Golden and Benson
1. Spike is operating under cover in LA to get information to the Watcher’s Counsel. There is a club called the Friends of Darkness where he hangs out and pretends to be evil and that his time with Buffy was all due to mind control. A penthos demon, Miranda, has killed a slayers family and put her in the hospital. She is trying to get a team together to get to the young slayer because she now has other slayers protecting her. Spike is trying to talk himself up to be hired for the project when a newly made 16-year old slayer, Indira, comes crashing in. She does pretty well at first, but the demons overwhelm her quickly. Spike reminds them they aren’t allowed to kill slayers in premises and takes the girl outside. He puts her in Clem’s trunk and they drive off. They go to meet with a former watcher, but she refuses to take Indira in. She says she will reach out to the Counsel to see about getting her a real watcher. Spike, Clem, and Indira go to a bookstore for a game of poker with the human owner and a few supernaturals. Cordelia Chase from another dimension comes in to find Spike. She says in her world, she became the slayer when she was 15 and has no idea who Buffy is. She needs Spike’s help because her world is being taken over by someone only he knows well. Other dimension Anya is a witch and seems to be Cordelia’s watcher. She owns the Magic Box and is trying to watch Cordelia in the other dimension when she sees her demon self there and has to cut the connection. Drusilla comes to the door, but Anya is confident she can’t get in without an invitation. Drusilla reminds her that she isn’t the only one that owns the place. Drusilla walks inside and Anya turns herself invisible. Anya’s partner told her she would do this and Drusilla catches her easily.
2. Cordelia explains that Drusilla has teamed up with a witch and they are involved. When her world’s Spike died, Dursilla became ambitious and started taking over. With the Witch Queen at her side, it has been impossible to get close enough to strike. Indira wants to go with them, but Spike refuses to take responsibility for a minor slayer. Cordelia agrees to take her, but says she cannot baby her. Indira agrees. Cordelia calls out to her Anya that is supposed to be listening, but there isn’t a response because she is being attacked by Drusilla. Anya sets off the holy water sprinklers and is able to get away from Drusilla, who hides under a table until the water stops floating. Drusilla goes to her witch, Tara. Tora has a vision of what happened and Drusilla tells her she’ll lose her conscious the more she uses her magic. Cordelia calls out for Anya, but Anyanka the demon arrives. They start fighting and Anya comes to the rescue and turns Anyanka into a statue. She heals Spike and he becomes stronger. Cordelia senses the magic (part of her world’s slayer powers) was chaotic in that world. Tara has a monkey familiar, Mr. Pickles. Anya is still in her head trying to be the last shred of her morality. They go to Spike’s apartment and discuss what they need to get to get to the other dimension. They decide they’ll have to get to the Magic Box in what is left of Sunnydale. A messenger from Miranda (penthos demon) comes by to tell Spike she is going after the hospitalized slayer. Anya and Indira will go to Sunnyvale while Spike and Cordelia go to save the slayer. Anya intends to teach Indira some basic magic she thinks all slayers should know. Indira asks about healing because her grandfather that she lives with is sick. Anya says she will see if she can do anything after they take down Drusilla. Indira asks about Cordelia’s sister and Anya explains she was killed by the Master. Spike and Cordelia arrive at the hospital, but it is a trap Miranda laid out for them. One of the demons he played poker with, Ester, called her earlier and told her everything.
3. Spike and Cordelia start fighting off nine demons. Clem reads to the statue Anyanka at the book shop. She starts talking to him in his head and has him take her to Spike and Cordelia. Anya and Indira arrive at the Magic Box. Anya uses magic to unlock the door and it is stronger than expected. They agree to hold off on magic as much as possible until it is time to go the other dimension. They start looking for the ingredients. Anya keeps trying to keep Tara from using the Grimore that drains her powers. She steals power from other witches to keep her power. She is working on a plan to get Drusilla her crown without hurting Anya. Anya tells Indira the Grimore would kill any vampire that touches it and curse any witch that used it. Her world Spike and Drusilla tricked Tara into using it. Anya mentions Giles and Indira tells her she thinks he is retired in London and Spike had mentioned using a door in that shop to get to him. Anya’s dog, Jasper, finds the door. Anya thinks it would work for her because her name is technically on the deed. They go through the door. Giles is with Olivia when Anya and Indira come through the door. Anyanka threatens to blow out Clem’s brains if they don’t give her Anya. Miranda offers to attack Anyanka if they let her free. Miranda attacks her, but it ends up freeing Anyanka. Clem bites off Miranda’s head and Anyanka gets free and can sense Anya’s location because she used magic. Cordelia wants to go after Anya, but they don’t have any way to catch up with them.
