The gang resolves to bring the slayer back from the dead, but they're hindered by a marauding band of demons. Meanwhile, a grief-stricken Giles contemplates leaving Sunnydale. 

The gang resolves to bring the slayer back from the dead, but they're hindered by a marauding band of demons. Meanwhile, a grief-stricken Giles contemplates leaving Sunnydale. 

A demon hitchhiker forces Buffy and the gang to deal with the repercussions of her death, and resurrection. 

Buffy must stave off would-be supervillians and their demon-for-hire while shouldering grown-up responsibilities, such as a flooded basement and mounting debt. 

Bumbling arch-fiends Jonathan, Warren and Andrew unwittingly test the Slayer's patience, putting her through her paces and probing her weaknesses. 

While Buffy and the others throw an engagement party for Xander and Anya, Dawn sneaks out with a friend to raise a little hell on Halloween. 

In a musical extravaganza, the people of Sunnydale find themselves bursting into song, and flames, when a demon, summoned from beyond, attempts to make Dawn his bride. 

When Willow casts a spell to make Buffy forget her sojourn in heaven, it goes hopelessly awry with funny consequences. Unfortunately for Willow, this is the last straw for Tara, who breaks up with her and moves out. 

The chip in Spike's head malfunctions allowing him to prey on people again; Willow reunites with a formerly furry friend, who also practices black magic. 

Amy introduces Willow to a warlock whose powerful black magic proves addictive; Buffy and Spike deal with the aftermath of their night of passion. 

The Three Geeks mistakenly turn Buffy invisible. The Slayer takes some advantage from going unseen. Willow has to do the detective without using magic, while Xander finds Spike doing some weird physical training. 

When Buffy takes a job at a fast-food restaurant, she starts to suspect that the disappearing co-workers and the secret ingredient to the restaurant's hamburger patties may be connected. 

Buffy tries to get to the bottom of why she returned from the grave strangely altered, allowing Spike to attack her. Meanwhile Warren kills Katrina and frames Buffy for it. 

After Dawn talks to a guidance counselor about her feeling lonely, she accidentally puts a spell on Buffy and her friends, trapping them inside the Summer's house with a sword-wielding demon. 

Buffy's ex, Riley, returns to Sunnydale, but he is not alone. Together they track a mysterious dealer who is selling demon eggs that could wipe out the entire city. 

Xander gets cold feet on the brink of his wedding to Anya, after a bizarre stranger plants seeds of doubt in his mind by showing him what their future together will be like. 

A demon's venom causes Buffy to hallucinate, convincing the slayer that she's a normal girl in a mental ward, that her parents are alive, Dawn never existed, and her slayer life is a delusion. 

Anya, secretly a demon again, attempts to get vengeance on Xander but fails. She finds comfort by sleeping with Spike, but the Geek Trio's cameras reveal the tryst to the gang. Meanwhile, Willow and Tara arrange a coffee date. 

Warren acquires a pair of demonic orbs that imbue him with strength and invulnerability, and he faces off with Buffy but loses. He comes back with a gun, and shoots both Buffy and Tara. 

Tara's sudden death pushes Willow over the edge. After magically saving Buffy from her own wounds, Willow, consumed by anger and dark magic, hunts down Warren and tortures and kills him. 

Vengeance fuels Willow's ill-fated return to the black arts, following the death of her girlfriend. Spike leaves Sunnydale to embark on a mysterious quest. 

Despite his powers, even Giles can't stop Willow's insatiable rage as her vengeance explodes into a campaign to destroy the world. Elsewhere, Spike's quest leads him to an encounter with a horrific demon.