Faith's History
Early life
Faith was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, to alcoholic mother and father. Her mother used to read her Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go! before bed. "Nights she was sober enough, anyway." Her father, Pat Lehane, was often absent during Faith's life, and always owing money to an Irish mob led by "Handsome" Jimmy Mulligan. Faith used to wear her father's Drew Bledsoe jersey from the New England Patriots.
When she was a kid, Faith and other children used to swim and jump off the rock of a quarry a couple of miles outside of Boston. She was the only only who would jump off a rock forty feet up, while the older kids were too scared to do so. In high school, Faith didn't have any real friends and later dropped out.
Becoming the Slayer
On May 12, 1998, upon the death of Kendra Young, Faith obtained full power, becoming a Slayer.
Faith experienced a number of memorable battles and events as a Slayer and gained a Watcher to aid her. She described once being arrested after killing three vampires who slaughtered an entire bus full of Baptists leading to a preacher hugging her, despite her being in the nude and the temperature being eighteen degrees. Another noteworthy tale included her encounter with a large, male vampire in Missouri who owned alligators as pets, forcing her to wrestle with one of them. According to Faith, it was her toughest kill. However, at some point, Faith ran into the vampire Kakistos, who murdered her Watcher. Unable to face him, Faith left Boston.
Buffy's ally
Faith arrived to Sunnydale during the start of Buffy's senior year. Buffy met Faith after witnessing her kill a vampire that she lured in an alleyway by the Bronze nightclub which Buffy and her friends were patronizing. Buffy's friends quickly warmed to Faith along with her Watcher Rupert Giles and mother Joyce, and Faith claimed her Watcher was currently at the Watchers Retreat in England so she came to Sunnydale in hopes of comparing notes to the "infamous Buff." As Kakistos followed Faith into Sunnydale, Faith revealed to Buffy what happened to her Watcher and was reduced to fear at facing her Watcher's killer. However, Faith managed to overcome this with the help of Buffy and finally killed Kakistos.
Faith felt like an outsider in Buffy's world even though she initially endeared herself to Buffy's mother and friends. Buffy resented Faith for "trying to take her life from her" in Faith's first days in Sunnydale, though the two reconciled after the dusting of Kakistos. Buffy, who was still recovering from the trauma of killing Angel, maintained emotional distance from Faith, and the Scoobies not inviting Faith to Buffy's intervention after their discovery of Angel's resurrection further contributed to a feeling of alienation from the group. Although she disapproved of Faith's carefree attitude toward violence, Buffy still trusted Faith enough to leave her to protect her mother at Christmas and was even shown being attracted by Faith's wilder way of Slaying as the two, through slaying, began to grow closer.
Faith's trust issues and isolation heightened when her new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, gained and abused her trust to obtain the Glove of Myhnegon; which led to Faith almost killing Angel and led to an all-out fight with Buffy.
Later, Faith took Buffy on a whirlwind tour of her way of slaying, ditching school to attack vampire nest during the day, dancing at the Bronze while attracting the attention of several men, and escaping arrest after being caught stealing weapons at a sports store. This eventually climaxed when Faith accidentally killed a human being, Deputy Mayor Allan Finch, an act that caused her to withdraw into denial.
When it became clear that Buffy intended to reveal what had happened, unable to handle the guilt, Faith told Watcher Rupert Giles that Buffy had killed Finch. Giles immediately discerned Faith's lie, but played along to avoid pushing Faith too far. Xander (who Faith had recently and almost as an afterthought deflowered) arrived to Faith's motel room to reason with her, but she did not respond well: she nearly sexually assaulted him while strangling him. Angel arrived in time and took Faith to his home to try to reason with her, but just when it seemed that he was getting through to her, Faith's new Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, broke into the mansion and arrested Faith with the help of a special ops team sent by the Watchers Council. She was briefly captured, but attacked them inside their armored car and escaped.
Working for the Mayor
Isolated and bitter, she secretly turned to current Big Bad, the Mayor Richard Wilkins, filling the void of his "right hand man" that was left by the death of the vampire Mister Trick, whom Faith had recently killed when he had been sent to kill her. Though she initially functioned as a double agent, rejoining the Scoobies and undergoing tests issued by the Watchers Council while feeding the Mayor information, her betrayal was revealed through an elaborate plan concocted by Buffy, Giles, and Angel, whom had grown suspicious of her. As her true loyalties were revealed, Faith descended still further in her slide to isolation and betrayal.
