her with a mysterious substance. Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Travers" class="mw-redirect" title="Quentin Travers">Quentin Travers</a>, the head watcher, sets up an extreme test for the slayer, assisted by two men named Hobson and Blair. </p><p>Buffy tries to intervene when <a href="/wiki/Cordelia_Chase" title="Cordelia Chase">Cordelia</a>'s argument with an aggressive suitor becomes physical, but she is casually knocked aside. Buffy enlists the help of her friends to figure out what is wrong. She visits Angel who gives her a book for her birthday. He tells her about how he saw her before she was the slayer and how he loved her from the second he first saw her. Kralik, the captive vampire intended for Buffy's test, breaks out of his straitjacket while Blair is giving him his pills. He turns Blair into a vampire. </p><p>Giles goes to find Quentin at the Sunnydale Arms building, but discovers that Kralik is missing and Hobson is dead. Buffy, walking home alone, is confronted by Kralik. Blair chases her until Giles drives by and picks her up. At the Summers' home, <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Summers" title="Joyce Summers">Joyce</a> hears a noise out front where she finds Kralik wrapped up in Buffy's jacket. Giles tells Buffy that she has lost her strength due to the injections of muscle relaxant and adrenaline suppressors he had given her, and about the test. Furious, Buffy returns home where she finds a picture of her mother bound to a chair and gagged by Kralik. </p><p>Buffy goes to the Sunnydale Arms building, beats Blair unconscious and then is chased by Kralik until his need for pills becomes unbearable. Buffy steals them away, and slides down a laundry chute where she finds her mother. Kralik breaks through the door and grabs his pills back, washing them down with a nearby glass of water. Buffy had filled the glass with holy water, causing Kralik to burn from within. Buffy frees her mother as Giles arrives and stakes Blair. </p><p>Back at the library, Quentin congratulates Buffy on her accomplishment, but Buffy is also angry with him. Because of Giles' fatherly relationship with the slayer, Quentin fires him from the Watchers' Council and prepares to assign a new watcher to Buffy, warning them not to interfere before leaving. However, Giles is still the school librarian and offers to help Buffy as a freelancer. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helpless_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A reviewer for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> wrote that the slayer test made no sense and that "Helpless" would have been better if Faith, the second slayer, were also present. The review said the betrayal of Buffy by Giles, and the strains on their growing father-daughter relationship, was "heart-wrenching".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Noel Murray of <i><a href="/wiki/The_A.V._Club" title="The A.V. Club">The A.V. Club</a></i> described the episode as "one of the most overtly horrific, with creepy dark houses and blood-spattered rooms".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Myles McNutt notes that "our central characters really are alone in this fight. This doesn't mean they are helpless, of course, but it does mean that they don't have an army behind them," and that "Kralik is dangerous but has no plans to take over the world, which means that all of the consequences are about character rather than the end of the world."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Vox_(website)" title="Vox (website)">Vox</a></i> ranked this episode at #71 out of the 144 <i>Buffy</i> episodes, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the show, saying, "Add in a whole mess of subplots involving Buffy pining after her dad and Angel doing some of his most self-indulgent moping, and 'Helpless' loses some of the spark it could've had by making Buffy fend for herself without her powers for the first time since before the show began. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 6,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Episode+Guide+%E2%80%94+Helpless&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fcult%2Fbuffy%2Findetail%2Fhelpless%2Freviews.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelpless+%28Buffy+the+Vampire+Slayer%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/buffy-angel-amends-etc-29433">"Buffy The Vampire Slayer: "Amends" / "Gingerbread" / "Helpless"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_A.V._Club" title="The A.V. Club">The A.V. Club</a></i>. 19 June 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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You, Jane">I, Robot... You, Jane</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Puppet_Show_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Puppet Show (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Puppet Show</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nightmares_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Nightmares (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Nightmares</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Out_of_Mind,_Out_of_Sight_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Out of Mind, Out of Sight</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Prophecy_Girl" title="Prophecy Girl">Prophecy Girl</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_2" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2">Season 2</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/When_She_Was_Bad" title="When She Was Bad">When She Was Bad</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Some_Assembly_Required_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Some Assembly Required (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Some Assembly Required</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Inca_Mummy_Girl" title="Inca Mummy Girl">Inca Mummy Girl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lie_to_Me_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Lie to Me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Lie to Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Age_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Dark Age (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Dark Age</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What%27s_My_Line_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="What's My Line (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">What's My Line, Parts One and Two</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bad_Eggs_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Bad Eggs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Bad Eggs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Surprise_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Surprise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Surprise</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Innocence_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Innocence (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Innocence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Phases_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Phases (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Phases</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bewitched,_Bothered_and_Bewildered_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Passion_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Passion (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Passion</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Killed_by_Death_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Killed by Death (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Killed by Death</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Only_Have_Eyes_for_You_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="I Only Have Eyes for You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">I Only Have Eyes for You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Go_Fish_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Go Fish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Go Fish</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Becoming_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Becoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Becoming, Parts One and Two</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_3" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3">Season 3</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Anne_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Anne (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Anne</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Party_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Dead Man's Party (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Dead Man's Party</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Faith,_Hope_%26_Trick" title="Faith, Hope & Trick">Faith, Hope & Trick</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beasts" title="Beauty and the Beasts">Beauty and the Beasts</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Homecoming_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Homecoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Homecoming</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Band_Candy" title="Band Candy">Band Candy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Revelations_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Revelations (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Revelations</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lovers_Walk" title="Lovers Walk">Lovers Walk</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wish_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Wish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Wish</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Amends" title="Amends">Amends</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gingerbread_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Gingerbread</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Helpless</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Zeppo" title="The