We start with books. Buffy's reading the histories and trying to figure out what happened. She refers to one entry as being too ridiculous to comprehend. Wonder what that refers to.
What's not mentioned at all is Buffy's creation of the slayer army, and what's not present in the future is the better world she hoped to create with it. So is it a hubris thing? Did she aim too high with the spell? You know, it's not like she had many choices at the time. And the reason things went off the rails in the first place was Willow and the gang bringing her back from the dead. Not her fault, any of it. Feel so bad for her.
Anyhow, Fray and Gates(?) come in with news from Gunther about some vamp action. Buffy's in the mood for some carnage about now.
Xander and Dawn make it to the forest, but are in the opposite direction of the fleeing slayers. They figure out it's a Warren and Amy thing, but aren't sure what to do next. That's when some tree spirit calling himself Lorelahn makes an angry appearance. Xander and Dawn are not impressed with his rhetoric given what they just ran away from, and after insults are exchanged, they settle in to talk.
Gunther is being visited by Harth and some minions. Harth isn't happy about Gunther giving Fray info. Gunther is as unimpressed by Harth and his threats as Xander and Dawn are of the wood fairies. Gunther should be a little more concerned though, since there's three vamps in his water sneaking up behind him as Harth leaves.
Oh, no, Buffy's trying to drive. Why did she think a flying car! would be a good idea? Remember B, unmixy things? There's also a Bandy Candy callback that just sounds weird in this context.
They find some vamps -- in mummy gear to hide from the smog-infested sunlight -- attacking some complex. Fray wants to stop them. Buffy wants to hang back and follow them home after. Looking at the big picture as she's learned to do over and over in the last few years. Fray's not for that though. So is it a critique of General Buffy becoming upper echelon in her thinking and not remembering what it is to be a foot soldier who exists in the field of battle? I mean, she goes in the field all the time, but she has become more end justifies means, organized soldier instead of hero. Is she the new Watcher's Council? The new Initiative? And is it inevitable that that happens when she tries to establish her own status quo? Again, as Buffy is an adult now, the concerns seem very in tune with Angel themes.
Fray attacks, the vamps flee, and Buffy follows them, giving future Willow time to talk to Fray. Yeah, that'll end well.
Back to the present Willow getting mystically sexy with Saga Vasuki. She says someone she trusted told her what to say to Willow. Willow is polite but firm, she wants Buffy back. Willow is always going after Buffy. Future Willow even goes after Buffy for her own reasons while knowing that her past self will come after Buffy too and planning for it. Anyway, Saga Vasuki says the rift will reopen, but she insists that Willow promise her not to look at the future when she reaches for Buffy. And then Willow's back with Kennedy, orgasm--I mean, vision over.
Future Willow talks with Fray, saying she should kill Buffy because they want different things. When Fray mentions they both want vampires to be gone, Willow says, "The most important men in both your lives are 'lurks.' You think it's really that simple?"
But what I don't get, if it's about balance and not the eradication or the victory of one side over the other in good vs. evil terms, how does deleting all magic do the job? Isn't that just another extreme winning out?
Willow suggests to Fray that she can't access much magic. Is she wiped out with all the temporal rifts and such? But she wants to show Fray some kind of vision. No doubt calling on the things she learned from Saga Vasuki that she had put to use setting this thing in motion with past Will, so nice.
Buffy managed to crash her car close to where the vamps went, but then suddenly she's back at Fray's place being accosted by Erin. I guess she came back for reinforcements. They bond over troublesome younger sisters, but then bam! Buffy is shocked unconscious by Fray. It was a trap. Part of Fray's plan to save her world.
Back to the present Willow getting mystically sexy wit
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