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| Episode 19, Season 1 Title: "Sanctuary" Written by: Tim Minear and Joss Whedon Directed by: Michael Lange Original Air Date: 2 May 2000 Teaser: 
We begin where we left off last week, immediately following the fight between Angel and Faith. He brings a rather emotionally broken, cut and bruised Faith down the elevator to his apartment. Once inside, he gently guides her to his bed and wraps her in a blanket encouraging her to rest. Drained, she lays down as he places her bag on the near by chair and starts to walk out of the room. Faith calls him back, "Angel?" As she imagines herself stabbing him violently with a knife, her mind focuses back on reality and she quietly says "Nothing."
Act I: 
The next morning, in the office, Cordy is milling about when Wesley walks in the door. She has quite a shiner over her eye from where Faith decked her but looking at Wesley, Cordy can all but cringe. Wesley apologizes for letting all this happen as Angel walks in looking for donuts to bring Faith and asks Wesley how he is. Wesley wonders how Faith will eat if she's bound and gagged but Angel reminds him what they discussed the night before, that the police are ill equipped to handle her. She wants to change. Wesley informs Angel not to stand on his moral high ground. Faith is a rabid animal, "there's evil in that girl - you set her free, she'll kill again." Wesley walks out. Cordy hands Angel the checkbook ledger and has him sign three checks, all made out to her, paid vacation! Seems Cordy's not going to stick around for the fireworks and she also leaves.
That night the police have arrived at the apartment where Faith was staying. It is now an official crime scene and Kate is collecting her own evidence. Detective Kenter wonders what she's doing there since she wasn't assigned to the case. She heard there was a fugitive and he informs her, 'from Sunnydale.' He's heard that Kate has gone all 'Scully' recently. Always showing up when strange things cross anyone's desk. She clarifies that Scully was the skeptic and Molder was the believer. Does she believe? "Oh, I already believe, that's the problem." Back at the apartment, Angel brings donuts down to Faith but she isn't in bed. As he slowly approaches her, leaning against the wall, he quietly tells her he 'wants to help' but first she must put down the knife. Faith slowly hands over a butcher knife she had in her hand, still clearly battling the emotional demons inside her. 
Wolfram & Hart Law Firm, the next day. Lilah informs Lindsey that they have located Faith. She is Angel's houseguest and as Lindsey worries what the Senior Partners will say, Lee, with a neck brace and rather bruised face, offers that they kill her.
Back at Angel's apartment, Faith is sitting on the bed, her mind flashes back to when she accidentally killed Alan Finch. It's getting to her and she starts to pack her bag as Angel walks in. He tells her if she walks out she'll be running for the rest of her life, which will be a pretty short run. It doesn't matter to Faith but he reminds her that she made her choice, she chose the darkness and it has swallowed her up. "So tell me, how'd you like it?" he asks. She turns around and hits him. Immediately feeling the guilt and pain, she asks him to help her. Elsewhere, Wesley is playing darts in a local bar when a dart goes whizzing past his ear. As he turns we see the three men from the Watchers Council, the Elite Assassins. Act II: 
The three men and Wesley sit at a table. They explain the Watchers Council is willing to admit they made a mistake and will reinstat him as Watcher . They show him a file, Faiths', and ask that he help get her. He says 'no' due to his loyalty to Angel. They insist that a rogue Slayer is more dangerous than a vampire and she must be stopped.
Back at Angel's, Faith is in the kitchen. Angel walks in as she inquires, "So, how does this work?" He begins to explain that there's no simple answer, that she may be willing to change but the world is not as easily accepting. She might never regain that balance and might be haunted her entire life. She meant the microwave! She realizes that she'll have to apologize to the people she's hurt. Angels tells her she must and it hurts because all the pain is coming back on her. "I've gotta be the first Slayer in history to be sponsored by a Vampire." She wonders how she'll make it up to Buffy, the one person who tried to be her friend and all she did was screw her and her new boyfriend, literally. Angel didn't know and Faith makes her first apology. Wolfram & Hart. Lindsey, Lilah and Lee are having a meeting. They've hired a freelancer to kill Faith. Lilah offers a beverage as a nasty looking little demon who greedily snatches the cup and slurps away to the disgust of the lawyers. Back at the bar, the assassins hand Wesley a syringe with enough sedative to take down a man twice his size or a Slayer. Wesley asks if they intend to take her alive and they assure him they do. The Council wants to rehabilitate her. Wesley has one condition, that 'no harm come to the vampire.' Angel's Apartment. Faith is surfing the TV as Angel takes a quick shower. A news program informs her the police are on her trial and she accidentally brakes a glass. Angel assures her she's safe when suddenly the Demon 'hitman' drops from the ceiling. Angel fights it off as Faith goes to the kitchen for a knife. It has Angel on the defensive but Faith attacks and kills it. When she sees the blood on her hands she drops the knife and starts to break down. Angel coaxes her to the bed, sitting her down and holding her. Just then Buffy walks in. Act III: 
You can cut the tension with a knife, (sorry) as Buffy looks on Faith in Angels arms. He gets up and she explains that she came to make sure he was all right. Giles had informed her that Faith had tried to kill Angel. He asks Buffy if she's there to punish Faith. Buffy insists that Faith is going to jail this time, no more talking.