Faith and Mayor Wilkins developed an affectionate, emotional closeness. The Mayor genuinely felt a father's love for the fatherless Faith and provided her with a new apartment, reinforcing her loyalties to him. While serving Mayor Wilkins undercover, she killed a smuggler and a bookseller demon. Later, Faith kidnapped Buffy's best friend Willow and wanted to kill her; Willow boldly stood up to her, telling her that, despite her rough life, she had a lot working with the Scoobies, and now that she was working for the Mayor, she was alone, friendless, and a "big, selfish, worthless waste." Later, under the Mayor's orders, Faith murdered Lester Worth, a geology professor who had valuable information related to the Mayor's ascension.
In order to distract Buffy, Faith shot Angel with an arrow coated with the Killer of the Dead, a poison specifically designed to kill vampires. The only antidote was the blood of a Slayer, and Buffy visited Faith's apartment to apparently take her, dead or alive, intending to give Faith to Angel so he could drain Faith's blood, but Buffy only managed to stab Faith in the abdomen with her own knife, a gift from Mayor Wilkins. Taking advantage of Buffy's shock of stabbing her, Faith jumped from the apartment building roof onto a moving truck and escaped. However, their fight left Faith in a coma, with doctors claiming that she would never come out of it. After saving Angel from death, Buffy and Faith, both unconscious manifested a psychic link through their powers and dreams, the first of which Faith reminded Buffy that even as a pure demon, Wilkins had a human weakness that would never go away, which she would exploit to lure the Mayor into a final trap. Faith was also the first to give Buffy a cryptic message about the arrival of Dawn Summers.
After the coma
Eventually, Faith regained consciousness months later. After learning what had happened while she was comatose, she confronted Buffy and Willow on the UC Sunnydale campus where Buffy was studying. Faith was angry at Buffy's attempt to sacrifice her to Angel, and even more so when she found out that Buffy wasn't even with him anymore. After a brief fight, Faith escaped from the approaching police officers who had come to arrest her.
Faith was devastated further upon hearing about the death of Mayor Wilkins. However, Wilkins left with a magical device that allowed her to swap bodies with someone else so she could restart her life. Faith attacked Buffy's mother at her house and held her hostage. As Buffy was about to win the ensuing battle, Faith used the magical device to swap bodies with Buffy.
Buffy, in Faith's body, was kidnapped by the Watchers Council Special Ops team to be taken to England, while Faith (as Buffy) planned to flee the country. Tara Maclay realized something was wrong and told Willow. In the meantime, Faith flirted with the vampire Spike, and slept with Buffy's then boyfriend Riley Finn without him knowing her real identity, and discovered what it was like to be surrounded by loving friends and family. She was torn between her desire to flee and her sense of duty to rescue a group of churchgoers taken hostage by vampires. When she chose to save the hostages, Faith also encountered Buffy, who arrived on the scene with the same intentions. Buffy arrived in time to stake the last vampire and the two Slayers entered combat once more. During their confrontation, she savagely beat her own body, physically and verbally expressing her self-loathing. With Tara and Willow's help, Buffy managed to undo the body switch, and Faith fled Sunnydale by hopping on a freight train. Her meddling also left a problem in Buffy and Riley's relationship which was later resolved in an altered universe.
Angel's assassin
In Los Angeles, Faith was approached by a pimp, Dick, and proceeded to beat him up and rob him. Faith rampaged through the city, causing a fight to break out at a nightclub and squatting in her victims' apartments. Faith was approached by Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan and Lee Mercer from the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart, who had learned that a "rogue Slayer" was in town, and hired her to kill Angel in exchange for having all of the criminal charges against her in Sunnydale dropped and along with a desirable pay cheque. Faith was open with her confrontation to Angel, seemingly trying to kill him in public at an office building and approaching him at his detective agency.
Faith further demonstrated her "evil" side to Angel by kidnapping Wesley and torturing him, wanting to go through various forms of torture such as blunt, sharp, cold, hot and loud though showed no enjoyment of it. Angel came to the rescue and a vicious fight between him and Faith broke out. During the whole event, Faith insisted that he kill her because she was "bad." Angel repeatedly refused, and Faith eventually broke down crying, begging Angel to kill her, as it had been her plan all along.
