While Buffy travels to the desert on a quest to find the Primitive, the gang back home encounters a very realistic Buffybot who seems to be in love with Spike.
Glory angrily leaves Tara in a mindless state after realizing she is not the Key, an act which pits her against all the powerful and dark magic Willow can summon.
Glory finally realizes Dawn is the Key, and Buffy surprises her friends by telling them their best option for staying alive is to leave Sunnydale.
Willow uses magic to try to rouse Buffy out of her catatonic state after Glory kidnaps, and then disappears with, Dawn.
Refusing to believe that killing Dawn is the only way to save the universe, Buffy prepares to do battle against Glory – and finally realizes the true meaning of “her gift.”
As Giles makes preparations for his return to England, the gang hopes to bring Buffy back from the dead with a magic spell. Meanwhile, a group of motorcycle-riding demons discovers the truth about Buffybot, who had been posing as the Slayer.
As the Hellions continue to ravage Sunnydale, a feral Buffy claws her way out of her own grave and must come to the aid of her friends.
As the gang battles a demon who hitched a ride on Buffy when she crossed back over into our world, Buffy tells Spike that when she died she thinks she was in heaven.
Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan, bothersome geeks who Buffy has had to deal with before, have now banded together to form a “super villains” team whose new mission is to kill the Slayer.
It’s a case of bad timing as Buffy goes out searching for a job just as Andrew, Jonathan and Warren decide to “test her” in search of a weakness they can exploit.
As Willow’s constant use of magic causes growing friction between her and Tara, Dawn sneaks out of the house to meet up with a date who is not what he seems.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon
Alexander "Xander" Harris
Alyson Hannigan
Willow Rosenberg
James Marsters
Spike
Emma Caulfield
Anya Emerson