Season 7
Cast: Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Conversations With Dead People
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Veteran Slayer-watchers will recall that Buffy's alma mater was razed at the end of the third season during a fight with a snake-demon mayor. Now revamped and restored, the school has a new crop of students, which includes awkward freshman Dawn. It also has a visitor, Buffy, who can't resist a chance to tour the facility. But her curiosity soon turns to dread when spirits from the old school materialize to harass her. Elsewhere, Giles consoles a guilt-ridden Willow.
Buffy reluctantly teams with Spike to slug it out with a gigantic worm, but there's a bigger surprise in store for the Slayer. Soon after Buffy reports for her first day as Sunnydale High's student counselor, Xander introduces her to a woman whose dog was eaten by the oversized annelid. Suspecting demon activity, Buffy volunteers to find the creature, and Spike, who's being tormented by an unknown force, shows up to offer his assistance. Willow, meanwhile, prepares to return home.
Oct 8, 2002 Same Time, Same Place
Willow’s Sunnydale homecoming is more difficult than she or anyone else expected, causing the gang some concern that she hasn’t fully recovered from her evil ways. Meanwhile, Dawn officially joins the Scooby Gang as they hunt down a demon with baffling powers.
Novice counselor Buffy gropes for words of wisdom for Sunnydale High students, but is left speechless by Cassie, a teen who calmly predicts her own death.
A wish granted by Anya has devastating consequences in this alternately witty and wrenching tale. Anya's breakup with Xander has driven her to return to her vengeance-demon ways with, well, a vengeance. But that changes after she takes a humiliated coed's desire to make frat boys "feel what it's like to have [their] hearts ripped out" too literally. Horrified by the carnage she has caused, Anya struggles to wash the blood from her hands. Juxtaposed with this Macbeth-like scene is a hilarious flashback detailing Anya's transformation from medieval Swedish housewife to demon. Back in the present, Willow discovers the bodies and alerts Buffy.
Dawn develops a major crush on a hunky jock, which turns into a comic free-for-all when Buffy, then Anya and even Willow fall for the same guy. Xander and Spike become reluctant roommates.
Nov 12, 2002 Conversations With Dead People
Buffy, Dawn and Willow encounter deceased people from their pasts. While out on patrol, Buffy squares off with a former classmate and current vampire, who goads her into revealing her insecurities. Back at home, Dawn is thrown into a panic when an invisible force trashes the Summers' house and deposits the corpse of her mother on the sofa. Meanwhile, nerdy villains Jonathan and Andrew return from Mexico.
As Dawn and Willow recover from their chaotic night at the Summers house, Buffy probes a series of grisly murders that may be the work of Spike.
Spike is held captive in the Summers home while the Scoobies ponder their options in the aftermath of his murder spree; a squeamish Andrew tries to master killing; Buffy contacts the Watchers' Council for advice.
Dec 17, 2002 Bring On The Night
As the Scoobies research the origins of the First to find a way to rescue Spike, Giles arrives with reinforcements---three apprentice Slayers. Also: Buffy is rattled when her mother offers advice in her dreams.
Skeletal, callous and frighteningly strong, the Ubervamp is among Buffy's deadliest foes. Chief minion of the devilish, shape-shifting First, the demon divides his time between killing potential Slayers and torturing the kidnapped Spike. Determined to protect her apprentices and rescue Spike, Buffy racks her brain for a plan of action while Giles and Anya hope that a visionary creature called Beljoxa's Eye can offer a final solution to the First threat.
Buffy enlists Spike's aid in graphic, intensive training of the Potential Slayers in anticipation of the expected cataclysmic return of The First. Meanwhile, Willow performs a spell that reveals that another unexpected Potential Slayer is living in Sunnydale.
Willow undergoes a disturbing change in appearance following a night out with Kennedy; Spike is beset by unexplained headaches; Giles takes the Potentials on a mystical retreat.
Buffy's curiosity — and her suspicions; Anya fumes when Xander lassoes a date with a flirtatious woman interested in rope; Giles struggles to communicate with a new Potential who speaks only Vietnamese.
Desperate for a way to curtail the First, Buffy embarks on a perilous quest for knowledge while, back at the Summers house, the Scoobies are rocked by tragedy within their ranks.
Andrew irritates the Scoobies by filming their activities for a documentary on Buffy as Sunnydale High is rocked by a sudden outbreak of student violence; Xander and Anya reconsider their relationship.
March 25, 2003 Lies My Parents Told Me
As Spike struggles with haunting memories of his past, Giles returns with a device that he hopes will find and deactivate the trigger in Spike’s subconscious that The First is using to make him "vamp" out. Meanwhile, Willow embarks on a mysterious journey as Buffy and Giles quarrel over his teachings.
Renegade slayer Faith returns to Sunnydale just in time to help Buffy and her gang fight a nefarious new foe. The unusually violent episode opens as a girl flees a group of zombies and takes refuge with a cleric named Caleb. However, it quickly becomes clear that Caleb is not on God's side, but the First's. He asks her to deliver a threatening message to the “original, accept-no-substitutes Slayer”...before stabbing the girl. As the Scoobies respond by preparing for battle, Buffy copes with the return of Faith, who, much to Buffy's chagrin, bonds with Spike. Meanwhile, in a lighter vein, Xander fantasizes about wild times with potential slayers.
As Sunnydale's residents evacuate en masse, Faith rallies the demoralized potentials while an emotionally fragile Buffy endures another run-in with Caleb.
Faith restores calm to the rattled Potentials after the power goes out in Sunnydale; Buffy confides her insecurities to Spike; the Scoobies interrogate a captured Bringer.
As Buffy takes the scythe from Caleb and the First, the potentials and Faith suffer losses from the bomb trap left for them. Willow and Giles attempt to find more about the origins of the scythe and Buffy has a mission involving Dawn for Xander. Andrew and Anya head to the now deserted hospital to pick up medical supplies for the wounded SiTs, and Caleb merges with the First to refresh his source of power
Buffy meets her destiny in the series finale when she leads the Scoobies, the Potentials and Angel into the Hellmouth for a final showdown with the First.
