A peaceful and happy family picnic with the Mayor, ended suddenly as Buffy appears from nowhere, and kills the Mayor in one stroke, while Faith scrambles helplessly for safety. Buffy is on the edge, and her first plan of action is to take on the Initiative and get Riley out. Her battleplan includes ehavy machinery, an assault on the computer systems, and a death-defying trip down the levator shaft. And Faith runs desperately down a street, stalked by an impalcable kinfe-weilding Slayer. In the hospital, her eyes pop open.
Faith looks around, disoriented, but puts the peices together fairly quickly.
Then she 'acquires' the bystander's clothes and is out the door. Riley and Buffy huddle together in her dormroom, trying to come to grips with the last few weeks. I'm a soldier. Buffy is more than willing to teach him the knack, and to hold him together for a while. At Faith's hospital, a frantic nurse is explaining to a doctor and a cop that Faith the murder suspect got up and walked away.