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"City Of"
Angel episode
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Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 1
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
David Greenwalt
Production code
1ADH01
Original air date
October 5, 1999
Guest actors

Tracy Middendorf as Tina
Vyto Ruginis as Russell Winters
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Michael Mantell as Oliver Simon
Jon Ingrassia as Stacy
Renee Ridgeley as Margo
Sam Pancake as Manager
Josh Holloway as Vampire
Gina McClain as Janice

Episode chronology

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List of Angel episodes
"City Of"[1] is the series premiere of the television series Angel. Written by co-creators Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt and directed by Whedon, it was originally broadcast on October 5, 1999 on the WB network.
Angel (David Boreanaz) was a character in the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel had been a soulless, immortal vampire who was legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him in the 19th century by restoring his soul, which overwhelmed him with guilt over his past actions. In the third season finale, Angel leaves to go to Los Angeles to get away from Buffy, whom he loves but can never be with. In Los Angeles, he meets Doyle (Glenn Quinn), a half-demon who is sent visions by the Powers That Be about people whom Angel is supposed to rescue from danger. Acting on Doyle's first tip, Angel encounters Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), who has moved to L.A. from Sunnydale (where Buffy the Vampire Slayer takes place) to pursue a film career. Cordelia convinces Angel that she, Angel and Doyle should start up an agency to help people having supernatural or demonic problems.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production 2.1 Writing
2.2 Acting 2.2.1 Main cast
2.2.2 Guest stars
2.3 Arc significance
2.4 Continuity
2.5 Cultural references
2.6 Music
3 Reception and reviews
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Angel drunkenly slumps at the bar of a dive in downtown Los Angeles, growing maudlin about a lost love, when he notices three guys leave the bar with two women, Janice and Laura. His drunken facade fading, Angel unobtrusively follows them out. In the dark alley, Angel kills the three men,who are revealed to be vampires. One of the frightened girls, Janice, bleeding from a minor head wound, tries to thank him, but Angel, fixated on the blood, warns them harshly to get away from him, and strides down the dark alley.
Angel makes his way to his new home, a basement apartment beneath a ground floor office, where he finds Doyle waiting for him. Doyle introduces himself, explaining he's half human, half demon, then recaps the story of Angel's life, ending with his recent, painful breakup with the Slayer and his subsequent move to L.A.. Doyle explains that Angel's isolation, combined with the fact that he recently drank human blood, puts him at serious risk of relapse. Doyle gets visions from The Powers That Be (accompanied by debilitating headaches) regarding people whose lives Angel must touch; true redemption lies not just in saving lives, but in saving souls as well. Doyle concludes by handing over a scrap of paper on which he's jotted information about a young woman named Tina. When Angel asks why Tina needs him, Doyle replies that getting involved in her life enough to figure that out is Angel's first order of business.
Angel finds Tina during her shift and manages to persuade her to meet him after work. Waiting by his car, Angel is surprised to see her in elegant evening dress, and even more surprised when she pulls pepper spray from her purse. Tina accuses Angel of being employed by someone named Russell, but he slowly convinces her to accept his offer of a lift to the "fabulous Hollywood party" she plans to attend. When they arrive, Angel runs into Cordelia Chase, whom he last saw at her graduation ceremony at Sunnydale High some months earlier. After a short chat during which she brags about how successful she is, Cordelia leaves, saying that she needs to be talking to "people that are somebody". Angel, slightly offended, walks away saying that "It's nice to see that she's grown as a person." Angel sees a man harassing Tina and asks about him. She tells him that he's Stacy, a creep, and says that she would like to leave. On their way into the parking garage, Angel fights off Stacy and his goons.
Meanwhile, in her dingy apartment, Cordelia hangs up her one dress and nibbles snacks she stole from the party because she couldn't afford food, while listening to her talent agent's discouraging phone message. After Tina falls asleep, Angel spends the night on the public library's computers, searching for information about Tina's friend Denise, who disappeared after becoming involved with Russell. The next morning, Angel tells Tina he believes her friend Denise was murdered. As she listens, Tina suddenly spots Doyle's note listing her name and workplace, and, convinced afresh that Angel has been running some scam for Russell, panics and runs. Angel tries to grab her at the building's entrance, but sunlight burns his hand, causing him to turn vampirish reflexively. In stark terror, Tina flees.
Russell finds Tina when she returns to her apartment to pack. She allows herself to be drawn into his arms; however Russell is actually a vampire and bites her. Angel races to the rescue, only to find Tina dead, marks of vampire predation livid on her throat. Russell meets with a young lawyer from Wolfram & Hart to discuss his airtight (fictitious) alibi in the matter of Tina's unfortunate demise, and orders the lawyer to bring him Cordelia, whom he has selected as his next victim.
Angel tracks down Stacy and interrogates him until he reveals Winters' location, then persuades a reluctant Doyle to help him avenge Tina's death. Excited by her limo ride to meet the Russell Winters, Cordelia is impressed by his ornate mansion. After a servant ushers her into Russell's den, Cordelia promptly spills the story of her life to her seemingly sympathetic host - until she notices the unusually heavy drapes and lack of mirrors, and concludes aloud that Winters is a vampire. Winters vamps and reaches for Cordelia, who flees. Angel has arrived just in time, though, and rescues her.
The next day, Angel stalks into a top floor conference room at Russell Winters Enterprises, where Winters is conducting a meeting with his lawyers from Wolfram & Hart. Not impressed by Winters' claim that he can do whatever he wants in L.A., Angel asks the CEO if he can fly, then forcefully kicks his executive chair through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Exposed to direct sunlight, a screaming Winters bursts into flame and disintegrates to dust in mid-air. The chair, scorched and empty, smashes to the sidewalk below. As Angel calmly departs, the young Wolfram & Hart lawyer uses his cell phone to report that, although the Senior Partners needn't be disturbed just yet, there seems to be a "new player in town."
Back at home, Angel despondently calls Buffy, but when he hears her voice, hangs up without speaking. Later, Cordelia proposes that they put a sign out front and go into the business of saving souls as a team—at least until her "inevitable stardom" materializes. Doyle observes many people in L.A. need help and asks Angel if he's game. Angel stands alone atop a skyscraper, looking out over the bustling L.A. nightscape, and responds, "I'm game."
Production[edit]
The vampire prosthetics (excepting Angel's) were a newly created prototype design for this episode, as the production team wanted to try a darker, scarier look. However, they were unhappy with the effect, and soon returned to Buffy-style vamp-faces.[2]
Writing[edit]
In the original script, the scene in which Angel finds Tina's dead body ends with him cradling her, then licking her blood from his fingers. Although creator Joss Whedon claims that moment was the point of the episode, as it shows how Angel is struggling in his goal of redemption, it was ultimately cut. "It was dark enough that he didn’t save this girl," says supervising producer Tim Minear. "I don’t think you needed him licking her dead body."[3] A similar scene occurs in flashback in Season Four, where Angleus reveals this caused Angel to revert to the pathetic state he is in when Whistler encounters him eating rats in 1996.
Acting[edit]
Christian Kane, who plays the unnamed lawyer later known as Lindsey McDonald, was a close friend to David Boreanaz before joining the cast of Angel. "It was the first time David and me ever got to act together and there was just a chemistry," Kane recalls. "He was a badass and I was trying to be a badass and that right there was just a defining moment. You could tell the tension but you could also see the easiness of how we just flowed into each other. It's very easy to act with Boreanaz and I think he feels the same with me."[4]
Main cast[edit]
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Glenn Quinn as Allen Francis Doyle
Guest stars[edit]
Tracy Middendorf as Tina
Vyto Ruginis as Russell Winters
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Michael Mantell as Oliver Simon (uncredited)
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers (flashback)
Jon Ingrassia as Stacy
Renee Ridgeley as Margo
Sam Pancake as Manager
Josh Holloway as Good Looking Guy
Gina McClain as Janice
Arc significance[edit]
When Angel asks Doyle, "Why me?", Doyle's reply—that the "balance sheet" isn't exactly in Angel's favor—thumbnails the main theme for the entire series. When Angel next asks, "Why you?", Doyle replies, "Well, we've all got something to atone for." Angel follows up on this lead-in to Doyle's history in "Rm w/a Vu", and Doyle makes good on his promise to open up in "Bachelor Party" and "Hero".
Meeting up with Cordelia at Margo's party, Angel explains that "there's not actually a cure" for vampirism. In fact, before the year is out he discovers that there exists at least two cures, a Mohra demon's Blood of Eternity ("I Will Remember You") and a summoning ritual recorded in the scrolls of Aberjian ("To Shanshu in L.A."). Cordelia herself, in varying states of consciousness and corporeality, is an integral part of Angel's life for the rest of the series.
This is the first introduction to Wolfram & Hart, the powerful law firm (fronting for its Senior Partners) that becomes Angel's primary opponent. Though not named until "Five by Five", Lindsey McDonald is the "smart young lawyer" who provides legal and business representation for Russell Winters. In future episodes and seasons, Lindsey becomes one of Angel's most insidious rivals.
This episode contains the first mention of The Powers That Be.
Besides Angel himself, Lindsey McDonald is the only character to appear in both the first and last episodes of the series.
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: At the end of this episode, Angel phones Buffy but hangs up as soon as she answers. Buffy's side of the call is shown in "The Freshman", which aired immediately before this Angel episode.
Doyle is the second of three demon guides sent to Angel by The Powers That Be. The first is Whistler, in season two of Buffy ("Becoming, Part One"), who sets Angel on the path to his destiny. The third is Lorne (initially known only as The Host), who takes the place of The Oracles beginning in season two of Angel.
That one of Angel's first acquaintances threatens him with pepper spray in the Angel premiere, "City of" recalls Buffy's response to one of her first acquaintances in the Buffy premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth". On Buffy's first day at Sunnydale High, she and Willow are planning a study date, when they are joined by Xander and Jesse. Xander returns a stake that had fallen from Buffy's bag earlier that morning, and speculates that she intends to use it to build a "really little fence." Buffy nervously laughs and tells the group that everyone in L.A. uses stakes for self-defense, because "pepper spray is just so passé." Willow and Xander, of course, go on to become Buffy's lifelong friends. Jesse, however, constitutes Buffy's first personal loss in her battle against evil in Sunnydale. This becomes especially poignant in light of events that take place in the second episode of the two-part premiere, "The Harvest," because it is Jesse that Buffy is trying to rescue when Angel himself tries to stop her from going for the first time into Sunnydale's vampire-infested sewers. And it is Jesse who she refers to as a "potential friend," an insight that persuades Angel to change his mind and provide the Slayer with information vital to her search.
When Cordelia greets Angel at Margo's party by asking if he's still "Grrr," she further verifies that Angel is not there "to bite anybody," i.e., that he's not currently Angelus. First aware that Angel is a vampire during season two of Buffy ("Halloween"), Cordelia (along with the rest of the Scooby Gang) finds out a couple of months later ("Innocence") that Angel's alter-ego, Angelus, extremely violent and terrifying.
At the very beginning of the opening credits there is a shot of a woman standing alone on a street, which was a shot first seen in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Anne."
Cultural references[edit]
Batcave: Doyle's comment refers to Batman's secret hideout beneath the mansion of his alter ego, Bruce Wayne. This pilot episode in particular makes many allusions to the fictional hero, Batman, who uses gadgets and frequents the tops of tall buildings as he fights against dark forces operating in his own alpha world city, Gotham.
City of: The title is a reference to Los Angeles' nickname, the "City of Angels," based upon the name of the city being Spanish for "The Angels".
Billy Dee: When Doyle grows parched from all his "yakking" about Angel's history, he cajoles his audience into going out to purchase the alcoholic beverage known as Colt 45, obliquely referring to its popular ad campaign featuring Billy Dee Williams of Star Wars fame. This could conceivably constitute one of the numerous Star Wars allusions reputed to populate the Buffyverse.
Missoula: Tina tells Angel a lot about herself by mentioning she hails from the second-largest city in Montana. With a population more than 50 times less dense than L.A., Tina's hometown is much farther away culturally than geographically from the second-largest city in the U.S. An innocent country girl at heart, Tina prefigures all the victims Angel hopes to save, but she herself is unable to survive in the wilds of L.A.
The Depression: Angel tells Tina a lot about himself by mentioning he passed through Missoula more than 60 years earlier, but, fortunately for him, she has no idea that he's speaking literally.
Vikings: Doyle tries to bow out of Angel's assault on Winters' mansion because he has some "fairly large coin" riding on that night's pro football game. Angel disregards Doyle's protests, but uses that datum—that the Vikings are playing—to lull the guard at Winters' gate with false camaraderie.
Vietnam War: When he tells Doyle he's lived through 14 wars, Angel doesn't count Vietnam because the U.S. "never declared it."
Music[edit]
In his essay on music as narrative agent, Matthew Mills points out how the theme used for the character of Angel is used multiple times in this episode, at different tempos and by different instruments. When Doyle first offers Angel a chance of redemption, his theme starts but does not end; its "incompleteness mirroring Angel's inability to answer Doyle's question". When Angel finally accepts Doyle's challenge at the end of the episode, his theme plays with a "brief respite from minor tonality" to underscore his newfound determination.[5]
Reception and reviews[edit]
This episode was one of the highest rated episodes of Angel ever, scoring a 6.2 overnight Neilsen rating.[citation needed]
Salon.com cautiously praised Angel for merging the two genres - film noir and the superhero graphic-novel - that best showcase Angel's "wounded, night-crawling loner mystique", but worried that Angel's new mission was overly sentimental: "Is the show going to turn into Touched by Angel?"[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Region 2 DVD menu mistakenly calls this episode "City of Angels". Angel Series One on DVD (Region 2), Twentieth Century Fox.
2.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss and Greenwalt, David, "City of" (Commentary by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt), Angel: Season One on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2002.
3.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, retrieved 2007-09-24
4.Jump up ^ Grimshaw, Sue, Return of the Spirit Boy: an Exclusive Spotlight on Christian Kane
5.Jump up ^ Mills, Matthew (2005), "Ubi Caritas?: Music as Narrative Agent in Angel", in Stacey Abbott, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul, I.B.Tauris, pp. 33–34, ISBN 1-85043-839-0, retrieved 2007-10-08
6.Jump up ^ Millman, Joyce (October 4, 1999), City of Angel, Salon.com, retrieved 2007-10-08
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: City of
"City Of" at the Internet Movie Database
"City Of" at TV.com


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Lonely Hearts (Angel)
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"Lonely Hearts"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 2
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Fury
Production code
1ADH02
Original air date
October 12, 1999
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Lillian Birdsell as Sharon Richler
Obi Ndefo as Bartender
Derek Hughes as Neil
Johnny Messner as Kevin
Jennifer Tung as Neil Pick-Up Girl
Tracey Stone as Pretty Girl
David Nisic as Slick Guy
Ken Rush as Guy
Connor Kelly as Regular

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"Lonely Hearts" is the second episode of season one of the television show Angel. Written by David Fury and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on October 12, 1999 on the WB network. In "Lonely Hearts", Angel Investigations looks into a series of killings linked to a trendy L.A. singles club. While there, Angel (David Boreanaz) meets Kate Lockley (Elisabeth Röhm), an LAPD detective also tracking the serial killer - who believes, because of circumstantial evidence, that the murderer is Angel himself. After discovering the murderer is actually a body-hopping demon, Angel seeks Kate's help in tracking down the bartender, now possessed by the demon, and killing him. Kate, believing the bartender committed the murders, accepts a provisional truce with a circumspect Angel.
Fury wrote this script to replace "Corrupt", which introduced a darker characterization of Kate Lockley.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Arc significance
2.3 Continuity
2.4 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
At the office, Angel sits in the dark, alone. He blinks when the lights come on and Doyle arrives, with a Friday-night plan for the three of them to go out together. He wants Angel to get out but also wants him to put in a good word for him with Cordelia without letting her know he's half-demon. Shortly after Cordelia arrives with a box of the calling cards she had printed up for Angel Investigations. Doyle is seized by a vision of a night club, and they all go to the club.
Meanwhile at D'Oblique, the club in Doyle's vision, the lonely and desperate Sharon and Kevin meet and leave the club together, just after the Angel Investigations team arrives. Cordelia immediately begins to pass around Angel's business cards until Doyle stops her, cautioning her to stay "under the radar". Angel makes no progress with people near the bar or the bartender until a woman named Kate asks if he's all right. They awkwardly strike up a conversation, and despite a slow start, Angel and Kate find they have some things in common. Across the room, a guy mockingly speculates that the AI calling cards give Cordelia's number for services of a more personal kind. Cordelia is indignant and Doyle tries to stand up for her, but the guy is backed up by his friend, so Doyle stops negotiating and wades in. Having just declined Kate's invitation to go someplace quieter (making Kate suddenly very frosty), Angel charges into the fight and thrashes both guys, before the bartender kicks the guys out.
The next morning after spending the night with Kevin, Sharon calmly gets dressed, unperturbed by the bloody sheets and Kevin's dead body on the bed. At the office, the team spends the day researching any past incidents connected to D'Oblique. Their search turns up a badly mutilated woman and an eviscerated man. While Doyle and Cordelia look for more links, Angel goes back to D'Oblique to see if he can spot the killer. On his way in, Angel bumps into Kate, who takes umbrage when he tries to warn her of a suspiciously non-specific danger. Inside, Angel finds out that Kevin disappeared after going home with Sharon. He finds her in the phone book and runs straight to her place to try to prevent the next murder. Angel arrives at the apartment just in time to see that Sharon is dead while Neil, the geeky guy she took home, is alive and hosting a parasitic demon. Angel and the demon fight, but it gets away just as Kate arrives and finds Angel at the crime scene. Pulling a gun on Angel, Kate reveals she's a detective with the LAPD, and tries to arrest him. Knowing Kate won't be convinced he's not the killer, Angel breaks away and dives out the third floor window. Meanwhile, the demon goes back to D'Oblique. As dawn approaches, Angel makes his way to Cordelia's dingy apartment, not knowing that Kate has gone to illegally search his own place. Waking Cordelia and Doyle, Angel asks them to research eviscerating burrowers—demons that move from body to body, endlessly seeking the perfect one to live in forever. They discover their burrower is vulnerable to fire. Seeking help to destroy the powerful demon, Angel calls Kate and requests a meeting to prove that he isn't the killer. That night at the club, Kate asks the bartender to notify her when Angel arrives. A few minutes later the bartender tells Kate he thinks Angel is out back but, when they get there, the bartender smashes a wine bottle into the back of Kate's head. Angel arrives just in time to keep the burrower demon from transferring to Kate's body, forcing it back inside the bartender. Though weakening, the bartender host is still strong enough to fight Angel until Kate recovers. Then, not wanting to deal with them both at once, the demon tosses Kate and Angel down into the basement and locks them in.
While the demon cruises for a fresh, undamaged body, Kate and Angel escape the basement and split up to search. Angel locates the bartender first and again battles the demon in its bartender host, which is still strong enough to injure Angel. Angel barely manages to throw the demon into a nearby burn barrel before collapsing to the pavement. Engulfed in flames and howling, the demon lurches purposefully toward Angel, who is on the ground and unable to move. Circling back, Kate arrives just in time to shoot the bartender, knocking him to the ground and halting the attack on Angel. After more police and emergency services arrive on scene, Kate gets a moment alone with Angel. She admits that she never would have guessed the bartender was the killer and thanks Angel for saving her life earlier. Agreeing that the bartender had ample opportunity, Angel makes no mention of a body-hopping, parasitic demon being the real killer. After Angel thanks Kate for saving his life as well, she apologizes for searching his apartment. She wants the two of them to start over from the beginning with no secrets between them; Angel pauses almost imperceptibly, then agrees. He offers her his new business card and invites her to call if she has future problems, then characteristically disappears when her back is turned.
At the office, Angel generously and very awkwardly suggests that the three of them go out together, but is deeply relieved and gratified when Cordelia and Doyle instead take pity on him and leave him to brood in the dark, alone.
Production details[edit]
Special effects supervisor Loni Peristere explains that to get the effect of the demon burrowing through the characters' bodies, Dave Miller built a prosthetic back to identically match the actor. "We shot the actor doing his action with tracking points, little marks on his back, and I just soft edged, matted and tracked in a locked-off version of the actors back with the burrowing demon and stuck it on there," Peristere says.[1]
David Boreanaz's stunt double, Mike Massa, says the scene in which he is tossed across the room upside down is his favorite stunt of this season. To get the effect, he was shot across the room using an air ram. "The reason I like it so much is because it really knocked the heck out of me," he says. "It was 900 pounds of thrust on the air-ram. I had to hit the corner just right. If I was off, if I hit dead center of the corner with my shoulders spread it could have broken a collarbone. I had to hit it sideways, my back flat to the wall and kind of skip into it, but it just pile drove me right to the ground." Director Jim Contner "was jumping up and down... He thought that was the best stunt he'd ever seen."[2]
In an essay examining the use of cinematic effects of time on Angel, Tammy Kinsey points out Doyle's visions are depicted on film for the first time in this episode. Although short and simple compared to later visions, the quick cuts and flashes of light establish the aesthetic approach of Angel compared to the more conventionally filmed Buffy.[3]
At 27:30, a cameraman can be seen in the lower right-hand corner as Angel is tossed across the room.
Writing[edit]
David Fury wrote this episode to replace his original script, titled "Corrupt", which also introduces the character of Kate. However, in Fury's first script, Kate had a crack cocaine addiction and worked undercover as a prostitute. Producer Tim Minear says the episode was "a little bit too hopeless, a little too grim"; after the WB Network rejected the episode it was completely rewritten.[4]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces the character of Kate Lockley, who plays a recurring role until the end of season two. Kate and Angel will meet several more times before she learns in "Somnambulist" that he is a vampire, after which their tentative relationship grows extremely strained until their final encounter in "Epiphany".
The interrelated elements of Doyle's attraction to Cordelia, his attempts to hide his demon heritage from her, and her attitude about the "gift" of his visions are all established in this episode, and will all bear fruit in "Hero".
Continuity[edit]
Kate tells Angel to "go to hell" to which he quietly responds with "been there... done that." Angel was sent to hell by Buffy in "Becoming, Part Two" and returns in "Faith, Hope & Trick".
Cordelia's rosy-tinted remark that "dating was easy in high school" is explicitly belied by events in "Lovers Walk." In fact, Buffy and her friends find dating to be one of the chief horrors they face during their three adventurous years together in Sunnydale (Buffy, seasons one through three). Although he sidesteps Cordelia's conversational gambit and declines to expand on the topic of his curse, Angel himself found dating the Slayer traumatic in the extreme during that interval, particularly around events in "Surprise" and "Becoming, Part Two". He is still wracked by the ordeal of breaking up with Buffy ("The Prom"), then of leaving her altogether ("Graduation Day, Part Two") just a few months ago.
Cordelia remarks about Doyle's visions "If they were my gift, I'd return them". In the episode "Hero" she receives then she does indeed try to lose them but when presented with the opportunity to give them up in the season 2 finale, she refuses stating that they're "a part of me".
This episode marks the first time a "vision" is seen as how Doyle experiences it.
Cultural references[edit]
Batman: Doyle says to Angel, "It's not like you have a signal folks can shine in the sky whenever you need help, right?" Elsewhere in the episode, Angel pulls out a grappling hook gun and fires it over a wood beam, causing Kate to ask, "who are you?" This is a direct reference to a scene in the 1989 Batman film.
Ken and Barbie: When Sharon mentions her childhood dreams, Kevin looks around at all the plastic people in the crowded noisy room and says, "Ken and Barbie had it easy. They didn't have to come to places like this."
Peter Pan complex: Cordelia demonstrates her strange mixture of insight and obliviousness when she singles out D'Oblique patrons for her pop psychology lesson to Doyle. In fact, many people in the room could have issues with social (im)maturity and loneliness and abandonment (Angel perhaps most of all). What Cordelia doesn't seem to grasp is that people (including herself) connect with other people, not with abstracts such as relative wealth or a model's good looks. Unlike the Talamour they're tracking, she still confuses initial attractiveness with substance.
Naked City: When Angel asserts that he'll be able to recognize the eviscerating Talamour demon in whatever body it inhabits, Doyle quips, "That only leaves about five million suspects in The Naked City." This could be one of the clearer mission statements for the entire series, which incorporates elements of mystery, drama and noir within the context of a big city intended to function as a character in its own right. Cordelia explicitly makes the noir connection again in the first episode of season two, "Judgment".
Cagney & Lacey: In "Somnambulist", Cordelia also refers to Kate as "Police Woman."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Special FX: CoA Interviews Loni Peristere, Special FX Supervisor
2.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Mike Massa: Stunt Double for "Angel"
3.Jump up ^ Kinsey, Tammy A. (2005), "Transitions and Time: the Cinematic Language of Angel", in Stacey Abbott, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul, I.B.Tauris, p. 51
4.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, retrieved 2007-09-25
External links[edit]
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"Lonely Hearts" at the Internet Movie Database
"Lonely Hearts" at TV.com


