"Same Time, Same Place" is the third episode of the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
[1][2] At the airport, Buffy, Dawn, and Xander wait for Willow to get off her plane from England and talk about how uncomfortable they feel about the situation.
Buffy, Xander, and Dawn return home and talk about how Willow did leave England and wonder where she may have ended up.
The next morning, Willow visits the damaged Magic Box shop and finds Anya cleaning up.
Willow walks the halls of Sunnydale High and proceeds down to the basement where she finds Spike acting insanely.
Buffy and Xander try to get information from him, but Spike is simultaneously conversing with Willow, so his words make little sense.
Willow goes to Anya at her apartment for help in finding the demon that skinned the man at the construction site.
The demon paralyzes his victims with his nails, and then eats strips of skin from the body and drinks the blood.
Buffy and Xander take Dawn out of the cave and cover up the entrance, unintentionally trapping Willow with Gnarl.
The website Women at Warp compares the mutual-invisibility situation with the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase."
"When LaForge and Ro end up out of phase with their timeline, they walk around witnessing normal life happening all around them, no one able to see or hear their cries for help.
Club said the episode, "does a fine job of doubling back when necessary to show how all the characters are sharing spaces without realizing it.