Fed up of her controlling father treating her like she is just 900, the three thousand year old demon leaves her home dimension and, in human form, Kathy Newman enrols at UC Sunnydale and finds herself rooming with The Slayer. The two don't exactly hit it off and matters become worse when Kathy finds out that her father is looling for her. Knowing that he can sense a person's soul she starts taking Buffy's piece by piece so that she can keep her identity hidden. Fortunately for Buffy, Giles and Willow come up with a spell to reverse the effects before Kathy can take the last piece and Kathy returns home with her father.

Maggie Walsh, by day professor of psychology at UC Sunnydale, by night, a scientist in charge if a secret government facility knows as The Initiative, an organisation that captures and experiments on vampires and demons. But Maggie has a deeper secret even than this, one that is kept firmly behind the doors of room 314. A super-soldier she is creating made from human, demon and mechanical parts. Not content with this, she is also feeding her human soldiers behaviour modifying drugs, causing them to be stronger and faster.

Things begun to go wrong in Maggie's world when her favourite, Riley Finn, becomes involved with The Slayer. He introduces Buffy to The Initiative and at first, Maggie welcomes her as a valuable member of the team, but Buffy's naturally inquisitive nature threatens Maggie's secret and she sends her on a suicide mission. When she inevitably fails she loses the trust of Riley.

But there is worse in store for Maggie when her creation, known as Adam turns on her, killing her swiftly and then reanimating her to become part of his army of demonoids. She finally meets her real end when Buffy becomes a super-super being herself, channeling the powers of her friends and the First Slayer to beat Adam.

Occupying an abandoned Frat house on the campus of UC Sunnydale, Sunday and her gang get their kicks by picking off vulnerable Freshmen and then clearing out their dorms to make it look like they had left town. Sunday had a clever scam going until she messed with The Slayer. After at first getting the upper hand, Sunday soon finds herself on the wrong end of a stake when she breaks Buffy's Prom Parasol.

Giles' 'orgasm' friend from England, Olivia comes to visit a couple of times while Giles is enjoying his leisurely time 'bewteen jobs'. On her all too briev visits, Olivia soon learns that Giles' talk of vampires and demons back in the day wasn't all just made up to impress her, especially when The Gentlemen arrive in Sunnydale and steal the voices, and some of the hearts of the residents. Maybe this is why she never made another visit.

Parker Abrams is a normal UC Sunnydale student with a strong liking for one night stands. Charming, good looking, with a seemingly soft centre, he lures the female students to his bed. When he bumps into Buffy in the campus canteen, he makes her his next conquest. Unfortunately, the smitten freshman isn't so easily gotten rid of, despite his explanation that it was all just a bit of fun. Parker gets his comeuppance when Buffy falls under the influence of the cave-man making beer, Black Frost, and beats him with her cave-man club.

As lead singer of the band, Sly, Veruca is sexy and enigmatic, but three nights of the month, around the full moon, she turns into something else. A werewolf.

At their first meeting, Veruca and Oz share an animalistic attraction and come the full moon, Veruca wakes up next to a naked Oz. She is surprised to learn that he does not embrace the wolf inside him and locks himself in a cage. She tries to pursuade him that the wolf is the real him, but the next night Oz lures her to his cage and they again wake up naked together, which is how Willow finds them.

The next night, Veruca goes after Willow, but Oz gets to her before she can be harmed, the two werewolves fight and Oz ends Veruca's animal ways once and for all.

A member of The Initiative and friend to Riley Finn, Graham is not entirely happy when Riley's involvement with the Slayer made him see the grey between the black and white. Nevertheless, Graham remains a loyal friend to Riley and a loyal member of The Initiative, helping to fight Adam and miraculously living to see another day.

When The Initiative is disbanded, Graham leaves with the rest of them but returns when Buffy needs his help to persuade the fast deteriating Riley to get some help. This time when Graham leaves, he takes a heartbroken Riley with him.

Forrest Gates is, like his friends Graham and Riley a college student by day and a member of The Initiative by night. Like Graham he is not happy with Riley's involvement with the Slayer but remains his loayal friend, that is, until he loses in a fight with Adam and becomes one of his re-animated demonoids. His unlife ends when in the final battle with Adam when Riley kills him.

Can't even shout, can't even cry
The Gentlemen are coming by.
Looking in windows, knocking on doors,
They need to take seven and they might take yours.
Can't call to mom, can't say a word,
You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

The Gentlemen are four white skinned scary floating demons that require seven human hearts in order to survive. The only weapon that can be used agaisnt them is a human scream, so in order to reap their harvest, they first steal the voices of humans and then take thier hearts while they are still alive. When the Gentlemen arrive in Sunnydale, they steal the voices of the residents causing a wide spread panic and rumours of a laryngitis outbreak. But when they start taking hearts they are unprepared for the ingenuity and determination of the Slayer that resides in the town. Buffy finds their lair, then her voice and, letting out a piercing scream, casuing all their heads to explode.

Created by Maggie Walsh in Room 314 at The Initiative, Adam was a mixture of human, demon and mechanical parts. A super-solider who had the capacity to learn. On waking, Adam kills his creator and then goes on the rampage, interested to learn all he can about the human race before destroying them. Turning Maggie's plans into his own he kills Forrest and then re-animates him and Maggie, creating a family of beings like himself.

Finding Buffy to be an obstruction in his plans, he lures Spike to him and gets him to separate the Scoobies as only Spike know how, leaving Buffy alone and vulberable. This done, he actives a chip in Riley's chest which brings him into the fold. Unfortunately, Adam's plans go awry when Buffy uses the qualities of all her friends and the primal power of First Slayer to turn herself into a super-superbeing and defeat him.

After a long, hard battle against Adam, the scoobies return to Buffy's house to relax watching some movies. They soon find themselves hard and fast asleep and having the strangest dreams during which the Cheese Man appears offering a plate of cheese sqaures to each of them.

Way back when, The First Slayer was created by mixing a demon heart with a human girl, endowing her with the stregth and skill to combat the evil that walks the earth. After Buffy and the gang call on her powers to defeat Adam she hunts them all in their dreams. She further appears to Buffy in the desert to give her guidance, prophesising that 'death is her gift'. The First Slayer appears one final time to Buffy when she is given a box containing the First Slayer's story.