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Ground State (Angel)
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"Ground State"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 2
Directed by
Michael Grossman
Written by
Mere Smith
Production code
4ADH02
Original air date
October 13, 2002
Guest actors

Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Alexa Davalos as Gwen Raiden
Rena Owen as Dinza
Tom Irwin as Elliot
Belinda Waymouth as Ms. Thorpe
Heidi Fecht as Mrs. Raiden
Michael Medico as Mr. Raiden
Jessica M. Kiper as Nick
Easton Gage as Young Boy
Megan Corletto as Young Gwen

Episode chronology

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 "Deep Down" Next →
 "The House Always Wins"

List of Angel episodes
"Ground State" is episode 2 of season 4 in the television show Angel. In this episode, Wesley, now a hardened demon-hunter/killer with his own gang, leads the search to Denza who tells them that the Axis talisman will aid him in their search for Cordelia. Meanwhile, Gwen Raiden, a young mercenary with uncontrollable electrical abilities, is also looking for the talisman at the request of her employer, a wealthy businessman with connections to Wolfram & Hart.


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1 Plot
2 Production details
3 Writing 3.1 Continuity
3.2 Cultural reference
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
In Wisconsin, 1985, a young girl named Gwen is dropped off at Thorpe Academy by her parents. Tightly wrapped up in thick clothes Gwen is discouraged from touching and finds it difficult to fit in with the other children. When a young boy approaches her at recess and offers her a toy car, she makes the mistake of touching him and shocking the boy with a fatal bolt of electricity.
At Cordelia's apartment, Fred packs up Cordy's things because they can't afford to keep paying the rent. As Wesley and his gang fights off two large demons, Angel arrives and tries to thank Wesley for rescuing him, and to recant his promise never to forgive him for stealing Connor. Wesley however isn't interested in Angel's apologies. Wesley thinks Cordy is still alive, but in another dimension.
Gwen, now a young woman, waltzes into a restaurant dressed in red leather, drawing the attention of all the men. She meets a businessman named Elliot, who wants Gwen to steal the Axis for his personal collection.
Fred gives a presentation that explains the Axis of Pythia allows the user to see any person in the countless dimensions; her drawings are overshadowed by Angel's artistic abilities. They learn the Axis is located at an auction house with extensive security and gather the equipment they'll need while elsewhere, Gwen gets ready to steal the Axis herself.
Lilah and Wesley share some small talk about work while they romp around his apartment together. Gwen expertly makes her way into the building where the Axis is held but only a short distance behind her, Angel, Gunn and Fred break into the building as well. Angel checks out the vault, but laser beams block his entrance and then a gate is dropped, completely blocking his path. Gwen drops down from the ceiling and manipulates the beams out of her way. While Angel questions who she is and her intentions, she steals the Axis and prepares to leave. Gunn shows up to help Angel while Fred triggers an alarm that encourages Gwen's fast retreat. Once the gate has been lifted out of the way, Gunn tries to grab Gwen before she gets away and instead is struck with a fatal blow by Gwen. Guilt-ridden at the thought of killing yet another innocent person, Gwen knocks Angel and a grieving Fred out of the way and shock-starts Gunn's heart.
Later, Angel runs into Lilah while looking over Connor, who's now living outdoors with a bunch of homeless people. Angel threatens her into telling him which Wolfram & Hart client is buying the Axis of Pythia from Gwen. Gunn rests up in bed while Fred releases her feelings about the overwhelming elements of her life - Gunn's brief death and her constant responsibilities in the gang - as she yells at Gunn and finally breaks down into tears.
Angel finds Gwen on the way to deliver the Axis and the two fight. Gwen repeatedly tries to shock Angel to death, which causes his heart to beat for a moment and the two to kiss. Both are surprised by the sudden life to Angel's heart and then bars cover the elevator doorway and Elliot shows up. He explains that because of her terrible theft job, she has to be killed. He had the elevator changed so that Gwen could have no access to an electrical charge that would allow her to escape when the elevator is filled with gas.
Once the door closes, Gwen struggles not to inhale while Angel punches a hole through a thick plastic wall until Gwen can reach the wires and the two are able to escape. Angel fights with Elliot's lackeys while Gwen focuses her attention on Elliot. Angel stops her from killing him and then she lets him have the Axis. Back at the hotel, one of the rooms glows a bright gold while Gunn and Fred wait impatiently outside the closed door. Angel exits the room, leaving a still slightly glowing Axis behind him. The three sit around the lobby and talk about what Angel saw and try to deal with her new role. Meanwhile, high up in the heavens, Cordelia watches over the three and shouts at them to free her from her "higher" life.
Production details[edit]
Actress Alexa Davalos says she had "5 minutes of training" from stunt coordinator Mike Massa right before filming the fight scene with Angel.[1]
Tammy Kinsey comments on the cinematic experimentation in this episode, beginning with the close-up of Cordelia's eye that is reminiscent of the 1977 film Powers of Ten. Abbott says that the zoom-out at the end of the episode from the hotel to a cityscape to Cordelia "suggests the value of shifting frames of reference. Here we see the world of the story as viewers and the visual comprehension of a Higher Power simultaneously."[2]
Writing[edit]
Continuity[edit]
Angel mentions that he has done "a heist like this" twice before. This is probably referring to "The Shroud of Rahmon" and "Choices".
Gunn states, "We could have gone to Vegas," a recurring suggestion from him throughout the series, foreshadowing the next episode, "The House Always Wins".
During Gwen and Angel's confrontation, she electrocutes him to the extent that his heart begins to beat. This is the second time in the series he became human. The first time was during the episode "I Will Remember You" from the first season.
This is the first appearance of Gwen Raiden, she also appears in "Long Day's Journey" and "Players".
This is the final episode of the series in which Lorne (Andy Hallett) does not appear.
Cultural reference[edit]
When Gwen melts an expensive watch with her powers, she remarks "Now it's surrealism," a reference to the Salvador Dalí painting The Persistence of Memory.
While climbing a wall, Gunn says "This is so much harder than it looks on Batman", referring to the 1960s TV series by the same name, which occasionally included campy depictions of characters seemingly scaling walls with ease.
When Angel asks Gwen for the Axis, he describes it as an ancient, mystical relic. She finishes off this description with 'it's fun for a girl and a boy', a reference to a jingle used in television adverts for "Slinky", a classic children's toy.
A few moments prior to Fred and Gunn's argument, Fred asks if Gunn saw Shirley MacLaine, the Academy Award winning actress, during the short period in which he was dead.
When trapped in the elevator, Gwen asks Elliot "What are you, Lex Luthor?", a reference to the DC Comics super-villain.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Fischer, Paul (June 6, 2004). "Interview: Alexa Davalos on "The Chronicles of Riddick"". Dark Horizons. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
2.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. 53. ISBN 978-1-85043-839-7.
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The House Always Wins
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"The House Always Wins"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 3
Directed by
Marita Grabiak
Written by
David Fury
Production code
4ADH03
Original air date
October 20, 2002
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Clayton Rohner as Lee DeMarco
Morocco Omari as Spencer
Jennifer Autry as Lornette #2
Matt Bushell as Security Guard #3
Tom Schmid as Well Dressed Man
Sven Holmberg as Delivery Guy
Brittany Ishibashi as Vivian
Diana Saunders as Bejeweled Woman
Gloria Alexander as Lornette #1
John Colella as Croupier
Rod Tate as Bruiser

