Dirty Girls

Episode aired Apr 15, 2003
TV-14TV-14
41min

8.7/10

S7.E18

Faith returns to Sunnydale just as a new villain, Caleb, arrives and sends Buffy a message in the form of a badly beaten Potential. Buffy leads the rest of the girls to Caleb and The First's... Read allFaith returns to Sunnydale just as a new villain, Caleb, arrives and sends Buffy a message in the form of a badly beaten Potential. Buffy leads the rest of the girls to Caleb and The First's lair, with devastating consequences.Faith returns to Sunnydale just as a new villain, Caleb, arrives and sends Buffy a message in the form of a badly beaten Potential. Buffy leads the rest of the girls to Caleb and The First's lair, with devastating consequences.

8.7/10

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Director
- Michael Gershman
Writers
- Joss Whedon
- Drew Goddard
- Rebecca Kirshner(executive story editor)
Stars
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Nicholas Brendon
- Emma Caulfield Ford(credit only)

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Dania Ramirez and Rachel Bilson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Nathan Fillion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Nathan Fillion and James Marsters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Iyari Limon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Eliza Dushku in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Nicholas Brendon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Eliza Dushku in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Willow returns to Sunnydale from Los Angeles with a powerful ally: the rogue Slayer Faith. But the First has a new piece on the board as well. A misogynistic "preacher" named Caleb has come to town, and he throws down the gauntlet as soon as he enters Sunnydale when he attacks a Potential Slayer, named Shannon. Faith's arrival causes tension between Buffy and everyone else because of her past, while the rest of the Potential Slayers react, instead, with fascination and curiosity. Spike, on the other, hand, seeks a bond with Faith over their similar life of being bad. Having learned of Caleb's arrival, Buffy, the Scoobies, and the Potentials go to Caleb's residence to take up the challenge - but with disastrous results. —Alex

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Trivia
While Buffy, Spike and Faith are fighting in the graveyard, Faith asks "May I?', before taking a stake from Buffy, a nod to the first time Buffy and Faith met in the season three's Faith, Hope & Trick (1998), when Faith asks the same thing before taking Buffy's stake to dust the vampire she is fighting.

Goofs
At 11:52, as Dawn says, "Buffy," the boom microphone sweeps across the top of the frame.

Quotes
[after Faith compares him to Angel]
Spike: Angel's dull as a table lamp. And we have very different coloring.

Connections
References Godzilla (1954)

Soundtracks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme
Written by Nerf Herder
Performed by Brandon K. Verrett

Top review

9/10

Standout episode in the final 7th season

Faith (Eliza Dushku) returns, but more importantly, Nathan Fillion (Firefly/Serenity)'s character of Caleb is introduced.

This is a pleasantly solid episode directed by Michael Gershman. Long time cinematographer on Buffy and director of some of the better episodes (Click on his name to see the outstanding episodes he directed). Gershman seems to have a good eye for staging action sequences. So without spoiling it, I'll just say there was good comedy, drama and action to be had in this episode. And Caleb, the twisted former Catholic priest is an outstanding villain that helps drive the ending arc of the Buffy series.

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