Zeppo">The Zeppo</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bad_Girls_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Bad Girls (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Bad Girls</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Consequences_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Consequences (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Consequences</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Doppelgangland" title="Doppelgangland">Doppelgangland</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Earshot_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Earshot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Earshot</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Choices_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Choices (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Choices</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Graduation_Day_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Graduation Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Graduation Day, Parts One and Two</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_4" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4">Season 4</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Living_Conditions" class="mw-redirect" title="Living Conditions">Living Conditions</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beer_Bad" title="Beer Bad">Beer Bad</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Pangs" title="Pangs">Pangs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Something_Blue_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Something Blue (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Something Blue</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Hush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Hush</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_I_in_Team" title="The I in Team">The I in Team</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Goodbye_Iowa" title="Goodbye Iowa">Goodbye Iowa</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/This_Year%27s_Girl_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="This Year's Girl (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">This Year's Girl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Who_Are_You%3F_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Who Are You? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Who Are You?</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Superstar_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Superstar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Superstar</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Yoko_Factor" title="The Yoko Factor">The Yoko Factor</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Restless_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Restless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Restless</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_5" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5">Season 5</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Buffy_vs._Dracula" title="Buffy vs. Dracula">Buffy vs. Dracula</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Real_Me_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Real Me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Real Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Replacement_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Replacement (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Replacement</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Out_of_My_Mind_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Out of My Mind (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Out of My Mind</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Checkpoint_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Checkpoint (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Checkpoint</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Body_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Body</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tough_Love_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Tough Love (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Tough Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Spiral_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Spiral (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Spiral</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Weight_of_the_World_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Weight of the World (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Weight of the World</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="The Gift (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">The Gift</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_6" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6">Season 6</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Bargaining_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Bargaining (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Bargaining, Parts One and Two</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/After_Life_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="After Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">After Life</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Life_Serial" title="Life Serial">Life Serial</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_the_Way_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="All the Way (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">All the Way</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Once More, with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Once More, with Feeling</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Tabula Rasa (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Tabula Rasa</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Smashed_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Smashed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Smashed</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wrecked_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Wrecked (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Wrecked</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/As_You_Were_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="As You Were (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">As You Were</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hell%27s_Bells_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Hell's Bells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Hell's Bells</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Normal_Again" title="Normal Again">Normal Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Entropy_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Entropy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Entropy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Seeing_Red_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Seeing Red (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Seeing Red</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Villains_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Villains (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Villains</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Two_to_Go" title="Two to Go">Two to Go</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Grave_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Grave (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Grave</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_season_7" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7">Season 7</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Lessons_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Lessons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Lessons</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beneath_You" title="Beneath You">Beneath You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Same_Time,_Same_Place" title="Same Time, Same Place">Same Time, Same Place</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Help_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Help (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Help</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Selfless_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Selfless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Selfless</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Him_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Him (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Him</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Conversations_with_Dead_People" title="Conversations with Dead People">Conversations with Dead People</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sleeper_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Sleeper (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Sleeper</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Never_Leave_Me" title="Never Leave Me">Never Leave Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bring_On_the_Night_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Bring On the Night (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Bring On the Night</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Showtime_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Showtime (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Showtime</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Potential_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Potential (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Potential</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Killer_in_Me" title="The Killer in Me">The Killer in Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a 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