4. Giles is not happy to see Anya appear in his bookshop. Even after she explains what has happened, he refuses to help her because he promised Olivia he wouldn’t get involved anymore. She okays him helping in this situation because Anya’s world needs it. Anyqnka catches up with them and Indira is able to hold her off while Anya and Giles get the door open. After they go through, he uses Indira’s phone to call Olivia and warn her not to go back to the bookshop. Clem starts driving Cordelia and Spike to the Magic Box, but the car breaks down and they are surrounded by more of Miranda’s minions they have to fight off. Spike tells the demons to feed off of Clem’s infinite misery and they do. After a while, Clem inflates and eats off the heads of a few demons while the rest run away. Tara drains the magic from witches and sends them on their way, including Amy. The good part of her is still inside her trying to keep her from doing evil. Tara had tried to get a spell that would make the moonlight like sunlight to vampires in the Grimore. Anya, Giles, and Indira look for the Compass they need to keep Anya’s magic under control in their world to be able to use the portal back to her own. Once they find it, they decide Giles and Clem will stay behind to make sure they have somewhere to come back to. Anyanka arrives and the spell goes crazy.
5. Spike ends up in a graveyard in Anya’s world. Jonathon is haunting it and says he will use his resources to help him find his friends if he can get Anya to release him from the bind that holds him there. Ghouls arrive and start to attack Spike because they eat the dead. Spike fights them off and explains to Jonathon what happened. Jonathon tells him Spike was like a celebrity and has a giant tomb which Spikes sees for the first time. Giles and Clem land at the Sunnydale docks of Anya’s world. Anya lands in her own world alone. Tara thinks the spell she needs doesn’t change the entire vampire, but the skin into a sort of armor. She contemplates if the idea is to trick the sun. She wishes she had paid more attention to the book Giles had had in the Magic Box. She plans to get it. Tara says there are two parts of the spell. One involves calling on the sun gods. Vampires arrive to volunteer for Tara to experiment with the spell, but she fails. A new voice pops up from Tara. Kurgan … , the Author of the Grimore, is in Tara as well. Tara thinks he became immortal by putting himself in the book. Another witch is brought to Tara for more power. Indira is surprised at how normal the Sunnyvale is on the other dimension. Cordelia tells her they aren’t friends because she cannot afford to have them. The Master made her sister a vampire and starved her. He then locked Cordelia and her sister in a room together and Cordelia had to stake her. Clem and Giles start to make their way to the Magic Box. They find Anya’s dog Jasper. He talks and has Anyanka’s voice. The trip through the portal switched their minds/bodies. Tara goes to the Magic Box for the book she needs. She takes the flaming vampires with her and they start to set the store on fire. Tara takes her protection spell off them and they turn to ash. Anya tells her she is trying to help her, but Tara says she isnmt going to want help much longer. Jonathon finds Cordelia and takes her and Indira back to Spike. They decide their best course of action is to bring that world’s Spike back to life. Drusilla is upset that Tara went to the Magic box without her. She isn’t sure she can trust her. Giles and Clem are attacked and have to fend off demons while protecting dog Anyanka.
6. Indira pretends to cast a spell to bring back Spike. The ghouls start to come to her. Gile sea Clem end up in a zoo. Clem has to eat lions to win his fight. Tara returns to Drusilla with the book, but the two don’t trust each other. One of Drusilla’s minions comes to tell her Spike has returned from the dead. Drusilla leaves to go see if it is true, and Tara isn’t happy about it. Mr. Pickles, her monkey familiar, suggests Kurgan planted those feelings in her to get her what she needs to complete the spell, which would make him the ruler of all vampires instead of Drusilla. One of Drusilla’s minions comes in to tell Tara she thinks it is bad news if Spike really is back and she needs to complete the spell soon. Spike and Indira wait for Drusilla to show up. When she does, she reunites with Spike. He tells her his new young witch is very powerful and only needs one more item to complete the spell to allow them to walk in the sun: the gem of Amara. Spike points out the tomb where he found the gem in their reality. Drusilla and her minions go down and find a green gem set into a gold ring. Indira says she can use the gem to give all vampires its power. Tara experiments on Drusilla’s vampire and alters her body chemistry to think it is always midnight. After the spell is cast, the vampire leaves Tara weak and lets Cordelia in. Anya tries to body swap her dog Jasper and Anyanka into their proper bodies but something goes wrong. Clem and Giles get close to the Magic Box, but can feel the tremor of magic.
