As the episode starts, Buffy's dying and Tara's dead. Paramedics arrive to take away Buffy to the hospital - no-one except Willow has figured out that Tara is dead yet, or even that she's hurt (she's inside the house). Willow goes black-and-red-eyed, and summons Osiris to bring Tara back to life. Osiris says no, because being shot is part of the natural order of things and that doesn't allow resurrection.Nightfall said:
While Buffy's in surgery at the hospital, Willow walks over to the Magic shop, freezes Anyanka (not literally block-of-ice freeze, more like a hold person) and absorbs the knowledge in various Black Magic books - literally absorbing, she puts her hands *in* the books and you see letters and symbols creeping up over her arms and face. Her hair turns black.
Jonathan and Andrew are in jail, arguing about stuff. Jonathan knows Warren has left then behind to hang, while Andrew thinks Warren is going to figure out some brilliant plan to rescue them.
Meanwhile, Warren is at a demon bar, bragging about how he killed the Slayer in her own back yard with a mere bullet. One of the vampires points out to him that there was a news thing on just a moment ago about a local girl who had been shot in her own backyard, but they had gotten her to the hospital in time and she was going to live, and since Slayers heal real fast he'd better start running.
Willow goes to the hospital where Buffy's in intensive surgery - it doesn't look all that good for her. Willow enters the operating theatre, tells the docs and nurses to get out, and uses magic to heal Buffy and extract the bullet.
Dawn comes home and wonders where everyone is, when she finds Tara dead in the bedroom. She blacks out.
Spike is in some village on the African savannah. He seeks out some major demon, demanding to be restored to what he used to be. The demon tells him that there's no way he can survive the ordeals, but Spike is persistent.
Warren locates Rack and tells him he needs protection from the Slayer and that he can pay well. Rack points out to him that the Slayer isn't the one he should be worried about, it's the witch. He pays Rack and gets some unspecified protection. We then see Warren get into a bus station and buy a ticket to Mexico.
Willow, Buffy and Xander are in Xander's car trying to catch up with Warren's bus. They do so, Willow stops the bus and makes Warren leave. However, when she is about to kill him she learns that it's just a Warrenbot. Buffy and Xander keep trying to talk some sense into her, but she ignores them and eventually zaps them to the ground and vanishes.
Back in Sunnydale, Buffy and Xander come home and find Dawn and Tara's body. Dawn is totally devastated. They have a little chat about the whole revenge thing, with Buffy being adamant that since Warren is a human they can't kill him - that's a matter of mundane justice, she only deals in the supernatural. Both Xander and Dawn seem like they'd be very happy to kill Warren, but bow to Buffy's point of view. They decide to go to the Magic shop to see if they can find a locator spell to find Willow or Warren, and to drop Dawn off at Spike's crypt so she'll be safe - despite Spike's actions last episode, he still does have the chip and can't harm Dawn.
Willow is in Tara's dorm room at Stevenson Hall, casting a spell at the blouse she was wearing when Tara got killed to make it show the way to her killer.
Xander arrives at the Magic Shop just as Willow's freezing-spell has worn off on Anya, asking her if Willow has been there and if she can help them find her. Anya explains what happened, and says she can find Willow by following the need for vengeance. Xander realizes that Anya has become a vengeance demon again after the aborted wedding, but seems strangely cool about it.
Buffy enters Spike's crypt with Dawn in tow and finds Clem there instead of Spike. Clem tells her that Spike has left and he doesn't know when he'll be back, but he agrees to babysit Dawn.
Willow has located Warren in a forest somewhere, and keeps hunting him through it. Warren surprises her with an axe in her back, but she tells him that an axe isn't going to cut it, removes the axe from her back, and takes up the hunting again.
Buffy meets up with Xander and Anyanka, learns that Anya's back on her job, and then they proceed to look for Willow.
Despite Warren's tricks (a flying bomb, and a paralyzing magical blob) Willow catches up to him and ensnares him. First she summons up an image of Katrina (the ex-girlfriend he mind-controlled, raped and killed), and then she starts torturing him, by making the bullet that nearly killed Buffy slowly enter him, telling him that it will disrupt his internal organs and then hit his spine, destroying his central nervous system. When he starts pleading for his life, she shuts him up by making stitches close up his mouth. Finally, Buffy, Xander and Anyanka find the two. Apparently not wanting to fight her "friends", Willow says "Bored now" and instantly causes Warren's skin to be flayed from his body, killing him in the process. Then she teleports away - to be continued...
I hope some people have their life insureance paid up. Cause I don't think even a slayer can stop a witch on the war path... 
