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on the rewatcher Buffy the Vampire

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Slayer Imagine this motherfucker

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looking you in the eye with the titty

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machine in his right tit and he says

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we're brothers Walsh is a coot and the

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initiative has it in for her I'd say

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I'm not breaking bread with you Thanksgiving

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step aside Imagine being a kid watching

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Roadrunner and Wylie Coyote and then they're

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like a child was skewered in the

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woods today What's the sitch here? Gonna

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be the 411. Ma'am who's the next

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of kin? He's

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having a what was I made for?

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And they start arguing like two men

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were ill-equipped to deal with grief in a

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meaningful way hashtag shocking here That's why childhood

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trauma makes you funny. There you go Yeah,

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Adam really was a moment Adam truly

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is a moment and I think It's

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weird without the like mutilating a child's

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thing. Mm-hmm. He's like a little endearing.

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No, I agree You know, you take

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that that child murder out of it.

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Definitely take that out of it Yeah,

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don't don't put that in your summary.

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But yeah, no, I agree He's like a little

1:24

endearing when he's just like when he looks at

1:26

Riley and says that's pain on your face He

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seems as though he cares because you know, like

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we said their their brothers were brothers Wow,

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what an episode And

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it finally makes sense to me why I've

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had that. You know that Song that's

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like, this year's Love. That

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get my and oh the it it's

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because I looked up since document finally

4:04

make sense to me it's all coming

4:07

together and my god this is both

4:09

a slick the isn't this year's loves

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his that if think it's a real

4:13

song. Yeah. This year's Levin

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via an A Mayor Adelaide in

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a may I don't know enemy

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like that. Like an I may

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have. Ever

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read moody? well as love?

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Move man. I gotta. I

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gotta go live up Up! Oh. It

4:31

is it is is gonna laugh. had better. Under

4:33

thought is that? Oh yes. His his love

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of Burma and here you are

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saying animal yeah yeah door and

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say they thought I would animator

4:42

Adelaide among among other way either

4:44

way say grown go wrong incorrectly.

4:47

Very. Well you know what the good news

4:50

is. We. Get a last time

4:52

on bossy one, don't masses. So we

4:54

see the mayor cheerfully gifting face a

4:56

fancy ass. Nice. Ah, She thinks

4:58

a member she's like it was when those creepy

5:01

thing female the box yes alarm that we saw

5:03

it like her. Thrown. Into the Wall yeah,

5:05

he others will decide really and she thinks it's

5:07

a thing of beauty. Giles. Can't

5:09

think of anything more dangerous than having

5:11

a rogue slayer on their hands. hint

5:14

hint that bugs and Buffy guts faith

5:16

like a fish attempting to get slayer

5:18

blood to cure angels blood poisoning. which

5:20

to be honest, I actually. The.

5:22

All those little details. And

5:25

were a little blurry for me. Yeah I'd

5:27

say this one makes other sexually was helpful

5:29

to those. Oh yeah I forgot agree her

5:31

blood like a flares blood was needed to

5:33

cure him Like I forgot that. I agree

5:35

with you pelicans getting old at this point

5:38

but faithful to the air like angel chasing

5:40

around to a pile of trash and becoming

5:42

part one. Oh get it right off the

5:44

bat. Ah see themselves and some press. Pretty

5:47

great, but it's in the back of a truck

5:49

driving past where bus he gets i'll stab be

5:51

on her ass Leader a doctor tells a very

5:54

grieving mayor that it's a wonder that she survived

5:56

at all with. The blood loss. But there's almost

5:58

no chance that she's ever going to come out

6:00

of the com a season. They're very, very serious

6:02

about that. She's probably never going to wake up

6:04

not really sure why, or even keep in. Her

6:06

hair basic lesson I was thinking I was like woven

6:08

my not just form of long see I. You. Know

6:10

we want to distiller says so

6:13

many families. And I'll practice is there

6:15

is have a violation memorial us in

6:17

a lot of resources or walker I

6:19

just pulled plugs all over the league.

6:21

We need this outlets of a sudden

6:23

meme a some of these phone died

6:25

sled. If if violates a memorial hospital

6:27

the we don't have an extra surge

6:29

protector so we're just going after Progressive.

6:31

I own several of their handling I'm

6:34

on ten percent the and Millie sorry

6:36

physicists now Riley thinks that bus he

6:38

is very strong and he likes and

6:40

which we love. Love this boy or

6:42

but Mother Waltz works. Too long to

6:44

let some little bit threaten the entire

6:46

yes it is. So she sets bus

6:48

the up to go get got by

6:50

some hipster demons and then followed that

6:52

up by getting her dumb ass killed

6:54

by her own fucking creations. Adam the

6:57

Neapolitan demon. Boris. Thinks

6:59

that Buffy as a spy he's really

7:01

annoying about and was audible. Riley goes

7:03

through D T and get skewered by

7:05

adams arm bone erection and know that's

7:07

not a euphemism. Arena put it, it's

7:09

Riley's taken away to be treated at

7:11

a military hospital isolated away from Buffy.

7:13

and Buffy is so sad. So.

7:15

That's our last time last season on bus.

7:17

A lot to unpack in their the league.

7:19

Remember all of this. So.

7:22

We started buses Rome in the summers

7:24

residents which at first you like overseas

7:26

homes uses. Enjoy know genuinely week I'm

7:28

happy we need to see her home

7:30

yet. But. She slapping a crisply

7:32

cheat near over her bed and she starts

7:34

to take the men and we see Faith

7:36

helping her on the opposite side So we

7:38

say oh. Dream. Yelps a

7:40

bus he says it is. The seats

7:42

smoldered like summer. And say

7:45

tells her that she would know Embassy

7:47

looks down an embarrassment saying oops i

7:49

forgot face says that she noticed Embassy

7:51

awkwardly says that she wishes she could

7:53

stay the same tells her that know

7:55

she needs to go Embassy tries to

7:57

explain saying it's just with and then

7:59

stop speaking. kind of uncertain what to say, but

8:02

Faith completes her sentence saying

8:04

something interesting. She says, What

8:06

is this coming? I know. So

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much to do before she gets here. And I

8:12

said, what? I immediately,

8:14

I was looking at the screen and

8:16

I was like, don't make any kind

8:18

of face like anything. Because I just

8:20

wanted to see what your face did

8:22

when that happens. And Ash

8:24

just did like that, like eyebrow up.

8:27

Like, I was trying to, I was like, is

8:29

Buffy younger in this like scene? Like, and I

8:31

looked at her and I was like,

8:33

it's a dream. So you're like, is this just

8:35

like nonsense? Yeah. And then I was like, is

8:38

Joyce pregnant? Like, is she out here in these?

8:40

You know, is she out here? I mean, like,

8:42

like, willy nilly. I

8:46

don't know how long ago it was that

8:48

she, you know, hooked up with Giles. So

8:50

a baby Giles. Bitch. We got another this

8:53

week on Ash's Hope. I hope

8:55

that Giles impregnated Joyce. And

8:58

that was Ash's Hope. And honestly, I love

9:00

that. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna

9:02

get rewarded on that. But I'm like, who's

9:04

little sister then? And then I was thinking

9:06

great thing. Like, in my

9:08

head, I was like, is Faith saying she's

9:10

Buffy's little sister? But no, because she has

9:12

to leave. Because

9:14

little sister is coming. Yeah. And then

9:16

I was like, is there another slayer

9:19

coming? Hmm. wooden stakes. Maybe I think

9:21

there could be another slayer coming. But

9:23

that also means that Buffy has to

9:25

die. So I was like, is she

9:28

for warning us today? Yeah,

9:31

but Faith doesn't. So I was

9:33

thinking, like, I don't think Faith

9:35

is gonna die. I don't know why I just

9:37

don't have that feeling currently. But I was thinking

9:39

is Neapolitan demon gonna get Buffy, but it's gonna

9:41

be one of those things where like Xander picks her out

9:43

of the puddle, and she comes back to life. And then

9:45

Buffy, I was thinking Buffy

9:48

will get a little sister slayer. Oh, how

9:50

do you like those apples? I

9:52

like them. They're crisp. I'm looking at your face

9:54

for any sense of I'm not gonna give you

9:56

anything because you're literally not. There's too much a

9:58

foot for me to risk. Anything

10:00

here. Okay, so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna

10:02

nod and say I love that. I love that

10:04

idea Okay, I'm gonna tell you

10:07

I love every idea you have so that

10:09

nothing is different. Well, that's fake but okay

10:11

Cuz fuck but it won't let you won't

10:13

let you in on anything your usual office

10:19

So they lean over the bottom of the

10:22

bed to smooth the sheet and Buffy says

10:24

that she really needs to and Faith says

10:26

So go don't let me keep and

10:28

she stops speaking Looking at blood

10:30

as it drips onto the crisp white linen just

10:32

a little And

10:34

Faith is like wow That's a bummer Like we

10:37

just made it so nice and they stand up

10:39

as Faith looks down at her abdomen and Buffy

10:41

stares at her intensely and the music kind of

10:43

shifts into this like Really screechy

10:45

sinister string music really fast. The

10:48

music is really good in this episode.

10:50

Great It's very I think we were

10:52

talking about it with Mikey and it

10:54

has like very monster movie vibes Yeah,

10:56

the whole show really does in this

10:58

episode. It's got like thriller horror movie.

11:00

Yeah, very horror It's like very string

11:03

like heavy and then it's got

11:05

very much like the Frankenstein vibes with that music And

11:07

with the way everything is going it just I wonder

11:09

if they did that on purpose But

11:12

Faith asks are you ever gonna take this

11:14

thing out and gestures down to the fancy

11:16

ass knife that is sticking in her solar

11:19

Plexus and in response Buffy just

11:21

shoves it deeper into her gun Which we're

11:23

like wow that was rude and I like

11:25

felt that a little bit it was rough

11:27

now hard cut to Faith's Hospital room where

11:29

her monitors are beeping and booping behind her

11:31

and the camera settles on her and she

11:33

looks so pale Still unconscious

11:35

very in a coma and

11:37

we see lightning flash because there's a

11:39

storm a coming honey You got a

11:41

big storm coming and we got the intro

11:47

But that's not the storm no because we're

11:49

at Sanders basement laundry tools storage

11:51

bedroom apartment Him in Willow you

11:53

guys know I'm usually pretty easy

11:56

on everybody's style because I'm like

11:58

everybody's unique well Willow is

12:00

Willow, I'm that bitch. This is not unique, it's

12:02

ugly. And usually I'm just like whatever, it's of

12:04

the time, and Willow has that kind of style.

12:07

I immediately, I was literally

12:10

visibly ticking from this. I

12:12

was like, are you guys? It was bothering

12:14

me on a real visceral level. 100%, I

12:16

was like, are you guys trying to ugly

12:18

each other right now? Truly. Is

12:20

this like a breath ugly at school, and

12:22

you win a prize if you're the ugly?

12:24

Both of them lost a bet. There's no

12:27

other explanation. Willow is wearing literally

12:29

the ugliest, and again, I say I usually

12:31

don't get bothered by this stuff that much.

12:33

I'm like, it doesn't really distract me. I

12:36

don't know how this is. And

12:38

the bucket hat. Because that's it. Usually

12:40

Willow has one pretty ugly item with

12:42

another meh item. So

12:45

it's just like, okay, you're horrible

12:47

at fashion. This, I was like,

12:49

it's horrific. You're trying to offend

12:51

people. This was the most fashion

12:53

out I could ever see. And

12:56

then Xander with that tiny ass

12:58

sweater vest over an orange butt. That was

13:00

for a toddler. Like that didn't fit him.

