While the Scooby gang tries to keep going without Buffy, Willow secrets plans a dangerous spell that could bring Buffy back from the grave. Gilles prepares to leave Sunnydale.
As Buffy deals with money problems, she runs afoul of a mercenary demon who wants her head. Meanwhile, a team of young geniuses unite and plan a life of crime.
Xander and Anya announce their engagement on Halloween, and Dawn sneaks out with a friend only to find herself on a double date with a pair of vampires.
A very unique demon causes everyone in town to burst into song and dance, revealing their innermost feelings and secrets -- and taking Dawn captive to become his queen.
Amy takes Willow to a hidden purveyor of magic, where she begins to lose herself and put her friends in danger. Buffy and Spike deal with the reality of their altered relationship.
Things go wrong when Warren tries to brainwash his ex-girlfriend, and his gang convince Buffy that she is responsible for the girl's death. Buffy asks Tara for help in figuring out if there is something wrong with her.
As an odd mix of family from the human and demon worlds get together for Xander and Anya's wedding, an old man claiming to be Xander from the future arrives with a dire warning of what is to come.
After being stabbed in a fight with a demon, Buffy experiences flashes of another life -- where her mom is alive and Buffy is in a mental hospital, her life as a Slayer a fantasy.
When Anya finds that she is unable to curse Xander herself, she tries to get his friends to wish ill on him instead. Willow and Tara rekindle their relationship.
Flooded with dark magic, Willow turns her fury on Jonathan and Andrew, pitting her against Buffy and the rest of her friends. Spike visits a dark force of his own to try and get his mojo back.
Gilles returns to take on a seemingly unstoppable Willow, who decides that the world must burn in order to end all suffering. Spike receives his own reward.
