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.