13:02

It did not. And he looks like Fez

13:04

from that 70s show. He absolutely did. It

13:07

was not good. It just wasn't okay at

13:09

all. And it made him look really like

13:11

short. It just shortened him, which like short

13:13

kings everywhere. Like totally fine. Sure, I love

13:15

the short kings. It wasn't like it just

13:17

made his body look not proportional. That was

13:19

the problem. It like squatted down his abdomen

13:21

a little too much. And then Riley stood

13:23

over him later, Riley who Mike Blucas is

13:26

six foot two. I had to look

13:28

it up and I said, oh everybody he's six two.

13:31

He's six two. Yeah, he is something. And when

13:33

Xander stands up next to him, you're like, yeah,

13:35

you're six two. But Xander

13:37

in the basement laundry tool storage

13:40

bedroom apartment, Xander's just fucking around

13:42

with the defensive blaster electricity gun

13:44

that mother Walsh gave Buffy. Yup.

13:47

And he says that it's state of the art and

13:49

doesn't look that complicated, but Buffy wants to know if

13:51

it can be repaired. And he says, sure.

13:53

Just as soon as I get my master's

13:55

degree in advanced Starship technology. Which is like

13:57

didn't, don't you remember anything Xander? That was pretty

13:59

fun. But he slams it down in

14:01

frustration and Willow who like we said

14:04

is looking just a hot

14:06

mess Oh god awful a hot mess

14:08

She's like, why don't you just experiment

14:10

like press a few buttons see what

14:12

happens and I love Giles because he's

14:14

just behind them folding Laundry and says

14:16

I'd like to veto that I mean, yeah I

14:21

love a willow even who's like very highly intelligent

14:23

is like why you just press a few buttons

14:26

on here? It's like I don't think she'd say

14:28

that well, let's not very willow this episode. They

14:30

dumped her down in this first scene Yeah, and

14:32

they really don't remember. Yeah, they really yeah, you're

14:34

right. Yeah, they really do Now

14:36

Xander quickly seconds that saying it's called

14:38

a blaster will a word that tends

14:40

to discourage Experimentation and then

14:43

I'm gonna be honest. I

14:45

didn't think this joke was needed. It's

14:48

not that funny It's kind of weird. I

14:50

think I know it's very Xander. You know what it

14:52

is It's one. It's very Xander and two. I feel

14:54

like they're going very heavy on like Anya

14:57

and Xander like to have sex Yeah, I think

14:59

if Anya was here it maybe would have landed

15:01

if she could have like I think that's what

15:03

I was missing I think that's it cuz alone.

15:05

It's just like can you not say that right?

15:07

Yeah, cuz I was also missing Anya completely from

15:10

this episode. Where is she? She had a break.

15:12

Where'd she go? I don't know and also you're

15:14

right. I think if Anya was there would have

15:16

landed better I was just kind of like that's

15:19

yeah, the same for another they've been like

15:21

very cheeky with each other Yeah, and I

15:23

think he needs her to land it Yeah,

15:26

cuz he said no for we're called the

15:28

orgasm anator I'd be the first

15:30

to try your basic button press approach Which

15:33

again that would have been probably funnier if she was there

15:35

and could like kind of add on to it a little

15:37

agreed You're right. No again. You're

15:39

right. Wow. This is crazy Buffy

15:42

is snippy. She doesn't want to hear about Sanders

15:44

orgasms this early in the morning Later in the

15:46

afternoon, it'll be better probably But she wants to

15:48

know if he can just fucking fix it and

15:51

he tells her he's working on it She and

15:54

Buffy sits down and she puts her head in her hands.

15:56

She looks exhausted Giles

15:58

asked her if she's okay and of she's not.

16:00

She's been patrolling for three days straight. That's

16:02

a lot. And he suggests that maybe she

16:04

should have some and she interrupts saying, What?

16:07

Some rest? There's a demonoid

16:09

killing machine out there, Giles. It doesn't only

16:11

work the night shift. And he tells her

16:13

that he was going to say perhaps she

16:16

could use some backup. So he's like, maybe

16:18

don't interrupt me. I

16:20

love Giles always is like, don't finish

16:22

my sentence because I'm probably not saying what you

16:24

think I am because I'm not that predictable. Okay.

16:26

Cappy vibes. Yes. But now that she's mentioned that

16:28

maybe getting her grouchy ass in bed and gathering

16:31

some strength doesn't seem too bad of an idea

16:33

for him either. But Buffy just

16:35

wants a functional blaster gun. She's like, that's, I

16:37

need that. I don't need rest. I don't need

16:39

backup. I need a functional blaster gun. That's

16:42

all the strength that she needs. Now, Will

16:44

asks if Buffy is sure. And Buffy snaps

16:46

at her saying, Will, you haven't seen this

16:48

Adam thing. He's the Terminator without the bashful

16:50

charm. I mean, he's deadly. And the last

16:52

time we met, he kicked my ass. Now

16:55

I begged to differ on the bashful charm thing.

16:57

He was like a little, a little

17:00

charming. I think so. The last time we

17:02

saw, I'm not saying when he like, you

17:04

know, mutilated a small child. That's not what

17:06

you're talking about. No, in case I was

17:08

confusing. Good to clarify. I was going to

17:10

clarify. Yeah. You know, I just want to

17:13

make sure that that's not something that everybody's

17:15

thinking. But when they, he was like in

17:17

the initiative with everybody and he was talking

17:19

to Riley and he's explaining who he is,

17:21

he had a weird charm to him. It's

17:23

like the, it's the charm of like, I'm

17:26

new in town. Yeah. I'm new in town. Exactly.

17:28

And it was like, I haven't, I don't know

17:30

how to do this whole thing. And then when

17:32

he looked at Riley and he was like, that's

17:36

pain on your face. Yeah. Like he tried

17:38

to understand it. Like that was, do you

17:40

know exactly what it is? Actually, it's Jack

17:42

Skellington. Jack Skellington. Do you know like when

17:44

he's like, what's this? What's this magic everywhere?

17:46

Exactly. And he doesn't realize that he's about

17:49

to like, fuck everything up so royally. Yeah.

17:51

Because he has, I mean, I don't think

17:53

Adam has great intentions, but you know what

17:55

I mean? Like, cause Jack has great intentions.

17:57

He does. But Adam does not. But it's.

18:00

That vibe. Yeah. The vibe

18:02

is like, what's this? What's

18:04

this? It's sweet. I think

18:06

he's got a little charm in there. But

18:08

Will says that she's fully team blast Adams

18:10

Neapolitan ass and asks if Buffy has heard

18:13

anything about Riley and Buffy quietly

18:15

says that they keep telling her that he's fine,

18:17

but that's all they'll give. And

18:19

Buffy worries that he could be back on whatever

18:21

drugs they were giving him before or maybe even

18:23

torturing him at this point. And

18:25

Giles was like, nah, they wouldn't want to hurt him. He's

18:27

just like, I know. I'm like,

18:29

I don't know. And Buffy says the only

18:31

thing she's certain of is that her man's

18:34

is locked away and she's not helping. And

18:36

that's got to suck. Yeah, definitely. Now

18:38

Xander blasts himself in the background,

18:40

just grunting as electricity courses through

18:42

him. And everyone who's a model,

18:44

everyone ignores him. All the sounds of pain.

18:46

It's almost like that's happened to him before. Like,

18:48

yeah. And it's just like, you know, that accounts

18:51

for some, some stuff. He makes those noises a

18:53

lot. So everybody just focuses on

18:55

comforting Buffy in her time of need

18:57

at this moment. And Buffy worries that

18:59

the initiative has all that behavioral modification

19:01

bullshit, you know, a la Spike,

19:03

the HST, the hot ass subterrestrial.

19:06

And you know, what's going to happen when they decide

19:08

or when they think that Riley's new behavior

19:10

isn't what they're they want. Are they going to put

19:12

a chip in them? Are they going to kill them?

19:14

What are they going to do? I was surprised that

19:16

they hadn't already re-drugged him at this point. Right? Yeah,

19:19

I was very surprised by that. Now,

19:21

hard cut to Riley in the initiative

19:23

hospital wing. And he reaches to grab

19:25

Buffy's scarf from his bedside table. So

19:27

sweet. I know. And sits up, unfortunately, finding

19:30

a button up shirt to put on.

19:32

Blomp, blomp. Thanks a lot, wardrobe department.

19:34

Fuck you guys. But he walks to

19:36

his doorway and immediately gets

19:39

sassy, telling the initiative soldier

19:41

standing guard at his door to step the

19:43

fuck away. He's like, I got it. And when

19:46

he says it, you're just like, ooh, you're back.

19:48

And they're also like, what are you really going

19:50

to do? Because sitting up in bed just hurt

19:52

you. So pretty much, but it worked. It does.

19:54

Forrest joins the chat telling the soldier that he

19:56

heard Riley and tells him at ease. And

19:59

Riley walks out of the room. and down the hall and

20:01

Forrest tells Riley that he's the shish kebab of a

20:03

man and he must be feeling better since he's threatening

20:05

people and shit. And Riley says,

20:07

fuck yeah! And he's like, I have places to be,

20:09

damn it, see you later! And Riley, or Forrest is

20:11

still a little butt hurt though, he's not gotten over

20:13

this moody judiness

20:16

that he was in. He scoffs and

20:18

says that he can't fucking believe Riley's

20:20

going to find that bitch Buffy, adding,

20:23

look at you, one good conjugal visit and

20:25

you'll be back in intensive care to stay.

20:27

Also, like, just so

20:29

crass. I'm like, you, he thinks

20:32

you might be jealous. A little bit. A

20:35

lot of it, actually. Yeah, I think so. A

20:37

conjugal visit. It's like, yeah, no one's in prison

20:40

here. No one's in prison. Stop it. But

20:42

Graham walks from behind sensing that Daddy and

20:44

Papa are maybe fighting again. I think Graham

20:46

is hilarious. He doesn't even do anything and

20:48

I think he's so funny. I love Graham.

20:51

I think he's just like, duh. He

20:53

just walks up and he's like, you guys are right. And

20:55

he tries to deescalate them before it says that

20:57

Riley was just about to explain why he was

20:59

running off on them so quickly. And

21:01

Riley argues that he doesn't have to explain shit. He's

21:04

the one in charge. And Forrest

21:06

tells him that things change. Not

21:08

yet. Which I was like, oh, didn't

21:10

like that. And Riley's pissed

21:12

before it's deflect saying that they need to

21:14

band together shit as messy as fuck right

21:16

now. And Graham agrees. And Forrest

21:19

continues that they have a problem that they need to deal

21:21

with. And Forrest thinks that the most

21:23

important thing is that they keep this problem

21:25

within the family. Which like, dude,

21:28

sit the fuck down. This isn't a

21:30

family. And Buffy's 10 times the soldiers

21:32

that all of you are align with

21:34

her. She can help

21:36

you align with her. She

21:39

can help you. She's shown you time and time

21:41

again that she can help you. Well, just, you

21:43

know, it's give her a chance. Like he

21:46

had the blinders on because one, he thinks

21:48

that she murdered Walsh, which like she

21:50

didn't. Yeah, a little let that go.

21:52

Let it go. Let it go. She

21:55

didn't kill your mom. And then it's like she's

21:57

taking his best friend. So I think like I

21:59

understand why. go intense, but I'm

22:01

like, give her a chance.

