Get nice and comfy, Slayer. I'll be back.
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
You want to return to your former self.
Bitch is gonna see a change.
You think you can just do that to me.
- Tara? - Buffy?
- How did this happen? - Warren-- he had a gun.
- We need to find Willow. - Yeah, she's off the wagon big-time.
Warren's a dead man if she finds him.
[ Tires Squealing ]
- Willow! - [ Shouts ]
- What about Warren? - She killed him. And the two of you are next.
Get in.
Willow, just stop for a second.
- Buffy. - Is she coming?
- I don't see anything. - [ Crashes ]
I get it now. It's about the power.
- [ Grunts ] - Let's go.
- What about Willow? - Buffy can handle her.
Are you sure? That's why we're leaving.
And there's no one in the world who has the power to stop me now.
I'd like to test that theory.
Giles?
Giles.
Uh-oh. Daddy's home.
- I'm in wicked trouble now. - [ Giles ] You have no idea.
You have to stop what you're doing.
Oh, sorry. Can't do that.
I'm not finished yet.
Neither am I. Stay down.
How'd you do that?
[ Willow ] That's borrowed power.
- No way is it gonna be strong enough-- - I'm here to help you.
Thanks, but I can kill a couple geeks all by myself.
But, hey, if you'd like to watch.
I mean, that's what you Watchers are good at, right? Watching?
Butting in on things that don't concern you?
You concern me, Willow.
Stay on this path and you'll wind up dead.
Willow, listen to him. I don't want to fight you anymore.
I don't wanna fight you either. I wanna fight him.
- Stay down. - No.
Remember that little spat we had before you left?
When you were under the delusion that you were still relevant here?
You called me a rank, arrogant amateur.
Well, buckle up, Rupert...
[ Deep Voice ] 'cause I've turned pro.
Asmodea, bring forth--
- Vincire! - What? No, no! Get it off!
Solvo! Libero!
What did you do?
Contained her and her powers within a binding field.
It puts her in a kind of stasis for the time--
You cut your hair.
I'm blonde.
I-I colored my hair. Again.
I'm blonde.
Yes, I noticed.
I'm very sorry about Tara.
This won't hold me forever.
I came as soon I heard.
The Council?
The Council haven't a clue.
About much of anything, really.
No, there's a--
an extremely powerful coven in Devon.
They sensed the rise of a dangerous magical force here in Sunnydale.
A dark force fueled by grief.
Willow.
I'd so hoped it wasn't her.
And then a seer in the coven told me about Tara.
That's when the coven imbued me with their powers.
And sent you here to bring Willow down?
Buffy, what's happened here?
God. I don't even know where to start.
Well, Willow's clearly been abusing the magics.
She has.
She was, and I barely even noticed.
Giles, everything's just been so--
Xander left Anya at the altar, and Anya's a vengeance demon again.
Dawn's a total klepto.
Money's been so tight that I've been slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace,
and-- and I've been sleeping with Spike.
[ Laughing ]
Sorry.
[ Thinking ] Anya.
Willow.
I need you, Anya. I need you to do something for me.
I know what you're trying to do.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that mind control mojo...
doesn't work on vengeance demons, so why don't you just--
- Stop talking and listen. - Okay.
You need to free me.
- No. - You don't wanna call out to them.
You wanna take away this binding spell.
I don't know how.
I do. Do you want me to tell you?
- Duct tape? - On their mouths. So the demon could eat them.
Because they were figments.
All of it. You, Sunnydale,
and I was just some nutcase in L.A.
Of course. Why didn't we see it before?
Can you forgive me?
For what? I should never have left.
No. You were right to leave.
We're just stupid.
I know you're all stupid.
I should never have abandoned you.
No.
Giles, you were right about everything.
It is time I was an adult.
Sometimes the most adult thing you can do is ask for help when you need it.
- Now you tell me. - [ Chuckles ]
I guess...
I wasn't ready before.
It took a long time for that feeling to go away.
The feeling that I wasn't really here.
It was like...
when I clawed my way out of that grave,
I left something behind, a part of me.
I just--
I don't understand why I'm back.
You have a calling.
But it was my time, Giles. Someone would have taken my place.
So, why?
Right. [ Sighs ]
What's gonna happen to Willow?
Well, the coven is working on a way...
to extract her powers without killing her,
and should she survive--
You ought to know, Buffy, that there's no guarantee she'll...
be as she was.
Willow's killed a human being.
