Empty Places - Why was Faith so weak at The Bronze?

[NoShip]

In Empty Places, Faith is "arrested" at The Bronze by some cops out for "Justice". She fights them and gets her butt kicked until Kennedy and the other Potentials come out and join the fight.

How is this possible?

Faith is a Slayer. The cops are humans. Faith should curb stomp them all and laugh about it.

What am I missing?

 

[NotASlayer]

The necessity of trying to make everyone but Buffy look bad so that she doesn't come across as the idiot she is in the last season.

 

[BuffyElevated]

I think she was holding back on them because she didn't want to hurt them too bad. They were shitty people but they were people and she didn't want the girls to see that side of her.

 

[SavvyScoobie]

I think she wanted to let the girls do the work. Maybe test them or something?

 

[Kendar]

I take it as she's very afraid of seriously hurting or killing another human, so she holds back more than she needs to.

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Well, remember the First isn't just a returning guest star who tries to bore you into hanging yourself, it's also the Avatar, the personification, the Ahriman of the collective unconsciousness of all evil in the multiverse. Think about what's happening, the Gates of Hell are open, the Furies are becoming unbalanced, the First is beginning to commune with the evil desires within the hearts of men. Earth is becoming another hell, mankind another demon. So Faith isn't fighting cops, she's fighting a new type of Harbinger that has become powerful and corrupt via their wrath. This is the real danger the First poses, it's not just another Power Rangers villain, it's a sleeper cell of bilions.

 

[hoponlilmama]

As others have said, I think she's holding back. Faith has changed, it shows her restraint, and she realises that causing serious harm on these guys without super strength isn't the answer.