22:03

You never gave her a proper chance. You

22:05

push them together. Yeah. Like

22:07

you were all for them getting

22:09

together and now you're kind of

22:11

edging her out. And now

22:14

it's like, just, just get it. Like you

22:16

said, just give it a chance. Right. If you don't, then you

22:18

can at least be like, I gave her a chance. I don't

22:20

like her. Exactly. It's not working. But Riley

22:22

agrees until Forrest step aside. Basically

22:25

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22:27

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details. And

24:06

we get a flash of the cloudy sky kind of

24:08

as the sky is the sun and we hear a

24:10

rumble of thunder. We don't see it because you don't

24:12

see thunder. No. Maybe you do. Somebody

24:15

will tell me if you can. Then the flash to

24:17

an overhead shot of Faith in her hospital bed.

24:19

Then another flash outside and then Faith in the

24:21

hospital bed again. Faith's eyes flicker

24:23

and you can see them flickering under her

24:26

eyelids. It's cool. It freaks me out.

24:29

It's very well done because it's

24:31

like that does happen when you're

24:33

in that deep of a coma

24:36

or in REM sleep. That's what you guys do. And

24:39

that's why she's dreaming so hard right now. So

24:42

her eyes are flickering and we flash

24:44

outside again and we see her lying

24:46

on a picnic blanket with the mayor

24:49

enjoying sandwiches together. And she

24:51

asks if it's going to rain and he's like,

24:53

nah, it's a beautiful day. And she says that

24:55

it always seems like it starts raining about now.

24:57

And he tells her, you're too young and too

24:59

pretty a girl to start wearing worry lines on

25:01

your face. Team mayor. We

25:03

love the mayor. I love the

25:05

mayor. I'm sorry. No,

25:08

I'm not. I love the mayor. I

25:10

think a lot of people love him in a weird way. Like

25:12

I don't want him to defeat anybody. Like I'm glad he got

25:15

got, but at the same time I do pour

25:17

one out for him every now and again. You

25:19

pour one out for him. You know what I'm saying? I

25:22

do raise a glass for the mayor. I do. And

25:24

I will. Every now and again. I'm

25:27

gonna. Anybody who's doing a toast literally

25:29

anywhere in my life, I'm going to be like, and one

25:32

for the mayor. I hope we're together when that

25:34

happens. There's no mayor of our town.

25:36

Mark my fucking words. So the people will be

25:38

confused. Mark my fucking words. And if

25:40

you don't think of it first, I got you.

25:42

All right, here we are. We'll report back to

25:44

the mayor. The next time a toast occurs in

25:46

our lives, I'm going to say to

25:49

the fucking mayor. Let's go. Everybody

25:51

to the mayor. Right. We're going

25:53

to do it and we'll report back. I love this one. But

25:55

he notices our little mayor. He

25:57

notices a little tiny little snake.

26:00

that slithers onto the blanket. It's a very cute little

26:02

snake. It kind of is. It's like a little baby.

26:04

Yeah, it looks like one of those fake ones. Yeah,

26:06

and he picks it up and he says, Hey there,

26:08

fella. I

26:10

don't know where you belong, and

26:13

it's not here with us. Oh my god.

26:15

He's so cute. He

26:18

had a little fella. A little fella. And

26:20

he chuckles and sets it down near the

26:22

grass and settles back down into the blanket

26:24

saying that nothing is gonna spoil their time

26:27

together. And he turns to get her some

26:29

cheesecake. And he says, who wants cheesecake? Faith

26:31

smiles, then glances at movement behind

26:34

him. And we see fear register under her

26:36

face. And she screams, no. And

26:38

we see Buffy as she violently punches him in

26:40

the face and plunges the fancy ass knife into

26:43

his gut. Yeah, it's wild. It was so sad

26:45

to watch him die a second time. It was

26:47

intense. But she yanks it out as his

26:49

corpse falls onto the ground and she

26:51

glares at Faith with intense fury. And

26:53

she tells her, I told you I

26:55

had things to do. And Faith looks

26:57

terrified as she crawls away from her.

27:00

And in the hospital, her eyes

27:02

start to flicker. And that's another

27:04

supporting theory of that

27:07

Buffy's gonna die. I

27:10

told you I had things to do. Why are

27:12

you doing this? Yeah, like you're interrupting my shit.

27:14

That's how I'm feeling. I like that. And in

27:16

this one, isn't Faith dressed a little more Buffy-esque?

27:20

Buffy-esque in this thing? She's wearing a skirt

27:22

that's a little lighter colored. She's not wearing

27:24

her usual dark clothes. Like a cardigan. Yeah,

27:26

she looks very much that way. Yeah, you're

27:29

right. Kind of how the mayor wanted her

27:31

to dress. Remember he got her that dress?

27:33

Yes. Yeah, so it makes sense.

27:35

Yeah, it was just an interesting little thing. Good

27:38

call. But that night,

27:40

Buffy and the scoobs are all on patrol and

27:42

they're surveying the brush in the woods. And

27:45

Buffy flashes a light up between two

27:47

trees and we see suspended between these

27:49

two trees is a red skinned demon. And

27:53

it has been fully dissected,

27:55

fully eviscerated. It's open wide. Fucking

27:58

crazy. They are fucked up. by

28:00

this. So hard cut

28:02

to Xander's basement laundry tool storage bedroom

28:04

apartment where Buffy is saying that she's

28:06

never seen anything like that before. And

28:09

Willow here's where she's uncharacteristically dim

28:11

again because Mikey pointed it

28:14

out. You would think that

28:16

because Willow says like why did Adam do

28:18

that? You would think that Willow would kind

28:20

of be the one to connect the dots

28:22

here. Yeah. Like she would be like well

28:24

it's like the frog in biology class. Like

28:26

he was opened up exactly like that. Exactly.

28:29

And she was always like really into that

28:31

shit and it's like she would be like

28:33

maybe he's trying to see the insides like

28:35

trying to dissect things to understand them. Yeah.

28:37

Because it ends up being Buffy that

28:39

says that Adam is studying the biology of

28:41

anything that he's able to tear apart which

28:44

I shouldn't maybe I shouldn't give I should give Buffy

28:46

a little more credit that she would

28:48

also be able to connect those dots.

28:50

Oh definitely. You would just think like

28:52

characteristically Willow would probably be the one.

28:54

Agreed. Agreed. Little things. But

28:56

Buffy says that the initiative can't do fuck

28:58

all to stop him but the scoobs will.

29:01

And Xander looks at her and says will

29:03

hiding in a cabin with stockpiled chocolate goods

29:05

be any part of this plan? And Buffy

29:07

says no. I'm always there for that plan.

29:09

I am too. And he sits down next

29:11

to Willow and whispers told you.

29:14

And Willow asks what's first? And

29:16

Willy says, Willy, Willy, Buffy says that

29:18

they need to go get Riley. And she

29:21

doesn't give a fuck how many guns the

29:23

initiative has. She's going to get his sexy

29:25

ass out of there and she's going to

29:27

do it now. She sits down formulating the

29:30

plan in seconds saying that she needs Will

29:32

to do whatever she can to hack the

29:34

motherfucking mainframe to give her a ten minute

29:36

window without any initiative fuckery. Use

29:39

magic, use tech, use whatever you need

29:41

to do to buy Buffy the time

29:43

to sneak in and extract that sexy

29:45

man. And she tells Xander that she

29:47

needs whatever weapon he has to force

29:49

her way in and she's going in through

29:51

the fucking elevator shaft and he's going to

29:54

just blast blast blast pow pow pow her

29:56

way in and find that infirmary. And

29:58

then behind her you hear Am I really

30:01

worth all that? And such.

30:03

Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

30:05

Absolutely. I loved that.

30:08

I I just love it. I

30:10

love. I just love them. Because I

30:12

love that he just got to hear how she

30:14

was like, tear the fucking

30:17

time space fabric apart to get this man

30:19

out of there. Like we're all going balls

30:21

to the walls and you know, he was

30:24

like, and it's like that new part of

30:26

a relationship where you're just a fucking giddy

30:28

every time you like, obviously you're so giddy

30:30

no matter when you see your like person.

30:33

But it's in fact different newness. Yes. And

30:36

it's Riley and Buffy is so fucking relieved

30:38

and Willow's like, how did you get here?

30:40

And he's like, I just walked out. You

30:43

know, even though they tried to stop me, I just threatened

30:45

to do violence upon them and they let me

30:47

dip. I kind of have that influence. I

30:49

immediately went, huh? Like I would

30:51

have been like, that was a little too easy. I would have

30:53

been a little sus. I agree. Xander was

30:55

sus. I was like, I don't know about

30:58

that. And he claps his hands saying, that's

31:00

great Riley. And you know,

31:02

there's no polite way to ask you this, but, uh,

31:05

did they put a chip in your brain? I think

31:07

that's a valid question. I think so. And this is

31:09

when we realized, by the way, because they stand nose

31:11

to nose, well, not nose to nose. It's like nose

31:13

to chin. And I was like, Oh,

31:16

Riley Paul. And

31:19

then we Googled it and then we did.

31:21

And I said, guys, he's six foot two. That's

31:23

cool. That's a tall drink of water. So

31:27

Riley is confused and Willow says that they

31:29

were all worried. And Riley says that he

31:31

was too. And then guiltily looks at Willow

31:33

and is basically like, I'm very, very sorry

31:35

for how I acted and that I shoved you to

31:37

the floor. I'm not me when I'm hungry. And Willow's like, you

31:40

know what? It's totally fine. I deserved it because that was the

31:42

day that I bought this fucking ugly outfit. So she

31:44

didn't say that. She's like, do it again. But in

31:46

her head, she was like, honestly, I deserve it for even

31:48

wearing that outfit. And she tells

31:50

him to forget it in ads. And she literally

31:53

says, she's like, forget it. Like, you know, all

31:55

of Buffy's boyfriends throw me to the ground eventually.

31:57

We get over it. We all move past it.

32:00

Tell you what, you two crazy

32:03

kids take down an

32:05

unstoppable killer cyborg demon hybrid

32:08

thingy and we'll call it all even.

32:10

I think that's pretty even. I'd say

32:12

so. And Riley says that taking down

32:15

Neapolitan Adam is gonna suck. There's no

32:17

way to know what he's gonna throw at

32:19

them. And Buffy looks at him wistfully

32:21

and says that they're together and there's nothing

32:23

they can't face. Except for faith. And

32:25

I was like, uh-oh, nothing? Hard

32:28

cut back to what they can't face. Faith.

32:32

We're in Faith's coma dream nightmare scape.

32:34

And like Forrest Gump, she is running.

32:36

She is going. And behind her Buffy

32:38

Michael Myers walks forward with the fancy

32:40

ass knife held in front of her

32:42

and we get a flash of faith

32:44

in the hospital again. She's REM sleeping

32:46

again. Those eyes are going nuts. Aw,

32:48

it's freaking me out. She did a

32:51

great job acting this. Great. It's

32:53

crazy. So great. She hops

32:55

past tombstones looking behind her at Buffy

32:57

who is slowly stalking her. And

33:00

as she runs, Faith doesn't notice the open grave

33:02

in front of her and falls right into it. Buffy

33:05

walks to the edge of the grave

33:07

and just stares down at her. And

33:09

the shots in this episode are really

33:11

impressive. They're so good. Because we get

33:13

this really incredible overhead shot of Faith

33:15

in the grave looking up in absolute

33:17

terror. Just in a grave. And

33:19

it flashes back to Buffy who just steps

33:21

into the grave like she's in the fucking

33:23

matrix. Like just like whoop. No, no problem.

