Buffy is annoyed when her sister Dawn continuously disrupts her training sessions with Giles as well as breakfast at home.
Joyce asks Buffy to take Dawn shopping for school supplies, but Riley reminds her they had already made plans.
The gang realizes that a pack of vampires raided the shop for books on how to defeat the Slayer, under Harmony's leadership.
While unpacking in their new place, Tara and Willow discuss how Dawn is having a hard time as the outsider of the Scooby Gang.
On patrol, Buffy is fuming about the lecture she received from her mother about allowing Dawn to see a dead body.
Before being cast, Trachtenberg, a fan of the show, had written a letter to Joss Whedon that suggested how she could become a character on Buffy.
Mark Rabinowitz of Paste Magazine argues that, at this point of the series, "the ensemble was so large that Dawn's "Zeppo" moment never materialized.
"[2] Vox, ranking it at #101 of all 144 episodes on their "Worst to Best" list, and calling her "the Scrappy Doo of Buffy," writes, "Dawn comes off as a little more bratty and hard to deal with than she might have been otherwise.