In Season Six he returns after Buffy is resurrected, then leaves again so that his presence won't hold her back from growing strong and independent.

Though he returns to Buffy in Season Eight, Angel was possessed and killed Giles.

In Season Eight, he returns to work as a mole for Buffy, infiltrating the organization of the villain Twilight.

* Buffy Summers, after she returns from running away in " Dead Man's Party "

When Buffy tricks her into leaving town before the impending apocalypse, Dawn adamantly returns to fight against the First, during which she battles alongside Xander and once again proves her worth by killing several Ubervamps and survives.

Drusilla returns to Sunnydale in the episode " Crush " to persuade Spike to join Darla and herself in reforming their " family " unit, but instead, Spike seizes the opportunity to try to prove his love for Buffy by offering to stake Drusilla.

Angel himself returns to Sunnydale at least four times in Buffy seasons 4, 5 and 7.

Her minions destroyed, Harmony returns to Spike for protection until it becomes clear that Spike's infatuation with Buffy has become an obsession ( cf.

After Buffy managed to kill the uber-vampire, the First lays low for a few weeks, then returns to psychologically torment the Potential Slayers.

She returns to Sunnydale in season seven, not only to help Buffy and the Scoobies, but to perform in a position of leadership.

In the third season, Buffy returns to Sunnydale after attempting a new start in Los Angeles.

To protect Dawn as well as tend to Joyce after she has brain surgery, Buffy moves out of her dorm and returns to the family home.

* When Buffy returns to the school while possessed, the doors she kicked open to escape from the swarm of wasps are undamaged.

On Halloween night, Buffy persuades Willow to wear a black mini-skirt and a long-sleeved crop shirt, but Willow's shyness returns ; when Buffy goes to answer the doorbell, she covers up with her ghost costume.

Later, as they discuss Angel's transformation in the library, Buffy realises that having sex with Angel is what's caused him to turn evil and leaves in distress, returns home and, heartbroken, cries.

* Dawson's Creek: When Angel returns to help Buffy and shows jealousy towards Spike, Buffy gets annoyed and says, " Are you just going to come here and go all Dawson on me every time I have a boyfriend?

When Spike returns to the house to find Buffy has found the scythe, he says "... fulfilled your mission, found the Holy Grail.

When Buffy returns to her dorm room on campus, she finds all of her belongings missing and a note similar to that found in Eddie's room.

Buffy returns to her dorm room and finds Kathy there.

In " The Harsh Light of Day ", Buffy tries to return to the dating pool, and guest star James Marsters, reprising his role as Spike, returns to Sunnydale for a gem that will make him invincible.

* When Angel first returns to the office after becoming human, Cordelia worriedly demands, " Did you do it with Buffy?

Buffy returns to Whistler, who tells her that if Angelus has awoken Acathla, only Angelus ' blood can again defeat him, in the process sending both evil beings to hell.

When Dawn learns of her origin, she resorts to self-harm and runs away from home, until Buffy assures her they are real sisters no matter what, securing it with a blood oath.

While home alone one night, Dawn is forced to perform a solo exorcism to protect what she believes to be her mother from a demon, though it is revealed to be The First Evil attempting to cause Dawn to doubt her bond with Buffy, which she does for several episodes following this.

Dawn's feelings of neglect begin to resurface as Buffy spends time training the potentials now living in their home.

At one point, she confronts Buffy in her own home, openly threatening to kill Buffy's friends and family and force Buffy herself to watch her do so.

Giles, on his way home, is nearly captured by vampires who are herding humans for the plant ; he is rescued by Buffy, the Slayer, who in this reality is cold and cynical, resembling Faith.

As Buffy establishes herself in school in early episodes, Joyce, who is recently divorced, is preoccupied with setting up their home and running an art gallery.

As a result of their confrontation, Joyce gives Buffy an ultimatum that she either stay at home or never come back.

Many scenes showing Joyce giving love and support to Buffy take place in their home, establishing it as center of motherly devotion, stability, and safety.

The third season opens with Buffy returning home from Los Angeles at the end of " Anne ".

Kristine Sutherland and her family moved to Italy to live, so she starred in only five episodes in the season, including the first one, " The Freshman ," when Buffy comes home during her bewildering first week at college to discover that Joyce has filled her room with packing crates from the art gallery.

Joyce appears in four episodes after her death in " The Body ", first as a young woman in season five's " The Weight of the World ": Buffy has a recurring but false memory of her parents bringing Dawn home as a newborn.

In the garden of their new home, Drusilla gets a vision about Buffy meeting with death.

Giles drives Buffy home and she feels awful for putting her friends in serious danger from Angelus.

With her battle-honed abilities, Cissie ends up taking home the gold, and becomes something of a celebrity, guest-starring on Superboy's favorite TV show, " Wendy the Werewolf Stalker " ( a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ).

Buffy arrives home and sees the flowers sent from Joyce's suitor.

The long opening shot of Buffy coming home and finding Joyce was filmed with one hand-held camera in constant movement as she walks through the house to the phone and back to her mother again.

Buffy becomes upset when she learns that Dawn is spending the night at her friend Janice's house, but she decides it is better for her to go to the Bronze with her friends than to stay at home and brood.

After Buffy and Eddie separate, he is killed by a group of vampires and this group then go to his dorm room, steal all of his belongings, and leave a fake note from Eddie claiming that he decided he couldn't handle the stress of college and went home.

Joyce did not expect to see Buffy home so early in the semester, and because of this she has been using her daughter's room as extra storage space for the gallery.

After the Dingoes wrap, Oz gets ready to take Willow home and Parker volunteers to take Buffy back to her dorm, since it isn't safe outside.

Walking home in a dazed state, Willow walks in front of an oncoming car, which Buffy can't save her from, but Riley happens to be there and does.