"First Date" is the fourteenth episode of seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After Buffy leaves, Wood opens the case, displaying a large collection of blade weapons, into which he places a bloody dagger.
Xander enters and reveals that he too has a date that evening, with a young woman, Lissa, he met at a hardware store.
At the restaurant, Wood reveals that he is a "freelance" demon hunter, and tells her about his mother — a Slayer who was killed when he was four years old, after which he was raised by her Watcher.
She ties him up above the mystical Seal of Danzalthar in the high school basement, and cuts him so that he will bleed onto it and cause it to open.
They prevent the seal from opening again, but during the course of the fight, Wood finds out that Spike is a vampire whom Buffy cares about deeply, making him uneasy.
Back at the house, Spike tells Buffy that as the First has plans for him that could endanger others, he will leave town to prevent this.
[1] Actress and stunt double April Weeden-Washington, who played the original "Subway Slayer" Nikki Wood, told an interviewer, "I received a call from the casting director at Buffy saying that they were bringing the character back.
It brings back a little of the Scooby camaraderie that made the early seasons so fun: There’s Willow and Xander sweetly teasing Buffy about how Principal Wood is way too young to be her type, and Anya struggling fruitlessly for someone to talk to about how jealous she is of Xander’s date with Special Guest Star Ashanti — who, as stunt-casted celebrities goes, does not embarrass herself.