Grave

"Grave" is the 22nd and last episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

While Xander and Dawn whisk away Jonathan and Andrew for an unknown sanctuary, Anya and Buffy take on the very evil Dark Willow at the Magic Shop using Anya's newfound demon powers and Buffy's Slayer abilities, until Giles suddenly appears back in town after learning of Willow's turn towards evil, where he takes her on and subdues her with some borrowed magicks of his own. But Willow has a few tricks up her sleeve and gets Anya to help her escape.

At daybreak, the final conflict approaches. While Jonathan and Andrew take advantage of the chaos to slip away, Buffy finds herself fighting side-by-side with Dawn against underworld demons conjured by Willow to kill them, while she rallies her dark powers on the ruins of a Satanic temple to bring about the end of the world and every good person in it once and for all.

Meanwhile, Spike's African sojourn comes to a climax when he endures hours of physical and mental pain in his demon fighting opponents and at the end gets his wish... of a soul.

Quotes and trivia

 * The Magic Box is destroyed in this episode.
 * The incident Buffy and Giles are laughing at occurred in "Normal Again", in which a demon's poison made Buffy believe she was in a mental institution for dreaming up Sunnydale.
 * This is the only Buffy season finale not written and directed by Joss Whedon.
 * As the camera pans across the destroyed Magic Box, and comes rest on Willow's boots, one of the books on the floor is a novel by William Shatner
 * The legend of the Slayer says that when one Slayer dies, another takes her place. This happened the first time Buffy died, resulting in two slayers.  However, when Buffy died at the end of Season 5, no slayer replaced her at the beginning of Season 6 as before.  No mention of this is made at all in season six until Buffy says "But it was my time, Giles; someone would have taken my place", and even then it's only a sidelong reference to an event that didn't happen.  No explanation is given as to why another Slayer never appeared at Buffy's death. Some believe that the lineage was passed along to Faith. This was confimed.