willow and buffy are talking in the kitchen. xander arrives at the house and finds buffy alone in the kitchen. he talks to her about spike, but she knocks him out cold and drags him into the basement, where willow is already bound and tape gagged. buffy finds dawn upstairs, after first opening a door and not finding her there, and chases her through the house as dawn pleads that she is real. dawn is bound and tape gagged in the basement with the others and with the chained demon.