A Brief History of Time

(A timeline of the Schism Universe)

(Nod to http://www.tvtome.com/BuffytheVampireSlayer/eplist.html for episode summaries and info)

(And nod to Stephen Hawking for title)

 

 

 

Season 1 Episodes 1-1 through 1-11 all happen just as they did in the Buffy universe.

 

Season 1

 

Episode 1-12 Prophecy Girl

 

With the help of Angel, Giles discovers an ancient prophecy which foresees that Buffy will die if she fights The Master. Upon hearing of her doom, Buffy is met with the biggest decision of her young life.  When vampires attack a group of students at the school, Buffy decides to face her destiny. Unfortunately, the prophecy is deceiving and it is actually Buffy who frees the Master when he feeds on her and gains the power to break through the barrier.  Buffy falls unconscious into a pool of water and drowns.  Xander, Angel, Cordelia, Willow, and Giles all fight the Master at the high school and defeat him.  Willow is attacked in the process and gets fatally wounded and rushed to the hospital.  For a brief moment Willow flat lines but finally pulls through.  Later on, Giles tells Willow she is the new Slayer.

 

 

Season 2

 

Episode 2-1  Confrontational Matters

 

Willow has been training all summer with Giles and is now forced to face the possibility that the Master (who slew Buffy) could be resurrected by vamp minions.  Willow defeats the vampires and smashes the Masters bones with a hammer.

 

Episode 2-2  Some Assembly Required

 

When the bodies of several teenage girls are dug out of their graves and some of their parts are found soon afterwards, the gang discover that two students are trying to create the perfect woman; with the final touch being Cordelia's head.

 

Episode 2-3  School Hard

 

A cool, badass vampire named Spike comes to Sunnydale intent on using the Hellmouth's energy to restore the health of his ailing love Drusilla. To prove his worth to the Anointed One, he offers to kill Willow and add her to the two Slayers he has already destroyed. Willow is forced to organize the Parent's Night and unfortunately Spike and his new gang crash the party. Willow must stop the ensuing slaughter while also keeping her parent’s and friends safe.

 

 

 

 

Episode 2-4  Inca Mummy Girl

 

While on a visit to the local museum one of the students accidentally breaks an ancient seal buried with an Inca Mummy. Without the seal to hold her, the mummy rises and must consume the life force of the living in order to stay alive and she assumes the identity of Ampada, Willow’s South American exchange student previously thought by the gang to be a boy. Xander falls in love with the female Ampada and asks her to the dance and she accepts. Willow is contemplating her love for Xander but hasn't decided to give up on him yet. Unfortunately, while she pines over Xander she fails to notice the attention she is receiving from handsome older student Oz. Giles discover the truth about Ampada and tries to reassemble the seal but Ampada intervenes. She tries to kill Willow so she can keep her humanity but Xander offers himself. Ampada cannot kill someone she loves and eventually her body turns to dust.

 

Episode 2-5  Reptile Boy

 

Rebelling against her friend’s insistence that she is a goody two shoes, Willow makes an unusual friendship with Cordelia when she accompanies her to a fraternity party where they are both drugged and used in the ritual feeding of a demon.

 

Episode 2-6  Halloween

 

On Halloween, Willow and Xander are 'volunteered' by Principal Snyder to take groups of kids trick-or-treating. They get their costumes from a new store run by an Englishman, Ethan Rayne. Xander chooses a soldier outfit, and Willow dresses as a ghost.  Unfortunately Ethan turns out to be a bad guy and casts a spell to transform everyone into their costumes. Xander is now a real soldier, Willow is a real ghost (without the sheet).  Willow goes for Giles' help who, it turns out, has a bad history with Ethan and beats the spell reversal out of him. Willow is released from the spell just in time to have a confrontation with Spike.

 

Episode 2-7  Lie To Me

 

Ford, an old boyfriend of Buffy's, comes to Sunnydale and, unknown to the gang, is part of a secret sect which worships vampires. While the others in the sect are misguided teens who believe that vampires are a higher order of life, Ford has a more sinister reason for his deciet. Because he is going to die soon of cancer, he makes a deal with Spike to hand over Willow in return for eternal life.

 

Episode 2-8  The Dark Age

 

The secrets of Giles' unnatural past as a wild teenager are revealed when an old friend of his comes to warn him that a demon that they both summoned has returned.
As a young man, Giles turned in his Watcher studies in favour of dabbling in witchcraft and the occult with his old buddy Ethan Rayne and several others. They discovered Eyghon The Sleepwalker and summoned him while one went into a deep sleep. Unfortunately, Eyghon gained power by this and killed them all one by one over the years by possessing a dead or unconscious person and is now after the last two members, Giles and Ethan.

 

 

Episode 2-9 What’s My Line (1)

 

Its Career Week at Sunnydale High and Willow is concerned with how much of a future she is going to have as well as be a Slayer and begins trying to figure a way to balance a life outside of being the Slayer and her duties as the Chosen One. While Spike prepares a ritual to restore Drusilla's strength he sends a trio of deadly assassins after Willow to keep her out of the way, one of whom attacks Willow and Angel. Another apparent assassin attacks Angel after he wrests information out of Willy the Snitch who runs a vampire-friendly bar. The young woman locks Angel in a cage where the rising sun will eventually finish him off while she goes to find Willow. Willow and the woman fight until Willow asks the question: "Who are you?" to which she replies: "I am Kendra, the Vampire Slayer".

 

Episode 2-10  What’s My Line (2)

 

Willow and Kendra call a truce and head to see Giles who confirms that Kendra is indeed a Slayer, called during the few minutes that Willow died when she was in the hospital after the Master’s attack. Kendra has been trained somewhat differently than Willow, she has been taken from her family and has no friends but then criticizes Willow for her slaying lifestyle, causing friction between the two. Angel is saved just in time by Willy, who then turns him over to Spike. Xander and Cordelia are trapped by an assassin in Buffy’s mom’s basement (the perfect setting for them to begin making out) whom has gotten misinformation and believes that Buffy is still alive and is the Slayer.  Later Xander help’s Joyce clean up the house from the assassin’s mess.  Joyce asks Xander if would like to come over more often and help out with chores as a job with payment and infers that she misses having someone in the house to look after.  Xander accepts wanting a chance to be away from his house and his dysfunctional parents as much as possible.  Oz and Willow are getting along well but are interrupted by another assassin, disguised as a policewoman who shoots at Willow. Willow is helped by Kendra and sees her finally as an ally. The gang find out about Spike's ritual and how it involves killing Angel. Willow and Kendra storm into the church to rescue Angel and Spike gets a beating from two slayers this time, eventually being crippled by a falling pipe organ. Unfortunately the ritual was enough to restore Drusilla's strength and she hauls Spike out of the debris.

 

Episode 2-11  Ted

 

Xander, who has been helping out around Joyce’s house, has issues when Joyce comes home with a new creepy boyfriend, the computer expert and master chef Ted; whose charming personality impresses everyone else including Willow.  Xander finally convinces everyone about Ted and it is revealed that Ted is a cyborg.  Willow defeats Ted and Joyce thanks the gang.

 

Episode 2-12  Bad Eggs

 

The students are given eggs to look after to teach them about parenthood but they aren't what they seem. Soon the eggs hatch and the creatures inside take over their owners and lead them to the school basement to dig up the mother creature.

 

 

 

Episode 2-13  Surprise

 

Drusilla prepares to awaken a powerful demon named The Judge who was brought forth a thousand years ago to rid the Earth of the plague of humanity. His body was dismembered by an army and the parts were buried in every corner of the Earth but somehow all the parts have made their way to Sunnydale. Willow intercepts one of his arms and Ms Calendar convinces Angel to take it to the most remote region possible. Unknown to everyone else, Jenny Calendar is actually Janna, a descendant of the Romany clan who cursed Angel and has been sent to Sunnydale to ensure that the curse isn't lifted. Willow and Angel say their goodbyes at the docks when they are ambushed by Spike's gang who retrieve the arm and Drusilla is able to reassemble the demon. Willow and Angel go to spy on the Judge’s reconstruction and Willow just manages to escape from The Judge.  Angel fails to get away and Drusilla infers that she has a plan for the vampire.