How will she be able to live with herself?
[ Willow ] I wouldn't worry about that.
Willow doesn't live here anymore.
- Vincire. - Solutum.
Fool me once--
- Willow-- - shame on you.
Tego!
Excudo!
Where are we going? I have no idea.
What? I don't know, okay?
I can't even run away well.
That's something I'm usually good at. We should go back and help.
Yeah, 'cause I've been such a big help already.
Standing around like a monkey while Buffy gets shot.
Tara's dead, and Willow's losing--
Well, feeling sorry for yourself isn't helping either, Xander, okay?
You know, if Spike were here, he'd go back and fight.
Sure, if he wasn't too busy trying to rape your sister.
What?
Forget it.
I don't believe you. Fine.
He wouldn't do that.
Is this blind spot, like, a genetic trait with the Summers women?
The only useful thing Spike ever did was finally leave town.
[ Growling ]
[ Blows Landing ]
Well, that was a bloody doddle and a piece o' piss.
You got any more ruddy tests for me, you ponce?
I'll take anything you can throw at me...
if it'll get me what I need to take care of the Slayer.
Give her what's coming to her.
[ Sniffs ] You just bring it on.
Bring on the whole-- [ Munching ]
Bloody hell. [ Munching, Louder ]
[ Grunts ]
[ Groaning ]
That all you got, Jeeves?
'Cause I could stand to go another 10 rounds.
Whereas you can barely stand.
Your powers...
may be undeniably greater,
but I can still hurt you if I have to.
Boy, you just don't get it, do you?
Nothing can hurt me now.
This... is nothing.
It's all... nothing.
I see.
If you lose someone you love,
then the other people in your life...
who care about you become meaningless.
I wonder what Tara would say about that.
You can ask her yourself.
You're always saving everyone. It's kinda pesky.
You probably even think you're buying escape time...
for Jonathan and the other one.
Well, I got a little secret for ya.
I can kill them from anywhere I want...
with this.
It'll find them, it'll bury them,
along with anyone else helping those dead men walking.
- Don't. - Unless...
somebody, somehow,
can get there in time to save them. Huh.
Oh, well. Fly, my pretty, fly.
- See what I did there? - Go.
Good luck.
Thought she'd never leave.
Now I finally have you all to myself.
You're such a hypocrite.
Waltzing in here with your borrowed magics...
so you could tell me what?
"Magic's bad. Behave.
Be a good girl."
[ Chuckles ] Well, I don't think you're in any position...
to be telling me what to do.
Do you?
I used to think you had all the answers,
that I had so much to learn from you.
Willow-- Uhh!
You were jealous. Still are.
Just couldn't bear that I was the one with power.
That's why you ran away.
- Incurso! - That's why you--
That was rude.
Now I forgot what I was saying.
Perhaps you're not as strong as you think you are.
You are expending way too much of your mystical energies...
to maintain your powers.
At this rate you're gonna...
burn out and--
Blah, blah, blah.
Willow, you need to stop.
What I need is a little pick-me-up.
[ Gasping Deeply ]
Whoa!
Head rush.
I'm like-- Wow. Whoa. Whew.
Who's your supplier?
This is-- Wow.
[ Chuckles ] It's incredible.
[ Moans ]
I'm so juiced.
Giles, it's-- it's like no mortal person...
has ever had this much power, ever.
It's like I-I'm connected to everything.
I can feel.
It feels like I-I can feel...
everyone.
Ohh.
Oh, my God.
All the emotion...
and the pain.
No, it's-- it's too much.
Oh, it's just too much.
Willow,
it doesn't have to be like that.
You-You can stop it.
Uh, yeah. I-- I can.
I have to stop this. [ Panting ]
I'll make it go away.
Willow.
Oh, you poor bastards.
Your suffering has to end.
No.
Ow! Ow!
Ow! Ow! Ow!
Ow! Ow!
Ow! Ow! You son of a bitch!
Butt wipe! I wasn't talking to you.
Oh. Reflex.
[ Xander ] Man, they've really tightened security up here lately.
One too many squatters from the Hellmouth.
Hide out in the cemetery. What a fantastic idea.
Yeah, I'm working on a whole shut-the-hell-up pitch you might like, too.
- Xander? - I've had just about as much as I can stand...
babysitting a couple of social retards who don't appreciate--
- Xander. - What?
What is that?
Get out of there!
Move!
- [ Rumbling ] - Dawn! Dawn, hold on!
Mexico, huh?
