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6.01 & 6.02 - Bargaining I & II
Giles returns to England, unaware that Willow is planning to resurrect her departed friend. Thinking she's saving Buffy from a hell dimension, she leads Xander, Anya, and Tara in a dubious ritual that is unfortunately interrupted by a gang of biker demons who know the Hellmouth is Slayerless. Spike protects Dawn through the onslaught while Buffy crawls from her grave confused and terrified. Seeing Dawn in danger snaps Buffy out of her catatonia long enough to save her sister, but it's clear that Buffy's not happy to be home.

6.03 - After Life
The gang is threatened by a demon that hitched a ride on Buffy's resurrection, but they can't destroy it without killing Buffy.... not that she'd mind so much because, as she confesses to Spike, Willow's spell ripped her out of heaven.

6.04 - Flooded
Buffy is broke, and the basement is flooded. Giles comes home, overjoyed to see Buffy alive again but furious with Willow for bringing her back the way she did. A demon attack ruins Buffy's slim hope of a bank loan, and then the trio of geeks controlling it send it over to Revello Drive. She drowns it in the flooded basement, but when the gang tries to help her pick up the pieces in the morning, a phone call from Angel sends her scurrying out the door.

6.05 - Life Serial
The geeks - Warren, Jonathan & Andrew - hold a contest to see who can screw with Buffy the most while she tries to figure out what to do with her unwanted life. Time goes wonky and demons attack her on the job, so it's off to get drunk with Spike. When Giles comes to the rescue with a humongous check, Buffy's glad he'll always be there... but that may not be the case.

6.06 - All the Way
Xander finally announces his and Anya's engagement, and the gang throws them an impromptu party. Dawn skips said party to go hoodlum it up. And just in case the hoodluming isn't enough, she decides to throw in a little making out with a boy she barely knows... a boy who turns out to be a vampire. Giles and Buffy ride to the rescue, but it's Dawn who ends up staking her date with a handy-dandy pencil. Happy Halloween.

6.07 - Once More, With Feeling
A musical extravaganza in which everyone's dirty laundry busts out in style. Spike confesses his feelings to Buffy, Giles is going to leave again, and Tara finds out that Willow has been controlling her with magick. Oh, yeah, and Buffy tells Willow et al that they ripped her out of heaven. What's an angst-filled Slayer to do? Go make out with Spike.

6.08 - Tabula Rasa
Busted for her reckless abuse of magick, Willow decides the best way to fix everything is to do some more reckless magick. The resulting spell causes everyone to lose their memories - imagine their horror when they discover that vampires are real! When the spell is broken, Tara leaves Willow and Giles leaves Buffy, who deals with her hurt by making out with Spike again.

6.09 - Smashed
Bereft without Tara, Willow conjures a spell to de-rat Amy, and the two witches go on a total magick bender at The Bronze. Fed up with Buffy's constant scorn and mixed signals, Spike decides to hit her back... and it doesn't hurt! He tries to kill a random victim, but his chip nixes that plan. So he confronts Buffy, saying she obviously came back wrong if he can hit her. They take their violent confrontation into an abandoned house, which they proceed to demolish. His taunts so enrage Buffy that she... well, she decides to ride him like a drunken cowgirl.

6.10 - Wrecked
Buffy is disgusted with herself for sleeping with Spike, but when Willow drags Dawn along to a crack house... er, magick house... Buffy needs Spike to help her find the place. Running from a demon she accidentally conjured, Willow steals then crashes a car while she's "high" on magick. Dawn's arm gets busted, the demon whales on Buffy a bit, and then Willow decides to burn it from the inside out. At which point, she *finally* seems to understand that it's time to quit with the "addictive" magick.

6.11 - Gone
Buffy is zapped with the Geeks' new invisibility ray and terrorizes the social worker who's threatening to take Dawn away before having some "I'm not really here so it doesn't count" sex with Spike. All very liberating and freeing, except for the part where she'll turn into tapioca pudding if they can't reverse the effect. So she whomps on the geeks a bit and gets re-visibled, allowing all to enjoy her new, spunky haircut.

6.12 - Doublemeat Palace
Buffy gets a job slinging burgers. The creepy vibes around the place, combined with the high turnover rate, make her suspect that the "double sweet" doublemeat burger is made from people. Turns out, though, it's some secret vegetable by-product filler thing. No, the high turnover is due to the nice old lady with the people-eating demon under her wig. Amy flings a little 'free' magick Willow's way, and Willow tells her to bugger off. Despite the carnivorous penis demon and mind-numbing tedium, Buffy decides (for reasons that remain beyond me) to keep the job.

6.13 - Dead Things
Warren uses mind control to make a sex slave of his ex-girlfriend Katrina, and when she realizes what he's done, he kills her. Deciding to kill another bird with the same stone, he frames Buffy for the murder. Horrified that she's apparently killed a human (in a demon-disoriented haze), Buffy tries to turn herself into the police. Spike stops her and earns a brutal beating at Buffy's hands for his trouble. But Spikey doesn't mind. Because the more she hates herself, the more she turns to him.

