In "Help", starting her new job as high school guidance counselor, Buffy meets a young teen who is convinced that she will die on Friday. Cassie appears to be able to see the future in bits and pieces and knows what lies ahead. Buffy and the gang try to figure out how she is supposed to die and how they'll prevent it.
In the end it is revealed that a group of high schoolers are using her as a human sacrifice to summon a demon that is supposed to shower them with riches. Buffy stops their ritual in time but Cassie promptly dies of a brain aneurism anyways.
This has been my favorite of Season 7 so far. Sure, there's no big baddie that shows up or a whole bunch of action set pieces but the story is just well-crafted. "Help" really should have been called "Helpless" because that's how Buffy feels in the end. She did everything right, saved the day, played the hero but there are just some battles in life that you can't win. This episode had streaks of nihilism and determinism to it that gave the script an extra layer of meaning sometimes lacking from other BtVS episodes. I thought it was really well done.
In the end it is revealed that a group of high schoolers are using her as a human sacrifice to summon a demon that is supposed to shower them with riches. Buffy stops their ritual in time but Cassie promptly dies of a brain aneurism anyways.
This has been my favorite of Season 7 so far. Sure, there's no big baddie that shows up or a whole bunch of action set pieces but the story is just well-crafted. "Help" really should have been called "Helpless" because that's how Buffy feels in the end. She did everything right, saved the day, played the hero but there are just some battles in life that you can't win. This episode had streaks of nihilism and determinism to it that gave the script an extra layer of meaning sometimes lacking from other BtVS episodes. I thought it was really well done.
