Previously on Buffy: Buffy rescues Riley from the Initiative; Adam recruits Spike to help him with his Big Plan (said plan being as yet unrevealed to the viewing audience, but sure to be excruciatingly dull, whatever it is); Willow chooses Tara and explains the romantic nature of the relationship to Buffy; Buffy tells Riley about dating Angel; Buffy smacks Angel, who smacks her back; Buffy attempts to twist the knife by telling Angel about her new boyfriend.

With a little martial drumroll, we see that Colonel McFlabby is speaking with a white-haired important looking gent over video phone. Col. McFlabby explains that the Initiative soldiers are doing a great job capturing HSTs, but are having morale problems, due to things like the death of Professor Walsh and the escape of Adam. Professor Walsh? Professor Walsh? Where have I heard that name before? Did she used to be on this show? I can't quite recall. Oh right, she was the instructor of the only class Buffy and Willow ever attended. Some academic-advisor type should tell those two that they're never going to finish in four years if they only take one class a semester. Back at Exposition HQ, Col. McFlabby continues to explain that they are running out of containment space for the captured HSTs. He also says he's just running the Initiative until the unidentified white-haired man decides what will become of it. White-Haired Gent makes mention of the "incident" with Riley Finn and says the government wants him back. McFlabby replies Finn will be found in the vicinity of "the girl," and White-Haired Gent says he doesn't have much information on Buffy. McFlabby assures him that "she's just a girl." Perhaps we should change his name and rank to Major Error?

Segue to Spike telling FrankenFlash, "She's a lot more than that." He assures Adam that Buffy is dangerous. Didn't they have this same damn conversation last week? And maybe even the week before? What's with the filler in the past few episodes? Adam drones that Buffy "makes things interesting," and I really don't think Adam is anywhere near qualified to even mention the word "interesting," but Spike, addressing Adam as "Mr. Bits," tells him he doesn't get it and insists that "Little Miss Tiny" is going to be right in the thick of Adam's melee when it goes down. Adam expresses no surprise and ruminates that he's counting on that. Meanwhile, I'm counting out my supply of No-Doz, as I can see this will be an Adam-intensive episode, and I'd like to be able to stay awake enough in order to write this recap and fulfill my contractual obligations.