Faith gets up and starts to say she's sorry but Buffy cuts her off. "If you apologize I will beat you to death!" Angel steps in between them and orders Faith upstairs. Buffy is livid and hits him, he hits her back.
Faith reaches the upper office but turns and listens at the doorway as Wesley walks in the front. Wolfram & Hart. Lilah walks into the office to inform Lindsey and Lee that their assassin failed. Lindsey decides they are going about this all wrong and he's now knows what to do. 
Back at Angel's apartment, Angel tells Buffy that Faith isn't going to run though Buffy has now spooked her. Buffy is shocked that he hit her but Angel argues that she can't know what Faith is going through, it's her cry for help. Just then, Wesley and Faith come running down the stairs. Wesley explains that the Councils operations team is right behind him. Buffy knows them and informs Angel that they are killers. Faith takes off to the roof and Buffy goes after her as Angel and Wesley head down into the tunnels.
At the police station, Lindsey is making Kate an offer but she tells him that she despises him and what his firm stands for. He explains he has information of interest to her. They have a common enemy, as he shows her a picture of Angel. He goes on to say that the law isn't clear on traditional justice with these . . . beings . . . as was the case with those that murdered her father and her own brand of justice. He informs her that Angel is giving 'aid and comfort to a known murderer.' 
The roof top at Angel Investigations. Buffy walks out to find Faith standing there. Faith confides that 'I can't ever make it right.' Buffy tells her she gave Faith every chance but 'my life was just something for you to play with.' Buffy has lost battles before but no one had ever made her a 'victim'. Faith replies that she had no control and nothing makes sense. Her world was full of pain and hate but Buffy cuts her off. Faith asks, "Just tell em how I can make it better?" One of the Council bursts through the door and fires a machine gun as Buffy and Faith duck for cover.
Act IV: 
On the rooftop, gunfire chases the Slayers as they make it across the roof. Suddenly a helicopter appears with the third Assassin.
Downstairs in the apartment, the assassin Weatherby has pinned Angel and Wesley down. He's disgusted that a Watcher would be working for a vampire, 'its' perversion!' Back on the roof, Buffy explains to Faith that "I need to take the guy out" and for Faith to stay put. Buffy does a flying leap and tackles the assassin. As they fight the helicopter tries to get a steady for a clean shot. Downstairs, Weatherby asks Wesley if his Watchers Oath means nothing to him. Wesley makes a distraction so Angel can get up to the roof and Wesley takes the syringe, using it much like a dart, makes a bulls eye right in Weatherby's neck. Upstairs, Angel has made he way up to the landing. Seeing the helicopter through the skylight, Angel leaps through the glass and onto the runner of the helicopter. He grabs the assassin and sends him falling to the rooftop. Buffy watches from below as Angel flies off informing the pilot to land. Buffy looks around but Faith is gone. As the helicopter lands, the police arrive. Kate approaches Angel and asks where Faith is. When he won't answer she arrests him. At the police station, Wesley and Buffy arrive as Kate is escorting Angel through her office towards the holding cells. Buffy tries to stop them arguing with Angel that he won't take the fall for Faith. Angel stops Buffy as he stares across the room. Faith is there, handcuffed. She stands and walks towards Kate and says, "I'd like to make a confession." 
Later in another room of the station Buffy tells Angel that he should have told her. But he explains it's not her business, he was trying to save somebody's soul and she was just looking for vengeance. She explains she has a new life and love and someone she can trust. Angel is hurt and upset and tells Buffy it's nice she's moved on but he can't. "You don't know me anymore, go home!" And Buffy leaves, believing Faith has won again. Wesley walks in a few moments later and Angel confesses he has big mouth. Wesley tells him he did the right thing with Faith, but Angel says that 'Faith' did. Wesley offers that, 'perhaps she's strong enough to make it.' We close as Faith sits in a lone jail cell, the sound of doors locking in the distance. The faintest smile forms for a brief moment at the corners of her mouth with a deep sigh as she closes her eyes. Angel replies, "She has a chance."
Summary by CoA Council member, Swoop
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