How does riley die in buffy

Blucas made a last-minute career change and turned to acting instead. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Spike kiss. When does Riley leave Buffy? Buffy ending explained: How does Buffy end? Sadly, Buffy was too late to make up her mind and she saw Riley disappearing in a helicopter.

Riley's final episode was the 10th in the fifth season, and it was titled Into the Woods. He continued to a main character until Into the Woods, about half-way through the fifth season.

His last appearance was in season six, in the episode titled As You Were. Buffy: Do Spike and Buffy really love each other? Riley ducks into the whirring helicopter. There he sits gazing moodily into space as Buffy comes pelting into the shot. She stands just out of reach of the whirring helicopter blades, waving her arms and screaming his name. He is the One! But — uh oh! And the helicopter … just … flies away. In that moment, every wooden moment of the episode is redeemed.

Yes, the whole thing felt weirdly forced — like a bad relationship. The last time fans saw Riley in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , he had more or less managed to move on from Buffy and had even gotten married. However, after his departure from the show Riley's story continued in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics. When Buffy first met Riley, he was posing as a teaching assistant in a Psychology class that she was taking at UC Sunnydale. She later learned, however, that Riley was actually a soldier with a top secret military program called the Initiative, which had moved to Sunnydale to monitor demonic activity around the Hellmouth and experiment on the local supernatural creatures.

Among the Initiative's projects was the creation of a bio-mechanical demonoid called Adam, who rebelled against his creators and was ultimately the cause of the Initiative's downfall. An autopsy revealed that he had died of a heroin overdose. Before dying and becoming a genuine Higher Power, she and Angel shared their first and only real kiss. Kristine Sutherland Joyce was informed during the third season that her character would be killed off, which she accepted because she intended to spend time in Europe.

She is absent from most of the fourth season because she was traveling. Destiny 2.