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Rm w/a Vu
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"Rm w/a Vu"
Angel episode
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Cordelia is not alone in her new apartment.

Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 5
Directed by
Scott McGinnis
Teleplay by
Jane Espenson
Story by
Jane Espenson
David Greenwalt
Production code
1ADH05
Original air date
November 2, 1999
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Beth Grant as Maude Pearson
Marcus Redmond as Griff
Denny Pierce as Vic
Greg Collins as Keith
Corey Klemow as Young Man
Lara McGrath as Manager
B.J. Porter as Dennis Pearson

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"Rm w/a Vu" (Room with a View) is episode 5 of season 1 in the television show Angel. The episode was written by Jane Espenson, with a story from Espenson and David Greenwalt, and directed by Scott McGinnis, it was originally broadcast on November 2, 1999 on the WB network. In Rm w/a Vu, Doyle dodges a demon loan shark, and Cordelia is enchanted with her beautiful rent-controlled apartment even though it turns out to be haunted. Unable to dent Cordelia's determination to live there, the team attempts an exorcism, angering the ghost of the original tenant, who suffered a fatal heart attack immediately after bricking her grown son behind a wall.


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1 Plot
2 Production details 2.1 Acting
2.2 Writing
2.3 Arc significance
2.4 Continuity
2.5 Cultural references
3 Reception and reviews
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
At Angel Investigations, Cordelia is painfully reminded of the unfortunate state of her life. Her acting career is not advancing and she lives in a dank, dirty apartment where the utilities do not work well and cockroaches roam freely. When she goes home to a floor covered in roaches, she flees to move in with Angel.
Meanwhile, Doyle is in debt to some demons, and one comes to collect, or to kill Doyle as a message to others if he cannot pay. Doyle manages to escape, and stops by Angel's place the next morning. Angel wants Cordelia out of his apartment, so agrees to help Doyle deal with his demon trouble if he will help Cordelia find an apartment.
Doyle and Cordelia go apartment hunting. After many failed attempts, Cordelia finds the perfect apartment. Telling Doyle that the unsightly wall that needs removing adds to its perfection, Cordelia immediately closes the deal. In the meantime, Angel waits at Doyle's apartment until the demon, Griff, shows up. Griff explains that his boss no longer cares about the money, but needs to make an example of Doyle by having him killed. Angel placates him and promises Doyle will pay.
Meanwhile, Cordelia has discovered that the apartment is haunted. She pluckily tries to scare the ghost away. Angel and Doyle stop by and realize there is a ghost. They carry Cordelia, struggling, out the door, promising to help her perform an exorcism. Angel does not understand why Cordelia is fighting so hard to keep the apartment. She explains that she feels she is being punished with an awful life because of how nasty she was when she was younger. If she can get a nice apartment, then it shows that she will stop being punished.
The team researches the building's history for a clue to the ghost's identity. The evidence points to Maude Pearson, builder, owner and first resident of the Pearson Arms building. While Doyle goes to pick up the arcane supplies for the exorcism, Angel finds out from Detective Kate Lockley that Maude Pearson died suddenly of a heart attack, and her son, with whom she was fighting because she disapproved of his fiancée, vanished afterwards. It seems clear to Angel: the son killed his mother, then skipped town with his girlfriend. Angel then learns that while there have never been any murders reported in the apartment, there is a long string of suicides there.
The ghost lures Cordelia back to the apartment, and Angel and Doyle, realizing what happen, rush to the apartment.
At the apartment, Cordelia is being attacked by Maude, and begins to reach the point of emotional collapse under Maude's spate of abuse, targeting Cordelia's worthlessness. Doyle and Angel arrive just in time to rescue Cordelia, whom the ghost has hung by an electrical cable. They begin the exorcism without Cordelia, who is a sobbing wreck, but a cyclone of flying debris prevents them from completing the ritual. When the three try to leave, the door suddenly slams open to reveal three demons with large guns, determined to kill Doyle. A brawl ensues, while Maude telekinetically pulls Cordelia back into the bedroom to continue tormenting her. However, when Maude calls Cordelia a bitch, it reminds Cordelia of her former reputation, and she begins to fight back. She screams at Maude, causing the ghost to temporarily vanish, and she then proceeds to start to obliterate the wall in the apartment that she dislikes.
As Angel snaps Griff's neck, the hole Cordelia has made in the wall exposes a skeleton mouldering behind the wall, and the presence of a second ghost. In a mystical flashback, the team learns that Maude Pearson prevented her son Dennis from leaving with his fiancée by bricking him alive into this wall. Upon completion, Maude suffered a heart attack and died. She screams, as the ghost of her son Dennis attacks, dispersing and banishing his mother's ghost forever.
In the coda, order restored, Angel reminds Doyle that he'll need to reveal his background at some point. Meanwhile, Cordelia, who has found her "inner bitch" again, now feels comfortable speaking with her Sunnydale friends about her exciting life in Los Angeles. She admits she has a roommate, but claims she "never sees him." Hearing himself mentioned, the ghost, whom Cordelia affectionately calls Phantom Dennis, gently makes his presence known.
Production details[edit]
Acting[edit]
Marcus Redmond, who plays the bounty hunter demon Griff in this episode, appears again as the gladiator demon Cribb in "The Ring".
Writing[edit]
Writer Jane Espenson intended the episode's title to match the format of a classified ad. She also considered "Re: Lease" as a possible title.[1]
The episode is "really all about Cordelia regaining her inner bitch," says supervising producer Tim Minear. He points out that Kate teases Angel for having - like "Popes and rock stars" - only one name; Angel replies, "You got me, I’m the Pope." Later, in "Somnambulist", the serial killer whom Angel suspects may be himself is dubbed "The Pope" by the tabloids. Minear says, "That was completely unintentional...a happy coincidence that worked out wonderfully for the show."[2]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces Phantom Dennis, who will be Cordelia's "roommate" for the next three years. Friendly with Cordelia's friends ("She") and exhibiting caring feelings for Cordelia herself ("Expecting"), Dennis warns his roomy repeatedly about dangerous intruders ("Five by Five").
Cordelia's apartment is pressed into service as Angel Investigations's HQ at the beginning of season two, and remains part of the show until season four.
Following up on Doyle's intimation in "City of" that his past contains things he's not proud of, something he needs "to atone for," Angel makes it clear that, new digs for Cordy aside, his real price for helping is Doyle's candor. For his part, Doyle finally understands that Angel's role as champion for the Powers includes himself as one of the people whose lives Angel must become involved in. Quietly, Doyle promises to tell Angel "his story," and keeps that promise in "Bachelor Party" and in "Hero", revealing and expunging his past cowardice in a few short weeks.
Continuity[edit]
Cordelia's friend Aura is first seen in the Buffy series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth", in which the Buffyverse's first dead body, a boy bitten and drained by Darla, falls out of her gym locker. Aura is mentioned again in "Prophecy Girl".
Despite Angel commenting that Cordelia's friends were called the "Cordettes", that term was never used in the canonical series (although it does feature in scripts and credits).
Doyle comments on Cordelia's high school diploma asking her why it's partially burned. Cordelia responds by saying, "Yeah, it was a rough ceremony". This is a reference to the graduating class' battle with Mayor Wilkins in "Graduation Day (Part 2)".
When the ghost of Mrs. Pearson pushes Cordy too far by calling her a bitch, she stops crying and says "I'm no sniffling whining little cry-Buffy, I'm the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history." Which is referring to her days as a major snob in high school in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Cultural references[edit]
MasterCard: Doyle tries to jolly Griff into giving him a little more lead time on his debt, but the demon, like wiseguys in every dimension, apparently believes money can buy "things like friendship and family," because he clearly doesn't consider them "priceless."
Patrick Swayze: Cordelia is referring to the 1990 film, Ghost, in which Swayze plays the eponymous spectre, Sam Wheat, who has unfinished business with his beloved wife.
Steve Paymer: More commonly referred to as "David Paymer's brother."
Classified advertising: Rm w/a Vu is a common abbreviation in newspaper classified ads, standing for "room with a view."
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Cordelia's roommate's name, Phantom Dennis, is a play on the Star Wars Episode I film title.
Reception and reviews[edit]
Charisma Carpenter lists this episode as one of her personal favorites.[3] The 11th Hour praised this episode, saying Jane Espenson wrote "an obvious masterpiece" by giving the character of Doyle an active role in the plot and playing up Angel's "constant exasperation with Cordelia's occupation" for comic relief.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Espenson, Jane, "Rm w/a Vu" (Commentary with Jane Espenson), Angel: Season One on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2002.
2.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, retrieved 2007-09-25
3.Jump up ^ "Interview with Charisma Carpenter: Best loved episodes", BBC, retrieved 2007-09-25
4.Jump up ^ Kohles, Lisa, "Rm w/a Vu Review", The 11th Hour, retrieved 2007-09-26
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Sense & Sensitivity
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"Sense & Sensitivity"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 6
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Tim Minear
Production code
1ADH06
Original air date
November 9, 1999
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
John Capodice as Little Tony Papazian
John Mahon as Trevor Lockley
Ron Marasco as Allen Lloyd
Alex Skuby as Harlan
Kevin Will as Heath
Thomas Burr as Lee Mercer
Ken Abraham as Spivey
Jimmy Shubert as Johnny Red
Ken Grantham as Lieutenant
Adam Donshik as Uniform Cop #1
Kevin E. West as Uniform Cop #2
Wilson Bell as Uniform Cop #3
Colin Patrick Lynch as Beat Cop
Steve Schirripa as Henchman
Christopher Paul Hart as Traffic Cop

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"Sense & Sensitivity" is episode 6 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on November 9, 1999 on the WB network. In this episode, Kate arrests mobster and murder suspect, Little Tony Papazian, whose Wolfram & Hart lawyer coerces Kate's department into attending sensitivity training. This causes the entire precinct to become emotionally unglued, allowing Papazian and the other inmates to escape from their cells. When Little Tony attempts to kill Kate, Angel – also rendered overly sensitive by the curse – comes to her rescue.


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2.2 Acting
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
3.2 Cultural references
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]


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Detective Kate Lockley struggles unsuccessfully to locate mob boss Anthony Papazian, also known as "Little Tony." She goes to Angel Investigations and offers Angel the job of finding Little Tony. He agrees, and she instructs him to withdraw to safety after he calls her with Little Tony's location because she doesn't want to get him killed.
Kate’s father, Trevor Lockley, comes to the police station. This is a surprise to Kate, but her father didn't intend to see her there. Both clearly uncomfortable, she tells him she'll say a few words at his retirement party his friends are throwing at The Blue Bar in a few days. Angel's phone call interrupts their conversation; he has located Little Tony on a pier in San Pedro. Though Kate told him to get out of there, Angel sees a yacht coming to pick up Little Tony and takes matters into his own hands. He pretends to be a tourist who thinks the boat is going to Catalina, then takes out Little Tony's two goons just in time for the police to arrive and catch Little Tony before he takes off. Kate lectures Angel for not leaving when she told him to, even though Papazian was getting away.
Papazian's Wolfram & Hart lawyer, Lee Mercer, comes to the station and petitions to have Little Tony transferred to another facility, claiming that his client was mistreated and abused by the police and by an "as yet unnamed assailant" possibly working with Kate. Meanwhile at Angel Investigations, Cordelia congratulates Angel on completing such a straightforward job, but Angel thinks Little Tony is planning something. Doyle reports that Angel's intuition for evil is spot on: Little Tony "is" planning something.
Kate heads to The Blue Bar after work, where a number of fellow officers and even her father congratulate her on finally apprehending Little Tony. Not long after, her co-worker Harlan comes by their table to show her a memo about a mandatory "sensitivity training" seminar that they are all required to attend because of the way she treated Little Tony. The next day at the station, the seminar begins. The leader, Allen Lloyd, introduces them to the concept of a "talking" stick, which allows whoever holds it to speak freely and openly, without judgment. He asks a cop named Heath to start and, after initial reluctance, Heath begins to open up a little. Angel and Doyle find out that "LT" is planning a hit on Kate. Angel goes to warn her, but Kate speaks first and apologizes for being angry with him at the pier, then asks him to accompany her to her father’s retirement party the following night. When Angel is finally able to warn her of the danger, Kate uncharacteristically sympathizes with Papazian's inner pain for "lashing out" like that, then realizes that she’s psychobabbling and promises that she’ll be back to her "usual level of cynicism" soon. Allen Lloyd meets with Lee Mercer and reports their plan will yield results after just one more session.
Kate and Angel arrive at the retirement party the next night and Kate is very open about her feelings. Starting out her speech with a deeply touching blend of humor and candor, Kate soon segues into storms and gales of raw emotion, broaching subjects far too personal and potentially damaging for the venue or for the occasion. Aghast but unsure how to help, Angel overhears Trevor mutter, "What'd they "do" to her in that class?" The other police officers' reactions to her opening up turn into an argument that quickly escalates into a brawl. Angel takes Kate back to his office and puts Cordelia and Doyle in charge of watching the now totally uninhibited Kate while he goes hunting for Lloyd. They are unable to prevent her from leaving when she laments that her father walked out on her, then decides that she needs to find him, pulling a gun from her purse and apologizing but promising to "blow them the crap away" if they try to stop her. Meanwhile, Angel interrogates Allen, who hits him with the talking stick. Running into the precinct, Kate calls forlornly for her father, who is no longer there, then stares around at her coworkers, all pacing, gesticulating, shouting, weeping. Kind-hearted Heath, wishing to establish parity among the inmates, lets them all loose. Similarly, cops all around are demonstrating signs of their newfound sensitivity with muggers, fender benders, and more.
Cordelia and Doyle meet Angel outside the precinct when, sensing their distress about the situation, Angel smiles a big smile, holds open his arms and sing-songs, "O-ka-ay, I think someone needs a hu-ug," and firmly embraces them both. Having been cursed by the talking stick when Allen hit him with it, he refuses to follow Cordelia's order to "get all vampy" to rescue Kate because he knows it makes them uncomfortable. As the three of them try to get into the locked station, Kate waits for a response to the messages she's left on her father’s answering machine, begging him to talk to her. Out of his cell, Little Tony collects an impromptu gang and breaks into the precinct armory. Just as he finds Kate, the AI team arrives. While Angel and Kate try to "reach" Little Tony, Cordelia and Doyle urge Angel to stop talking and fight. But just before Papazian shoots him, Angel begins fighting. Kate shoots a thug as he switches aim from her to Angel while Doyle and Cordelia disarm the fallen henchmen. Still trading emotional observations with Kate, Angel knocks the mobster unconscious, then shares a comforting hug with Kate.
Later, Little Tony calls Mercer, who tells him that the Senior Partners will no longer represent his interests due to "more pressing matters" that the firm must attend to. While they talk, Mercer views a precinct surveillance tape and freezes it on Angel, unmistakable in his black leather coat. At the precinct the next morning, the cops resume their taciturnity with a vengeance. Angel checks in with Kate, and they both say that they don't remember much about events of the night before. Angel takes his leave, but stops when he sees Trevor come in to see Kate. She starts to explain, but Trevor stops her, telling her she should never bring up the humiliating subject again—as far as Trevor is concerned, events of the night before never happened. Trevor walks away and Kate sits carefully in her chair, holding herself stiffly against the pain.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
This is the second episode written by Tim Minear - his first script, "Somnambulist", went into production later in the season. Minear says his original idea was of cops who become so sensitive that they were unable to perform their jobs, but after discussing the idea with creator Joss Whedon, it became "something far more interesting than what I had originally pitched," Minear says. "Instead of just super sensitive cops, you have people whose emotions are completely on the surface."[1]
The final scene, in which Kate and her father meet, Minear originally wrote as a "big TV ending where they hug." Whedon suggested that instead, Kate's father acts as though nothing has changed. "If it had gone the other way," Minear says, "I think the whole thing would have collapsed. That’s really Joss knowing best."[1]
Acting[edit]
Writer Tim Minear regrets the actor they cast in the role of mobster Little Tony, saying although John Capodice was "very good", the character was "clichéd...a Sopranos knock off."[1]
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode is the first appearance of Kate's father, Trever Lockley
Doyle's growing attraction to Cordelia comes out in the open between them when Kate singsongs, "Someone's got a cru-ush." Despite her instant defensive remark, "We just joke around," Cordelia appears to consider Doyle and his feelings seriously for the first time.
Lee Mercer's interest in a certain image on the precinct surveillance tapes provides yet another indication that the Senior Partners at Wolfram & Hart have a growing interest in Angel's activities - an interest which will continue through the series finale, "Not Fade Away".
The detective's remarks to Kate while under the sensitivity spell closely resemble those that Wesley Wyndam-Pryce makes to Fred under Billy's influence in the season 3 episode "Billy"
Cultural references[edit]
Sense and Sensibility: The title of this episode is a play on the title of the well-known Jane Austen novel.
Jar Jar Binks: Listing possible calamities, Cordelia lumps "Jar Jar getting his own talk show" in with "asteroids hurtling toward Earth" and "unspeakable evil rising in the San Fernando Valley." This is an allusion to an unpopular character introduced in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Spock: When Angel invites Kate into his office, Cordelia mutters, "Mr. and Mrs. Spock need to mindmeld now." This is a reference to the famous Star Trek character.
Mark Fuhrman: In addition to indicating the kind of media circus he threatens, Lee Mercer's reference to the infamous detective in the O. J. Simpson murder trial also harks back to Lindsey McDonald's smug avowal to Angel that Lindsey's client, Russell Winters, "shall never be convicted of any crime—ever."
Valium: Even though she initially judges Kate to be under the influence of alcohol, Cordelia offers more drugs - "coffee, Valium, or both" - in an apparent wish to damp the cursed detective's mood swings.
Heathers: Cordelia says to Angel "What's your damage?", a famous line from the movie.
Mod Squad: Trevor Lockley's badge number, 6873, corresponds to the years the show aired. That show was also about a trio of young people who solved crimes out of regular police channels.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, retrieved 2007-09-27
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"Bachelor Party"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 7
Directed by
David Straiton
Written by
Tracey Stern
Production code
1ADH07
Original air date
November 16, 1999
Guest actors

Kristin Dattilo as Harriet "Harry" Doyle
Carlos Jacott as Richard Straley
Ted Kairys as Ben
Chris Tallman as Nick
Brad Blaisdell as Uncle John
Robert Hillis as Pierce
Lauri Johnson as Aunt Martha
Kristen Lowman as Mother Rachel
David Polcyn as Russ

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"Bachelor Party" is episode 7 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Tracey Stern and directed by David Straiton, it originally broadcast on November 16, 1999 on the WB network.


