Buffy is hospitalized for the flu after she gets an elevated temperature that causes her to pass out. On the first night, when her fever is high, she sees a strange looking man, not quite human, following a little boy along the hallway. Later, the little boy is being taken from his room, dead, although apparently from natural causes.
The next day, when the Scoobies visit Buffy, she tells them about what happened and asks them to research her demon. There is some doubt among the ranks that Buffy might be trying to conjure up a demon that she can actually fight since she can't fight death and disease, plus there is the very recent death of Miss Calendar at the hands of Angelus that she failed to stop.
To me, this episode is just boring. The demon is not that interesting and the whole thing seems stagebound by the hospital setting and Buffy's illness. I give it a 6/10 because it has a few good scenes in it - Cordelia flirting with a very non descript hospital security guard so Xander can do some recon and Xander courageously standing up to Angelus when he tries to get past Xander to get into Buffy's hospital room when she is first brought in and is basically helpless. Finally there is Cordelia's unique definition of "tact" - "Tact is just not saying true stuff"