Redemption
Angel began the task of saving Faith's soul, forgiving her and working to break down her emotional walls. He let her stay at his apartment where she was then attacked by a demonic assassin sent by Wolfram & Hart. Faith managed to kill the assassin but, staring down at her bloody hands, she then almost collapsed. Just as Faith began to feel remorse for her crimes, Buffy arrived, looking for revenge. In the meantime, the Watchers Council also showed up, intending to kill Faith, and Kate Lockley also came to Angel's apartment after learning from Lindsey McDonald that she was in Angel's custody. After Buffy and Angel saved her, Faith decided to surrender to the police and face the consequences for her actions.
Faith was convicted for two counts of murder and received a life sentence, of which she'd serve at least twenty-five years. She found some level of stability in her prison life, noting that at least she had three meals a day and an occasional movie. Although capable of escaping at any time and having developed a reputation among both the guards and her fellow prisoners as a force not to be trifled with, the penitent Faith chose to cooperate with the terms of her confinement, and was periodically visited by Angel. Though, she was once attacked by a fellow prisoner with a shiv attempting to build her reputation, but Faith refrained from killing the girl, instead only breaking her wrist.
Escape from prison
Faith was attacked by a fellow prisoner named Debbie, an agent of the First Evil in prison; although Buffy and the Scooby Gang in Sunnydale were aware of the threat of the First's Harbingers of Death attempting to wipe out the Slayer line, they had neglected to warn Faith of the danger, believing that she would be safe in prison. Soon after, she was visited by Wesley who informed her that Angel had once again lost his soul and become the ruthless Angelus while Los Angeles was rendered into an eternal night due to the Beast, a powerful demon. Without hesitation, Faith broke out of prison, easily taking out the its guards and breaking through one of its windows, determined to save Angel, the one person who never gave up on her. Arriving in L.A., she easily slayed the first couple of vampires she had come across since being jailed, remarking it was "just like riding a biker."
Word got out about her presence in L.A. while she quickly took initiative by setting up a hunting party consisting of herself as leader, Wesley, Charles Gunn and Angel's son Connor. During their outing, a vampire ambushed the group and Connor staked it before anyone could confirm if it was Angelus or not. After having already warned Connor at the hotel that she was in charge and it was a salvage mission, not a kill, Faith challenged Connor about his continuing intent to kill Angelus. Connor started fighting with Faith in a seeming attempt to show off his prowess, but she dominated him in the fight and pointed him with a crossbow. She sent him back to the hotel since she no longer trusted him to follow through with her plan.
She confronted the Beast and fought him while Angelus watched from the sidelines, commentating. Despite her Slayer powers, Faith's efforts were no match for the near-invulnerable Beast who beat her badly. However, before he could harm her any more, the Beast was killed when Angelus stabbed him with his own bone, bringing back the sun, much to Angelus' own displeasure. Angelus then moved in for the kill, but Faith managed to break open the window above her, surrounding and protecting herself with sunlight.
Having completely recovered, Faith and Wesley set out to find Angelus, hitting several demon business to do so. When finding him, she battled and defeated Angelus. When she refused to kill him, he regained the upper hand and bit her. Unbeknownst to Angelus, Faith had injected herself with a powerful mystical drug known as Orpheus, that incapacitated both of them. While Willow worked on a spell to restore Angel's soul, Faith and Angelus astral projected into Angel's subconscious. The drug almost killed Faith who accepted her fate, but during the mental link with Angel and Angelus, she was persuaded by Angel not to give up, because for them, the act of atonement never ended.
Re-joining the Scoobies
After Angel's re-ensoulment, Faith left with Willow to return to Sunnydale to help Buffy and her allies battle the First Evil. Like Angel, Faith switches from a more "passive" redemption to an "active" redemption. Rather than remaining in jail, out of society, she chooses to help fight "the good fight" and make the world better.
She initially followed Buffy's command even though she had some doubts about Buffy's decision-making skills. Buffy was less than enthusiastic about Faith's return, but recognized that reinforcements are desperately needed, and Faith showed dedication to being "one of the good guys." After a botched attempt to fight the First's minion Caleb, the Scoobies and Potential Slayers lost confidence in Buffy's leadership and appointed a reluctant Faith as their leader over her, as they preferred to be under her freer wing as she took them to the Bronze, despite encountering a group of corrupt police officers.