 

Episode 2-14  Innocence

 

Angel is in the warehouse with Drusilla and Spike and kills a homeless woman that Drusilla has found. Angelus has returned as a result of Drusilla force feeding him a drug giving him a simulated pure happiness. Meanwhile The Judge is returning to full power and Spike is impatient to get on with the killing. The three reunited once again prepare to unleash The Judge on Sunnydale and Angelus persuades them to let him kill Willow before they begin. Willow discovers Xander and Cordelia kissing and runs from the library only to be met by Angelus and fights him off and they ponder what could have happened to turn him evil. Angel appears to her in a dream to warn her about Ms Calendar and Willow confronts Jenny demanding answers. She reveals her heritage and says that the curse can only be lifted if Angel experienced a moment of true human happiness and he is no longer plagued by guilt and remorse. Distraught, Willow still keeps her eye on the ball long enough to defeat The Judge with a rocket launcher acquired by Xander, and in her fight with Angelus after she realizes that she cannot, yet, kill him.

 

 

Episode 2-15  Phases

 

Willow and the gang track down a suspected werewolf roaming in the woods and also try to stay out of the way of a maniacal werewolf hunter, while Willow tries to get closer to Oz, unknown to her that he is the same killer they are after.  Xander asks if he can stay the night at Buffy’s mom’s house instead of having to go home because his parent’s are fighting again.  Joyce lets him stay in Buffy’s room.

 

Episode 2-16  Bewitches, Bothered, and Bewildered

 

Xander tries to use Valentines Day to further his relationship with Cordelia but she succumbs to peer pressure and breaks up with him. With the help of Amy (who is exploring her mother's witch powers), he puts a love spell on her which goes horribly wrong, turning him into every woman's desire; except Cordelia's.

 

 

 

 

Episode 2-17  Obsession

 

Angelus, still being fed drugs by Drusilla, continues his obsessive torment of Willow by visiting her during the night and leaving presents in her bed. Meanwhile Ms Calendar tries to make amends for her deceit of Willow and Giles but dire consequences ensue.

 

Episode 2-18  Killed By Death

 

When Willow is admitted to hospital with a raging fever she meets a young boy, Ryan, who has the same flu virus and claims that the sick children in the hospital are being persecuted by a monster that may be death himself.

 

Quotes:

Willow: I'm good at medical stuff, since Xander and I used to play doctor all the time.
Xander: No, she's being literal. She used to have all these medical volumes, and diagnosed me with stuff. I didn't have the heart to tell her she was playing it wrong.
Willow: Wrong? Why? How did you play doctor?
Cordelia: Ummm…..

 

Episode 2-19  I Only Have Eyes For You

Sunnydale High is even more dangerous than usual as the ghost of a former student who killed his sweetheart and then committed suicide haunts the halls forcing people to relive the moments that killed them over and over.  Angelus is forced to remember his feelings he had for Buffy as he relives the student teacher death scenario over with Willow.

 

Episode 2-20  Go Fish

When several members of the Sunnydale High swim team are mysteriously skinned alive, Willow and the gang take it upon themselves to protect the remaining members which results in Xander revealing a side of himself rarely seen.

 

 

 

 

 

Episode 2-21  Becoming (1)

Angelus' origins from being vamped by Darla in 1753, vamping Drusilla in 1860, being cursed by the Gypsies in 1898, and meeting a demon named Whistler in New York in 1996 who shows him a better way of life are revealed while Angelus prepares to awaken Acathla, an ancient demon that will suck the Earth into the Demon Dimension. Kendra returns to Sunnydale because a dark power is rising and comes bearing a sword blessed by the knight who first slew Acathla. Angelus tries to awaken the demon but fails. Needing someone to help him with the ritual, he distracts Willow while Drusilla goes to collect Giles. Drusilla and her friends attack the rest of the gang but only Kendra is there to defend them, who is killed by Drusilla.

Episode 2-22  Becoming (2)

After Drusilla's attack on her friends which resulted in the death of Kendra and Giles' abduction, Willow is arrested for the murder but escapes from the police. She heads to the hospital where she learns that Xander has a broken arm. They all realize that Giles was taken by Drusilla and Willow prepares herself to face Angelus. After being stopped by another cop, Spike comes to her aid and convinces her that he wants to be rid of Angelus too and they form an unusual alliance. Willow is forced to slay a vampire in front of Joyce and tells her the truth but she does not want to accept it. When Willow leaves to fight Angelus, Joyce is upset and blames Willow and for Buffy’s death. After retrieving Kendra's sword from the library she heads toward Angelus' mansion.  Xander runs to Willow's aid. Drusilla uses her psychic powers to make Giles reveal the secret of the ritual to wake Acathla, and Angelus begins again. Willow arrives and fights him while Spike takes Drusilla and leaves and Xander escapes with Giles. Acathla begins to awaken as Angelus comes down from all the drugs he’s been on and returns to normal for a brief moment. Unfortunately it is too late and Willow must send Angel to hell to stop Acathla's vortex.  Willow stabs the sword into Angel and then retracts it, watching her friend fall into the vortex.  Devastated by the events, Willow returns home to be by herself, separating herself from her friends.  Xander and Giles are yelled at by Joyce but finally convince Joyce that Buffy died saving the world and that nothing could have changed that.  Joyce realizes that she should be proud of her daughter.

 

Season 3

 

Episode 3-1  Precipice

Willow, Xander and Oz are attempting to keep the Sunnydale vampire population in check.  Oz and Xander comment about Willow’s hermit like new behavior as Willow withdraws more from her friends and family.  Willow’s training with Giles, conversely, becomes more intense at Willow’s insistence.  Willow has Giles find someone to re-cast the sword she used to fight Angle with and has a new hilt put on it. She also finds an old scabbard in Giles private collection of weapons that she takes for the sword. Later, Willow is seen looking through a series of magical tomes and biology books.  After a week of research Willow begins casting a series of spells on herself in her room.  Later that night Willow begins her nightly patrol and doesn’t come home.  The next day she is on time for school with out having to gone to sleep the night before, and she doesn’t appear to be tired at all.  That night she patrols again with going to sleep.

Quotes:

Willow: I was thinking about naming the sword.

Giles: Oh really?

Willow: Yeah.  Maybe…  Bob?  Fear the wrath of Bob!

(Giles takes off his glasses and cocks an eyebrow)

Willow: Frank?  OOO!  OOO!  Kahn!  Fear the wrath of Kahn!

Giles: Isn’t that the title of one of those spaceship movies?

(Willow frowns)

Willow: (Willows demeanor becomes serious) Tara…  Her name is Tara.  She’s the one who’ll keep the demons at bay from me.

Giles: (Giles gives a curios look) Where did you get that name from?

Willow: I don’t know.  But knowing Sunnydale it’s probably some sign or portent.  Either way, it’s better than Kahn.

Giles: (Giles under his breath) Or Bob.

 

Episode 3-2  Overcompensation

Willow is keeping her the fact that she doesn’t seem to sleep anymore a secret which is starting to drive a wedge between her and her friends.  Willow tries to find time to work hanging out with her friends into her schedule. Giles becomes aware of something amiss with Willow as he observes her hunting a wily vampire night after night without rest.  Giles finally confronts Willow about what he knows and Willow informs Giles that she has cast a series of spells so that she only has to sleep once a month.  Giles scolds her but Willow remarks back defiantly that she controls her own destiny and she can choose how she acts if she wants too. Giles seems upset but begrudgingly accepts the fact that Willow has made her choice.  Willow asks Giles not to tell the rest of the gang yet.

Episode 3-3  Faith, Hope, And Trick

The new Slayer Faith arrives in town and seems like a fun-loving wacky teenager who integrates herself into the gang. Willow notices that Faith is becoming more mysterious and discovers that she has been followed by an ancient vampire who murdered her watcher.

Episode 3-4  Beauty And The Beasts

When a student is found savagely mauled in the woods the Oz-werewolf is suspected, but when Willow discovers that Angel is back on Earth after hundreds of years of torture and has been reduced to nothing more than a wild animal, she fears that he may be the killer.

Episode 3-5  Homecoming

Willow’s first full night sleep is coming up soon but unfortunately for her, first she has to deal with Mr. Trick, a new vampire in town who rallies a group of tough vampires, demons and mercenaries together to set up a surprise for the two slayers before she gets her hard earned sleep.

