Welcome to Rewatching Angel, the part of the blog where I rewatch the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off: Angel. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love these shows so many years ago.

Sanctuary

• Sorry I kind of left this one on a cliffhanger, guys.
• I guess I do that with Faith episodes…
• It was unintentional this time, I promise.
• Angel brings faith to his underground apartment.
• He leaves her to rest. She imagines beating him severely, but just continues to lie in the bed.
• The next morning, Wesley’s not thrilled that Faith isn’t locked up downstairs.
• Neither, really, is Cordelia.
• They both take off, while Angel attempts to argue that they’re not in the business of giving up on people.
• Back at the apartment where Faith was staying/torturing Wes, the police are investigating.
• Kate’s there, too. Even though she wasn’t assigned to the case.
• Back at Wolfram & Hart, our trio of attorneys aren’t too happy about the fact that Faith hasn’t made good on her contract and is now, in fact, hanging out at their target’s apartment.
• Wesley’s grabbing a drink at a local pub when he’s approached by the three worst Watchers in the world.
• They claim that the Council is willing to reinstate Wesley as a Watcher. They just want him to help them capture Faith. Again.
• Faith begins feeling extremely guilty about all that she’s done. She rambles about what she did to Buffy, not to mention sleeping with Buffy’s boyfriend.
• Only Angel didn’t know Buffy was dating someone now…
• Back at Wolfram & Hart, they’re hiring yet another assassin. This time to take out Faith.
• The Watchers give Wes a syringe with a powerful tranquilizer that will knock Faith out long enough to get her back to England where she’ll be rehabilitated.
• The new assassin is a wallcrawler and easily gains access to Faith.
• She and Angel easily kill the demon, but the demon’s blood on Faith’s hands causes her to break down again.
• And then Buffy walks in.
• She says she was worried about him. Giles heard that Faith had tried to kill Angel.
• But Buffy’s not on board with the “Faith wants to change” game plan.
• Angel tells Faith to get upstairs, where she encounters Wesley.
• He warns her, Angel, and Buffy that the Watchers are coming. Faith slips out and Buffy goes after her.
• After the failure of the second assassin, the lawyers decide to go to the police. So they visit Kate.
• Lindsey lets Detective Lockley know that Angel is keeping Faith with him.
• On the roof of Angel’s building, Buffy confronts Faith.
• In spite of their heated argument, Buffy still helps save Faith from the gun-toting Watchers.
• They also attack Angel and Wesley downstairs.
• That wasn’t part of the deal!
• Between them, the good guys manage to take down the Watchers.
• In the chaos, Faith disappears.
• Kate shows up with a ton of cops and arrests Angel for aiding and abetting a wanted felon.
• When they get to the station, they see that Faith is already there. She turned herself in.
• Buffy and Angel then hash things out in another heated conversation.
• Angel has the moral high ground, which is unusual when it comes to conversations with Buffy.
• And then she talks about how she has someone new in her life. Someone she loves. She says it’s all new to her because, for a change, she trusts him.
• I kind of have a problem with this whole thing. The only reason Buffy mentions her relationship with Riley is to hurt Angel. Is Buffy, at her core, really that vindictive?
• It seems out of character to me.
• I mean, I get that she may not have fully been on board with Angel’s plan to rehab Faith, but I just don’t think that would be enough to cause her to plunge this metaphorical knife into Angel’s heart and then twist.
• Normally, I’d take Buffy’s side in an argument. Because… Buffy…
• But I’m Team Angel this time around.
• Body count: Demon Assassins – 1