Buffy becomes enthralled by the most illustrious vampire of all time - Dracula. Xander acts as Dracula's agent, leading his friends into danger. 

A new gang of vampires set their sights on the slayer, but Buffy is sidetracked by a rivalry with her teenage sister, Dawn. 

A mysterious doppelgänger relishes an opportunity to take over Xander's life, bamboozling Buffy and everyone else. 

When an ailing Riley goes into hiding, Buffy turns to Spike for help, but he takes advantage of her plight to further his own plot to eliminate her. 

Buffy learns more about her sister Dawn when a menacing force finds its way to Sunnydale, and Buffy's mother falls ill for no apparent reason. 

The betrayal of a deadly secret looms as Tara's family arrives unexpectedly in Sunnydale to celebrate her birthday. 

As Buffy grills Spike on how he killed two slayers, he begins to reminisce about meeting Drusilla, Angel and Darla for the first time. 

Buffy must shield her sister from harm when the demon Glory evokes a hideous beast to help find the missing "key.". 

A gruesome demon from outer space creeps into the Summer's home, and targets Buffy's mother as she prepares to undergo brain surgery. 

Buffy is thunderstruck when spike apprises her of Riley's furtive nights spent in the dark embrace of a vampire. 

Willow accidentaly conjures a giant troll in the magic shop who forces Xander to choose between saving the life of  either Willow or Anya. 

While the watcher's council threatens to deport  Giles if Buffy falls an arduous test of her slaying skills. They also dangle crucial information about  Glory. 

Dawn runs away on Buffy's 20th birthday after finding out that   she is the key, and the slayer and the scooby gang must find her before Glory does. 

Buffy rebuffs spike after he makes a declaration of love, driving him into the aiting arms of his former lover, Drusilla. 

Buffy must prevent the city's desctruction at the hands of a heartbroken woman who was created to be the perfect girlfriend. 

Buffy is thunderstruck when she finds the body of her dead mother, and Dawn and the others are crushed and bewildered by the unexpected loss of a loved one. 

Angel rushes back to Sunnydale to console a grieving Buffy, and Dawn tries to bring her mother back frmo the d ead by performing a spell. 

Spike builds a Buffy robot hopelessly devoted to him, causing Glory's minions to suspect that the besotted vampire is the Key. Buffy  goes on a quest guided by the first Slayer. 

Buffy must lay down the law for a motherless Darn, while shielding her from harm; a member of the scooby Gang falls victim to Glory's ire. 

Buffy and the others flee Sunnydale when Glory discovers Dawn's identity. Meanwhile, Giles and Spike are wounded, while Tara falls apart, and Dawn finds out that she can destroy the universe. 

Buffy falls into a profound stupor after Glory kidnaps Dawn. Willow goes into the mind of the slayer, to bring her back and save the world. 

Buffy and the others face down death in an apocalyptic battle against Glory, who is on the verge of using Dawn to unleash hell on Earth.