This decision, however, literally blew up in their faces when Faith's first plan ends up leading them right into a trap, leaving many girls, including Faith herself, critically injured. However, Buffy arrived and saved them from a Turok-Han attack, once again becoming the undisputed leader. When the Potentials complained about Faith's decision, stating that they believed that God had punished them for shunning Buffy and following Faith, Buffy defended her, and she and Buffy finally made peace, noting that the friction in their relationship was perhaps due to the fact that under normal circumstances, two fully-activated Slayers were never supposed to co-exist. During her stay in Sunnydale before the final Battle at the Hellmouth, Faith had a brief sexual tryst with ally Robin Wood, the son of Slayer Nikki Wood. After (jokingly) shunning Faith's sexual experience, Robin dares Faith to let him surprise her, an act he accomplishes by surviving the battle.
Slayer social worker
A year and a half after the destruction of Sunnydale, Faith remained in touch with Robin who led a squad of new Slayers in Cleveland, calling on Faith to perform slayings that would be considered disturbing. In the time that had passed after Sunnydale's destruction, Faith apparently began to grow tired of the life of a Slayer, attempting to purchase a forged passport on two separate occasions. Giles, also a member of Slayer Organization, approached Faith and struck up a deal: if she would assassinate Lady Genevieve Savidge, a rogue Slayer who had been killing other Slayers and could potentially bring about the apocalypse, Giles would arrange for Faith to relocate permanently to any country of her choosing, with the promise of never having to resume Slayer duties.
To get close to Savidge, Giles educated Faith in British formal etiquette and taught her how to speak with a British accent. Under the disguise of British aristocrat Hope Lyonne, Faith befriended Savidge, whom she nicknamed "Gigi." Trusting "Hope," Gigi revealed she was a follower of Twilight and planned to kill Buffy, making Faith resent Giles for risking her life just to protect "his golden girl"; at this point, he had also lost contact with her. The plan began to go awry when Buffy herself was summoned from her Scotland headquarters by Roden, an Irish warlock and Gigi's informal Watcher, for Gigi to kill. They fought, but when Buffy gained the upper hand on Gigi, Faith jumped into the fray and tackled Buffy out the window, blowing her cover in the process.
Immediately assuming that Faith had switched sides again, despite Faith's attempts to convince her otherwise, Buffy attacked her. In the ensuing fight, Faith nearly drowned Buffy in a swimming pool in a fit of rage, before managing to stop herself. After Buffy was teleported back to Scotland by Willow, Gigi attacked Faith, enraged and grief-stricken. Faith saw her relationship with the Mayor on how Gigi might had fell for Roden; although, in the ensuing battle, Faith accidentally impaled Gigi on her own axe. Faith begged Roden for him to heal Gigi, but he refused, saying that Faith should be his new Slayer and better than Savidge. He said that together they could make Buffy disappear forever, and told Faith of a "promised clemency from the coming purge" of Twilight if he killed her. Faith refused, and the two began to battle.
As Roden was about to deliver the killing blow, Giles stabbed him in the back then killed him with one of the warlock's own spells. The following morning, Faith and Giles had returned to his apartment, where he handed Faith her passport out of the country. Faith accepted, but renounced her plans for retirement. She stated that there were more slayers out there like Gigi and herself, and that she believed she could help them walk over from the path they were on, likening herself to a "Slayer social worker." Giles agreed with the idea and decided to be Faith's partner in this, given that he and Buffy weren't on speaking terms anymore after the whole ordeal.
While helping a young stray Slayer named Courtney, Giles and Faith heard of a "Slayer Sanctuary" in Hanselstadt, Germany. There, Giles encountered the former Watcher Duncan Fillworthe claimed vampires did not dare to enter the town because they knew it contained an army of Slayers. As Giles argued a stalemate was not a solution to the vampire problem, Duncan revealed that in fact the town was feeding the Slayers to a demon, and the fear of the demon was what really kept the vampires away. Giles went to warn Faith as Duncan states this was the fate that Slayers deserved for rejecting the Watchers Council. Giles found her already in combat with the demon, who fed on her guilt for letting a vampire escape during one of her earlier patrols. Duncan intercepted Giles, but the demon devoured Duncan, Giles saved Courtney, and Faith killed the demon. The stalemate ended, Giles and Faith rallied the reluctant townspeople against the coming vampires, telling them if they wanted to live, they would have to fight.
