on their coffee date, willow fills tara in on all of the supernatural activities that tara has missed over the past months. anya interrupts them and tries to maneuver them into wishing harm to xander. she does the same with dawn at the magic box and with buffy at home; but no one takes the bait. xander shows up at buffy's house and anya leaves in a huff. buffy talks him out of following anya and he takes his aggressions out by kicking a lawn gnome on buffy's front lawn. when buffy doesn't recognize the decoration as something she put there, xander examines it and finds that it contains a small camera. they guess that it was placed by spike, who has more than once been caught watching the house in the past.