Buffy The Vampire Slayer : Season 3 : Episode Guide @ Blue Flashing Light
.Faith, Hope, and Trick.
A limo pulls into the drive-thru at Sunnydale's Happy Burger restaurant. Inside the limo are not your ordinary customers, but rather vampires in search of the Slayer. One of them has cloven hooves in place of hands. On the way to their new hideout, one the vamps, Mr. Trick, picks up a diet soda... and the drive-thru employee himself. Later that night, Buffy dreams that she is
dancing with Angel in the Bronze. During their dance, Buffy's claddagh ring slips off her finger and falls to the floor. Angel picks it up and clutches it in his hand, so tightly that blood starts to pour from his fist. As Buffy watches in horror, more blood seeps from Angel's chest in the exact same spot that she drive the sword through months ago.
The next morning, Principal Snyder finally re-admits Buffy into Sunnydale High, due to orders from the school board itself. Buffy needs to follow a few conditions, one of which being her ability to pass make-up exams for all the classes she missed last
school year. A student again, Buffy visits the library with Willow, where they find a variety of spell ingredients on the counter. Giles tells Buffy that he needs to perform a binding spell on Acathla to make sure the demon remains dormant. In order for the spell to work, Giles needs to know the exact details of how Buffy defeated Acathla and Angel. Buffy lays out the basics, leaving out the part where Angel's soul was restored. Later that night at the Bronze, Buffy turns down a dance offer from Scott Hope, a fellow student who's had his eyes on Buffy for a while. Cordelia points out an interesting couple on the dance floor. As Buffy watches them dance, she begins to suspect that the guy may be a vampire on the prowl. As they head out of the Bronze, Buffy and her friends follow them out. Sure enough, the guy is a vampire. What does take the group by surprise is the girl's
handling of the situation. Instead of screaming and trying to run for her life, the girl proceeds to beat the crap out of the vampire, stopping momentarily to greet Buffy by name and introduce herself as Faith. This new Slayer then takes the stake out of Buffy's hand and finishes off the vamp before heading back inside. While the group listens to Faith's wild stories, Cordelia finally puts the pieces together and realizes that Faith was called forth in response to Kendra's death. Faith is unlike Buffy, but she's different than Kendra also. Kendra was always uptight and on the defensive, while Faith is much looser and a little wild. During their conversation, Faith informs Buffy that her Watcher is currently at an annual retreat. Unaware of this Watchers' retreat, Buffy takes Faith to the library to meet Giles, who apparently has never been invited to any of the retreats. Buffy invites Faith to
dinner at her place. While Buffy takes one of her make-up exams, Xander and Willow give Faith a tour of their school, pointing out all the hot spots where they brushed with death. Elsewhere, in an abandoned building, Mr. Trick explains to Kakistos how they could stay in Sunnydale and still operate around the globe, thanks to the internet. Kakistos has no interest in these matters. His only goal is to kill Faith, who caused the huge scar running over his right eye.
At the Summers home, Joyce is as impressed with Faith as the rest of Buffy's friends are, if not more so. Buffy excuses herself from the dining table to talk with her mom in the kitchen. Joyce suggests to Buffy that Faith could take over her duties as the Slayer, but Buffy reminds her that it's her job until she dies. Joyce is not happy to hear this, but she's slowly learning to accept
it. After dinner, Buffy and Faith patrol for vampires. During their patrol, they get into an argument over Buffy's attitude towards Faith and the apparent fact that she's holding something in. Suddenly, several vampires attack the two Slayers. During the fight, Faith loses control on one vampire and repeatedly pummels it without even thinking of finishing the job with a stake. This leaves Buffy at the mercy of the other two vampires, who have her pinned to the ground. As one of them moves in for the kill, he mentions a name: Kakistos. Buffy succeeds in breaking their hold and killing one of them, while the other gets away. She then pulls Faith off of the brutally beaten vampire and dusts it with her stake. It seems Buffy isn't the only one with personal problems.
Buffy tells Giles about Faith's actions the next morning at school. She also tells Giles what the vampire said to her, and Giles immediately recognizes the name Kakistos. It's Greek for "the worst of the worst". Kakistos is a vampire who is so old that his hands have turned into cloven hooves. While Giles gets on the phone to contact Faith's Watcher at the retreat, Buffy runs into Scott in the hallway. He makes one last stab at trying to get Buffy out on a date. Charmed by his efforts, Buffy finally accepts.
Scott then hands Buffy a box, saying it's a gift to represent their friendship. Buffy opens it and finds a claddagh ring inside, exactly like the one Angel gave to her that night on the docks. Overcome with emotion, Buffy drops the ring. As it hits the floor in the exact same fashion that it did in her dream, Buffy backs out of her date with Scott. Giles arrives and tries to help her, but Buffy insists she's okay. Giles then reveals that Faith's Watcher is not at the retreat -- Faith's Watcher is dead.