33:26

So as soon as she disappears into the

33:28

grave, thunder is rumbling and we get this

33:30

close up on the edge and we see

33:32

Faith claw her way up and out of

33:34

the grave. Thunder and lightning

33:36

are crashing. The music is coming to a crescendo.

33:39

Very, very frightening. And

33:41

the camera floats above her and

33:44

focuses on her upturned face as

33:46

she holds her hand up and

33:48

screams. Hard cut to a close

33:51

up of Faith in her hospital bed and boom, her

33:53

eyes flick open. But can we talk about

33:55

how important I think this scene is now

33:57

that I've seen the end of this episode?

34:00

Yeah, oh So

34:02

good. Yeah, so perfect. Yeah

34:05

So everything because my wooden stakes out for

34:08

the entire episode. I think it's pretty fucking

34:10

obvious Yeah, is that Buffy has become

34:12

a faith? Yeah, like that's reached So

34:14

that's what it's like you met you right

34:17

face fall into the grave You see Buffy

34:19

going after her and then she comes out

34:21

exactly. It's like it feels like there was

34:23

like a switch Yeah, cuz she was scared.

34:26

She tripped into the girl Like she was

34:28

very like bumbley and like not her terrified

34:30

acting, you know Like different then she comes

34:32

out and just screams like this primal scream

34:34

and she's been wakes up like from

34:37

the literally from the Put

34:39

in a fucking coma. Yeah, I love

34:41

this. It's all very love the show as we'll see there's

34:43

more There's

34:45

more episodes that have like dreams. I

34:48

like the dream They do a

34:50

great job with dreams in this series I

34:52

think and a lot of them mean a

34:54

lot of things like yeah, they're important. So

34:56

this is one of those for sure So

34:58

she's awake and when we

35:01

come back from our non-existent commercial faith looks

35:03

around her hospital room question mark hospital room

35:06

We get another awesome overhead shot of her in

35:08

the hospital bed and we're like, where is she?

35:10

Is she in a fucking dungeon? This is a

35:12

strange floor that I've never been on at the

35:14

wall. She's in a coma I

35:16

think she'd be in like I see you, you

35:19

know, like put a place where it's like highly

35:21

monitored She's in the basement like I

35:24

see like she should be in I see you I

35:26

would think like very much monitored I

35:28

would think one I think because if

35:30

you wake up the other people say

35:32

that like the investigators are like why

35:34

was why was she in this random? Base?

35:37

Yeah, you know which like why

35:39

is it because she's a murderer? Well

35:42

that she should have been under heavy security and they

35:44

actually mentioned that they're like, that's what they mentioned But

35:46

I'm like is I mean, it's

35:48

Sunnydale's and it's a violation. Yeah There's

35:51

definitely something going on now. It's

35:54

very weird. The walls are concrete gray That's very

35:56

dingy and she looks at the medical equipment around

35:58

her and rips her back setting off of her

36:00

and stands up, rips all the IVs out and just

36:03

leaves the room. And she walks

36:05

down the hallway at Hipma Milation

36:07

Memorial Hospital and she passes by

36:09

boxes of probably medical

36:11

records, I'm assuming, stacked

36:13

on an unused stretcher. And

36:15

a young woman pops out of an exit door and

36:17

asks Faith for directions to the third floor, which I

36:20

was like, uh, bitch, what?

36:23

Why are you asking Faith who looks more like

36:25

a ghostly race where anything other than the morgue

36:27

is? Like I would be like, you

36:29

look like you know where the morgue is. You

36:32

look like you know where pathology is. Where

36:34

is that? Well, like directions to the third

36:36

floor, girly pop, find the nearest stairwell. I'm

36:38

gonna go with that. Like directions,

36:40

like at least say a room to

36:42

the third floor. Why

36:44

don't we look around? Like, you know what? Taking our surroundings.

36:46

Do you know what floor you're on right now? Like,

36:50

cause you can do this thing.

36:52

It's behind the stairs. But you can just

36:54

add an elevator up in here. I'll

36:56

tell you exactly where you are. But you know

36:59

what? This girl seems like she might, you

37:01

know, she doesn't make great decisions to begin with.

37:04

No. Pretty

37:06

ugly. And holding a teddy bear for whoever she's trying

37:08

to visit. And Faith is like, what? Like

37:11

probably distracted by what she's wearing. And

37:13

terry cloth takes Faith's appearance in and asks

37:15

if she needs help getting released from you

37:17

know, purgatory or whatever limbo she finds herself

37:20

in right now. She's like, do you need

37:22

help? Do you need me to ritually sacrifice

37:24

something? Like what? Should I

37:26

call pinhead in here? I don't know what's happening. And

37:29

Faith just says she needs to get

37:31

to Sunnydale graduation immediately. I loved

37:33

that she immediately woke up and was like, it has

37:35

to be the same day. I need to go stop

37:38

that. Like I need to go to graduation and help

37:40

finish this. And how like unsettling must that be when

37:42

you realize how much time it has? It almost leaves.

37:44

I wonder if you thought this too, because like maybe

37:46

I just like love Faith and I want this to

37:48

be it. You almost wonder if she

37:50

woke up asking for graduation because she was ready

37:52

to go join the mayor. Yeah. Like

37:55

you think, was there a tiny part of her that was like,

37:57

I need to try to stop it. Oh, I

37:59

don't. So what do you think there was any part and that's

38:01

why and she found out that it went through and

38:04

that Buffy like killed The mayor and killed everybody like

38:06

about all these people died and everything and that's when

38:08

she got Like kicked up

38:10

again. No, like she always had that

38:12

in there But I wonder if there's like sick because she's

38:14

always got that little part of her She

38:17

doesn't want to be included and wants

38:19

to be unlike the good guy

38:21

team But she just doesn't feel like she deserves

38:23

to be there Yeah, cuz even like later when

38:25

she's looking through the windows like there is she

38:27

wants to be hard either But

38:29

no, I didn't get it in this sense I think

38:31

she was going if it had been Sunnydale graduation, I

38:34

think she was going to be with me I think

38:36

so too I think it's just like a part of

38:38

me hopes that there was something in here that was

38:40

like maybe when she got there We might have seen

38:42

like her hesitate doing something or something

38:45

like that. I just wonder I'm like, I don't

38:47

know Yeah, even a Buffy and all that and

38:49

it's like I don't know. I'd maybe

38:51

that's just me hoping I think you know mayor had

38:54

so much influence over her Absolutely,

38:56

and he gave her like a

38:58

parental figure Yeah So I think she

39:00

was like I need to go be like with my dad and it's like

39:02

would you want to be with your dad? I'm trying to convince him to

39:04

stop it. Like was she gonna try to be like we

39:07

don't need to do this I don't know some part

39:09

of me for some reason like I didn't I don't

39:11

think I thought that the first time Yeah, just watching

39:13

it again. Maybe for them. I don't know

39:15

how many times I've seen this maybe the fourth time or something like

39:18

that This episode. Yeah, I I

39:20

was like, I wonder but we'll never know

39:23

Yeah, and maybe because she's not quite

39:25

so angry yet that's until she hears

39:28

this she hears the whole shebang Because

39:31

Terry cloth is like yeah You can't because

39:33

Sunnydale High isn't even there anymore and

39:36

faith is like what day is it and she's like

39:38

it's Friday And she's like the date what is the

39:40

date and she's like February 25th and she says what

39:42

year is it? And Terry looks

39:44

around and it's like I'm gonna go

39:47

Like I'm gonna get you a nurse or

39:49

something like it's weird in here here I

39:51

was like you give her the other year

39:53

and faith urgently asked what happened to the

39:55

school begging her to tell her and Terry

39:57

stammers, well tragedy

40:00

really. The student died,

40:04

the principal, the mayor. They

40:06

look furious. And

40:08

this is why I wonder if some part of

40:11

her wanted to go there and stop

40:13

him because one, some

40:16

part of her does want

40:18

that other life. Yup. And

40:21

then two, she cares about him enough that she

40:23

was like, I don't want something happening to you. We

40:25

can figure out a different way. Maybe. I

40:27

wonder if there was part of her that wanted to do that.

40:29

And then she hears that he's dead. And then it's just all

40:31

gone. Just snapped again.

40:34

Maybe. I can see why you would think that.

40:36

Or maybe I just want to believe that because

40:38

it's just like more nuanced to her character because

40:40

she's so multifaceted, I feel like. And I like

40:42

that about her. Yeah. But I'm like,

40:44

I think I'm just like making up character for her. Well,

40:47

a good show makes you do that. But

40:50

I don't know because I don't know if that part is left

40:52

of her. Yeah.

40:56

I don't know if that's better because you've seen so many, but I'm like, I don't know. But

40:58

I can see why you say that. Like I

41:00

don't, I don't see her in Buffy

41:03

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41:05

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41:46

get a hard cut now to Faith wearing

41:49

Carrie Cloth's very ugly outfit. Yeah, she walks

41:51

out of the hospital and Ash was like,

41:53

oh, she's just, she's just killing people now.

41:55

Yep. We find out later that she just beat

41:57

her up. Yeah. She didn't kill her. She

42:00

didn't have time to she didn't that's a lot And

42:03

at Buffy's dorm we hear Buffy telling

42:05

Riley that she never stopped thinking about

42:07

him and now she says this She

42:09

says I never stopped thinking about you

42:11

and it is said Over

42:13

the shot of Faith walking out of the hospital.

42:15

I love that So we don't see it's I

42:17

love that they did that because it's such a

42:20

double meat like you get it face Never. Yeah,

42:22

I'm thinking about both. Yeah, and it's and the

42:24

mayor that Buffy has never stopped thinking about faith Yep,

42:26

you know that was she was in the back of her

42:28

mind. That's that's a very time multifaceted

42:30

statement. It is But

42:32

Riley's like same these and he tells her that

42:34

all he had in there was a little part

42:36

of her and he takes the scarf That she

42:39

had wrapped around his knuckles out of his pocket

42:41

and shows her and she says well It's just

42:43

the scarf part of me really and he asked

42:45

her if she thinks that they're being watched And

42:47

she asked if the initiative even does that

42:49

like maybe who knows like

42:52

nobody knows maybe possibly Mama

42:54

Walsh was watching you. Yeah So

42:56

she tells him that he's far away and asked what

42:59

she can do and he tells her that you know

43:01

She can give him an order which I was like

43:03

spicy He starts having an existential

43:05

crisis and he's like he's been groomed all

43:07

his life to follow orders Like he doesn't

43:09

know what else to do and

43:11

with all the fuckery a foot in the initiative Maybe it's

43:13

not the right job for him. Like what the

43:15

fuck like he's having a real identity crisis, which

43:17

is that's tough Yeah, and Buffy tells

43:20

him hashtag relatable and tells him about the

43:22

Watchers Council and all that bullshit You

43:24

know how she quit and she tells him that

43:26

it's his choice He can initiative into a new

43:28

era where they aren't sketchy as fuck Or

43:31

he can quit the team and fight demons

43:33

on his own terms Like you you have

43:36

the world is your oyster right now Riley

43:38

Finn. Yeah, Finn Riley The world

43:40

is your oyster. She's like, would you like to

43:42

be a member of the Scooby game? Yeah, like

43:44

hell Yeah, and he doesn't even know what his

43:46

way is. He's like, I'm a soldier Take

43:49

that away and what's left and she smiles at him

43:51

and says a good man Yeah, and

43:53

as the Buffy and Riley theme plays in

43:55

the background, she kisses him She's kissing his

43:57

ears and runs her hand through his hair

44:00

And he's asking, he's like, what

44:02

are you doing? And she jokes that she's

44:04

looking for brainwashy chips in his head. So

44:06

funny. And she flirtatiously tells him that she

44:08

doesn't see any, but she'll keep looking. Which

44:10

is a euphemism. Yes, it is. And she

44:12

tells him that he's been strong enough for

44:14

long enough. Long enough for long

44:16

enough. Long enough for long enough. You've

44:19

been strong enough. That's a country

44:21

song. She

44:24

just, somebody throws her in acoustic guitar

44:26

and she's like, you've been strong enough.