Seeking refuge from Twilight's followers, Faith, Giles, and the rest of the Slayer Organization gathered in Tibet, where she and Buffy reconciled once again, and their powers were temporarily stripped in order to better hide themselves. Faith, Giles, and Andrew Wells were eventually captured by the masked Twilight leader, and became the first ones to discover his true identity: Angel.
During the Twilight crisis, in which this new dimension was born and began taking over Earth, Faith participated of the ensuing battle at the ruins of Sunnydale, fighting hordes of placenturian demons who intended to destroy it. Meanwhile, in a chamber underground, Giles was murdered by a possessed Angel and Buffy destroyed the Seed of Wonder, effectively causing the end of magic. In his will, Giles left Faith all of his belongings, savings, and property, which would allow her to retire and be free from the constant violence that plagued her life. Faith immediately took to this, but with a catatonic Angel residing with her, reasoning that her understanding of redemption meant that she was the only person who could tolerate him at that point.
Life in London
After Giles' death, Faith got her life together in London, where she took a group of Slayers under her wing, and cared for Angel as he succumbed to guilt. In an attempt to help him recover, she began reading him Giles' Watchers Diaries, which followed the events of his life in great detail. After Angel heard about a little girl who was being used as a host by a demon, he suddenly recuperated, donning his redemptive mindset once again. After dealing with the demon and saving the child with Angel, Faith went to the Brixton district of London, where she met with Nadira and her other Slayers. At a downtown club, they discussed the death of Nadira's Slayer squad at the hands of a pair of demons named Pearl and Nash, who had been working for Twilight. Nadira expressed an intense desire to kill Twilight, and although Faith didn't reveal that she was living with him, she did seem to understand Nadira's vengeful sentiments.
When she returned to Giles' old residence, she questioned Angel about his time as Twilight; she particularly wanted to know if he had murdered Giles in his right mind, or if he had been completely overtaken by Twilight's influence. He admitted that although Twilight had been controlling him the moment he'd broken Giles' neck, there had been times when he'd been completely himself, and he couldn't deny his involvement as a result of details. He subsequently divulged his desire to bring Giles back from the dead, to which Faith reacted with shock. She later asked him how he expected to resurrect someone who had died a natural death, and he told her that he would work with Giles' soul rather than his body. Though she still didn't think it was entirely possible to resurrect Giles, she understood that his new goal was the only thing keeping him going, and wanting to be there for him, she agreed to help. Angel's research into using Mohra demon's Blood of Eternity to resurrect Giles was cut short when they discover that, without magic in the world, using the Mohra blood had disastrous consequences. Despite this, Angel resolved to continue his search to find a way to bring back Giles, assuring Faith that he was grateful for her presence as she provided him with the one thing he lacked as Twilight; a friend that he trusted to tell him when he was going too far.
While investigating rumored vampire attacks that could also be attributed to a Lorophage demon that Giles encountered during his Watcher training, Faith discovered information about a rumored vampire cult leader known as Mother Superior. While Angel and Faith investigate the Mother Superior's cult, discovering that Mother Superior was actually a then sane Drusilla, Faith's Slayers were contacted by Faith's father, Pat Lehane.
When her father made his presence known to her, Faith, at first, rebuffed him despite his claims that he's changed and was now sober. Angel attempted to dissuade her pessimism and she confronted him about his relationship or lack-thereof with his son Connor. Angel told Faith that although he can't change who he is, her father can. Having a change of heart, Faith ran after her father and invited him inside her home. There, they shared small talk about the many possessions in the flat and Pat revealed that he knew that Faith was a Slayer and confessed his desire to have a new start with her. However, Pat later revealed that he had only come to Faith to ask for her help in getting him out of financial trouble after he made various deals with crime bosses. Although he asked Faith to kill them, Faith and Angel attempted to simply pay off the debt, only for the boss's refusal to abandon such a potentially lucrative source of income to force Angel and Faith to use more violent methods, Faith cutting off the man's arm to defend Angel. Although Angel threatened the crime boss to ensure that they were left alone, Faith was left increasingly troubled by her difficult relationships with her father figures, as Pat suggested that she would never be anything more than a killer simply because she had the Lehane temper, prompting her to return to Drusilla to get rid of her pain.
