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Season 3, Episode 15
Written by Marti Noxon
Directed by Michael Gershman
Original Airdate: 23 February 1999
"Something made us different. We're warriors.
We're built to kill."
Faith
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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Buffy dreams that she is underwater and being held
there by Allan. As she breaks away, and reaches the surface, Faith is
there and pushes her back under. When Buffy wakes, she finds Joyce is
watching the news and they're covering the murder of Allan Finch.
The next day, Wesley instructs the two Slayers to investigate the
murder, which Buffy is fearful about obeying. Cordelia shows up briefly,
looking for a book and Wesley ogles at her before he finds out that
she's a student. Buffy and Faith go to an empty classroom where Faith
wonders if Buffy is going to rat her out; Buffy wants to tell Giles what
happened. Buffy tries to talk to Willow but she's still hurt by Buffy
spending so much time with Faith and ignoring her. The police inspect a
dumpster which a woman saw blood on, as Angel watches from the shadows.
Mayor Wilkins shreds Finch's files, and Mr. Trick presents him with
information that suggests that Finch was killed by a Slayer with a
wooden stake.
Meanwhile, the Slayers go to Finch's office in search of answers but
find all his files are gone. As they try to leave, they spot Mayor
Wilkins and Mr. Trick talking, but luckily aren't caught. While walking
on the streets later on, they get into an argument over Faith's lack of
emotion for her situation. Buffy tries desperately to convince Faith
that just because they're Slayers they don't have the right to take the
life of a human. They were born with their strengths to fight demons and
evil, not humans. Faith still doesn't want to listen, claiming that
she's not going to feel remorse for killing a human that maybe deserved
to die. The police interview both Slayers and their two stories are
pretty similar.
After confessing what happened to Willow, Buffy goes to Giles and plans
to do the same, but finds that Faith has beaten her to it. There's a
problem however: Faith has told Giles that Buffy was the one who killed
the Deputy Mayor. After Faith leaves, Giles reveals that he knew all
along that Faith was the killer, but couldn't let her know that. He and
Buffy agree upon bringing the others in to try and fix the problem. What
they don't know is that Wesley is standing outside the office listening
to every word that they're saying and he later calls Quentin Travers to
have Faith taken away to England to be put before the council.
Mayor Wilkins and Mr. Trick view a security tape of the two Slayers
breaking into the office and he instructs Mr. Trick to do something
about it. Buffy fills everyone in on the current situation and then they
try to find a way to help Faith. Xander suggests that he should talk to
her on account of their "connection." He casually reveals that he slept
with Faith which is disturbing to both Buffy and Giles and upsetting to
Willow. Willow ends up crying in a bathroom stall.
Xander goes to Faith and tries to talk, but she thinks he's only there
for sex. She kisses him for a while and then begins to strangle him.
Before she can kill him, Angel bursts in and hits her over the head with
a bat and takes her to the mansion. He chains her up, and despite her
lack off cooperation, attempts to talk some sense into her. He leaves
the room to talk to Buffy and he tells her that he'll keep trying, but
if she doesn't want to be helped there's nothing he can do.
After Angel talks to Faith for a while, and tries to convince her that
he knows what it's like, Wesley and several others come in armed with
crosses and crow bars. They tie Angel up in a net and beat him while
Wesley frees Faith, but quickly handcuffs her in order to take her back
to England. In the van, Faith manages to get one of the guards down on
the floor and threatens to kill him if Wesley doesn't un-chain her. He
does, and she escapes.
After freeing Angel at the mansion, Buffy goes to the library where the
gang discusses how they're going to deal with Faith. Willow mentions
that after all that Faith has done maybe she belongs in jail. Wesley
shows up and informs them all that Faith got away. They split up in
search for her and Buffy is the one who lucks out and finds her at the
docks. They argue, but then a bunch of crates are dropped down upon
them. Buffy quickly pushes Faith out of the way, taking the fall for
her.
Mr. Trick and several other vampires attack Faith, leaving Buffy to
escape on her own. After getting free of the crates, Buffy is attacked
by Mr. Trick who wraps a scarf around her neck and throws her around
before going in for the bite. But before he can taste the blood of a
Slayer, Faith stakes him. Later that night, Buffy tells Giles that she's
not going to give up on Faith. Faith goes to Mayor Wilkins and tells him
that she's killed Trick and is interested in the position he now has
open.
TRIVIA
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Despite his billing as a series regular,
Seth Green does not appear in this episode.
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Is it really so unusual that a Slayer has
killed a human being? Vampires look human, so surely this must have
happened before? Plus Buffy killed what she thought was a human in
Ted. It seems to be Faith's reaction
to the murder rather than the murder itself which is the problem. Surely
if the Council's policy to deal with a rogue Slayer is to lock her up,
this is self-defeating as there is only one Slayer alive at any time.
CONTINUITY
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Faith takes Trick's job as Wilkins'
assistant, which is quite considerate, considering that she herself just
killed Trick.
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Channel 4 News reports Faith's murder in
this episode, and it reports more events in
The Harsh Light of Day,
Goodbye Iowa and
Who Are You.
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Wesley speaks to Quentin Travers over the
telephone in this episode. Travers was seen in
Helpless.
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Willow is devastated after learning that
Xander lost his virginity to Faith, which happened in
The Zeppo.
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Willow, off-screen, meets Michael from
Gingerbread in this episode, to once
again attempt to restore Amy to human form.
GOOFS
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In the last episode, the day after Finch's
murder, Buffy went to Faith's place. This episode begins with Buffy
waking up from a nightmare, then she goes to school. This means that it
is at least the second day since the murder. But the detective
questioning the witness at the scene of the crime says, "You heard the
man scream at about what time last night?" Later that night, Buffy says
to Faith, "Less than 24 hours ago, you killed a man."
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Detective Stein questions the witness and
asks "You heard the man scream at what time?", but Finch never actually
screamed when Faith stabbed him.
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Giles' calendar is turned to April 1997.
This episode aired in 1999.
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While Buffy is pinned under the crate, and
the camera focuses on Faith fighting, you can see Sophia Crawford
(Buffy's stunt double) sitting up by the crate, but when the camera shot
is on Buffy, you can see that she is still stuck laying down.
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Where exactly did Wesley get the key to the
chains that Angel had Faith in?
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When Wesley takes the manacles off Faith
and puts his own handcuffs on her, you can see that one of the cuffs
falls off her wrist and Eliza quickly covers it with her hand.
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Buffy goes back to the murder scene and we
see a blood stain up the wall, yet Finch was slumped on the ground when
he was staked.
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Dead Man's Party |
Faith, Hope and Trick |
Beauty and the Beasts |
Homecoming
Band
Candy |
Revelations |
Lover's Walk |
The Wish |
Amends |
Gingerbread
Helpless |
The Zeppo |
Bad Girls |
Consequences |
Doppelgangland |
Enemies
Earshot |
Choices |
The Prom |
Graduation Day (Part 1) |
Graduation Day (Part 2)
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