Episode chronology

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 "Ground State" Next →
 "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"

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"The House Always Wins" is episode 3 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by David Fury and directed by Marita Grabiak, it was originally broadcast on October 20, 2002 on the WB television network.
In "The House Always Wins", Angel Investigations takes a road trip to Las Vegas to enlist Lorne's help in returning higher being Cordelia to their dimension. While in Vegas, they learn the owner of the Tropicana Casino has been coercing Lorne into reading people's destinies, which the owner sells on the black market in a literal "futures" trading scheme. Angel falls under the influence of the house games, while back in Los Angeles Wesley tries to take advantage of Angel's absence to steal his clients.


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

Plot[edit]
Angel secretly watches from the roof of a nearby building as Connor stakes a vampire; higher above, Cordelia shouts that he should be focusing on how to rescue her from her boring life as a higher power. When Fred and Gunn confront Angel on the issues of Connor, Angel realizes that he has been making life difficult for his friends and to make up for that, he decides to take them on a trip to Las Vegas.
They arrive at the Tropicana Casino, where Lorne is headlining, complete with scantily clad back-up singers known as the Lornettes. As Lorne moves through the room having audience members sing along, he ignores Angel and the others - and snubs them again when they try to approach him after the show. As Lorne rests in his private suite guarded heavily by security guards, he receives a visit from his employer and casino owner, Lee DeMarco. Lorne is forced to identify the futures of the people who sang in the audience. Meanwhile, back in L.A., Wesley has phone sex with Lilah, while simultaneously conducting business with his clients. At the casino, Gunn and Fred play Blackjack while Angel worries about Lorne. One of the Lornettes offers one of the singing audience members from Lorne's show, Vivian, a special chip to play in a Spin to Win game. Fred continues to worry about Angel and Lorne so Gunn decides they should investigate Lorne's situation to help ease Fred's mind. To get past the guards at Lorne's door, Gunn has Fred dress as one of the Lornettes. After making several lewd jokes, the security guards allow her to enter Lorne's suite. Lorne takes a minute to recognize her, but he's grateful to see her and that they finally came to rescue him. He informs her that Lee DeMarco is blackmailing him for his psychic abilities.
Desperate for more quarters, Vivian walks in a trance-like state across the casino's driveway and is nearly run over by a taxi, but Angel rescues her. He sneaks into the special Spin to Win game area. Lee hands him a chip, which Angel tosses away, but it slides onto the table and when the house wins, Angel loses his destiny. He's given a cup of quarters and sent out to the casino to play. Fred runs from Lorne's room and hysterically convinces the guards outside to go into the room. Lorne manages to escape and the three run out into the casino to find Angel. They find him shoving quarters into a slot machines in a zombie-like state and ask him to pose a distraction while they get Lorne out. Angel's too entranced with his gambling to comprehend the plan. DeMarco is pleased when he receives information that Angel is a souled vampire, realizing Angel's destiny will be profitable.
While fleeing security, Lorne confesses he tells Lee about the people with bright futures, so that they can be lured into the Spin and Win game. Their destinies are sucked into the chip they play and later sold on the black market. Guards spot them; to pose a distraction, Lorne sings a high-pitch noise into a microphone. After they escaped, Gunn angrily assumes that Lorne told Lee about Angel. Lorne corrects him by revealing that he's being blackmailed and if he refuses to cooperate, people will be killed. When Gunn realizes that Angel's destiny has been taken away, he runs back to the casino, finding him at one of the slot machines. As Spencer arrives with Lorne and Fred held in the custody of his security guards, Angel resumes gambling. The rest of the group is brought into the back room, where Lee orders Fred and Gunn killed and Lorne to return to his work. Meanwhile, Cordelia wonders from high how she can save her friends. Somehow, she manipulates Angel's slot machine to win a jackpot so he can be brought into the back room with the others. Lee is angered that someone actually won but Angel doesn't have an explanation for his winning.
When one of the men pulls a gun on Fred, it brings out the demon in Angel. He starts to beat up on Lee's men, and during the distraction Lorne smashes the glass ball holding the chips, causing all of the destinies to return to their rightful bodies. Back in L.A., the gang is glad to be home, although Angel questions what caused his jackpot winning at the casino. As they head inside the hotel, they freeze when they see Cordelia standing in the middle of the lobby. She doesn't know who they are.
Production details[edit]
