Entering Survivor Series, it was abundantly clear that Bayley's grasp on the leadership of Damage CTRL was loosening with every passing week and the return of Kairi Sane, and the introduction of Asuka to the faction, only made its founder expendable.

Saturday night in Chicago, perhaps in a last-ditch effort to preserve her role at the forefront of the group, Bayley showed up and showed out.

The Role Model turned in one of the best performances of her career, breaking up pins all over the ring to save the match for her team while taking considerable punishment from the likes of Shotzi, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Bianca Belair.

Faced with an unenviable numbers disadvantage, Bayley succumbed to a Kiss of Death from Belair and an uranage through a table by Lynch, losing the match and likely sealing her fate with teammates Sane, Asuka, Dakota Kai, and WWE Women's Champion Iyo Sky.

Where does that leave her moving forward? Even she does not know, as evidenced by the above interview.

Should she split from her teammates, a creative decision that looks more like a foregone conclusion than not, expect Bayley to turn babyface for the first time in over three years and battle them in a long storyline that could easily culminate in Philadelphia at WrestleMania.

Whether that happens remains to be seen but what is not in doubt is that Bayley delivered big time Saturday and only served to solidify her status as one of the best and most influential women's wrestlers of this generation.