Episode 15: Get It Done

Written by Douglas Petrie

Buffy has a dream that one of the Potentials, Chloe, is upset, but she is unable to help, and the First Slayer attacks her and tells her it is not enough. Spike and Anya go out for a friendly drink, and Anya is attacked by a demon sent by D'Hoffryn. Spike saves Anya but declines to kill the demon, which later upsets Anya. Buffy gives Wood a tour of her house, and Wood and Spike have a tense conversation. Wood gives Buffy a bag that belonged to his mother, apparently something Slayers could use for help. Dawn and Buffy find the body of Chloe, who committed suicide. Buffy buries Chloe, then addresses the team, berating them for being weak and useless when she needs people who are useful and powerful. When they open the bag brought by Wood, they find items that create a portal through which Buffy travels, meeting three Shadow Men who apparently created the First Slayer. When they try to give her power, she rejects it. Meanwhile, a demon has passed through the portal in Buffy's place, and Spike is ineffective in fighting it. He decides he has to do something to fight it, and he returns to the school basement where he retrieves his leather duster. He puts it on and seems transformed into the "old" Spike. Wood follows and learns that Spike got the duster in New York, which confirms for Wood that Spike killed Wood's mother. Spike goes after the demon and after an exhilirating battle, kills it. He brings it back and Willow opens the portal again, but not without accessing some of the powerful dark magic and draining power from Anya and Kennedy. Buffy fights off the Shadow Men, but they leave her with an apocalytic vision of the future.