02/10/2001 Bargaining (TV Movie)
Several
months have passed since Buffy sacrificed herself to save Dawn, her friends and the world. The Slayerettes are doing their
best to keep the demon population down and Willow has 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. Willow, Tara, Anya and Xander secretly perform a powerful
spell at Buffy'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. The Scooby Gang run from Buffy'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
Buffybot badly and notice the real Buffy wandering around. They chase her and she eventually runs into the Slayerettes, who
realise that she has been traumatised by having to dig out of her own grave. When
the demons arrive for a final fight, Buffy, still very confused, returns to her Slayer ways and defeats them all; but runs
away from her friends after. The Buffybot stays "alive" long enough to tell Dawn
of the real Buffy's return. Dawn finds Buffy at Glory's tower, and she wants to jump off again. As the tower begins to collapse
Dawn manages to coax Buffy down and they land just as the tower crumbles around them.
Buffy and Dawn hug, but the Slayer is still not herself.
09/10/2001 After Life
The first
repercussions of the resurrection spell has the Scoobies battling with a demon ghost and Buffy 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.
16/10/2001 Flooded
With Joyce
gone, Buffy finds herself trying to contend with burst pipes and home-improvement loans. She seeks out the advice of a just-returned
Giles who expresses his concern over Willow's attitude toward bringing Buffy back. While trying to get a loan, Buffy's meeting is crashed
by a demon, dispatched by a trio of bored, twenty-something would-be sorcerers who want to cause mischief (and to hypnotise
Buffy and make her their love slave). The demon makes its way to the Slayers
home and Buffy begs him not to break anything, and winds up drowning him in a pool of water formed by her plumbing leak.
23/10/2001 Life Serial
As Buffy
tries to 'normalise' her new life as a parent and return to college and attempt numerous jobs, 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.
30/10/2001 All The Way
Dawn lies
to Buffy 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. Buffy decides Dawn needs a serious grown-up talk but she hands
the task over to Giles, who is not at all happy about the way Buffy is depending on him so much. Meanwhile, after Willow and Tara have a fight about Willow's abuse of magic, Willow casts a spell on Tara to make her forget the fight.
06/11/2001 Once More, With Feeling
A mysterious
force causes everyone in Sunnydale to reveal all of their innermost thoughts and feelings in song. Buffy tells the gang the
truth about where she was when she was dead and they are devastated, none more than Willow. Tara sings a love song to Willow professing all her love, but does Willow feel the same way? Dawn confesses
that she has been stealing, and finally, Giles reveals his belief that Buffy is never going to learn to survive on her own
with him around and decides to return to England for good.
13/11/2001 Tabula
Rasa
After the
gang finds out about Buffy's true afterlife, Willow does a spell to make her forget that she was actually in heaven, despite Tara's pleas for her to slow down with magick.
Unfortunately the spell goes awry and the gang all wake up with amnesia, forgetting everything about their lives including
the existence of vampires and the Slayer. Because of their British accents, Giles
and Spike ("Randy") think they are father and son, Giles and Anya think they are engaged, Willow and "Alex" think they are
dating, and due to the absence of ID, Buffy names herself Joan. When a demon
loan shark comes to collect a long overdue loan from Spike, "Joan" and "Randy" discover their true nature when they are forced
to fight, while Dawn, Willow, Tara and "Alex" head out to try and restore their memories. At episodes end
when they get their memories back the gang goes through some changes, with Tara breaking up with Willow and Giles finally leaving Sunnydale behind forever.
20/11/2001 Smashed
After breaking
up with Tara, Willow successfully de-rats Amy
and the two witches begin hanging out and having fun with magick, drawing Willow further into her growing addiction. Meanwhile, Spike notices that his chip doesn't kick in when he hits Buffy but it only
works with her, leading him to believe that she is not entirely human anymore.
27/11/2001 Wrecked
When they
finally return home from their nights out, Buffy is ashamed of having slept with Spike and Willow is exhausted from casting
spells all night. Amy takes Willow to a warlock whose particular brand of magick quickly has Willow hooked. While looking after Dawn, Willow decides to get another quick fix and leaves the warlock's place looking very high and not at all
in control of herself. To escape a demon Willow and Dawn steal a car but Willow seems it better to drive using magick, not her hands, resulting in them crashing. Willow breaks down and seems truly sorry for what she has done, but her actions further enrage Buffy
who is now convinced that Willow is completely out of control and may need to get help.
08/01/2002
Gone
Buffy and
Dawn clear the house of magic items to help Willow and Buffy has a surprise visit from a social worker checking on Dawn's
home life. The meeting doesn't go well and in a fit of rage afterwards, Buffy cuts off her hair. Meanwhile, the Geek Trio have built an invisibility ray and accidentally hit Buffy with it.
