
The Scooby Gang discovers that the Mayor had built the town of Sunnydale "for demons to feed on" over a century ago, and now he plans to ascend into pure demon form on graduation day, becoming much larger and more destructive than the demons Buffy is used to facing. She accidentally kills a human while patrolling and has a series of miscommunications that alienates her from Buffy, so Faith turns rogue and takes the recently vacant place as the mayor's right-hand man. Faith is an unstable, leather-clad bad-girl with no social support. Īnother Slayer, Faith, has been called and she arrives in town. The Mayor of Sunnydale, Richard Wilkins, proves to be a bad guy and associates himself with Mister Trick, a "modern vampire" who leads the efforts to defeat the Slayers in town. She returns to Sunnydale and, just as she begins to accept Angel's departure, he returns from being tortured in Acathla's dimension. Summary īuffy tries a new life in Los Angeles while her friends fend for themselves without her.

But the real demon Buffy must ultimately face is already on this side of the portal, preparing a special graduation day surprise for Sunnydale High. But Faith's arrival is just the beginning of new forces Buffy must face, for a few nights later she encounters Angel, who has somehow returned, feral and violent from the hellish demon dimension where Buffy had sent him.


As she struggles to regain her mother's and her friends' trust, a new slayer named Faith arrives in town, quickly winning over all of Buffy's friends. Buffy returns from the big city to find her friends have been battling the forces of evil without her.