 

Episode 3-6  Band Candy

Mr. Trick enlists Giles' old buddy Ethan Rayne to manufacture and distribute boxes of candy which turn the adult population into uninhibited, irresponsible teenagers to keep them out of the way while the mysterious Mayor Wilkins pays a tribute to a demon.  Later on, Xander asks Joyce if he can move in to the Summer’s house if he pays rent so that he can put some distance between him and his family.  Joyce realizes that the gang spends so much time there anyways that she says sure and he doesn’t have to pay rent just so long as he does chores and work around the house.

Episode 3-7  Revelations

Xander finds out about Angel's return to Sunnydale and promptly informs the gang who confront Willow with the fear that he may turn evil again. Willow fights on Angle’s behalf saying that Buffy had faith in him and cared for him so they owe it to her memory to give Angle a second chance. Faith finds herself under the wing of a new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, an outwardly prim and proper Englishwoman who was expelled from the Watcher's Council for practicing evil magic.

 

Episode 3-8  Lover’s Walk

Spike returns to Sunnydale a shadow of his bad-ass vampire self and kidnaps Willow so she can put a love spell on Drusilla. While he is out collecting magic spell ingredients and convincing Angle why he shouldn't kill him, Willow and Xander lose their inhibitions in the heat of the moment only to be caught in the act by a rescue party in the form of Oz and Cordelia.

 

Episode 3-9  The Wish

Wanting to be rid of Xander for good, Cordelia comes to the conclusion that Buffy was the beginning cause of all her problems and makes a wish that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. A demon grants the wish and Cordelia's world suddenly changes. Cordelia is thrilled when her status as high school queen and super bitch is restored but soon learns that the world is not what it used to be. Everyone is dressed in drab clothing, there is a curfew and everyone is afraid of the night. She comes across Xander and Willow and is dismayed that they are still together. They reveal themselves to be vampires and try to kill her but she is saved by the 'White Hats': Giles, Oz and Larry. Cordelia tells Giles about her wish and that Buffy was meant to be in Sunnydale. She also asks why Giles came when Buffy didn't. Xander and Willow head to the Bronze which is now the ultimate place to be - if you are a vampire that is. They are met by the Master, now alive and ruling the vampire controlled town. The Master sends Xander and Willow to finish Cordelia before she can contact the Slayer and they complete the task with Giles watching helplessly. Giles notices a necklace around Cordelia's neck and uses his long-forgotten Watcher skills to research the demon Anyanka, the Patron Saint of Scorned Women. He also tries to contact Buffy in Cleveland. It seems that without the interaction with her friends and Giles, Buffy has become something of a rogue Slayer, not caring about the fate of mortals or the consequences of her actions; and only looks out for herself. The Master is set to begin his ultimate plan, an automated processing plant which drains the blood of humans and expels the blood ready to drink when Buffy arrives in town and Giles fills her in on everything. The very different Buffy prefers to face the Master rather than try to help Giles summon Anyanka and she heads to the deserted Bronze. She finds Angel who has become nothing more than a torture toy for Willow.
Giles summons Anyanka and tries to get her to reverse the wish while Buffy and Angel head to the factory. In the fantastic slo-mo sequence that follows, Giles tries to overcome Anyanka while Buffy storms the factory, killing anything that crosses her path. Xander stakes Angel, Buffy stakes Xander and Oz stakes Willow. Giles realises that the necklace is Anyanka's power center and grabs it off her. Buffy faces the Master but is quickly overcome and the Master snaps her neck. Giles smashes the necklace just as Buffy's lifeless body falls to the floor and the world is returned to normal, with Anyanka wondering why she cannot grant Cordelia's wish.

Episode 3-10  Amends

While the gang prepares for their Christmas vacation, Angel is haunted by visions of his violent past. A mysterious force called the First Evil takes the form of Jenny Calendar and tries to convince him to lose his soul through drug use, kill Willow, and become evil again. Believing that he isn't strong enough to fight the demon within, Angel waits on the top of a hill for the sun to rise. Willow finds him and tells him to fight back for Buffy’s memory, that he can do real good in this world, but just as she is giving up it begins to snow, preventing Angel from being killed by the sunlight. Later on, Willow goes to great seductive lengths to win Oz back.

Episode 3-11  Gingerbread

Picking the wrong night for trying to get closer to understanding the life her daughter once lead, Joyce discovers the bodies of two children apparently sacrificed in an occult ritual and she rallies the adults of Sunnydale convincing them to rid the town of evil, including Willow and Amy. Giles soon realizes that the children are actually demons that do not kill people themselves but invoke fear and panic and gain their power by watching normally calm and sane people persecute each other.

Episode 3-12  Helpless

For her upcoming 18th birthday, Willow accepts the Scooby gang's offer of a big party. But unbeknownst to Willow, preparations are being made by the Watcher's Council for a life-threatening rite of passage that drains the Slayer of her powers and then entraps her with a powerful vampire foe that she must defeat in a defenseless state in order to pass the test. Giles must participate in the test by drugging Willow so she loses her strength and skill, and then has to lead her into the trap. When he sees how Willow is being torn apart by losing control. Giles becomes apologetic but Willow offers no forgivness stating that if this is a test, she’ll pass it without his help. The weakened Willow is drawn quickly into battle when the vampire escapes and kidnaps Giles. Willow uses her wits and cunning to defeat the vampire and passes the test. Unfortunately Giles does not, and is fired by the Council.

Episode 3-13  The Zeppo

When Xander realizes that he isn't needed by the gang as much as he'd like to believe, his quest to prove he's cool leads him to an unforgettable night that finds him consorting with fast women, raising the dead and rolling with a dangerous crowd that could put Sunnydale in a world of hurt. Meanwhile, Willow, Giles and the rest of the crew engage in a furious battle with the Sisterhood of Jhe, an all-female demon apocalypse cult that intends to reopen the Hellmouth and bring about the end of the world. Also, Faith and Xander grow somewhat closer when they have sex after he saves her from an apocalypse demon.

Episode 3-14  Bad Girl

While on a mission to retrieve an amulet before a powerful demon can restore his strength with it, Faith introduces Willow to her reckless method of slaying; while Giles is trying to keep his cool in front of the stuffy new watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. When Faith accidentally kills the deputy mayor Allan Finch, she tries to clean up the crime but when Willow confronts her about her actions, she simply replies "I don't care".

 

Episode 3-15  Consequences

Faith seems to think of herself as above the law. Willow informs Giles about the murder and he oversteps his bounds by not involving the new Watcher, Wesley. Angel captures Faith and tries to connect with her but Wesley and the Watcher's Council intervene and take Faith to be transported to England. Faith escapes and prepares to leave Sunnydale on a cargo ship but Willow finds her. Mr Trick and several vampires attack them and Faith saves Willow from almost being bitten by Trick. Willow and the gang think that Faith can be saved but while they discuss it, she is offering her services to the Mayor.

Episode 3-16  Dopplegangland

While unknowingly participating in a spell with the wish-granting demon Anyanka in order for her to get her powers back, Willow accidentally brings forth the vampire Willow from Cordelia's alternate universe. The vampire Willow sets her sights on turning Sunnydale into the vampire-ruled world she knows but when she learns of her counterpart, she decides to make Willow send her back. After trying to seduce Willow and freaking her out a bit, the vampire Willow is captured. The real Willow, dressed in her doppelganger's outfit, attempts to stop the ensuing slaughter at the Bronze and gets into a fight with the vampire Willow. Giles and Anya successfully send the vampire back to her world but she arrives at the exact same moment she left, right before she is staked by Oz.

Quotes:

Giles: This is extraordinary
Willow: It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil! and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.

Episode 3-17  Enemies

Faith's new alliance with the Mayor goes as far as them conspiring to rob Angel of his soul. Faith tries to seduce him to give him a moment of happiness but he is still pining over the memory of Buffy. When the old-fashioned way doesn't work, the Mayor summons a powerful sorcerer who does the job for them. Faith and Angelus team up and capture Willow but while they are preparing to torture her, Faith lets loose some details about the Mayor and his upcoming Ascension; at which point Angelus reveals that his being evil was all an act for them to get information. Faith escapes after she and Willow battle.

Episode 3-18  Earshot

After a close encounter with a mouthless demon Willow is infected with the demon's blood and she gains the ability to hear people's thoughts. Her new found ability at first is fun, but when the voices continue to flood her mind, she realizes that she cannot control the power. While the gang tries to track down a would-be killer at the school, Willow is slowly going crazy from the inability to block the noise from the minds of the people around her.

