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1998

September 7 -
Sunnydale Cemetery. Evening. Willow, Xander and Oz try to dust new vampire Andrew Hoelich but don't quite manage. With the school year beginning the next day, they wonder if Buffy will ever return.

Buffy is living in a rundown apartment building in LA, still dreaming of Angel and what she had to do to save the world.

September 8 -
First day of school: Oz has flunked and has to repeat his senior year, Xander and Cordelia's reunion doesn't go as expected, and Giles gets yet another lead about Buffy's possible whereabouts.

Buffy, going by her middle name Anne, is a waitress in a diner called Helen's Kitchen. She serves a couple, Lily and Rickie, and Lily thinks Buffy looks familiar. Buffy leaves work early.

September 12 -
Buffy sees an old homeless woman on the street repeatedly muttering, "I'm no one."

In Sunnydale, Giles visits Joyce to tell her the latest search was a bust, and is surprised by Joyce blaming him for Buffy's situation.

Buffy runs into Lily again, who calls her by name and reminds her of their last meeting. Lily used to be Chantarelle and was involved in a vampire-worshipping cult. (see "Lie To Me")

An old man bumps into them, saying only, "I'm no one" and then walks into the middle of the street in the path of an oncoming car. Buffy pushes him out of the way but is hit by the car. She's unhurt, and as she leaves the scene, she bumps into (literally) Ken, who's handing out flyers for a shelter called the Family Home.

At the Bronze, Xander decides to use Cordelia as bait to aid in their vampire slaying.

September 13 -
Lily visits Buffy at work and tells her that Rickie's been missing for over a day. After reluctantly agreeing to help, Buffy finds an old man, dead in an abandoned building. He's got a tattoo identical to one she saw on Rickie. Somehow, he's aged decades in just a few days. Lily blames Buffy, as if Buffy somehow brought the trouble with her, and leaves, upset. She meets Ken, who tells her that Rickie is alive and staying at the Family Home. Lily goes with Ken to the shelter.

Buffy breaks into the blood bank for some further investigation and finds Rickie's file, and several others, with the word "Candidate" on them for some reason. Buffy finds out Ken has something to do with it and goes to the Family Home, just in time to see Lily get pulled into some mysterious pool. Ken throws Buffy into the pool also, which is actually a portal to another, hellish dimension.

Back in Sunnydale, Xander, Willow, and Oz try to dust the vampire again, this time with Cordelia as bait. Xander and Cordelia argue and Willow is attacked. The vampire is dusted, and Xander and Cordelia are once again in each other's arms.

Buffy regains consciousness inside a prison cell. Ken explains where they're at, and how time advances differently there. A hundred years there is a day on Earth. Buffy realizes the old people muttering 'I'm no one' are street kids who've been worked in this dimensions factories until they're too old, then they're tossed back out on the streets of Earth, old and alone, just days after being taken. Buffy fights back, and eventually gets Lily and some others back out of the portal, which promptly shuts down.

September 14 -
Buffy decides it's time to go and leaves Lily her apartment, job and the name "Anne."

Joyce opens the door and sees Buffy has come home.
(So now we have Buffy's middle name, and for now, I'm again going with the day after Labor Day as the start of the school year. I spaced out this episode because I need four school days for the next episode, which doesn't lend itself as easily to skipping days as "Anne" does. As noted previously, different sources I've seen can disagree on exactly which day is the full moon, which is good because my main calendar says that Oz should've been wolfed out on the night of the 7th, the 3rd night of the moon.)
"Anne"

Jack O'Toole starts his senior year for the third time.
"The Zeppo"

Buffy goes out to track down Xander and Willow. Buffy's mom has a Nigerian mask from the gallery; she hangs it in her bedroom.

In a dark alley, Buffy notices a shadowy figure which turns out to be Xander. A vampire attacks during the reunion, and the rest of the gang arrive, stakes and walkie-talkies in hand. Buffy stakes the vamp and then the gang take Buffy to see Giles.

No one talks about what happened over the summer.

September 15 -
Joyce and Buffy go see Principal Snyder, who refuses to readmit Buffy even though she was cleared of all charges.

Buffy hangs out at a coffee shop where she and Willow are to meet, but Willow doesn't show.

When Buffy goes home, she meets a new friend of her mom's, Pat. Joyce has invited Giles and the rest of the gang to dinner to welcome Buffy back.

While getting the good china, Buffy discovers a dead stray cat in the basement. They bury it outside. That night, after Buffy and her mom are asleep, the mask begins to glow and the cat emerges from the grave.

