Faith and Riley! I never really liked either one - well, I liked to dislike them - but them together is very nice in an odd way. I think this line might have made that entire scene a favorite of mine;

"Ma'am, Finn's from Iowa. He doesn't swing that way."

Also, I really like the way you are slowly and subtely interweaving the normal storyline of season three, bits of seasons four, and the chances in Beth/Specter and Spike.