Original Air Date: February 29th, 2000

Written by Joss Whedon
Directed by Joss Whedon

Summary

Please note that since there is going to be a confusion between Faith and Buffy I have decided to list them as the body that they are in first and then put the actual person in brackets behind it. ie Faith(Buffy) Buffy is in Faith's body.

The police and ambulance arrive ay the Summers' home and Faith(Buffy) is taken away on a stretcher. Once they've left, Joyce tries to figure out why Faith turned out the way she and Buffy(Faith) can only suggest that maybe she likes to be like that. Faith then tries to get used to Buffy's body. Faith(Buffy) is meanwhile strapped down on a bed while she squirms, trying to tell the people that she's actually Buffy. She settles down after they give her a sedative. Meanwhile, Buffy(Faith) puts on some of Buffy's sexier clothing, finds her passport and uses Joyce's credit card to buy a plane ticket on the phone. Joyce then walks in and tells her that Giles phoned so Buffy(Faith) heads over. Meanwhile, while transferring Faith(Buffy) to a different hospital, the Watcher's Council stops the car and takes Faith into their custody. Buffy(Faith) heads to Giles' and tells the gang that she kicked Faith's ass and the police took her away. Giles then tells her that police no longer have her in their custody but the Watcher's Council does and she's on her way to England. Buffy(Faith) says that they should all go home and she'll do her job and patrol tonight. Instead, she heads to the Bronze and starts dancing up a storm. She runs in to Spike and hasn't a clue who he is but he ends up giving away all his info so Buffy(Faith) doesn't have a problem picking up where Buffy left off. She taunts him and he gets extremely pissed of.

In the sewers somewhere, Adam runs into a group of vampires residing there. He shows them his strength and they follow him without question. In the custody of the Watcher's Council, Faith(Buffy) wakes up again and tries to explain to the Council members that she's actually Buffy in Faith's body. They don't believe her and lock her back up. Willow then takes Tara to the Bronze and much to their surprise they find Buffy there. Willow introduces Tara to Buffy(Faith) and then leaves to get some sodas. Buffy(Faith) notices Tara staring after Willow and makes some comments about Willow and Tara being a gay couple. She acts nasty towards Tara until Willow comes back and points out a vampire. Buffy tells her's got good eyesight, then, realizing that she should kill it, gets up and heads to the back room where the vamp is feasting on a girl. She kills him that the girl thanks her profusely. Buffy(Faith) heads back and Willow tells her she's taking Tara home because she doesn't feel well. She mentions Riley and Buffy(Faith) decides to go over to Riley's. When Willow and Tara get back to Tara's, Tara tells her that Buffy isn't Buffy and that her aura was fragmented. She asks Willow if she has anything of Buffy's, Willow hands her a ring and Tara think that they can perform a spell to locate Buffy in the Nether Realm to find out what's happened. Willow says that she trusts Tara to ber her anchor in this world.

Over at Riley's, Buffy(Faith) acts completely spazzy and un-Buffy like much to Riley's surprise, but he just assumes that she's a little bizarre today. Meanwhile, Willow and Tara prepare their spell. They perform it and it's a difficult one. Willow becomes unconscious as her astral porjection slips into the Nether Realm. Later that night, Buffy(Faith) wakes up in bed with Riley and after Riley tells her that he loves her (or rather Buffy) she freaks out and gets out of bed. She's incredibly confused and says to herself that this was meaningless, all the while shaking uncontrollably. Meanwhile Adam and the three vampires are discussing their fears and Adam says that it's time for them to face their fears.

The next morning, Buffy(Faith) dresses and leaves a sleeping Riley in bed. Just as she's about to leave the frat house she runs in to Forrest who says somehting abotu her being 'killer'. She insists wildly that she isn't a killer and that he doesn't know anything about her. After numerous attempts to escape, Faith(Buffy) finally manages to escape in the van that she was held captive in. Meanwhile, Buffy(Faith) has made it to the airport and is picking up her plane tickets. Faith(Buffy) returns to Giles' and manages to convince him that she's Buffy trapped in Faith's body. Willow and Tara then show up and Willow's completely up to date. She tells about her spell with Tara and then produces a glowing green orb in a box. It's called a Katra and will switch Buffy and Faith into their normal bodies so long as they can get to Faith. Xander phones to tell them to turn on the TV. The news report tells of twenty hostages locked in a church with a inhuman mad man. Buffy(Faith) also sees the news at the siport.