6.14 - Older and Far Away
Continuing Buffy's tradition of truly craptacular birthdays, Dawn's wish for people to stop leaving her gets the Scooby gang plus party guests trapped inside the Summers' house. Willow is able to resist the pressure to use magick to release them, and after Anya summons Halfrek - who has to lift the spell in order to leave herself - Buffy decides to spend some quality time with Dawn (oh yeah, and Dawn got busted for being a total klepto, too).

6.15 - As You Were
Buffy is mere inches from rock bottom, which makes it the perfect time for a visit from Riley and his perfect new wife. Buffy blows off their demon hunt for some self-loathing sex with Spike. Which Riley interrupts. Spike tries to flaunt his 'relationship' with Buffy in Riley's face, but it doesn't work. Riley tells Buffy that the burger job, her finances, screwing Spike... they aren't what make Buffy who she is. And the woman she is, is still amazing in his eyes. So once he & Stepford Sam leave, Buffy breaks up with Spike. For real, this time. No, really!

6.16 - Hell's Bells
It's wedding day for Xander and Anya! Xander's pre-nuptial jitters are already at the boiling point when he gets a visit from his 'future self'. Fearful of turning into his parents (a couple of rude, violent drunks who have no business being married), he's horrified by the vision of his and Anya's future together, which ends with him killing her in a murderous rage. Turns out FutureXander's really a demon out to screw over Anya, but Xander is still too shaken to go through with it. He leaves Anya at the altar, and when D'Hoffryn sees the state she's in, he offers his favourite her old job back.

6.17 - Normal Again
The Geeks infect Buffy with a toxin that makes her to lose her grip on reality. Convinced that she's actually a mental patient who's been hallucinating all about vampires and Slayers and such, Buffy agrees with her psychiatrist that the only way to be well again is to get rid of all the "friends" who keep her tied to her fantasy world. Perhaps she's nudged towards that course of action by the lovesick vampire who threatens to tell her friends about their sordid affair? As attractive as a life with her still-married parents might be, seeing her friends in danger (danger she took great pains to put them in) snaps Buffy out of it enough to dispatch the demon she set loose on them.

6.18 - Entropy
Bolstered by how easily the gang forgives her for trying to kill them all, Buffy doesn't care anymore if Spike tells the Scoobies about their affair. With her vengeance back on, Anya wishes Xander had never been born. Only the wish doesn't work; she needs someone else to make it. She tries to get Spike to, and a bottle of scotch leads to some drunken nookie on the table in the Magic Box. Which the gang sees via the Geeks' surveillance feeds they've just uncovered. Oops! Xander tries to kill Spike; Buffy stops him; Spike spills his and Buffy's dirty little secret. All is misery and badness. Except for Willow and Tara, who are together again.
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6.19 - Seeing Red
Willow and Tara are happy again. Everyone else is miserable. Injured on patrol, Buffy is about to get into the tub when Spike confronts her. The only time she lets down the wall between then is when she's screwing him, so he tries to initiate sex with her, not particularly interested in whether she wants to or not. Already injured, Buffy is barely able to fight off the attempted rape. Later, Warren acquires the orbs of invulnerability. Buffy squashes his plans (and his orbs), and Andrew & Jonathan are arrested. Warren, however, is still on the loose. He shoots Buffy, then fires several shots over his shoulder as he runs away. One of the bullets hits Tara in the heart, killing her almost instantly.
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6.20 - Villains
Distraught at Tara's murder, Willow goes over to the Dark Side. After healing a flat-lining Buffy, she takes off after Warren, who is wisely running the hell away. Spike, meanwhile, is in Africa to undergo a series of trials. Anya feels Willow's vengeful rage and leads Buffy and Xander to her but not before Willow binds Warren to a tree and rips his skin off, killing him. Disappearing in a cloud of black smoke, Willow defiantly announces, "One down..."
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6.21 - Two to Go
Spike's trials take a back seat to Willow's murderous rampage. Buffy, Anya & Xander protect Jonathan and Andrew from Willow, who is so intent on killing the geeks that not even her friends are safe. When she runs low on mojo, she goes to Rack's and sucks him dry, killing him. Next, she tries to kill Dawn, but Buffy distracts her with a "life is worth living" speech that earns a hearty guffaw from Willow and me both. Willow poofs them all over to the Magic Box and tries - and fails - to fry the remaining Geeks. They make a run for it while Buffy challenges Willow to fight. And Willow's so very ready, willing, and able to kick Buffy's ass all over the store. At least, until she's felled by a burst of magick from... Giles!!
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6.22 - Grave
Willow's rage has a new target: Rupert Giles. He holds her off while Buffy tries to reach the fleeing foursome before they can be burned up by a big ball o' fire from Willow. Its impact knocks the guys out, and the sisters wind up at the bottom of a deep, dank pit. Jonathan and Andrew wake up and head for Mexico. Giles and Willow continue to trade blows until she starts to weaken, and she sucks him dry the same way she did to Rack. Overwhelmed by the pain of the world, she decides to destroy it, but the "pure" magick she stole from Giles and a heartfelt plea from Xander finally reach her. She collapses, crying, into Xander's arms. Giles is not, in fact, dead. Buffy and Dawn crawl out of the ground all "it's time to live again!" (but don't believe the hype). And in other news, Spike's trials are over. The demon will return his soul.
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