Although she initially accepted Drusilla's gift, Angel convinced her to reject it as the loss of her pain had then deprived her of the strength that she had gained since she tried to force him to kill her. To restore the emotions of Drusilla's cult, Angel forced the Lorophage demon to feed on itself, expelling the trauma that it had absorbed and returning it to its victims. Although Drusilla fled, her insanity restored and foretelling a dark future, Angel and Faith made an uncertain peace with each other, Faith appreciating Angel's continued belief in her even with her restored pain, also guessing at his plan to restore Giles to life by using a Tooth of Ammuk to absorb pieces of Giles's soul.
Faith and Angel dealt with the arrivals of Lavinia and Sophie (Giles' aunts) as well as the most unexpected one: Willow. Seeking a way to restore magic to the world, Faith embarked on a journey to Quor'toth with Angel, Connor, and Willow. Over time, Faith noted how being in this dimension could be affecting everyone's personalities into violence so took it upon herself to make sure no one went off the deep end. Despite this, she briefly felt the negative pull as she contemplated killing Angel for dragging her into everything but quickly gained control of herself. She had also gave Angel a pep talk, telling him that she wished her own father loved her half as much as he loved Connor. Discovering that the hell dimension was named after the Old One Quor'toth, they were forced to fight him. Eventually succeeding enough to survive, Faith and the others are startled to see Willow's eyes turn black, due to absorbing too much dark magic.
Faith was surprised and anxious to see Willow's sudden turn to Dark Willow. After the witch fought against Quor'toth and soon after attacked Connor, her and Angel devised a solution to return Willow back to normal. He consequently bit her, which caused the dark magic to leave her. However, Angel soon became affected struggling to not drain too much of her blood. He begged Faith to kill her and she immediately almost proceeded to do just that, only to be stopped by both Connor and Willow. Soon after, Faith said her goodbyes to Willow (who attempted to give her some kind of warning before being cut off by the Quor'toth Old One waking up) and returned back to Los Angeles. Faith briefly discussed their adventure and how they were almost completed with restoring Giles' soul. Meanwhile, Faith's squad was attacked by Drusilla, and eventually told Nadira they had discovered that Faith had been aiding Angel all along.
She traveled with Angel to Peru to get the magic item called the Crown of Coils because of it's regenerating abilities before flying back to London. Upon returning, Faith and Angel went to dig up Giles' burial place for his body. However, they are stunned to find out that his corpse was no longer there. Puzzled and worried about this development, they talk it over with Lavinia and Sophronia. They soon come to the conclusion that Giles' body had to have been missing before they buried it as the grave was undisturbed. The discussion was interrupted when Nadira and her slayers showed up. After being called a liar who had been harboring Angel, she pointed out that he had been possessed by Twilight so it wasn't really his fault. Faith, however, was visibly shocked and sad that Marianne had been killed by Drusilla, noting that she had been the kindest girl and was always there for her fellow slayers. Faith accepted Angel's explanation of it not being possible to bring her back and the Slayers left in pursuit of another option, completely cutting off all ties to Faith and her desire to help them.
Seeing her Slayers turn their backs on her, Faith finally lost it. In a fit of frustration, she turned on Angel. Faith bluntly and harshly blamed him for all of this, reminding him forcefully that she had done everything she could to help him when no one else would. She then went on to tell him that after his plan with Giles, she was done. He owed her, end of story; Angel agreed to her terms. After having trouble entering the funeral home with the security, they sought out Lavinia and Sophie for answers, finding out that Ethan Rayne was listed in the guest book for the funeral. Faith and Angel are initially confused and puzzled by this since he had been killed during the Twilight crisis by General Voll but due to their insistence, Angel quickly figured out that it was Eyghon the Sleepwalker who had possessed Ethan and now possessed Giles.
Faith, along with Angel, came across Nadira and her Slayers struggling to fight off zombified Slayers and Eyghon. They leapt into battle but "Giles" approached Faith, distracting her and leaving an opening. With the help of Nadira, she regained her senses and escaped with the other slayers while Angel stayed to fight off the zombie of Giles. An injured Eyghon escaped, prompting them all to regroup at Alasdair's; as they escaped, Nadira began to berate Faith for helping Angel again, but Faith quickly silenced her by reminding her of her own reckless actions and that she had endangered herself and the girls by going to Eyghon in the first place. Faith revealed she knew Eyghon's plan because of her brief moment of near possession. She explained that he wanted to re-create the zombie world kingdom without the magic but to do that he had to make a deal with Whistler, Pearl, and Nash. With this information, the Slayers were given double-edged weapons and Spike arrived under Angel's request to help fight Eyghon.
