Season 5
22 episodes · 2000
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.
1Buffy vs. Dracula
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.
2Real Me
As Harmony and her vampire gang plot Buffy's demise, Dawn adjusts to life with a Slayer.
3The Replacement
When a demon creates a Xander double, the real Xander must convince his friends of his true identity.
4Out of My Mind
While Riley's health begins to deteriorate, Spike and Harmony force a surgeon to remove the behavior modification chip embedded in Spike's brain.
5No Place Like Home
Buffy learns more about Dawn after she discovers a mysterious orb linked to a group of monks being pursued by an incredibly powerful force.
6Family
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.
7Fool for Love
After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.
8Shadow
Glory transforms a snake into a terrifying monster in her quest to find the Key; Joyce is hospitalized after being diagnosed with an illness.
9Listening to Fear
As Joyce's sickness makes her begin doing odd things, a demon emerges from a meteorite and begins killing the mentally ill.
10Into the Woods
After Buffy catches Riley in the clutches of a vampire-junkie, Riley makes an important decision regarding their relationship.
11Triangle
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.
12Checkpoint
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.
13Blood Ties
When Dawn learns her true identity, she runs away - only to encounter Glory.
14Crush
Buffy learns that Spike has a crush on her - a situation made all the more dangerous by Drusilla's return to Sunnydale.
15I Was Made to Love You
Buffy and her friends encounter an incredibly strong female robot with only one thing on its mind - love.
16The Body
Buffy, Dawn, and their friends deal with the loss of someone close to them.
17Forever
With some help from Spike, Dawn attempts to bring Joyce back from the dead.
18Intervention
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.
19Tough Love
When Tara falls victim to Glory's incredible power, Willow embraces dark magic and launches a counterattack.
20Spiral
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.
21The Weight of the World
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.
22The Gift
As Glory prepares Dawn for a bloodletting ritual that will open a portal to another dimension, Buffy and her friends head into battle.