10 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene
4. Graduation Day, Part One - Buffy Vs Faith
The first part of the third season's finale sees vampire slayers Buffy and Faith go head to head in a perfectly matched battle of good and bad (Faith doesn't quite earn the title of 'evil')
This is not an episode short on thrills and spills: The Mayor is ramping up final preparations for his ascension to true demonhood as one of the Old Ones, and Faith has shot Angel with a poison that is draining the life from him, which can only be cured by drinking the blood of a slayer. But all the drama hinges on this fight, which is the decider of Buffy, Angel and Faith's fate, and the reckoning of both slayers' season of missteps and misdeeds.
An awesome, no-punches-pulled fight leads into a truly shocking climax, which sees Faith with her own knife in her gut and, in a twist of cruel fate, she falls from her apartment building and lands on a truck headed out of town, meaning the only way Buffy can save Angel now is to sacrifice herself (but, hey, that's kind of her speciality).