This episode was filmed on location in Las Vegas. "We shot from six at night to six in the morning for five nights," recalls writer/producer David Fury. "It was like a movie shoot, we were real stars."[1] The Tropicana Casino at which Lorne headlines is an actual casino on the Strip,[2] although creative license was taken with its location and history. For example, as the group flees the guards, they exit the casino onto Fremont Street (nicknamed Glitter Gulch), which is miles from the actual location of the Tropicana. In addition, Elvis and Priscilla Presley had their wedding reception at the Aladdin Casino, not the Tropicana as Angel claimed.[3] While filming this episode, members of the crew took the opportunity to gamble; camera assistant Adam Ward won $10,000 in a Super Bowl bet.[4]
There are several inside jokes hidden in this episode. During the first shot into the audience during the scene where Lorne is on stage singing, David Fury and Angel script supervisor Petra Jorgensen are sitting in the first row. "I'm holding a little miniature Kelly Manners," Fury says. One of the scrolling banners in the soul-trading room reads DEAL WITH DISNEY TO RUN NEW ABC SERIES, referring to co-creator David Greenwalt, who left Angel earlier that year to produce Miracles.[1]
Writing[edit]
Writer/producer David Fury explains on the DVD commentary that early on, this episode emotionally establishes the characters, reminding viewers that Connor - although not integral to the story - is indeed "Angel Jr."[1]
The scene in which Wesley has phone sex with Lilah was written by creator Joss Whedon when the episode came in short. Actor Alexis Denisof, who plays Wesley, explains that throughout this season his character is "flirting with and investigating the dark side of himself. He's looking at his relationships with all the people and with Angel, and he's definitely looking at his whole purpose and trying to figure out how he wants to be. There are going to be some things that really surprise the audience, that they'd never expect of Wesley."[5]
In an essay linking themes in Angel to classic literature, Joshua Sherman points out that the motif of the stolen soul is dealt with elsewhere in mythology, such as the Soul Cage in Cornwall folklore, or Pakistani stories in which caged birds represent souls.[6]
Acting[edit]
Andy Hallett, who played Lorne, said this episode was his "favorite-favorite-favorite!" because the cast and crew got to go on location to Las Vegas. He said, "I've always wanted to have like a Vegas show, so it's like a real Vegas show...except that all the people sitting in the audience were getting paid to be there."[7] Amy Acker had to dress as a Lornette for the scene in which she helps Lorne escape; Hallett says Acker kept joking, "Andy, I have to overact and act bad - can you give me any tips?"[1]
Arc significance[edit]
Cordelia finally returns from the higher plane without her memory. Her return plays a major role in the rise of Jasmine.
Lorne returns with Angel and co. to Los Angeles, after leaving at the end of Season 3.
Cultural references[edit]
Name-dropping: Angel comments on his former friendships with Bugsy Siegel and the Rat Pack, and the fact that two members of the Blue Man Group are demons. He also attended Elvis and Priscilla Presley's wedding.
Music[edit]
Actor Andy Hallett, who portrays Lorne, sings three songs in the episode—"It's Not Easy Being Green", "Lady Marmalade" and "Viva Las Vegas".
Reception and reviews[edit]
This episode was criticized for being a "throwaway" episode, serving mostly as a plot device to get Lorne and Cordelia back into the series,[3] and for its "thinly veiled" and heavy-handed allegory using magic to show how people can lose their dreams and ambitions by throwing money away in the casinos.[8]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Bratton, Kristy, ANGEL Season Four DVD Collection REVIEW
2.Jump up ^ Tropicana Hotel Location, retrieved 2007-01-01
3.^ Jump up to: a b Stafford, Nikki (2004), Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel, ECW Press, pp. 251–253, ISBN 1-55022-654-1
4.Jump up ^ Kerns, Dan (2004), "Angel by the Numbers", in Glenn Yeffeth, Five Seasons of Angel, BenBella, p. 29, ISBN 1-932100-33-4
5.Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (July 16, 2002), 'Angel's' Denisof: Fourth-Season Debut 'Just Nuts', archived from the original on July 17, 2002, retrieved 2007-12-28
6.Jump up ^ Sherman, Joshua (2004), "Angel or Devil", in Glenn Yeffeth, Five Seasons of Angel, BenBella, p. 171, ISBN 1-932100-33-4
7.Jump up ^ Gill, Mika (7/3/2004), Lovelorn: An exclusive interview with Andy Hallett, Angel"’s Lorne", retrieved 2007-09-23
8.Jump up ^ Wray, M; Miller, M; Gurvey, J; Carroll, J; Kawachi, I (Dec 2008), "Leaving Las Vegas", Social science & medicine (1982) (Slayage.com) 67 (11): 1882–8, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.002, PMID 18938005
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Angel)
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"Slouching Toward Bethlehem"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 4
Directed by
Skip Schoolnik
Written by
Jeffrey Bell
Production code
4ADH04
Original air date
October 27, 2002
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
David Grant Wright as Minivan Dad
Carol Avery as Minivan Mom
Steven Mayhew as Minivan Teen
Nynno Ahli as Carlo
Thomas Crawford as Eater Demon

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"Slouching Toward Bethlehem" is episode 4 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Its title derives from a line from the W. B. Yeats poem "The Second Coming".


