The Wish

On a nice Sunday afternoon, Buffy is - what else? - fighting a demon. Once the slimy creature is slayed, she discusses with her friends their rough relationship situations. Both Xander and Willow are very willing to do anything to get their former significant others to forgive. In her room that night, Cordelia burns pictures of the entire Scooby Gang while listening to Xander's 60-plus messages on her machine.

Cordelia tries to show that she's completely over Xander by returning to her old friends, but finds that her relationship with him has done permanent damage to her reputation. Before publicly humiliating her, Harmony introduces Cordelia to a new girl, Anya. Willow tries to talk to Oz, but he tells her to just leave him alone. Then, after being scorned again by her former friends, Cordelia runs into Anya and she tells the new girl she's ready to show Xander just how over him she is.

At the Bronze, Cordelia flirts with just about every guy there and flaunts it in Xander's face. He, Buffy and Willow fail to get over their moping, but find some consolation in chocolate. When Cordelia makes a run from the Bronze, Buffy follows to talk but they are interrupted by a vampire. Buffy slays while Cordelia is shoved into a pile of trash for Harmony and the rest of the sheep to see.

Cordelia reaches the conclusion that Buffy is the cause of all her troubles. After Anya gives her her lucky necklace, she goads her into making a wish. Cordelia wishes Buffy never came to town. Anya, now with a monster's face, turns to Cordelia and growls, "Done." In a flash of light, Cordelia is transported to an alternate universe. There, the slayer never came to town, the Master was freed and all people live in fear of his vampire minions.

Everyone dresses in dark clothing since vampires are attracted to bright clothes, and the living must be in by curfew. Cordelia is back to her high popularity status, but she's not clued in on what this alternate Sunnydale is like. When the bell rings, everyone rushes home to be indoors before the sun sets. Cordelia, however, takes her time and unknowingly walks right in to danger. She runs into Xander and Willow, clad in leather. They are vampires. Undead, the two make an interesting couple. Giles, Oz, Larry and Nancy (another member of the alternate Scooby Gang), save her. They are the new Scooby Gang.

The Bronze has become vampire central. Willow and Xander meet there with the Master, and relay that Cordelia mentioned the Slayer before she was rescued. Cordelia wakes up at the library and tells Giles all about the stupid wish she made and that if he brings Buffy to Sunnydale, everything will be OK. Just then, Xander and Willow arrive. Giles is locked in the big cage and must watch as the two feed on Cordelia. Once Giles breaks loose from the locked cage, Larry and Oz arrive and they take Cordelia off to the incinerator, but not before Giles takes Anya's necklace from Cordelia's neck.

Willow and Xander return with the good news, and Willow is rewarded with getting to play with the "puppy." The "puppy" is Angel. He's been chained up in a cage and kept for the torturing pleasure of the Master and his minions. Willow and Xander torture him by throwing lit matches onto exposed chest. Meanwhile, Giles had discovered the meaning of the necklace. On his way home, he finds vampires loading people into the back of a truck. He frees the people, but is then caught himself. He's saved by a very different and slightly scarred Buffy Summers.

The long-haired and very tough Slayer is filled in on the situation of Anyanka, a genie that grants the wishes of scorned women. She finds out that the Master is in town and goes off to kill him. Upon arriving at the Bronze, she doesn't find any vampires except for Angel. He tells her he waited for her in Sunnyvale, but she never came. Then the Master rose and chose to keep him alive so he could suffer. Buffy frees him and they leave for the Factory. There, the Master has set up a system to mass produce human blood for vampires.

Most of the surviving humans of Sunnydale have been captured and are locked up while the Master gives a speech about his plans. A girl -- one of Harmony's followers -- is chosen out of the crowd to go first. By inserting tubes into her body, she is drained of her blood. As the Master is about to drink, Buffy shoots her handheld crossbow but the bolt is intercepted by Xander. A fight breaks out and the people are set free. When trying to save Buffy from Xander, Angel takes a crossbow bolt to the chest and dies.

At Giles' apartment, he calls Anyanka. She's furious because he's a man (remember, she's matron demon of scorned women). She grabs him by the throat and begins to choke him. Giles eventually rips the necklace off of her neck. Back at the factory, Buffy stakes Xander and he dies. Then Oz runs over and pushes Willow into a broken piece of wood, killing her. Many other minions are slayed, and then finally the Master descends from his stage to fight. He snaps Buffy's neck and she falls to the ground, dead.

Giles breaks the necklace, hoping that by some small chance the world they have come to know could possibly get better if Cordelia's wish was broken. Another flash of light, and Cordelia's back at school, making her wish. Anya says, "done," but nothing happens. Cordy continues to make wishes, and Anya continues to say, "done," but nothing happens.