[4] Buffy is leading a squad of Slayers—including three named Leah, Rowena, and Satsu—in a raid on a large, dilapidated church protected by a forcefield.

There are two Slayers posing as decoys of her, lest she become an easy target; one literally underground and another in Rome publicly partying and dating the Immortal.

Working with Xander, who is running things at Slayer headquarters in Scotland (Buffy refers to him as a Watcher despite his objections) with a team of computer workers, psychics and mystics, including a Slayer named Renee, Buffy and her squad find three monstrous demons.

Buffy tells Xander to send a copy of the symbol to Giles, when another Slayer finds the machine that generated the force field, also presumably belonging to the victims.

A government expedition is being led sixty feet under the Hellmouth, but is cut short when one of the exploratory members encounters something.

Elsewhere, General Voll and his assistant discuss possible plans to destroy Buffy and her Slayers, from Amy Madison to a nuclear bomb.

As the Slayers fight the zombies, both sides taking casualties, Buffy is visited in her dreams by a mysterious figure.

The figure in the duster and red shirt is revealed to be Ethan Rayne, a former friend of Giles and chaos-worshipping sorcerer.

Giles contacts a demon of the same breed as those killed in Part 1, asking for information about the symbol found on the bodies.

As he prepares to torture and mutilate Willow, Warren tells how Amy found and rescued him from death, she is now his 'skin'.

When the portal is opened, Voll has already set up a high powered energy cannon to blast anyone on the other side of the wormhole.

Fortunately for Buffy, Xander had already taken the necessary precautions by rigging a large mirror to reflect the energy blast through the portal, destroying the cannon and leaving Voll's squad badly damaged and uncoordinated.

Slayer Scythe in hand and Satsu at her side, Buffy takes on the entire squad, mortally wounding many.

This and an illusion of Catherine Madison (Amy's body-stealing mother) allows Buffy's group to win, at least temporarily.

She discovers Voll has slain Ethan Rayne and is a follower of the concept of 'Twilight', the recurring symbol supposedly means the end of the Slayer line.

Such instances include The Master, her mother Joyce Summers, Angel, Faith, Caleb, Buffy's doodled notebook ("The Prom,") Joyce's corpse ("The Body,") and Buffy, Willow, Xander's high school graduation ("Graduation Day.")

Entertainment Weekly was quoted praising that "creator Whedon effectively sucks devotees back into his Hellmouth.