44:29

And I know that you've been

44:31

strong enough. And he just grabs

44:33

a ear of corn and starts playing. And

44:38

then she says she'll help, you know, she's going to help

44:40

his skewered ass. Yes. That's

44:42

like the, that's the remix right there.

44:46

I don't know if I can make a beat for that. You

44:48

don't need to. It's okay. We'll figure it out.

44:51

Okay. That's

44:53

nice. And in the meantime, he's going

44:55

to stop with the self torture before he starts acting

44:57

like angel and we all end up being annoyed by

44:59

him. And

45:02

he literally asks, you sure about

45:04

that? You sure about that?

45:07

And she tells him it's an order and

45:09

they kiss. And I was like, you guys

45:11

can't get too steamy because he has a

45:13

wound. Yeah, it's true. And then it was

45:16

getting to that point. You can't have a

45:18

conjugal visit. You genuinely cannot. Now back at

45:20

HIPAA violation Memorial hospital, a doctor is acting

45:22

all doctory and berating a nurse with a

45:25

nanobob. That was a Mikey term, by the

45:27

way. A nanobob. I love a nanobob. We're

45:29

going to call her man. A bulb. Uh,

45:33

you know, just berating her for being the unfortunate

45:35

one to notice that faith has disappeared. I

45:37

was just thinking nanobob is the singer for the

45:39

nana. This is my

45:42

nanobob. This is my nanobob. Strong

45:47

enough for long enough. Find that man. A

45:49

ball on the top 100. So she

45:52

defends herself saying that she's not a man. She's

45:56

been strong enough for long. I'm

46:00

like, okay, nobody finds us funnier than we

46:02

do. But

46:08

she defends herself saying that her time to

46:10

check in on her is 8 p.m. And

46:12

when she showed up, Nana Bob found the

46:14

room as is and alerted

46:16

the appropriate people. She's like, I did

46:18

my fucking job. I just got here. That's

46:20

the worst when you walk into your fucking shift

46:22

to everybody else's bullshit. And they're like, it's your

46:24

fault. You're like, I was in my shower. I

46:27

just got here. Now the doctor tells her to get

46:29

the fucking records for him to review. The

46:32

home of patients don't just get up and disappear.

46:35

A detective is fucking furious. He's like,

46:37

what type of romper room bullshit is

46:39

this hospital? This patient was wanted for

46:41

questioning in a series of murders. And

46:43

they just let her fucking dip. Where's

46:46

the security on this floor? She just

46:48

walked out the door. The

46:50

doctor tries to defend themselves saying that there

46:52

was no way that faith was gonna wake

46:54

up. This can't be happening. So

46:56

another staff member rushes into the room telling

46:58

the group that they found a woman who

47:01

looks like she must have had terrible fucking

47:03

fashion sense who was beaten very badly and

47:05

stripped of her ugly outfit, which is weird

47:08

because who would want that? Exactly. Don't worry.

47:10

We checked. Willow's OK. It wasn't her. He

47:13

rushes away. And the doctor

47:15

and the detective race after him, leaving

47:18

Nana Bob behind. And after they're out

47:20

of earshot, which is an episode of

47:22

Buffy, she exits the room and grabs

47:24

the phone on the wall next to

47:26

Faith's room and dials a four

47:28

digit number. And she drops her

47:30

affect, blandly saying, it happened. Send

47:32

the team to whoever she called.

47:35

Like, what the fuck, Nana Bob? Nana Bob's

47:37

connected. She is. Hard cut to

47:39

the ruins of Sunnydale High, which always just gives

47:41

me a little bit of a sad. You

47:44

know? I know. It's a little sad right in the

47:46

center. They could embalm it like that. Yeah, it's sad.

47:48

Now, again, we don't know why they

47:50

haven't torn this death trap down. I feel like

47:52

it's very dangerous. There's no

47:54

new mayor yet. There isn't. That's true. And

47:56

we get haunted violin music playing as Faith

47:58

stares at the door. school in angered

48:01

shock. Hard cut to her

48:03

walking through the main street in Sunnydale, which is

48:05

busy with people just darting to and fro. She

48:07

avoids everyone's gazes and just rushes away. Now

48:10

hard cut again to Giles apartment

48:12

complex and Faith sneaks up to

48:15

the window. She's clay achaning, you

48:17

know, invisible-ing here. That's her.

48:20

And she's just out of the eyeline

48:22

of the scoobs and we see Xander,

48:24

Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Riley. They're trying

48:27

to figure out why Neapolitan Adam has

48:29

been so quiet lately. And Riley says,

48:31

he's probably working off an autonomic power source

48:34

because he's straight out of the box. He's to charge

48:36

up a while. I love that he

48:38

said he's straight out of the box. Like

48:40

a brand new toy. Yep. Buffy wonders why

48:42

he needs to charge up and Xander offers

48:44

based on the clues. I'll go with killing

48:47

spree. Riley thinks that's probably the

48:49

best case scenario and he picks up the blaster

48:51

and flicks the switch and it just wars to

48:53

life. Because

48:56

he's like, when I fiddled around with the blaster,

48:58

it electrocuted me and definitely didn't give him, you

49:01

know, he didn't get an orgasm from it. So I'm sure

49:03

he said, so he grabs the

49:05

blaster asking how the fuck Riley did that. And

49:08

Ryguy says that blasters are easy. Neapolitan

49:10

Adam with his arm bone erection. That's

49:12

a whole other story. And will wonders

49:14

if mama Walsh maybe left an instruction

49:16

booklet lying around somewhere. And Buffy says

49:19

that that shit doesn't matter. It would

49:21

be in the initiative anyways. Giles agrees.

49:23

They can't go in there without major

49:25

offensive. And Riley quickly

49:27

tells them, Hey, speak for yourself. He's a

49:29

fucking double agent. Y'all. I kind of love

49:32

that. I love it. He's like, I'll work

49:34

both sides. Yeah. And Buffy scooches up to

49:36

Riley running her hand through his hair and

49:38

says, that is a fucking brilliant

49:40

idea. Everyone loves the idea of having

49:42

a double agent on the inside, including

49:44

us. Riley says it's the

49:46

least he can do. And Xander agrees. It is

49:48

the least Riley can do after he knocked Willow

49:51

to the ground. That's her date really is now

49:53

outside. Faith takes in the information silently spying

49:56

on them. And then the phone rings and

49:58

Giles answers it, but it's for Buffy.

50:00

So he calls her over and she answers

50:02

and says, what sort of emergency? And then

50:04

her face drops as she listens and

50:07

face feels her ears ringing. So she crutches and

50:09

scurries off into the night. Giles

50:11

is super concerned and is like, what the fuck is going

50:13

on? And she tells them that

50:15

faith is awake. Willow and Xander literally shit

50:18

a dick. Like literally it happened.

50:20

Literally. It was wild that they showed it.

50:22

It was the nineties. I guess. But she

50:27

tells them that she beat someone up. So she didn't

50:29

kill that girl and took her

50:31

clothing and disappeared from HIPAA violation memorial.

50:34

Xander thinks it's pretty shitty timing and Willow

50:36

asks what they should do. Giles says that

50:38

they need to find her and Willow asks

50:40

what about Adam? And Xander says, I'd hate

50:42

to see the pursuit of a homicidal lunatic and

50:44

the way of pursuing a homicidal lunatic. I

50:46

love that one. That's good. That's slave. That's

50:48

in slave. I really liked that one. That's

50:51

slave. But Buffy says she's going to patrol

50:53

and faith is not one to keep a low profile.

50:56

So that's how she's going to look for Willow

50:58

suggests Buffy beats the crap out of faith. Xander thinks

51:00

that's a good plan. And Buffy says good on paper,

51:02

but we still have a decision to make. Do we

51:04

hand her over to the cops? They wouldn't know what

51:06

to do with the Slayer, even if they knew we

51:08

existed. And we'll ask about the

51:11

council. But remember, they've been there, tried that.

51:14

Giles wonders if she could be detained within

51:16

the initiative and Xander worries because you know,

51:18

they might be evil. So that might be

51:20

even worse. And Buffy sighs

51:22

saying there's no way around it. Faith is

51:24

back and whether I like it or not,

51:26

she's my responsibility. And Buffy

51:28

wonders because they don't know where

51:30

she is, what she's thinking, what

51:32

she's feeling. And Xander adds who

51:34

she's doing, which we're like,

51:37

shut up. Like, no,

51:40

we didn't need that. And Buffy says she

51:42

could be terrified. Maybe she doesn't even remember

51:44

or maybe she does. And she's sorry. And she's

51:46

alone hiding somewhere. Like Buffy, you really got

51:48

to come on. Yeah. And

51:51

Giles says that maybe there is a form of

51:53

rehabilitation that they haven't thought of yet. And Willow

51:55

says, and if not, ass kicking

51:57

makes a solid plan B. And Buffy reads

52:00

tweets that saying that they need to find her

52:02

then they can figure out where to go from

52:04

there and all this has

52:06

gone on just like bada-boop bada-beep bada-boop bada-beep

52:08

and then Riley just looks over and it's

52:10

like whose face the

52:12

whole time for

52:15

him to like cut in at any point but he's

52:17

like he's like the whole thing happened cool uh who

52:19

is she though yeah like he's just like solid plan

52:22

sounds good yep that's

52:24

a bad idea who'd absolutely yeah that

52:26

sounds crazy wow yeah you totally

52:28

could do that who is

52:30

this though like what's going on now

52:33

hard cut to Willow and Buffy's walking through

52:35

campus the next day and Willow asked what

52:37

Buffy told Riley about the whole thing

52:39

and Buffy says the truth that she's

52:41

my wacky identical cousin from England whenever

52:43

she visits hi jimson soon and

52:46

Buffy says she told Riley the whole story but she

52:48

had to like vague up a few bits yeah you

52:50

know the demon boyfriend yeah will is like how did

52:52

he handle that you know how'd you handle the angel

52:55

parts and Buffy says she did some editing but it

52:57

was only because it's a long story and she had

52:59

to go hunt faith which was fruitless but at least

53:01

all the cops are looking for her too now which

53:04

I was like it's probably not a good thing

53:06

that you're hiding the angel stuff I think she's

53:08

not a good way to get it right out

53:10

there yeah but I think it's tough because there's

53:13

a lot going on right now with Adam and

53:15

Faith so I understand wanting to get that sewed

53:17

up but it's like this is Sunnydale there's

53:19

always gonna be a lot going on exactly you're

53:21

never gonna have a good time to tell him

53:23

about your formerly demon boyfriend that almost killed everybody

53:25

in you yeah you know so

53:27

that you had to bring that like he

53:29

came back from hell but she also still hasn't

53:32

really explained spike yet either so he's gonna be

53:34

like what's your thing with demons bad guy yeah

53:36

I'd be like look at that guy like what

53:38

would you kick him out Riley

53:40

would say yes so they just send

53:47

a staircase walking towards a group of students

53:49

reading stuff on like a bulletin board and

53:52

like a notice board and Buffy agrees saying pressure

53:54

is definitely high I'll tell you if I were

53:56

her I'd get out of Dodge post hasty and

53:59

in front of them Faith turns around and

54:01

says, you're not me. And non-existent

54:04

commercial, which also such a fucking

54:06

heavy line right there. You're not

54:08

me. Because it's like, but you will

54:10

be. Now when we

54:12

come back, Buffy tells Faith that she was looking

54:14

for her and Faith says, I've been standing still

54:17

for eight months Faith. How hard

54:19

you look? I love Faith's one-liners. I

54:21

think that might be my quote of the week. It's

54:23

a great one. It's a good one. I've been standing

54:25

still for eight months. How hard you look? I've

54:27

been literally in one place in a coma. Buffy

54:31

asks how she is and Faith says,

54:33

five by five. The coma has

54:35

her all well rested and shit and ready for

54:38

payback. And Buffy's bummed that the pleasantries are over

54:40

and Faith asks, what'd you think? I'd wake up

54:42

and we go for tea? You tried to gut

54:44

me Blondie. And Buffy says that

54:46

Faith would have done the same thing if she had the

54:48

chance and tells her that it doesn't have to be this

54:50

way. And Faith is like, no bitch, no,

54:52

it does have to be like this. And

54:55

Buffy looks around at all the students around

54:57

them just like milling about and walking to

54:59

classes and shit and tells Faith these are

55:01

innocent people. And Faith looks around and just

55:04

says, no such animal. And I loved that.