Episode 3-19  Choices

Willow is accepted to other colleges outside of Sunnydale but informs no one as she prepares to move on to Sunndaydale’s own college so as to stay near the hellmouth and do her Slayer duties. Willow decides to take the fight to the Mayor and stop being on the defensive and discovers a secret delivery for him, the Box of Gavrok which contains a mystical energy vital to the Ascension. Willow and Angel successfully break into Town Hall and snatch the box but unfortunately, Xander is captured by Faith. Are they willing to give up their best chance at avoiding the Ascension to save Xander's life? Is there any doubt?

Episode 3-20  The Prom

As the all time night-of-nights for the senior students peeks around the halls, Willow must save her friends and the rest of the school from a scorned student who has trained a pack of hellhounds to attack formalwear. Meanwhile, Angel reveals his feelings that he needs to move away from Sunnydale and stop clinging to the memory of Buffy and plans to leave town after the Ascension. Willow saves the day and her night doesn't turn out so bad when she receives a special Class Protector award from her fellow students.

Episode 3-21  Graduation Day (1)

Faith also finds out that Willow has to sleep one full day a month and tells the Mayor.  The Mayor plans his Ascension for the day Willow must sleep, graduation day. The gang does receive some valuable information from old enemy Anya who has actually witnessed an Ascension. She reveals that the Mayor plans to transform himself into pure demon, something that has not been seen for thousands of years. When Angel is poisoned by Faith to distract Willow, Willow faces Faith for the final time in order to get the only cure to the poison: Faith's blood.

Episode 3-22  Graduation Day (2)

After their fight, Faith escapes from Willow, albeit in a coma, so Willow offers her own blood to Angel, unable to believe that there is no way to help her friend, to rid his body of the poison. When she recovers Willow reveals to all her friends about how she must sleep on Graduation day and all the spells she has cast on herself.  Xander asks if Willow can just undo the spells and Willow says she doesn’t know what will happen if she lifts the spells after going a full month without sleep.  Willow infers that it would probably hinder her to the point of being useless and that it would me more effective if she waits till a day or two after she has her sleep, which is impossible with the Mayors deadline. Willow finally devises a plan to defeat the Mayor.  Willow gives Giles the recipe for a potion that he has to inject into her heart when she is sleeping which should make it so she can push sleeping back for one day.  The night before Graduation Giles pushes the hypodermic needle into Willow’s chest and Willow wakes up in a fit of screams and bouts of vomiting.  Willow’s ear begins to bleed and she has a minor vision/daymare of the Mayor killing all her friends.  At graduation Willow and the gang rally the students and ask for their help in fighting the resulting serpent demon.  Willow leads the Mayor into the library which has been rigged with explosives and kills him.

Season 4

 

Episode 4-1  The freshman

Willow moves into her dorm and attempts to adjust to college life. Everything around her seems to have changed without the constant interaction with the gang she had in High School. With Giles becoming a 'gentleman of leisure' and Xander still away on his road trip, Willow again believes that she must fight and survive on her own when she discovers a gang of tough vampires operating on campus.

Episode 4-2  Living Conditions

Dorm life proves to be a challenge as Willow has to deal with a roommate who is more than a little bit difficult. Kathy continually imposes her idiosyncrasies onto Willow. Willow finally declares that she must kill Kathy.

Episode 4-3  The Harsh Light Of Day

Spike returns to Sunnydale with his new girlfriend Harmony who is now also a vampire. Spike is searching for the Gem of Amara - a stone which makes vampires invulnerable, which he believes is buried somewhere under Sunnydale. Meanwhile Anya returns and throws herself at a flabbergasted Xander.

Episode 4-4  Fear, Itself

The gang decide to head to a fraternity Halloween party expecting a few cheap scares and a bit of harmless fun. Unfortunately, some accidental magic turns the party into a house of horrors where everyone's fears come to life.

Episode 4-5  Beer Bad

Willow starts to hang out at the college bar as a diversion from her continual 24/7 duties where she and a group of upperclass students really regress when they start drinking a 'special' beer.

Episode 4-6  Wild At Heart

Oz escapes from his cage during a full moon and runs across another werewolf, the sultry, sexy singer Veruca; and wakes up next to her naked in the wilderness the next morning. Veruca scoffs at his cage-living habits, and tells him that the wolf is part of him; he should just run free and kill people. Oz blows her off, but doesn't want her running free the night of the full moon, so he fixes up his cage, invites her over, and locks her in with him. The two start getting hot and heavy before the wolfiness even takes over, and Willow comes to the cage the next morning to find them naked together. She cries, they argue, Veruca tries to kill Willow, Oz-wolf kills Veruca, and Xander stops him from having to fight Willow. Oz realizes that Veruca had some good points - he doesn't have control over the wolf, and the wolf is part of him. He decides he needs to leave town and be a hermit while he figures things out. He and Willow share a heartbreaking goodbye, and Oz drives away. Meanwhile, Spike gets zapped and captured by the mysterious Commando guys.

Episode 4-7  The Initiative

Spike, after being captured by the commandos, is being held hostage by them in a hi-tech facility underneath the University. Riley, who has a crush on Willow, is a member of this military-like demon-hunting crusade (called The Initiative). It also turns out that Professor Maggie Walsh is in charge of the unit, which performs experiments on the demons the commandos capture. Spike manages to escape and heads to find Willow, whom he assumes is behind this. When he finds her, he is unable to bite her - the Initiative has put a chip in his head that renders him unable to hurt humans; if he tries, he experiences severe neurological pain. Riley and his commandos, undercover, find Spike at Willow's dorm and attack and they all fight. However, circumstances have led to everyone being unable to see, so Willow and Riley don't recognize each other, and Spike gets away.

Episode 4-8  Pangs

Angel comes to Sunnydale fearing Willow is in danger after Doyle's vision of her. While digging for a new Cultural Centre at the college, Xander falls into a sacred Indian burial area and releases Hus, a vengeance spirit of the Chumash Indians, the original residents of the Sunnydale area. Willow is busily planning a traditional home cooked Thanksgiving while people around Sunnydale are being killed and Xander gets sicker and sicker. Hus summons a group of warriors and they attack Willow and the gang at Giles' house. With Angel's help they repel the attackers until Willow finds a way to kill Hus.

Episode 4-9  Something Blue

Willow is pining over the loss of Oz as she is patrolling around the college at night and suddenly has a vision of the Master killing Buffy then coming after her while her ear begins to bleed.  Willow collapses out of terror after a short run as the visions enclose on her.  A young blonde student comes by and helps her and takes her to her dorm room.  Willow wakes up in the strangers’ room and realizes that the girl isn’t a stranger but Tara, from Willow’s Wicca classes.  The two hang out for a while and then later on the next night.  Willow is forced to slay a vampire in front of Tara and gets informally inducted into the Scoobie gang.

 

Episode 4-10  Hush

The entire town of Sunnydale goes silent when a group of fairy tale demons called The Gentlemen appear and steal everyone's voices. Without being vulnerable to the one thing that can kill them (a human scream) they are free to steal the hearts of seven people. Willow and gang must solve the mystery and overcome the bad guys without being able to discuss anything.

Episode 4-11  Doomed

Willow and Riley have to work out their relationship given their new understanding of what they do. An earthquake rocks Sunnydale and Willow worries that it could signify the end of the world. They find out about a group of demons who are in town collecting sacred items which together have the power to end the world. When the plans of the demons are uncovered, the gang must return to their former sanctum inside the dilapidated Sunnydale High School (the library) to stop the Hellmouth from opening.

Episode 4-12  A New Man

At Willow's 19th birthday party, Giles finally realizes that he is a middle-aged man hanging around with a bunch of teenagers and starts to get depressed about his life. He feels even more like the third wheel when he finds out about Riley and the Initiative, which Willow neglected to tell him about. When Ethan Rayne returns to town, instead of kicking his butt back to England, Giles goes for a drink with him. The next morning Giles wakes up and notices that he has turned into a demon. Willow and the gang find out about the demon and think that it killed Giles but he can only speak in the demon's language and runs away. He ends up at Spike's crypt who can understand the language and Spike helps Giles (at a price) to find Willow and to explain what happened and also find Ethan to change him back. Willow arrives at Ethan's motel room and fights Giles, but she looks into his eyes and realizes that it is really Giles beneath the demon form. Willow then kicks Ethan's butt and reverses the spell.