Giles.
Giles!
Anya.
I'm so sorry. Willow forced me to free her with her brain.
- Are you okay? - I can see.
Oh! It's a... miracle.
Willow...
I can see her.
She took the magic I had,
and now...
I know where she is.
I can feel what--
Oh, God.
Giles, you have to rest.
Silly girl. I'm dying.
No, you're not.
It was-- It was the only way.
I thought we--
There'd be a chance, now, but--
I know where Willow is.
She's gonna finish it.
Finish what?
The world.
- Ohh! [ Screams ] - [ Gasps ]
Buffy!
Are you okay? We have to get out of here.
Xander! I think I saw him hit his head.
[ Buffy ] Xander!
This looks a little like Spike's place.
You know, under his crypt? [ Grunts ]
What are you doing? If we can pull these out, we can use the coffins for height.
Maybe get out of here.
Uh, maybe one of the tunnels Spike uses is around here.
We can get to his place. That's the last place on earth we need to be.
Oh. But it was good enough for you to take me there after what he did to you?
What he-- Tried to do. Whatever.
Xander. So it's true?
Dawn, you might not have noticed. We're in really big trouble here.
Why did you not tell me? 'Cause you didn't need to know.
Yes, I do. I need to know. I'm not a kid anymore.
Dawn, I'm trying to protect you-- Well, you can't.
Look around, Buffy. We're trapped in here.
Willow's killing and people I love keep dying.
And you cannot protect me from that.
Dawn-- [ Xander ] Hello?
- Xander? - Buffy, you okay?
Where's Dawn?
Here. Are Jonathan and Andrew up there with you?
Nah. They must have skedaddled when I was out. Weasels.
Whoa!
Xander, you gotta find some kind of rope or something and get us out of here!
Right. Okay.
I'll, uh, I'll take a look around.
- And hurry up before-- - Holy frijole.
- Anya, what are you doing here? Where's Giles? - Giles?
- He's still at the magic shop. - Giles is back?
- You didn't tell me that. - Did he stop Willow?
- [ Anya ] No. And things just got a whole lot worse. - How worse?
End of the world worse. Willow's going to destroy it.
- She can do that? - She can and she will...
- when she gets to where she's going. - Where is she going?
Big old satanic temple. Kingman's Bluff?
There's no temple on Kingman's Bluff.
[ Buffy ] Proserpexa?
Who's she? Way up there in the hierarchy of she-demons.
Her followers intended to use her effigy to destroy the world.
They all died when the temple got swallowed up in the big earthquake of '32.
So now, 70 years later, Willow's gonna make their dreams come true?
She's going to drain the planet's life force...
and funnel its energy through Proserpexa's effigy and burn the earth to a cinder.
- Not if I can help it. - You can't.
Something else Giles said, "No magic or supernatural force can stop her."
- What does that mean? - I don't know.
He said, "The Slayer can't stop her."
And then he said a bunch of other stuff. He really wasn't too clear.
Anya, what are you-- Look, uh...
I should get back to him. He's alone.
Is he okay?
Don't think he has a lot of time left.
- [ Gasps ] - I'm sorry.
Xander, where is that rope?
Buffy. Xander! Where is he?
You heard what Anya said. And you heard what Giles said.
I heard, and I don't care.
I have to try.
From the pit of forgotten shadows, awaken, Sister of the Dark.
[ Buffy ] I'm not gonna sit here while Willow incinerates
what I've chosen to protect.
I have to stop her. Always the Slayer,
right to the last.
Willow? And it is the last, you know?
For all your fighting,
thinking you're saving the world.
Buffy? And in the end,
I'm the only one that can save it.
By killing us?
It's the only way to stop the pain.
[ Willow ] I-- I can't take it anymore.
But I know you, Buffy.
You're a warrior. You won't go out without a fight.
I don't really have time for one.
But you should go out fighting.
Willow, what are you-- It was me who took you out of the earth.
Well, now...
the earth wants you back. [ Rumbling ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Screams ] Buffy!
They just keep coming. I can't take 'em all.
Dawn, will you help me?
I got your back.
Proserpexa, let the cleansing fires from the depths...
burn away the suffering souls and bring sweet death.
[ Rumbling ]
- Willow. - [ Rumbling Stops ]
Giles? Giles!
Don't die. Not yet.
There are-- There are things I want to tell you.
Thanks a lot for coming.
It was good of you to teleport all this way.
