

Tara's death causes Willow to descend into darkness and unleash all of her dark magical powers. Willow tries to resurrect Tara but fails. After Buffy thwarts his plans multiple times and the Trio breaks apart, Warren then attacks Buffy with a gun but accidentally kills Tara with a stray bullet. Warren is shown to be the only competent villain of the group, and his capacity for evil is demonstrated by the attempted rape of his ex-girlfriend, which leads to her death. The Trio would often use monsters such as vampires and demons to assist them.

They also begin to deal with The Trio, a group of nerds led by Warren Mears who use their technological and magical proficiency to attempt to kill or neutralize Buffy and take over Sunnydale, a goal they had in mind since the beginning of the season. Despite their separation, Tara is still devoted to helping Willow with her addiction, leading to their reconciliation. Tara becomes concerned and challenges Willow to go a week without magic, but Willow gives in to her addiction, causing Tara to leave her. When Anya can't find anyone who wishes vengeance on Xander, and after Buffy has broken up with Spike, Anya and Spike seek solace in a one night stand. Anya reverts to a vengeance demon once more. On the wedding day of Xander and Anya, a magician, seeking his own vengeance against Anya, tricks Xander into calling off the wedding by showing him a false future where they are both miserable. When a demon briefly traps everyone in the Summers' house, Dawn's feelings are revealed and Buffy promises to help mend their relationship and spend more time together. For different reasons, Buffy and Spike are both emotionally tormented by the relationship, and Buffy hides it from her friends.ĭawn is happy to have her sister back, but Buffy's depression causes Dawn's feelings of alienation to lead to kleptomania. Giles returns to England after realizing that Buffy has become too reliant on him, while Buffy takes up a fast-food job for money and develops a sexually passionate, but eventually dysfunctional, relationship with Spike. She is therefore traumatized by her resurrection and this causes her to fall into a deep depression for most of the season. Although her friends believe that they have taken her out of Hell, Buffy had actually been in Heaven since her death (a fact that is revealed to her friends later in the season). At the beginning of season six Willow resurrects Buffy with a powerful spell.
