SPIKE TIMELINE:
Synopsis of Spike's experiences in Sunnydale
(Above, from "Becoming")
Season II:
Episode 15.) School Hard - Spike and Dru are introduced to viewers.
Spike being a 200-year-old vampire, "William the
Bloody" who used to be taught by Angel(us). Spike and
vampire gang crash Parent Teacher Night, and it is up
to Buffy to save the day. (Buffy's mom is still clue-
less that they are vampires in Sunnydale; although she hits Spike
over the head with an axe, telling him, "Stay the hell
away from my daughter.") Spike kills the Annointed One
at the end of the episode, putting him in sunlight,
and he and Dru go off to watch TV.
Episode 16.) Halloween - Spike has another vampire video tape Buffy's
slaying action, in order to study it so he can fight
against her. (Dru predicts Buffy will become weak some
how on Halloween, from "an outside force.") Spike goes
to fight Buffy when she is weak in her costume, but she
returns just to being Slayer-ish just in time, and scares
Spike so he runs away.
Episode 17.) Lie to Me - Buffy's old boyfriend, Ford, come to town,
and sides with Spike secretively. He knows Buffy is a
Slayer, and will make a deal with Spike: if Spike turns
him into a vampire (so he can live forever), he will
catch Buffy. Meanwhile, Angel reveals that he was
responsible for Dru's death (he had been obsessed with
her, tortured her, and turned her into a vampire.) At
nighttime, Ford and his vampire-wannabe friends gather
in a group. Buffy holds Dru and tells Spike she'll kill
her if Spike doesn't let everyone go. Spike does as she
says. (Ford does, however, turned into a vampire... and
Buffy slays him the next night.)
Episode 19.) What's my Line? Part I and Part II - Spike is eagerly looking for a
cure for Drusilla, to restore her strength back to
normal.
Spike steals a coffin pillow adorned with a
cross, part of the cure he is working on. With the
transcriber, Spike finds the exact cure. Angel is
kidnapped, sent to Spike and Dru's place, to be used
in the cure, which will leave Angel dead. The cure is
to drain Angel's blood into Dru's power... Buffy stops
it before Angel is killed, and most of the room they
were in goes down in flames. Spike is injured. Dru has
her strength, however, and carries Spike. As the Buffy
webpage says, "She's back, and she's bad."
25/26) Surprise/Innocence - Buffy has a nightmare about Dru killing Angel,
even though she and her gang all think Dru is dead. When
Buffy tells Giles and Jenny (sniff) about her dream,
Giles tells her it IS possible that Dru could still be
alive. That is when we see Spike and Dru at the factory,
with Spike in a wheelchair, but still functioning. Dru
is planning a party. (The party is really to assemble
the evil Judge.)
Episode 28) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Spike gives
Dru a necklace for Valentine's Day, which doesn't
pair up to the heart Angel gives Dru. Spike gets a bit tired of having Angel one-up him with everything he does.
Episode 29.) Passion - Spike grows tired of having Angel around,
stealing all of Dru's attention. What Spike doesn't
know is that soon Angel will be gone. This is the
episode in which Angel murdered Jenny, giving Buffy
enough pain to kill him in the next fight she has with
Angel, unlike the past where she could not stand to yet.
Episode 31.) I Only Have Eyes for You - Angel takes Dru out for
blood, leaving Spike all alone. Viewers see Spike stand
and kick over his wheelchair... he has strength back,
more strength than Dru and Angel know.
Episode 33.) Becoming (Part I) - A big museum artifact is
is put in Sunnydale, a large stone with special meaning
to Angel, Dru, and Spike, who retrieve it from the
museum. Angel and Dru plan for demon Acathla to swallow
the world, but we soon know Spike may have his own
plans. Dru is busy killing Kendra in the library (sniff),
and she doesn't see Spike get up to roam Sunnydale.
Episode 34.) Becoming (Part 2) - When a cop recognizes Buffy
and tries to tell her to stop, while she's still suspected
for the murder of Kendra, the unlikeliest person comes
to save her.... Spike. He beats the cop unconscious,
looks and Buffy, and utters a simple, "Hello, cutie."
Spike explains to Buffy he doesn't want the world
taken over. He likes it how it is. "Happy meals on legs,"
he explains, but asks for her help in this. If she can
stop Angel, he'll leave town with Dru and never return.
Buffy hits him and he hits back. "I hate you," she tells
him. "And I'm all you've got," is his reply. They decide
to go inside and plan their attack. Joyce comes home at
that moment, and sees Buffy stake a sole vampire. Buffy
has to explain what she is: the vampire slayer. Inside,
they compromise a plan, Dru in order for Giles' safety.
They must act quick. Spike realizes he recognizes Joyce,
back from the School Hard episode.
(This is when Joyce throws Buffy
out of the house, for Buffy must run off without
explaining. There's no time.) At the mansion, Buffy
stakes some vampires while Spike takes on Angel, until
Dru throws herself at him to stop. Buffy and Angel
then have their last sword fight, and Spike leaves with
Dru, knocking her out so that she is easier to carry,
putting his arm around her in the car so that she really
is his.
Season III:
Episode 42.) Lovers Walk - Personally, one of my favorite episodes
of Buffy, Spike returns only this once in the 3rd
season, this time without Dru. Dru has left him ("For
a chaos demon!") and he wants Willow, the aspiring
witch, to make a spell to bring her back. There are too
many good scenes in this one to describe -- Spike lonely
without Dru, Spike telling his breakup story to Buffy's
mom over hot chocolate and marshmellows, and Spike's
monologue about love to Angel and Buffy -- until the
end of the episode in which he inquires, "Love is a funny
thing", sets on his way to win back Dru, driving on
the freeway, singing along to the Sex Pistol's "My Way"
[Note: In many interviews, the characters of Spike and Dru
had been compared to Sid and Nancy... Sid Vicious being a member of the Sex Pistols. The version Spike was singing along to, however, was Gary Oldman's version, of him portraying Sid Vicious in the movie.]
"I did it myyyy waaaay..."