While planing for the confrontation at Alasdair's home, the party was plunged into battle when Eyghon and his zombified Slayers suddenly stormed the building. Eyhgon managed to overcome Spike's demon and possess him, but when he attempted to do the same to Angel, the three spirits within Angel's body made it impossible. Consequently, Giles briefly took control and decapitated Eyghon, killing the demon and instantly ending the battle. Angel collapsed in the wake of the fight, the three spirits within his body fighting for control. Faith denied Nadira's desire to kill Angel, and along with Spike, was forced to postpone their plan to resurrect Giles.
In order to restore Angel to sanity, she and Spike went to retrieve the Essuary — a magical item within which they could store Giles' soul. At Alasdair Coames' instruction, they went to a cemetery, where they dispatched several soul-consuming demons called Enders. As they battled the demons, Spike came dangerously close to having his soul devoured — Faith, empathetic to his fears of becoming soulless again, expressed that he could sit out the battle if he wanted, but Spike chose to help her instead. As they delved into the cavern in search of the Essuary, Spike casually flirted with Faith, who rejected him, stating that she was "nobody's rebound." She then took the opportunity to compare Spike to Angel, much to the former's protests. Faith enforced her observation by mentioning how both of them had fallen in love with Buffy, and subsequently chosen to leave her despite their continued love for her. Spike revealed that he was still in love with Buffy, and Faith, not even the least bit surprised, gave him advice before finally collecting the Essuary. Back at the apartment, Faith and the others performed the ritual to contain Giles' soul in the Essuary. Faith then did a heartfelt speech about her relationship with Giles, admitting that she now wanted him back for herself as well.
The following morning, Faith was comically disturbed to see Spike exiting her bathroom shower with Harmony, due to her intense dislike of her. She light-heartedly joked over Spike's choice of rebound before going to breakfast with Angel.
Just as they were preparing for the ritual, Faith was surprised to receive a call from Buffy on her cell. She answered and the two discussed their current problems. Buffy explained to her that she needed some help with Dawn. Much to Buffy's annoyance, Faith did not remember her sister. The conversation ended, she explained to an overtly eager Angel what Buffy had called about only for Spike to become impatient and shocked at her casual mention of Dawn. Having already lost any memory of her due to her essence fading away, she did not buy any of his attempts to remind her who Dawn was. Eventually becoming even more annoyed when Angel too expressed a confusion over who Dawn was, Spike took off to go back to San Francisco to go save Dawn.
Easily shrugging the strange occurrence off, Faith and Angel confronted Alasdair for the magical artifacts that would ensure the resurrection a success. After some false accusations and distrust amongst each other, they managed to have him agree to their terms. She then had a emotional heart-to-heart with Angel, Faith sadly admitting to him that bringing just Giles back wouldn't fix everything during Twilight. He agreed, but Giles would be back and it was a improvement. As the resurrection incantation was finally reached, Faith and Angel were forced to fight against Whistler, Pearl, and Nash. Managing to buy time as they retreated (having gotten some of Alasdair's artifacts), Giles' body was bathed in magical energy, the resurrection now complete thanks to the chanting of Alasdair, Lavinia, and Sophie. While they stare at the sight in front of them, Faith appeared worried. Looking to Angel, she muttered, "What did we do?"
Faith was instantly panicky and anxious over what they had done by resurrecting Giles, worrying that the interruption Whistler had caused somehow damaged it. As Alasdair requested them to focus their thoughts on Giles only for the ritual spell to work, Faith focused on her travels with him and the placement of a father figure he had taken for her. Eventually, this caused the resurrection to work. However, not without some glitches. Giles was brought back as a young boy, with the memory and demeanor of adult Giles. Extremely mystified and shocked at this development, Faith decided with Angel that they would find a way to fix it. She rekindled her close bond with Giles immediately, only for him to be depressed, confused over what he was meant to do now. Faith tried to comfort him and attempted to remind him that she needed him; however he brushed it off and insisted that Faith nor anyone else really needed him anymore before walking away from her on the rooftop. After finding the exact whereabouts of Whistler thanks to Giles, Faith and the others prepared to fight for their lives to save the world.
