Rack (Buffyverse)
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Rack was a minor recurring fictional character on the UPN TV Show Buffy the Vampire Slayer during season six. He was portrayed by Jeff Kober.
Rack was an ambiguously evil warlock who appeared in only three episodes, "Wrecked", "Villains", and "Two to Go".
In "Wrecked," Amy talked Willow into paying Rack a visit after having exhausted all their own magics. Rack's hideout was cloaked, so that only demons and those with magic abilities could find it. Once inside, there was a waiting room with several people (who resembled heroin addicts in their mannerisms) and a back room, where Rack lived. Rack and Amy had had some sort of prior relationship, as Amy apologized for being gone so long and Rack knew that she had been a rat. After the pleasantries, it became increasing clear that Rack was the mystical equivalent of a drug dealer, as he would not share his magic until after Willow (whom he nicknamed "Strawberry") allowed him to violate her mentally. After that, Willow and Amy spent several hours with Rack, 'high' on magic. Willow's addiction to magic became immediately more severe, and she went back to Rack's apartment the next night with Dawn grudgingly in tow. After being chased by a demon (a side effect of Rack's spell), and an injury sustained to Dawn's arm during a car accident, Willow renounced her use in magic and severed her contact with Rack and Amy.
It wasn't until "Villains," that Rack appeared again when Warren Mears accidentally shot and killed Tara Maclay, Willow's girlfriend during a botched assassination attempt on Buffy. Warren paid Rack handsomely for protection when he got word that the Slayer had survived, but Rack warned him that Buffy was the least of his problems compared to what was coming, Willow. Rack did give Warren protection spells and even some magical weapons, but was then visited by Willow who killed the somewhat unstable warlock by sucking his life force into hers, giving her a much needed magical boost.
According to Clem, Rack had a thing against demons of his kind, but this was only mentioned and never realised.
