1.8 "I Robot ... You Jane" Trivia Quiz

Answer: As his fellow monks surround him in a circle, he chants commands for the demon to come.

Moloch (whose name recalls the Hebrew description of an ancient Phoenician god, who demanded children burned alive in sacrifice) seems aware that something is wrong, but can do nothing to stop "the power of the Circle of Kayless." Finally, his body vanishes in a cloud of cheesy special effects, and words in a strange language fill the pages of the previously empty book. "Pray this accursed book shall never again be read, lest the demon Moloch be loosed upon the world," says the monk as he seals the tome in a large box.

It is unclear why the book is not burned, cast into the sea, or otherwise destroyed.

Answer: Jenny Calendar

Jenny Calendar is Sunnydale High's computer science teacher, a "technopagan" who finds traces of the divine in the Internet. Giles is dubious, but intrigued. In this episode, she flirts shamelessly with Giles, deftly rebutting his assertions that books are better than computers. She also displays a startling familiarity with the supernatural.

Answer: Willow

Xander departs the library at his first opportunity; Fritz leaves early after denouncing people who are not "jacked in"; and Dave leaves on time with Ms. Calendar. Willow remains, scanning the demonic pages of the book (with a scanner that's far too narrow for it) and using a rather adorably dated Apple interface to store the information.

The scene closes with Moloch asking, via prompt, "Where am I?"

Answer: Online

It turns out that Willow and Malcolm/Moloch have been chatting online for a week, and that he's so sweet, and so kind, and so understanding ... but Buffy can't help being suspicious. After all, he could be anyone -- and "what if ... he has a hairy back?" Willow is not impressed with Buffy's worries, especially when she keeps bringing it up in scene after scene. "I don't understand why you don't want me to have this," she says, heartbreakingly, in the girls' locker room the next day. "I mean, boys don't chase me around all the time. I thought you'd be happy for me."

Answer: Calax R and D

Surprisingly enough, it's Xander who comes up with this crucial item: "It's Calax R & D," he tells a stunned Buffy and Giles in the library. "Used to be the third largest employer in Sunnydale, until it closed last year." They stare at him blankly. "What, I can't have information sometimes?"

Giles finally manages a shocked, "Well, it's just somewhat unprecedented."

Answer: A student realizes his report on Nazi Germany has been altered.

The student is sitting on one of Sunnydale High's numerous outdoor stairways, staring in disbelief at the screen of his clunky mid-1990s laptop as Buffy walks by. "This isn't my report!" he gapes. "'Nazi Germany was a model of a well-ordered society?' I didn't write that! Who's been in my files?"

Malcolm/Moloch has certainly wasted no time learning what's happened in the world since his banishment -- and he apparently has a strong taste for pranks.

Answer: After he assures the computer teacher that books are more information-rich than computers, she shows him a blank one.

Ms. Calendar comes into the library to check on the databases, remarks with surprise that Buffy and Xander seem to spend an awful lot of time there ("To read, makes our speaking English good," Xander explains, lamely), and proceeds to get into an argument with Giles about whether computers are useful tools.

In response to his argument that books contain much more information than websites, she holds up a blank one and asks him if that's a diary. He takes the book, recognizes Moloch's face on the cover, and, with an ashen face, lies that it is indeed a diary.

He wanders into his office for further research.

Answer: Fritz hangs him, making it look like a suicide.

The trap for Buffy consists of bare electrical wires in a shower stall; when Buffy goes to turn off the water, she narrowly misses a fatal electrocution. (She avoids it only by starting to jump when Dave warns her to get out; when she lands, her boots are smoking.) An angry Dave storms to the computer lab to tell Moloch/Malcolm that he's had it. "Buffy isn't a threat to you! It's not worth it!" The demon, not impressed, writes a suicide note on the computer and prints it out, as the camera pans to a lethal-looking Fritz in the corner.

Answer: She tricks him into punching a high-voltage electrical conduit.

Willow has been kidnapped from her home by Fritz; Malcolm/Moloch has decided that it's time for them to meet face to face. In CRD's labs, we see that Moloch has had a robot body made for himself, and he's just as sweet-tempered as ever when he casually breaks Fritz's neck. "Welcome, my love," he coos in a metallic voice. "I can't tell you how good it is to see you with my own two eyes." Willow is having none of it, and the demon loses his temper -- when Giles and Jenny, having set up an Internet Circle of Kayless, manage to banish the demon from the Internet to his own robot body.

Robbed of his newfound power and knowledge, Moloch is extremely upset and still very, very strong. Buffy tries to fight him, but finds her kicks and punches useless against his metal body. At long last, she manages to goad him into punching an high-voltage conduit, electrocuting himself. The light-and-sparks show is truly impressive.

Answer: She wonders what it says about her that her only boyfriend turned out to be a robot demon.

"It doesn't say anything about you," Buffy says quickly. "Hey, did you forget? The one boy I've had the hots for since I moved here turned out to be a vampire." Xander follows suit: "Right, and the teacher I had a crush on? Giant praying mantis!"

Willow smiles faintly. "That's true."

Xander agrees that "That's life on the Hellmouth." Buffy expands on the theme: "Let's face it! None of us are ever gonna have a happy, normal relationship!" Xander seals it: "We're doomed!"

The three friends laugh uproariously -- then, realizing what they've just said, their faces slowly fall.