Buffy tracks down Faith to a sleazy motel. Buffy informs her that Kakistos is in town, which causes a look of fear and dread to wash over Faith's face. She immediately starts packing and starts to head out. Buffy stops her by mentioning her Watcher, who was killed by Kakistos. They hear a knock on the door, and Faith opens it. They are greeted by Kakistos, Mr. Trick, and a few of their cohort vampires. Buffy shuts the door and escapes out the back with Faith. The vampires chase them into a building. Seemingly safe for now, Faith explains that she witnessed Kakistos murdering her Watcher. Just then, Faith notices a couple of dead bodies on the floor. Buffy realizes that they didn't escape the vampires, but were instead driven into the building on purpose. As the vampires start to converge on them, Buffy and Faith run into the middle of the floor. Buffy takes on several vampires while Faith goes one-on-one with Kakistos. Paralyzed with fear, Faith can't fight back while Kakistos grabs her by the neck and repeatedly strikes her in the face. Buffy runs over to help, while Mr. Trick and a female vampire decide to abandon their master and head out into town on their own. Kakistos' body is so strong that Buffy's stake has no effect on him. Faith takes a cue from Kakistos' mockery and picks up a huge pointed beam. Before Kakistos can realize what she's doing, Faith drives it straight through his heart, causing Kakistos to crumble into dust.
The next day, the Watcher's council approves Giles' request to watch over both Buffy and Faith until a new Watcher can be assigned to her. Unable to keep her secret any longer, Buffy tells Giles and Willow the whole truth about what happened that night in the mansion. She explains that Willow's attempt at the restoration spell worked, and Angel was cured before Buffy drove the sword through him and sent him to Hell. After she heads out, Giles tells Willow that there never was a binding spell to
perform on Acathla. He made the whole thing up so that Buffy would finally vent out whatever's been eating at her from the inside all this time. In the hallway, Buffy finds Scott and revives their plans for their weekend date.
Later that night, Buffy revisits the mansion where Angel, Spike, and Dru once stayed. Back at the scene where Buffy kissed Angel for the last time, she places the claddagh ring on the floor and bids her final farewell to Angel. After she leaves, the floor of the mansion begins to rumble. A bright light appears in the air, and the naked body of a man falls out from it and onto the floor. He lies there, afraid and shivering. It's Angel, who has returned from Hell... somehow.
Quotes
Willow: "As seniors, we can go off campus for lunch. It's no longer cutting. It's
legal. Heck, it's expected."
Willow: "What if they're lying in wait to arrest me and, and throw me in
detention and mar my unblemished record?"
Willow: "Maybe we shouldn't be too couply around Buffy."
Cordelia: "Oh, you mean 'cause of how the only guy that ever liked her turned
into a vicious killer and had to be put down like a dog?"
Xander: "Can she cram complex issues into a nutshell or what?"
Oz: "All right, prepare to uncouple. Uncouple."
Xander: "Buffy! Banned from campus, but not from our hearts. How are ya'
and what's for lunch?"
Cordelia: "When did you become Martha Stewart?"
Buffy: "First of all, Martha Stewart knows jack about hand-cut prosciutto."
Xander: "I don't believe she slays either."
Oz: "Oh, I hear she can, but she doesn't like to."
Willow: "He wanted to ask you out last year, but you weren't ready then. But I
think you're ready now, or at least in the state of pre-readiness to make
conversation. Or to do that thing with your mouth that boys like."
Buffy: "..."
Willow: "Oh, I didn't mean the bad thing with your mouth. I meant that little
half-smile thing that you--. You're supposed to stop me when I do that."
Oz: "I like when you do that."
Willow: "Don't you think that went very well?"
Cordelia: "He didn't try to slit our throats or anything. That's progress."
Xander: "Oh, you want to date. I saw that half-smile, you little slut. Ha ha ha
ha."
Xander: "Ha ha ha... ow."
Buffy: "All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save
the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I want to do girlie stuff."
Mr. Trick: "I mean, admittedly, it's not a haven for the brothers. You know,
strictly the caucasian persuasion here in the 'Dale. But, you know, you just
gotta' stand up and salute their death rate."
Mr. Trick: "It makes D.C. look like Mayberry, and ain't nobody saying boo about
it."
Kakistos: "The Slayer. I'm going to rip her spine from her body, and then I'm
going to eat her heart and suck the marrow from her bones."
Mr. Trick: "Now I'm hungry."
Angel: "Go to hell! Ha ha ha ha. I did."
Joyce: "Morning, Sunshine! Ready to face the beast?"
Principal Snyder: "Two -- that you provide, in writing, one glowing letter of
recommendation from any member of our faculty who is not an English
librarian."
