"Helpless" is the twelfth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy feels weak and is unable to carry out her duties as a slayer. When she goes to Giles for help he seems distracted. This is because he is, on the orders of the Watcher's Council, preparing her for the Cruciamentum, a test the Watchers put each slayer through on her eighteenth birthday. She must be weakened and left alone to beat a vampire, to test ...
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"Helpless" is the twelfth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy feels weak and is unable to carry out her duties as a slayer. When she goes to Giles for help he seems distracted. This is because he is, on the orders of the Watcher's Council, preparing her for the Cruciamentum, a test the Watchers put each slayer through on her eighteenth birthday. She must be weakened and left alone to beat a vampire, to test her resourcefulness. When the vampire escapes before the test can start, Giles reveals the test to Buffy who still goes to fight the vampire who has kidnapped her mother. In defiance of the Council Giles goes to help Buffy. She passes the test but Giles is dismissed from his job as Watcher for being too close to his slayer.
Buffy and Angel go a few rounds of fighting until Buffy pins him and holds a breadstick to his heart. They talk, and Buffy reveals her plans to go to an ice show with her father for her 18th birthday. That night in the...
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