Wolves at the Gate part 1.
Xander and Renee are on guard, seeing a pack of creepy, red-eyed animals coming towards the castle, arguing over whether they're wolves or panthers. Renee thinks Xander is checking up on her since the zombies attacked last time on her watch. He assures her he's there to hang out with her.
Cut to THE panel, the first really controversial shot of season 8, Buffy and Satsu in bed together! I guess loneliness and knowing someone wanted her kind of naturally led Buffy to this action, but hello power imbalance!
Willow is flying Andrew up from Italy, and he's trying to be Lois to her Superman. He enters the castle to sleep off the Dramamine and Will gets grabbed by a Japanese girl who materializes out of a fog. We'll soon learn she's a witch named Kumiko.
Xander finally asks Renee out. Start the death clock. They don't seem overly concerned about the creepy wolves, but that's flirting for you.
Buffy and Satsu talk over la passion. Buffy is happy but not sure it goes further, and suggests they keep it between them. I think she's trying to honestly process where her head is at and be thoughtful towards Satsu and not creepy. Oh, and start the death clock.
Then we get a farcical scene that doesn't work that well for me, not sure why. Basically everyone and their wolf ends up coming into the room and catching them together naked. Ha ha, let's keep it a secret, oops, Xander knows, oops, and Renee. And here comes Andrew with news of wolves in the castle, and Dawn with talk of bees in the barn. Then Will crashes through the roof and the party is complete. Well, at least we don't have to have the dramatic irony secret drag on.
Wolves find the armory and turn into vampires. They go straight for the scythe. Uh-oh. One is named Raidon. We'll find out soon enough the other is Turo. Buffy interrupts them, but Raidon turns into a panther, takes the scythe and runs while Buffy tries to fight Turo, who turns to fog and disappears. No fair! Raidon passes the scythe to Kumiko, and the vamps retreat.
Castle meeting. The slayers say that all the vampires were changing into fog and bees and wolves and panthers, oh my. Xander calls them Japanese vampire goths. Buffy is concerned they got the scythe. It finally occurs to them that they know a vamp who can pull off those tricks. All eyes turn to Xanfield.
Cut to Xander and Renee in a helicopter, headed to Dracula's castle. Yeesh, lot of medieval settings this season. Dracula opens his door. "Hello, manservant." "How's it going, Master?" The end.
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