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Season 3, Episode 17
Written by Douglas Petrie
Directed by David Grossman
Original Airdate: 16 March 1999
Wesley "And you say this demon wanted
cash? That's very unusual."
Giles "Demons after money. Whatever happened to the still beating
heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore."
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
SYNOPSIS
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Buffy and Angel go to see a movie, but it's very
steamy and both are worked up. To prove that he isn't going to loose
control, Angel kisses her, but their sweet moment is cut short when
Faith shows up for patrol. While out hunting for the bad guys, the two
Slayers run into a demon who offers them a set of books about the
ascension in exchange for five grand. Apparently, these books would be
very useful for Mayor Wilkins and when he finds out, he asks Faith to
kill the demon and take the books.
At the library, the Scooby Gang discusses the "ascension" but they know
very little about it until Willow suggests checking in a book which
Giles was trying to hide from her due to it's magical content. Cordelia
arrives and makes a date with Wesley. Faith finds the demon, who's
desperate to get out of Sunnydale before Mayor Wilkins' ascension, and
kills him. She goes to Angel, upset over what she's become and seeks
comfort from him. Angel refuses to give her what she wants, but Faith
manages to sneak a kiss on the cheek which Buffy happens to walk in on
and see. She was trying to take away his soul with happiness but since
Angel's mind is focused on Buffy, Mayor Wilkins decides that he'll have
to take it in the most painful way possible.
Buffy reports in to Giles and Wesley, but having just seen Faith with
Angel, she's a little upset and is reluctant to do anything with Faith.
After Xander gets the address for the demon from Willy, Buffy goes to
find him, and Faith arrives just in time to tag along. When the two
reach the demon's apartment, they find him dead and Buffy is worried by
Faith's strange behaviour about it. Mayor Wilkins talks to a cloaked man
about taking Angel's soul away from him. Buffy tells Willow about how
she saw Faith and Angel together, and Willow encourages, or rather
forces, Buffy to talk to Angel about it.
Faith finds Angel first at the mansion and apologizes for her behaviour
the night before, and then she pours blood onto his shirt. The cloaked
man steps out of the shadows, chants a spell, lights flash, Angel yells,
and then Angelus is back. He pulls Faith to him and they kiss before
Angel starts beating her up. The two fight and Faith ends up on top,
holding a stake to his heart. After a truce is made, they kiss...
The Scooby Gang meet again, and make plans for the night. Willow reveals
that she was unable to find anything in Mayor Wilkins' computer files
since the files were emptied before she could get through to them.
Unable to find both Faith and Angel, Buffy leaves to find out what's
going on with Mayor Wilkins while Wesley takes a very eager Cordelia and
the rest of the group, minus Xander, to the Hall of Records to find
information on Mayor Wilkins.
Faith takes Angel to meet with Mayor Wilkins, and Angel tries to kill
him, but discovers that Mayor Wilkins can't be killed. He tells Mayor
Wilkins of his plans to torture and kill Buffy. Faith and Angel walk the
streets of Sunnydale on the way to Buffy's house, and encounter Xander,
who Angel punches and knocks to the ground. After subtly flirting with
Joyce, Angel and Faith find Buffy in her room and lure her away to the
mansion leaving small traces of their changed behaviour, that makes
Buffy worry as she follows them. Once there, Angel and Faith reveal that
they're fighting for the other side now, and Angel knocks Buffy out
cold.
Angel chains Buffy to a wall, where she wakes up finding that Angel and
Faith are planning to torture her. Faith goes on about her painful
childhood with a mother who drank too much, and her life as the Slayer
living in Buffy's shadow. After she reveals too much about the Mayor's
ascension, Angel reveals that he was only pretending to be Angelus
again, and Buffy breaks out of her chains. The two were only pretending
so that they could find out as much about the ascension as possible. The
rest of the Scooby Gang arrive as Buffy and Faith fight and end up with
knives at each other's throats. Before anyone is killed, Faith breaks
away and runs off, knowing that Buffy isn't ready to kill her yet.
At the library, Giles says goodbye to the cloaked man, revealing that
the fake spell was the paying of a debt the man owed Giles. Wesley is
very upset that Giles did all this behind his back, and plans to tell
the council about it. Now that everyone is fully aware of Faith's switch
to Team Evil, they have to prepare to fight her as well. Faith is upset
over the whole ordeal, but Mayor Wilkins tells her not to worry because
after the ascension, they'll all be dead.
Buffy goes to Angel, and both are having a hard time dealing with what
they had to do. Angel feels horrible that he had to do and say the
things he did, and how far he had to let it go. Buffy needs some time
apart, but as she leaves, Angel asks, "Are you still my girl?" and she
responds, "Always."
TRIVIA
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Oz has dyed his hair blond since the last
episode. This is possibly something to do with the fact that Seth Green
recently finished filming for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,
in which he plays Scott Evil.
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Buffy’s line "The girl makes Godot look
punctual" is a reference to a famous play by Irish author Samuel
Beckett, Waiting for Godot, published in 1952. This line seems
too forced: Buffy writers sometimes get a little too clever:
Buffy's a smart girl, but would she ever make a literary reference like
that?
CONTINUITY
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After her allegiances are revealed, during
their battle, Faith kisses Buffy on the forehead, a kiss that Buffy will
return to her in Graduation Day (Part 2).
GOOFS
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In Mayor Wilkins' office, the reflection of
Angel's hand can be seen in the Mayor's nameplate.
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When Cordelia walks into the library to ask
Wesley to dinner, the sound her shoes are making don't match the pace
she is walking at.
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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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