What's My Line (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"What's My Line"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
The two vampire slayers: Buffy and Kendra
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 9 & 10
Directed by	David Solomon (Part 1) David Semel (Part 2)
Written by	Marti Noxon (Part 1 & 2) Howard Gordon (Part 1)
Production code	5V09 & 5V10
Original air date	November 17, 1997 (Part 1) November 24, 1997 (Part 2)
Guest appearance(s)
Seth Green as Oz James Marsters as Spike Juliet Landau as Drusilla Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder Bianca Lawson as Kendra Young Saverio Guerra as Willy the Snitch Kelly Connell as Norman Pfister Eric Saiet as Dalton Michael Rothhaar as Suitman P.B. Hutton as Mrs. Kalish Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson Spice Williams-Crosby as Patrice
Episode chronology
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List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes

"What's My Line" is a two-episode story in season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In part one, Buffy endures Career Week at school while Spike hires assassins to kill her; a fierce fighter who identifies herself as "Kendra the Vampire Slayer" shows up in Sunnydale. In part two, Angel is taken by Spike for a ritual in which Drusilla is restored to health.

Spike works on a cure for Drusilla. Dalton, a vampire transcriber, is unable to decipher the book stolen from the library which contains a cure. Drusilla informs Spike that they need a key because the book is in code.

Buffy witnesses Dalton stealing an object from a mausoleum, but he escapes when she is distracted by another vampire. She enters her bedroom and finds Angel waiting to warn her of grave danger. Buffy reports to Giles, and he is concerned when she tells him about the theft from the mausoleum.

Spike and Drusilla examine the key stolen by Dalton, a gold cross. Spike decides to call the Order of Taraka, an ancient guild of assassins, to rid himself of Buffy once and for all. Back at school, Willow is taken into a secluded lounge area to be recruited by a leading software company, along with Oz, the boy who has been watching her for weeks. At the mausoleum, Giles realizes that Josephus du Lac, the author of the book stolen from the library, is buried there and that the book's key was taken from the mausoleum.

The assassins begin to arrive. A large, intimidating man exits a bus, and a door-to-door beauty salesman attacks Buffy's next-door neighbor. A young woman attacks an airplane worker in the cargo hold of a plane, escaping with little difficulty.