Giles has come for dinner at the Summer s house, afterwards he asks Buffy how's she's feeling. It doesn't seem to be very well as she says how she's worried about her ability to love and be the Slayer. She excessively expresses her love to both Giles and Dawn, worried that something may happen and they may never know how much she loves them. Dawn thinks she's just being wierd.

Giles makes the suggestiob that he and Buffy go away for a couple of days to a sacred location in the desert, which Dawn encourages Buffy to do, if it will help her.

Spike receives his brand new Buffybot from Warren, complete with all the extra programming he ordered. Warren wants to leave immediately, but it takes a kiss from the robot for Spike to be convinced she's what he wants. Warren practically runs out the house. (Seemingly to be far enough away from Buffy when she finds out)

Glory complains to her minions about not having the Key and sends them out to watch over the Slayer and see who is new and special in her life now.

Giles and Buffy arrive in the desert for their "retreat." Giles performs a ritual that will create a guide for Buffy. (A kind of cosmic hokey-cokey) A beautiful mountain lion appears and directs Buffy along a path and into an open desert setting which is exactly the same as from her "Restless" dream. She says to herself that she recognises the place.

Spike and his Buffybot are in his crypt pretending to fight, which inevitably leads to sex. The sex becomes a major theme of their relationship as Buffybot is always looking to please Spike, and Spike enjoys having Buffy with him, robot or not. He tells her off for mentionig her progamming.

Xander, Anya, Tara, and Dawn gather at Xander's place where Tara places a protection spell on the room. Dawn secretly takes Anya's earrings from a table. Tara makes a comment that she's not as powerful a witch as Willow and Xander aks if Willow can pop along later to bloster the spell. Tara doesn't take offence at this, which is nice.

One of Glory's minions watches from outside one of the windows. Another minion watches Willow as she heads to Xander's after tutoring a student. She has lent the student a book and she warns him not to turn over the corners of the pages etc.

At the crypt, the Buffybot dresses before heading out to patrol (in a very impractical dress) and slay vampires, Spike, asleep, ignores her.

In the desert at night, Giles awaits Buffy's return while Buffy fends off the impending sleep, she's getting bored and cold waiting for something to happen.

Buffybot runs into Xander and Anya in a graveyard and her programming allows her to fool the two into thinking she's the real thing. Luckily Spike has her programmed to recognise her friends.

Spike arrives and desperately tries to convince Xander and Anya that he's just helping Buffy with a big group of vampires. A few vampires fortuitously show up and are all slain by the four.

Spike and the Buffybot end up on the ground, having sex again, but this time Xander and Anya see and hear it. Both Xander and Anya are horrified by what they saw.Willow puts it down to grief doing funny things, but surely she wouldn't do that.

Later, Xander goes to confront Spike and Buffy at the crypt, but Spike sends the Buffybot underground first. After a brief discussion, Glory's minions enter, knocking Xander unconscious (but he does get in a couple of good punches) and taking Spike.

Buffy wakes to a large fire buring in front of her and finds the First Slayer on the opposite side of the fire. The First Slayer now has a voice and she advises Buffy that love is center of Slayers and that it will bring Buffy her Gift. Buffy wants to know what her gift is; the First Slayer later answers that death is her gift before leaving. Buffy is not happy about this, but it seems to resonate with what Spike told her about the other two Slayers and their love of Death.

Worried that Spike has left her, the Buffybot leaves Xander lying unconscious at the crypt and goes to his place for help. Willow talks to the Buffybot about her supposed sexual relationship with Spike. The bot is superificaly programmed to recognise that Willow is her gay best friend and it is something she brings up in the conversation.

Willow discovers that Glory's minions took Spike and worries that he will tell Glory about the Key.

Upon receiving Spike, Glory is upset that he is not the Key (The Key has to be pure, and a vampire is not) but chooses to torture him in hopes that he knows where the Key is.

At the Summers's house, the gang gathers weapons and while the Buffybot goes upstairs to change, the real Buffy enters, confusing everyone again.

Both Buffy's end up in the same room at the same time and the gang straightens out all of the confusion. Buffy is upset that they couldn't tell a robot apart from the real her. They head for Glory's place, which Buffy knows the general location of. It's the posh side of town.

Meanwhile, Spike is getting brutally tortured by Glory who is not amused by his jokes and insistence upon not telling her what she wants to know. Spike calls ehr the God of bad home perms and she gets so annoyed that she throws him across the room, which enables him to break free and escape through the elevator.

As he reaches the bottom, the Scooby Gang is waiting there and they fight and defeat Glory's minions.In the fight though the Buffybot gets damages and slids to the ground in a shower of sparks.

At the Magic Shop, the gang talks about the fight while Willow works on the chipboards from inside the Buffybot. Buffy worries about whether or not Spike told Glory who the key is, he is evil after all. Willow mentions that there is one way to find out.

Xander and Giles reveal that they returned Spike to the crypt, actually feeling sorry for him for his condition. Spike rests in his crypt, his face a mess and his body not much better.

The Buffybot enters, worried about Spike and curious as to why he didn't tell Glory what she wanted. Spike reveals that he couldn't hurt the real Buffy like that, which leads to a kiss between the two.

Spike pulls back, realizing that it isn't his robot. The real Buffy tells him that the robot is gone, and that she is disgusted by the whole thing, and she'll never forget what he did for her and Dawn.