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2 Acting
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Doyle is trying to talk Angel into having some fun, telling him he spends way too much time on "this whole redemption thing" when Cordy walks in ready for a date with a handsome rich man she has met. After Cordy and her date, a stock broker named Pierce, leave, Doyle picks up a book Angel was reading and his bookmark, a photo of Buffy, falls out. Doyle, having never met Buffy, does not realize it's her and starts to show an interest in her. With a hurt look upon his face Angel looks away, and Doyle realizes it is Buffy. Doyle then apologizes and puts the photo back. Immediately after, Doyle has a vision of a young man being held captive in a nest of vampires. While they go to clear it out and save the prisoner, Cordelia is on her date, incredibly bored because Pierce only talks about his work. As Angel and Doyle leave, a straggler vampire follows them to the office. He arrives there just as Cordelia's date drops her off. When the vampire walks up to them and attacks Cordelia, Pierce immediately gets in his car and flees, leaving Cordelia with the vampire. Luckily, Doyle appears at the door carrying a crossbow and, after a struggle, stakes the vampire with an arrow.
After thngs have settled, Cordelia expresses her frustration that, as a result of her experiences in Sunnydale, she now looks for bravery in potential suitors as well, and that she was impressed with Doyle's bravery during the confrontation with the vampire. As she tries to ask him out for some time together, Doyle's estranged wife, Harriet, asks for a divorce so she'll be free to marry her new love, Richard. Though quite surprised to learn this piece of Doyle's past, Angel and Cordelia do all they can to support their friend. With the wedding a few days away, Cordelia accepts Harry's invitation to her bridal shower and Doyle accepts the invitation to Richard's bachelor party. That night, Angel follows Richard and sees him accept a strange package from a car and then go to a restaurant kitchen with Harry. Upon seeing Richard change into a red, scaly demon, Angel breaks through the restaurant window and intervenes, thinking Richard plans to kill her. However, he discovers that Richard, as Harry already knew, is an Ano-movic demon, a race that used to be quite violent and savage, but has since become fully integrated in modern society and runs a series of luxurious restaurants, including the one they're in. The package Richard accepted was some unspecified, and "not strictly speaking illegal" foodstuff.
Though Richard and Harry know that Doyle was the one who put Angel up to following him, they still let Doyle come to the bachelor party. However, as the viewers find out, they plan to have Richard consume Doyle's brain as part of a pre-wedding ritual. At the party, Richard asks Doyle for his blessing in the marriage (Doyle being unaware that he is asking for consent in eating his brain). At the party, Angel, whom Doyle invited along, strays from the party and sees one of the family elders chanting ritualistically to a knife. After calling Harry and asking for a translation of the chanting, Angel is beaten and thrown out of the restaurant by some of Richard's relatives. At the party, Doyle gives his Richard his blessing and is strapped into a wooden box with his head exposed. After being given local anasthesia to his head, Doyle learns that Richard is planning to consume his brain in order to bless his second marriage as part of an ancient, Ano-movic tradition (it hasn't been done in ages because no Ano-movic has married a second partner in that time). At the bridal shower, Harry and Cordelia translate what Angel heard and, after one of Richard's female relatives slips up, realize what they are up o and go to the bachelor party to stop them. Just as Richard are about to cut open Doyle's skull, Angel breaks through the door and starts fighting them. In the struggle, Doyle's bonds are broken, he transforms into his demon self and joins the fight.
At that moment, Cordelia and Harry burst in. Cordelia hits Doyle with a tray, not realizing that it's him, and he transforms back without her noticing. Harry berates Richard for not telling what he was planning and for still adhering to the Ano-movics' ancient, barbaric ways and breaks off her engagement to Richard. Back at the office, Doyle has another vision, this time of Buffy fighting something.
Acting[edit]
Guest star Carlos Jacott also appeared in two other Mutant Enemy produced television shows: he played Ken in "Anne", the first episode of the third season of Buffy, and Lawrence Dobson on the pilot episode of Firefly.
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: In the last scene, Doyle has a vision of Buffy in danger. Angel goes to Sunnydale in "Pangs".
Doyle fulfills the first half of his promise ("Rm w/a Vu") to tell Angel the story of his life by confessing salient points of his failed relationship with Harriet.
Cordelia also mentions her previous relationship with Xander Harris during the second and third seasons of Buffy.
Cordelia's line 'I think it, I say it' is a minor reference to her thoughts on the episode of Buffy where Buffy gains telepathy.
Arc significance[edit]
Doyle has at least two significant opportunities to show Cordelia his demon face, neither of which he takes. The first is when he fights the stalker vamp and chooses to struggle unaugmented rather than reveal his mixed heritage. The second comes when Harry and Cordelia walk in on the boys' mêlée. Doyle has just been knocked flying and is lying out of sight under the table in one of the restaurant booths. He groggily sits up during Harry's tirade—still in demon form. Cordelia, in an excess of concern for her friend, Doyle, vents some of her anger and anxiety by grabbing a handy serving tray and repeatedly bashing the blue-green, spiny thing she believes to be one of the evil, brain-eating demons. Angel hastily comes to Doyle's rescue, both pulling Cordy off and distracting her so she won't see him morph back to human form. It remains unclear whether Cordelia recognizes him as the same person when Doyle deliberately shows her his demon face in "Hero".
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I Will Remember You (Angel)
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"I Will Remember You"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 8
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
David Greenwalt
 Jeannine Renshaw
Production code
1ADH08
Original air date
November 23, 1999
Guest actors

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Carey Cannon as Female Oracle
Randall Slavin as Male Oracle
David Wald as Mohra Demon #1
Chris Durand as Mohra Demon #2

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"I Will Remember You" is episode 8 of season 1 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, Buffy follows Angel back to Los Angeles, where she confronts him about his surreptitious assistance back in Sunnydale. They are attacked by a Mohra demon; when Angel kills the demon he is restored to life by its powerful blood. After The Oracles — a link to The Powers That Be — confirm he is human again, Angel and Buffy spend a blissful night together. When Doyle receives a vision that the Mohra has regenerated itself, Angel leaves to kill the demon for good. In the ensuing battle, Angel discovers the consequences of having only human strength; Buffy must come to his rescue and slay the demon herself. Angel returns to The Oracles, who agree to turn back time so that Angel, accepting the entire cost of the bargain, can kill the Mohra before its blood makes him human. This episode is #78 on the TV Guide list of TV's Top 100 Episodes of all time.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Arc significance
2.3 Continuity
2.4 Cultural references
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy surprises Angel with a visit to Los Angeles. Their emotion-driven discussion is interrupted by the arrival of a Mohra demon. Angel stabs the demon, but it retreats to the sewers. Buffy and Angel hesitantly follow, discussing their future as a couple and the feelings about each other. They split up; Angel meets the demon on his route. As they fight, the Mohra demon cuts Angel. Angel kills the demon. Its blood, eventually found to be the Blood of Eternity, merges with his own, and he becomes human.
Realizing what this means for their relationship, Angel spends the night with Buffy. However, Doyle shares the news that the Mohra demon is alive: the demon's rejuvenating blood also worked on itself. So, Angel sets out with Doyle to kill the demon, without Buffy's much-needed supernatural assistance. Angel fails miserably until Buffy shows up and slays the demon. Angel realizes how useless he is in his human form, and asks the Oracles to turn back time to make him a "demon with a soul" once more. They consent, and time is set back twenty four hours despite a heartbroken Buffy begging Angel to remain human before the Mohra demon is killed, with only Angel as a witness to the night he and Buffy shared.
Production details[edit]
In his essay on the music used in Angel, Matthew Mills points out how, when Angel asks the Oracles to turn back time, the slow tempo and use of the clarinet in the background music adds "emotive weight to the Oracles' sympathy" for his situation. As the Oracles explain that only Angel will remember the moments he shared with Buffy, Angel's theme ends on a minor key, underscoring the sacrifice being made.[1]
"Angel is one of those heroes who flourish on frustration," Peter S. Beagle says, "who thrive on never achieving their hearts' desire." This episode, in which Angel relinquishes the chance to have a normal, happy life with Buffy in order to "fulfill his penance," perfectly typifies Angel's character and fate, says Beagle.[2]
When Angel and Buffy kiss at the end of the episode as Buffy says "there isn't enough time" and begins to cry, David Boreanaz can be heard to say "Shh, shh...Sarah, please", referencing Sarah Michelle Gellar's name.
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This is the second time in the series Angel gives up a chance at happiness. In the episode, "In the Dark", he relinquishes the ability to walk in the sun.
This episode is the first time that Angel makes an arrangement that causes those around him to forget something significant in order to protect those he loves. In the season four finale, "Home", Angel alters everyone's memories so that his son, Connor, can have a normal life.
This is the first appearance of The Oracles, a pair of humanoid beings, brother and sister, both unpredictable and self-important, that serve and speak for The Powers That Be. The Oracles last appear at the end of season one, in "To Shanshu in L.A."
The Shanshu Prophecy is implied during Angel's meeting with the Oracles.
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: This episode follows the events of "Pangs", which aired immediately before.
When Buffy snarks at Angel, "I was really jonesing for another heartbreaking sewer talk," she refers to events in the season three Buffy episode, "The Prom", where Angel breaks up with her while they are patrolling Sunnydale sewers.
When Angel first returns to the office after becoming human, Cordelia worriedly demands, "Did you do it with Buffy?" And as Doyle steps up to stare into Angel's eyes she warns, "Watch it, Doyle. Don't get too close." This is a reference to the events of the last half of season two of Buffy, beginning in "Surprise", when Angel's curse is broken by his moment of happiness with the Slayer, thus causing him to lose his soul and reverting him to the evil Angelus.
That much of Buffy's pleasure comes from her sense of being a "normal girl falling asleep in the arms of her normal boyfriend" underscores one of the Slayer's fundamental internal conflicts, which she first expresses to Giles in the Buffy premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth", and essentially resolves in the series finale, "Chosen".
Buffy reminds Angel to include peanut butter in the supplies he grabs from the kitchen, recalling Angel's exasperation with Cordelia for getting peanut butter in his bed several weeks earlier, in "Rm w/a Vu".
This is the second time Angel leaves Buffy sleeping in an attempt to ensure her safety, although the first time ("Surprise"), it was he himself who was the imminent threat as the evil, soulless Angelus.
Buffy's challenge to Mohra, "You hurt my boyfriend," recalls her very similar challenge to Spike in the season two Buffy episode, "What's My Line, Part Two", after he abducts Angel as the blood sacrifice in his healing ritual for Drusilla: "You can hurt me, you can send assassins after me, but nobody messes with my boyfriend."
When Buffy and Angel are approaching each other for their final embrace toward the end of the episode, the music starts to swell and it is noticed that the music is that of "Close Your Eyes," the main theme heard in Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the finale, "Becoming: Part 2."
This episode marks the final on screen meeting of Buffy and Cordelia, who have known each other since the events of the Buffy pilot episode "Welcome to the Hellmouth". Whereas both characters appear in the subsequent Angel episode "Sanctuary", they do not share any scenes.
Cultural references[edit]
Titanic: Cordelia tells Doyle they have time for a cappucino and, probably, the director's cut of Titanic while "The Buffy and Angel Show" runs its accustomed lengthy and dramatic course.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Before knowing the species of demon they pursue, Buffy refers to it as a Mutant Ninja Demon Thing, especially apt since they track it in the sewers.
Famille rose vase, Qing Dynasty c. 1811: Angel knows better than to show up a second time before The Oracles empty-handed.
Orson Welles: When Angel begins gorging on food, Doyle calls Angel "Orson" in reference to the director with a famous mid-life obesity.
Reception[edit]
Noel Murray of The A.V. Club liked the premise but not the whole execution, writing, "It's an undeniably sweet episode, but I have to say I found the set-up clunky and the complications a little forced, no matter how beautifully it all plays out."[3]
In Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 best Whedonverse episodes—including episodes from Angel, as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse—"I Will Remember You" placed at #14.[4] This episode was rated the series' best episode in a poll done by Angel Magazine in 2005.[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Mills, Matthew (2005), "Ubi Caritas?: Music as Narrative Agent in Angel", in Stacey Abbott, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul, I.B.Tauris, pp. 33–34, ISBN 1-85043-839-0, retrieved 10-8-2007
2.Jump up ^ Beagle, Peter S. (2004), "The Good Vampire: Spike and Angel", in Glenn Yeffeth, Five Seasons of Angel, BenBella, p. 120, ISBN 1-932100-33-4
3.Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (7 August 2009). ""The Initiative", etc". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
4.Jump up ^ Bernardin, Marc; Vary, Adam B. (24 September 2009). "25 Best Whedonverse Episodes". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
5.Jump up ^ Top Angel episodes, BBC, 18 January 2005, archived from the original on 19 March 2005, retrieved 2007-10-16
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Hero (Angel)
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"Hero"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 9
Directed by
Tucker Gates
Written by
Tim Minear
Howard Gordon
Production code
1ADH09
Original air date
November 30, 1999
Guest actors

Tony Denman as Rieff
Anthony Cistaro as Trask
Michelle Horn as Rayna
Lee Arenberg as Tiernan
Sean Gunn as Lucas
James Henriksen as Elder Lister Demon
David Bickford as Cargo Inspector
Christopher Comes as Storm Trooper #2
Paul O'Brien as Captain
Ashley Taylor as First Mate

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"Hero" is episode 9 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and directed by Tucker Gates, it was originally broadcast on November 30, 1999 on the WB television network. In "Hero", Angel joins Doyle’s crusade to save a group of part-human Lister demons from The Scourge, an army of supremacist stormtrooper demons who claim "pure" blood and consequently persecute those of "mixed" blood. While Doyle goes after a strayed Lister teen and Cordelia handles details of the escape plan, Angel infiltrates the enemy and discovers their secret weapon, a bomb-like device called the Beacon that combusts anyone with any taint of human blood. Events lead to a climactic showdown aboard a tramp freighter, where Doyle finally confesses his half-demon heritage—and his love for her—to Cordelia, and proves that he, like Angel, is a Champion in his own right.


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Plot[edit]
Cordelia and Doyle bicker while working on a video advertising Angel Investigations. After talking to Angel, Doyle has a vision of a group in distress. At the scene of the vision, they find a group of Lister demons hiding from the Scourge, an army of pure-blood demons who hate all demons of mixed blood. Doyle tells Angel about a past encounter with the Scourge.
Angel and his team arrange for the Listers to escape on a cargo ship. The Scourge find the Listers' hiding place after they have left for the ship. Angel pretends to join the Scourge, and learns they have a device, the Beacon, which can kill half-breeds from a distance. The Scourge prepares to attack the cargo ship. Doyle and Cordelia flirt while waiting for Angel after Cordelia learns the truth of his heritage and accepts it.
Angel arrives, and the ship is preparing to leave when the Scourge appears. Angel attempts to sacrifice himself to destroy the Beacon as it begins to operate, but Doyle, himself a half-breed demon, knocks Angel out, kisses Cordelia, disables the Beacon, and dies from its effects. Angel and Cordelia later sadly watch the video Doyle had been making.
Production details[edit]
Special effects Supervisor Loni Peristere explains David Greenwalt described his vision of Doyle's death as "I want him to melt to death...I want his flesh to melt off and muscle and then bones." Peristere was concerned that that effect would be too graphic for television. He shot Doyle in his demon form, and Doyle with half-burned make-up then used mat elements to digitally "chew through his skin", including an element of acetone poured on Styrofoam.[1]
Reception and reviews[edit]
This episode was rated as one of the series' top five episodes in a poll done by Angel Magazine.[2] It also appeared eight on Slayage.com's list of the top 10 episodes of Angel.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Special FX: CoA Interviews Loni Peristere, Special FX Supervisor
2.Jump up ^ Top Angel episodes, BBC, 18 January 2005, retrieved 2007-10-16
3.Jump up ^ Erenberg, Daniel, Best Of The Best, Part Two, Slayage.com, retrieved 2007-09-22
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"Parting Gifts"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 10
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Fury
 Jeannine Renshaw
Production code
1ADH10
Original air date
December 14, 1999
Guest actors

Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Maury Sterling as Barney
Carey Cannon as Female Oracle
Randall Slavin as Male Oracle
Jayson Creek as Producer #1
Sean Smith as Producer #2
Sara Devlin as Producer #3
Jason Kim as Soon
Brett Gilbert as Reptilian Demon
Henry Kingi as Kungai Demon
Lawrence Turner as Hank
Cheyenne Wilbur as Concierge
Dominique Jennings as Mac
Kotoko Kawamura as Ancient Korean Woman

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"Parting Gifts" is episode 10 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Still reeling from Doyle's death just days ago, Angel and Cordelia encounter an old friend from Sunnydale, Buffy’s former Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, now a leather-clad, rogue, demon hunter. Meanwhile, Cordelia discovers that Doyle has passed on his gift of visions from The Powers That Be, which subject her to the same unbearable headaches that afflicted Doyle. When one of Angel’s clients, a black-marketeer demon named Barney, learns of Cordelia’s new powers, he abducts her and auctions off her "seer's eyes" to a group of wealthy demons and humans, including a representative from Wolfram and Hart. Wesley assists Angel in Cordy's rescue and effectively—if unofficially—joins the AI team.