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Writing 2.1 Continuity
2.2 Cultural references
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
A man tries to get his stalled car started while his family waits in the car. Connor appears by the car and warns them of danger just before a tow truck arrives with a vampire driving it. The vampire attacks, but Connor intervenes and kills it. Connor breaks into the hotel through a window just in time to see Angel and friends arrive home and spot Cordelia in the lobby. They try to approach her, but she doesn't remember anything about them or herself. Angel tries to remind Cordelia about who she is, but she is scared and doesn't know what to believe.
Lorne approaches the hotel from outside, but Angel sends Gunn to intercept him before Cordelia can see him and be frightened. Angel panics with Fred in the office about how they're going to handle Cordelia's lack of memory while Cordy panics herself in the lobby because of everyone's strange behavior. The phone rings and they let the machine get it until the message reveals more than Cordelia needs to hear and Fred quickly picks it up. Without saying much, she then with runs off to get Gunn and prevent a demon from bearing its spawn. Angel takes Cordelia upstairs to one of the rooms where all of her stuff has been stored from her apartment. Cordy looks through some of the boxes as Angel again tries to convince her that she's safe and with friends.
After changing into more comfortable clothes, Cordelia nervously practices saying her name in front of a mirror and then reads the eerie messages left in her high school yearbook and searches through pictures of herself from over the years. Cordelia wanders through the halls of the hotel and follows the sound of singing to Lorne's room where he's listening to a client sing. She doesn't see much and heads downstairs to the lobby. Angel removes several jars of blood from the counter before she can see them, but she finds a drop of blood left behind and starts to worry. Gunn and Fred return covered in purple demon goo and talking about killing the demon babies, unaware that Cordelia is hiding behind the counter. She pops up and runs out into the garden only to be jumped by a couple of evil lawyers. She fights them off with Angel's help and then vocalizes her suspicions that she's a spy and they want something from her. Angel denies that and tries to calm her down without revealing the truth to her.
Back in her room, Cordelia asks about a picture of her, she wonders if she was a nun, handing him a handful of crucifixes she found in her boxes. Angel vamps out at the burning contact and Cordelia again runs away and into Lorne down in the lobby. She's fed up and wants to know the truth, but when the gang finally tells her everything, she has a hard time believing it. Cordelia sings rather badly so Lorne can read her future but the singing sends Lorne running off to his room without much of an explanation. Angel follows after in search of answers and frustrated, Cordelia takes off on her own, despite Gunn and Fred's attempts to stay with her.
Angel desperately tries to get answers from Lorne about his reading of Cordelia, but Lorne is tightlipped. He does reveal that something horrible and evil is coming and it seriously freaked him out. Lilah lies in bed with Wesley and talk about Angel before Wesley conversationally mentions that they're in a "relationship" and has to pay Lilah a dollar because he lost a bet. Cordelia searches for Angel in the hotel, but instead finds Lorne's client—a large mouthed human-eating demon—in one of the halls. She runs from it and is rescued by Connor, who stabs the demon and then takes a willing Cordelia with him to somewhere safer.
Angel, Gunn and Fred look at the dead human-eating demon while Lorne updates them on the horrific things he saw when reading Cordelia. Angel and the others set out to find Cordelia. At some sort of a warehouse, Connor and Cordelia talk and bond as Connor leads her to the place he calls home. He's brutally honest with her about everything and Cordelia appreciates his candor. While sleeping at Wesley's, Lilah gets a call on her cell phone about Cordelia's return and rushes off, leaving an eavesdropping Wesley alone.
Cordelia tries to sleep, but she can't with so many pieces missing from her puzzle. Connor tries to comfort her and remind her of the few things he knew about her. She recognizes his loneliness that somewhat matches her own. As Angel updates the others on his failure to locate Cordelia, Wesley arrives with some answers. He reveals that Cordelia's with Connor but that Wolfram and Hart are planning to go after her again for the knowledge she may have about the Powers. Connor sleeps next to Cordelia with his hand inappropriately placed on her chest but moves it to quiet her as someone breaks into the room. More men attack and Cordelia and Connor are forced to fight them off as best as they can. Lilah watches the proceedings from the roof on a video feed as the gang arrive and help fight off the Wolfram and Hart minions.
After the bad guys are defeated, Angel tries to get Cordelia to return with him, but she chooses to stay with Connor because Connor was truthful with her. Although her choice hurts them, Angel and the others leave. Wesley finds the dollar bill Lilah left behind on the floor of his bedroom and realizes something. Back at the hotel, they hear a noise in the office that distracts them. They find Lorne tied up in the office, a bad wound on his forehead. He reveals that Wolfram and Hart used a special burrowing demon to sneak into his head and steal the knowledge Lorne had about Cordelia. It was all a trap to get Lorne alone and vulnerable.
Wesley shows up at Lilah's door and gets upset with her because she tricked him into luring Angel away from Lorne. She reminds him it was just part of her job and that she spared Lorne's life because he was Wesley's friend. Cordelia sleeps while Connor watches over her, while at the hotel, Angel stares out into the night and longingly back at his empty bed.
Writing[edit]
Continuity[edit]
The comments in Cordelia's yearbook about a "big snake", home room burning to the ground, and flaming arrows refer to the events of the Buffy Season Three finale "Graduation Day, Part Two." Both Angel and Wesley were present for these events.
When looking through pictures of herself, Cordelia reacts negatively to the short-lived black hairstyle she had during a few episodes in season two.
Gunn asks if Cordelia wants to know "why we call him Lorne," referencing Lorne's disdain for the nickname, given his skin color ("Lorne Green"), which he first mentioned in "Belonging."
Cordelia mentions having been a princess, referring to her visit to Pylea from "Over the Rainbow" to "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb."
Cordelia sings 'The Greatest Love Of All' a song which she also sang in "The Puppet Show."
Cultural references[edit]
The Second Coming: The episode's title is adapted from a line in the W.B. Yeats poem, the preceding line of which ("what rough beast") was used as the title for the 20th episode of season 2 of the TV series Beauty and the Beast.
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Supersymmetry (Angel)
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"Supersymmetry"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 5
Directed by
Bill L. Norton
Written by
Elizabeth Craft
Sarah Fain
Production code
4ADH05
Original air date
November 3, 2002
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Randy Oglesby as Professor Oliver Seidel
Jerry Trainor as Jared

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"Supersymmetry" is episode 5 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by Bill L. Norton, it was originally broadcast on November 3, 2002 on the WB network.


