After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith Lehane in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", a Slayer much more troubled than the main character, Buffy Summers. Though initially planned as a five-episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the whole third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four, after which the remainder of her original story arc played out as part of the first season of the "Buffy" spin-off series "Angel". Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of "Angel" and in the last five episodes of "Buffy".