After a rather uncomfortable time at the movie
theater, Angel and Buffy remind themselves that they can
still love each other completely without going all the
way. Their kiss is interrupted by the arrival of Faith,
who has been cleared by the Council to resume her Slayer
duties. Buffy leaves Angel to join Faith on a nightly
patrol around town. In one of the cemeteries, they
encounter a demon who offers to sell them the Books of
Ascension for the price of $5,000. He mentions the
Mayor's interest in the books, which motivates Buffy to
stop Faith from killing the demon. Buffy wants to know
more about these books and why the Mayor would want them.
After Buffy heads home, Faith reports to the Mayor about
the demon and his offer. Mayor Wilkins orders Faith to
hunt down the demon, kill him, and retrieve the Books
of Ascension.
In the library the next morning,
Buffy tells Wesley and the others about the previous
night's patrol. Following a tip from Willow, Giles
locates a passage in one of his texts that refers to the
Ascension. On the supposed day of a previous Ascension,
an entire town was apparently wiped out. Cordelia enters
the library and indirectly asks Wesley out for dinner
later that week. Meanwhile, Faith tracks the demon all
the way to the apartment where he's been staying. She
attempts to kill the demon with one stab of her knife,
but the demon doesn't give up so easily. After a rough
struggle, the demon finally dies, leaving his blood on
Faith's hands. Faith stares at her hands for a moment,
visibly shaken. She then collects the books and leaves.
Later that night, Faith visits Angel at the mansion. She
shows him her hands which are still stained with the
demon's blood. Angel listens as Faith expresses her
dismay over possibly losing control. Angel embraces her
for comfort, leading Faith to try to initiate a kiss.
Angel backs off, reminding Faith that his heart belongs
to Buffy. As Faith leaves, she gives Angel a small kiss
on the cheek. This kiss is witnessed by Buffy, whose
arrival at the mansion goes unnoticed. At City Hall,
Faith tells Mayor Wilkins that she failed in her plan to
give Angel the moment of true happiness required to lift
his soul. The Mayor decides to take another course of
action.
The next day, Wesley instructs
Buffy to take Faith and find the demon. Xander arrives
with the demon's address, which he obtained by bribing
Willy the bartender. Buffy is reluctant to bring Faith
along, who soon shows up and is filled in on their
orders. Buffy and Faith enter the demon's apartment and
find his dead body on the floor. During their assessment
of the scene, Buffy senses something wrong about Faith's
behavior. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilkins summons a shrouded man
to his office for a special job, one that involves the
removal of one's soul. Back at Sunnydale High, Buffy
tells Willow what she saw at the mansion between Angel
and Faith. Willow assures Buffy that she has nothing to
worry about, for Angel would never fall for Faith's
moves. Little do they know that Faith is at the mansion
at this very moment, putting the moves on Angel once
again. When he places his hands on Faith's shoulders to
let her know that everything will be okay, she douses a
dark liquid onto the center of Angel's chest. The
shrouded man suddenly appears out of nowhere and casts a
spell that surrounds Angel in a field of energy. Once
Angel falls to the floor, the shrouded man disappears.
When Angel gets back up, he's in full vamp-face, hungry
for Faith's kiss. After they part lips, Angel knocks
Faith to the floor. He thanks her for turning him back
into the evil Angelus. Faith whips out her stake and
forces Angel to listen to her. When he finally agrees,
Faith leads him to the Mayor's office... but not until
after they kiss again on the floor.
At the library, Willow notifies
Wesley, Giles, and the others that her computer searches
for the Mayor's files have turned up as dead ends. Oz
suggests researching the Mayor at the Hall of Records.
While Wesley, Willow, Oz, and Cordelia head to the Hall
of Records, Xander decides to patrol the streets for any
further information. Buffy, in the meantime, heads back
home to prepare for an investigation of Mayor Wilkins'
office. At the office, the Mayor has a hard time getting
Angel's undivided attention. Angel tries to kill Mayor
Wilkins with a letter opener. However, the Mayor reveals
his invulnerability to the vampire. Mayor Wilkins then
orders Angel and Faith to take care of the other Slayer
in town. On their way to Buffy's house, Angel and Faith
see Xander walking down the street towards them. Xander
tries to find out where they've been, but the only
response he gets is a right hook from Angel's fist. As
Xander falls to the pavement, unconscious, Angel and
Faith continue walking without missing a step. Joyce lets
both of them into the house. Upstairs, Angel and Faith
tell Buffy that they have the Books of Ascension
at the mansion, and they want Buffy to be with them when
they deliver the books to Giles.
At the Hall of Records, the gang
locates an old photograph of Mayor Wilkins that was taken
a century ago. As Wesley realizes that Mayor Wilkins must
be over a hundred years old, Xander arrives to tell them
about the return of Angel's bad self. Wesley suggests
that they inform Giles, but Xander's news of Faith's
involvement leads them to look for Buffy immediately.
Buffy follows Angel and Faith to the mansion. Once there,
Angel reveals his recent change in personality to Buffy.
Attempting to escape, Buffy finds her exit blocked by
Faith. Angel knocks Buffy out cold, then ties her up in
chains. When Buffy comes to, Faith explains her reasons
for taking the path she's taken. Faith couldn't tolerate
being in Buffy's shadow ever since she arrived in
Sunnydale. The popular belief that Buffy is superior to
Faith has driven the new Slayer to where she is today.
Buffy taunts Faith by claiming that she can stop the
Mayor's Ascension. Faith laughs this off, telling them
that the Ascension cannot be stopped and will take place,
as planned, on Graduation Day. With this information out
in the open, Angel drops the evil Angelus act, while
Buffy drops the chains that were supposedly restraining
her. When Faith realizes that it was all a set-up, she
shoves Angel to the side and attacks Buffy. Wesley,
Xander, and the rest of the gang arrive just in time to
see Angel falling towards them. As Angel and Xander go
down, Buffy and Faith battle to a stand-still, with a
knife held up to each other's throat. Faith calls Buffy's
bluff, then runs out of the mansion.
Mayor Wilkins comforts Faith at
her new apartment by reminding her that once the
Ascension takes place, her broken friendship with Buffy
and the others will be irrelevant. At the library, Giles
thanks the shrouded man for participating in the scheme
to expose Faith and the Mayor's plans. The shrouded man
announces that his debt to Giles has been repaid. After
the shrouded man disappears into thin air, Giles informs
everyone that he introduced the shrouded man to his wife
-- thus, the debt. While Wesley and the others discuss
the newly-learned information concerning the Ascension
and its date, Buffy reminds Xander that Angel was only
acting when he punched him. However, Buffy doesn't seem
so sure of her own words. Later, Buffy visits Angel at
the mansion. He assures Buffy that he never meant to take
the act so far as to hurt her. Disturbed by the harsh
reminder of what Angel could become again, Buffy insists
that they put their relationship on hold for a while.
~The movie that Buffy and Angel went to see
was called Le Banquet D'Amelia, no such movie exists though.~