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

Plot[edit]
Fred's article on superstring theory is published in an academic journal, and she is asked to present it at a physics symposium by her old college professor Seidel. Her presentation takes a sudden turn when a dimensional portal opens and snake-like creatures emerge to kill her. Angel had spied Lilah during the speech and at first thinks she is behind it, but she was simply keeping an eye on Wesley. Gunn and Angel suspect another member of the audience, a comic book fanatic who seemed to be expecting the portal's appearance, but it turns out he's just following stories of strange disappearances, as well as reading about Angel on internet forums. Fred learns that Professor Seidel is the one responsible and the one who had sent Fred into the Pylea dimension six years earlier. He felt Fred as well as other missing colleagues were competing for his job. Against Angel and Gunn's advice, Fred pursues vengeance against her former mentor. She asks for Wesley's help, and in the process is almost sucked into another portal, opened by a text message from Seidel; Wesley agrees to help. Meanwhile, Cordelia is staying with Connor at his vast empty loft. He trains her to slay vampires while a possible romance between them blossoms. Angel confronts Seidel (largely to protect him from Fred's vengeance), but Seidel releases a demon from a portal to attack Angel; as Seidel tries to escape, he encounters Fred, who opens her own portal, intending to send him to a hell dimension as punishment. As he is being sucked in, Gunn arrives and, when unable to convince Fred to close the portal, snaps Seidel's neck to save him from the torment, which upsets Fred. Fred and Gunn tell the others that Seidel accidentally sucked himself into a portal meant for Fred, keeping the true events secret.
Production details[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode begins the breakup of Fred and Gunn's relationship, and indicates Connor's growing affection for Cordelia as the two share a kiss.
In addition, Wesley and Lilah's complicated relationship is further developed, as she brings him a gift and realizes that he is still attracted to Fred.
Angel demonstrates that he has photographic memory when he re-creates the auditorium environment with chairs and is able to recall exactly where every lecture attendee was seated and how each one responded to the portal.
Despite the story originally suggesting it was simply a coincidence that Fred came upon the book, it's revealed that Fred's college professor Seidel was responsible for her being sent to Pylea, as well as several other students. A later episode, "Inside Out," implies Seidel himself was manipulated by the demon Skip as part of a long-term plan to assemble the members of Angel Investigations.
Cultural references[edit]
The Incredible Hulk: After Angel threatens Lilah she responds with "Yeah, yeah, 'Hulk smash'" a common phrase from the Hulk comic books.
Daredevil, Elektra, and Bullseye: During the scene with comic book reader, Jared, Gunn references Bullseye killing Elektra in Daredevil #181.
Dark Horse Comics: During the same scene, Jared is wearing a Thwack! shirt, the comic book fan says, "we're kinda crushing the Dark Horses" when Gunn is pushing him up against the comic book rack, on which Dark Horse comics such as Usagi Yojimbo are visible. Angel is reading from a Ghost comic, which is published by Dark Horse. Dark Horse had published the first series of Angel comics and currently publishes the Buffy Season 8 series.
The girl, the cat and the peanut butter: A reference to a well-known urban myth, although the myth usually involves a dog, not a cat.
Chicago Cubs: Fred mentions former Cubs stars Sammy Sosa and Nomar Garciaparra, although when the episode originally aired, Garciaparra was still with the Boston Red Sox.
Fred complains that people want her to be "all sweetness and light". This is an allusion to PG Wodehouse's Uncle Fred's stories.
Reception[edit]
UGO Networks calls this episode "one of the more interesting looks at murderous intent to come along in a while."[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Sullivan, Michael Patrick, Angel Season Four DVD Review
External links[edit]
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Spin the Bottle (Angel)
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"Spin the Bottle"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 6
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
4ADH06
Original air date
November 10, 2002
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Sven Holmberg as Delivery Guy
Kam Heskin as Lola

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"Spin the Bottle" is episode 6 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it was originally broadcast on November 10, 2002 on the WB television network. In "Spin the Bottle", Lorne performs a magic spell on Cordelia to help her regain her memory, but instead the spell causes all the Angel Investigations members to revert to their teenage personae.


