Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Every Season 2 Episode Ranked
2. Becoming
The second season's two-part finale brings Buffy and Angelus together in an epic way. As she tries to keep him from ending the world, Willow uses Jenny's spell to return Angel's soul, and Spike betrays Drusilla because he doesn't want the world to end.
Featuring the first reluctant team-up between Buffy and Spike, Becoming spends its run systematically destroying Buffy's world. She reveals her secrets to her mother Joyce, faces her friends nearly dying, and finally puts her feelings aside to kill Angelus once and for all.
Heartbreaking to the end, the finale gives insight into Angel's past and forces Buffy to put her destiny above her feelings, with an absolute gut-punch of an ending.