It starts out pretty much the same way as the last one, with two hooded figures chasing down and killing a young woman, this time in Germany. Willow finishes up her time in England, but is worried about if her friends will accept her again. (There is very little of her and Giles in this episode, similar to last week). Spike is back, and his hair is back to normal after a couple of scenes. A giant worm is stalking a girl, which turns out to be his ex-girlfriend. Anya turned him into a giant worm after granting his ex a wish. When the Scoobies go to Anya to reverse the spell, she notices something different about Spike, but he hits her before she can say anything else. Then Buffy fights Spike, who insists he is still a Big Bad. Xander talks Anya into reversing the spell, but unfortunately, Spike was in the process of stabbing the worm, and ends up stabbing the ex-boyfriend instead. Spike is pretty much completely nuts, with a lot of talking to himself, and he tells Buffy in a roundabout way that he has his soul back, and all of the people that he has harmed in the past are now haunting him, and that is what is making him crazy (he hears all of their voices).

I think that covers pretty much most of the show. The whole worm battle was anticlimatic, and the show was more to futher the storyline and show the relationships of Buffy/Spike and Xander/Anya (IMO anyway).

The one thing that everyone agrees on is that there is something big coming their way, bigger than they have ever seen before.

Dawn: Xander, little drool.

Were we supposed to understand half of what Spike was blabbering towards the end of the episode? Because it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I guess he did come off as being pretty crazy.

So far Season 7 has been pretty average. I'm hoping things start to pick up in the next one or two episodes.

So I guess if Spike is to be believed, he didn't go to Africa to become a full fledged vampire, but rather for the purpose of becoming his soul. So was his dismay at the end of last season just because of his newfound conscience?

Be a neat twist if becoming "what he once was" included getting all the souls of people that he drank over the years.

One other thing: did the girl in the preview from next episode, sitting on the floor with Willow, look like the girl Xander was hitting on in this episode?

I wonder if that thing taunting Spike at the end of last week is something that only he can see? He was obviously tormented by many things this week. Also, what is with those people whacking young girls everywhere? Strange.