55:06

I was like, hell yeah. Buffy says that

55:08

it was too much to hope that Faith

55:10

would have grown. And Faith says, same

55:13

girl, same. And she can see that Buffy, she's like,

55:15

basically I can see that you're still a bitch. And

55:18

she says that she kept having a dream where

55:20

the self-righteous blonde chick stabbed her in the gut

55:22

and asked Buffy if she knows why. And Buffy

55:25

coldly tells Faith, she had it coming.

55:28

And Willow takes her book bag off her shoulder

55:30

and just like slowly starts making her way behind

55:32

Faith, like holding it like she's going to hit

55:34

her with it. And Faith without

55:36

even turning around and without breaking what she's

55:39

saying, says, that's one interpretation.

55:41

But in my dream, she has

55:43

it for a guy. Try it red and

55:45

you lose an arm. Willow just immediately stands

55:47

down. Faith isn't done. She has

55:50

a lot of anger to work through. So she

55:52

continues to unload saying, I wake up to find

55:54

out that this blonde chick isn't even dating the

55:56

guy she was so nuts about before. I

55:58

mean, she's moved on to the college peace

56:00

chick she made. Not only

56:02

has she forgotten about the love of her life,

56:05

she's forgotten all about the chick she nearly killed

56:07

for him. So

56:09

that's my dream. That and

56:11

some stuff about cigars and tunnel.

56:15

Tell me, college girl,

56:17

what it is. It is

56:19

wild, and you can absolutely see why.

56:22

She is so angry that, like, you

56:24

killed her to get her blood to

56:26

save a guy that is nowhere

56:28

to be found and you have a new boyfriend. Yeah.

56:32

I'd be mad. A guy would

56:34

be mad. That's not, like, the only reason.

56:36

No, for sure. There was a myriad of reasons.

56:40

That was the turning point that made her okay with

56:42

it. But yeah. Luthie

56:44

probably wouldn't have killed Faith if it wasn't

56:46

for that, because she doesn't go around willy-nilly

56:49

killing people. And it's like,

56:51

so Faith knows the only reason she

56:53

truly did kill her was

56:55

to get her blood to save Angel, and she's

56:58

not even with him anymore. And he's now with

57:00

a new boy. That's Buffy for you. And it's

57:02

like, oh. So when she said

57:04

it like that, I was like, oh. I would

57:06

also be angry. Be yank. But

57:10

Buffy tells Faith that she mouths off about

57:12

shit she doesn't understand still. And

57:15

Sirens starts to convene on the area,

57:17

and Buffy says, uh-oh, I guess somebody

57:19

knows you're here. And Faith shabooms Buffy

57:21

in the face. Buffy does a

57:23

full 360 and kicks her. They punch. I

57:25

imagine being on this campus. Right in the middle of

57:27

everything. There's people everywhere. They're like, is this a club?

57:29

Is this Fight Club? They're like, you don't talk about

57:31

Fight Club. So they punch and grunt and kick as

57:33

the police screech around the corner. And

57:38

Willow rushes in and swings her bag at Faith

57:40

and scoots back hilariously. She's like, ah, never mind.

57:43

And Buffy kicks Faith away from Willow, and she

57:45

regains her footing and turns to Buffy, saying, you took my life, B.

57:49

Payback's a bitch. She's really heavy on the B of

57:51

it all. Hell yeah. And

57:53

Willow, because I think she knows Buffy doesn't like it. And I think she hasn't

57:55

been able to say it in a long time. Yeah, it reminds her of

57:57

a time. Now

58:01

Willow looks at Faith with disgust and

58:03

says, look who's talking. And

58:05

Faith tells them that she will see

58:07

them around and then rushes backwards, throwing

58:09

a cop to the ground and then

58:11

parkouring over the police vehicle to kick

58:14

another cop straight in the fucking face.

58:18

Even re-picturing. That's

58:24

exactly what you look at. It's

58:27

just like, I went into orbit when

58:30

that was like, I can't stop. It's

58:32

on the loop in my head right

58:34

now. Cause

58:36

the first one you're like, oh shit. And then

58:38

she jumps on the hood and just fucking re-exact.

58:42

It just, it's like she's bowling, but

58:47

also like soccer with his head. It's

58:50

so good. It's so good.

58:53

She just takes off pushing anyone in

58:55

her way to the ground and hops

58:57

over a stone wall. Buffy follows pretty

58:59

casually. Like I was like, girl, this

59:02

girl just got out of a coma and

59:04

she's besting you. That's embarrassing. I know you're

59:06

tired, but I know it was her fucking

59:08

stunt double, but she's literally just like

59:10

strolling over to the house. Like, can

59:12

you go? Yeah. It's like damn.

59:15

Again, she just got out of

59:17

a coma. Which I guess

59:19

you could argue she's been resting a while. She

59:21

has. She's well rested. Yeah, that's true. They

59:25

make it a point to say that she's not. So in

59:27

another campus building, Willow thanks Tara for

59:30

coming with her and she adds hunting

59:32

for a psychopathic super bitch is definitely

59:34

in the above and beyond category. And

59:36

Tara tells her it's no big deal. And

59:39

sheepishly asks what they will do if they

59:41

find her and Willow tells her run flee,

59:43

maybe skedaddle. I would skedaddle. She's like, we're

59:45

not here to engage. It's strictly recon and

59:48

Tara looks at Willow. It's actually the cutest

59:50

look. She's very starry eyed when she looks

59:52

at her and she smiles and tells her

59:54

that she said recon and she's like, she

59:57

are like a super cool monster fighter. And

1:00:00

Willow tells her that Faith isn't a monster, and

1:00:02

that she'd be lucky to bruise Faith's fist with

1:00:04

her face. And Tara's face drops

1:00:06

with worry. And Willow's

1:00:09

like, what's the matter? And Tara's like, yeah, I'm not

1:00:11

so good with the... and then mimics SWAT punching

1:00:13

something, basically. In a really weird manner. Yeah,

1:00:15

because Willow goes swimming. And

1:00:18

Tara looks a little embarrassed and says, violence.

1:00:21

And Willow says that they're sure to see Faith

1:00:23

first, and explains why, saying... She's

1:00:25

like this cleavage-y slut-bomb walking around

1:00:27

and going, oh, check me out.

1:00:30

I'm wicked cool and five by

1:00:32

five. Cleavage-y slut-bomb. That's great. Which

1:00:34

is like, come on. Faith is

1:00:36

like... Faith is a snack. I

1:00:39

love it. Cleavage out. Now,

1:00:41

Tara... Her cleavage is so out of it.

1:00:43

As it should be. If

1:00:45

I was in a coma for that long, my

1:00:47

titties would never stop being the light of day.

1:00:49

Not even that. I'm like, Eliza Dushku? Great cleavage.

1:00:52

Faith, in this moment, I was like, if you

1:00:54

wore something that was too high, I'd be

1:00:56

like offended by it. Honestly. Girl... Yes.

1:00:59

Go for it. Go for it, sister. Yeah,

1:01:02

and Tara is Confucian, obviously. And

1:01:05

Willow agrees, saying that that's the thing. No one knows, because

1:01:07

she's like, what the fuck is that? Like,

1:01:10

five by five? What? She's like, no one knows.

1:01:12

And we know. Five

1:01:15

by five is a term used in

1:01:17

radio communications. It refers to signal strength

1:01:19

and clarity, both rated on a five-point

1:01:21

scale. So thank you to the truly

1:01:24

countless amount of re-watchers who have

1:01:26

continued to let us know this.

1:01:29

And measurable. We

1:01:31

appreciate it. We love you. But I promise you, we

1:01:33

know now. We know. We know. We appreciate it. You

1:01:35

did great. But Willow says

1:01:37

that Buffy can handle Faith, and Tara is

1:01:40

safe with her. And Tara

1:01:42

asks if they recon until nightfall,

1:01:44

and Willow agrees, saying that then,

1:01:46

the ritual hiding begins. Now,

1:01:49

on the streets of Sunnydale, Xander is

1:01:51

unraveling, saying that he could be the

1:01:53

target here. There's a lot of pent-up

1:01:55

feelings there, which I disagree. There's not.

1:01:57

Giles disassociates and agrees half-heartedly. Well, say...

1:01:59

Xander continues saying that he can't be held accountable

1:02:02

for the effect he has on women. Which

1:02:04

is none. You have none. Giles scans

1:02:06

the area half listening and Xander tells him

1:02:08

that he and Faith have history. They hear

1:02:10

a bottle falling nearby in an alley and

1:02:13

he's still going on and on about Faith

1:02:15

and they turn and walk down, readying the

1:02:17

blaster gun. I love that Giles

1:02:19

has not even acknowledged. She's like, I won't even

1:02:21

dignify them. Not listening. Yeah, no.

1:02:23

Spike then steps into a circle of light

1:02:25

cast by a nearby street lamp and he-

1:02:27

I love it right now. Angelic. Not

1:02:30

like Angel, Angelic, like Angelic. No, we know. No,

1:02:32

Giles asks what the fuck he's doing here and

1:02:34

Spike just raises an eyebrow, which is like such

1:02:36

a good look on him. And

1:02:38

he's like, I'm not the one who's out of place here. Why are

1:02:40

you here? Xander tells him that

1:02:43

they have a psycho killer rogue slayer

1:02:45

on their hands. Spike tells him that

1:02:47

it sounds serious. And Giles is like, well, it

1:02:49

is. And he's like, what do you know? And Spike

1:02:51

is like, well, what do you need? And Xander

1:02:53

says, well, here she's about yea tall. Tells

1:02:56

him that she has dark hair, name's Faith,

1:02:58

criminally insane. And Spike's like, is

1:03:00

she after you guys? Like all of you? I

1:03:02

don't know. And Xander's like, yeah, she sure is.

1:03:04

And Spike says, tell you what I'll do

1:03:06

then. I'll head out. I'll find

1:03:09

this girl. I'll tell her exactly where all

1:03:11

of you are. And then I'll watch as

1:03:13

she kills you. And he

1:03:15

smiles. And I

1:03:17

died. Yeah, literally died. He, this scene is,

1:03:19

I don't know what happened here. Like the

1:03:21

lighting. It's the, that's a great lighting for

1:03:23

him. And it's the nighttime. So it's like,

1:03:25

yeah, it's just everything. And when he's being

1:03:27

like, like just horrific, I'm like, I love

1:03:29

you. I don't know what that says about you.