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2 Production details 2.1 Acting
2.2 Continuity
3 Reception and reviews
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
After his rendition of "The Way We Were", Lorne addresses an unseen lounge audience. In an attempt to restore Cordelia's memory, Lorne obtains a bottle containing a memory-restoration spell, which Cordelia is eager to try. Wesley arrives, having been asked to help with the spell, and has an awkward meeting with Fred. She vaguely informs him that her mission was completed, as Gunn realizes that Wesley helped Fred try to kill her professor. When he confronts Wesley, he also threatens Wes to not pursue Fred, but Wes tries to dismiss the issue. Gunn asks what happened to Wesley. He reminds Gunn that "I had my throat cut and all my friends abandoned me." The gang hold hands in a circle around the bottle as it starts to spin. The spell disorients everyone; Lorne passes out and the others stumble about the lobby as if very high. Cordelia accidentally smashes the bottle with her boot. All present are mentally regressed to the age of 17: Cordelia when she was the most popular girl at Sunnydale High, Wesley believes he is still a student at the Watcher's Academy, Gunn is once again a rebellious street kid, Fred is transformed into a younger and insecure girl who likes marijuana; and Angel has reverted to his teenaged pre-vampire self — an Irishman named Liam (he was not sired until age 26). While Liam wonders what happened to his Irish accent, Gunn and Wesley butt heads on plans. When Wesley tries to demonstrate his toughness with a karate demonstration, he unintentionally activates the stake weapon up his sleeve. Gunn and Fred find Lorne passed out behind the counter, and are shocked to see a demon. Meanwhile, Connor saves a young woman from two vampires. The woman offers her body in repayment, but only if he pays.
Back at the hotel, Wesley duct tapes Lorne to the seat in the lobby while arguing with Gunn over whether to cut Lorne's head off or torture him for information. When Cordelia asks why they're not freaking out about wooden stakes or the sight of a green man with horns, Wesley and Gunn both reveal that vampires and demons are real and they both have experience with them. Fred examines an unconscious Lorne while Wesley shares his theory that they're being kept in the hotel with a vampire as a test. They all start to wonder why they don't look 17, and collectively decide to hunt for the vampire that will supposedly set them free once they kill it. Cordelia and Angel team up and go one way while the other three head in the other direction. Angel struggles to adjust to this strange world that is hundreds of years beyond his life. He and Cordelia sit on the bed, and after apologizing for acting so "womanish", Cordelia comforts him, and, feeling his muscles, begins to flirt with him. Angel vamps out and realizes he is a vampire and he will be killed if the gang finds out.
Angel tries to leave the hotel, but panics when he spots the cars on the street and rushes back inside. As the group regathers in the lobby, Wesley introduces a new theory: the vampire may be one of them. He passes a cross around the group, but when it finally reaches Angel, he manages to hide his smoking hand until a distraction develops. Lorne wakes up, his memory unaffected, and identifies Angel as a vampire. Angel punches Lorne, knocking him out again. A fight breaks out between Angel, Wesley and Gunn, and the girls run in separate directions. Angel catches Cordelia, who screams loudly, drawing a lurking Connor out of the shadows. Angel rants to Connor about fathers as the two fight, while in the lobby, Lorne convinces Fred to release him, and he mixes together a concoction to restore their memories.
After treating the others, Lorne puts a touch of the mixture on Cordy's tongue. She pauses and then runs off. Lorne finishes up his story at the lounge: describing what really happened was she was struck with a vision of a terrifying demon; Cordelia reveals to Angel that she remembers everything. Lorne then walks off and the camera reveals an empty Lounge.
Production details[edit]
Writer/director Joss Whedon says this episode grew out of his desire to see Wesley returned to the "bumbling moron" of the past. "We were reminiscing about the days when he was a complete idiot, and so we thought we wanted to see old-school Wesley but also cool, new-school Wesley," Whedon explains.[1] Although the regression to a comedic figure contrasts his new, darker persona, Wesley still exhibits heroism during this episode, which is in line with the growth his character experienced over the last four years.[2] Peggy Davis argues that "Wesley can embody masculine heroism or feminine comic figure, but not both";[3] however in this episode he demonstrates that his heroic masculinity allows for a comedic element as well.[2] In addition to bringing back "classic Wesley", this episode also gave the opportunity to refresh viewers' memories of "teenage bitch queen" Cordelia from Buffy, whose character changed dramatically during her time on Angel.[4]
Whedon gave Lorne's spell the side-effect of making the gang "high" to differentiate this memory spell from a similar one used in the Buffy episode "Tabula Rasa", readily admitting the spell itself is "lazy writing," meant only to set the plot in motion.[4] The frame narrative established by Lorne in the night club was done to highlight the postmodern aspects of the episode, explains Whedon. The artificiality of the night club, and Lorne's breaking of the fourth wall when he comments on the commercials that played during the act break, provides a foreground for the alternate reality caused by the spell.[4] Whedon notes that while writing this episode, he already knew that Connor and Cordelia were going to have sex, but the story had to move faster than he had originally planned because Carpenter became pregnant.[4]
Acting[edit]
