Wesley Wyndham Price first appears in Buffy as both Buffy and Faith's new
Watcher, a very unwanted replacement for Giles. He is extremely inexperienced having never
actually worked in the thick of things, only really experiencing Vampires under controlled
circumstances. After Faith kills another human and fails to make it look like Buffy had in
fact done this he alongside The other Council Of Watchers and their henchmen attempt to
apprehend Faith from the mansion where Angel is trying to help her. This fails miserably
and Faith escapes to turn to the Major, a rouge Slayer on the lose is never good on any
Watchers resume.
Wesley is very enthusiastic when it comes to his Watcher duties sometime maybe all little
too much, he tends to panic under pressure but also tries to put his mistakes right, a
good start is when he saves Cordelia from the evil Willow. However his continued
motivation to keep Giles and the others out of the action is wrong as they work best when
they are together as a team. Suspicions lead people to think that maybe they hold him
partly responsible for Faith turning to the Dark side but nothing was actually said to
back this up. When Willow is captured by The Major and they demand the Box of Gavroc in
exchange for her life the gang ultimately take no notice of Wesley and go ahead and give
him the box for Willow, this carries on when Buffy continues to take no notice of him in
her fight to save Angel rather than focusing her energies on the Majors up coming
Accension. When Wesley confronts her with this she quits and refuses to do anything he and
the Council ask. While Buffy stands firm on her decision to quit so does Wesley, he shows
at the Accension to help them defeat the Major, although getting knocked out very early on
he was there!
After this we see nothing of Wesley until he shows up in LA, dressed in Leathers and armed with a motorcycle tracking a Demon. Now a "rogue demon fighter", Angel and Cordelia find it quite amusing that the once prim and proper Watcher should turn to dressing and acting the way he does. Finding out that he in fact is no longer a Watcher for the Council, having been fired.
The look inevitably doesn't last all that long and the suit comes out once more, after trying to leave Angel and Cordelia on more than one occasion he is asked to stay and help them with Angel Investigations. Having nowhere to go really he is obviously very pleased with the invitation and accepts, staying with them to continue their fight against the evil that resides on the streets of LA.
Wesley: "Shanshu... shanshu... or maybe it's shushan."
Cordy: "Are you still trying to figure out that word? What's taking so
long?"
Wesley: "Gee, I don't know, Cordelia. The prophecies of Aberjian were only
written over the last 4000 years, in a dozen different languages, some of which aren't
even human! Why don't we just get a Falanjoid demon in here, suck the brain out of
my skull. Maybe that would speed things up."
Cordy: "He sure gets testy when he's translating."