History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E16WhoAreYou

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Remember, that sweaty panting hand-holding eye-fucking falling-backwards-in-ecstasy scene between Willow and Tara is a ''spell''. A spell called "the passage to the [[DoubleEntendre nether-realm]]," which involves a [[TheImmodestOrgasm giant flaming "O" rising around them]].

* FreakyFridayFlip: A typical example of the similarity between this and NotHimself, due to characters in one another's bodies acting in atypical, often outrageous ways. It includes a scene in which Faith, now in Buffy's body, takes a long bath and [[FoeYay explores her new anatomy.]] And then a scene in which Faith enacts a most unusual version RageAgainstTheReflection, pummeling and shouting at her own body.
* FriendVersusLover: Subverted; Willow thinks Tara is pulling this, but Tara means it [[NotHerself literally]].
-->'''Willow:''' I'm sorry you're feeling all blechy. But we'll get together with Buffy another time. Sometime soon. I think you'll really like her.
-->'''Tara:''' She's not your friend.
-->'''Willow:''' ...I may have overestimated the "you liking her" factor.
-->'''Tara:''' No, no. I mean, I don't--I don't think she's... ''her''.

-->'''Riley:''' You're shaking. What happened?
-->'''Faith:''' Nothing... Nothing.

-->'''Tara''': I am, you know.
-->'''Willow''': What?
-->'''Tara''': Yours.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Faith's detailed description of how a Slayer's strength and endurance equals bedroom prowess. This wouldn't be the last time this comes up.

* SexyDiscretionShot: The Riley/Faith love scene cuts away to Willow/Tara doing their spell with lots of [[SexMagic suggestive heavy breathing]].

* YouJustToldMe: Subverted; Buffy is apprehended by the police and Faith-in-Buffy's-body remains alone with Joyce. The first thing Joyce says is "Faith," and the changeling indeed reacts involuntarily, so it does looks like Joyce deduced her true identity. However, it turns out she didn't and is just wanting to ask "Buffy" about Faith.

** A GettingCrapPastTheRadar version--Xander was a virgin when he had sex with Faith in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo "The Zeppo"]], which is presumably why Faith wasn't [[SpeedSex impressed with his stamina]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Faith-in-Buffy's-body to Spike. They have a CallBack to this conversation in Season 7 when Faith and Spike discuss their kinky sex lives.
--->'''Faith:''' I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you 'til you pop like warm champagne and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
** When Buffy-in-Faith's-body is trying to convince Giles of who she is:
--->'''Giles:''' All right. If you really are Buffy, you'll let me tie you up, without killing me, until we can work this out.
--->'''Buffy:''' Giles, Faith has stolen my body and for all I know she has taken it to Mexico by now. We don't have time for bondage fun.
** Faith catches on about Willow and Tara pretty much immediately (and before any the others have), remarking, "So Willow's not driving stick anymore"
** Willow and Tara perform a spell together that, along with all the panting and sweating, seems to resemble something else entirely. But since homosexual scenes aren't as commonly accepted as heterosexual relationships, the writing team had to come up with creative ways to show their passion. Hence the orgasmic spell, or as Willow put it, "connecting with the Nether Realms."

* SexyDiscretionShot: The Riley/Faith love scene cuts away to Willow/Tara doing their spell with lots of [[SexMagic suggestive heavy breathing]], which means we have a SexyDiscretionShot covered by a GettingCrapPastTheRadar shot!

* MoralEventHorizon (InUniverse): Faith jumps it (again) with the GrandTheftMe plot and sleeping with Riley. Buffy is so angry, she shows up on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' determined to kill Faith regardless of who's in her way, even willing to go through her ex to get at Faith.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: When Buffy-as-Faith tries to convince Giles who she is, she strokes her hand down the hair near her face, a Buffy CharacterTic.

* SelfHarm: Faith invites Riley to hurt her (in Buffy's body), then beats herself (Buffy in her body) in a rage.

