The fifth season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" delivers an emotionally powerful and transformative chapter. As Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) grapples with her role as the Slayer, she faces a formidable new adversary in the form of the ancient and powerful vampire, Glory (Clare Kramer). The season delves into complex family dynamics with the arrival of Buffy's younger sister, Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg), who holds a mysterious secret. Themes of sacrifice, love, and the weight of responsibility are explored as Buffy confronts her own mortality and faces a heartbreaking and climactic battle that forever changes her world. Season 5 is a poignant and poignant journey that captivates viewers until the very end.
Season 5 Episode 1
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.
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Season 5 Episode 2
as harmony and her vampire gang plot buffy's demise, dawn adjusts to life with a slayer.
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Season 5 Episode 3
when a demon creates a xander double, the real xander must convince his friends of his true identity.
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Season 5 Episode 4
while riley's health begins to deteriorate, spike and harmony force a surgeon to remove the behavior modification chip embedded in spike's brain.
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Season 5 Episode 5
buffy learns more about dawn after she discovers a mysterious orb linked to a group of monks being pursued by an incredibly powerful force.
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Season 5 Episode 6
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.
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Season 5 Episode 7
after being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, buffy asks spike to explain how he killed two slayers many years earlier.
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Season 5 Episode 8
glory transforms a snake into a terrifying monster in her quest to find the key; joyce is hospitalized after being diagnosed with an illness.
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Season 5 Episode 9
as joyce's sickness makes her begin doing odd things, a demon emerges from a meteorite and begins killing the mentally ill.
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Season 5 Episode 10
after buffy catches riley in the clutches of a vampire-junkie, riley makes an important decision regarding their relationship.
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Season 5 Episode 11
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.
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Season 5 Episode 12
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.
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Season 5 Episode 13
when dawn learns her true identity, she runs away - only to encounter glory.
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Season 5 Episode 14
buffy learns that spike has a crush on her - a situation made all the more dangerous by drusilla's return to sunnydale.
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Season 5 Episode 15
buffy and her friends encounter an incredibly strong female robot with only one thing on its mind - love.
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Season 5 Episode 16
buffy, dawn, and their friends deal with the aftermath of joyce's death.
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Season 5 Episode 17
with some help from spike, dawn attempts to bring joyce back from the dead.
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Season 5 Episode 18
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.
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Season 5 Episode 19
when tara falls victim to glory's incredible power, willow embraces dark magic and launches a counterattack.
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Season 5 Episode 20
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.
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Season 5 Episode 21
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.
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Season 5 Episode 22
as glory prepares dawn for a bloodletting ritual that will open a portal to another dimension, buffy and her friends prepare for battle.
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