Overall Rating: 9.0 Matt: 9.0 Eric: 9.0 Writer: Rebecca Rand Kirshner Director : David Grossman Cast : Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris, Emma Caulfield as Anya, Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers, James Marsters as Spike, Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg. Main guest stars : Amber Benson as Tara, Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles, Raymond O¹Connor as Teeth. Original broadcast date : November 13, 2001 My one-line description: Buffy smiles, for the first time in Season 6. But she¹s not quite Buffy. A very pensive Buffy is out on patrol in the cemetery, where she runs into Spike. He wants to talk, but she doesn¹t; he reminds her that they kissed, and asks her what she makes of it. She answers that it was a musical spell, vows she¹ll never touch him againŠ and jumps on him, tackling him just as a bolt flies overhead. The two are confronted by Teeth, a loan shark demon (with the head of a shark) to whom Spike owes forty kittens. Buffy takes care of Teeth¹s minions, who are about to beat the crap out of Spike, and when she turns to chide him, he¹s goneŠ At the Magic Box, Willow, Tara, Xander and Anya are talking about Buffy being in Heaven, and looking for ways to make her feel better. Willow starts saying that she knows a spell that could help, but Tara interrupts her, outraged at the suggestion. After Xander and Anya diplomatically retreat to give the witches some elbow room, Tara confronts Willow about using that spell on her to forget the fight they had, and accuses her of using too much magic. For the first time, she says that maybe they need some time apart. Terrified at the idea of losing Tara, Willow agrees to go a week without magic. Meanwhile, in the training room, Giles is breaking sad news to Buffy: he¹s leaving. She takes it very badly, asking him how he can do this to her, now that he know where she¹s been and what¹s happened to her. He softly answers that now is especially a good time for him to force her to rely on her own strength. Coldly telling him he¹s wrong, she walks out. At the Summers house, Dawn and Tara, ready to leave for the Magic Box, impatiently ask Willow to hurry up. She appears in the staircase, wrapped in a towel, and tells them to go on without her. They leave, and in a split-second, Willow gets dressed ­ magically. She kneels by the lit fireplace and prepares a spell that will make Tara and Buffy forget, respectively, the fight and being in Heaven. At the Magic Box, the gang gathers for an announcement Giles is about to make. Spike enters, smoke billowing from a really dorky tweed suit he¹s wearing ­ he¹s on the run, hiding from Teeth. After they agree to give the vampire asylum, Giles goes ahead with his announcement ­ he¹s leaving, for good. Buffy is angry, and the Scoobies bring up her being in Heaven and everything. Tearful, she tells them that she can¹t take it anymore, that she feels like she¹s dyingŠ Just then, the crystal Willow has in her pocket to complete the tabula rasa spell glows bright, and everyone in the Magic Box slips into unconsciousness. They wake up later on, one after the other. Willow is "snugly wuggly" with Xander, who thinks she might be his girlfriend; Dawn is scared, and Buffy instinctively goes to reassure her. They all look for clues as to their identities- Dawn, Willow, Xander and Tara find theirs, as do Giles and Anya (who conclude from owning the shop together that they¹re married). Spike deduces from his British accent that he¹s Giles¹ son, and opens his jacket to find a sewn-in "Made with love for Randy". Only Buffy has no identity, so she names herself Joan. The gang decides to leave the shop and try to get to a hospital. However, when they open the door, they find themselves face to face with some vampires ­ Teeth¹s minions ­ and scream in terror. They barricade themselves inside, but the vampires overrun the shop. "Joan" instinctively starts fighting them and stakes some, marvelling at the fact that she¹s a superheroŠ The Scoobies devise a plan ­ "Randy" and "Joan" will escape through the front door, providing diversion for Xander, Dawn, Tara and Willow, who will go through the sewers under the shop. Meanwhile, Giles and Anya will remain at the store and try to find a cure in the magic books. Joan and Randy go ahead with their part of the plan, taking on the awaiting vampires. Randy finds out he has superstrength too, vamping out as he fights. Joan sees him in his vamp face and runs away in fear, as he shouts for her to wait for him. In the sewers, the rest of the Scooby Gang encounter a vampire and have to run away, looking for a hiding place. Meanwhile, in the Magic Box, Anya picks a book and randomly chooses an incantation, which causes a bunny to appear ­ making her scream in fear. Randy catches up with Joan, and she attacks him, pinning him to the ground. When he asks her what¹s wrong, she suggests he feel his forehead and teethe Realizing that he¹s a vampire, he wonders why he doesn¹t want to kill her. He tells her he must be a noble vampire, a vampire with a soul, but she tells him that¹s a lame concept (teehee). The conversation is interrupted by Teeth and his minions, and the two have to take up the fight once more. At the Magic Box, Anya is standing on a table, trying out more random spells as legions of bunnies hop across the floor and a dark green cloud forms on the ceiling. Giles, sparring with a skeleton, suggests that she once again has the wrong book. In the sewers, the Scoobies are hiding from the vampire. Willow asks Dawn how she¹s holding up, and the teen answers that all this seems "strangely familiar". Willow then confides to Dawn that she thinks she¹s "kinda gay." At the Magic Box, Giles and Anya hide behind the counter, still trying to find the right book. Anya nags, and Giles tells her it¹s no wonder he¹s leaving her- he shows her his one-way plane ticket to Heathrow. Finally, they find the right spell, and things in the Magic Box return to normal. Anya begs Giles not to leave her, and they make up, kissing passionately. In the sewers, Xander fights the vampire and manages to stake it. Then, he accidentally steps on Willow¹s crystal ­ it fell out of her pocket ­ and crushes it, ending the spell. They look at each other, stunned; Tara, realizing what Willow did, gets up and looks at her, an outraged and hurt expression on her face. At the Magic Box, Giles and Anya get their memories back in mid-kiss, and start cleaning frantically, trying to forget what happened. Buffy is fighting vampires and enjoying it when all the memories flood back at once ­ her mother¹s death, her own death, being torn out of Heaven ­ and she staggers, incapacitated. The vampires she was fighting take advantage of it, and Spike has to come to her rescue. After he dusts the last of the minions, he offers her his hand to help her up, but she refuses it and coldly walks away. At the Bronze, Buffy sits at the bar, all alone and miserable, while Michelle Branch sings "Goodbye to You". As the song goes on, a montage shows Tara packing her things in boxes, while Willow sits on the bathroom floor, weeping silently. In a plane, Giles looks pensive and sad. Spike finds Buffy at the Bronze and looks at her intently, but she looks away. Back at the house, Tara brings the last of her boxes out, and an angry Dawn avoids her. At the Bronze, Michelle Branch ends her song as in a corner, Spike and Buffy kiss passionatelyŠ Summary by OttsFiveByFive.