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   Running from the mess she made in Sunnydale, Faith arrives in Los Angeles,   
   where our favorite brooding vampire with a soul has set up a detective   
   agency. He’s made his fair share of dark side enemies and they’re eager to   
   employ a Slayer with a grudge (just roll with it.) With Wesley and Cordelia   
   by his side, Angel sets out to beat Faith. Let’s be real: it’s Faith who   
   does the bulk of the beating, torturing Wesley to within an inch of his   
   life.   
      
   When Angel has Faith on the ropes, she weeps, begging him to kill her,   
   begging him to punish her for all she’s done. Instead, he holds her and   
   offers her sanctuary. But Buffy is hot on Faith’s heels, threatening to turn   
   her into the police. Meanwhile, the Watchers’ Council has sent a black ops   
   team to cross the Slayer off. Faith, Buffy, and Angel team up to free Faith   
   from them, but Faith doesn’t want to be free, instead confessing to her   
   crimes.   
      
      
               “Salvage,” “Release,” and “Orpheus” (Angel, Season 4,   
   Episodes   
   13, 14, and 15)   
      
   Angel and Co. accidentally turn Angel back into Angelus — whoops! The clever   
   devil thwarts his former friends at every turn until Wesley decides they   
   need to bring the big guns. With Buffy busy fighting the First (the First   
   Evil, that is), there’s only one Slayer with an opening in her schedule:   
   Faith. Upon hearing the news, she busts out of prison and hunts Angelus   
   down.   
      
   While the team weighs their options in terms of returning him to Angel or   
   killing him, Faith comes firmly down on the side of redemption. He never   
   gave up on her and she sure isn’t gonna give up on him. These fight scenes   
   where reformed Faith fights evil Angelus are a beautiful inversion of the   
   Season 3 fight on Buffy, where evil Faith fought reformed Angel.   
      
      
               “Dirty Girls” and “Empty Places” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer,   
   Season 7, Episodes 18 and 19)   
      
   Faith returns to Sunnydale to help Buffy and the potentials (all the   
   potential future Slayers have gathered at Buffy’s house so she can keep them   
   safe). She finds a team of children barely capable of fighting and Caleb, a   
   very terrifying preacher and serial killer who is taunting Buffy.   
      
   Buffy takes Caleb’s bait with disastrous consequences for the Scooby Gang   
   and the potentials. Faith disagrees with Buffy’s decisions and her   
   overbearing leadership, which somehow results in Faith being elected the new   
   leader? We don’t know, and neither does Faith.   
      
      
               “Touched” and “End of Days” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer,   
   Season 7,   
   Episodes 20 and 21)   
      
   Faith takes up the thankless job of leading a bunch of teenage girls, a   
   couple of formerly powered people, and some dudes. She decides that it’s   
   time they knew a little more about their enemies and plans to break into the   
   lair of the henchmen and kidnap one of them. Unfortunately, the whole thing   
   was a trap. Luckily, Buffy stuck with her gut and fought Caleb, securing the   
   Slayer Scythe for the battle ahead. Faith also gets to know Robin, the child   
   of a Slayer, a little more intimately.   
      
      
               “Chosen” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 7, Episode 22)   
      
   In the final episode of Buffy, our Slayers and their potentials release the   
   power of the Slayer, the power of the Scythe, and every potential Slayer on   
   the planet is activated. Not only does that mean a lot of very cute little   
   girls get their powers, but also that the potentials, all now Slayers, are   
   able to help in the fight against the opening of the Hellmouth. Together,   
   they fight back the darkness and we all cheer a bit. (Or not.)   
      
      
               Bonus reading: Season 8, Issues #6-#8 "No Future For You"   
      
   The story of Buffy, Faith, and all the new Slayers continues in Season 8, a   
   graphic novel adaptation of the Slayer stories. Faith, now just one among   
   many, gets her own mission in Issues #6-8, during which she is tasked with   
   killing another rogue Slayer. Buffy gets in on the action, and let’s just   
   say things seem like they’ll never be settled between these two frenemies   
   and Slayers.   
      
      
   David   
      
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