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7.01 - Lessons
While Willow works with Giles and the coven in Devon to get her powers under control, Dawn starts her first day of school at the recently rebuilt Sunnydale High. In other news, Giles on a horse! And Spike's extremely insane in the basement.
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7.02 - Beneath You
Young women are being hunted down all over the world by robed men with big knives. With Anya returned to her Vengeance-y ways, a girl finds herself pursued by the ex she 'wished' into a worm. And Spike pitches in to help, but his grip on reality is still tenuous at best.
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7.03 - Same Time, Same Place
Frightened by what she sensed back in Sunnydale, Willow returns home early. Her friends have forgiven the whole attempted murdering them thing and look forward to seeing her. But they kinda can't. See her, that is. Even when she's standing right next to them. Willow's wacky magick strikes again!
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7.04 - Help
A girl at SHS tells guidance counselor Buffy that she knows she's going to die. Buffy et al pull out all the stops to try to prevent her impending death, but as we've learned once before, there are some things even a Slayer can't fight.
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7.05 - Selfless
Horrified by a gruesome wish she granted, Anya questions the path she's on - the one that started way back in the year 880 when she turned one Olaf into the troll we know and love. Over Xander's objections, Buffy knows it's time to stop Anya any way she can, but Anya surprises D'Hoffryn with a wish of her own.
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7.06 - Him
Dawn is trying way too hard to impress a guy at school - in fact, she's downright obsessed. Oddly enough, so is Buffy. And Anya and Willow, too... To quote the always-fabulous Lorne, "It's gotta be the coat."

7.07 - Conversations With Dead People
The Scoobies see dead people! Willow is visited by the recently departed Cassie who claims to have a message for her. Joyce has a message for Dawn too, but something very evil and very scary is trying to stop her from delivering it. Buffy comes across a newly-risen classmate from SHS who has interesting news about who sired him.

7.08 - Sleeper
The gang puts Anya on Spike detail while they try to find out why - and how - Spike has started feeding again. He denies it, but there's a basement full of rising vampires that says otherwise. Across the pond, Giles enters a friend's house to find said friend and friend's Potential Slayer murdered. Friend has a couple words of warning left in him, but there's a slight matter of the robed killer's axe heading right for Giles' head before the screen slams to black.

7.09 - Never Leave Me
Casa de Summers gains two more boarders in Spike and Andrew - and neither is especially happy about being there. Across the ocean, the Watchers Council is worried. Travers orders them to find Rupert Giles, but the order won't be carried out...

7.10 - Bring On The Night
Giles arrives on Buffy's doorstep with several Potential Slayers in tow while Spike is treated to a bit of torture by the First Evil. The First also has a little surprise for Buffy in the form of a Turok-Han. This Ubervamp mops the floor with Buffy; doom and gloom abound. But Buffy insists that the Scoobies are stronger than the First.

7.11 - Showtime
More arriving Potentials means more scared young women packing into an already-crowded house. With Spike still a prisoner of the First Evil and an Ubervamp about to come a'callin', Buffy knows it'll take something drastic to convince the Slayers in Training that they might actually survive the fight ahead.
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7.12 - Potential
With Buffy and Spike training the Potentials, Dawn is left out, once again, but a spell to locate a Potential in Sunnydale puts Dawn in the limelight... for a little while.

7.13 - The Killer In Me
Spike's chip is toast, and it's killing him very slowly and very painfully. So Buffy has a little talk with what's left of the Initiative and has it removed, trusting Spike's soul to keep him on the straight and non-murdering path. Willow goes on a date with a Potential named Kennedy, and their good-night kiss does *not* go well. The kiss itself is nice and all... it's the part where Willow starts turning into Warren that's the buzz kill.

7.14 - First Date
Semi-interested, mostly curious, Buffy accepts a dinner invitation from Principal Wood and discovers that he's the son of a Slayer (who is determined to dust the vamp who killed his mother in 1977 in New York City...). Xander has a date of his own - much to Anya's displeasure - with an attractive woman who's shockingly not a demon! But humans can be bad guys too. Especially when they impale you with long, pointy swords.

7.15 - Get It Done
Invited into Slayer Central, Wood gives Buffy something that belonged to his mother. This gift catapults Buffy back to the shamans who created the First Slayer, who want to increase her power. She turns them down emphatically (with violence and such ;p), but when she sees what's coming, she wonders if she made the right call.
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7.16 - Storyteller
Andrew decides to make a 'documentary' about Buffy for future generations, but he's not exactly an unbiased observer. And much as he'd like to stay behind the camera, there's still the matter of the Seal in the school basement that only he can close.

7.17 - Lies My Parents Told Me
With Buffy unwilling to deal with the danger Spike still presents, Giles agrees to keep her occupied while Wood "takes care" of him. Unfortunately for Wood, Spike works out his First-trigger-y mother issues on the Principal's face and neck, and a furious Buffy slams the door in her Watcher's face. Nice, Buffy. Really nice.

7.18 - Dirty Girls
On the way back from L.A., Willow and Faith find a Potential in the road who was stabbed by a preacher named Caleb. Buffy takes the bait and leads the gang into a trap that takes a very heavy toll, leaving two Potentials dead, many severely wounded, and Xander minus his left eye.

7.19 - Empty Places
While Spike and Andrew look for more info on Caleb, Faith takes the Potentials out to unwind, which makes Buffy mad. After the failed attack, Buffy wants to hit the vineyard again, but the troops refuse to follow.

7.20 - Touched
Thrown out of Slayer Central, Buffy appropriates a house from one of the few people still living in Sunnydale. Spike arrives to keep her company while the others - under Faith's reluctant leadership - prepare themselves for another attack on the Bringers' headquarters.

7.21 - End of Days
The Faith-led mission is a bust, but Buffy finds a powerful weapon and reclaims her position as leader of the troops. She charges Xander with getting Dawn to safety, but Dawn puts a vehement kibosh on that plan.

7.22 - Chosen
Angel brings Buffy an amulet to use in the coming fight, and she sends him back to L.A. to set up a second line of defense in case they fall... after she uses her kickass new axe to chop Caleb in two. Following yet another taunting from the First, Buffy comes up with a plan and asks the other Scoobies - which very pointedly includes Giles - what they think. As always, it's nuts... so nuts that it just might work. The price for victory is once again very, very high, but when the Scoobies carry the day, Buffy finally has the one thing she's always wanted: the freedom to choose her own destiny.

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