<P> Willow and Xander show up at the library, where they hear that Buffy has gone off to see the Master . Xander goes to Angel's apartment where he forces Angel to lead him to the Master's lair . The Master tells Buffy that it is her blood which will free him . He drinks from her and leaves her to drown in a shallow pool . Willow and Miss Calendar decide that the Hellmouth is underneath the Bronze and leave to warn the students there, but are surrounded by vampires . Cordelia rescues them in her car and drives it straight into the library . Xander finds Buffy and resuscitates her with CPR . </P> <P> As Cordelia, Willow, Giles and Miss Calendar fight off vampires trying to enter the library, a three - headed creature smashes through the floor, revealing that the Hellmouth is directly underneath the library itself . Buffy, now on the roof, tosses the Master down into the library, where he is impaled on broken furniture . He partly dusts, leaving only his skeleton . The world goes back to normal and everyone goes to the Bronze . </P> <P> Alyson Hannigan claimed that two versions were filmed of the scene where she and Cordelia discover the room full of bodies: a tamer version for American audiences and a bloodier one to be shown in Europe . This episode is the first meeting between Buffy and the season's main antagonist . Joss Whedon has stated that this event was deliberately saved for the season finale so that the show would not fall into a repetitive pattern of Buffy defeating The Master in every episode . </P> <P> "Prophecy Girl" was first broadcast on The WB on June 2, 1997 . It received a Nielsen rating of 2.8 on its initial airing . </P>

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