September 16 -
Buffy dreams about her and Angel walking around Sunnydale High during the day. She wakes and goes to the kitchen, and is surprised by the reappearance of the cat. They call Giles, who brings a cage for the undead feline and notices the mask on Joyce's wall while he's there. He takes the cat back to the library (where Buffy can no longer go as she's not allowed on campus anymore) and consults his books.

The Scooby Gang's plans turn Buffy's welcome back dinner into a full blown party, with Oz's band providing the entertainment. Joyce's friend Pat also shows up, and shortly the Summers house is packed with partying teens. Buffy tries to talk to Willow, but Willow avoids her, while denying that she's doing it. Depressed, Buffy overhears part of a conversation between Pat and Joyce, who comments about how difficult things are with Buffy back. Between that and her friends avoiding her, Buffy heads upstairs to pack, and leave once again. Giles finally finds the Nigerian mask in his books, but can't get through to the house on the phone because the party is so loud the person who answers doesn't know what Giles is saying.

Hurrying over in his car, Giles hits a man, who turns out to have been a corpse before Giles ever showed up. All over the town, bodies are shown rising from the dead and heading to Buffy's house.

Willow finds Buffy packing, and they start to argue. Joyce comes in, too. Buffy tries to leave but her mom stops her right in the middle of the party and they start to have it out. Buffy tries to tell them they don't understand, but the fear and worry built up over the previous three months spill out, and even Xander jumps in.

With everyone attacking her verbally, it's only fitting that the zombies finally arrive at the house and break in, killing several guests. Buffy, Joyce, Xander and Willow run upstairs where they find Pat on the floor, while Oz and Cordy hide in a closet downstairs. Willow realizes Pat is dead. Oz and Cordy venture out of the closet, discovering the zombies are all upstairs.

They also discover Giles, who's finally arrived. He explains that the mask contains the power of the zombie demon named Ovu Mobani, or Evil Eye. All the zombies are after it, and whoever puts it on will become the demon.

Upstairs, no one notices Pat rising from the dead until it's too late and she has the mask on. Buffy tries to fight her, but bright flashes from her/it's eyes stun her. She recovers in time to take Pat/Mobani out through the second floor window. Realizing the source of it's power, Buffy rams a shovel into the demon's eyes, killing it and causing all the zombies to disappear. With their feelings finally out in the open, Buffy and Willow hug.

September 17 -
Giles gets a little rough with Snyder to get him to let Buffy back into school. Buffy and Willow meet at the coffee shop and talk over their feelings about all that's happened to them over the summer and accept that they've all had a difficult time of it.
"Dead Man's Party"

September 27 -
A limo pulls into the drive-thru at Sunnydale's Happy Burger restaurant. Inside the limo are not your ordinary customers, but rather vampires in search of the Slayer. One of them has cloven hooves in place of hands. On the way to their new hideout, one the vamps, Mr. Trick, picks up a diet soda... and the drive-thru employee himself. Later that night, Buffy dreams that she is dancing with Angel in the Bronze. During their dance, Buffy's claddagh ring slips off her finger and falls to the floor. Angel picks it up and clutches it in his hand, so tightly that blood starts to pour from his fist. As Buffy watches in horror, more blood seeps from Angel's chest in the exact same spot that she drive the sword through months ago.

September 28 -
The next morning, Principal Snyder finally re-admits Buffy into Sunnydale High, due to orders from the school board itself. Buffy needs to follow a few conditions, one of which being her ability to pass make-up exams for all the classes she missed last school year. A student again, Buffy visits the library with Willow, where they find a variety of spell ingredients on the counter. Giles tells Buffy that he needs to perform a binding spell on Acathla to make sure the demon remains dormant. In order for the spell to work, Giles needs to know the exact details of how Buffy defeated Acathla and Angel. Buffy lays out the basics, leaving out the part where Angel's soul was restored. Later that night at the Bronze, Buffy turns down a dance offer from Scott Hope, a fellow student who's had his eyes on Buffy for a while. Cordelia points out an interesting couple on the dance floor. As Buffy watches them dance, she begins to suspect that the guy may be a vampire on the prowl. As they head out of the Bronze, Buffy and her friends follow them out. Sure enough, the guy is a vampire. What does take the group by surprise is the girl's handling of the situation. Instead of screaming and trying to run for her life, the girl proceeds to beat the crap out of the vampire, stopping momentarily to greet Buffy by name and introduce herself as Faith. This new Slayer then takes the stake out of Buffy's hand and finishes off the vamp before heading back inside. While the group listens to Faith's wild stories, Cordelia finally puts the pieces together and realizes that Faith was called forth in response to Kendra's death. Faith is unlike Buffy, but she's different than Kendra also. Kendra was always uptight and on the defensive, while Faith is much looser and a little wild. During their conversation, Faith informs Buffy that her Watcher is currently at an annual retreat.