Episode 4-13  The I In Team

Willow becomes familiar with the Initiative and begins to work with them although they are still unaware of her true power as a Slayer. After Willow heads out for a mission with the Initiative, Willow and Riley consummate their relationship unaware that they are being watched on a hidden camera by Walsh. Meanwhile, Giles and the rest of the gang remove a tracking device the commandos shot into Spike's back. Willow's presence is sowing strife among the Initiative and Professor Walsh fears that Willow will endanger her ultimate project and sends her on a mission which would certainly kill one of the Commandos, but not Willow. Walsh tries to make Riley believe that Willow has gotten herself killed but Willow appears on the com-cam monitors and announces that Walsh will soon know what a Slayer really is. Riley storms out of the Initiative and Walsh retreats to her secret lab, room 314 only to be killed by her pet project Adam.

 

 

Episode 4-14  Goodbye Iowa

Willow and Riley get mutually suspicious of each other when Willow reveals that Professor Walsh tried to have her killed. When Professor Walsh is found dead things get even more out of hand, with the commandos quick to blame Willow. Riley is even more agitated when he sees Willow with Spike (hostile 17) and then again at Willy's Place. Riley progressively gets sicker and we learn that the commandos have been taking medication to increase their strength. Meanwhile the man-demon-machine Adam that Professor Walsh created is roaming Sunnydale and even Willow can't seem to stop him.

Episode 4-15  This Year’s Girl

Faith, still in a coma in the hospital, is dreaming of being pursued by Willow. Riley, partially recovered from his encounter with Adam leaves the Initiative infirmary and joins up with Willow. While Willow and gang plot how to go after Adam, Willow finds out that Faith has awoken. Faith wants revenge and confronts Willow. A message from the Mayor and a mysterious device come to Faith through a friend of the Mayor's (a demon who Faith kills). Later Faith goes after Shela and Ira in Willow’s parent’s own house.  Faith accidentally kills Ira in front of Willow and then tries to hold Willow’s mom hostage and ends up killing her too.  Willow and Faith fight and Willow tortures and kills Faith and then collapses on the living room couch.  Tara arrives on the scene and realizes what has happened and forgives Willow who breaks down and cries uncontrollably in Tara’s lap.

Episode 4-16  Contemplations And Revelations

Willow fights a group of vampires that have taken over a church.  Tara feels bad that she is in love with Willow but doesn’t want to interfere with Willow’s relationship with Riley and feels confused.  She decides that being friends is a safe choice.  In dealing with the loss of her parents and a now empty house, Willow moves into Joyce’s house where Xander lives as well.

Episode 4-17  Superstar

Willow, Tara, Xander and Anya are out hunting vampires and kill one of a pair. They track the other to a nest and decide to call in the big guns and visit Jonathan. Along with Giles they plot the attack on the nest and go to carry it out. Willow manages to kill 2 of the 5 vampires and Jonathan takes care of the rest. Jonathan advises Willow and Riley about their relationship and the Initiative has Jonathan consult on how to track and kill Adam. A beast attacks a girl outside Jonathan's mansion but he seems to be afraid of hunting it. Willow becomes suspicious that Jonathan is too perfect and afraid of the beast. The beast attacks Tara and Willow recognizes it's symbol as one that also appears on Jonathan's back. The gang tracks the symbol to an augmentation spell that improves Jonathan's image in everyone's mind but creates an evil counterpart. With Jonathan's help Willow is able to defeat the beast and return the world to normal.

Episode 4-18  Where The Wild Things Are

Willow and Riley are spending all their time in bed (and they're not sleeping). Their round-the-clock exploration of each other awakens the spirits of children who were sexually repressed by their foster mother back when Lowell House was a home for orphaned and runaway kids. Giles and Tara divert the angry children while Xander and Anya go to try and stop Willow and Riley.

Episode 4-19  New Moon Rising

Oz returns to town. Through his travels Oz has found a combination of charms, potions and meditation that allows him to avoid turning into a werewolf. When Oz discovers that Willow and Riley are more than friends he loses control and as a werewolf and the Initiative who take Oz into custody. When Oz turns back into a human, Riley tries to set him free but is caught and jailed himself. Willow arrives and rescues both but Riley ends up being labeled a traitor for his actions. Oz leaves again when it becomes clear he can't control his emotions around Willow. Tara has a forlorn look as she watches Riley and Willow happy together.

Episode 4-20  The Yoko Factor

Adam enlists Spike to turn the gang against each other, leaving Willow alone and helpless. Spike plays on their fears of how the others perceive them, telling Xander that Willow and Giles no longer think that they need him and that he would be better off joining the Army; telling Willow that Xander and Tara believe her ability at magic is inept at best; and elaborating on Giles' own beliefs that he no longer needs to be in Sunnydale. Giles ends up drunk while Willow and Xander fight. Spike infers that it would be best for Tara if she were to leave and she begins packing so as not to have to be around Willow, whom isn’t in love with her. Willow sees Adam kill Forrest and tells Riley. The distraught Riley goes to confront Adam while Willow determines she has to face him alone.

Episode 4-21  Primeval

Adam tells Riley that he has a behavior modification chip wired to his central nervous system behind his heart. Through the chip Adam has control over Riley. Xander continues to worry about being directionless and ponders joining the army. Professor Walsh, Dr Angleman and Forrest have all been brought back to life by Adam in a secret lab in the Initiative compound. Forrest is a human/demon/machine hybrid like Adam.
When Willow finds Spike in Adam's cave she figures out that he intentionally tried to split up the gang. Willow tells the rest of them and they realize that Adam is going to attack the Initiative from the inside using the surplus demons that have been captured to fight all the scientists and commandos. When the carnage ends, Adam will have plenty of body parts to create an army of soldiers like him. Giles finds a spell to destroy Adam's power center but the spell can only be recited in Sumerian and although Giles speaks the language, only Tara has the power and talent to perform it. Xander suggests that they need the power of all the gang members combined to defeat Adam and Giles agrees, citing a spell which can combine all their own special abilities together. The gang all break into the Initiative. The Initiative soldiers are waiting and capture Willow and friends. As Willow tries to explain the situation to the Colonel, Adam cuts the power at the Initiative locking everyone in and freeing the demons from their cells. As the Initiative soldiers try to fight the demons the gang breaks free and make their way to 314 which is the entrance to Adam's secret lab. Willow goes after Adam and sees Riley strapped into a chair but is attacked by Adam and Forrest. The modified Forrest is beating Willow when Riley pulls the chip from his chest and comes to her aid. Riley fights Forrest while Willow goes after Adam. Adam has "upgraded" and now has a machine gun arm which he uses to fire at Willow. At just the right moment the gang's spell takes place and Willow creates a barrier protecting herself from the bullets. Willow rips out Adams power source and magically causes it to disappear. A demon breaks in on the rest of the gang and Spike comes to their rescue. In a scene which takes place sometime after these events we see a government committee deciding to close down the Initiative which was an experiment to try to use demons to build super soldiers.

Episode 4-22  Restless

Willow, Tara, Xander, and Giles sit down to watch videos after defeating Adam. They enter a bizarre dream world where they are pursued by a primitive force that they released via their enjoining spell. The force turns out to be the spirit of the first Slayer who speaks through Tara in their dream world and is confronting each of them with their deepest secrets and fears before killing them. Willow eventually dispatches the primitive girl by ignoring her and they all wake up.

Season 5

Episode 5-1  Willow vs Dracula

Giles tells Tara that he's planning to move back to England since he's feeling less then vital to the work in Sunnydale. Meanwhile on patrol, Willow runs into a vampire who claims to be Dracula. Dracula turns out to have powers above and beyond the vampire norm such as the ability to turn into a mist and then re-appear, and the ability to turn into a bat. The gang sets about researching Dracula. Dracula visits Willow during the night and drinks some of her blood but leaves her alive and under his seductive spell. Xander runs into Dracula and also falls under his power and brings Willow to him. Dracula claims Willow's power derives from evil and invites her to feed on him. She does but overcomes his mind control. She is able to slay him as he re-appears from a mist but he keeps re-appearing and Willow keeps slaying. Eventually he gives up. Willow tells Giles of Dracula's comments about her power deriving from evil and her own feelings of hunting vampires rather than slaying as a duty. Giles agrees to stay on to help research the nature of the slayer.

