Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5

First aired: 9/26/2000 22 episodes

After an unsettling encounter with the Dracula, Buffy asks Giles to once again be her Watcher. Luckily he agrees, for Buffy is about to face mortal problems far more threatening than the undead.

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Episodes

1. Buffy vs. Dracula

Aired: 9/26/2000

The one-and-only Dracula makes his way to Sunnydale and immediately has everyone enchanted. Even Buffy might not be able to resist his charms.

2. Real Me

Aired: 10/3/2000

As Harmony and her vampire gang plot Buffy's demise, Dawn adjusts to life with a Slayer.

3. The Replacement

Aired: 10/10/2000

When a demon creates a Xander double, the real Xander must convince his friends of his true identity.

4. Out of My Mind

Aired: 10/17/2000

While Riley's health begins to deteriorate, Spike and Harmony force a surgeon to remove the behavior modification chip embedded in Spike's brain.

5. No Place Like Home

Aired: 10/24/2000

Buffy learns more about Dawn after she discovers a mysterious orb linked to a group of monks being pursued by an incredibly powerful force.

6. Family

Aired: 11/7/2000

When relatives arrive in Sunnydale, to celebrate her birthday, Tara uses a magic spell on her friends to keep them from learning her "secret." Meanwhile, Glory unleashes a hoard of demons to hunt down Buffy.

7. Fool for Love

Aired: 11/14/2000

After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.

8. Shadow

Aired: 11/21/2000

Glory transforms a snake into a terrifying monster in her quest to find the Key; Joyce is hospitalized after being diagnosed with an illness.

9. Listening to Fear

Aired: 11/28/2000

As Joyce's sickness makes her begin doing odd things, a demon emerges from a meteorite and begins killing the mentally ill.

10. Into the Woods

Aired: 12/19/2000

After Buffy catches Riley in the clutches of a vampire-junkie, Riley makes an important decision regarding their relationship.

11. Triangle

Aired: 1/9/2001

While Giles is in England meeting with the Watcher Council, a bickering Anya and Willow mind the magic store and inadvertently conjure up a fearsome troll.

12. Checkpoint

Aired: 1/23/2001

The Watcher Council travels to Sunnydale to review Buffy's skills as a Slayer; meanwhile, Glory puts her search for the Key into high gear.

13. Blood Ties

Aired: 2/6/2001

When Dawn learns her true identity, she runs away - only to encounter Glory.

14. Crush

Aired: 2/13/2001

Buffy learns that Spike has a crush on her - a situation made all the more dangerous by Drusilla's return to Sunnydale.

15. I Was Made to Love You

Aired: 2/20/2001

Buffy and her friends encounter an incredibly strong female robot with only one thing on its mind - love.

16. The Body

Aired: 2/27/2001

Buffy, Dawn, and their friends deal with the loss of someone close to them.

17. Forever

Aired: 4/17/2001

With some help from Spike, Dawn attempts to bring Joyce back from the dead.

18. Intervention

Aired: 4/24/2001

A weary Buffy seeks to regain focus by embarking on a quest with the First Slayer; Spike cavorts with his very own "Buffybot" and Glory instructs her minions to spy on Buffy's friends in the hopes of ascertaining the Key's true identity.

19. Tough Love

Aired: 5/1/2001

When Tara falls victim to Glory's incredible power, Willow embraces dark magic and launches a counterattack.

20. Spiral

Aired: 5/8/2001

Realizing they may never be able to vanquish Glory, Buffy and the gang decide to flee Sunnydale in Spike's R.V. to protect Dawn.

21. The Weight of the World

Aired: 5/15/2001

When Buffy lapses into a catatonic state, Willow uses magic to find out why; a tug-of-war erupts between Glory and Ben over Dawn's ultimate fate.

22. The Gift

Aired: 5/22/2001

As Glory prepares Dawn for a bloodletting ritual that will open a portal to another dimension, Buffy and her friends head into battle.