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"Restless" is the 22nd episode and the season finale of season four of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, characterized by bizarre dream settings which illustrate the four main characters' overall themes as well as providing extensive hints about future developments. Because of these dream sequences and the use of red curtains therein, this episode has been compared to Twin Peaks. The episode was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon. Following their victory over Adam by magically joining in "Primeval", Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles meet at Buffy's to relax with videos, one of them Apocalypse Now. They fall asleep before they even get through the FBI warning and are confronted by the First Slayer in their dreams. Each of the four Scoobies experience vivid dreams. The episode begins with Willow painting Sappho's love poem, Hymn to Aphrodite, in Greek onto Tara's back; she is then faced with the opening performance of Death of a Salesman, featuring Riley as "Cowboy Guy" (a part which does not, in fact, exist in the play as written), as part of a drama class she signed up for. Willow realizes with increasing uneasiness that she knows neither her lines nor