Tara tells Willow a bedtime story as Willow tries to drift to sleep. It's about a kitten who went to the pound and met puppies and dolphins. Tara wants to stay up and look at spells so she can be a useful member of the Scooby Gang, but Willow convinces her to come to bed. although maybe not to sleep.

Giles has come around to Buffy's house and she tells Giles the truth about Dawn. They agonise over keeping it a secret from everyone else but decide it may be safer for Dawn and for their friends.

Glory escapes from the rubble of the collapsed building, she is severely pissed off and wants some revenge on that impudent girl.

Buffy has decided to move out of her gorgeous dorm room and back home because of her mother's illness and Dawn, and the gang helps her pack. Tara tries to make a joke but it goes right over everyone else's head. She doesn't feel like she is fitting in. As Tara leaves the room, Willow reminds her friends about Tara's upcoming birthday and the party at the Bronze that week.They'd forgotten and covered for it badly.

In the hospital locker room, a Lei-ach demon attempts to attack Ben (that nice intern who helped Joyce), but Glory comes out of the shadows and grabs him, in need of a favor.

Buffy and Xander research Glory, while talking about how little they know about Tara, and not knowing what to buy for the wicca who has everything. In a crypt, Buffy and Spike fight viciously with each other, and then Spike wakes from his daydream to find himself rather closely interwined with Harmony.

Tara arrives at the Magic Box, shocked to see that her father, brother Donny, and cousin Beth have all come to visit for Tara's twentieth birthday. Her family act quite strangely but no one else seems to pick up on it. Willow is slightly miffed that she wasn't introduced to Tara's relatives.

Buffy is overly protective of her sister and even stops her from going to a friend's house that is over the street. Riley thinks something is up with Buffy but since she won't tell him anything, he leaves. Tara's father expresses his distaste for her witchcraft, and says that he'd hoped that she would have grown out of it while she was at university. he informs her that she is going home with her family this very night. He also asks her if she's told her friends what happens on her birthday, she says that she hasn't.

Glory interogates the Lei-ach demon and discovers that she was fighting the Slayer. She is extremely embarrased to have sullied herself on a mere mortal. She tells him that she needs him and his friends to destroy the Slayer. At the magic shop, Tara casts a masking spell on the Scooby Gang.

Riley gets drunk at Willie's bar (although Wily isn't there and the bartender is trying to make it a slightly better establishment). A vampire named Sandy tries to pick him up, but he's not interested. Harmony's been busy listening to the grapevine and tells Spike about the plans for the Lei-ach demons to kill the Slayer. Spike grabs his coat and leaves, wanting front row seats to see the end of the Slayer.

Beth runs into Tara waling across campus and she tellstara off for neglecting her duties and how the men have had to lok after themselves while she's been gone. tara tells her that she's not going home with them. Beth realizes that Tara did a spell on her friends to keep them from seeing her demon. She threatens to tell Tara's dad on her.

At the magic shop, the Lei-ach demons appear, but because of Tara's spell, none of the gang can actually see the demons or see what they are fighting. The Scoobies take quite a beating from the demons, but luckily for them Spike turns up and lays his boot in when he realizes that Buffy is about to be killed. He saves her, but Buffy doesn't even see him (because he's a demon). Tara arrives in time to break her spell and allow Buffy to kill the rest of the demons. Tara's father comes in as Buffy is killing the alst one and lays into Tara. he tells the gang that the women in their family are part demon,. it comes into being on their 20th birthday and only the men of the family can control it. When Tara expresses that she doesn't want to leave, all of her friends stand in the way.

Spike decides to see if Tara is really a demon and punches her erally hard in the nose. he gets a lot of pain form the action, showing that she's not a demon. He concludes that her family only makes the females think that they're demons so that they can be controlled and kept as an obedient woman. he likes their style. Buffy sends the McClay's packing warning them that if they want Tara they have to come through all the Scoobies (apart from Spike).

The gang parties at the Bronze for Tara's birthday, showering her with gifts like a crystal ball (from Giles) and broomstick (from Dawn). Riley arrives late, but with a present. Willow and Tara slow dance and talk about how happy they are together, the camera pulls back to show them floating about a foot in the air. aw Bless.