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What's My Line?


Spike is struggling to decode translations from the book stolen from the Library with Dalton doing most of the work and Drusilla sitting at the other end of the table, drawing a reading of Tarot Cards. After wailing on Dalton during the frustrating work of being unable to translate the manuscript, Spike snaps at Dru when she asks him to dance.

Hurt, she starts to whimper and he rushes to her side. Gone is the cruelty he showed to Dalton, and once again Dru brings out the sugary side of him as he begs and pleads for her forgiveness. Dalton smiles at the couple, visibly relaxing, but when Spike returns to work on the text, he screams and yells at the poor vampire. Dru raises her hand to stop him from further assault, but Dalton can't escape a hard punch to the stomach.

But Dru's already found the solution to reading the book that will cure her illness. They're lacking the key that will make sense of the gibberish code it's written in. She sees where it can be found and Spike not only sends Dalton and some muscle off to a mausoleum to find the du'lac cross, but picks up Dru and dances around the room with her.

It's Drusilla's Tarot deck (( and most likely her physic abilities )) that not only lead Spike through the steps to restore her health, but progress and at time narrate the episode.

Buffy, however, interrupts the vampires raiding the du'lac tomb for the Key. Dalton escapes with the Cross, and Spike holds it up to Dru to confirm it's the tool they need. It is, which should bring a smile to their faces, but when Spike hears of the Slayers trouble, he's is none-to-pleased with the interference, especially when it comes to his girl getting better.

Drusilla becomes concerned as he begins breaking things in her room and he decides to call in the Order of Taraka, the big guns, (( or, as Dalton calls it, 'overkill' )).

Dru sees them in her spread, three of the assassins coming to her 'party'

Much weaker we later see that Drusilla has figured out the key to her cure minutes before Spike and Dalton have it all sorted out.


Spike buy's a weakened Angel from Willy the snitch to hand over to Drusilla, and now all that's left is that night's full moon and Angel's death for Drusilla to be fully restored.

But before he dies, Dru can't resist one last night with Angel, to which she spends torturing him with Holy water, taunting him with the memories of her family and the way he killed them. While she seems awfully upset, it's extremely doubtful she cares for her mortal past or the deaths he caused over the centuries.


Spike's jealousy is not only transparent, but almost leads to the pre-mature death of Angel. Thankfully, he's still a sucker for Dru and all things Dru related, the moment she says stop, he does. Stake inches from their Sire's heart.

In on of Sunnydale's many churches, we find Spike mid-ritual, holding the du'lac cross with a gloved hand. Drusilla is no longer dressed in her flowing white dresses, but in a black Victorian get up. She and Angel are bound together, and Spike uses a hidden dagger inside the du'lac cross to stab into their hands, allowing their blood to flow together. Energy is shown flowing into Drusilla from Angel, but they are once more interrupted by Buffy. Spike sets fire to the church and works to get Dru out of danger.

Spike suffers a broken spin for his efforts to get Drusilla out of the burning church, surrounded by two slayers, but in the end, Drusilla rises restored to health and eerily carries the paralyzed Spike out of the charred church to safety.

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