With Buffy preoccupied by her date with Owen, Giles is trapped by a group of vampires seeking to raise a powerful leader.

Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.

Giles' past comes back to haunt him as a demon he and Ethan Rayne summoned in their wild youth seeks them out in Sunnydale.

Buffy and her friends discover secrets about themselves as they battle a werewolf, its hunter, and their own emotions.

While hospitalized with a severe case of the flu, Buffy investigates the young patients' fear that Death is stalking the children's ward.