This episode took much longer to film due to the cast finding it difficult to stop laughing. Amy Acker and Andy Hallett ruined dozens of takes by giggling, and Alexis Denisof and David Boreanaz prolonged shooting for an hour and a half when they couldn't stop laughing. To get the scene, Denisof explains he and Boreanaz resolved not to look at each other; on the DVD commentary Whedon points out background shots where Boreanaz is still failing to keep a straight face.[4]
Continuity[edit]
This episode follows a similar plot to the Buffy episode "Tabula Rasa" where all the characters forget who they are because of a spell gone wrong. It also mirrors the Buffy episode "Band Candy" where all the adults are turned into teenager versions of themselves.
The age the characters regress to is unclear; Fred states "not one of y'all look 17", implying that would be the age they think they are, but Cordelia has no recollection of slayers or vampires nor does she recognize Angel. Cordelia initially believes herself to be the victim of a "sophomore hazing" prank, indicating she's regressed to sophomore year. She didn't meet Angel until towards the end of her sophomore year, and wasn't aware of the supernatural world until the very end of her sophomore year. It also should be noted that Cordelia's reaction to Angel's entrance, "Hello salty goodness" is exactly the same as when she met him for the first time.[5]
When Wesley says, "there are stories at the Watcher's Academy of a test. A secret gauntlet which only the most cunning can survive. You're locked in a house with a vicious, deadly vampire, and you have to kill him before he kills you. It's been done in the past with Slayers," he is speaking of the Cruciamentum that Buffy had to undertake in "Helpless".
Fred speaks to a plant in this episode, as she previously did in "That Old Gang of Mine". Also, Spike mentions speaking to plants is one of Illyria's powers in "Origin".
Fred confuses a Slayer with the thrash band of the same name. This is the second time in Buffyverse that Slayer has been mentioned in association with Buffy's title. The first was by Forrest in the Buffy episode "Doomed".
Fred asks if anyone else took a personality test recently, with questions "about politics and your bowel movements and if you want to be a florist..." This would seem to be the same florist question test that was mentioned in "Doppelgangland".
Cordelia says Connor is 18 years old, the first time he is given a concrete age after returning from Quor'Toth in the third season.
Angel, in his 18th century original identity of Liam, sees vehicles and runs into the Hotel believing them to be demons, as did Buffy when she believed herself to be an 18th Century Maiden in the Buffy Episode "Halloween".
It is uncertain when the narration of the episode by Lorne takes place. It is assumed it takes place after the episode ends, but some comments imply he was aware of the ultimate consequences of the spell (Jasmine's emergence), placing it at the end of the season.
The Beast makes his first appearance in Cordelia's vision, but he does not fully appear until the next episode.
After losing her memory, Cordelia is extremely upset at the thought of missing her senior prom, which was depicted in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Three episode "The Prom". Though none of them were aware of it at the time that she made the comment, both Angel and Wesley were in attendance. The latter, who was then harbouring feelings for Cordelia, asked her to dance.
Reception and reviews[edit]
The DVD commentary for this episode, featuring writer/director Joss Whedon and actor Alexis Denisof, ranks 86th on the list of top 100 commentary tracks for DVD boxsets and movies on RateThatCommentary.com,[6] and 3rd on Slayage.com.[7]
This episode is one of the more well regarded of the season, with UGO Networks commenting that it is "a bit of a high point" of the season and "great fun all around." Pointing out that Whedon had previously explored amnesia on Buffy, here he "goes back to the well here with a twist."[8] Sci-fi.com calls it the best of the "light" episodes this season, due to the writing and directing credits of Joss Whedon.[9]
The Futon Critic named it the 33rd best episode of 2002, saying "it was particularly interesting in this episode to see Cordelia (along with the rest of the cast) forced to revisit their younger selves after a memory spell goes awry. How Chase, David Boreanaz, Alexis Denisof and company all step their characters back a few years without missing a beat is something that borders on extraordinary to watch.[10]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, ANGEL Season Four DVD Collection REVIEW
2.^ Jump up to: a b Abbott, Stacey (2005), "'Nobody Scream...Or Touch My Arms': The Comic Stylings of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce", in Stacey Abbott, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul, I.B.Tauris, pp. 199–202, ISBN 1-85043-839-0
3.Jump up ^ Davis, Peggy, "I’m a Rogue Demon-Hunter": Wesley’s Transformation from Fop to Hero on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Bobbitt, Rebecca, "SPIN THE BOTTLE." DVD Commentary by Joss Whedon & Alexis Denisof
5.Jump up ^ http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/prophecy.shtml
6.Jump up ^ Current top 100 commentary tracks
7.Jump up ^ Erenberg, Daniel (August 29, 2005), Listmania: The Revenge
8.Jump up ^ Sullivan, Michael Patrick, Angel Season Four DVD Review
9.Jump up ^ Huddleston, Kathie (December 6, 2004), On Screen: Angel Season-Four DVD
10.Jump up ^ Brian Ford Sullivan (January 7, 2003). "The 50 Best Episodes of 2002 - #40-31". The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
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Apocalypse, Nowish
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"Apocalypse, Nowish"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 7
Directed by
Vern Gillum
Written by
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
4ADH07
Original air date
November 17, 2002
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Daniel Dae Kim as Gavin Park
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Tina Morasco as Mrs. Pritchard
Molly Weber as Waitress

