In Italy, 1410, a young boy is "suduced" mentally by a demon who then kills him. A group of priests and such work to bind Moloch the Corruptor to a book. The lead guy reads a spell and Moloch is bound.
Giles and Jenny banter about computers and a very scary computer guy (Fritz) preaches the greatness of computers. In now time, Sunnydale, they are scanning old books onto the computer, and Willow scans the book Moloch is in.
Willow tells Buffy how she has been talking to a new guy and that he fantastic. They have so much in common, yada, yada, yada. She follows Willow to the computer lab and "meets" Malcolm when Willow checks her email. Buffy feels like it's kinda weird and Malcolm is watching and listening through a computer camera. Malcolm checks through the computer and finds her file and it pops up on to Fritz's computer and tells him to watch her.
Willow completely blows Xander off and they discuss the odds of Malcolm being creepy. Xander says that he could be lying and Buffy gets wigged. Then, she realizes that she's over reacting.
Fritz starts talking to the computer and does a self mutilation thing. Total slave to the computer; literally.
Willow is five periods late for school and Buffy expresses her concern. Willow feels like Buffy doesn't understand and they have a basic argument.
Buffy talks to Dave and asks him to help her out, and he kind of snaps at her. Fritz is there and pulls an evil look thing. Buffy follows Dave when he leaves school and he goes to a shutdown factory and excepts a large shipment. An outdoor security camera films Buffy and Malcolm tells Fritz to kill Buffy.
Willow is talking with Malcolm and he wigs her by talking about Buffy and what's on her permanent record. She turns off the computer and leaves.
Giles and Jenny commence bantering in the library and he finally notices that Moloch's book is empty. He dismisses her and he goes to call a professor friend about it.
Dave tells Buffy that Willow wants to meet her in the locker room. Buffy goes in and just before she is electrocuted, Dave warns her and she jumps to safety.
Dave runs to the computer lab and informs Malcolm that he won't do it anymore; that he won't kill Buffy. Malcolm begins manually typing a suicide note from Dave and Fritz kills him.
Buffy tells the Gang (minus Willow) about Dave warning her. Giles informs them that Moloch is in the computer and possessing Dave and such. They try to delete the file and Moloch comes up as an image and tells her to stay away from Willow.
Buffy has to speak to Willow, so she runs into the computer lab and discovers Daves body. Buffy reports this bit of news to Xander and Giles and they haven't been able to find her.
Willow gets home and sees an email message on her computer. She doesn't want to answer it, so she ignores it. Then, Fritz sedates her with some kind of alcohol stuff at the door.
Giles looks for answers while he waits for Miss. Calendar to help him. She shows and he attempts to explain.
Xander and Buffy get to Willow's house and they know where she's been taken. They head towards CRD (abandoned factory).
Jenny agrees to help because she know about all the occult stuff. She announces her existence as a "techno-pagen". She arranges to do a casting circle on the internet.
Willow comes to and the computer starts talking to her, but it isn't the computer it's Moloch in robot form.
Buffy and Xander break in and try to find Willow. Inside, Willow pleads with Moloch to leave her alone. She gets majorly pissed because he lied, etc. But, he says he loves her and can do anything for her.
An alarms goes off and some kind of gas starts filtering into the room. Meanwhile, Willow yells about how she doesn't love him, etc. He gets mean. Before he can kill her, Gile's spell starts to work. Bufyf busts through the wall and gets Willow.
Moloch starts to go out of the internet and is put into only the robot body. But, Giles realizes that he's not in the book.
Moloch goes full force against Xander, Buffy, and Willow. But, Willow gets meaner and attacks him with a metal thing. He tries to hit Buffy and she ducks. His hand goes into a electric box and he is "electrocuted". (essentially)
Giles and Jenny flirt some more in the computer lab. He talks of his love for books and stuff. Outside, the Scooby Gang discusses their love lives. They come to the conclusion that they are doomed; in love that is!