Buffy learns more about her role as a vampire slayer when she and her mother move to Sunnydale, Calif., where evil lurks in the community.

While Buffy learns about the awesome powers of the Master, she also must save Sunnydale from an onslaught of vampires.

Cheerleading candidates are being struck down by a variety of catastrophes, so Buffy sets out to unmask the witch she suspects is at fault.

Buffy tries to protect Xander after he falls for a substitute teacher; Angel warns Buffy of a claw-handed vampire.

As Buffy tries to behave like a normal girl on a date, the Master calls on a warrior vampire to destroy her.

Xander and a group of obnoxious students start acting strangely after entering a quarantined hyena exhibit at the zoo.