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Faith offers Buffy's body to Riley, trying to steer him towards messed-up sex games with costumes, bull whips, the sort of thing she teased Spike about. Instead, Riley is so gentle with her Faith initially reacts with anger, then confusion, then she gets scared and freaks out.

* BondageIsBad: The whole Riley/Faith sex scene and its aftermath seem to be arguing that BDSM and sexual role-play in general are a way for screwed-up people to evade true emotional intimacy.

* KickTheDog: Since Faith is trying to ruin Buffy's life, she does this with [[TrueCompanions Xander]] and [[TheWoobie Tara.]] She attempts this on Spike, but he's able to play it cool until she leaves.

** Faith-in-Buffy's-body to Spike (it's not surprising that he still remembers this conversation in Season 7).

** Faith-in-Buffy's-body to Spike:
-->'''"I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you 'til you pop like warm champagne and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more".'''
** Which Spike hadn't forgotten. He brings it up with Faith three years later, after she talks about one guy she was with who liked her to dress up as a schoolgirl and use a whip on him. It's only then he finds out it wasn't Buffy.

-->'''Giles:''' All right. If you really are Buffy, you'll let me tie you up, without killing me, until we can work this out.
-->'''Buffy:''' Giles, Faith has stolen my body and for all I know she has taken it to Mexico by now. We don't have time for bondage fun.

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Faith tries to get Riley to do nasty things to Buffy's body, for some sick reason known only to her. The fact that he doesn't helps her along her HeelFaceTurn.

* HeyThatsMyLine

-->'''Boone:''' [[BadAssBoast I have strength you couldn't dream of.]] ''[punches Faith hard in the face]'' [[DarkMessiah Adam]] has shown me the way, ''[punches her again]'' and [[TemptingFate there is nothing]] -- ''[Buffy stakes him from behind]''

* FreakyFridayFlip: Faith having swapped bodies with Buffy.

** Faith taking a bath in Buffy's body. The shooting script makes it clear that she's touching herself "[[ADateWithRosiePalms intimately]]."
** Anya says that as the crisis is apparently over, she and Xander will have sex. Faith smirks. [[SpeedSex "Well, we certainly don't want to cut into that seven minutes."]]
** Faith's lurid description of what she can do with her [[SuperSexOrgans Slayer muscles]].
** Willow and Tara [[IsThatWhatTheyAreCallingItNow connecting to the nether realms]].
** A nervous Giles suggests to Buffy that, if she really is Buffy, he'll allow him to tie her up until he's confirmed her bona fides. Buffy retorts that they don't have time for bondage fun. Giles is visibly taken aback.

* RageAgainstTheReflection: By the time [[GrandTheftMe Fuffy and Baith]] throw down, Faith wails on Buffy with [[PunctuatedPounding a number of derogatory remarks]]... about herself.

'''Faith-in-Buffy's-body:''' Shut up! Do you think I'm afraid of you? ''[starts punching Buffy, beating her own face]'' You're nothing! Disgusting! Murderous bitch! You're nothing! [[YouMakeMeSick You're disgusting!]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Faith is on the verge of leaving Sunnydale when she [[CoincidentalBroadcast happens to see the news]]. She returns to save the people in the church.

Faith visits Riley and seduces him in the form of Buffy. At first, Faith is overtly sexy and provocative but Riley isn't interested in games and wants to make love rather than just have sex. After they sleep together, Riley tells Faith that he loves her which stirs Faith's real identity again. She attempts to leave quickly in the morning, leaving a sleeping Riley. She encounters Forest who confronts her about her influence over his friend and team mate. Meanwhile, Adam's eloquence has won over Boone's gang and they pledge their allegiance to him. He tells them they will announce his presence and decides to send them to what they fear most.

* BedTrick: It's a lot easier when you're wearing their girlfriend's body.

** Spike listens with a rapt expression as "Buffy" leans close and describes in lurid detail what she could do to him.

** Anya says that as the crisis is apparently over, she and Xander will have sex. Faith smirks. "Well, we certainly don't want to cut into that seven minutes."

