willow shows buffy a picture of the demon that stung her and tries to comfort her friend. buffy confesses to willow that in the beginning of her slayer life, she told her parents about vampires and was put in a clinic for her supposed insanity (a period covered in the "buffy" comic "slayer, interrupted"). buffy wonders if she's still there and therefore sunnydale really doesn't exist, but willow assures her that isn't true. xander and spike patrol for the demon that hurt buffy; they subdue and capture it.