Season 4
At first Buffy finds college life a bit daunting but soon gets into the swing of it. She lives on campus and Willow's her room mate. Xander's living in his parent's basement, Oz lives in a house off campus with the rest of the band and Giles is enjoying the life of a gentleman of leisure. Spike arrives back in Sunnydale for Buffy again only to be taken in by some commando guys somewhere in Sunnydale. Oz finds a new werewolf in town, Veruca. Their animal instinct bring them together in the most painful way for Willow. Veruca plans to kill Willow but Oz saves her but then almost kills her at the same time. Oz makes a decision to leave Sunnydale and look for something to help him, leaving a heartbroken Willow. Buffy gets over losing Angel, and finds some feelings for a TA called Riley Finn. Spike escapes from his holding underground at the facility only to realise that he can't bite, feed or cause any violence whatsoever, they've put a chip in his head. Buffy thinks she's fallen for a normal guy but Riley's not all he seems. He works for a secret government agency called The Initiative who work to contain demons, vampires and other meanies and to research them and destroy them. The head officer who Riley reports to is Maggie Walsh who also lectures Buffy, Willow and Oz. Willow expands her knowledge of the craft where she meets fellow witch, Tara, they get closer and Willow falls in love with her. One night Buffy finds out about Riley and vice versa, and Buffy's introduced to The Initiative, there's one thing that intrigues Buffy about it, room 314. In this room Maggie is producing a secret "weapon". A part robot, part demon and part human hybrid, but yet again as her project, Adam, comes to life and kills Maggie. Everyone except Riley suspect Buffy, because she's the new person, but things soon simmer down. Adam is seen by all the soldiers at The Initiative and that's their first objective, to bring him down. Buffy the the rest of the gang figure out the real objective of The Initiative, it was to make these hybrid monsters, using parts from demons that were captured. More things happen when Faith awakens from her coma and with some help from the late Mayor she switches bodies with Buffy and causes a little mayhem and then decides to leave, but her conscious comes into play when a group of vampires are held up in a church scaring the people to death. After Buffy in Faith's body has escaped from The Watchers' Elite team they both end up at the church where everything is restored. Spike teams up with Adam. Adam makes a deal with Spike, his chip will come out when he helps Adam. Spike manages to pull the Scoobies apart at the seams and they each go their own separate ways. But they figure out why they argued, and it was all down to Spike. Meanwhile Riley is "summoned" by Adam, Riley also has a chip in him, near his heart, which the professor implanted before she died, and Adam activated it. Riley's part of Adam's plans now to create a super army of robot/demon/human hybrids. The Scoobies band together to take down the Initiative, a spell is performed which summons the true essence of the slayer and Adam is defeated, and The Initiative is no more.