2x17 Passion - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Episode 02x17

Episode: 02x17
Title: Passion
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 5V17
First Aired: Feb. 24, 1998

Summary: When Angel finds out that Jenny Calendar is getting closer to restoring his soul, he decides he needs to put a stop to her plans.

Angelus	played by David Boreanaz
Jenny Calendar	played by Robia LaMorte
Shopkeeper	played by Richard Assad
Drusilla	played by Juliet Landau
Policeman	played by Richard Hoyt-Miller

	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Passion Giles: Yes, Xander, once more you've managed to boil a complex thought down to its simplest possible form.
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Passion Angelus: [narrating] It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... without passion, we'd be truly dead.

PLOT: Jenny Calendar asks Angelus how he managed to get into the school without being invited, when she's seen him in the school before without asking the same question.

SPOILER: During the scene in which Buffy and Giles are standing beside Jenny Calendar's grave, the voice singing the melody is that of Anthony Head.
SPOILER: There was a lot of debate as to how Jenny Calendar should die. Joss Whedon vetoed the idea of her being bitten, because he wanted to make absolutely sure there was no chance at all of her coming back as a vampire. When the decision was made to have Angelus snap her neck, there was more debate, this time as to whether or not Angelus should be wearing his human or vampire face when he does it. It was eventually decided that he should be in full vampire mode. Whedon thought that if he did it with his human face, it would be too disturbing, and the audience would not want to see this person as someone Buffy could still love.
SPOILER: In the scene where Buffy and Willow receive the news of Jenny's death from Giles, the crew hooked up the phones so the actors could actually talk.

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