"Potential" is the twelfth episode of the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Overhearing a conversation between Willow and Xander, feeling the weight of their concerns and her potential fate of death, she sneaks out the window.
Bringers of the First Evil appear on the scene to snatch the Potential Slayer, and Dawn realizes it is Amanda.
While Buffy takes the other girls down to the basement for training, Xander catches on to Dawn's disappointment about not being a Potential.
Vox, ranking it at #65 of all 144 episodes on their "Worst to Best" list, writes, "Dawn was always a tough character for Buffy to deal with.
This is perhaps the finest post-season five Dawn hour, as she hopes, deeply, that she might be a Slayer, only to slowly realize that's not the case.