10 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene

Season four brought a new man into Buffy's life and it was only a matter of time before her old flame caught wind and came storming back from the frames of his own series.

After a falling-out in LA (in one of the crossover episodes that season four relished in), Angel follows Buffy back to Sunnydale, ostensibly to apologise, but encounters soldiers on the streets and has to fight his way through them. Riley Finn - Buffy's current squeeze - has been keeping tabs on the soldier's movements and quickly joins the fight.

Thus we bear witness to the smackdown we waited all season for: soldier vs detective; man vs vampire; Riley vs Angel.

The two proceed to beat ten shades of Initiative out of each other, throwing down on the streets (complete with WrestleMania-style trash cans) and, though Riley has the superior tech, he is no match for the sheer brute strength of Captain Forehead.

As this was the twentieth episode, many fans wanted and expected Angel to stay and help fight the bio-mechanical demonoid Adam in the final battle (which, this season, was in the twenty-first rather than twenty-second episode), but everyone kissed and made up and the vampire with soul (see also: Angel sings Manilow) scarpered back to the city that never sleeps. But this was, ultimately, the beginning of a very protracted end for Buffy and Riley, as they both knew he just couldn't match up to her one and only(-ish).