While Buffy and Riley agonise about their secret lives and the lies they feel they must tell each other, Willow visits a Wicca meeting and meets Tara, a shy blonde, and Giles’ girlfriend Olivia comes to see him.

The Gentlemen come to Sunnydale - they are fairy tale creatures who float through the streets, stealing first people’s voices then taking their hearts - literally. Buffy and the Slayerettes must work out how to defeat this new threat in silence. Buffy and Riley bump into each other while battling The Gentlemen and their demon cohorts, and their secrets are out! Buffy eventually gets her voice back, screams, and the Gentlemen's heads explode. Nice.

Review:
Just... amazing. A decent chunk of the episode has no dialogue whatsoever - it’s quite a brave move and it really pays off. Acclaimed by critics everywhere as not only the best Buffy episode but one of the best TV episodes of the year, this is simply unmissable. Known to be the best Buffy episode, and one of the best TV episodes of the year.

Best line: Riley: “So tell me about your dream. As a Psych major, I'm qualified to go, ‘hmmm’.”

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Trivia: Pop culture reference: “Well, no, um, I wasn't actually one of the original members of Pink Floyd, but... but the monster stuff yes.” (Giles to Olivia.)

Giles plays ‘Danse Macabre’ during his lecture - it’s the theme song for Jonathan Creek, too, in which Anthony Stewart Head played Adam Krauss in the first episode.

The way the Gentlemen are vanquished is reminiscent of the way crooner Slim Whitman became the downfall of the martians in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!