Episode 5-2  Real Me

Willow's little sister puts forward her view on the slayer and her friends and feels nothing but contempt for all of them apart from Xander. Willow feels in the way when Willow complains about having to take her school shopping when she is supposed to be training with Giles. While on patrol, Willow leaves Dawn with a babysitter, Xander and Anya, but she accidentally invites Harmony into the house which Willow does not respond to kindly. Harmony kidnaps Dawn to draw Willow into a trap and Buffy is obliged to save her sister, as usual. Meanwhile, Giles takes up tenancy in the recently vacated magic shop in order for him to slip back into the role of Watcher.

Episode 5-3  The Replacement

Are two Xanders really better than one? We find out when a demon searching for the Slayer accidentally hits Xander with his weapon, splitting him in two; one with all the positive aspects of his personality, the other with all the negative. While each of them try to convince the Scooby Gang that the other is a demon, Willow must find the real demon to put the Xanders back together.

Episode 5-4  Out Of My Mind

Riley is in bad shape due to the drugs pumped into him by Prof. Walsh from the Initiative. A special government doctor needs to operate on Riley before his body can no longer support his heart rate of 150. Riley, however, is doing everything he can to avoid the medical treatment. It may be because he is scared of what the doctor may do to him, or he may just not want to be a normal man again. It's up to Willow to get Riley to the operating room on time, which of course she does, but someone else gets in the way. Spike's plan is to force the doctor to remove the chip from his brain, therefore freeing him for slayer killing.

Episode 5-5  No Place Like Home

Joyce continues to be sick and the doctors can't figure out why. Willow finds a strange orb while on patrol and later the security guard who pointed it out to her shows up in the hospital apparently crazy. Willow and Xander suspect that there's a supernatural reason behind Joyce's illness and Willow goes into a spell-induced trance provided by Tara which reveals Dawn fading in and out of reality. At the site where she found the orb, Willow runs into a beaten, captured monk. As she tries to free him she's attacked by an unknown girl with amazing strength. Willow manages to drag the monk out of the place and get away before the ceiling caves in. He tells her that Dawn is the human form that his brethren made from an energy he calls "The Key". Dawn is not her sister and the memories were all implanted by this group, but Dawn is now human and unaware of her origins.

Episode 5-6  Family

Tara's about to celebrate her 20th birthday. Her family arrives — but not to celebrate the occasion. They've come to take her home before she turns into an evil demon just like her mother did at the same age. When Glory sends some Lei-Ach demons to take care of the Slayer, Tara inadvertently helps the demons toward their goal by casting a spell to keep her friends from seeing the demon inside her. When the gang have a fight the resulting group of invisible demons, Tara lifts the spell to help them and they find out her secret. Willow tries to stop her from leaving with her family, but Tara is convinced of what her father says about her. Spike ends the argument by punching Tara in the face and then flinching from the pain, proving that she is a human.  That night Willow does her monthly nap and Tara snuggles up next to her for the sleep.

Episode 5-7  Fool For Love

When a vampire impales Willow with a stake, she wants to find out how her predecessors have lost in battle. Because of Giles' lack of info on the final battles of previous Slayers she turns to the only person she knows who has killed two: Spike. In exchange for cash, he not only details why his victims lost their battles, but his personal history as a vampire. Meanwhile, Joyce's condition worsens and she has to spend the night at the hospital.

Episode 5-8  Shadow

Riley is looking for Willow at Joyce’s house, but all he finds is Spike in her room smelling her sweater. Spike informs Riley of Joyce’s illness and rubs it in his face that Willow told the vampire about it before her own boyfriend. Riley goes to the hospital, and Willow gives him plenty to do, like taking care of Dawn and patrolling, but what Riley really wants is to take care of Willow. He ends up taking Dawn to an amusement park where they talk about a few things. Despite her good intentions, Dawn makes Riley feel like he's not good enough for Willow. Later on in the episode he feels even further away from being close to Willow, and he goes and gets himself bitten by a vamp whore. Meanwhile, at the magic shop Giles accidentally sells two very bad, powerful ingredients for a spell to a "young woman", who turns out to be the all powerful lady who creamed Willow the last time they fought. Willow tries to stop her again, but she's no match for the lady in red who's name we later learn is Glory. With her spell, Glory conjures up a big reptile with the vision to seek out and find the Key. Once the snake finds out that Dawn is the key, Willow must keep it from bringing the news back to Glory.

 

 

Episode 5-9  Listening To Fear

Willow, Dawn, and Xander are at the hospital when the doctor informs Joyce she'll have surgery in two days. Later, Willow and Tara are camping out on the roof of a building watching the stars when a large object crashes down in Sunnydale. A mental patient who has been released from the hospital is walking through the forest when a creature attacks him. At the hospital, the creature climbs along the ceiling, undetected. Xander, Willow, and Joyce talk the doctor into letting Joyce go home until her operation. The gang finds the location of the crash and the dead body of the released hospital patient. While everyone else goes to find help, Riley calls Graham. He later advises the military officers who answer the call on how to deal with the situation. At the hospital, the mental patients are attacked by the demon. Joyce continues to act strangely and say things she doesn't remember. Dawn is hurt when Joyce calls her a "thing", but Willow comforts her and tells her to ignore the comment. The gang finds that a Queller demon has been summoned to kill crazy people. Joyce is attacked by the demon who spits its slime onto her and Dawn comes to the rescue. Willow eventually hears Dawn's scream and goes after the demon. Willow finds Spike stealing pictures from her basement, but can't yell at him as the demon attacks again. Ben gets into his car at the hospital and Dreg is waiting in the backseat. Ben reveals that he summoned the Queller, to clean up Glory's mess like he has done all his life. Back at the hospital, Joyce asks Willow for the truth about Dawn and she is wheeled away into surgery.

 

Episode 5-10  Into The Woods

At the hospital, the Scooby Gang awaits news from the doctor about Joyce's surgery and they are all relieved when the surgery is a success. Dawn spends the night with Xander and Anya, who head out to the movies to take their minds off of the stressful past events. With the house to themselves for a while, Willow and Riley spend a romantic evening together. In the middle of the night, Riley sneaks out through the window and Spike follows him into an old building. Willow and Xander spend the day with Joyce in the hospital discussing Joyce's wig options. Spike wakes Willow from sleep that night to show her what Riley has been doing. Willow is shocked to find him in the arms of a female vampire, being fed upon. Meanwhile the special demon hunting unit that Graham is now a part of gets news of a village in Belize being torn apart by demons and Graham persuades his commanding officer to seek Riley's help. Willow and the gang go after the nest of vampires only to find the building empty. Willow sets the building on fire, leaving her friends in the dark about what's truly bothering her. Riley is furious that Spike allowed Willow to see the truth and after throwing the vampire around a bit, he stakes him. Fortunately for Spike, the stake is plastic. Spike and Riley talk and realize that they both love her, but she doesn't return the feeling to either of them. Riley tries to explain things to Willow. He tells her he started it because he wanted to know what Willow felt when she was bitten and he tells her that the vampires needed him and Willow doesn't. After Willow tries to convince him that she's given him everything she has, Riley tells her about the offer to return to the military. He is going to leave unless she can give him a reason to stay. Later, Willow gets attacked from the vampires from the nest and stakes every one of them easily. Tara witnesses this and confronts Willow, not willing to let her hide from her problems. She shows her the truth that she's been ignoring, and tells her that she has to decide if she's really willing to lose Riley for good.  Willow runs off as Tara begins to cry. Willow runs as fast as she can but it is too late. The helicopter takes off with Willow on the landing pad, calling after Riley. Still shocked, Willow returns home while Riley leaves Sunnydale, not looking back.

Episode 5-11  Triangle

Giles goes off to England to talk to the council about Glory. Meanwhile, Anya and the gang tend to the magic shop. While attempting a new spell to assist Willow with her slaying, Tara is distracted by Anya and accidentally conjures a troll. Actually Anya turned the guy into a troll 1000 years ago when he dumped her and she was then offered the chance to become a vengeance demon. The big, dumb guy goes around smashing things with his hammer until the gang is able to stop him and send him off to troll land.