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Plot[edit]
Angel goes to the Oracles to ask for Doyle's life back, but they will not help him, even when he protests that Doyle, aside from being his friend, was also his only link to The Powers That Be. Cryptically, the Oracles tell Angel that when one door closes, another door opens, before imperiously waving him out of their realm. Meanwhile, in the real world, an unprepossessing demon runs frantically down an alley in broad daylight, trying to evade the pursuit of a mysterious, black-clad motorcycle rider. At Angel Investigations, Cordelia despondently seeks something tangible to keep in memory of Doyle. Angel tries to be understanding, but Cordy shies away from further discussion of her feelings, until her watch beeps a reminder that she is scheduled for an audition. When she opens the door to leave, the demon being chased by the motorcyclist is just coming in to ask Angel for help. Sending Cordelia on her way, Angel tries to ascertain whether he can help this demon, whose name is Barney, as well as whether he wants to. Proclaiming himself an empath demon, Barney admits he uses his ability to read people's emotions to get the edge at cards, or at the fights. Angel bluntly identifies Barney as a cheat and wonders whether the guy on the motorcycle might have good reason to be after him. Barney protests that, even though he's not perfect, he's not "evil" and can't imagine why this guy has tracked him across state after state. At her audition, Cordelia breaks down sobbing in the middle of her reading and then, when the three producers generously give her another try, suffers her first vision.
The man on the motorcycle continues to track the demon he's after, dismounting to examine more closely a viscous yellow fluid he finds on the corner of a building. Returning from her audition, Cordelia silently zeros in on an alert but essentially unprepared Angel, and kisses him thoroughly. Realizing that Doyle's kiss was the mechanism for passing his visions to her, Cordelia embarks on a kissing spree to rid herself of his unwanted "gift," unaware or uncaring that if she succeeds she'll foist the visions off on a truly hapless soul. After Cordelia amazes Angel and disgusts herself by kissing even (amazed) Barney, Angel leaves the empath demon under her care, with instructions to also try to sketch what she saw in her vision. As he checks out Barney's decidedly low-rent motel room, Angel is ambushed by the motorcycle man, revealed in the flickering light of the dark corridor to be armed with a crossbow. After shoving Angel further into the room and leveling his crossbow at the vampire's chest, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce moves far enough into the light to be recognized. Little surprised and certainly unthreatened, Angel effortlessly disarms Wesley, learning that the former Watcher quit the Council and now considers himself a rogue demon hunter. As Angel and Wesley compare notes on their overlapping cases, an enormous demon, oozing viscous yellow fluid, drops on them with a roar. Slinging Wesley against the wall with ease, the demon lands a few good ones on Angel, until Wesley shoots it with the crossbow he retrieves from the floor. To their surprise, the demon screams and crashes out the second story window to run away, limping and moaning, as fast as possible down the empty street.
Meanwhile, at Angel's apartment, Cordelia tries to sketch the "ugly, gray, blobby thing" she saw in her vision. At loose ends, Barney attempts to engage Cordelia in conversation by offering sympathy for her grief, and immediately finds himself the target of her anger and suspicion. When Barney assures her he didn't mean to intrude, it is Cordelia who apologizes for her rudeness and, to make amends, opens up a little about Doyle. Just then, Angel comes downstairs, bringing the black-clad motorcycle rider with him. Barney runs and hides and Angel follows to reassure his timid client. Checking to see that Angel is out of sight, Cordelia slides into silent stalker mode, accosts Wesley, and kisses him. Not dumbfounded for long, Wesley pulls his old Sunnydale friend (whom he recognized immediately) into a tight clinch and (unlike Angel) kisses her back. Cordelia's focus is so intent that she only recognizes Wesley after exclaiming with disgust and disappointment that the visions are still with her. As Angel and Barney reenter the room, Wesley snaps back on task and disappears in the direction of Angel's library, only to reappear moments later having identified their opponent as a Kungai, a demon of Asian origin. The "rogue demon hunter" claims that continuing to track the Kungai is his job, or their job, if Angel insists, but Angel, still raw from losing his partner, orders Wesley to stay behind. Bribing the belligerent desk clerk (who seems to recognize Angel) to let him in back at the Lotus Spa (featuring Korean mineral baths), Angel finds the Kungai demon, but it is dying because the Tak horn on its forehead has been, literally, ripped off. Angel speaks Korean, apparently, but can't understand what the Kungai so urgently wants him to know. Back at Angel's apartment, Cordelia continues to sketch the object from her vision and, apparently feeling more herself, begins to complain about Doyle's "gift." With surprising insight, Barney gently chastens Cordelia, guessing that Doyle must have honored her with both his trust and his most valuable possession. While Cordelia makes coffee, Barney makes a call to his associate, Hank, and, dropping the timid, sensitive act, reveals that it is he who stole the horn from the Kungai demon. But, Barney tells Hank, he now has a line on something even more interesting—Cordelia's clairvoyant powers.
Wesley shows up at the spa and helps Angel by translating the Kungai's last words, which identify Barney as his murderer. At Angel's place, Barney permanently dispenses with his mild-mannered persona and starts to terrorize Cordelia. Physically overmatched by Barney's demon strength, Cordelia is unable to prevent him from tying her wrists behind her. Still, she fights back by pretending to get a vision and, in the demon's moment of distraction, kicks him squarely between the legs. Originally wishing to empathically savor Cordelia's fear, Barney has worked her into such a frenzied state that she now refuses to leave quietly. With mild regret for damaging merchandise (and with maybe a tinge of vengefulness), Barney knocks Cordelia unconscious with a punch to the jaw and takes her from the building. Returning to the empty apartment, Angel and Wesley both feel responsible for Cordelia's fate. As Angel hunts for clues, Wesley collapses in despair over losing yet another young woman from his care. "I'm a fraud," he tells Angel. "The Council was right to sack me." Angel, initially annoyed, now listens with more patience, even as he continues to comb the place for evidence. When Angel finds the crumpled drawing Cordelia made from her vision, he rotates the paper ninety degrees and recognizes it as the gray, blobby sculpture, "Maiden with Urn," by an artist with whom he's familiar. Finally getting a clue, he and Wesley both snap into research mode. Angel queries the web and finds that the sculpture is currently owned by a hotel chain with many establishments in the L.A. area. Wesley, having looked up the one Kungai phrase he hadn't been able to translate, finally figures out that "caller sale" means "auction." This gives the guys the last piece of the puzzle and, taking only moments to arm themselves, they race to Cordy's rescue.
Meanwhile, Cordelia wakes, bound and gagged, in a strange room where the only familiar object is the ugly, gray blobby thing from her vision—which she is looking at sideways because she's lying on her side on a settee. As she tries to get her bearings, Cordelia notices a long cloth-draped table covered with various grisly body parts and organs, dominated by a still-beating heart in a pedestaled bell jar. Hearing Barney talking with someone and approaching from the other room, she hastily closes her eyes and lays her head back down. To her consternation, they seem to be discussing whether to remove her eyes before or after the auction, as Barney's wild-eyed associate, Hank, obsessively clicks the extractor device over and over. The auction begins. The item for sale immediately before Cordelia's lot number comes up is the Tak horn from the hapless Kungai. Hank brings Cordelia to the podium, where she stands aghast while Barney opens the bidding for her lovely seer's eyes at $2,000. While Angel and Wesley zero in on her location, Cordelia buys time by inciting a bidding war between two patrons. When the contest proves lethal for one bidder and the matter seems settled at a substantial $20,000 (which has Barney practically hopping with glee), the representative from Wolfram and Hart suddenly bids $30,000. Barney nearly passes out, but manages to bang his gavel and close the deal before anything can interfere with such an unexpected windfall. Cordelia is now the evil law firm's property, and Angel and Wesley are nowhere to be seen.
The auction is over. Cordelia is in the back room listening to Barney negotiate with Mac, the lawyer from Wolfram and Hart, about the additional fee for removing her eyes, and to Hank still clacking the four-pronged extractor. To Cordelia's horror, Mac agrees to the extra grand and Barney, taking the extractor away from the seriously disappointed Hank, holds the seer down and starts to do the job himself. At that moment, a body comes flying through the curtained doorway and Angel and Wesley, who have worked their way from the front of the hotel to back here behind the Tulip Room, follow immediately after. Barney raps out, "Hank? Stakes!" and the fight is on. Mac, having already made a strategic exit, uses her cell phone to give a situation report as, behind her, Angel wades in, shouting to Wesley to get Cordelia. The hilariously bumbling Wes manages to ungag her, but must use the serated curve of the Tak horn that got knocked to the floor nearby to cut her bonds—because he can't get at the knife he earlier taped so securely to his leg. Just as Wes and Cordy head for the nearest exit, Barney blocks their path, the homicidal glint in his eyes matched by the righteous fury in Wesley's. In the ensuing struggle, Barney quickly gets the upper hand and starts to throttle the demon hunter who tracked him so relentlessly. With a shout, Cordelia grabs the Tak horn and stabs the murderous empath demon in the back. They watch in horrified fascination as the Tak horn's power drains his life force and his body shrivels and blackens and sinks away. Angel dispatches the last of his foes and, when an overjoyed Cordelia flings her arms around him, acknowledges Wesley's invaluable assistance. Back at Angel's apartment, Cordelia sits at the kitchen table and frames her ugly, gray, blobby drawing as a memento for saving her life, and as a reminder that something of Doyle's will always be with them. Moved, Angel silently turns back to the stove and continues to scramble eggs, while Wesley finishes packing up his things. As Wesley makes his farewells, he wistfully draws out his departure to give the other two ample opportunity to invite him to stay. When Angel finally relents and says, "breakfast?", Wesley accepts with alacrity and the three friends enjoy each other's company for this moment of peace, warmth, and safety.
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Glenn Quinn and Doyle appear for the last time in the main titles. Doyle's next appearance is in "Birthday", where Skip shows Cordelia an image of Doyle when explaining the visions. His last appearance is in "You're Welcome", where Angel and Cordy review the tape of the commercial Doyle helped with in "Hero".
Cordelia receives her first vision from The Powers That Be. When she tries to follow through with her avowal to Doyle in "Lonely Hearts" to "give it back," she discovers that there's some trick besides just kissing to passing "the gift" along. Initially an unwilling recipient, Cordelia actively chooses to keep the visions in "Birthday". Ultimately, she learns the "trick" of passing the gift to another in her last appearance in "You're Welcome".
This is the first time Wesley is seen on Angel. From this time onwards, he appears in every episode except "Destiny", in season five. He eventually grows out of his puppyish clumsiness, and Angel comes to rely on him more and more.
This is the first time Angel Investigations uses the tag-line 'Help the Helpless' (said by Barney, their demonic client). Before this the line had always been 'Help the Hopeless', a line which is used a few more times before the 'helpless' version becomes more common at the end of Season One and is used completely by Season Two.
Continuity[edit]
Wesley's moment of self-realization (and self-loathing) ignites Angel's compassion. The former Watcher indeed alienates two Slayers during his tenure in Sunnydale, when Buffy declares her independence from The Watchers' Council in "Graduation Day, Part One", the same episode in which she believes she's killed renegade Faith. This subject comes up between Angel and Wesley again in "Five by Five".
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"Somnambulist"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 11
Directed by
Winrich Kolbe
Written by
Tim Minear
Production code
1ADH11
Original air date
January 18, 2000
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Jeremy Renner as Penn
Nick McCallum as Skateboard Kid
Kimberleigh Aarn as Precinct Clerk
Paul Webster as Uniform #1
Brien DiRito as Task Force Member #1

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"Somnambulist" is episode 11 of season 1 in the television show Angel.


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2 Arc significance 2.1 Continuity
3 Production details 3.1 Writing
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
The episode opens on a girl fleeing down a street from a shadowy figure. She stumbles, allowing the pursuer to catch up. The man holds her and runs a finger with a metal claw over it down her cheek, carving a cross into it. Once finished, he bites her and drains her of blood. The camera's view moves over the figure's head and it looks very much like Angel, who is jerked from sleep in a cold sweat. Meanwhile, detective Kate examines the body and comments, "it's the same guy".
The next morning, Cordelia is practicing talking to clients when Wesley enters with their mail and inquires if Cordelia or Angel have noticed anything sinister going on, but Cordelia has nothing for him and tells him he's brought in the wrong mail. Wesley notices something that seems familiar and frightening on the front page of the newspaper he has brought. Angel comes in, cranky about her looking up a license plate. Cordelia suggests Angel try asking Kate for the favor. Angel, distracted, tries to leave by the front door and almost bursts into flame. After he leaves, Angel goes to the police station to talk to Kate and notices the crime scene photos, which call up haunting images of his dreams. After that, Wesley confronts Cordelia about the fact that the recent murders match Angel's MO. Cordelia is skeptical until Angel himself admits it might be him, dreaming. They chain him to his bed to test the theory. That night, instead of dreaming about a current murder, he dreams about his past when he had just turned a vampire named Penn. He realizes the killer is Penn and resolves to tell Kate, despite Wesley's objections.
Angel goes to Kate and talks to her in private. He asks Kate if she trusts him, and gives her a sketch of the vampire's face and a clue about who and where he'll strike next. On his way out, he steals a police radio so he and Wesley can intercept Penn before the police confront him. Kate's task force find Penn in the act and force him into an abandoned warehouse. Kate goes in alone to capture him, while Angel and Wesley drive to the building and Angel sneaks in. Kate finds and shoots Penn, but he gets up and attacks her until Angel interrupts. Penn expects Angel to be on his side until Angel attacks him. Penn escapes and Kate is confused. Afterward, Angel confronts her and tells her to leave Penn to him because she doesn't know what she's dealing with.
Penn confronts Cordelia in their offices. Cordelia surmises his identity and has him cornered with Angel until Wesley walks in and Penn uses him as a hostage. After he escapes, a montage follows Penn planning his next attack, Kate researching and Angel wandering the streets looking for him. Angel ends up at Kate's apartment, where she reveals she now knows about vampires and particularly his past. She mentions Penn's previous visits to Los Angeles, which Angel takes as a clue. Angel, Cordelia, and Wesley use his previous visits to find Penn's lair in an oft-remodeled hotel/apartment building. Angel and Wesley go there and find photos of school buses, along with schedules for such buses. It appears Penn's next target will be a bus of schoolchildren. Kate is prepping her task force for apprehending Penn when he reveals that he's in the room and attacks them all, then captures Kate. Penn drags Kate to the sewer and Angel intervene, revealing that he had known that the schoolchildren were a decoy. They fight until Penn has Angel in a lock with Kate holding an oversized piece of wood. She jabs it through both of them, missing Angel's heart but killing Penn. Angel says, "You missed." Kate replies, "No, I didn't."
Afterward on a rooftop, Cordelia tells Angel she had a vision, but he is worried about his nature, because he enjoyed the dreams of hunting and killing. She tells him his actions count, not his dark internal issues, though she promises to stake him if he becomes a problem.
Arc significance[edit]
Kate learns that Angel is a vampire, permanently altering their relationship.
Continuity[edit]
The profiler's packet Kate hands out to her search teams contains black and white still photos, which identify Angel. The photos seem to be taken from the same precinct surveillance tape of Angel that Lee Mercer viewed with such interest in "Sense & Sensitivity".
Production details[edit]
Alexis Denisof replaces Glenn Quinn, who played Doyle, in the opening credits as of this episode.
Jeremy Renner, who plays Penn in this episode, went on to play Hawkeye in Joss Whedon's The Avengers, although Whedon himself didn't cast him in either role.
Writing[edit]
After writing the first draft, Tim Minear had to rewrite parts of the script to accommodate Wesley's arrival and Doyle's departure; the final scene on the rooftop was originally between Angel and Doyle.[1] The script was originally called "The Killer I Created", until a detailed summary appeared online, prompting Minear to alter the title. "I went on to the Buffy message board... changed the title and said it was about dreams and about horrible things that you do in your sleep, which completely fooled the fans," says Minear.[1]
Minear says Kate finally discovering Angel is a vampire is "sort of the point of the episode." Another pivotal scene, which was conceived early in the breaking stage, is when Kate goes through Angel to stake Penn. Minear calls this "the perfect moment. Because it's Angel opening himself up and actually sort of taking responsibility in a visceral movie kind of way for this horrible thing that he's done."[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Gross, Edward (August 28, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 3, TimMinear.net, retrieved 2007-09-17
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"Expecting"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 12
Directed by
David Semel
Written by
Howard Gordon
Production code
1ADH12
Original air date
January 25, 2000
Guest actors

Daphnee Duplaix as Serena
Ken Marino as Wilson Christopher
Josh Randall as Bartender
Doug Tompos as Dr. Wasserman
Louisette Geiss as Emily
Julie Quinn as Pregnant Woman
Maggie Connelly as Nurse
Steven Roy as Jason

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"Expecting" is episode 12 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Howard Gordon and directed by David Semel, it was originally broadcast on January 25, 2000 on the WB network. In "Expecting", Cordelia, having spent the night with her charming date, wakes up carrying a near-term pregnancy. Research reveals she and several other women bear the spawn of a Haxil Beast that uses men as sexual surrogates. Angel and Wesley must find a way to break the demon's psychic control over its human incubators before they deliver—an ordeal likely to be lethal to the hosts.


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Plot[edit]
Cordelia goes out with her friends Serena and Emily, for an evening with the man Cordelia has been seeing, famous photographer, Wilson Christopher. Meanwhile, Wesley and Angel fight a demon after being notified of its presence by one of Cordelia's visions.
At Club La Brea, Cordelia and Wilson talk, seeming to make a genuine connection. Wilson takes Cordelia home, and he spends the night there. The Phantom Dennis registers his displeasure by changing the lights and music that Cordelia selects. She wakes the next morning to an empty bed, but she find that in the night,she has grown—in a matter of hours—very pregnant. Angel and Wesley are alarmed by her absence so break into the apartment. They find the pregnant Cordelia in bed. After discovering that the phone number Wilson gave to Cordelia is no longer in service, Angel instructs Wesley to take her for an ultrasound to see exactly what it is they are dealing with, while he goes to hunt down"daddy."
Starting his search at the club where Cordelia went, Angel gains the bartender's (Josh Randall) reluctant trust and obtains information about Cordelia's "friend" Serena, who turns out to be the ringleader of a group of attractive young women hooking up with Wilson's group of well-heeled guys. When he gets to her apartment, Angel discovers that Serena is also heavily pregnant.
Meanwhile, in the clinic exam room, the doctor counts seven heartbeats and, trying to conceal his agitation under a professional demeanor, orders an amniocentesis. However, the syringe containing the amniotic fluid cracks and the spilled fluid quickly eats through the floor. Dr. Wasserman and the nurse flee in terror.
At Serena's, Angel sits with her, asking questions that could give him some clue to Wilson's current whereabouts. Serena explains that she gets dates for Wilson and a few others, and they ask her for girls who have no family and few friends in the city. She also mentions that the money the guys use literally smells.
Simultaneously, Serena and Cordelia double over in pain. Fading in and out of coherence, she tells Wesley that the babies are not human, and are trying to communicate with her. After Cordelia falls asleep, Wesley and Angel confer.
Angel searches the Yellow Pages for a cigar and gun club where Serena says the men hang out. As they walk past the kitchen, they see Cordelia drinking pig's blood directly from one of Angel's jars, without her registering how strange it is.
Finding Wilson down on the shooting range at his gun club, Angel confronts him about Cordelia. Angel sees Wilson is not a demon, but correctly guesses that the men act as surrogates for a demon in exchange for success in their careers and sex with the women. The rest of the guys show up, and Wilson shoots Angel, but Angel fights back and forces Wilson to talk. Wesley, in the meantime, discovers that Cordelia carries the spawn of a Haxil demon. When he shows her its picture and tries to comfort her, however, Cordelia bashes Wesley unconscious with the heavy reference book. Under the demon's telepathic thrall, she fiercely protects its young.
The sound of Angel's phone ringing brings Wesley groggily back to consciousness. He answers and it is Angel, calling from a phone booth while manually extracting the bullets from his own torso. Frantic, Wesley tells Angel that Cordelia has left, but Angel says he knows where she's going. Comparing notes, the two men determine that the spawn can't survive if the psychic umbilical the Haxil maintains with each of the hosts is severed. Listening to Wesley's catalogue of the Haxil beast's many strengths and few weaknesses, Angel suddenly has an idea and asks Wes if he can shoot straight. Meanwhile, Cordelia and many other women impregnated by the demon gather at an old refinery fronting the entrance to the cave where the demon resides. Dressing each other in flowing white gowns, the women slowly climb into a waist-deep pool of odoriferous liquid and stand in a circle, waiting. Wesley arrives and, reverting to Watcher mode, tries to scold Cordelia and the others out of the pool, but is interrupted by the thunderous appearance of the gigantic Haxil demon emerging from its lair. Sentient and English-speaking, the towering Haxil is about to remove Wesley and begin delivering its spawn when Angel cockily appears, rolling a huge white tank, his gift for "the baby shower," down the ramp in front of him. Hefting the tank, Angel whirls and launches it at the Haxil, who reflexively catches it. Before the Haxil can react to the liquid nitrogen label now visible, Wesley shoots a hole in the tank. The tank falls and sprays the escaping vapor over the demon, freezing it solid. In the tub, the women cry out as the spawn they've been carrying disappear with the broken psychic link. Cordelia climbs out, grabs a block and tackle from its anchor near his head, and swings the heavy missile directly at the frozen Haxil, shattering it to coldly smoking smithereens.
Two days later, Cordelia returns to the office, looking svelte and fabulous once more. She teases the boys mercilessly, then surprises and touches them both by growing sincere, letting them know how grateful she is to have two people she trusts with her life.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
Writer Tim Minear says this episode is fundamentally about "body horror." Originally, it was written in a more comedic style, but Joss Whedon insisted the writers "should play [it] straight." Minear says this episode begins to show Wesley as being "more than he appeared to be on Buffy", as well as demonstrating that the members of Angel Investigations are forming a family.[1]
Arc significance[edit]
The bonds of trust and friendship deepen significantly among Angel, Cordelia and Wesley. When the bartender at La Brea asks if Angel is "the boyfriend," Angel replies, "No. I'm family." Cordelia later asserts that she trusts Angel and Wesley unconditionally with her life.
Continuity[edit]
Cordelia becomes pregnant again in season four with Jasmine in "Apocalypse, Nowish". In between, Cordelia has a Skilosh demon spawn implanted in her head in "Epiphany" and is required to mate with the demon Groosalugg, considered hideous among his kind, to secure the succession to the throne in the Pylea demon dimension in "Through the Looking Glass".
Cordy is reluctant to introduce her dates to Angel because she doesn't want him to behave like a forbidding father and interrogate them as he did Pierce in "Bachelor Party".
This episode is the first time Dennis is seen to object to an unwelcome entity in Cordy's apartment, as well as the first time making caring gestures (e.g., offering a tissue, tucking up her covers) instead of annoying ones (e.g., sliding her soda when she's on the phone).
Having Cordelia file their problematic client, Mrs. Benson, under 'F' because she came from France also harks back to "Rm w/a Vu", where Angel despairs of Cordy's secretarial skills.
The first time Angel reacts in disgust to the sight of blood is during "I Will Remember You", while tracking the Mohra with Doyle.
Wesley proves himself a good shot during his first L.A. encounter with Angel in "Parting Gifts", when, from a difficult angle and in the heat of battle, he shoots the berserker Kungai demon with a crossbow bolt.
In the conversation between Cordelia and Angel at the end of the episode, she lists what she learned from her impregnation experience: "I learned, um, men are evil? Oh wait, I knew that. I learned that L.A.'s full of self-serving phonies? Nope, had that one down, too. Uh, sex is bad?" Angel agrees, "We all knew that", referencing the loss of his soul following sex with Buffy.
Wesley is seen to be one of the few Buffyverse protagonists to use a firearm. A penchant which steadily becomes more prevalent as the series progresses.
Cultural references[edit]
The Joker: When Cordelia accidentally smears her lipstick, she refers to the classic Batman villain.
Hugh Grant: Cordelia's friend Serena hits on Wesley, complimenting him on his "nice ax" and comparing him to the handsome British actor.
Buckingham Palace: Cordelia describes her new apartment as the home of British royalty, when compared to her old one.
Evita: When Dennis exhibits poltergeisty behavior, Cordelia threatens to punish him by playing the Madonna version of this musical around the clock.
David and Goliath: Wesley refers to this Biblical story when standing up to the Haxil demon.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 28, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 3, TimMinear.net, retrieved 2007-09-17
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"She"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 13
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
Marti Noxon
 David Greenwalt
Production code
1ADH13
Original air date
February 8, 2000
Guest actors

Bai Ling as Jhiera
Colby French as Tae
Heather Stephens as Shari
Sean Gunn as Mars
Tracey Costello as Laura
André L. Roberson as Diego
P.J. Marino as Peter Wilkers
Honor Bliss as Girl
Chris Durand as Demon Henchman #1
Alison Simpson as Demon Girl #1
Lucas Dudley as Security Guard

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"She" is episode 13 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Marti Noxon and directed by David Greenwalt, it was originally broadcast on February 8, 2000 on the WB network. In She, Angel joins forces with Jheira, a demon princess on a desperate mission to rescue enslaved women escaping from a home dimension where the men exert absolute control over the women by mutilating them with a spinal lobotomy when each comes of age. After the showdown at a health spa where Jheira has set up a sanctuary for her fellow refugees, Angel confronts the arrogant princess about her cavalier disregard for the safety of humans, specifically Cordelia and Wesley. Acknowledging each other as self-appointed champions of the helpless, the two demons achieve mutual understanding before parting ways.


