<Episode 110: Wrecked>

Buffy's struggles with morning-after issues while Willow trips out on hallucinogenic magic and endangers Dawn.

Plot Highlights:

Tara & Dawn awake in an empty house, Buffy & Spike awake in rubble. Tara leaves, Buffy & Willow crash. Anya plans her wedding, Buffy defends Willow. Amy introduces Willow to Rack. Buffy catches Amy stealing spices. Willow interrupts her night out with Dawn for a sidetrip to Rack's. Buffy fetches Spike for a Dawn hunt. Stoned Willow wanders the streets with Dawn. Spike & Buffy chat. Willow's hallucination demon attacks, Willow crashes the get away car. Buffy fights the demon, Willow kills it, Dawn slaps Willow. Contrite Willow promises no more magic, Buffy decides no more Spike.

Memorable Moments:

• Morning after in the rubble
• Buffy's defense of Willow to Xander & Anya sounding suspiciously like pre-emptive self defense
• Willow magically filling out Tara's old clothes for a lonely hug.
• Buffy fetching Spike for Dawn save-age, especially his comment that Dawn is in need of a lojack & the "blushing eyes" bit.
• Willow's stoned interactions with an increasingly freaked out Dawn, culminating in the car crash. Emphatic steering may have worked for Anya in Xander's Restless dream, but...
• Spikes' reasonable discourse on the subject of his relationship with Buffy, leading up to the wonderfully silencing question: "You really gonna put your little sis in danger just to spite me?"
• Dawn's look of fury and her physically weak but emotionally charged slap of Willow; Willow's sobbing break down.
• Later, Buffy & Willow's quiet but painful discussion about giving things up.

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