1:03:32

Because your real husband is great. Yeah, he doesn't go

1:03:34

around saying that people should die. So that's good.

1:03:37

You know, we're sending people out, sending

1:03:39

Xander. He doesn't go around and send

1:03:42

rogue slayers to go kill people. So

1:03:44

that's a point that I know of

1:03:46

at least. So there's that. That's a

1:03:48

big point in his column. You're right.

1:03:50

Standards. That's a couple points.

1:03:52

I would say so. Big check mark. Yay. But

1:03:55

either way, Spike looks hot here. He smiles. And

1:03:58

so, Charles and Xander look at him and show

1:04:00

him. silence and Spike is aggravated by this whole

1:04:02

thing and says, Can't any one of

1:04:04

your damned little scooby club at least

1:04:07

try to remember that I hate you

1:04:09

all? Just

1:04:11

because I can't do the damage myself doesn't stop

1:04:13

me from aiming a loose cannon your way.

1:04:16

And here I thought they'd be dull. Giles whips

1:04:18

off his glasses because he doesn't want to see

1:04:21

this shit. As Spike starts to strut away and

1:04:24

Xander tells Spike to go ahead. He wouldn't

1:04:26

even recognize her and Spike spins around saying,

1:04:28

Dark hair, this tall name

1:04:30

of faith, criminally insane.

1:04:34

Like this girl already. Xander looks

1:04:36

at Giles, they just look at each other and Xander

1:04:38

just goes, We're dumb. I

1:04:41

was like, You're kinda dumb. Because it

1:04:43

wasn't Giles that offered up all of that

1:04:45

information. Literally you did. Now

1:04:48

third act montage. Third

1:04:54

act montage. Now at HIPPA

1:04:56

violation memorial hospital, Nana

1:04:59

Bob stands outside. No, no, no, no, it's

1:05:01

Nana Bob. It's

1:05:04

not Nana Bob, it's Nana Bob. Been

1:05:06

starring lots of long enough. And she

1:05:08

steps outside as a helicopter. As

1:05:12

a helicopter guys. A

1:05:20

helicopter. You

1:05:26

looked like an old man. Well

1:05:30

I didn't know a helicopter got through so I need

1:05:32

to say it. It didn't. That was

1:05:34

after. I'm so glad you cleared it up. Like

1:05:36

this is a flying machine. Oh my god.

1:05:39

So yeah. Oh that was great. So

1:05:42

a helicopter land nearby Nana Bob. I

1:05:44

wish that was on video. And

1:05:46

a bunch of men in black with suitcases

1:05:48

get out and walk to her. She leads

1:05:50

them into the hospital and the helicopter flies

1:05:52

away. Now on

1:05:54

Main Street, Faith

1:05:59

looks into the bait and tackle shop that she

1:06:01

and Buffy be in need in season 3 episode

1:06:03

14, Bad Girls. She

1:06:06

looks covetously at a knife that she'd like

1:06:08

to want, take, have. Before she can

1:06:10

break the glass though, a squad car turns

1:06:13

around on the street and

1:06:15

she quickly nopes away, joining a group of

1:06:17

people passing by. Even this one was pretty

1:06:19

like, I was like, she was right

1:06:21

there. But then they all break off and she's just

1:06:24

by herself and the car is just

1:06:28

saying. So Sunnydale's finest are

1:06:30

on real display this episode.

1:06:33

Because in an alley, Faith looks around waiting to

1:06:35

see if a cop will follow and

1:06:37

a deep voice calls out to her saying that

1:06:39

a friend sent him and he has a little remembrance

1:06:41

from him. He's a goat. It's a demon. It's

1:06:44

a goat demon. It's a goat. And without

1:06:46

asking a question, she just engages him, gets

1:06:48

him into a headlock and violently wrenches his

1:06:50

neck and kills him instantly. No

1:06:53

questions asked. She grabs the package

1:06:55

and hears the sound of a car approaching.

1:06:57

She ducks against a wall and sees that a police

1:06:59

car is coming really slowly, shining

1:07:02

a light down the alleyway. She scurries

1:07:05

up the ladder and the

1:07:07

light beam literally catches her foot.

1:07:09

Yep. Like, like

1:07:11

just, it's right there. Right there.

1:07:13

But that cop was like, my ship's almost

1:07:15

over. Sunnydale's finest y'all. We were like, Oh,

1:07:17

okay. Yeah. Like, don't worry about that foot

1:07:19

crawling up that ladder that you were like,

1:07:21

what? Now in a video

1:07:24

equipment store, Faith slips the tape into

1:07:26

a VCR. Remember those everybody? I do.

1:07:28

And bitch, it's our favorite big bad

1:07:30

mayor Wilkins. And he greets her in

1:07:32

the video adding that if she's watching

1:07:34

this tape, he's dead and they failed.

1:07:36

And she sighs sadly looking at the guy who had grown

1:07:38

to be somewhat of a father figure to her. And

1:07:41

he cheerfully says, but on the other hand, heck, maybe

1:07:43

we won. And he chuckles

1:07:45

saying, right now I'm on

1:07:48

some jumbo monitor in the Richard Wilkins

1:07:50

museum surrounded by a bunch of kids

1:07:52

sitting Indian style and looking up

1:07:54

at my face filled with fear and wonder.

1:07:57

Hi, kids. Hi

1:08:00

kids! She

1:08:04

smiles as he says that the realist

1:08:06

in him doubts that he's that that's

1:08:08

the case. I said that's

1:08:10

not good manifesting Richard. But he knew. He

1:08:12

did. And he says now Faith as I

1:08:14

record this message you're sleeping and the doctors

1:08:16

tell me that you might never wake up.

1:08:18

And he's so sad. And he genuinely loves

1:08:20

her. He does. It's weird. Because he says

1:08:22

I don't believe that. Sooner or

1:08:25

later you will wake up and when you do you'll find

1:08:27

the world has gone and changed on you. And that's manifesting.

1:08:29

And he tells her that he wishes that he can make

1:08:31

the world a better place for her. But

1:08:33

even he has limits to his power. And

1:08:36

he tells her see the hard pill to swallow

1:08:38

here is that once I'm gone your days are

1:08:40

just plain numbered. And he tells

1:08:43

her that he knows that she's a very

1:08:45

smart and capable young woman who's totally in

1:08:47

charge of her own life. Which I was

1:08:49

like what a good dad. He's like you

1:08:51

are smart you are capable you are in charge

1:08:53

but you are autonomous. But he said there won't

1:08:55

be a place in this world for you anymore.

1:08:58

And he somberly tells her right now I bet

1:09:00

you're feeling very much alone. But you're never alone.

1:09:02

You'll always have me and you'll always have this.

1:09:08

And on the video screen he takes out a small box and he

1:09:10

tells her to open the box. And he goes it won't bite. Leave

1:09:12

that to me. And then

1:09:14

he laughs at his own joke like chuckles. No

1:09:17

one cracks the mare up like the mare. That's

1:09:19

why we get him. Exactly. Because

1:09:21

that's us. And she opens it and he says surprise. You

1:09:24

don't get these in any gumball machine. When

1:09:27

you've been around as long as I have you make friends

1:09:29

and some of them forge neat

1:09:31

little gizmos. Like the one you're holding right now.

1:09:34

And she looks at it and it's a weird silver

1:09:36

contraption with gears and a few rings attached to it.

1:09:38

And he tells her. And here's the

1:09:40

good news. Just

1:09:43

because it's over for my faith. Does

1:09:46

it mean she can't go out with a bang? Any chuckles.

1:09:50

And remember he says just because it's over for my

1:09:52

faith. Yes. Like

1:09:54

my who I know as faith. Now

1:09:57

in Riley's room we see Buffy trying to

1:09:59

caution. him about how dangerous faith is. And

1:10:02

he says he knows he's not arguing and she tells

1:10:04

him not yet, but you always make that innocent face

1:10:06

right before you start. And he's

1:10:08

being adorable and says that it took his mom 12 years

1:10:10

for her to catch onto that. And

1:10:13

he tells her that he just wants to help. And she's

1:10:15

like, well, you can't. And he's like, give me one good

1:10:17

reason. She throws a nerve ball at him and he like

1:10:19

wretches in pain when he catches it. And she's

1:10:21

like, well, that for one. And

1:10:24

he doesn't, he's like, I don't want to sit around and

1:10:26

do fuck all while you're out there battling this gal. And

1:10:28

he literally says, gal. And she's

1:10:30

like, yeah, she's really fucking dangerous. And the fact that

1:10:32

you called her a gal makes me realize that you

1:10:34

don't know what you're dealing with here. And

1:10:37

he can sense that he's not getting the full story.

1:10:39

He's like, there's something else here. And

1:10:41

she avoids the conversation saying that she needs to

1:10:44

go find her. And she tells him that faith

1:10:46

is a woman with superpowers who is cuckoo and

1:10:48

thinks that Buffy ruined everything for her. And she

1:10:50

tells him, I know faith she'll come after me

1:10:53

and she'll come after the people I love. Now

1:10:56

at the summer's residence, as soon as we

1:10:58

get that fucking, camera roll

1:11:00

on that house, I was like,

1:11:02

that hallway, the front entrance. You're

1:11:04

like, yeah, there's a knock at

1:11:07

the door. And Joyce who looks. Dunning

1:11:11

gorgeous and not at all pregnant.

1:11:13

No, not pregnant. I'm confused. Nope.

1:11:16

I am confusion. She

1:11:18

crosses dancer and she opens the door and

1:11:20

faith says, hi, Joyce with fake sweetness and

1:11:22

Joyce is shocked and faith called

1:11:25

bull am her. And it's a, I

1:11:27

was like, I felt that. It's a

1:11:29

big. It's a hard punch. And

1:11:31

she says, mind if I come in and we

1:11:34

get a non-existent commercial. I was like, not Joycey.

1:11:36

Now in Joyce's room, faith looks through Joyce's makeup,

1:11:39

reading the names and throwing them back in the

1:11:41

drawer. And she finds one lipstick called harlot and

1:11:43

she thinks it's a good choice, Joyce. Oh, good

1:11:45

choice, Joyce. And Joyce sits on her bed, fraught

1:11:48

with worry while faith gloats and puts it on.

1:11:50

Then kisses the mirror. So creepy. And she says,

1:11:52

I'm going to ask you something and you got

1:11:54

to promise you'll be honest and not spare my

1:11:56

feelings just cause I could kill you. You promise?

1:12:00

Joyce agrees and Faith throws

1:12:02

on a coat, turns and asks her how

1:12:04

she looks. She looks amazing. She looks

1:12:06

so great. Joyce doesn't miss a beat and

1:12:08

quickly says, psychotic. It's great.

1:12:11

Now Faith pouts saying she was shooting for

1:12:13

Sultry, but you know it's fine. Then

1:12:15

she tells her she knows what Joyce

1:12:18

is thinking and she says in a

1:12:20

perfect impression. You're thinking you'll never get

1:12:22

away with this. Warm. And

1:12:25

Joyce says, Actually I was thinking my daughter is

1:12:27

going to kill you, son. I love how

1:12:29

Joyce is just like, fuck you bitch. She's like Buffy's

1:12:31

going to come save me. And Faith

1:12:33

says that Joyce has a pair on her and she's pretty

1:12:35

impressed that a woman her age has that. Like she's like,

1:12:37

damn. She's like, let me insult you while I say you

1:12:39

have a pair. Yeah. And she says, guess

1:12:41

you can afford to talk that way. I mean, in

1:12:43

the world, according to Joyce, Buffy's going to come crashing

1:12:45

through that door any minute. Not the door. And

1:12:48

she grabs a stack of mail and hops on the

1:12:50

bed next to Joyce, tossing all of Buffy's unopened mail

1:12:52

on the floor around them. And Faith

1:12:54

asks, she hasn't been here in a while, huh?