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Plot[edit]
At a party in Cordelia's new apartment, Angel is feeling awkward around the women who are interested in him there. Meanwhile, a man standing watch at an ice factory hears spooky voices crying from inside the coffin-sized crate he's guarding. Believing there is someone alive and suffering inside, he breaks open the box, then stands staring in shock at its contents.
Angel offers Wesley a staff position at Angel Investigations, a move which Cordelia heartily approves. However, Cordelia suddenly receives a graphic vision of a man being burned alive from the inside at an ice factory. Since it is still daytime, Wesley drives Angel to the scene. Inside the facility, Angel finds the incinerated corpse as well as the crate he was guarding, now containing only ice. Hearing a noise from another section of the factory, Angel discovers the presence of a humanoid demon named Tae, who reveals that he is from another dimension, sent to bring back the vicious demon, a "vessel of pure rage," which has escaped from his realm into an unsuspecting L.A.
Angel finds an envelope containing an invoice for Jericho Ice and a large amount of cash. Angel is surprised by the sudden appearance of an exotic-looking female demon who effortlessly knocks him out of the way and scorches his arm. Receiving a call on her cell phone, the demon leaves hastily, pulling up her hood and climbing into her vehicle. Angel gives chase and calls Cordelia to describe the demon's appearance so she and Wesley can begin their research. Angel follows her to an art gallery but she sets museum security after him.
In a storage room at the back of the gallery, the demon stands staring into space, then turns when Angel comes in behind her. She orders him to leave but at that moment, wind and lightning and thunder spring from nowhere. A swirling portal forms, the shrieking coming from it seeming to draw rapidly closer. A naked humanoid girl drops out of the portal and hits the floor hard. As Angel pulls over a tarp to cover her, he gets a brief but clear glimpse of the girl's smooth forehead and of the raised ridges running along her upper spine. At that moment, Tae and his all-male team break into the room armed with kama weapons. The female demon and Angel battle furiously, but Tae abducts the newly arrived girl and drives away with her. Looking helplessly after the speeding vehicle, Angel asks the female demon what will happen to the girl and learns that she will be "unmade." The male demons take the frightened girl to their base where, without further ado, they use a special clamping tool to cut out the raised ridges extending down from the girl's nape to between her shoulder blades. Gone breathless with fear, the girl screams in agony at the first cut.
Back at Angel's apartment, he brings his wary guest a bandage for the shallow cut on her arm while she drapes her cardigan over a railing and takes a look around. In response to her challenge that vampires are known killers, Angel tells her he was cursed, then evades her skeptical theory that he's been "cursed to help people," focusing the inquiry on her situation instead. The exotically beautiful demon accepts Angel's invitation to tell her story and introduces herself as Jheira, a princess from the Oden Tal dimension, dedicated to helping other female refugees escape her home world to the relative safety of L.A. Jheira tells Angel that for the women of Oden Tal, the personality is located in an area of the body called the "ko," the source of their desires and passions. At this, Jheira turns her back to Angel and shows him the raised ridges running for several inches along her spine. Angel, who found Jheira attractive at first sight, is now deeply aroused by her nearness and bends his head closer to her vulnerable neck. Resisting his own desires, he listens as Jheira tells him that the men of her dimension control the women by cutting out the ko, thus removing their "physical and sexual power," their volition. "We leave behind dreaming," she tells him bleakly. Feeling herself at the center of his intense predator's focus, Jheira begins to circle Angel as she explains that young women of Oden Tal must learn to control the raw power of their maturing ko, to which men of this world respond involuntarily. She tells him of her own struggle, with the help of the frozen water, to contain the "heat under her skin." Jheira proceeds to demonstrate her power to arouse them both, as well as her iron control of that power. Angel, fighting on several levels for self-control, moves a few steps away and asks pointedly about the incinerated corpse at the ice factory, and about the other four men crisped to death over the past year. Jheira grows defensive of her manifesto and starts to storm off, but Angel blocks her path. Her power flashes to the surface and they are almost irresistibly drawn to each other—a connection lethal to Angel—until Jheira damps the intensity of her radiant heat. Telling him again to stay out of her way, she escapes, leaving him wrung out, barely able to stand.
While Angel and Jheira fight Tae's team at the art gallery, Wesley continues his research and discovers that the men of this demon species are called the Vigories of Oden Tal. Reading from an ancient volume, he tells Cordelia that the Vigories are said to be fierce warriors, and "the women live enslaved to them." Also learning that the Vigories are herbivores and must eat half their weight in partially rotted vegetation each day, Cordelia and Wesley leave the office to go looking for compost. They find Tae's team headquartered in a large plant nursery and overhear a briefing about their plans to capture Princess Jheira, cut her and take her back to Oden Tal to signal the end of all rebellion. Jheira, meanwhile, returns to the sanctuary she has created at the Palm Ridge Spa, where the other young women are being kept, rendered safe by lying in whirlpool tubs filled with ice. Jheira informs the spa's proprietor, Mars, that this sanctuary has been compromised and the girls must be moved to another, safer location. However, unaware that Tae is right on her tail, Jheira tells Mars they will leave the following day. In the meantime, unable to raise their boss by cell phone, Cordelia and Wesley barely escape detection at the Vigories' base and return to Angel's apartment both to locate him and seek his help. They find him, apparently unharmed and unconcerned, just emerging from the shower. Upon hearing their report that Tae's group plans an assault on an undisclosed location that recently started receiving large shipments of ice, Angel remembers the address listed on the invoice he lifted from Wilkers' office. Grimly determined to get there first, Angel gathers his team and heads to the Palm Ridge Spa.
Arriving at the spa, Angel leaves Cordelia and Wesley (who falls down getting out of the car) to act as lookouts. Angel brushes past Mars and, finding Jheira with the still-somnolent girls, tells her that Tae is closer behind than she thinks. At that moment, Cordelia frantically rushes in to report Tae's approach. While Cordelia and Wesley are still rousing the girls and trying to get them moving toward the back exit, Tae and his team burst in. Cordy and Wes continue with the evacuation, while Jheira and Angel engage Tae and his men in battle. The two demons manage to hold their own until Wesley and Cordelia, returning to the fight after securing the girls, are suddenly taken hostage. When presented with Tae's ultimatum to hand over the refugees or see the humans die, Jheira, hardly hesitating, says, "Then they die." As she wheels for the exit, Cordelia and Wesley seize the initiative and break away from their captors, who seem momentarily stunned at the failure of their ploy. Outside, Jheira makes her way towards the cab of the truck loaded with crates of ice-packed refugee girls. She is just steps away from freedom when two of the Vigories grab her from behind and restrain her for Tae, making sure that her ko is exposed. Jheira's nemesis holds up the cutting tool and prepares to mutilate the Princess of Oden Tal to bring her under immediate control. Appearing out of nowhere, Angel grabs Tae in a headlock and, giving him a couple of demonstrative squeezes, threatens to snap their leader's neck unless the Vigories holding Jheira release her. As soon as they do, Angel tells Jheira to get the girls to safety. Giving Angel a slight nod, she climbs into the cab of the truck and drives away. As soon as Jheira is out of sight, Angel releases Tae and tells him to go back to Oden Tal, morphing into vamp face to let the Vigories know he can make good on his promise of mayhem if they continue their war in this dimension.
The next day, Angel arrives in the office first and squeezes a bag of whole coffee beans to test Cordelia's theory that he can effectively grind the coffee with his "vampire strength." The bag bursts, scattering coffee beans everywhere, just as Cordelia and Wesley come in the front door. Wesley immediately slips and falls, then starts to sweep the beans up with his bare hands, apologizing distractedly for making a mess. In what appears to be a natural segue for him, Wesley also apologizes, as he carefully regains his feet, for being taken hostage by Tae's men. Angel tries to reassure his friend and compliments him on a job well done, which prompts Wesley, in turn, to express his sincere regard for Angel. Cordelia is just teasing Wesley for turning groveling into an art, when Jheira walks in. Cordelia opens verbal fire on the warrior demon, asking if they can offer her anything, such as a couple of hostages to let die. Angel firmly shows Jheira into his office and closes the door. After ascertaining that the other women are safe, away from the city, Angel again tells Jheira that he'll stop her if she crosses the line and endangers people of his world while trying to protect people from hers. The sexual and political tension thick between them, Jheira looks at Angel, then agrees with his terms. She hesitates, clearly torn, clearly having found a "desirable mate," and Angel grows even more breathless. With the harsh discipline of an abnegation as rigid and as necessary as Angel's, Jheira turns toward the door, away from the object of her desire. As she walks away from him, Angel sees what he has already inescapably sensed—Jheira's ko glows red hot. Raging desire at war with self-preservation, Angel stands desperately immobile until She is out of range.
During the credit section, there is an amusing clip of Angel and Wesley dancing.
Acting[edit]
Bai Ling, who played Jheira, said of her character:
“ [She's] so cool. She seduced Angel, and yet she's very dangerous and independent. She's got all those things that a modern woman wants, yet she's a princess. She has her own duty to do good things for the people in her land. She's got all this complexity and beauty.[1] ”
According to Ling, the character was once considered for a return:
“ After that episode aired, David [Greenwalt] called me. They were so pleased by it, they wanted me to come back. I'd very much like to go back to Angel, because we all had a great time, and they loved the character. I don't know what the schedule is; I guess they're still working on it, so we're gonna talk about it when it is ready. I'm looking forward to contributing something.[2] ”
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Writer Tim Minear had originally put the dance David Boreanaz performs in his imagination into "Sense & Sensitivity" but removed it on Joss Whedon's request; "Plus," Minear says, "we wanted to save it until it was just right. Here's this guy who looks like this, and he's a complete social retard. I think we've had a lot of success playing that aspect of the character."[3] Instead of the black screen, the ending credits are superimposed over a reprise of Angel's and Wesley's dance routines.
Arc significance[edit]
In this episode, Wesley becomes an official member of Angel Investigations.
This episode holds the first mention of portals, which become highly important in many of the following seasons.
Continuity[edit]
Steve Paymer, who in "Rm w/a Vu" is actor David Paymer's brother, graces Cordelia's party with his (unseen) presence.
This is the second guest appearance for Sean Gunn, who played Lucas in "Hero".
Cultural references[edit]
Jheira's mission is an allusion to ending Female Genital Mutilation because women in some societies undergo the procedure to make them marriageable. Women on and off screen are having the source of sexual arousal removed to 'control' their behavior and ultimately them. When they first meet, Jheira is skeptical that Angel will understand or even care about her mission because he is a man. The source of his sexual pleasure is not being removed by his culture.
Carrie: Cordelia asks whether the attractive "hottie" demon "Carries" Angel when they first meet. Carrie's main power is telekenesis, which Jheira also exhibits when threatened.
Édouard Manet: Going under cover as a museum guide, Angel gives a professional exegesis on one of this French painter's most famous works, which he refers to as "La Musique".
Charles Baudelaire: Angel implies that Angelus is the eponymous demon of "Le Vampire", published by this French poet in Les Fleurs du mal in 1857.
Neiman Marcus: Cordelia's wish fulfillment dreams feature high-end department stores having going-out-of-business sales.
Nancy Mitford: On the hunt for "the world's biggest compost heap" at the plant nursery with Cordelia, Wesley is distracted by a flower he calls Nancy's Petticoat.
Namaste: Mars gently chides Jheira for her abruptness, using this more courteous greeting, one of whose meanings is, "I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Truth, of Light and of Peace, When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One."[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Springer, Matt, "Some Like it Hot", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #17 (UK, February 2001), page 19.
2.Jump up ^ Springer, Matt, "Some Like it Hot", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #17 (UK, February 2001), page 20.
3.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 28, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 3, TimMinear.net, retrieved 2007-09-17
4.Jump up ^ "Atlantis Rising".
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I've Got You Under My Skin (Angel)
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"I've Got You Under My Skin"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 14
Directed by
R.D. Price
Teleplay by
Jeannine Renshaw
Story by
Jeannine Renshaw
David Greenwalt

Production code
1ADH14
Original air date
February 15, 2000
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Will Kempe as Seth Anderson
Katy Boyer as Paige Anderson
Anthony Cistaro as Ethros Demon
Jesse James as Ryan Anderson
Ashley Edner as Stephanie Anderson
Patience Cleveland as Nun
Jerry Lambert as Rick the Clerk

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"I've Got You Under My Skin" is episode 14 of season one in the television show Angel. Just as Cordelia succeeds at opening Angel up about Doyle and the events surrounding his death, she suffers a vision about an ancient Ethros demon, which turns out to have been possessing a young boy, Ryan Anderson, for years. Angel, Wesley and Cordelia perform an exorcism that expels the demon from the child, but it escapes the trap they set and roams free to possess once more. Even worse, they learn that the mass-murdering Ethros demon does not pose the biggest threat to the Anderson family's well-being.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production 2.1 Writing
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Cordelia finally gets Angel to talk about Doyle's death when she suddenly has a vision. Angel and Wesley go to the envisioned house in the suburbs when a boy named Ryan from the house walks out onto the street. Angel saves him from an oncoming car, and he talks with the parents, Paige and Seth. Noticing that something is off but not sure what is going on, Angel takes advantage of Paige's overflowing gratitude and takes her up on a dinner invitation about which Seth clearly disapproves. Outside, Wesley finds glowing goo called "plakticine" (similar to ectoplasm) oozing from the foundation all around the house and they realize someone in the house is possessed by a powerful mass-murdering Ethros demon. Angel suspects the father, but the only way to be sure which family member is possessed is to have each ingest eucalyptus powder, which will force the demon to manifest. They mix the powder with brownies that Angel brings to dinner, where Angel watches Seth carefully and it isn't until the daughter Stephanie screams that he sees the demon horrifically manifesting in Ryan before the boy falls unconscious. Paige is frantic and accuses Angel of poisoning her son, but Seth supports Angel, reminding Paige that something has been truly wrong with the boy since long before Angel's advent. They agree to attempt an exorcism and take the boy and his parents back to Angel's place for preparations.
Cordelia establishes a magic circle of protection around the bed to bind Ryan there. Stressing that Ryan is not himself anymore, Angel warns Seth and Paige, particularly Paige, that they risk being killed if they break the barrier or go anywhere near the boy. Angel and Wesley try to make contact with the priest reputed to be professionally trained to perform exorcisms but find that he has died and they must attempt the exorcism themselves. Meanwhile, Ryan has seemingly regained consciousness and commences tormenting Paige with guilt at leaving him abandoned and alone in the dark. Her resolve breaks, and when she rushes to his side he begins strangling her; after a tense few minutes, Wesley and Angel rush into the bedroom and manage to pull Paige from Ryan's choke hold, but their efforts send the demon deeper, and the boy again lapses into unconsciousness. Upon learning from Cordelia's research that expelling the demon will send him to the nearest "warm body", Angel sends her to procure an Ethros box from Rick's Magick & Stuff, which is supposed to hold the Ethros demon. Rick's, however, does not have an Ethros Box, so Cordelia instead buys a box intended for another type of demon. While Cordelia shops, Wesley attempts the exorcism. He manages to raise the demon far enough to animate the boy once more, and the Ethros cruelly taunts him about his inadequacies as a youth and as a Watcher until Wesley grows visibly more distracted and vulnerable. He fails. Someone or something telekinetically uses marbles on the table to write the words, "Save me". The demon taunts Angel and he wraps his hand with a length of cloth, grabs the cross and Wesley's small volume of incantations, and strides into the bedroom. Holding the cross pressed to Ryan's chest, Angel ignores the pain of his hand sizzling through the protective layers and begins to chant, his voice growing louder and more commanding as he repeats the ritual phrases until, finally, he shouts, "Now get the hell out!" With an invisible rush, the demon is expelled from the boy, but the box Cordelia bought is unable to contain the demon's energy and shatters.
Some time later, after sending the Andersons home, the AI team tries to determine the demon's current whereabouts. They realize the Ethros demon will need to take corporeal form to recharge itself after expending so much energy to escape. Leaving Cordelia behind, Welsey and Angel search the sea caves and find the Ethros demon. They are surprised when the evil being reveals that the boy Ryan is not pure or innocent, but a sociopath - totally chaotic, amoral and soulless inside. The demon had been inside the boy, but unable to manifest because of Ryan's naturally evil personality until Ryan ate Angel's brownies. They realize that the "save me" message was from the demon, and the boy walking in front of the car on the first night was the demon sleepwalking Ryan to kill him. Angel kills the demon swiftly, and he and Wesley realize that the Andersons are in even greater danger now that they believe themselves safe at last.
That night in the Andersons' home after everyone is asleep, Ryan, his door unlocked for the first time in a long time, steals matches from Seth's bedstand, then chocks his parents' door shut with a toy block. Ignoring his now awake parents as they struggle to open the door, the boy sloshes gasoline over his sister's toys and furniture, then lights a match and tosses it down. The room ignites with a whoosh, cutting Stephanie off from the door by a wall of flame. Seth and Paige finally burst out and find Ryan staring entranced at the roaring flames while Stephanie screams from behind them. Angel suddenly crashes through the window opposite and scoops Stephanie into his arms as Wesley hustles Ryan and his parents down the hall to safety. A little while later, Angel and Seth stand outside while firemen contain the blaze. Behind Seth, Paige and Stephanie huddle together near the front door. Detective Kate Lockley comes over to inform Seth that Social Services is taking custody of Ryan, and that they can see him in the morning, but that there won't be anything to report until after the evaluation. Angel redirects Seth's attention from the son he cannot save to the wife and daughter he has already protected. Almost imperceptibly nodding his thanks, Seth turns to embrace his welcoming family. Angel makes his own way out to the sidewalk.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
This was "one of the very early scripts that we wrote before Doyle was killed," says writer Tim Minear. He struggled with the story until coming up with the idea that Angel should accidentally call Wesley "Doyle", which gave the script a cohesive theme about the pain of losing a family member. At the end of the episode Seth Anderson loses his son, and at the beginning Angel has lost someone like a son; Minear says both are "desperately trying to keep their family together, and through no fault of their own, they can't."[1]
Joss Whedon came up with the twist that Ryan Anderson was more evil than the demon who possessed him. He also cut the priest who, in the first draft of the script, performed the exorcism. Whedon questioned why Wesley couldn't perform the ritual, and Minear says, "Suddenly it makes perfect sense, because Angel's problem at the beginning of the story is, 'I let Doyle die... because he did something that I couldn't do.' Now you have Wesley saying, 'I can perform this exorcism; you can't.'" When Angel later saves Wesley's life, Minear says "he's sort of atoning for the Doyle thing."[1]
Continuity[edit]
Cordelia squabbling in the kitchen with a coworker-turned-friend is so reminiscent of past episodes (e.g., "Rm w/a Vu"), that Angel actually calls Wesley 'Doyle.'
When Ethros speaks with Doyle's voice, he refers to events in "Hero", also discussed earlier the previous day by Cordelia and Angel.
Just as he indicates to Cordelia at the end of "Somnambulist", Angel here tells Wesley that being prepared to kill Angelus is a good thing.
Angel and Wesley each seem to possess a double-bladed Bavarian fighting axe. Cordelia asks Buffy about Angel's in "I Will Remember You" when, believing Angel Investigations is closing its doors forever, she begins tagging items for inventory. Wesley brings his new one into the office in "Expecting", prompting Cordelia's friend Serena to remark, "nice ax."
When Angel, Cordelia and Wesley initially suspect that the father is the possessed person, Wesley says that a father "doesn't need to be possessed to terrorize his children," then quickly stops talking. This is one of the earliest hints at Wesley's issues with his own father.
Cultural references[edit]
I've Got You Under My Skin: This episode shares its title with a song that became a signature of Frank Sinatra.
Lizzie Borden: When Wesley mentions the famous Massachusetts woman accused of murdering her parents with an axe, Angel explains that the Ethros demon possessing her was only an adolescent.
The Exorcist: During the discussion about how to determine which Anderson family member is possessed, Cordelia asks if the demon will manifest by spinning its host's head around. Later, she asks whether Angel wants to protect his bedroom floor, in case there's "any big vomiting." These phrases both refer to the film The Exorcist. (Incidentally, Cordelia previously referred to The Exorcist in "I Only Have Eyes for You".)
Thighmaster: When Angel cites Wesley's lack of resistance even to sales suggestion, Wesley protests that his second Thighmaster was a free gift.
Blessed be: Rick the Clerk's greeting to Cordelia is a common Wiccan greeting.
Nestlé Bunny: Paige tries to coax Ryan out of his sulk by invoking this advertising mascot.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Gross, Edward (August 28, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 3, TimMinear.net, retrieved 2007-09-17
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The Prodigal (Angel)
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"The Prodigal"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 15
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
Tim Minear
Production code
1ADH15
Original air date
February 22, 2000
Guest actors

Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Julie Benz as Darla
John Mahon as Trevor Lockley
J. Kenneth Campbell as Liam's Father
Henri Lubatti as Head Vampire Employee
Frank Potter as Uniformed Delivery
Eliza Szonert as Chambermaid
Bob Fimiani as Groundskeeper
Christina Hendricks as Barmaid
John Maynarnd as Uniformed Worker
Glenda Morgan Brown as Liam's Mother
Mark Ginther as Head Demon Guy
John Patrick Clerkin as Black-robed Priest
Mike Vendrell as Suit #2

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"The Prodigal" is episode 15 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and directed by Bruce Seth Green, it was originally broadcast on February 22, 2000 on the WB network. In this episode, Detective Kate Lockely learns her father has been spending his retirement as a mule for a syndicate of demon drug-runners. In response to investigative pressure from Angel, the demon drug lord orders Kate's father killed. Flashbacks show the human Angel struggling with his own father in 1753, incorporating scenes first shown in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Becoming (Part 1)", and remind viewers that Angelus killed his family after being turned into a vampire by Darla.


