Buffy ep 7.3 -- Same time, same place

Sunnydale airport 9:24 in the morning, Willow's plane arrives and Buffy, Dawn and Xander are waiting to greet her. They watch and wait, chatting about how she'll be, then realise that everyone's got off the plane and still no Willow.

And then...

Sunnydale airport 9:24 in the morning, Willow's plane arrives and Willow gets off, and is sadened to realise there's nobody there to greet her.

In a dark alley a random gang member gets got by something nasty, hissy and clawey.

Willow goes to Buffy's house at 10:21, finds nobody there and mopes around in her/Tara's room. Buffy, Xander and Dawn go to Buffy's house at 10:21 and are chatting about what could have happened to willow when they hear a noise up in Willow/Tara's room. Buffer, Xandy and Newt go upstairs to investigate, find nothing, everybody mopes and mulls.

Next day W finds Anya and they spend a few minutes alternately bitching at and empathising with one another (in an "I feel responsible", "you ARE responsible" sorta way). Anya brings W up to speed on what's happened while she was in rehab.

W goes to the school looking for scoobie-types, finds nobody except a skinless corpse. At exactly the same moment as she finds it Xander shows the same corpse in the same willow-less place to Fluffy. W finds spike who does a very convincing impression of being barking mad. Fluffy and Xandy go see spike, hear him talking to W, and think he's saying that W did the corpse-skinning (cos it's not like she hasn't done that before).

W goes to see Anya again, each asks if the other's responsible for the de-epidermised body, each denies it (well they would, wouldn't they), W proposes a spell (duh) A queries whether it's going to be difficult, time consuming or if it's gonna get all sexy. Unfortunately, they both keep their clothes on for the casting of the spell which pinpoints where all the demons are on a map of sunnydale. Anya spots herself "oooh, that's me! Hello" So which of the demons do they decide to go for -- the large cluster of demons in the School, or the one in a random cave elsewhere? Obvious really, the girls empathis and relate a little bit, before W teleports off to investigate the cave.

Back in chez Summers, Dawn in research-mode interupts Fluffer and Xandy's speculation that Willow's the killer by identifying the demon wot did it.

Spike follows the scent of blood left by the demon, and leads the scoobies to the cave; Willow arrives at the cave and crawls inside; the demon attacks dawn, paralysing her; B & X carry the incapacitated munchkin away, but not before blocking up the cave entrance, trapping W inside.

The demon attacks Willow, paralysing her and licking blood from her cut stomach, while taunting her about her friends' absence and elucidating on contemporary existensionalist philosphy (okay, I lied about one of those, see if you can guess which). Paralysed-but-posable Dawn is deposited on the settee in front of the TV while Anya tells them that W has gone looking for the demon in the cave.

They head to the cave, play a quick game of where's willow, before Buffy and Anya realise that only Anya can actually see Willow. The demon attacks and gets killed by the Fluffster with a sword and an eye-gouge (ouch). Everybody paralysed and not-visibile becomes not-paralysed and visible.

Willow tries healing herself magically, her and Buffy empathise and guff, and it transpires that the invisibility thing was a spell Willow accidently cast because she was afraid of seeing her friends again, so her nearly getting eaten by a demon was all just her own fault for being insecure.