29/01/2002 Doublemeat Palace
Starved
for cash, Buffy gets a job in a fast food resturant where the weird manager and high turnover of employees has her more than
a little suspicious. When co-workers start ending up in pieces, the mystery behind the "secret ingredient" comes into question.
Willow works on staying clear of magic, but Amy gives her an unwanted gift and Willow is forced to make a big decision. 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.
05/02/2002 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 Buffy think that she has killed Katrina - and it works. With finding out the truth about her resurrection and believing she killed an innocent girl, Buffy's world
begins to fall apart.
12/02/2002 Older and Far Away
Old and
new friends gather at the Summers home for Buffy's 21st birthday party and it goes off without a hitch - mostly. Feeling neglected by Buffy 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.
26/02/2002 As You Were
Riley pursues
a demon to Sunnydale and seeks Buffy's help in killing it. He also comes with a surprise... he is married. His wife, fellow
demon hunter Sam, befriends the enitre Scooby Gang and gets along quite well with all of them, but Buffy's own "relationship"
with Spike comes into question when her ex's perfect romance shows her just what she doesn't have.
05/03/2002 Hell's Bells
The day
of the wedding has finally come and Xander and Anya are preparing for the hoards of "guests" to arrive. While Xander's screwed
up human family go head to head with Anya's mostly non-human friends, a special guest approaches Xander to warn him that his
life with Anya may not turn out to be the married bliss he has hoped for.
12/03/2002 Normal Again
After being
poisoned by a demon, Buffy comes to believe that she is confined to a mental hospital, her mother is alive and her parents
are still together and that her life as a Slayer was all an hallucination for the past six years. Deciding that she prefers this 'normal' life with her parents a whole lot more, Buffy attempts to kill
the things that tether her to the 'fantasy' life of the Slayer: the Scoobies.
30/04/2002 Entropy
Having accepted
the offer to become a vengeance demon again, Anya attempts to curse Xander for the pain he caused her... but she can't do
it herself. Instead, she enlists the help of some old friends but it doesn't go how she expected. Buffy spends some quality time with Dawn to make up for her violent actions in "Normal Again", but Dawn's
idea of time well spent is the dangerous world of patrolling; while Willow and Tara go on a coffee date and begin to mend
their troubled relationship. The gang discover that the Troika have been watching
their every move with hidden cameras. The cameras are traced to the trio's lair and what is seen on video proves to be devastating
for all of them.
07/05/2002 Seeing Red
Willow and Tara are well on the road to recovery but love lives are not as
good for Xander and Anya or Buffy and Spike. The Troika move full swing into
their biggest plan ever: stealing a pair of mystical orbs which imbue the bearer with super strength and invulnerability.
They attempt to rob an armoured van but Buffy crashes the party resulting in a battle between her and SuperWarren. Buffy is
all but finished until Jonathan reveals the secret to Warren's power. Buffy manages to defeat him but he escapes by use of a rocket pack and Jonathan and Andrew
are arrested. Buffy heads home to await the next encounter but it comes all too
soon. A crazed Warren proves he is evil enough on his own and shoots at Buffy. She takes a bullet in the shoulder but a wild shot fatally
hits a Scooby...
Killed – Tara McClay (Shot by Warren)
14/05/2002 Villains
While the
paramedics work on Buffy in the yard, in her bedroom Willow deperately calls on Osiris to bring Tara back to life the same way as she did for Buffy. She is told that the spell will not work for a
natural human death and becomes consumed with rage and wants revenge in the worst way. She runs to the magic shop and draws
the dark power from the books into her causing her hair and eyes to turn black. After saving Buffy by magically removing the
bullet from her shoulder she heads out to find Warren.
Killed – Warren (Torn apart by Willow Rosenberg)
21/05/2002
Two to Go
After exacting
revenge on Warren for Tara's
death, an extremely powerful and vengeful Willow now vows to go after the other two members of the trio, Jonathan and Andrew, forcing Buffy into
the unlikely role of nerd-villain protector. After freeing the Duo from jail and escaping from Willow, the expanded group runs
to the Magic Box to find a protection spell. While all this is going on in Sunnydale,
Spike undergoes a fierce challenge given by an African demon in order to become what he once was. Willow, drained of her power, finds Rack and draws his energy into her, killing him in the process. At
the Magic Box, Willow catches up to them all and takes on Buffy and Anya, who is doing her best to keep a magical barrier
up around Willow. Buffy is no match for Willow's power, but eventually she is drained again and they escape while she is down. Willow regains her strength and brings down Anya's barrier, tossing both her and Buffy aside. Willow heads out of the shop intent
on completing her mission when an old friend magically appears in her way, willing to challenge her power....
21/05/2002 Grave
Giles's
new-found power brings Willow down momentarily and Giles magically binds her and leaves to catch up with Buffy. Willow telepathically controls Anya
and gets her to break the binding spell. Willow draws Giles's energy into her and is hit by a sudden burst of emotion. Willow feels so much pain and hurt
in the world and she decides to end it all.