jan 12, 1999 - Helpless

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Buffy loses her strength during a fight with a vampire and is nearly killed. During a training session, Giles hypnotizes and drugs Buffy. Meanwhile, the head watcher, Quentin Travers, prepares a test for Buffy's 18th birthday, including a captive drug-addicted vampire, Kralik. Kralik escapes, turning one of Quentin's assistants, Blair, into a vampire and killing the other. Out at night, Buffy runs into Kralik and Blair. Without her powers, she is forced to run, but Giles rescues her. Giles confesses that he drugged her on the instructions of the Watchers' Council. Buffy leaves with Cordelia, furious at Giles. She returns home to find a message from Kralik, who has kidnapped Joyce. Buffy goes to find Joyce, managing to trap Blair and knock him unconscious, and evades Kralik. Buffy steals Kralik's pills and finds Joyce, but Kralik catches up to her. He swallows the pills, but dies after drinking from a glass that Buffy filled with holy water. Quentin congratulates Buffy on passing the test, but removes Giles as Buffy's watcher for assisting her. Buffy allows Giles to tend her wounds, and the pair await a new watcher.