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Faith offers Riley the chance to indulge any dirty fantasy he wants. Instead Riley makes love to her so gently that Faith begins to freak out.

* HoldingHands: Faith deliberately takes Joyce's hand to taunt Buffy as she's being wheeled out on a gurney. Played straight with [[LesYay Willow and Tara at the Bronze]].

* NotHerself: Faith keeps all her mannerisms, and has to wildly improvise when meeting Buffy's newer friends (like Anya) for the first time.

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Faith's first impulse is to [[BathtubScene take a bath]], [[BathKick show off her legs for the camera]], and grope her new body extensively.

* YouMustBeCold: Joyce wraps her coat around Faith, which she doesn't really notice, as she's too busy smirking over Buffy being hauled away by the police. She does notice when Riley wraps a blanket around her later because she's shivering.

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** Reading from a credit card, Faith reads the expiration date as May 2001. [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift "The Gift"]], [[spoiler:in which Buffy dies]], aired on May 23rd 2001.

At the Bronze, Willow introduces Tara to Faith. While Willow gets some drinks, Faith doesn't try to maintain Buffy's personality and instead says some harsh, rude things to Tara. Willow returns and points out a vampire with a girl which Faith reluctantly goes out to slay. The girl thanks Faith for saving which surprises Faith.

* CharacterTics: Creator/SarahMichelleGellar and Creator/ElizaDushku do a good job of portraying each other's body language.

* DarkMessiah: Adam inspires a gang of vampires to [[FaceYourFears confront their fears]] by seeking victims in a church in daylight. Their leader is even willing to take on a Slayer.

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Averted--Buffy is furious that Riley slept with Faith, and it certainly fuels her desire for revenge [[Recap/AngelS01E19Sanctuary when pursuing Faith in Los Angeles]]. Might also double as a ContinuityNod if Angel ever mentioned Faith's earlier rape attempt.
* DramaticIrony: Faith's attempt to trick everyone into thinking she's Buffy actually works well on Buffy's loved ones, with not even Riley (Buffy's boyfriend) or Willow (Buffy's best friend) putting two and two together. The person who first realizes something is wrong is Tara, someone whom Buffy has never even met. Justified in that Tara is very in touch with magic and could tell from Buffy's aura that there was something fragmented about her.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: At this point, Faith is truly evil. However, she finds that she cannot turn her back on those in need. Rescuing a girl from a vampire to maintain her cover as "Buffy" profoundly affects her, and when she hears about hostages in a church, rather than run off with Buffy's body, she chooses to save them--because she is [[BecomingTheMask starting to think of herself as Buffy in truth]].
* EvilLaugh: A [[LaughingMad disturbing one]] echoes over the end of the Faith-practicing-being-Buffy-montage. Faith also laughs when she's told that "Faith" is being taken to England by the Council and it'll be a long time before she'll be coming back--she has to stop when the Scoobies [[NotHerself give her a puzzled look]].

* FadeToWhite: Willow reaching orgasm--that is, the nether-realm.

** Faith seems a bit taken with Riley after their lovemaking--giving him one last look [[BeautifulDreamer as he's sleeping]], [[SexyShirtSwitch pinching his shirt as a souvenir]], and stopping him from confronting the church vampires due to his injury. This is in pointed contrast to her dismissive attitude to other men she's slept with.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Buffy tries to hold Smith hostage, but the two other spec ops guys just say they're all expendable and walk off. As they discuss what they're going to do with their prisoner if she continues to be troublesome, Smith goes flying out the back of the truck behind them.

** A nervous Giles suggests to Buffy that, if she really is Buffy, he'll allow him to tie her up until he's confirmed her bona fides. Buffy retorts that they don't have time for bondage fun.

* IronicEcho: "I'm Buffy" and "Because it's wrong"--by the time Faith uses it at the church, she's [[BecomingTheMask bought into the Buffy role so much she actually means it]].

-->'''Boone:''' [[BadAssBoast I have strength you couldn't dream of.]] ''[punches Faith hard in the face]'' [[DarkMessiah Adam]] has shown me the way, ''[punches her again]'' and [[TemptingFate there is nothing]]-- ''[Buffy stakes him from behind]''

-->'''Giles:''' ''[to himself]'' She understands it better than I do.

