Graduation Day (part 1)

In which Faith is homicidal, Oz is panicking, Willow is getting some, Angel is dying, Mayor Wilkins is preparing, and Buffy gets in a girl-fight.

Official back-of-box synopsis:

As the gang prepares for graduation they continue to search for a way to stop the Mayor's Ascension. As they dig for answers, Angel gets shot by Faith with a poison arrow, and the only cure for him is draining Faith's blood, which would kill her.

From the old WB Buffy website:

AN ELECTRIFYING TWO-PART SEASON FINALE - As Buffy, Willow, Xander, Oz and Cordelia ready for their long-awaited graduation day, the Mayor makes preparations for his Ascension and transformation into pure demon at the climax of his commencement address to the Class of 1999. With the fate of the world in true peril, Buffy is distracted from her purpose when Angel is weakened with a lethal poison, and it's slayer against slayer when Buffy faces Faith for what may be the last time.

Links:

This episode's page at http://www.restlessbtvs.com/, the Restless BTVS Trivia Guide

This episode's page at http://www.vrya.net/bdb/, the Buffyverse Dialog Database

Cross-reference:

episodes in which characters lose their virginity:

• Surprise
  Buffy
• The Zeppo
  Xander
• this episode
  Willow

Cast:

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander
  

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• Anthony Stewart Head as Giles
• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia
• David Boreanaz as Angel
• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce
• Mercedes McNab as Harmony
• Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
• Seth Green as Oz
• James Lurie as Mr Miller
• Eliza Dushku as Faith
• Harry Groener as The Mayor
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Alexis Denisof as Wesley
• Ethan Erickson as Percy
• Hal Robinson as Professor Worth
• John Rosenfeld as Vamp Lackey #1
• Adrian Neil as Vamp Lackey #2