Joyce: "I spoke with the school board, and according to them..."
Principal Snyder: "I'm required to educate every juvenile who is not in jail
where she belongs."
Joyce: "I think what my daughter's trying to say is: 'Nyah nyah nyah nyah
nyah!'"
Willow: "Have you ever noticed, though, when he is mad but he's too English
to say anything, he makes that weird cluck-cluck sound with his tongue?"
Buffy: "Hi, Giles!"
Buffy: "Okay, Acathla, huh? What are you doing, making him some demon
pizza?"
Buffy: "Big fight. Angel got the pointy end of the sword. Acathla sucked him
into Hell instead of the world. That's about the it."
Buffy: "Oh no, I have to go take an English make-up exam. They give you
credit just for speaking it, right?"
Willow: "Mmm, sage. I love that smell. And Marnox root. You know, a smidge
of this mixed with a virgin's saliva..."
Giles: "..."
Willow: "... does something I know nothing about."
Giles: "What have you been conjuring?"
Willow: "Nothing... much."
Willow: "Floating feather. Fire out of ice -- which, next time, I won't do on the
bedspread."
Willow: "Are you mad at me?"
Giles: "No, of course not, no. If I were, I would be making a strange clucking
sound with my tongue."
Buffy: "Hello, my life, how I've missed you."
Willow: "Hi, Scott! What are you doing here?"
Scott: "You told me if I came after eight, I could run into Buffy. Uh, I'm sorry.
I'm a bad liar. It's not good for the soul, or the skin actually. It makes me
blotch."
Willow: "Come on, Buffy. I mean, the guy is charm, and, and normal, which is
what you wanted to get back to."
Oz: "Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'."
Cordelia: "Check out Slut-o-Rama and her Disco Dave. What was the last thing
that guy danced to, K.C. and the Sunshine Band?"
Buffy: "I don't think that guy thrives on sunshine."
Willow: "That's not what making out sounds like, unless I'm doing it wrong."
Oz: "I'm gonna' go out on a limb and say there's a new Slayer in town."
Xander: "Wow! They should film that story and show it every Christmas."
Faith: "Isn't it crazy how slayin' just always makes you hungry and horny?"
Buffy: "Well... sometimes I crave a nonfat yogurt afterwards."
Cordelia: "Xander, find a new theme."
Buffy: "Uh... oh, oh, do you guys remember The Three? That's right, you never
met The Three."
Willow: "Oz is a werewolf."
Buffy: "It's a long story."
Oz: "I got bit."
Buffy: "Apparently not that long."
Faith: "Hey, as long as you don't go scratchin' at me or humpin' my leg, we're
five-by-five, ya' know?"
Oz: "Fair enough."
Faith: "The vamps, though. They better get their asses to Defcon One. 'Cause
you and I are gonna' have fun, you know? Watcherless and fancy-free."
Giles: "It's a great honor to be invited... or so I'm told."
Faith: "Oh, it's boring. Way too stuffy for a guy like you."
Buffy: "Um, maybe I should introduce you again. Faith, this is Giles."
Faith: "I've seen him. If I'd have known they came that young and cute, I
would've requested a transfer."
Buffy: "Raise your hand if 'ew'."
Giles: "Leaving aside for a moment my, uh, youth and beauty, I'd say it was,
um, fortuitous that Faith arrived when she did."
Willow: "Aha!"
Buffy: "..."
Willow: "Sorry, I just meant... aha! There's a big evil brewin'. You'll never be
bored here, Faith, 'cause this is Sunnydale, home of the big brewin' evil."
Willow: "You know, you can hang out with us whlie she's testing. You
wanna'?"
Xander: "Say 'yes' and, uh, bring your stories."
Buffy: "You guys go. It's fine. Fine. I'll just... sit."
Buffy: "Giles, look, I've got make-up tests to pass, missing people in Sunset
Ridge, and a zesty new Slayer to feed. Next time I kill Angel, I'll video it."
Willow: "And over here, we have the cafeteria, where we were mauled by
snakes."
Xander: "And this is the spot where Angel tried to kill Willow."
Willow: "Oh, and over there in the lounge is where Spike and his gang nearly
massacred us all on parent-teacher night. Oh, and up those stairs, I was
sucked into a muddy grave."
Xander: "And they say young people don't learn anything in high school
nowadays, but, um, I've learned to be afraid."
Faith: "You guys are a hoot and a half. I mean, if I had friends like you in high
school, I... probably still would've dropped out, but I might've been sad about it,
you know?"
Cordelia: "What is it with you and Slayers? Maybe I should dress up as one,
and put a stake to your throat."
Xander: "Oh, please, God, don't let that be sarcasm."
Cordelia: "Does anyone believe that is her actual hair color?"