** InvertedTrope--Giles is alarmed when "Faith" walks in the door.
--->'''Giles:''' Look, I-I know what you're going to say, and-and, uh--\\

'''Giles:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' All right, I didn't know what you were going to say.

* PrisonRape: Faith-as-Buffy shocks Joyce by laughing over how "Faith" will be showered with affection by "big ole Bertha" in prison--she quickly backpedals, pretending to be upset over how Joyce was attacked. Ironically, Buffy has made similar comments in the past, though of course never in front of her mother.

-->'''Weatherby:''' By order of the Watcher's Council, you are being taken into custody until such time--

* SeekingSanctuary: Inverted--on Adam's encouragement, vampires barge into a church and take everyone hostage to prove they've risen above old superstitions.
-->'''Boone:''' It's hard to believe. I've been avoiding this place for so many years, and it's nothing. It's nice, got the pretty windows, the pillars, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick lots of folks to eat]]. Where's the thing I was so afraid of? You know, the Lord? He's supposed to be here! He gave us this address. Well, we'll just have to start killing off His people, and see if He shows up.

-->'''Buffy-in-Faith:''' Oh! 'Cause, uh... Ethan Rayne! And-and you have a girlfriend named Olivia, and you haven't had a job since we blew up the school ''[{{beat}}]'' [[DamnWithFaintPraise which is valid, lifestyle-wise]]. ''[Giles is abashed]'' I mean, it's not like you're a slacker type or-- Oh, oh! [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot When I had psychic power]], I heard my mom think that you were [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy like a stevedore during sex]]. Wh-- Do you want me to continue?

* LoveConfession: Not as direct as two episodes from now, but close enough.

* MeaningfulEcho: Faith [MirrorMonologue mocking Buffy in the mirror]], including several deliveries of "Because it's wrong!" She eventually says the line seriously when asked why she wants to stop the vampires at the church.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Faith's little freak out with Riley and subsequent HeelFaceTurn appears to be due to Willow and Tara's spell. Or she could just as easily have begun to realize what a monster she has become, [[DeathSeeker leading to her trip to LA]].
* MeaningfulEcho: Faith starts the episode [[MirrorMonologue mocking Buffy in the mirror]], including several deliveries of "Because it's wrong!" She eventually says the line seriously when asked why she wants to stop the vampires at the church.
* MoralEventHorizon (InUniverse): Faith jumps it (again) with the GrandTheftMe plot and sleeping with Riley (as fans have pointed out, this could be considered rape of both Buffy and Riley). Buffy is so angry, she shows up on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' determined to kill Faith regardless of who's in her way, even willing to go through her ex to get at Faith.

* RageAgainstTheReflection: By the time [[GrandTheftMe Fuffy and Baith]] throw down, Faith wails on Buffy with [[PunctuatedPounding a number of derogatory remarks]]... about herself, due to Buffy being in Faith's body. Faith is trying to hurt herself.

* RapeAsDrama: Faith's actions would be treated as rape, legally it would be a murky issue even putting aside the supernatural elements and even way back in her very first appearance there was a subtle hint that Faith is a rapist. The consequences would be followed up on in the coming episodes and later in the season, and Buffy would even appear on Angel willing to go through her ex to get at Faith.

* TakeThat: When Giles asks Faith who's President to see if it's really Buffy; she replies they're not checking for a concussion. Subtle.

* IndulgentFantasySegue: Faith-in-Buffy's-body imagines stabbing Willow to death, after Willow talks about how much she hates her. Faith is actually so shocked by the momentary lapse into fantasy violence that she backpeddles and tells Willow, [[PetTheDog "I would never let her hurt you."]] (It's worth noting that this is the only instance of such a sequence in the entire series, though a [[Recap/AngelS01E19Sanctuary similar sequence appears]] when Faith crosses over to ''Series/{{Angel}}''.