Never Leave Me

In which Spike is chained, Andrew is interrogated, The First is unveiled, Giles is missing, Principal Wood knows where the bodies are buried, and the Council goes boom.

Official back-of-box synopsis:

As the First and his minions launch an attack against the Watcher's Council, Buffy hopes to learn more about what she's up against by taking Spike prisoner; Xander and Anya interrogate Andrew after Willow discovers him buying blood at a butcher's shop.

Links:

This episode's page at http://www.restlessbtvs.com/, the Restless BTVS Trivia Guide

This episode's page at http://www.vrya.net/bdb/, the Buffyverse Dialog Database

Cross-reference:

episodes featuring the watchers' council:

• Helpless
  They give Buffy a vampire serial killer for her birthday
• Who Are You?
  They imprison Faith, only it's Buffy, so it's lucky they suck at imprisonment
• Checkpoint
  Glory's a god, so what? Where's Gile's back-pay?
• this episode
  The council falls victim to a particularly cheap-looking explosion

Cast:

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy / The First
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander
  

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• James Marsters as Spike
• Danny Strong as Jonathan / The First
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Harris Yulin as Quentin Travers
• Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn
• Adam Busch as Warren / The First
• Tom Lenk as Andrew
• Cynthia Lamontagne as Lydia
• Kris Iyer as Nigel
• Oliver Muirhead as Philip
• DB Woodside as Principal Wood
• Donald Bishop as Butcher
• Bobby Brewer as Hoffman
• Roberto Santos as Grimes