<Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "We like to talk big, vampires do . I'm going to destroy the world . That's just tough guy talk . Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood . The truth is, I like this world . You've got--the dog racing, Manchester United, and you've got people: billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs . It's all right here . But then someone comes along with a vision, with a real passion for destruction . Angel could pull it off . Goodbye Piccadilly, farewell Leicester bloody Square ."--Spike ("Becoming, Part Two"). </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> Spike reappears in the Season Three episode "Lovers Walk", in a drunken depression after Drusilla, offended by his alliance with Buffy, dumps him for a Chaos demon . He kidnaps Willow and Xander, and forces Willow to conduct a love spell for him to make Drusilla love him again, even coercing Buffy and Angel to help him in exchange for the safe return of their friends . The excitement of a brawl with the Mayor's vampires helps him see that Drusilla left him because he had begun to go soft; he resolves to win her back by torturing her until she likes him again, and tells Buffy where to find Willow and Xander . He also tells Buffy and Angel that they can never be friends because of their love for one another . This insight foreshadows Spike's later role as the "truth - seer" of the group . </P> <P> Spike returns to Sunnydale alone in Season Four, in the episode "The Harsh Light of Day", briefly living with Harmony Kendall, a shallow former classmate of Buffy, now a vampire . He is in Sunnydale to look for the Gem of Amarra, a ring which makes a vampire effectively invulnerable . He finds it and attacks Buffy in daylight, but she wrests the ring from his finger and sends it to Angel . Spike goes to Los Angeles, and hires a vampire named Marcus to torture Angel in order to get the ring, but Marcus takes the ring himself and Angel finally destroys it . </P> <P> After being captured by The Initiative and implanted with a cerebral microchip which punishes him with debilitating pain whenever he harms or attempts to harm any non-demon life forms, Spike turns to the Scooby Gang for protection, bartering his knowledge of the Initiative . (Though he still spars with Buffy, provided he has no real intent on harming her) His inability to bite is comically compared to impotence, much to Spike's constant humiliation; in "Doomed", he attempts to commit suicide by staking himself at Xander's house, but is stopped by Willow and Xander . Occasionally helping the Scooby Gang by providing them with information and / or combat assistance in exchange for cash or for the joy of fighting, but having no qualms about betraying them to such enemies as Faith and Adam . In Season Four, Spike was introduced to fill the antagonistic role that Cordelia had in seasons One to Three; as Joss Whedon explains on the DVD featurette, "All of our characters got to the point where they were loving and hugging, and it was sort of like, where's Cordelia?" Spike appeared in every episode thereafter with the exception of "The Body". </P>

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