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1 Plot
2 Production details 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
In a flashback to Galway, Ireland, 1753, Angel - at that point, still human and known as "Liam" - is fighting with his father. Enraged by his son's chronic recklessness and current mocking demeanor, Liam's father slaps his son in the face, shouting that he'll always be a layabout and a scoundrel. In the present, Angel is fighting a demon that is dressed like a homeless person on the train tracks in an L.A. subway tunnel. As Detective Kate Lockley arrives on the scene, the demon clutches its chest, sinks to the ground and expires. Forced again to deal with L.A.'s dark side and Angel's place in it, Kate ironically wonders whether she should call the coroner or Hazardous Materials, while Angel tries to convince her not to report the supernatural aspects of this case. Later, as an officer interviews the Blue Circle courier who pulled the emergency cord after allegedly being attacked by "your average Joe-stink homeless guy," Angel's instincts are immediately aroused when he spots Kate's dad, retired police detective Trevor Lockley, take a package from the crime scene.
At Angel Investigations, Angel identifies the demon in one of Wesley's reference books as a Kwaini demon, an inherently non-violent race. Angel visits Kate at the precinct, but as he explains that something must have set off the Kwaini demon in the subway, Kate interrupts, preferring that he say "evil thing" instead of "demon." He is unable to convince Kate that the demon she saw dead in the subway is not an evil evil thing. Kate is reluctant to admit that his news means that this case is not as routine as they initially believed. The AI team splits up to pursue their two leads. Angel, suspicious that the Blue Circle courier was on a train during his shift, follows him to an apartment building, where Trevor Lockley opens the door to the courier's knock and shoves a brown-wrapped package into the man's hands. Once the courier leaves, Angel confronts Trevor about the exchange, theorizing Trevor was returning the parcel he removed from the crime scene that morning. Intending to discover who Trevor is working for, Angel gives Kate's father a chance to come clean so they can take care of the problem without further police involvement. Taking umbrage at Angel's angry implication that he cares nothing for his daughter, Trevor tells Angel that he can't possibly interpret a father's actions, and slams the door in his face. After locating the Kwaini's body in the subway tunnel, Wesley performs an autopsy which reveals the demon was on drugs, and attacked the train because someone on board had more of the drug.
In Galway, Liam tearfully bids goodbye to his mother and younger sister, and exchanges more harsh words with his father. Making his way back to the pub, Liam spends the remainder of the day carousing wildly. An elegantly dressed Darla watches in fascination as a very drunk Liam brawls with beautiful abandon, besting several men in quick succession. That night, luring the vulnerable young man into a dark alley with promises of exotic experiences and places, Darla sires Liam, first biting him, then drawing her own blood for him to drink in turn. That night, Liam rises from his grave and is greeted by Darla. She watches as he morphs and kills his first human. Liam adopts the vampiric name 'Angelus' when his younger sister sees him coming home and mistakes him for an angel. Angelus subsequently kills the entire population of his village, including his sister, mother, and father.
Two men in suits visit Trevor Lockley to make sure he hasn't said anything to his daughter. Angel arrives to warn Trevor of the danger in which he's involved, but before he can convince Mr. Lockley to invite him inside, the men in suits reveal themselves as vampires and kill Trevor. Kate arrives and finds her father dead. She trails the vampires to the demon drug lord's base, then stakes the vampire who killed her father. Angel shows up and helps her fight and kill the remaining vampires and finally chops off the head of the lead demon. Kate walks away, saying that Angel doesn't know anything about losing a human father. Back in Angel's past, Darla finds that Angelus has killed all of his family. She reminds him that even though his father is dead, his memory will always haunt him. Kate visits her father's grave while Angel watches from the safety of the shadows.
Production details[edit]
When Angelus rises from the grave, his breath (and Darla's) is clearly visible. Because vampires have no body heat, they are always at air temperature. Without a temperature differential, vapor cannot condense. Producer Tim Minear explains it was cold while they filmed this scene, shot on location at Hollywood Forever Cemetery behind Paramount Pictures, and there wasn't a large enough budget to remove the actors' breath digitally.[1]
Arc significance[edit]
This is the first appearance of Darla (Julie Benz) on Angel. Darla will become a key figure in the series, beginning with "To Shanshu in L.A.".
Continuity[edit]
Before Kate questions the delivery guy witness, Angel tells her, "People have a way of seeing what they need to." This recalls Giles' response to Xander's shock, near the end of the season one Buffy episode, "The Harvest", regarding the lack of public reaction after the previous night's showdown with the Master's minions at The Bronze. Giles tells the three friends, "People have a tendency to rationalize what they can and forget what they can't."
In the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it is repeatedly asserted that a vampire is an entirely different being from the person it once was. However, this episode reveals that a vampire may still be bound by things that it wanted as a human. The idea that a vampire is influenced by its previous persona is implied in the Buffy season 3 episode "Doppelgangland", where Angel begins to explain that a vampire's personality is relevant to who it used to be before being stopped by Buffy, and in the Season Seven episode "Lies My Parents Told Me" when Spike, who had been sired by Drusilla only days earlier, sires his mother because she is terminally ill.
While not made explicitly clear, a line from Cordelia Chase suggests that her birthday is in eleven and a half months as of this episode. This was suggested in the scene in which Cordelia and Angel discuss a passcode for the new security system, and that the installer recommended using Cordelia's birth date, which Angel did not know and had apparently missed two weeks earlier.
Cultural references[edit]
PCP: When Wesley tells Angel that the "metaphysical" demon version of this street drug enhances a non-violent Kwaini's strength by a factor of twenty, Angel immediately wonders what effect it would have on an already strong battle demon.
West Hollywood: Kate's father tries to guess what's "wrong" with the "tall, good looking" guy she brought to the retirement party, alluding to the city's homosexual population.
Fools rush in: Wesley uses this phrase from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, Part 4, retrieved 2007-09-27
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"The Ring"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 16
Directed by
Nick Marck
Written by
Howard Gordon
Production code
1ADH16
Original air date
February 29, 2000
Guest actors

Markus Redmond as Tom Cribb
Douglas Roberts as Darin McNamara
Scott William Winters as Jack McNamara
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Anthony Guidera as Ernie Nellins
Chris Flanders as Mr. Winslow
Marc Rose as Mellish
David Kallaway as Doorman
Juan A. Riojas as Val Trepkos
Michael Philip as Announcer
Mark Ginther as Lasovic

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"The Ring" is episode 16 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Howard Gordon and directed by Nick Marck, it was originally broadcast on February 29, 2000 on the WB television network. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series.[1] In this episode, Angel is captured and enslaved in a fighting club, and must fight his way to freedom, or rely on Cordelia Chase and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce to save him.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production 2.1 Continuity
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
As Cordelia and Wesley bicker while using a new demon database, Darin MacNamara stumbles into the Angel Investigations office, saying his brother Jack was kidnapped the previous night by a group that was not "exactly people". Darin tells Angel he and his brother were not close, since Jack wasn’t as successful as Darin. Jack had a gambling problem and, though Darin had paid off bookies for him in the past, had recently refused to help him again. He felt guilty afterwards and went to Jack’s place in time to see the non-people taking him away. Angel goes to find Ernie, the bookie Darin wouldn’t pay off, and interrupts his poker game to try to get information. He promises that Darin will pay off Jack’s debts, but Ernie says it’s no longer about money, but about making an example out of Jack. Angel offers him some money and learns that Jack may be somewhere under Beechwood Canyon. Cordelia and Wesley search the demon database with the information Darin gave them about the demon who took Jack. Wesley argues that by the time Cordelia finds the demon on the computer he could find it in his book, but Cordelia proves him wrong, producing a Howler demon.
Angel heads into a sewer under Beechwood Canyon and is attacked by Howler demons. He asks one of them where Jack is and is told that he was sold. A number of people in fancy clothes gather in a run-down neighborhood and head into a building. Angel sneaks in through the basement and looks at a women's ticket. In another room, two demons are fighting each other in a pit. One of the demons is knocked down and the crowd chants, “Killing blow!” A man nearby tosses a knife to the other demon, who slits the other's throat. The crowd cheers and the demon, Tom Cribb, is pronounced the winner. The next demon up, Val Trepkos, is announced as Angel spots Jack being led through the crowd. He follows them down a corridor, where they meet up with Darin. Darin warns Jack to be wary of Angel, since he managed to defeat the Howler demons. Angel realizes that he was set up and tries to fight off the guys, who are attempting to check him over, until cattle prods render him unconscious. Jack announces that Angel will be “a crowd-pleaser.” Angel awakens later to find himself with his jacket and shirt off, in a cage, surrounded by other demons in cages. He has a silver bracelet on his wrist that reads “XXI”, which he learns keeps him imprisoned. He tries to converse with his fellow captives but they don’t appear to speak English. Jack tells the “slaves” that the only rule is that they stay inside the red area marked off around the cages. They can only get out of the red area when their bracelets are removed, and that only happens after their 21st kill. Angel refuses to kill anyone and Jack replies that in that case, he’ll be the one killed.
The next day, Wesley calls Kate and is disappointed to learn that she doesn’t know where Angel is. Cordelia is also worried that they can’t reach Darin. Angel’s fellow slaves are served food as they all engage in a little macho prison-guy talk. One of the demons, Mellish, warns Angel not to disturb things or he’ll get himself killed. One of the demons tries to escape, but when he crosses the red line, he disintegrates, leaving only his bracelet behind. Angel is chosen as his replacement for a fight. Wesley interrupts Ernie while he’s beating someone up, but Ernie won’t give him any information without being paid. Ernie draws a gun but Wesley shoots the gun out of his hand with a crossbow bolt, intimidating Ernie’s goons into dropping their own guns and allowing Wesley to ask Ernie where Angel is. While the fights are starting up that night, the woman whose ticket Angel looked at the night before talks to Darin about Angel. She mentions that he has a soul and wonders if this will give him an advantage in the ring. One of the demons tries to give Angel pointers for his fight, but Angel says that he’s not going to kill him. The other demon tells him that he doesn’t have a choice. Angel and his opponent enter the ring, and Cribb, the demon who fought the previous night, notes that Angel isn’t even fighting. Cordelia and Wesley arrive at the arena, dressed up in fancy clothes. They realize too late that they’ve forgotten their fake police badge, but Cordelia approaches a couple anyway, introducing herself as Detective Andrews and Wesley as Detective Yelsew (Wesley backwards). Wesley flashes his wallet instead of a badge and Cordelia tells him to take down the couple’s license plate number. She checks the couple’s tickets and tells them that they’re for an unlicensed event. Wesley warns that a raid is going to happen there tonight, so the couple decides to leave, leaving Cordelia and Wesley their tickets.
Inside, Baker beats on Angel, who still won’t fight back. Cordelia and Wesley enter, spotting Darin, who’s holding a bracelet. Wesley notes that these demon matches have been revived from the Roman Empire and that the bracelets kill people if they’re wearing them when they cross the red line. Darin puts the bracelet down and gestures for a guard to drop a knife into the pit. Baker picks the knife up, cutting Angel’s arm with it. Angel morphs into vamp face and the crowd chants, “Killing blow!” Angel defends himself from a few more hits, then stabs Baker in the chest with the knife. Once Baker is dead, the announcer says that Angel has made his first career kill. Angel heads back to join the other demons as Jack announces that it’s time for a match between Trepkos and (expected loser) Mellish. Angel tells Trepkos that if he and Mellish don’t fight, neither of them will die. Cribb tells Angel that he’s not an expert just because he’s made one kill; Angel replies that that wasn’t his first kill. Angel tells Trepkos that they can fight their captors if they stop killing each other. Trepkos instead says that he’ll kill Mellish quickly, a decision which pleases Jack. Once they’re in the ring, Trepkos fulfills his promise. Outside the building, Cordelia tells Wesley that they need to call the police, but he thinks that Darin will destroy the evidence before anything can happen. Cordelia realizes that he would kill the demons and says that they need to get Angel out, which entails getting his bracelet off. Wesley thinks that, if he can get a bracelet, he’ll be able to figure out how to forge a magical key to release other bracelets. Cordelia reveals that she swiped a bracelet when he wasn’t looking.
When Jack congratulates Angel on his victory, calling him "a demon like the others", Angel grabs Jack and pulls him close to the red line. He asks Jack how to remove the bracelet and asks the demons to check Jack’s pockets for a key; they won’t help him. Darin enters with his guards and Angel agrees to let Jack go when he and the other demons are released. Darin pulls out a gun and calmly shoots Jack, and the guards again knock out Angel with cattle prods. He wakes up in the office of Lilah Morgan, the woman he and Darin both talked to earlier. She introduces herself as a lawyer working for Wolfram & Hart, and explains that she persuaded Darin to sell his contract to “the partners”. She tells him that he’s free to go, provided he pretend the fighting never happened; after all, Lilah points out, there are a lot of people for him to help in L.A. Angel refuses to compromise, and willingly returns to the arena, where the other demons call him crazy for returning. Darin snaps Angel’s bracelet back on and tells him that he’s fighting Trepkos next; if Trepkos wins, Angel will be his 21st kill. Wesley messes around with the bracelet, trying to find something that will conduct electricity. Cordelia provides Wesley with a horsehair bracelet (“from Keanu, my palomino, before the IRS took him away”) which does exactly what he needs it to do to the silver bracelet. Back at the arena, Lilah places a $10,000 bet on Trepkos.
Angel and Trepkos enter the ring, where Angel tells Trepkos that even if he kills 21 demons, he will always be a slave. Trepkos says that he’ll kill him quickly and Angel replies that he won’t let him. The fight begins and, again, Angel defends himself. Cordelia distracts a guard so that Wesley can get to the slaves’ quarters. He asks Cribb where Angel is and is told that he’ll be dead soon. Wesley announces that he has a key to open all of the demon’s bracelets and Cribb grabs it from him. A guard drops wooden staffs into the pit and Trepkos charges Angel with one of them. Wesley returns to Cordelia and tells her that someone took his key. The fighting continues and Angel gets part of Trepkos’ staff, holding it to his throat. Cribb unlocks his bracelet, watching as Angel starts to walk away from the fight, then get overtaken by Trepkos. The crowd encourages Trepkos to kill Angel, but Trepkos decides not to. Darin sends guards after both of them, but Wesley pulls out a gun and tells Darin to stop the guards. Cribb and the other demons storm the arena and Wesley and Darin start fighting over the gun. The demons and guards face off and Cribb unlocks Angel’s bracelet, calling him a loser. The spectators all leave the arena. Darin is about to shoot Wesley when Cordelia pushes him into the pit. Darin points the gun at Trepkos and blasts him for not killing Angel when it would have set him free. Cribb puts a bracelet on Darin’s wrist. Darin is thrown out of the red circle and disintegrates. Cribb unlocks Trepkos’ bracelet and Angel and Trepkos congratulate each other on a good fight. “I could have taken you,” Angel claims. Cordelia and Wesley help Angel out of the building and he thanks them for finding him before it was too late. Cordelia says that Wesley was the one who figured out how to make the key, and Wesley says that she was the one who figured out that horsehair would work. Angel says that they did good work, even though, as Cordelia points out, they released a bunch of demons.
Production[edit]
This episode marks the first appearance of Lilah Morgan, who is a recurring character for the next three seasons.
Producer Tim Minear comments on the contradiction exhibited by Wolfram & Hart in this episode: they offer to free Angel provided he forget what he knows, yet later hire an assassin to kill him in "Five by Five". "At the point Faith was involved, they wanted him dead, but not now," he says. "I think if you have a little patience, it will all make sense."[2]
Continuity[edit]
When Cordelia is browsing the demon database, Wesley asks her if they have "the Vagaries of Oden Tal." This is a reference to the main antagonists of the episode "She".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Past Winners Database: 1999-2000 52nd Emmy Awards", The Envelope: The Ultimate Awards Site (Los Angeles Times), retrieved 9/10/2007 [dead link]
2.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, Part 4, retrieved 2007-09-27
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Eternity (Angel)
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"Eternity"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 17
Directed by
Regis Kimble
Written by
Tracey Stern
Production code
1ADH17
Original air date
April 4, 2000
Guest actors

Tamara Gorski as Rebecca Lowell
Michael Mantell as Oliver Simon
Robin Meyers as Masseuse

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"Eternity" is episode 17 of season 1 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB television network. In this episode, Angel acts as a bodyguard to a fading actress named Rebecca. When she discovers Angel is a vampire, she begs him to make her eternally young as well - after first slipping him a drug to make him more agreeable to her request. However, the drug-induced euphoria reverts Angel to evil Angelus, and he almost kills Rebecca before Wesley and Cordelia arrive to knock him unconscious.