Willow: "Hey, maybe Faith and Scott could hit it off. I mean, if you're done with
him. Not... that you used him."
Buffy: "Why am I seeing a look?"
Willow: "You really do need to find the fun, B."
Buffy: "..."
Willow: "Uffy."
Mr. Trick: "I mean, you know, you get the hankering for the blood of a
fifteen-year-old Filipina, and I'm on the net and she's here the next day, express
air."
Joyce: "So you're a Slayer too. Isn't that interesting. Do you like it?"
Faith: "Well, when I'm fighting, it's like the whole world goes away, and I only
know one thing: that I'm gonna' win, and they're gonna' lose. I like that feelin'."
Buffy: "Well, sure. Beats that dead feeling you get when they win and you
lose."
Joyce: "Buffy can be awfully negative sometimes. See, honey, you gotta' fight
that."
Joyce: "I like this girl, Buffy."
Buffy: "She's very personable. She gets along with my friends, my Watcher,
my mom. Look, now she's getting along with my fries."
Joyce: "Now, Buffy..."
Buffy: "Plus at school today, she was making eyes at my not-boyfriend. This is
creepy."
Joyce: "Does anybody else think Faith is creepy?"
Buffy: "No, but I'm the one getting single-white-female'd here."
Joyce: "When did you die? You never told me you died."
Buffy: "No, uh, it was just for a few minutes."
Joyce: "I have tried to march in the "Slayer Pride" parade, but... I don't want
you to die."
Buffy: "I've got help now. I've got all the help I can stand."
Faith: "Didn't we, um, do this street already?"
Buffy: "Funny thing about vamps. They'll hit a street even after you've been
there. It's like they have no manners."
Faith: "I'm five-by-five here, B, living entirely large, actually wondering about
your problem."
Buffy: "Well, I may not sleep in the nude and rassle alligators..."
Faith: "Maybe it's time you started 'cause obviously something in your bottle
needs uncorking."
Faith: "What are you getting so strung out for, B?"
Buffy: "Why are your lips still moving, F?"
Faith: "Did I just hear a threat?"
Buffy: "Would you like to?"
Faith: "Wow. Think you can take me?"
Buffy: "Yeah. I just hope they can't!"
Faith: "My dead mother hits harder than that!"
Faith: "Gee, if doing violence to vampires upsets you, I think you're in the
wrong line of work."
Buffy: "The job is to slay demons. Not to beat them to a bloody pulp while
they're friends corner me."
Giles: "What you must realize, Buffy, is that you and Faith have very different
temperaments."
Buffy: "Yeah, and mine's the sane one. The girl's not playing with a full deck,
Giles: She has almost no deck. She has a three."
Giles: "She doesn't have a whole other life here, as you do."
Buffy: "She doesn't need a life. She has mine."
Giles: "I think you're being a little--."
Buffy: "No, I'm being a lot. I know that."
Giles: "I'll see if I can reach her Watcher at the retreat. They're eight hours
ahead now. Yes, they're probably sitting down to a nightcap. I wonder if they
still kayak. I used to love a good kayak. You see, they don't even consider--."
Buffy: "..."
Giles: "Sorry, I digress."
Buffy: "No tats. Crappy dressers. And, uh, oh, the one that nearly bit me
mentioned something about kissing toast. He lived for kissing toast."
Giles: "Do you mean 'Kakistos'?"
Buffy: "Maybe it was taquitos. Maybe he lived for taquitos. What?"
Giles: "Kakistos."
Buffy: "Is that bad?"
Giles: "You think he and Faith are connected?"
Buffy: "Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and
leprechauns."
Giles: "Well, Buffy, it's entirely possible that they arrived here by chance
simultaneously."
Buffy: "Okay, but I was right about the leprechauns, right?"
Giles: "As far as I know."
Buffy: "I'm gonna' talk to Faith, see if khaki trousers rings--."
Giles: "Kakistos."
Buffy: "Kakistos rings a bell... or an alarm."
Scott: "Think of this as my last-ditch effort. I realize that one more is gonna'
qualify as stalking."
Scott: "Keaton is key."
Faith: "I'm the one who can handle this."
Buffy: "Yeah, you're a real badass when it comes to packing."
Buffy: "Faith, you run, he runs after you."
Faith: "That's where the head start comes in handy."
Buffy: "Scream later! Escape now!"
Buffy: "Faith, first rule of slaying: don't die."
Buffy: "You hungry?"
Faith: "Starved."
Buffy: "So I told him that I loved him... and I kissed him... and I killed him."
Buffy: "Wow, if I knew I was gonna' go on this long, I probably would've
brought some water."
Scott: "I don't know, Buffy. I'm, I'm really gonna' have to think about this."
Buffy: "..."
Scott: "Okay, you know what, I thought about it, and I'm in. When do you want
to go?"