Episode 5-12  Checkpoint

A team from the Watchers Council show up in Sunnydale with some info on who or what Glory is. Before they allow Willow the details however, they want her to pass a series of psychological and physical tests. They even interview her very nervous gang of friends.
Glory shows up at Joyce's house and has a chat with her about the Key and Willow freaks and takes Dawn, Joyce, and Xander to Spike so that he can protect them, Xander states that he will stay at the house and not be run out. After being attacked by a group of human Knights who claim they will send an army to defeat her if she continues to protect the Key, Willow decides she's had enough and the Watchers will have to play her way. Willow lays down the law and the Watchers agree and reveal to her what Glory is. Not a demon but a god.

Episode 5-13  Blood Ties

Willow finally tells her friends about Dawn being the Key and they start acting weird around Dawn, which leads to her seeking answers. She sneaks into the magic shop with Spike and reads Giles' notes. After finding out what she is, Dawn is very upset and has so many questions. She knows that crazy people know what she is, so she goes to the mental ward at the hospital. While she's there, she runs into Ben. Ben freaks when she tells him she is the key and tells her to run away fast, but before she gets a chance to get away from him, he turns into Glory. Fortunately, Glory doesn't know anything about the conversation between Ben and Dawn, so she has no idea that Dawn is her key. Willow and gang find Glory and Dawn chatting, and Willow fights to protect her sister. Eventually, Tara completes a transportation spell sending Glory away, but Tara doesn't know exactly where. In the end, Dawn has made up with her family, and Willow has made up with Spike.

Episode 5-14  Crush

Willow notices that Dawn is spending a lot of time around Spike and surmises that she has a crush on him, which Dawn shoots down saying that Spike has a crush on Willow. Meanwhile a vampire has attacked the passengers on a train and Willow is finding it hard to concentrate on investigating with the thought that Spike is in love with her. Spike takes her to the home of a pair of vamps saying that they were responsible for the attack but Willow realizes that he has really taken her on a date. Spike admits his feelings for her and Willow tells him how it can never work out. Spike returns to his crypt to find Drusilla waiting for him and she tells him that the chip could never hold back his vampire instincts and takes him to the Bronze and makes him feed off a girl. Willow goes to Spike's crypt and finds a shrine he has made which has all the pictures he took from Joyce’s house. Drusilla and Spike return and attack Willow but Spike ties them both up and tries to make Willow admit she has feelings for him by saying he will stake Drusilla for her. Harmony interrupts the confrontation and after a brief battle, Spike saves Willow from Drusilla and she leaves telling him that there is no hope left for him. Willow declares that she has no feelings for Spike except pity and tells him to leave town. He follows her home and tries to come inside but realizes that she has revoked his invitation to her house.

Episode 5-15  I Was Made To Love You

Willow is disconcerted about Spike falling in love with her instead of a nice, good human boy that she could date. Spike shows up at the same party as Willow, and he gets thrown out a window by a strange girl who has been wandering around looking for a guy named Warren. The whole slaying team agree that the girl is a robot because of the way she acts. Willow pays a visit to the girl's supposed boyfriend, Warren and finds out that Warren made the girl, April, to be the perfect girlfriend. April thinks only of Warren and devotes her entire existence to making him happy. The only problem is that Warren doesn't want her anymore, he has fallen for a real girl and has been running away from the robot. After fighting with the girl, Willow ends up talking to her and consoling her about Warren. The girl has some insight of her own for Willow about boys. After their talk, April's batteries run out completely, and Willow is left to think about things. Earlier on, Willow and Ben were hanging out and obviously have feelings for each other. They even had a date planned, but after talking to April, Willow calls Ben to cancel. It's Glory who gets the message though, as Ben seems to share a body with her. We still don't know exactly what's going on with those two, but we see Glory turn into Ben again. When Willow returns home after the fight with April at the same time as Xander, they find Joyce lying on the couch completely out of it, seemingly dead.

Episode 5-16  The Body

After finding Joyce unconscious on the couch, a terrified Xander calls 911. Unfortunately, it's too late to do anything. The paramedics tell Willow and Xander that Joyce had been dead for a while already. We see Dawn at school for the first time, and she's just getting over the freakout she had after finding out she was the key. Rumors were spread and Dawn was hurt by them, but she feels better after talking about it with a nice boy in her art class. Willow interrupts this conversation though to tell her sister the bad news. Everyone is devastated by this tragedy and they spend the episode grieving, and dealing with their pain in all sorts of ways. Xander punches through a wall while Willow changes her outfit continuously. They are obviously very shaken up, especially since they were all so close with Joyce. Even Anya sheds her first human tears.

Episode 5-17  Forever

After dealing with the pain of Joyce's funeral, Willow falls into the arms of Tara and she consoles Willow on the future and about getting her and Dawn's lives back together. Dawn becomes fixated on using witchcraft to resurrect her. Dawn gathers information for a powerful spell and enlists Spike to help her complete the task. He takes her to a witch doctor who gives Dawn some advice and warning. After collecting the final ingredient Dawn performs the spell. Willow finds out and she confronts Dawn. Dawn cries that she has no one, Willow has been pushing her away since their own parents died and hasn't even cried yet. Someone approaches the door and knocks and Willow rushes to let Joyce in, but Dawn, realizing that she was wrong, breaks the spell. Willow opens the door to an empty porch, before turning to Dawn and finally crying with her sister.

Episode 5-18  Intervention

Willow and Giles leave for the desert on a self-discovery/guidance quest led by the First Slayer. While they are gone, Spike decides to have a little fun with his WillowBot but the gang mistakes it for the real Willow and think that she has gone crazy.  Tara secretly freaks out. Meanwhile, Glory's minions also mistake the Willowbot for the Slayer and, noticing how it acts around Spike, begin to suspect that he is the Key.

Episode 5-19  Tough Love

While Willow tries to control Dawn with no adult parental person (now with Joyce gone) around and bring their lives back to some sort of normalcy after a small fight with Tara, Tara is captured by Glory who is desperately trying to find the Key. Tara is rescued unharmed but could not escape Glory's mind-suck and is left more than a little disturbed by the encounter. Willow finds some powerful spells and heads to confront Glory, despite Gile's attempt to stop her. Willow attacks with all her power and weakens Glory but is left severely exhausted and Glory takes the upperhand. Spike, Xander, and Giles arrive in time and save Willow. Willow and Dawn are with Tara in her room when Glory finds them and Tara's crazed ramblings inadvertantly reveal to Glory that Dawn is the Key.

Quotes:

(Willow to Glory): I owe you pain

Episode 5-20  Spiral

Willow rounds up the gang and flees Sunnydale when Glory discovers that Dawn is the Key. They head toward the desert in a motorhome provided by Spike when they are attacked by the Knights of Byzantium. Giles and Spike are wounded, while Willow is sticking close to an incoherent Tara as she feels responsible for Tara’s current state; and Dawn learns from one of the Knights that she holds the power to destroy the universe.

Episode 5-21  The Weight Of The World

Willow has a major shutdown for a while when her ear begins to bleed and she has a flash back of all her failures including the current state of Tara mixed with scenes of her sisters birth and growth. Glory vents her frustrations about being stuck on Earth to Dawn and is beginning to feel real human emotions as the barrier separating her and Ben's psyches becomes weaker. She and Ben fight in a confusing switching back and forth argument as he tries to help Dawn. Eventually, Ben is the one to give Dawn away to Glory, knowing that it is his life or hers. The gang tries to try to figure out how to undermine Glory's plans, but the options don't look good. Willow may have to end up choosing between killing her own sister or letting the world be destroyed.

Episode 5-22  The Gift

Another imminent apocalypse is at hand in Sunnydale. Willow must square off against a true God when Glory prepares to use Dawn to break down the walls between the dimensions and unleash all Hell on Earth but she needs Dawn's blood before her home dimension portal can be opened. Willow, Xander, Giles, Anya, Tara and Spike go to battle with the knowledge that they may not all survive. Xander proposes marriage to Anya, and she accepts, but only if they survive the apocalypse. The gang uses everything they've got, with the help of a few very helpful suggestions from Anya. Using a troll mallet (a weapon of a true god), some witch powers from Willow in addition to her Slayer strength, and yes, Xander's construction skills to use a wrecking ball, the group fairs well against Glory, considering she is a God. The shocking ending of the season finale is finding out who it is who doesn't survive the battle. None other than the slayer herself. The first slayer had told Willow that death was her gift. She gave that gift to Dawn when she realized that Dawn was a part of her and the Summers sisters had the same blood. Willow could therefore close the portals between the combining dimensions by ending her own life.