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1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Production details 3.1 Writing
3.2 Arc significance
3.3 Cultural references
4 Reception and reviews
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
While attending a play with Cordelia as one of the stars, Angel and Wesley – trapped in the audience – are subjected to Cordelia's minimal acting talent. While leaving the play, they spot a famous actress, Rebecca Lowell, crossing the street. Angel rushes to save her from a car that purposely tries to run her over. Oliver, a producer that represents Rebecca, offers to pay Angel, but he doesn't want a reward.
The papers report on the rescue, but Angel pretends not to care when he is not mentioned. Rebecca shows up at the office the next day, and asks for his help with a stalker fan. Her career is on the rocks, and she'd feel safer if Angel would take care of this case. Cordelia is upset that Angel refused to take the case, and begs Angel to give it a chance so that she can have a jump-start into the life of fame. After a party, Rebecca's stalker shows up on her property, but Angel breaks through a window – having been invited earlier by Rebecca to "drop by any time" – and fights the masked stalker.
Rebecca looks at a mirror and realizes Angel doesn't have a reflection; correctly guessing he is a vampire, she is intrigued rather than scared. That night, Angel attends a premiere with Rebecca, standing as her bodyguard. As they leave, an attacker pulls a gun on them, and Angel fights him off. Rebecca recognizes the attacker as a stunt man and realizes that Oliver set up the stalker for publicity, as her career is in danger as she grows older. She realizes that she won't be able to stay young forever, but Angel's immortality suddenly gives her another option.
After discovering the bullets were blanks, Wesley and Angel conclude that it wasn't a real attack. Rebecca and Cordelia go shopping together, and Cordelia helps Rebecca pick out a bottle of champagne for Angel. That night, while sipping champagne, Rebecca "accidentally" spills some on Angel and he has to go change his shirt. She slips a drug, later revealed to be "doximal", a euphoric, into his drink and they toast and drink when he returns.
Cordelia confesses to Wesley that she told Rebecca all about Angel and how one could become a vampire by him. As the drug takes effect, Rebecca tries to convince Angel to make her a vampire. Angel says she doesn't realize what she's asking of him, and in a sudden burst of rage, he sprays blood into her mouth so she can taste what she's getting into. Angel, realizing something is wrong, asks Rebecca what she has done. She confesses that she slipped a happy pill into his drink hoping that it would make Angel relax. Instead, the pill has given him the feeling of "perfect happiness." No longer Angel, Angelus attacks Rebecca, but she manages to escape through the elevator. Upstairs, she runs into Cordelia and Wesley and reveals to them what she has done. Meanwhile, Angelus goes outside and cuts the power and phones.
In the office, Angelus confronts Rebecca and his two employees. He mocks Wesley for being inadequate, then tells Cordelia how bad she was in the play. She threatens him with water, trying to convince him that it's holy water. The water temporarily stuns him when it hits him, allowing Wesley to knock him down into the elevator shaft. Angel wakes up, chained to his bed, feeling horrible about the things he said. Cordelia reluctantly forgives him, but leaves Angel chained to the bed.
Trivia[edit]
Oliver Simon, Rebecca's manager, was seen in a brief and uncredited appearance in the series pilot "City Of." at Margo's party as the manager who gives Angel his card and disclaims any effort at a come-on.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Originally, Angel was envisioned as being an anthology, with the client of the week providing the emotional center for each episode. However, as the first season progressed, the writers began to concentrate on the emotional interplay between the main characters instead. As producer Tim Minear explains, "You can have an interesting plot and an interesting client, but it's difficult to create sympathy for someone you're introducing for one episode." This episode at first presents events from the guest character's point of view, but "if you look at how the episode ended up," Minear says, "it's really about our core people, and by the end of the episode the client's gone. There's not even a wrap up scene at the end with the actress. It's all about Angel being chained to the bed and Cordelia not untying him." In the first versions of the script, the emotional focus remained on Rebecca for the entire episode, until creator Joss Whedon decided to add the element of Angel going bad. "If that episode had gone before the cameras earlier in the rotation, I think you would have probably seen a different ending, with more emphasis placed on the actress and her problem than on Angel," Minear says.[1]
This episode demonstrates that the "moment of perfect happiness" that triggers Angel's curse does not have to be sexual. As Wesley points out, Angel became Angelus in the episode "Surprise" not because he had sex, but because he was with Buffy. "It is a very fine line that he walks," Minear says. "And if he goes a little bit too far, there is the danger that he will destroy the very people he's connecting with."[2]
Arc significance[edit]
This marks the first reappearance of Angelus in the present time since the Buffy episode "Becoming, Part Two". This episode stirs up the feeling among Cordelia and Wesley that Angel's soul is a very fragile thing and he could turn on them at any time. This aspect of mistrust plays heavily in season 2.
This is the first time on Angel that Cordelia is shown to have decent acting skills when necessary, as is seen when she convinces Angelus she is holding holy water.
Cultural references[edit]
A Doll's House: The play in which Cordelia stars at the beginning of this episode is by Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. Cordelia is playing Nora Helmer, the female lead. The scene shown is from the first act.
Dracula: At one point, Rebecca says, "Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman... they're vampires", to which Angel replies, "I thought Frank Langella was the only performance I believed..." They refer to three actors who have played Dracula, Lugosi in Dracula in 1931, Langella in 1979's Dracula and Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.
Reception and reviews[edit]
Minear says, "I know there was a lot of criticism on the Internet about the way he went bad, and did he really go bad?" However, he feels the drug was a good plot device to bring Angelus into the series "so that he could interact with our characters without doing some big ‘Angel has turned evil’ arc. You sort of get to have your cake and eat it too in that episode." He adds, "I saw some criticism about Cordelia reacting too Cordelia-like in the first half of the episode with her star-struckness. But that would be her."[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 14, 2000), "ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear", TimMinear.net, retrieved 10-04-2007
2.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (August 28, 2000), "ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 3", TimMinear.net, retrieved 2007-09-17
3.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (September 26, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 4, retrieved 2007-10-15
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Five by Five (Angel)
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"Five by Five"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 18
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Jim Kouf
Production code
1ADH18
Original air date
April 25, 2000
Guest actors

Julie Benz as Darla
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Thomas Burr as Lee Mercer
Tyler Christopher as Bret Folger
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Rainbow Borden as Marquez
Francis Fallon as Dick
Adrienne Janic as Attractive Girl
Rodrick Fox as Assistant DA
Thor Edgell as Romanian Man
Jennifer Slimko as Romanian Woman

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"Five by Five" is episode 18 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Jim Kouf and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on April 25, 2000 on the WB network. In "Five by Five", guest star Eliza Dushku makes her first appearance on Angel as rogue Slayer Faith, hired by Wolfram & Hart to assassinate Angel in exchange for getting all criminal charges against her back in Sunnydale dropped. Though Faith agrees, it eventually becomes clear to Angel that she has plans of her own.


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3.4 Music
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Faith arrives in Los Angeles after fleeing Sunnydale following the events of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Who Are You". She goes to a nightclub, where she wildly dances to the pounding music until a girl objects to Faith dancing with her boyfriend; Faith nonchalantly elbows her in the face. The boyfriend flips instantly from lust to fury and takes a swing at Faith, who slams him into a group of people across the room, sparking an instant melee. Faith continues to dance while chaos rages around her, choreographing kicks and punches without missing a beat. Meanwhile, Angel rescues a gangbanger from the demons who have killed the other members of his gang. He attempts to persuade the obstinate gangbanger, a key witness whom Angel has tracked down to testify in court against a shady Wolfram & Hart client, to do his civic duty.
In a flashback to Romania in 1898, Darla leads a blindfolded Angelus to his birthday present: a young Gypsy woman lying bound and gagged on the parlor floor. As Darla watches, Angelus vamps and bites the terrified girl high on the inner thigh. The next night, Darla returns to find that her darling boy, Angelus, is no longer the demon she created. Cursed with a soul by the Gypsy girl's people, he is nearly mad with the grief and horror of 140 years of rampant vampirism, every detail of which he remembers with excruciating clarity. Darla, disgusted, furious, and a little afraid, drives Angel out into the night.
In court the next day, Wolfram & Hart moves for dismissal, but Angel shows up in the nick of time with a now-docile gangbanger, the prosecution's key witness. As Lindsey McDonald takes heat for Angel's interference, lawyers Lilah Morgan and Lee Mercer contact Faith about a contract on Angel's life, which she accepts. Cordelia, Wesley and Angel are on their way to a lunchtime meeting, when a stealthy Faith attempts to shoot Angel in the back with a crossbow. Angel, as stunned as Wesley and Cordelia to see Faith up and about, catches the bolt in mid-air from point-blank range. Faith issues her challenge and disappears back onto the streets. After phoning Giles in Sunnydale to learn that Faith has been out of her coma for a week, Angel instructs Wesley and Cordelia to help him track the rogue Slayer down and then make themselves scarce. Discerning that anger and fear for Buffy might incline his friend to kill Faith for revenge, Wesley shouts, "She's not a demon, Angel. She's a sick, sick girl." During this, Wesley attempts to convince Angel that there may still be a chance that Faith could be helped, and Angel interrupts by reminding Wesley that he had ruined Angel's one chance at rehabilitating Faith the year before, something that Wesley is obviously not proud of. Later, Angel finds Faith in his outer office, where she stands protected from immediate attack by sunlight streaming through the raised blinds. She tosses Angel a gun, should he choose to shoot her, and he hesitates not a microsecond, aiming for her leg. The bullet is a blank, however, and he tosses the gun back. After mocking him for only trying to wound her, Faith explains her plan to destroy him, shoots him in the shoulder with a real bullet, then escapes by crashing through the sunny window.
Angel, wearing a suit and spouting convincing corporate-speak, poses as a lawyer to sneak into Lindsey's plush Wolfram & Hart office to try to discover Faith's whereabouts. Seeming completely unsurprised, Lindsey interrupts Angel in mid-snoop. The young lawyer refuses to acknowledge ever hearing about Faith and informs Angel that the firm employs both mystical and high-tech security systems—Angel's every move has been documented in digital hi-def since he crossed the building's threshold. After disabling the first security guard on scene, and with a parting promise to Lindsey, Angel chooses discretion and leaves. In the meantime, Cordelia tries to get into her apartment, but her ghost Phantom Dennis makes it difficult. Cordelia thinks Dennis is jealous of Wesley until they discover that Faith has broken in. Faith knocks Cordelia and Wesley out, and takes Wesley back to her apartment, where she ties him to a chair and tortures him. Faith has correctly calculated that Angel, indifferent to being targeted himself, will be unable to ignore threats to his friends. Finding Wesley still defiant, Faith recites the list of the "five basic torture groups," blunt, sharp, hot, cold and loud, and decides to move from blunt to sharp. She breaks the glass in a picture frame and picks up a large shard. Meanwhile, Angel and Cordelia feverishly work to locate Faith before she kills her bait. Faith sits disconsolately in an open window, waiting for Angel. Sighing, she drops the now-bloody glass shard on the pavement below. Turning back into the room, she continues to torment her former Watcher. Apparently ready to switch to "hot," she goes to the kitchen for a flame wand and a can of non-stick spray. Before she does more than demonstrate a few scary bursts of flame, Angel smashes down the door and charges into the apartment. Faith drops her impromptu torch and swiftly moves to hold a knife at Wesley's throat, stopping Angel in his tracks. In 1898, a newly-ensouled and distressed Angel begs for help on the streets of Borşa. He encounters a group of well-dressed people but rejects the coin they toss into the mud, telling the men that he wants the one woman in their company. Outraged, the men rush Angel and force him into a dark alley as he shouts, "I'm a monster!" Soon the men come sailing back out to the street, followed by Angel, staggering but still upright. He grabs the shrieking, struggling young woman, drags her deeper into the alley, backs her up against the wall and bites her, then mutters, "I can't, oh God, I can't." As he stumbles away down the muddy street, the girl he wanted to eat staggers out after him, disheveled and bitten, but alive.
In a brief exchange of verbal attacks, one of Angel's barbs makes Faith drop her guard for a split second, and Wesley flings himself out of Faith's grasp. Angel swiftly attacks. As the battle rages, Faith seems to have the upper hand and she shouts, "Come on, Angel. I thought you were bad!" Angel doesn't reply. They continue to batter the furnishings and each other, then crash out a window together, only to resume combat in the alley three stories below. Rain begins to pour down and it becomes increasingly clear that Angel no longer intends to kill Faith, if he ever did. As Faith wearies, her fury fades, and Angel's own moves slow to become purely defensive. Meanwhile, Wesley cuts himself loose and staggers downstairs, armed with a kitchen carving knife. Faith, more and more distraught, tries wildly to force Angel to continue the offensive, to finish this fight. As a wrathful Wesley watches, Faith breaks down completely, confessing her self-loathing and begging Angel to punish her. Faith sobs, "I'm bad, I'm bad. Please Angel, do it. Just kill me." Angel finally takes Faith in his arms and goes to his knees with her, holding her close as she collapses in the dark downpour. Behind them, Wesley drops his knife.
Acting[edit]
Christian Kane returns as Lindsey in his first appearance since the pilot episode. "There's a lot of sexual tension between Lindsey and Lilah, and Stephanie being one of my really good friends in life, it really did kind of feel like it was us against the world," Kane says. "Everyone else was a series regular and we were fighting for a pole position and although we were against each other we were on the same team... I think that came off on screen."[1]
Production[edit]
Producer Tim Minear says because writer Jim Kouf was used to writing scripts for "big feature films", he occasionally "writes scenes that are not producible for a TV show because he is used to working with much more money." Kouf indicated that it should be raining during the final fight scene between Angel and Faith, but Minear decided the rain was too expensive, the "one extra technical complication that’s going to make shooting impossible." However, the night filming began for that scene was "the first night of a big torrential rain storm that we had for several days," Minear says.[2]
Mike Massa, David Boreanaz's stunt double, explains that ratchets - wires that retract at high speeds - were used during Angel and Faith's fight scene to hurl the characters across the room.[3]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the true beginning in Angel's fight against Wolfram and Hart during his courtroom intervention. Up until now, Wolfram and Hart have not posed a significant threat towards Angel and his friends. He will continue to fight them through the end of the season and pose a threat to them during Season 2.
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: Faith was last seen fleeing Sunnydale in "Who Are You". This episode will begin her rehabilitation in preparation for her return in the series' fourth season and to Buffy in its final season.
Cultural references[edit]
Five by five: The title of this episode refers to the radio operation phrase frequently used by Faith.
Music[edit]
In the club dance/fight scene: "Living Dead Girl", a Subliminal Seduction Mix of Rob Zombie's original.
Reception[edit]
The Futon Critic named it the 10th best episode of 2000, saying "Her breakdown in the show's closing moments was painfully real and left one of the biggest impressions of 2000."[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Grimshaw, Sue, Return of the Spirit Boy: an Exclusive Spotlight on Christian Kane
2.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (September 26, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, Part 4, retrieved 2007-09-28
3.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Mike Massa: Stunt Double for "Angel" played by David Boreanaz
4.Jump up ^ Brian Ford Sullivan (January 4, 2001). "The 20 Best Episodes of 2000". The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
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"Sanctuary"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 19
Directed by
Michael Lange
Written by
Tim Minear
Joss Whedon
Production code
1ADH19
Original air date
May 2, 2000
Guest actors

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Thomas Burr as Lee Mercer
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Alastair Duncan as Collins
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Jeff Ricketts as Weatherby
Kevin Owers as Smith
Adam Vernier as Detective Kendrick

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"Sanctuary" is episode 19 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Co-written by Tim Minear and series creator Joss Whedon and directed by Michael Lange, it was originally broadcast on May 2, 2000 on the WB network.
In "Sanctuary", guest star Sarah Michelle Gellar returns as Buffy, who has come to Los Angeles seeking vengeance against Slayer Faith. Buffy is shocked to discover Angel is attempting to redeem Faith's violent nature, and Wesley is faced with a crisis of loyalties when the Watcher's Council assassins offer him reinstatement if he gives Faith over to them. Also, evil Wolfram & Hart lawyer Lindsey approaches Kate to help them take revenge on Faith and Angel. Nonetheless, Angel continues to help Faith even as Buffy, the Watcher's Council, and the LAPD try to take her down.


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1 Plot
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Picking up where "Five by Five" left off, Angel takes Faith to his apartment. In a brief, violent vision, Faith charges at Angel with a knife and cuts up his face. When Angel comes up to get food to feed Faith, Wesley argues about giving Faith another chance, and Cordelia gets Angel to sign several cheques to fund her vacation, so she can be gone for as long as Faith is around.
Downstairs, Faith confesses to Angel that she is haunted by visions of her violent past in Sunnydale. Angel talks to Faith about redemption, saying she has to make amends for her crimes, no matter how hard it is. Faith tells Angel how worried she is about making up for everything she's done, and in process reveals that Buffy has a new boyfriend, which upsets Angel. Meanwhile, Wesley plays darts at a bar, and encounters Weatherby, a member of the Watchers' Council's Special Operations team on the hunt for Faith. The council members give Wesley an opportunity to come back to the Council if he's willing to turn in Faith. They give him a syringe that, if injected, will sedate Faith and let them take her back to England. Wesley agrees on the condition that Angel is left unharmed, to which the team reluctantly agrees.
The lawyers at Wolfram & Hart, upset that Faith has teamed up with Angel, hire a demon to have her killed. The demon sneaks into Angel's apartment and attacks. Faith kills it with a knife, and then is frightened by the sight of the demon's blood on her hands. Without warning, Buffy arrives at Angel's place and is shocked to find Angel hugging Faith.
Buffy is determined to turn Faith in to the police, but Angel objects and the two come to blows. Buffy hits Angel and when he hits her back, she is in utter shock. Wesley arrives with the news that the Council is looking for Faith. The two Slayers escape to the roof, where they argue about everything that has happened. Though Faith is genuinely sorry for what she has done, Buffy is unwilling to forgive her. One of the Council members attacks Buffy and Faith as another hovers above the roof in a helicopter. Inside the apartment, Wesley stabs Weatherby with the syringe while Angel runs upstairs and as the two Slayers seek cover against their attackers, Angel bursts through the roof skylight and gets inside the helicopter.
Detective Kate Lockley - guided by Lindsey MacDonald's information - arrests Angel for harboring the fugitive Faith. When Angel and Kate, with Wesley and Buffy in tow, arrive at the police station, they are surprised to see Faith is voluntarily confessing to her crimes. Later, Buffy admits to Angel how hard it was for her to see Faith with him. Angel counters by saying it was not about Buffy, it was about saving Faith's soul. Buffy proceeds to explain that she had come because he was in danger, but Angel knows that she was merely using this as an excuse to get revenge on Faith, which she does not deny. Buffy lashes out by telling Angel she has someone else in her life, and unlike her relationship with Angel, she can trust her new boyfriend. In response, a furious Angel launches a tirade against Buffy, reminding her that, while it's great that she has moved on, he himself cannot and has no one to share his pain, climaxing when he informs Buffy that they lead their own separate lives now and that she has no right to just show up with her "great new life" and tell him how to do things before harshly ordering her to go back to Sunnydale. Buffy complies after a slight hesitation, complaining that "Faith wins again". As soon as she is gone Angel regrets his harsh words and decides to head to Sunnydale to make his own amends. Meanwhile, Faith manages to find peace in her jail cell.
Production details[edit]
Production designer Stuart Blatt says that filming this episode was challenging due to scheduling problems with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Just a few days before shooting, they learned Gellar would not be available to work outside on the night the scene was supposed to be filmed. "We had to take our rooftop setting and split it into two and shoot everything on the rooftop looking out towards the city in one direction with the real helicopter on the rooftop. Then on the stage, recreate the exact rooftop looking the other direction, shoot everything there, and marry them seamlessly," he explains. "It was one of the more impressive things we ever pulled off."[1]
Usually, Joss Whedon's name is listed first in episodes he has co-written and is credited for. In this episode, Tim Minear's name is listed first because he approached the editor and (jokingly) told him that his name comes first.[citation needed]
Writing[edit]
Writer Tim Minear says the script for this episode was difficult, because "it was Faith as we had never seen her before. It was sort of easy when it was evil Faith, which was a lot of fun. The problem was trying to make her turn realistic."[2] He admitted to being nervous about writing Buffy's scenes because of the challenge of writing to her character and tone. He convinced Whedon to come in and write all of Buffy's scenes.[2]
Joss Whedon has said that he explained the process of writing one of his scenes:
“ The last scene between Buffy and Angel in the crossover where she comes to Angel, that stumped us for a long time. And I finally realized when I was working on it that it's because they need to fight now. They can't be just like, 'Oh, we're swell pals and we get along.' They really are at very different places in their lives and it's very difficult for them to see each other. So it really helped define how the shows are different and it ends up with Angel laying into Buffy a little bit and saying, 'I've got my own show now, and it's different from your show, so get off my show!' That's basically what he's saying. And the moment I wrote that scene, I got very excited and I said, 'I get it now. I understand what Angel is and it's not Buffy,' and I felt like the training wheels came off.[3] ”
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: After this episode, Angel visits Sunnydale in "The Yoko Factor".
This is first time that Angel sees Buffy after the events of "I Will Remember You", which probably contributes to his reaction to her presence.
This is the last time that Sarah Michelle Gellar appears on the show, though Buffy herself reappears in a dream in the episode "Soul Purpose," played by a body double while audio archive footage was used from "The Prom." Angel and Spike later glimpse what they believe to be Buffy in "The Girl in Question", and it is revealed in the canonical Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comics that the person they saw was a decoy.
This episode marks the final on screen meeting between Buffy and Wesley. It is also the only episode of Angel in which both characters appear.
Following this episode, Buffy and Faith would not meet again for another three years, specifically until the events of the Buffy Season Seven episode "Dirty Girls".
Cultural references[edit]
The X-Files – When Kate investigates the apartment where Angel and Faith fought, Detective Kendrick (played by actor Adam Vernier) accuses Kate of being "Scully" from X-Files. She corrects him: she is the "Mulder". Unlike the skeptical Scully, she believes.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ritchie, Jeff, Angelic Designs for the Undead: an Exclusive Interview with Stuart Blatt and featuring Andrew Reeder, retrieved 2007-11-01
2.^ Jump up to: a b Gross, Edward (September 26, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, Part 4, retrieved 2007-09-28
3.Jump up ^ Bassom, David, "Meet the Master", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #11 (UK, August 2000), page 7-8.
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War Zone (Angel)
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"War Zone"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 20
Directed by
David Straiton
Written by
Garry Campbell
Production code
1ADH20
Original air date
May 9, 2000
Guest actors

J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Michele Kelly as Alonna
Maurice Compte as Chain
Mick Murray as Knox
Joe Basile as Lenny Edwards
David Herman as David Nabbit
Sean Parhm as Bobby
Sven Holmberg as Ty
Rebecca Klingler as Madame Dorion
Kimberly James as Lina
Ricky Luna as James

