Fool For Love

In which we learn many lessons. The first, don't let Spike write poetry. The second, a grenade can really break up a party. The third, killing Slayers makes you very, very cool. Which is maybe not the message we were supposed to get from that.

Official back-of-box synopsis:

Wanting to learn about other slayers' final battles, Buffy forces Spike to reveal the details of how he killed two other slayers. With old memories being resurfaced, Spike recounts his sordid history as a vampire.

From the old WB Buffy website:

ANGEL, DRUSILLA AND DARLA HAUNT SPIKE'S MEMORY - In an effort to learn about slayers' final battles, Buffy forces Spike to recount how he was able to kill two slayers. His flashbacks reveal his first meeting with his one true love, Drusilla, and how lovers Angel and Darla joined them.

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 other slayers die:

• Becoming (part 1)
  Kendra falls victim to Dru
• this episode
  In flashback, we see the death of Nikki and the unnamed Chinese Slayer

episodes in which we learn the origin of major characters:

• Becoming (part 1)
  Liam meets Darla in an alley in Galway
• Becoming (part 1)
  Angel meets a troubled Dru in the confessional and pushes her over the edge
• Selfless
  Anya, the early years
• this episode
  The true story of Spike, not the one he tells

Cast:

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

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• Anthony Stewart Head as Giles
• David Boreanaz as Angel
• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce
• Julie Benz as Darla
• Mercedes McNab as Harmony
• James Marsters as Spike
• Juliet Landau as Drusilla
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Marc Blucas as Riley
• Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn
• Kali Rocha as Cecily Adams
• Edward Fletcher as Male Partygoer
• Katharine Leonard as Female Partygoer
• Matthew Lang as Second Male Partygoer
• Chris Daniels as Stabbing Vampire
• Kenneth Feinberg as Chaos Demon`
• Steve Heinze as Vampire #1
• Ming Lui as Chinese Slayer
• April Wheedon-Washington as Nikki"Subway Slayer"