 

Season 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

Episode 6-1  Bargaining (1)

 

Several months have passed since Willow sacrificed herself to save Dawn, her friends and the world. The Slayerettes are doing their best to keep the demon population down and Dawn (minihacker) and Tara have repaired the Buffybot so the world remains unaware of the Slayers death. Unfortunately a vamp discovers the truth and escapes to tell his friends. With no Slayer to watch, Giles makes preparations to return to England and leaves Anya in charge of the magic shop. Tara, Anya and Xander secretly perform a powerful spell at Willow's gravesite to resurrect the Slayer, but the spell is interfered with by a group of demon bikers and the Slayerettes flee, not knowing if the spell worked or not.

 

Episode 6-2  Bargaining (2)

 

The Scooby Gang run from Willow’s gravesite and her resurrection goes unnoticed. When she does get back above ground, she is confused and disoriented and wanders around looking at the carnage caused by the demon gang. The demons damage the Willowbot badly and notice the real Willow wandering around. They chase her and she eventually runs into the Slayerettes, who realize that she has been traumatized by having to dig out of her own grave. When the demons arrive for a final fight, Willow, still very confused, returns to her Slayer ways and defeats them all; but runs away from her friends after. The Willowbot stays "alive" long enough to tell Dawn of the real Willow's return. Dawn finds Willow at Glory's tower, and she wants to jump off again. As the tower begins to collapse Dawn manages to coax Willow down and they land just as the tower crumbles around them. Willow and Dawn hug, but the Slayer is still not herself.

 

Episode 6-3  Afterlife

 

The first repercussions of the resurrection spell has the Scoobies battling with a demon ghost and Willow realizes she was happier with the peace of the afterlife but cannot bring herself to tell her friends. She finds a sympathetic ear in someone else who knows a little about an afterlife: Spike.

 

Episode 6-4  Flooded

 

Willow finds herself thrust back into life, having to deal with burst pipes and home-improvement loans. She seeks out the advice of a just-returned Giles who expresses his concern over Tara bringing Willow back. While trying to get a loan to help out the house hold and try to get back in to the swing of a normal life, Willow's meeting is crashed by a demon, dispatched by a trio of bored, twentysomething would-be sorcerers who want to cause mischief (and to hypnotize Willow and make her their love slave). The demon makes its way to the Slayers home and Willow begs him not to break anything, and winds up drowning him in a pool of water formed by her plumbing leak.  Tara reveals to Giles that she is hopelessly in love with Willow.  This is the first time Tara has told anyone of how she truly feels for the Slayer.  Willow finds out that the magic’s she had cast on herself before she died are still in place and running, making it so she can continue to only sleep once a month.

 

 

 

 

Episode 6-5  Life Serial

 

As Willow tries to readjust back into her life as a parent to Dawn and return to college and attempt numerous jobs now that she has come back, she again comes up against the Troika, a group of would-be sorcerers, who test the Slayer by casting spells on her which make her experience time distortions, magically appearing demons and a strange "Groundhog Day" time loop.

 

Episode 6-6  All The Way

 

Dawn lies to Willow and spends Halloween night joyriding and partying with her friend Janice and two older boys. She develops a crush on one of the boys, Justin, and receives her first real kiss. When the boys reveal themselves to be vampires Dawn stakes Justin and is devastated. Willow gives Dawn a serious grown-up talk, making her relationship with her sister more distant as she becomes a figure that dolls out punishment and ‘parentalizes’, instead of being just the older sister. Later, Willow confides in Tara about the nightmares and she has when she takes her ‘Dirt Naps’, and how the waking hallucinations are coming more often.  This leads to Willow and Tara having a heated discussion about Willow's use of magic on herself which Willow counters with Tara’s abuse of magic on bringing her back from the dead. After a moment Willow tells Tara that she knows that Tara brought her back out of love and the intention was never born of anything other than caring, and Tara almost tells Willow that she is in love with her but Willow continues talking and tells Tara that she casts the spells on herself because it’s part of her duty to be the best slayer possible to save as many people as possible, like how Tara had saved her.  Tara seems uncomfortable about the current state of things but accepts Willow’s explanation, although she still has pangs of unhappiness for the pain Willow is going through.

 

Episode 6-7  Once More, With Feeling

 

A mysterious force causes everyone in Sunnydale to reveal all of their innermost thoughts and feelings in song. Willow tells the gang the truth about where she was when she was dead and they are devastated, none more than Tara. When Tara is alone, she sings a love song to the absent Willow professing all her love, and wonders if Willow could ever feel the same way, especially after she took Willow out of heaven. Dawn confesses that she has been stealing.

 

Episode 6-8  Questions In The Fray

 

A loan “Shark” comes after Spike looking for payment, and plan to take it in the form of the vampires unlife and Willow and the gang have to come to the rescue.  Tara tries to tell Willow that she is in love with her but doesn’t at the last moment.

 

Episode 6-9  Horizontal Movements

 

Willow is studying up on some spells looking for new ways to be a more effective Slayer when she comes across a spell that allows her to de-rat Amy.  Later, on patrol, Spike gets in an argument with Willow as he tells her she is drowning herself in Slayer work, obsessing over it now that she isout of heaven and alone, trying to fill up the void that leaving heaven left.  Willow and Spike fight and it comes to blows and Spike realizes that he can hit Willow and not get hurt from the chip in his head, leaving him to believe that the Willow’s resurrection has left her not completely human.  Willow leaves and heads back home and it’s morning by the time she arrives.  Tara has made Willow waffles and Willow cries and hugs Tara, thankful that there is something in her life other than Slaying.

 

Episode 6-10  Wrecked

 

Willow starts hanging out with Amy and this leads to Tara becoming jealous.  Tara over hears that Amy is taking Willow to a magic guy as a thank you for the de-ratting.  Tara follows, feeling that Amy can’t be trusted.  Amy leads Willow to a warlock named Rak who gives the equivalent of a drug trip via magic.  Willow’s ‘trip’ goes bad as the warlocks magic’s mess with the magic’s already around Willow, causing the Slayer to relive the deaths of her parents and Joyce over and over.  Willow loses it and kills Rak.  Tara arrives in time to stop Willow from killing Amy.  Amy and Willow part ways. Willow finally comes down and spends the night up talking with Tara and drinking hot chocolate.

 

Episode 6-11  Gone

 

Willow has a surprise visit from a social worker checking on Dawn's home life. The meeting doesn't go well. Meanwhile, the Geek Trio have built an invisibility ray and accidentally hit Willow with it. Willow starts to become worried that she’s slowly being stripped of all things real and wonders if she is real anymore and Tara tells her that she is real to her. The two share a tender moment. The Trio realizes that the invisible objects are rapidly breaking down structurally and they kidnap Tara to force Willow into the open. Willow and the Geeks have an invisible fight in an arcade until Tara returns them to normal and Willow finally discovers who they are, before they make a hasty (and rather geeky) escape.

 

Episode 6-12  CompTech

 

Looking for a way to help boost the gang’s income for the house and bills, Willow gets a job at CompTech.  As Willow progresses from her day job to her nightly patrols she starts stopping by the Doublemeat Palace for dinner and begins noticing a high turnover rate, even for a fast food restaurant. When employees start ending up in pieces, the mystery behind the "secret ingredient" of the restaurant comes into question. A vengeance demon friend of Anya's visits and questions her relationship with Xander, leaving Anya doubtful about their soon-to-be-married life together.

 

Episode 6-13  Dead Things

 

The Troika's latest escapade to make Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina their willing slave goes horribly wrong when she is accidentally killed. The trio use magical and demonic forces to make Willow think that she has killed Katrina - and it works. With finding out the truth about her resurrection and believing she killed an innocent girl, Willow's world begins to fall apart and both Spike and Tara have to work together to keep Willow from emotionally breaking down and from turning herself over to the police or killing herself.

 

Episode 6-14  Older And Far Away

 

Old and new friends gather at the house for Willow's 21st birthday party and it goes off without a hitch - mostly. Feeling neglected by Willow and the Scoobys, Dawn's wish to keep people from leaving her is answered by Anya's demon friend Halfrek, who binds the attendees of the party to the house. When Tara tries a spell to free them, she only makes the situation worse by accidentally releasing a demon trapped inside a sword.

 

Schism Begins Here

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