<Episode 103: After Life>

The demon Willow's spell created haunts the gang; meanwhile Buffy tries to adjust to being alive again.

Plot Highlights:

Scoobies nervously head back home. Buffy tours her house with Dawn. Spike arrives. Scoobies barge in, Spike slips out. Xander & Spike have a chat. Tara tries to get Willow to share. Possessed-Buffy terrifies Tara & Willow, Possessed-Anya traumatizes Xander. Scooby meeting on the lawn. Research mode. Possessed-Dawn breaths fire. Spike gives Buffy his regrets. Xander asks Tara about Willow. Willow discovers the source of the poltergeist. The poltergeist attacks Buffy. Willow & Tara whip up a spell to firm it up; Xander, Anya & Dawn arrive just in time to see Buffy behead it. Buffy brings Dawn a bag lunch. Buffy thanks the Scoobies for bringing her back. Buffy tells Spike she was in heaven, swears him to secrecy.

Memorable Moments:

• Spike's Dawn-scolding session coming to an abrupt halt with his realization of who exactly is standing at the top of those stairs (again! see the "treat me like a man" scene in the Gift...); their ensuing interrupted chat.
• The Xander/Spike spike face-off
• Tara trying to reassure and calm busy-minded Willow
• Spike telling Buffy how not being able to prevent her death affected him, esp. the final "every night I save you".
• Dawn's indignant attack on Willow for messing with peoples' lives.
• Buffy bringing Dawn a packed lunch for school & Dawn's reaction.
• Buffy's revelation that her friends had in fact ripped her out of a state of perfect happiness when they brought her back to life. (maybe it's just me, but the coloring and dress in this scene reminded me of Restless, w/ Buffy in the desert)

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