Deep Water

Synopsis of Deep Water

In 'Deep Water', part of the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' series, Willow joins an animal rescue team after an oil spill. There, she discovers a selkie, a shape-shifting seal girl who cannot return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her magickal coat. However, though 'Ariel', as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can't quite shake her innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing. Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids -- with one important and fatal difference.