September 29 -
Unaware of this Watchers' retreat, Buffy takes Faith to the library to meet Giles, who apparently has never been invited to any of the retreats. Buffy invites Faith to dinner at her place.

September 30 -
While Buffy takes one of her make-up exams, Xander and Willow give Faith a tour of their school, pointing out all the hot spots where they brushed with death. Elsewhere, in an abandoned building, Mr. Trick explains to Kakistos how they could stay in Sunnydale and still operate around the globe, thanks to the internet. Kakistos has no interest in these matters. His only goal is to kill Faith, who caused the huge scar running over his right eye.

At the Summers home, Joyce is as impressed with Faith as the rest of Buffy's friends are, if not more so. Buffy excuses herself from the dining table to talk with her mom in the kitchen. Joyce suggests to Buffy that Faith could take over her duties as the Slayer, but Buffy reminds her that it's her job until she dies. Joyce is not happy to hear this, but she's slowly learning to accept it. After dinner, Buffy and Faith patrol for vampires. During their patrol, they get into an argument over Buffy's attitude towards Faith and the apparent fact that she's holding something in. Suddenly, several vampires attack the two Slayers. During the fight, Faith loses control on one vampire and repeatedly pummels it without even thinking of finishing the job with a stake. This leaves Buffy at the mercy of the other two vampires, who have her pinned to the ground. As one of them moves in for the kill, he mentions a name: Kakistos. Buffy succeeds in breaking their hold and killing one of them, while the other gets away. She then pulls Faith off of the brutally beaten vampire and dusts it with her stake. It seems Buffy isn't the only one with personal problems.

October 1 -
Buffy tells Giles about Faith's actions the next morning at school. She also tells Giles what the vampire said to her, and Giles immediately recognizes the name Kakistos. It's Greek for "the worst of the worst". Kakistos is a vampire who is so old that his hands have turned into cloven hooves. While Giles gets on the phone to contact Faith's Watcher at the retreat, Buffy runs into Scott in the hallway. He makes one last stab at trying to get Buffy out on a date. Charmed by his efforts, Buffy finally accepts. Scott then hands Buffy a box, saying it's a gift to represent their friendship. Buffy opens it and finds a claddagh ring inside, exactly like the one Angel gave to her that night on the docks. Overcome with emotion, Buffy drops the ring. As it hits the floor in the exact same fashion that it did in her dream, Buffy backs out of her date with Scott. Giles arrives and tries to help her, but Buffy insists she's okay. Giles then reveals that Faith's Watcher is not at the retreat -- Faith's Watcher is dead.

Buffy tracks down Faith to a sleazy motel. Buffy informs her that Kakistos is in town, which causes a look of fear and dread to wash over Faith's face. She immediately starts packing and starts to head out. Buffy stops her by mentioning her Watcher, who was killed by Kakistos. They hear a knock on the door, and Faith opens it. They are greeted by Kakistos, Mr. Trick, and a few of their cohort vampires. Buffy shuts the door and escapes out the back with Faith. The vampires chase them into a building. Seemingly safe for now, Faith explains that she witnessed Kakistos murdering her Watcher. Just then, Faith notices a couple of dead bodies on the floor. Buffy realizes that they didn't escape the vampires, but were instead driven into the building on purpose. As the vampires start to converge on them, Buffy and Faith run into the middle of the floor. Buffy takes on several vampires while Faith goes one-on-one with Kakistos. Paralyzed with fear, Faith can't fight back while Kakistos grabs her by the neck and repeatedly strikes her in the face. Buffy runs over to help, while Mr. Trick and a female vampire decide to abandon their master and head out into town on their own. Kakistos' body is so strong that Buffy's stake has no effect on him. Faith takes a cue from Kakistos' mockery and picks up a huge pointed beam. Before Kakistos can realize what she's doing, Faith drives it straight through his heart, causing Kakistos to crumble into dust.

October 2 -
The next day, the Watcher's council approves Giles' request to watch over both Buffy and Faith until a new Watcher can be assigned to her. Unable to keep her secret any longer, Buffy tells Giles and Willow the whole truth about what happened that night in the mansion. She explains that Willow's attempt at the restoration spell worked, and Angel was cured before Buffy drove the sword through him and sent him to Hell. After she heads out, Giles tells Willow that there never was a binding spell to perform on Acathla. He made the whole thing up so that Buffy would finally vent out whatever's been eating at her from the inside all this time. In the hallway, Buffy finds Scott and revives their plans for their weekend date.

