5.21 - The Weight of the World

Buffy, feeling like a failure, has retreated into herself, reliving the same moments in her mind.

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After Glory got away with Dawn last episode, Buffy had a bit of a collapse. She has retreated into her own mind, and she is going through the same memories over and over. Willow, in an effort to save Buffy, uses magic to go inside Buffy's head and sees what is going on.

Buffy feels completely responsible for Dawn and at the same time, she keeps remembering what the first Slayer told her, that her gift is death. In her mind, she has failed Dawn and thus caused her death.

Willow snaps Buffy out of it and they regroup with the team, where Giles tells her that Dawn is to be bled dry to open a gate into Glory's home dimension. By opening this gate, all dimensions will collapse into one and every evil will spill into our reality. The only way to stop this is by the death of Dawn. One way or the other, Dawn has to die.

Rating: 9/10