Pangs
Buffy tracks and kills a vampire while Angel watches her from behind some
bushes. The college has a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Anthropology
building, and Xander is one of the construction workers. Buffy, Willow, and Anya
watch, and while Anya imagines sex with Xander, Buffy and Willow talk about the
meaning of Thanksgiving. Xander begins to dig, the ground suddenly caves out
under him and he drops into an old abandoned building. We later find is the Old
Sunnydale Mission. Buffy is upset that her Mom is going to be out of town for
Thanksgiving, but then decides to cook her own Thanksgiving dinner and invite
all their friends.
Covered in a blanket and in terrible shape, Spike
runs through the woods, trying to escape Riley and his team as they look for
him. Anya arrives at Xander's to find him incredibly sick, and right away starts
taking care of him. A green haze comes up from the old Mission and goes to the
place where some weapons are being kept, and the Curator of Cultural Center is.
After the haze comes in contact with a spear, it turns into a large Native
American man and kills the curator. Buffy and Willow later secretly investigate
the murder, and wonder why the curator's body was missing an ear. They discover
that the spear of a Chumash Indian is missing. Buffy tells Giles about the
murder while planning to have Thanksgiving at his place.
After Giles
agrees to look up information on the Chumash Indians, and Buffy leaves, Angel
appears from the back room. He and Giles talk about watching over Buffy, and
Angel tells him he doesn't want Buffy to know, even though it's incredibly hard
for him to bare. Buffy and Willow talk about preparations for Thanksgiving and
then Riley shows up. Buffy invites Riley to her Thanksgiving dinner, but he
already has plans to visit family in Iowa. Willow goes to get coffee and runs
into Angel. He tells her he's not evil, and that he's just looking out for Buffy
because she might be in trouble.
Starving, Spike tries to get food from
Harmony, but she threatens him with a stake and he leaves. Buffy goes to find
Father Gabriel, a priest who may have information for them, but finds that a
returning Chumash spirit has killed him. After the mission was uncovered, his
spirit was released to reenact the wrongs that were done to his people. Buffy
and Giles talk about it, while working on dinner and then Willow shows up with a
stack of books on the Chumash. She explains that while they once were peaceful,
the people of Sunnydale horribly mistreated them. Cutting off a victim's ear is
a way to prove that the kill was successful. Willow and Giles argue about what
happened between the Native Americans and the people who took their land and
their lives. When Buffy goes to the kitchen, the two talk secretly about Angel's
reappearance.
Anya practically carries Xander to Giles's place, and
after some research, they determine that he has Syphilis. The spirit gave it to
him because he was the one responsible for freeing their spirit in the first
place. With only a blanket to protect him from the sun, Spike shows up at
Giles's place asking for help. Buffy is reluctant to give it, but after he
offers inside information on the Initiative, and Willow helps him explain that
hey can't bite anyone anymore, they bring him inside and tie him to a chair.
Everyone begins to argue about what they're going to do to stop the spirit.
Willow doesn't want to kill him, but everyone else argues that that's the only
way. While Willow, Anya and a weakened Xander go to find the Dean and warn him
his life may be in trouble, the spirit calls forth more spirits to help him get
revenge for his people.
The spirits attack Buffy, Giles and Spike with
arrows. Helplessly tied to a chair, all Spike can do is try to move out of the
way as he gets hit with arrows. Willow, Xander and Anya encounter Angel on their
way back and they determine that the Chumash went after Buffy. Buffy tries to go
for more weapons, but gets an arrow in the arm. After riding over on bicycles,
the Scooby Gang tries to attack the Chumash spirits as best they can with
shovels. Angel shows up and helps them out. Buffy cuts one of the Chumash with
his own knife, and reaches the conclusion that their own weapons can kill them.
The spirit turns into a large black bear, which Spike desperately tries to get
away from and ends up knocking the chair over. Buffy struggles with the bear and
then stabs it. All the spirits disappear.
Angel walks away without being seen by Buffy, and later,
the gang sits down to Thanksgiving dinner. Still tied to a chair, Spike sits
with them and whines that he still hasn't been fed. Xander accidentally lets it
slip that Angel was in town.