Later that night, Buffy revisits the mansion where Angel, Spike, and Drusilla once stayed. Back at the scene where Buffy kissed Angel for the last time, she places the claddagh ring on the floor and bids her final farewell to Angel. After she leaves, the floor of the mansion begins to rumble. A bright light appears in the air, and the naked body of a man falls out from it and onto the floor. He lies there, afraid and shivering. It's Angel, who has returned from Hell... somehow.
"Faith, Hope & Trick"

October 4-7
(has to occur over a full moon, obviously)
"All Men Are Beasts"

October 21-26
(happens before Halloween since there's posters for Halloween events on the wall)
"Band Candy"

October 27-29
(day of the week is mentioned)
"Revelations"

November 17-21
"Lover's Walk"

November 29 - December 1
(a week after "Lover's Walk", day of week mentioned)
"The Wish"

December 18-25
(ends on Christmas day)
"Amends"

1999

January 3-6
(Buffy's birthday is "next week" - I know, I had it figured for Jan. 6th the previous year...oh well...)
"Gingerbread"

January 7-11
(beats me, at least as far as making it fit last year...unless you figure they just held off on celebrating until the weekend - not unreasonable - and the "next week" comment was a slip when he meant "next weekend"?)
"Helpless"

February 28 - March 2
Buffy and the gang have to save the world from the Hellmouth being opened by demon Apocalypse cult the Sisterhood of Jhe. So major is the danger, they keep Xander out of it, fearing he may get hurt. Instead, while tooling around in his uncle Rory's '57 Chevy Bel Air, Xander stumbles into the company of 3rd year senior and practicing psychopath Jack O'Toole. Jack drags Xander around to various cemetaries so he can raise his buddies, Bob, Dickie and Parker, from their graves. In the course of robbing a hardware store so they can 'bake a cake', Jack decides to officially initiate Xander into their gang by killing him (turns out Jack's been dead for 3 weeks after a drive-by) but Xander demures by jumping in the car and ditching them. In the course of his escape, he happens across Faith, having a tough time against one of the Sisters. Xander gives her an emergency lift and when they get to her motel room, she jumps his bones. Afterwards, Xander realizes that the 'cake' ingredients Jack's gang put together were for a bomb. He tracks them down and finds out the bomb is in the school's boiler room. While Buffy and the rest fight the fiercest battle of their lives in the library, Xander offs Jack's zombie pals and gets Jack to disarm the bomb. Before Jack can retaliate, Oz-wolf devours him. The next day, as the wounded Scooby gang goes over the events of the night before, Cordelia's barbs fall on deaf ears as a newly confident Xander Harris walks away from her, smiling.
"The Zeppo"
(needed two full moons on a school nights)

March 5
Melissa Burns meets Dr. Ronald Meltzer when she needs an eye operation. He becomes obsessed with her.
Angel: "I Fall To Pieces"

March 10-14
"Bad Girls"
(day of the week - Saturday - is mentioned)

March 15-20
"Consequences"
(directly follows "Bad Girls")

March 21-24
"Dopplegangland"
(Oz had a gig on Sunday - the 21st - and the day of the week, Tuesday, was mentioned)

March 29-31
"Enemies"

April 13-16
"Earshot"
(Angel is 243 - Giles's office calendar is on April)

May 11-13
"Choices"

May 10 - 11
(Angel is 243 according to Buffy. Cordy is 18 according to Giles. The Sunnydale High Yearbook has a prom invite showing the 11th as the date. No doubt this was picked because it's the airdate of the episode. Originally I had this as May 31st to June 1st because of a shot of a full moon in the ep, but changed it to fit the book. Your mileage may vary.)
"The Prom"

May 12
A man is found mysteriously burned to death in Los Angeles.
(Won't swear to the exact day. If someone with a clearer tape wants to chip in...)
Angel: "She"

June
"Graduation Day Pt. 1 / Pt. 2"

The summer is "Slay heavy" according to Buffy
"The Freshman"

June
Willow starts looking for a dolls-eye crystal
"The 'I' In Team"

July 14
A man is found mysteriously burned to death in Los Angeles.
(Won't swear to the exact day. If someone with a clearer tape wants to chip in...)
Angel: "She"

late August / early September
Melissa Burns files a report about Dr. Ronald Meltzer. His attorneys, Wolfram & Hart, turn tables and file a restraining order against her.
('two months ago' according to Det. Kate Lockley)
Angel: "I Fall To Pieces"