While hospitalized with a severe case of the flu, Buffy investigates the young patients' fear that Death is stalking the children's ward.

A homicide detective closes in on Buffy and Faith as he investigates the deputy mayor's death.

The one-and-only Dracula makes his way to Sunnydale and immediately has everyone enchanted. Even Buffy might not be able to resist his charms.

As Harmony and her vampire gang plot Buffy's demise, Dawn adjusts to life with a Slayer.

When a demon creates a Xander double, the real Xander must convince his friends of his true identity.

While Riley's health begins to deteriorate, Spike and Harmony force a surgeon to remove the behavior modification chip embedded in Spike's brain.

Buffy learns more about Dawn after she discovers a mysterious orb linked to a group of monks being pursued by an incredibly powerful force.

When relatives arrive in Sunnydale, to celebrate her birthday, Tara uses a magic spell on her friends to keep them from learning her "secret." Meanwhile, Glory unleashes a hoard of demons to hunt down Buffy.

After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.

Glory transforms a snake into a terrifying monster in her quest to find the Key; Joyce is hospitalized after being diagnosed with an illness.

After Buffy catches Riley in the clutches of a vampire-junkie, Riley makes an important decision regarding their relationship.

While Giles is in England meeting with the Watcher Council, a bickering Anya and Willow mind the magic store and inadvertently conjure up a fearsome troll.

The Watcher Council travels to Sunnydale to review Buffy's skills as a Slayer; meanwhile, Glory puts her search for the Key into high gear.

When Dawn learns her true identity, she runs away - only to encounter Glory.

Buffy learns that Spike has a crush on her - a situation made all the more dangerous by Drusilla's return to Sunnydale.

Buffy, Dawn, and their friends deal with the loss of someone close to them.

With some help from Spike, Dawn attempts to bring Joyce back from the dead.

A weary Buffy seeks to regain focus by embarking on a quest with the First Slayer; Spike cavorts with his very own "Buffybot" and Glory instructs her minions to spy on Buffy's friends in the hopes of ascertaining the Key's true identity.

When Tara falls victim to Glory's incredible power, Willow embraces dark magic and launches a counterattack.

Realizing they may never be able to vanquish Glory, Buffy and the gang decide to flee Sunnydale in Spike's R.V. to protect Dawn.

When Buffy lapses into a catatonic state, Willow uses magic to find out why; a tug-of-war erupts between Glory and Ben over Dawn's ultimate fate.

As Glory prepares Dawn for a bloodletting ritual that will open a portal to another dimension, Buffy and her friends head into battle.

The gang hope to bring Buffy back from the dead. Meanwhile, motorcycle-riding demons discover the Buffybot has 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.

Buffy and her friends battle a demon that may have hitched a ride with Buffy as she crossed into the world from another dimension.

While trying to get a loan, Buffy runs afoul of three deadbeat sorcerers who are using the otherworldly powers of a demon to rob a bank.

Buffy tries to figure out how to support herself and Dawn. Her job search is complicated by Andrew, Jonathan and Warren, who are testing her to find the Slayer's weaknesses.

On Halloween, Dawn and her friend go out to make mischief and impress their crushes, but stumble into real danger. Xander announces his engagement to Anya, and Tara worries about Willow's reliance on magic.

In this musical extravaganza, Sunnydale residents find themselves bursting into song, and flame, when a demon attempts to make Dawn his bride.

While trying to find a way to make Buffy forget about her afterlife experience, Willow inadvertently casts a spell that erases everyone's memories.

Willow turns Amy the Rat into her old self; Jonathan, Warren and Andrew steal a diamond; and Spike discovers something unexpected about Buffy.

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 gets a job at the Doublemeat Palace, a local fast-food restaurant, she begins to believe that disappearing co-workers and the secret ingredient to the restaurant's hamburger may be connected.

After Jonathan, Andrew, and Warren accidentally kill Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina, they set Buffy up to make her believe it was she who killed the girl.

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 old boyfriend, Riley Finn, shows up unexpectedly as he tracks a demon about to hatch eggs that could wipe out Sunnydale.

Anya and Xander's wedding is thrown into turmoil when a man claiming to be Xander's future self turns up at the ceremony.

After being stung by a demon, Buffy finds herself shifting back and forth between the Sunnydale she knows and a psych ward where she is told the last six years have been an elaborate hallucination. Struggling to make sense of either reality, she must decide which to believe.

A vengeful Willow uses her enormous power to track down Warren, despite Buffy's strong feelings about targeting humans.

Fueled by black magic, Willow targets Andrew and Jonathan, leading to a battle between Buffy and Willow; Spike fights an unstoppable foe.

Giles arrives to face Willow, armed with powerful borrowed magic. Willow, overwhelmed by power and grief, plans a ritual to put the world out of its misery.