7. Drusilla is enamored with Spike and they make their way back to her layer with Indira. Cordelia plans to stop Tara, who begs for Cordelia to kill her. Cordelia plans to take her to Anya, but Tara is able to put a spell on Cordelia and escape. She gets to Althenia to take her witch power. Drusilla, Spike, and Indira arrive. Drusilla goes and kills the witch Tara is draining. Tara says she tried the spell on one vampire and it worked. Drusilla has Indira chain up Tara. Drusilla and Spike go to have sex. Indira pretends to look up Cordelia, but ends up freeing her from Tara’s spell. She isn’t sure they can trust Spike anymore because he hasn’t killed Drusilla and gave her the gem of Amara. Giles and Clem get to the Magic box and find Jasper, Anyanka, and Anya are merged into one body. Anya tells them they have bigger issues because Tara came and stole the book about Kurgan. They decide Giles will go back to his world and find the book and bring it back. Indira pretends to do the sunlight spell for Drusilla and Spike. Cordelia busts in and stakes Spike in the process, but he has the gem of Amara. Cordelia leaves with the Grimoire and Indira. Spike gives Drusilla the gem of Amara and tells her to wear it. Tara comes back saying Indira wouldn’t have been able to cast the spell without the Grimoire. She says once Anya has the book, she will be able to reverse any spell from it.
8. Cordelia and Indira arrive at the Magic Box. Giles returns with the book from his own dimension. Anyanka is the first vengeance demon to live free of a human, but she misses Anya. Anya admits she misses the power of being a vengeance demon. Drusilla and Spike keep Tara from absorbing more witches powers. Giles and Clem discuss the possibility of Spike’s betrayal. Anya is nervous about the possibility of merging with Anyanka, but Giles assures her that she will be fine if she is anything like his Anya. Cordelia and Indira train in the back room. Spike tells tara that Drusilla was always hers. Tara knows he isn’t who he says he is, but Spike doesn’t think she’ll care. Spike drives Drusilla and Tara to the magic box.
9. The fight starts. Indira tries to stake Drusilla, but is captured by her instead. Anya can feel Giles’ spell working and the three of them are separated. Anyanka wants Anya to merge with her, but Anya refuses and sends her away with a spell. Giles is hurt. Cordelia and Indira continue to fight Tara and Drusilla. The sun rises and Drusilla isn’t hurt by the light. Tara is shocked the spell worked. Anya heals Giles. He tells her Indira is the only one that can defeat Kurgan. Drusilla learns the truth about Spike, but decides she loves him anyway. He steps out into the sun and starts to burn. He takes the gem of Amara out of her pocket and she starts to burn instead. Drusilla rips it from him and Tara surrounds them in a ball of darkness to let them fight it out. Kurgan comes out and grabs Indira. Drusilla tries to seduce Spike, but he has a soul and cannot be evil with her. Cordelia tries to talk Tara back to the good side. Instead, Tara starts to shrink the darkness bubble around Spike and Drusilla. Anya saves them by casting a temporary eclipse spell. Indira gets free in the scuffle. Giles tells Indira she needs to bleed into the Grimoire and cast a spell to defeat Kurgan. His own slayer bleed into the book to protect slayers from it. Indira does the spell. Drusilla stabs Tara. Kurgan is pulled out of Tara. Cordelia is hurt, but Anya is able to heal her. Drusilla plans to leave with the gem, but realizes she doesn’t have it. She runs away into the sewer. Tara tells them Kurgan jumped to the Ring of Amara. Cordelia and Indira spar and Indira tells her she doesn’t have anyone to go back to. Cordelia tells her she can stay. Anya forgives Tara. Spike and Clem plan to go after Drusilla. Giles is sent back to his dimension. Drusilla returns to where her prisoners are and finds Mr. Pickles have been looking after them. She can’t understand what he says, but says he can stay. She is determined to find a way to walk in the sun. She contemplates finding Angelus to help her. She siphons power off one of her prisoners, Willow. A prisoner calls out promising to help her and she releases Ripper.