(Plot synopsis from
the
official Buffy website)
After spending the summer with her dad in L.A., Buffy returns
to Sunnydale, well, very unsunny. It seems her prom night massacre
of the Master — during which she died and came back to life
— gave her more of a wiggins than she admitted at the time.
And to make matters worse, the Master is not quite as dead as
everyone had hoped. His minions assemble with the Anointed One
and plan to try to bring the Master back. This can be done by
assembling those who were with him when he died — Willow,
Cordelia, Giles, and Ms. Calendar, the computer teacher who Giles
is stuck on. Angel warns Buffy about the Anointed One's powers,
but she ignores him.
Besides being rude
to Angel and nasty to Cordelia, she is cold to Willow
and Xander. She even tries to make Angel jealous by dancing seductively
with poor Xander, who buys her act. Xander finally tells Buffy
off when the vampires beat him up and start assembling the foursome
they need for their mission. Buffy rescues Willow, Cordelia,
Giles and Ms. Calendar, who are hung upside down and about to
be killed. In order to finish off the Master, Buffy crushes his
bones. After this final act, Buffy is purged of her fear and
anger and starts sobbing as Angel holds her. The next day at
school, she apologizes to Giles for behaving so badly, and is
mortified when she realizes how rotten she's been to her friends.
But once she gets to class, Xander and Willow are quick to forgive
her, and the Three Musketeers — or is it the Three Stooges?
— are together again