Faith engaged in a fierce battle against Pearl, somehow managing to briefly distract Whistler from spreading the magic enough for his hat to fly off. Nadira arrived on the scene soon after, and took Nash off Angel's hands for her revenge. Faith immediately protested against her involvement in the fight, but Nadira ignored her. Struggling to remove herself from Pearl's grip, Faith was forced to watch helplessly as Nash seemingly finished off Nadira for good with his laser eye beams, severely burning one side of her face. Unable to properly respond to what happened, she forced herself to resume her relentless fight with Pearl. After Giles landed a hit on Nash, and caused him to drop the dangerous plague ball, Faith and the others tried to capture it before it could affect anyone below. Ultimately, they were too late and the magic plague dropped on the spectators, consequently transforming them into mutants, much to the group's horror.
Ordered by Angel, after getting in some good hits to Nash, Faith ran to retrieve the ball of pure magic. However, Nash and Pearl oppose and distract her progress. Faith engaged in a vicious battle with the two siblings, who had briefly forgotten about the plague orb in their desire to kill her. Suddenly, a half-burned Nadira regained brief consciousness and stabbed Nash in the back as vengeance. Recovering from her shock, Faith jumped in and killed Nash for her, managing to get the pure magic ball while she was at it. She then bended over a passed out Nadira, attempting to use the pure magic to heal the slayer. When Giles and Alasdair regretfully told her it was likely not possible to save her, Faith reluctantly gave up and prepared to give it back to them only for Whistler to take it for the release of the magical plague.
While Angel fought against Whistler, Faith was shocked to see that Nadira was still somehow alive. She attempted to comfort Nadira by telling her that, having killed Nash, she succeeded in avenging her sisters, only to be surprised when Nadira bitterly remarked that it was never worth it to begin with. She stood by her throughout the most of the battle as well as afterwards, tending to her in a tent with Giles (where Nadira was confirmed to be alive, but was turning into something else due to the plague orb). Faith helped Angel and the others with the mutated citizens briefly before deciding to leave him and London, realizing that were still some parts of her life she needed to sort out on her own. Considering the idea of joining Kennedy's organization Deepscan, Faith traveled with Giles to San Francisco.
Deepscan
With Giles having returned to the Scooby Gang and Angel still working in London, Faith attempted to find a place for herself by working with Kennedy's new all-Slayer security organization. However, she began to feel that the job wasn't for her when her first assignment turned out to be to act as bodyguard for Billy Rage, a demon pop star who seduced underage girls; Faith only learned about both after she had accepted the assignment, although Kennedy was unaware of the second. Although Faith began to feel that this new role wasn't for her, she accepted a new assignment from Kennedy when she learned that she was being asked to find the currently-missing Riley Finn.
In Suriname Faith joined Tonia Marsh' unit together with Mai, Nell, and several others. A briefing by Major Billings and Reese Zane informed them that Walt Zane and his crew had gone missing during an expedition to find plants in the South American jungle. Samantha Finn was part of the follow-up squad, but when contact was lost with them as well Riley went after his wife and ended up missing, too. Shortly after Faith's unit arrived in the jungle and started the mission they were attacked by a group of new vampires, who killed Nell and Tonia. As Kennedy had made Faith Tonia's second in command, this meant that Faith had become unit leader. After they rescued Riley and discovered that Walt Zane had been turned into a vampire, Reese staked him and asked Faith to join her as head of security for a new branch of Zane Pharmaceuticals in London to analyze the changes caused by the magic plague.
She subsequently assisted Angel in dealing with the resurrected Winifred Burkle, offering Zane Pharmaceuticals' resources in analyzing Fred and helping Angel contain Illyria when she was awakened by their examination. While Angel went to San Francisco to help Buffy and the gang deal with Archaeus, Faith remained in London to investigate vampire activity at a school, discovering that the cause of the attacks was Drusilla. Faith clashed with Drusilla, and they had a sword fight in which Faith was distracting Drusilla and her vampires so that Angel could rescue Nadira.
San Francisco
Faith later rejoined the Scoobies in San Francisco in dealing with the government's Safe Zones. In the following year, she fought again by their side against Harth Fray and his demon army, and eventually participated on the Reckoning battle. When Buffy was fated to end up in a hell dimension, forever fighting demons until the end, Faith attempted to volunteer to take her place. After defeating Harth, Faith joined the police academy along with Buffy, in order to become police officers of the supernatural division.
