Mary tries to make Wilson say that he "loves" her, but Wilson thinks it's a big commitment and that they haven't known each other long enough to say those words to each other. Meanwhile, Simon and Ruthie are reading Matt's love letters to Heather and get caught. Matt tricks them by addressing one of the letters to "Mrs. Matt Camden". By this, Eric accidently finds the letter leading to think Matt and Heather got married over the summer, which worries himself, Annie and Heather's mom, Mrs. Cain. Lastly, Eric helps Lucy's friend, Laurie get closer to her mother.

When a cool, badass vampire named Spike comes to Sunnydale intent to use the Hellmouth's power to save his lover, Drusilla, he attacks Sunnydale High on Parent-Teacher Night to destroy the Slayer to prove his worth to the Anointed One. With all her friends' and families' lives at stake, Buffy needs to find a way to stop Spike and his vampire gang, while also having to lead her friends and her mom to the path of survival.

With Deep Space Nine under the control of the Dominion, the situation around the wormhole is out of the Federation's hands. Their only trump card is the mine field, which will continue to create new mines as others are detonated when any ship attempts to enter or exit the wormhole in the Alpha Quadrant. Three months later, the new residents of DS9 are having trouble disabling the mines. Fortunately for them, the three-month-long Dominion War finds them in a better position as Federation forces continue to lose ground to the new force in the Quadrant.

At Ares's request, Xena is judged by the Furies for not avenging the murder of her father and is punished by persecution and madness, leaving Gabrielle to try and solve the problem and reverse Xena's insanity.

When an former law professor passes away, Ally is asked to be a pallbearer as well as giving the eulogy at the funeral.