Late as usual but have a lovely time with your parents!
Interesting ideas as ever! It is such a big gap between the two episodes, isn't it? A lot must have happened in a week.
She's desperately trying to 'do the right thing', to be that girl she wants to be, that she hopes she still is.
It might be interesting to compare Spike and Dawn in this episode too; Buffy trying to do the 'right thing' but perhaps she doesn't do the right thing by her sister or him?