[ Rumbling ]
Though in retrospect, it probably would have been better...
if you hadn't come and given Willow all that magic...
that made her, like, 10 times more powerful.
That would've been a plus.
Hey, black-eyed girl. Whatcha doing?
Get out of here. Oh, no. You're not the only one with powers, you know.
You may be a hopped-up uber-witch,
but this carpenter can drywall you into the next century.
I'm not joking, Xander. Get out of my way, now.
There. What?
It's not over.
[ Screaming ]
Dawn! I'm comin'!
What, you think I never watched you?
You can't stop this.
Yeah. I get that. It's just, where else am I gonna go?
You've been my best friend my whole life.
World gonna end-- where else would I want to be?
Is this the master plan?
You're gonna stop me by telling me you love me?
Well, I was gonna walk you off a cliff...
and hand you an anvil, but it seemed kind of cartoony.
Still making jokes.
I'm not joking. I know you're in pain.
I can't imagine the pain you're in.
And I know you're about to do something apocalyptically evil...
and stupid, and hey, I still want to hang.
- You're Willow. - Don't call me that.
The first day of kindergarten you cried because you broke the yellow crayon,
and you were too afraid to tell anyone.
You've come pretty far. Ending the world-- not a terrific notion.
But the thing is, yeah, I love you.
I love crayon-breaky Willow and I love scary-veiny Willow.
So if I'm going out, it's here.
If you want to kill the world, well, then start with me.
- I've earned that. - You think I won't?
It doesn't matter.
- I'll still love you. - Shut up.
I love you. [ Groans ]
[ Coughs ]
I... [ Panting ] love you--
Shut up!
I love you, Willow. [ Panting ]
Stop!
I love you. Stop! [ Sobs ]
[ Yelling ]
[ Sobbing ]
I love you.
What happened?
[ Crying ]
[ Grunts ]
Giles. You're not dead! No.
Ohh! However, I am still in some pain.
Oh. Well, why aren't you dead?
Why aren't I dead? Uh, the threat's gone.
Willow's been stopped.
Oh. You mean she's, uh--
No, she's alive.
It, uh-- the magic she took from me--
it-it did what I hoped it would do.
Oh, you dosed her.
You knew she'd take your powers all along.
The gift that was given me by the coven was the true essence of magic.
Willow's magic came from a place of rage and power.
And vengeance. Don't forget vengeance.
Oh. How could I?
In any case, the magic she took from me...
tapped into the spark of humanity she had left.
Helped her to feel again.
Gave Xander the opportunity to reach her.
Xander?
Yes.
It was he who got to her in time.
He saved us all.
I...
I think it's over, Buffy.
The world's still here.
[ Sighs ]
[ Sobbing ]
Sorry to disappoint you.
[ Crying ]
Wait. Is-- Is that happy crying?
[ Sniffles ] Yes, dummy. You think I wanted the world to end?
I don't know. Didn't you?
Dawn...
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's okay, Buffy. It's okay.
No. [ Sniffles ] It hasn't been.
It hasn't been okay.
But it's gonna be now. I see it.
See what?
You.
Things have really sucked lately.
That's all gonna change.
And I want to be there when it does.
I want to see my friends happy again.
I want to see you grow up.
The woman you're gonna become.
Because she's gonna be beautiful.
And she's gonna be powerful.
Dawn, I got it so wrong.
I don't want to protect you from the world.
I want to show it to you.
There's so much that I want to show you.
♪ Lord, make me an instrument ♪
♪ Of your peace ♪
♪ Where there is hatred ♪
♪ Let me sow love ♪
♪ Where there is injury ♪ ♪ Pardon ♪
♪ Where there is doubt, faith ♪
♪ Where there is despair ♪ ♪ Hope ♪
♪ Where there is darkness ♪ ♪ Light ♪
♪ Where there is sadness ♪
♪ Joy ♪
♪ O divine master grant that I may ♪
♪ Not so much seek to be consoled as to console ♪
♪ To be understood ♪
♪ As to understand ♪
♪ To be loved ♪
♪ As to love ♪
♪ For it's in giving that we receive ♪
♪ And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned ♪
♪ And it's in dying that we are born ♪
♪ To eternal life ♪
♪ Amen ♪♪
[ Footsteps Approaching ]
[ Demon ] You have endured the required trials.
Bloody right I have.
So you give me what I want.
Make me what I was, so Buffy can get what she deserves.
Very well.
We will return your soul.
[ Yells ]
Grr! Arrgh!