The opening montage starts with something but I missed it so tough.
Action starts with Buffy and Riley in the graveyard battling a vampire. Buffy seems more interested in Riley's moves than dusting the vamp but, when a demon comes to the vamps aid, Buffy gets serious and she and Riley quickly dust/slay them. They decide that Giles must be told about the alliance between the demon and the vampire first thing. Which turns out to be first thing in the morning as they collapse onto the bed in Riley's room.
Faith was right. Slayage equates to hungry and horney.
Anyway. In the night Riley awakens and wanders half naked through the frat house accompanied only by creepy music. He finds... a leaky faucet in the bathroom.
Next morning we discover Xander's new job. Mr. Whippy truck driver. Mr. Whipped, er, Xander and Anya are having a fight. Anya is convinced that they are breaking up because they didn't have sex the night before. Xander acts maturely and calmly in trying to reassure her until she brings up the big "I" topic. His manhoodly functions under attack Xander suggest a bout of hot sex right "here and now". Much to the amusement of the 12 year olds waiting for their ice cream but not impressing their parents much.
At the university Buffy and Riley tell Giles, Willow and Tara about the demon/vampire tag team which Giles finds odd as demons tend to look down on vampires as white trash. Riley says that he'll warn his patrols to look out for weird groupings and that there'll be a party to let the guys blow off some steam. Giles declines an invitation as he has "grownup" things to do at a coffee house. Throughout the entire conversation Riley and Buffy are playing with each others fingers and, as soon as they can, they bail to look after Riley's thing. Subtle, eh?
That night at Lowell house (home of the Initiative) Forest and Graham are complaining about the lack of heat and the fact that Riley and Buffy are still going at it. They head down to the den where a third boy commando is building a fire. They settle down to enjoy that meager warmth when the fire erupts in a spurting gout of flame. The use of subtextual adverbs is purely intentional.
That night Anya meets up with Spike in front of the Bronze. Both cry over their beers about love and the fickle nature thereof. They toy with the idea of going Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan on Xander and Dru but decide to crash the Boy Commando party instead.
At the party Buffy is hanging with Xander, Willow and Tara while Riley is hanging with Forest and Graham. The friends are having great fun teasing them while Buffy and Riley stare at each other. Finally, the happy couple retires to find some privacy.
Anya and Spike arrive to annoy Xander. Xander is hurt and jealous and a little fearful of the vengeance aspect. She may not have demonic powers at her beck and call but she does have 1400 years of experience. After their almost adult discussion regresses to a grade school did/did not fight both storm off looking for a good time, or rather, a better time than the other. Spike finds the keg of beer, Anya storms around and Xander joins a round of spin the bottle.
By now weird stuff is happening. Tara freaks out when Willow touches her knee. Xander's spin the bottle partner pounces on him in a full body kiss. There is a big group of party goers who have discovered the "wall of pleasure". But all is not happy hormones. Willow finds a ghost boy drowning in the leaky bathtub. Xander's new friend is so overcome with shame that she hides in a closet (and for all you counters this is the third person to hide in a closet), Tara gets a grip and tells Will and Xander that she thinks they should leave. Then the bottle in the game spins out of control and shatters. Time to call Buffy. However, Buffy and Riley are other occupied and, right about then, the earth moves (the writer obviously had fun in Psych class) and all the party goers flee. Outside Xander announces that he's going in to get Buffy but the house ejects him. It's Watcher time!
I really don't know where the actors dug inside for motivation to get the expressions on their faces when they finally find Giles at the coffee house, but it must be a dark and scary place. Someplace I never want to go.
Anyway, after the shock wears off they retire to a big table with lots of books. They discover that the frat house use to be a sort of orphanage for teenagers and that, based on the "sexual energy" manifesting that Buffy and Riley's ummm activities are causing it. Giles, Anya and Xander head off to talk to the former orphanage matron while Tara and Willow research for spells to help.
The little old lady is nice in a religious way. She explains how much she loved the kids, how much the city appreciated her efforts in raising these troubled youths and how she treated them just like they were her own; praising them when they were good and punishing them when they were dirty. Suddenly the nice little old lady is gone. She admits to hacking off the girl's hair to stop them from being vain and to 'baptizing' some of those who were very naughty. Giles and Xander tear a strip of her and then head back to Scooby Central.
The plan is to stop Buffy and Riley from, you know, before the ghosts or apparitions or whatever (GAW) drain them, thereby killing them. Willow, Tara and Giles hope to do a spell that will draw the GAW to away from the house long enough for Anya and Xander to get in, get Buffy and Riley and get all four out. The spell works and Xander and Anya enter. The interior of Lowell house looks like the Jumanji set with overgrown thorny veins. Hacking and slashing they make it to the house but when they touch the door to Riley's room the ghosts return - dragging Xander off to drown in the bathtub and punting Anya off the second floor landing and into the living room. With gritty determination she retrieves Xander and the two of them fight their way to Riley's room and force the door open.
Riley and Buffy look up. "Jeeze, Xander," Buffy says, "Don't you knock?"
Xander and Anya share a look of disgust and walk away.
Next day Xander and Anya are their happy, slightly dysfunctional couple self. Willow is smug, people watching her favourite two couples and teasing Buffy in a subtle Willow way.
Buffy: It was like I was a zombie.
Willow: Must have been horrible.
Buffy: (pause) Yeah, horrible.
Riley: Really bad.
Random thoughts. Well, I was fairly thought free so the guest random thinker is Cory...
Okay, I got some thoughts now.