Upon defeating The First Evil: Halitosis which was ever to inflict itself upon humanity, Buffy Summers, her sister Dawn, and her friends, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, and others thought they’d also closed the Hellmouth out of which their adversary and other forces of darkness had crept and crawled during the past seven years. However, Summers’ one-time mentor and, according to some, her ex-lover, Rupert Giles informed her that there was another Hellmouth in Cincinnati, Ohio, of all places.