At the church, the vampire who feared the church is holding the place hostage. The police are stationed outside and Riley shows up telling them not to go inside. Buffy(Faith) is also outside and tells Riley that since he's injured he's not going in either and that she has to do this because 'she's Buffy.' She heads inside and prepares to face off with the three vampires. Giles, Tara, Willow and Faith(Buffy) arrive on the scene and Faith(Buffy) heads into the church. Inside, Buffy(Faith) is fighting to save the people's lives and she's already dusted one vamp. One tries to escape and runs in to Riley outside who throws him into the sunlight where he combusts quickly. Faith(Buffy) then dusts the last vampire who was wailing on Buffy(Faith). The two Slayers then start fighting and Buffy(Faith) goes crazy, wailing on Faith(Buffy) and telling her she's horrible and disgusting, as if she were trying to beat on herself. Faith(Buffy) then grabs the Katra and then grabs Buffy's(Faith's) hand and they transfer back to their original bodies. Buffy is shocked by Faith's reactions and Faith runs out of the church immediately.

Later on, Buffy is at Riley's. She gets off the phone and tells him that Faith has disappeared as well the Council members. Riley's shocked at the body switch and mad at himself for not having picked up on it. Buffy figures out that he slept with Faith in Bufyf's body and she doesn't know what to say. Meanwhile, Faith is in the cargo hold on a moving vehicle, looking lost and lonely.

Summary written by Nika

Quote of the Week

Faith (Buffy): Ask me a question. Ask me anything.
Giles: Who's president?
Faith (Buffy): We're checking for Buffy, not a concussion.

My Rating

5/5

Nika Summers' Review

Wahoo! Loads of fun in this episode! And it's interesting to see that Faith is starting to get a consciense, though I'm afraid we won't have ourselves the bad-ass girl that we all loved so much! They can do so much with Faith and it's nice to see that they didn't just kill her off. She can then come back any time in the next while. Anyway, on to the acting. Sarah Michelle Gellar was awesome trying to imitate Eliza Dushku's acting style as Faith. Though it wasn't seamless, it was still incredibly well done and I could feel that it was actually Faith inside her. I loved her little scene in front of the mirror, that was absolutely priceless. I wasn't as pleased with Eliza Dushku's performance, mostly because I think I prefer her as Faith. The thing that freaked me out the most was the final fight scene between Buffy and Faith and where Faith inside of Buffy's body was completely failing on her own body. As if she almost wanted to destroy herself because she was so disgusted by the things she's done. I didn't really believe it until now, but I think Faith wants to be Buffy, or at least like her. She tries to get attention in ways that don't really work (ie, killing people) but it doesn't get her where or what she wants. mI hope we see lots more of Faith in the future (with her tattoo of course!) I really would have liked to have seen Willow go into the Nether Realm to search for Buffy because that would have made some incredible interesting scenes. Also, by now, the Watcher's Council is just starting to look more and more pathetic. They obviously can't handle their Slayers and don't have a clue on how to be able to handle them. Quite sad really.

Niki Bartl's Review

Wow, a really, really great episode. It's reminiscent of the X-Files episode when that shapeshifter takes Mulder's body and goes to Scully's place. That was my favourite X-Files for a long, long time. Sarah Michelle Gellar did a good acting job, but it's not that hard to be "bad". David Boreanaz still takes first prize as bad-ass Angel.Eliza did an amazing job of "being Buffy". She actually had me going in the scene where she goes to see Giles, I actually believed Buffy was in her body. Does anyone else wonder about the fluxtuating size of Buffy's breasts? I don't get it! One ep she has huge ones, the next, she's small again. I guess it depends on how much they stuff her bra. And that girl is getting way to skinny. Look at the size of her arms when she's hanging out in the Bronze. My wrists are as big as her biceps. And how metaphorical was that scene with Tara and Willow? Hello, they were practically doing it together! But what was up with her dissing the magic before? I think they're is still a little more of this story to tell. How underused were Xander/Anya in this episode? I want a good, juciy Xander episode, a la BBB. On the whole, a great ep, great acting, but Eliza really showed what she's made of this episode, so I hope they kill Adam off soon and bring that bitch back!

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