1:12:56

And you'd think with a crazy chick like me

1:12:58

on the loose, crazy chick with a wicked grudge

1:13:01

against her, no less, she'd call and give you

1:13:03

a heads up. But Buffy's too into her own

1:13:05

deal to remember dear old mom. And

1:13:07

Joyce holds back her fury, telling Faith that

1:13:10

she doesn't know shit about Buffy or her.

1:13:13

And Faith is really trying to get into Joyce's head though,

1:13:15

because she is good at that. She is. And

1:13:17

she tells her that she knows what it's like. And this

1:13:19

is where I think she does still have

1:13:21

that part because she says, you know, I know

1:13:24

what it's like, you know, thinking you matter, you're

1:13:26

a part of something and then you get dumped.

1:13:29

And I'm like, I think she really

1:13:31

thought she was going to be a part of that gang.

1:13:33

And when it didn't work out, she still

1:13:36

wishes that it did. It wasn't even like it

1:13:38

didn't work out. It was just I don't even

1:13:40

like what happened. I forget. I mean, it

1:13:42

was just like, it wasn't going to work

1:13:44

out. She's reckless. She's

1:13:46

too right. Oh, it was like, it was the bad girl.

1:13:48

It was them like, yeah, like when she killed the

1:13:50

deputy mayor there. Yeah, that's never gonna work out.

1:13:53

You're too reckless. Right. You're

1:13:55

too. You've got something dark in you that

1:13:58

you weren't able to hold back. actually tried to they

1:14:01

could like they could have helped her but

1:14:03

she didn't even attend in if she had

1:14:05

like made an effort aimed to that darkness

1:14:07

towards what her destiny was demons bad guys

1:14:09

that would have worked out and it would

1:14:11

have been great yeah but she couldn't so

1:14:14

she says she compares them to animals in

1:14:16

the tar pits sinking a little deeper every

1:14:18

day and no one sees us and

1:14:20

Joyce is born now and wonders now

1:14:23

bored now and wonders if faith

1:14:25

is planning on slitting her throat anytime soon and she says

1:14:27

it like you're gonna do it or no and

1:14:29

faith continues saying don't tell me you don't see

1:14:32

it Joyce you've served your purpose

1:14:34

you squirted out the kid raised her up and now

1:14:36

you might as well be dead I mean nobody

1:14:38

cares nobody remembers especially

1:14:41

not Buffy fabulous superhero

1:14:44

sooner or later you're gonna have to face

1:14:46

it she was over us a long time

1:14:48

ago Joyce and she follows too busy climbing

1:14:50

onto her new boy toy to give a

1:14:52

single thought to the people that matter I

1:14:54

mean you're her mother and she just leaves you

1:14:56

here to die and faith grabs a knife

1:14:59

as she says this from the table and

1:15:01

walks towards Joyce as Buffy bursts

1:15:03

through the window and tackles faith and punches

1:15:06

her we were like what are the schematics

1:15:08

of that yeah I was like that

1:15:11

is the second floor she came

1:15:13

a crash in through like she was just flying

1:15:15

through the air did she jump on the neighbor's

1:15:17

home and then just like really make a dive

1:15:19

for it and I said do we understand how

1:15:21

it happened no do we understand the

1:15:23

physics of it all no do we want to I

1:15:26

said a little bit but I'm willing to guess but

1:15:29

faith falls to the ground and Buffy

1:15:32

looks up and just says hi mom

1:15:34

she's like hi Buffy and then faith

1:15:36

is back on her feet they trade

1:15:38

a lot of violence so much and

1:15:40

Buffy wrenches faith out of the room

1:15:42

into the hallway enjoy some medially calls

1:15:44

9-1-1 in the hallway Buffy

1:15:46

and Faith slam each other into walls they

1:15:48

grunt and kick and punch Faith

1:15:50

runs at Buffy and they fly down the stairs

1:15:52

they both jump to their feet faith

1:15:55

is gloating asking Buffy if she thought that

1:15:57

she was gonna go after that clean marine

1:15:59

and faith says he's cute he looks like he

1:16:01

needs a good role in the sack and

1:16:04

Buffy takes a moment in between punching to tell

1:16:06

her you're not as type he's not big on

1:16:08

fleas and Faith says that he's

1:16:10

just never tried it and I love

1:16:12

it cuz me and Mikey were both like cruel!

1:16:15

Yeah you're a dramatic guy. I was like

1:16:17

you know why you are the way you

1:16:19

are because

1:16:21

you are talking negatively to yourself you need to

1:16:23

believe that you are not fleas but she knows

1:16:25

what she is but you're just like agreeing with

1:16:28

that insult you know like it's one of those

1:16:30

things that you're pretending it doesn't hurt you but

1:16:32

that's what she's just trying to lean in yeah

1:16:34

and Buffy says going for the boyfriend again that's

1:16:37

tired which it is tired it is but Faith

1:16:39

says it's just something to remember her by after

1:16:41

she's moved on and they throw

1:16:43

each other over the dining room table punch through

1:16:45

walls Joyce is going to have so

1:16:48

much shit to fix after all of this you're

1:16:50

like poor Joyce yeah like poor Joyce I was

1:16:52

like oh not the home again and Buffy asks

1:16:54

if it ever occurred to Faith that they all

1:16:56

forgot about her because they wanted to and Faith

1:16:59

throws a vase at her then rips

1:17:01

the silverware drawer out of the buffet

1:17:03

and throws it at Buffy silver spills

1:17:05

all over the floor Faith grabs a

1:17:08

sharp serving tool and tries to stab

1:17:10

Buffy but Buffy bobs and weaves and

1:17:12

shoves Faith to the floor now we

1:17:15

get a hard cut to Giles entering his

1:17:17

apartment it's dark he tries

1:17:19

to flick on the lights but they don't work

1:17:21

suddenly a person behind him flicks on a lamp

1:17:23

and it's one of the

1:17:25

black-clad suitcase dudes from the

1:17:28

helicopter and he puts out a cigarette

1:17:30

in his mouth or he puts out a cigarette he

1:17:34

just eats a lit cigarette he

1:17:37

just says I

1:17:39

mean that would send a message that would

1:17:41

set the tone for this meeting yeah it was

1:17:44

he does not he just puts a cigarette

1:17:46

in his mouth and says hello Rupert and then

1:17:50

Rupert I thought he said ripper

1:17:52

and you're like who these people like more

1:17:55

people from his past Ethan rain is that you

1:17:57

Oh God but he says hello Rupert and he

1:17:59

lights his cigarette and smiles that Giles

1:18:01

and miles miles that that's another

1:18:03

song in our EP. My

1:18:06

job on a Wednesday afternoon.

1:18:14

I'm just smiling that trying

1:18:21

to think about rising up with cigarettes out

1:18:23

my mouth. Hello,

1:18:27

Rupert. But

1:18:30

Giles is fucking shocked. Yeah. Okay. We're not.

1:18:32

It's not okay. It's not good. This is

1:18:34

called bearing with it back

1:18:36

at Buffy's faith. Here's the sound

1:18:38

of sirens, not silence. And

1:18:41

she parkours over the table and dashes into

1:18:43

the sitting room, slamming the glass French door

1:18:45

and Buffy's way. She

1:18:48

slams it and Buffy just shoots through it.

1:18:50

She says, Oh yeah. And

1:18:54

throws faith onto the coffee table. Faith kicks

1:18:56

her in the face and reaches to grab

1:18:59

the silver contraption that the mayor left for. And

1:19:01

we forgot about this. She

1:19:04

slips the three rings on her fingers so that

1:19:07

the geared mechanism is on the palm of her

1:19:09

hand and she grabs Buffy's hand and

1:19:11

a white flash emanates from the mechanism

1:19:13

and Buffy looks fucking terrified. Their

1:19:16

hands glow and they both shutter, but

1:19:18

the light fades and they both

1:19:20

just stare at their hands in confusion. Buffy

1:19:22

pulls her hand back and punches faith

1:19:24

unconscious. So Joyce rushes

1:19:26

in asking Buffy if she's okay. And Buffy

1:19:29

just looks down and says, all things considered.

1:19:32

And Joyce asked what the fuck that thing is. And

1:19:34

Buffy says it's a weapon of some kind. And

1:19:37

she throws it on the floor and stomps on it

1:19:39

and it emits a quick burst of light. And she's

1:19:41

like, it didn't work. Whatever it was. And

1:19:43

the police knock on the door and Buffy looks

1:19:45

at the door in shock, then down at faith,

1:19:47

lying unconscious on the floor. And she says, she's

1:19:49

their problem now. And Joyce nods

1:19:52

and asks again, if Buffy sure she's okay.

1:19:54

And Buffy looks around, then back at faith

1:19:57

on the floor and then says, five by

1:19:59

five. And she stares at Faith

1:20:01

with a crazed look in her eye.

1:20:03

I said, oh no. And

1:20:06

we get the most dreaded text on

1:20:08

a black screen. To

1:20:11

be continued. Oh, I was

1:20:13

so angry. I

1:20:16

need to watch the next episode right now. Can we

1:20:18

actually get off mic and just go? Let's go. Can

1:20:20

we? We gotta do it. Let's.

1:20:23

Well, we already had Ash's hopes. Yeah.

1:20:26

We had lots of fashion outs. I don't think there was really

1:20:28

a fashion out. There

1:20:30

was, you know what? I will say Faith

1:20:32

had so many fashion in. She looked phenomenal.

1:20:34

Her leather pants. I'm just, I'm

1:20:37

team Faith for Harlow lipstick. She looked

1:20:39

fucking great. Her hair looks great. Joyce

1:20:41

was a fashion in. Joyce looked phenomenal.

1:20:43

Her hair. Yeah. Like, good

1:20:45

job, Joyce. Spike looked

1:20:48

amazing as well. Oh, he always does.

1:20:50

Always does. Black t-shirt. Simple. Yeah,

1:20:52

you know, that's all he needs. There

1:20:55

was so many that's delayed moments. Oh yeah.

1:20:58

I did a couple of wooden stakes stabs. So my

1:21:00

ask the watcher is, how the fuck

1:21:02

is Buffy going to get out of Faith's

1:21:05

body? She will. I

1:21:08

thought you'd get more creative. This

1:21:11

one's too delicate. Oh, don't

1:21:14

worry. Okay. But

1:21:16

yeah, I think this

1:21:19

was a great episode. I love

1:21:21

this episode. I've been waiting for this one. This is

1:21:23

I thought coming, I was like, hell yeah. I can't

1:21:25

wait for next episode. I'm so nervous. And I

1:21:28

really hope that Faith

1:21:30

in Buffy's body doesn't get to

1:21:33

fuck Riley. Actually,

1:21:35

that was one of the first things that I said was

1:21:37

she said, oh no, she's gonna

1:21:39

fuck her boyfriend again. I know. That's

1:21:43

actually how I said that. Just

1:21:45

the inflection and every vashish hope. I

1:21:48

really hope she doesn't get to fuck her boyfriend

1:21:50

again. But I realized that that was a big

1:21:53

controversial take the first time around, but

1:21:55

you know. Wait, what? The angel thing?

1:21:58

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1:22:01

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