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"War Zone" is episode 20 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Gary Campbell and directed by David Straiton, it was originally broadcast on May 9, 2000 on the WB network. In War Zone, Angel helps software millionaire David Nabbit track down a blackmailer, ending up in the middle of a gang war between a group of street kids - led by amateur vampire hunter Charles Gunn - and a vampire gang who have settled in his South-Central neighborhood. Angel offers to assist Gunn in tracking down the vampires who abducted and killed Gunn's sister.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Acting
3 Arc significance 3.1 Continuity
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
A girl named Alonna Gunn walks down the street, followed by a group of vampires. When the vampires turn around, Alonna's brother Charles Gunn and many others are there, armed and ready for a fight. Several are killed on both sides and in the end the vampires run off leaving the humans to deal with the wounded.
Cordelia, Wesley and Angel meet prospective client David Nabbit at a party, who explains he is being blackmailed by Lenny Edwards for going to a demonic brothel called Madam Dorion's. Angel tracks down Lenny Edwards, and makes him promise he will hand over the incriminating photos the following night. Gunn, after receiving news that a vampire is nearby, witnesses Angel intimidating Edwards from afar, and plots to kill Angel. David pays Angel Investigations with a very large check, and promises more when the job is done.
The next night, Angel meets with Lenny, who brought the photos and a demon security guard. Angel kills the demon and gets away with the photos. However, he gets staked in the chest by a couple of the human gang members. He is chased and forced to run through a gauntlet of vampire killing weapons. When confronted by Gunn and the others, Angel saves Alonna's life from one of the traps and tries to explain that he is fighting for good.
Cordelia dresses Angel's wounds while they look at the graphic pictures that were being held for blackmail. Angel's still in pain, but goes off to find the nest of vampires before the gang of kids find it. Gunn questions Angel and his motivations for supposedly helping them. The vampires throw smoke bombs into the humans' hideaway, forcing them to escape to the surface. Covered in heavy clothes and wearing gas masks, the vampires capture several of the teen gang members, including Alonna.
Angel offers his assistance to Gunn and the others, but Gunn refuses and locks Angel in a meat locker. Angel tries to punch his way out of the locker, only to have Cordelia and Wesley open the door for him. Searching for the vampire's lair, Gunn finds a newly undead Alonna, but at first can't bring himself to kill what used to be his sister. When she offers to make her brother a vampire, he stakes her.
Angel kills the vampire gang leader and arranges a truce with the rest of the group: he'll allow them to live if they leave town and never return. Cordelia considers getting involved with David for his money, but ends up talking herself out of it. Angel tells Gunn he may need his help in the future.
Production details[edit]
Creator Joss Whedon wanted to introduce another character who would be very different from both Wesley and Angel, and when writer Gary Campbell pitched the idea of street kids battling vampires, the character of Gunn was conceived.[1]
Special Effects Supervisor Loni Peristere refined the dusting effect used when a vampire is killed, showcased by Gunn's "fly-through dusting" in the opening scene of this episode. This technique, which costs $5,000 per use, depends upon a CGI skeletal frame surrounded by simulated dust, carefully matched to a projection of the live action footage. This allows for a "complete organic transition" from vampire to dust, says Peristere.[2]
Director David Straiton suggested to Michele Kelly that in the scene where Alonna pushes Gunn onto the ground, she should "enjoy that more" - "and that's when a laugh came out," Kelly says. The actress explains that the director knew at that point, her character was "relishing in all this new-found strength and freedom, even if it was for evil."[3]
Writing[edit]
Producer Tim Minear liked the concept of an "entire subculture living under Los Angeles that you don't really see," which is a metaphor for the wealth stratification in LA: "You'll have upper class neighborhoods and a block away poverty... The upper class people sort of don't notice the poverty, or choose not to."[1] He also liked the scene in which Angel is rescued from the meat locker by Wesley and Cordelia, who ask, "Why didn't you call us on your cell phone?", because it turns the concept of the action hero "on its head a little bit." The defining moment of the episode, Minear thinks, is when Angel - rather than offer his help - instead indicates he may later need Gunn's help.[1]
In his book on the mythology of vampires, Peter Day points out the depiction of vampires as "gang-like" is a unifying characteristic of the LA sub-genre, which includes (among others) The Lost Boys, the Blade films and television series, and Blood Ties. In this episode, gang violence is presented as a conflict of race - the racially diverse humans, led by Gunn, battle the uniformly vampire gang, who are presented as "fascist skinheads looking to maintain the purity of the blood supply." Their shared vampirism unifies the gang and provides them with a sense of community identity, in "a city whose urban sprawl has led to social and cultural segregation of communities," Day writes.[4]
Acting[edit]
Michele Kelly, who played Gunn's sister Alonna, said she "literally shouted" with excitement upon reading the script. "Getting to play someone as unrestricted as a vampire is a thrill," she says. Kelly found the vampire make-up and prosthetics uncomfortable, but the most difficult aspect of the role was Kelly's pre-existing friendship with J. August Richards, which "made a part of me not want to hurt him." Kelly explains she twisted that connection by imagining the isolation and "raging despair" her character would feel after being made a vampire: "All I wanted is my brother... that's where I got the impetus to go into that ugly space - it was just the other side of loving."[3]
David Nabbit was originally intended to be a recurring character, but only appears in two additional episodes. David Herman had difficulty fitting Angel into his schedule, and so the writers stopped writing scenes for him.[5]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode features the first appearance of Gunn, who will go on to become a major character.
Continuity[edit]
One of the demons at the brothel is from Oden Tal, Jhiera's home dimension/world in the episode "She".
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Gross, Edward (September 26, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear - Part 4, retrieved 2007-10-15
2.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Special FX: CoA Interviews Loni Peristere, Special FX Supervisor
3.^ Jump up to: a b Interview with Michele Kelly, retrieved 2007-10-15
4.Jump up ^ Day, Peter (2006), Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Rodopi, pp. 135–136, ISBN 90-420-1669-8
5.Jump up ^ Stafford, Nikki (2004), Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel, ECW Press, pp. 144–146, ISBN 1-55022-654-1
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"Blind Date"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 21
Directed by
Thomas J. Wright
Written by
Jeannine Renshaw
Production code
1ADH21
Original air date
May 16, 2000
Guest actors

Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Thomas Burr as Lee Mercer
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Sam Anderson as Holland Manners
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Jennifer Badger Martin as Vanessa Brewer
Keilana Smith as Mind Reader #1
Dawn Suggs as Mind Reader #2
Charles Constant as Security Center Guard
Scott Berman as Vendor
Derek Anthony as Dying Black Man
Rishi Kumar as Blind Child #1
Karen Lu as Blind Child #2
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"Blind Date" is episode 21 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Jeannine Renshaw and directed by Thomas J. Wright, it was originally broadcast on May 16, 2000 on the WB network. In Blind Date, Angel reluctantly agrees to help lawyer Lindsey McDonald save a group of three blind children from a blind woman assassin hired by the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart. However, Lindsey struggles with his decision to save the children and betray the firm when Holland Manners, Lindsey's supervisor, offers him the promotion of a lifetime.


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1 Plot
2 Acting
3 Production details 3.1 Writing
3.2 Arc significance
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Angel encounters a blind woman, who throws him against a wall and easily fights off his punches before slipping off. When he returns to Angel Investigations, Cordelia looks up "blind woman murder" on the Internet and discovers a blind woman named Vanessa Brewer has been arrested for fleeing the scene of a homicide and assault, and is currently on trial for her suspected role in a homicide. Cordelia also discovers Wolfram & Hart is representing Vanessa pro bono, so she's probably working for them in some capacity.
In court, Lindsey argues that Vanessa's disability absolves her from suspicion. Angel enters and tosses Vanessa's glasses at her, and when she immediately catches them, the courtroom reacts. Still, Vanessa is acquitted. Later, after Holland Manners congratulates Lindsey for doing well in court, he discusses the hardships Lindsey has faced over the past year, namely the poor decision to send Faith after Angel. Holland says Lindsey won't be happy until he figures out his place in the world. The conversation turns back to Vanessa, whom Holland hints has been hired to assassinate several children.
At the office, Wesley explains Vanessa can see outside of the spectrum of normal human sight. Angel is upset that Vanessa was acquitted and he can't do anything about it. He's angry that Wolfram & Hart has made up their own rules. He tells Wesley he remembers living in a world like Wolfram & Hart's, where there's only power and no consequences. He misses the clarity involved and laments that nothing ever changes. Lindsey suddenly arrives and tells Angel that he needs his help: "I want out." Lindsey explains he grew up in abject poverty, and decided he would become powerful to keep things being taken away from him - which was why he joined Wolfram & Hart. Angel is uninterested in Lindsey's life story until Lindsey tells him that Vanessa has been hired to assassinate children. Angel tells him that he'll need information that Lindsey will have to take from Wolfram & Hart. Lindsey doesn't want to go back, since people there are under constant surveillance, but goes to prove to Angel that he really wants to change. Later, the group plans Angel and Lindsey's break-in at Wolfram & Hart. Lindsey decides to use his own pass to get into the building, then leave the pass for Angel to use to get into a demon-guarded vault. Lindsey suddenly remembers the firm's vampire alarms, which will go off as soon as Angel arrives at the building. That night, Angel meets with Gunn, who agrees to help him.
The next day at Wolfram & Hart, Lindsey runs into Lilah Morgan, who is surprised to see him heading towards a records room. Once she's gone, he leaves his security pass under a fire extinguisher then heads back upstairs as Angel waits for the right time to move. Gunn steps into the lobby carrying a large bundle, and elsewhere Angel enters the building. As the vampire alarms go off, Gunn cuts the cord holding the bundle, revealing a vampire inside. Security guards chase the vampire and stake him, as Angel grabs Lindsey's security pass and uses it to enter the vault. He takes zip disks labeled "restricted access" and, on a whim, grabs a tube covered with symbols. This activates another alarm and drops a grate over the door to the vault. Angel is able to make it under the grate before he's trapped inside. On his way back to the sewer, he calls Lindsey and tells him that he's done and that Lindsey should get out. Lindsey tries to avert some security guards but soon realizes that they're everywhere. Lilah tells him that there's a sweep, and Lindsey sees Holland leading two mind-readers into an office.
A handful of lawyers are lined up for the mind-readers to read. Lindsey fears that he's been caught, but Holland announces that Lee has been in secret meetings with clients and is shot in the head for his troubles. Holland dismisses the others, asking Lindsey to stay behind. Holland asks Lindsey if he's scared; Lindsey admits that he is. Holland says that's understandable, since he went to Angel for help, stole from the vault, tried to sabotage a case, and lied about everything. Lindsey says that he didn't want to lie or betray the firm, he just wanted to leave. Holland says that few men make their own destinies, but those who do "have the courage of their convictions, and they know how to behave in a crisis." He thinks that Lindsey has what it takes to be one of those men, but he still doesn't know where he belongs. Holland decides not to have Lindsey killed, instead giving him a few days to figure out what he wants to do.
Angel returns to his office and is surprised that Lindsey isn't already there. Cordelia asks if Angel is going to go back for him, but he says that there's no reason to, since he already did his job. Wesley finds the tube in Angel's briefcase and finds a roll of parchment inside. He asks why Angel took it and Angel admits that he's not sure. Wesley says that he'll translate the ancient Aramaic on the parchment, but Cordelia discovers that first they'll have to translate the encrypted disks. Cordelia calls Willow for help decrypting the disks (Willow has also been decrypting all day). The decrypted information reveals Vanessa blinded herself when she was 21, then trained with a group of monks who believed that "enlightenment is seeing with the heart, not the mind." Vanessa is supposed to kill three children - blind seers considered a powerful triumvirate. Angel instructs Cordelia and Wesley to intercept the mentor who's supposed to meet with the children. Vanessa arrives at a safe house, killing the man guarding the children with her cane. Angel tells Lindsey to get the kids out. Vanessa fights them both, but Angel eventually grabs her cane and drops her with it. During the fight, it is revealed that Vanessa is only able to see objects in motion, a weakness which Angel exploits in order to defeat her. Later, back at the office, Wesley tells Angel the parchment he stole from Wolfram & Hart contains the Prophecies of Aberjian (referred to later as the Shanshu Prophecy), which mentions a vampire with a soul. Wesley tells Angel that he may not know what his place is in the chaos, but he belongs somewhere in there.
Lindsey returns to Wolfram & Hart with the disks Angel stole and apologizes to Holland, saying he did what he needed to. Holland proclaims his rescue of the children was "noble" and notes that Lindsey probably made copies of what was on the disks. Lindsey says that he wants his own life, but Holland tells him that "we're all part of something larger." He tells Lindsey that he handpicked him to join the firm because he saw potential in him. "It's not about good or evil - it's about who wields the most power," Holland announces. Lindsey stood up to the firm and won, and Holland wants him to stay with them. In fact, he's giving Lindsey his own job, since Holland is getting a promotion. He tells Lindsey that it's his choice, then leaves. Lindsey stays put, looking out the window at the city lights as Angel does the same thing elsewhere.
Acting[edit]
Jennifer Badger, who guest stars as Vanessa, has previously been Charisma Carpenter and Eliza Dushku's stunt double in both Buffy and Angel.[1] She was also one of the victims in Somnambulist, the eleventh episode of Angel season 1.
Production details[edit]
Special Effects Supervisor Loni Peristere says they couldn't afford to shoot Vanessa's perspective using greenscreen, so instead they came up with the "crazy idea" of painting the actors with glow-in-the-dark paint and shooting the scenes in the dark. The effect was intensified by offsetting the footage to create tracers, and then reversing the image - "it was supposed to tell the story that she sees the action before it actually happens," explains Peristere. "It was such a wacky idea and it really worked out well."[2]
Writing[edit]
Producer Tim Minear explains that this episode provides a "detailed exploration of Wolfram & Hart, establishing the power base there and laying the groundwork for Season Two."[3] It also provides backstory for the character of Lindsey, including his motivations for working at Wolfram & Hart.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the first appearance of Holland Manners. He is the one who orchestrates Angel's pinpointed obsession toward Wolfram and Hart through Darla in Season 2.
Lindsey makes the full transition of his loyalties to Wolfram and Hart after having doubts about the ethical quandaries he has been tasked with.
Lee Mercer, a colleague of Lilah and Lindsey at Wolfram and Hart who appeared in three previous episodes, is killed after mind readers discover his intentions of leaving the firm.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Primeval" occurs during the events of this episode. Cordelia, while decrypting files with the help of Willow on the phone, mentions to Wesley that the Scoobies have been decrypting files all day as well. This event falls right after the crossover events of "Sanctuary" and "The Yoko Factor".
Reception[edit]
In an essay entitled "Why We Love Lindsey", M.S. West says the scene at the end of the episode "fulfills Joss Whedon's earlier promise of a more adult show with less clear fault-lines of right and wrong." Lindsey makes a difficult choice between redemption and power, ultimately choosing to accept the promotion. "In that moment," West writes, "Lindsey is what Angel the show struggled through its first season to be."[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Hughes, Mike (2005-11-19), A Buffy Stunt Team : A real couple of daredevils, OrlandoSentinel.com
2.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, Special FX: CoA Interviews Loni Peristere, Special FX Supervisor
3.Jump up ^ Gross, Edward (September 26, 2000), ANGEL: Season One, Episode By Episode with Tim Minear, Part 4, retrieved 2007-11-01
4.Jump up ^ West, Michelle Sagara (2004), "Why We Love Lindsey", in Glenn Yeffeth, Five Seasons of Angel, BenBella, pp. 94–96, ISBN 1-932100-33-4
External links[edit]
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"Blind Date" at the Internet Movie Database
"Blind Date" at TV.com


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"To Shanshu in L.A."
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 22
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
David Greenwalt
Production code
1ADH22
Original air date
May 23, 2000
Guest actors

Julie Benz as Darla
Elisabeth Röhm as Kate Lockley
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Sam Anderson as Holland Manners
Todd Stashwick as Vocah Demon
Carey Cannon as Female Oracle
Randall Slavin as Male Oracle
David Herman as David Nabbit
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Louise Claps as Homeless Woman
Daren Rice as Uniform #1
Jon Ecklund as Uniform #2
Lia Johnson as Vendor
Robyn Cohen as Nurse
Susan Savage as Doctor
John Eddins as Monk #1
Gerard O'Donnell as Monk #2
Brahman Turner as Young Tough Guy

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"To Shanshu in L.A." is episode 22 of season 1 of the television show Angel. Written and directed by David Greenwalt, it was the Season One finale, and originally broadcast on May 23, 2000 on the WB network. In this episode, Wolfram & Hart lawyers send a demon named Vocah to reclaim the mystical scroll Angel stole from them, which is needed to raise the Beast. Angel eventually takes back the scroll (by severing Lindsey's hand) but fails to prevent the ritual in time. Meanwhile, Wesley translates the Shanshu Prophecy, and discovers that it means Angel will become human, after he fulfills his destiny. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the Beast is in fact Darla, Angel's sire.


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2 Production details 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Wesley continues to try to decipher the text of The Prophecies of Aberjian (part of which is the Shanshu Prophecy). When he deciphers the crucial word "shanshu" as "death", he surmises that means Angel will die. The lawyers at Wolfram & Hart call forth a warrior of the underworld named Vocah to perform a Raising. Cordelia has a vision that sends Angel on his way to help a homeless woman fighting a slime demon. Kate arrives on the scene after Angel has defeated it, and she is determined to rid the city of vampires.
Wesley and Cordelia discuss how Angel is cut off from life, and decide he needs a hobby. Then Vocah, after killing the Oracles of The Powers That Be, follows Cordelia, and inundates her with hundreds upon hundreds of visions; she collapses to the ground in agony. Angel reads up on the scrolls while the cloaked figure makes his way into the apartment. Angel locks the scroll away, and then leaves after getting a call about Cordelia. At the hospital, Cordelia is suffering, and the doctors are unable to save her. Angel is horrified by what is happening to his friend. Wesley returns to the apartment just in time to see a bomb was left in place of the scroll. Angel approaches the office building just as it explodes into a fiery blaze. Angel searches through the wreckage and finds that Wesley is still alive but badly hurt. Kate confronts Angel, but with his friends in serious condition, he's not in the mood to take any of her hostile attitude toward him and after telling her that he's more than happy to oblige if she wants to be enemies, goes with Wesley to the hospital.
Angel goes to see Cordelia, now in a catatonic state. He promises her that he's going to help her, then notices a symbol on Cordelia's hand, and goes to the Oracles for help. He finds them dead, but the spirit of the female Oracle gives him instruction. He needs the scrolls, specifically the words of Anatole, to save Cordelia. She points him in the direction of Wolfram & Hart. Angel is now on a mission, but won't make the mistake of leaving his friends unprotected again and asks Gunn to stand guard at the hospital while he goes to hunt down Vocah. Vocah reads from the scrolls while sacrificing five vampires that are chained to a large cage. Angel watches as the Wolfram & Hart lawyers leave to attend the Raising ritual.
Angel crashes the party and goes into a battle with Vocah. Lindsey picks up where Vocah left off and continues the ritual. His chanting kills the five vampires chained to the cage and then Holland orders the cage removed. In the end, Angel kills Vocah, and then faces Lindsey for the scroll. Lindsey tells Angel that the key to defeating the vampire with a soul is to cut off his connections to the Powers That Be and starts to burn the scroll. However rather than let Cordelia's only hope burn, Angel cuts off Lindsey's right hand and retrieves the scroll.
Wesley reads the words of Anatole and Cordelia is released from Vocah's curse. After seeing so many visions, Cordelia realizes how many people out there need their help and she and Angel vow to help them. At her apartment (and the temporary headquarters for Angel Investigations), Cordelia feeds Wesley and Angel, showing them her new, kinder side. Wesley discovers that the prophecy means that Angel will become human once he has fulfilled his duties. The lawyers go check on the cage, and Lilah looks inside, revealing a terrified Darla.
Production details[edit]
Producer David Greenwalt says they decided to blow up the Angel Investigations office because the sets were uncomfortably cramped when filming.[1]
Julie Benz's name was placed at the end credits to keep her appearance as a surprise. Here, she is credited as a Special Guest Star.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode sets the stage for the Shanshu plotline that will follow the show until the final episode. Angel learns of the Shanshu Prophecy, foretelling a vampire with a soul playing a pivotal role in the Apocalypse, and in doing so, earning the right to live as human again.
Lindsey loses his hand, which only serves to fuel his antipathy and vitriol towards Angel. This will come into play in Season 2.
Darla is resurrected by Wolfram and Hart, which will also play heavily into the entirety of the series.
The Oracles, who also appeared in two previous episodes and were one of Angel's links to the Powers That Be, are killed by Vocah.
The offices of Angel Investigations and Angel's apartment underneath the offices are destroyed, forcing the group to relocate to Cordelia's apartment.
Cultural references[edit]
To Live and Die in L.A.: The title of this episode refers to the 1985 William Friedkin movie starring William Petersen. Wesley has translated the ancient term "shanshu" as meaning "to live and to die."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ To Shanshu in L.A., BBC
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