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"Apocalypse, Nowish" is episode 7 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Steven S. DeKnight and directed by Vern Gillum, it was originally broadcast on November 17, 2002 on the WB network. The WB referred to this episode as "Rain of Fire" when it was first aired, which DeKnight attributes to "legal issues" over the title's reference to the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.[1]
In "Apocalypse, Nowish", Angel Investigations deals with a sudden wave of paranormal activity all over Los Angeles, portending the rise of the apocalyptic beast of whom Cordelia has been experiencing visions. As the Beast rises from the bowels of the Earth to bring a rain of fire over the city, Cordelia and Connor make love.


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

Plot[edit]
Lorne wants to learn what Cordelia remembers about her time as a higher power, but Angel insists that they wait. Connor comforts Cordelia after another nightmare featuring the demon from her visions. Meanwhile, as Angel Investigations is flooded with calls involving paranormal activity all over Los Angeles, Wesley returns home after fighting a bug infestation to find Lilah dressed as Fred for sexual role-playing.
Suddenly, Cordelia starts breathing hard and her eyes turn white as she warns Angel that "he's coming." Cordelia lies down and tells Angel and Connor what she remembers of her vision. Back at the hotel, Lorne picks up on the strained relationship between Fred and Gunn; since they jointly sought revenge on the man who sent Fred to a hell dimension, Fred has not been able to forgive Gunn for their actions. She leaves for the diner where she and Gunn are regulars.
Angel goes to Wolfram & Hart to demand that Lilah return the information the law firm sucked out of Lorne's head about the impending apocalypse. Cordelia and Connor walk to an alleyway that Cordelia recognizes as the place where Connor was born, where Darla staked herself. A large, horned demon bursts from the ground before them, knocking them both down. Connor attacks, but his strength is not enough to stop the demon and he takes a brutal beating before the demon strides away. Cordelia tends to Connor's wounds and finds that he has broken ribs, something that's never happened to him before.
At the diner, a waitress tries to advise Fred on her relationship troubles, until an earthquake shatters the diner's windows. Meanwhile, unable to locate Fred, Gunn is restless and tries to leave to find her, but Wesley appears and interrupts his departure. Aware of all the strange occurrences around town, he offers to work with them to deal with this problem, but Gunn's too angry with Wesley to even consider the idea. Angel stops them all from leaving because he has information from Lilah that they must study to prevent the end of the world. The trio examine the pages containing information stolen earlier from Lorne's brain. Another call is taken by Lorne and Angel instructs him to start mapping the locations from where the calls originate. The pages make no sense until Gunn sees that the pages fit together like a puzzle. Rearranging the sheets reveals a symbol shaped like a square with an "X" inside representing the "Eye of Fire." Lorne makes another discovery: the mapped locations of strange occurrences form the same pattern. Angel and the gang determine that the location on the map that appears at the middle of the X is a popular club on a high rooftop. They arrive at the club to find a mass of dead bodies and the Beast waiting for them.
Angel and the team take on the demon but are overpowered. Crossbows, axes, and swords don't have much impact, so Wesley tries a series of guns that also fail. Angel renews the battle and manages to send the demon to its knees, until the demon stakes him in the neck. The demon sends Angel flying off the roof onto the floor. The demon forms the Eye of Fire using the dead bodies and sets them ablaze. Angel rips the stake from his neck and slowly begins to recover.
The fire on the roof rises towards the sky and soon fire starts to rain down as Connor and Cordelia watch. Connor blames himself for the whole situation, but Cordelia comforts and reassures him that he's not to blame. Cordelia kisses Connor and offers him the chance to feel something real. While everyone else watches the fire, fearing the future that awaits them, Connor and Cordelia have sex. Connor is seeking comfort in her arms. Angel is shown to be observing through the window on top of a nearby building.
Production[edit]
Executive producer Jeffrey Jackson Bell employed the effects shop Almost Human to design Vladimir Kulich's costuming and make-up. Almost Human makeup designer Chris Burdett says it took 2–3 days for four people to sculpt the costume and another 7 hours to fill and shape the huge fiberglass mold; a life cast was made of Kulich so that the suit would fit him exactly. The night before shooting was to begin, the crew finally established the costume's paint scheme.[2] Kulich went through an eight hour make-up process to transform him into the character of the Beast, including prosthetics and fiberglass body suit, but "The worst part was the contact lenses...[that] cover the entire eyeball," the actor said. However, the isolating nature of the 50 lb costume[3] meant that "I was able to search a little deeper for material while I was in the character because I was cocooned off...It was liberating."[4] Writer Steven S. DeKnight says all the full-suit shots of the Beast feature stunt double Scott Workman. They cut to Kulich only for the close-ups.[5]
According to director Vern Gillum, "J. August Richards is terrified by rats, just like his character. This is the nicest guy in the world and it was just torment for him beyond anything you could imagine."[5] In the final fight scene, which took two full days to film, Charisma Carpenter had to be careful doing her stunts, as she was pregnant.[5]
Arc significance[edit]
After appearing for a split second in Cordelia's vision in the previous episode, the Beast fully appears in this episode and becomes one of Angel Investigations' most powerful foes.
Upon rising, the Beast reacts to Cordelia, foreshadowing her future role in the season.
Wesley officially rejoins the team, having been just the occasional helper since he kidnapped Connor in Season 3.
The Jasmine-possessed Cordelia's tryst with Connor will have severe ramifications, leading to her pregnancy, the eventual birth of Jasmine in embodied form, and ultimately, Cordelia's death.
Connor calls Angel "dad" for the second time, showing his growing affection for Angel (the first was his initial appearance from Quor-Toth, when he said "hi, dad")
Cordelia rejects Angel because of his actions as Angelus
Continuity[edit]
Gunn's fear of rats was first mentioned in "Heartthrob".
Fred previously went to the diner in "Couplet" and "Loyalty", both times with Gunn.
Gunn's home-made axe (made from a vehicle hubcap) is crushed by the Beast in the ensuing fight. The axe was first seen in the season 2 episode "Dear Boy" and made numerous appearances over the next two seasons.
Cordelia dreams about The Beast attacking her, even though she is actually possessed by Jasmine.
Cultural references[edit]
Apocalypse Now: The name of this episode is a play on the name of the 1979 film, which the Scooby Gang watch in the Buffy episode Restless.
Jaws: Lorne's line, "I'm gonna need a bigger arrow" may be an allusion to Brody's line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" in the 1975 film.
The final fight scene with the Beast references many classic cinematic fighting styles, including The Matrix (the Beast deflecting arrows while the camera does a slow motion circular pan), John Woo (Wesley firing two handguns while moving laterally), and Terminator 2 (Wesley pushing the Beast backwards with repeated shotgun blasts).
Reception[edit]
Writer Steven DeKnight says, "One of the biggest things this year has been the reaction to "Apocalypse, Nowish." Everybody loved the show, basically giving it five stars then taking three away because of the very end." When fans speculated why Cordelia would sleep with Angel's son, DeKnight cautions, "There is a bigger reason for it that will become apparent as well... You have to remember it's a long story arc."[1] Many people were disturbed that Cordelia slept with Connor, and Charisma Carpenter agrees: "I hear a lot of "ewwww," and I agree. It is ewwwy. Only something deplorable and devilish and truly evil could do something so horrid."[6]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b DiLullo, Tara, Inside Out: An Exclusive Interview with Writer Steven S. DeKnight
2.Jump up ^ Bratton, Kristy, The Monster's Bash: Behind the Makeup with the Artists of Almost Human and Angel, retrieved 2007-09-15
3.Jump up ^ "RON MEETS THE BEAST: A Conversation with Vladimir Kulich", Slayage.com, 24 December 2002
4.Jump up ^ DiLullo, Tara, The Big Vlad: an Exclusive Spotlight on Vladimir Kulich, retrieved 2007-09-15
5.^ Jump up to: a b c Bratton, Kristy, ANGEL Season Four DVD Collection REVIEW
6.Jump up ^ Sex Scenes, Babies..., E! News, 2003-02-28
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"Habeas Corpses"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 8
Directed by
Skip Schoolnik
Written by
Jeffrey Bell
Production code
4ADH08
Original air date
January 15, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Daniel Dae Kim as Gavin Park
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Kay Panabaker as Little Girl

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"Habeas Corpses" is episode 8 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Angel is preoccupied with the indestructible Beast storms through Wolfram & Hart, leaving a trail of destruction and reanimated zombies in his wake.[1]


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2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 References
4 External links

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Fred waits impatiently at the hotel, and Wesley, Gunn and Lorne return, battered and bruised from their battle. Fred and Gunn embrace. Cordelia tries to tell Connor that the night before was a one-time deal, but he storms out, feeling the pain of her rejection and blaming himself for the Beast's intrusion.
Wesley is visited by Lilah who's relieved to find him alive. Wesley's not as welcoming to her affections though, and he breaks off their relationship, choosing to fight for the good side.
Connor sneaks into Lilah's office, but Lilah attempts to have him captured and tested for their purposes. Connor takes the situation into his own hands and orders Lilah to help him learn everything they do about the Beast. The lights flicker and turn off as Connor realizes the Beast has arrived, rampaging through the lobby and tearing lawyers apart. Connor sets out to take on the creature himself. The Beast finds Gavin in a closet, snaps his neck and tosses him effortlessly against a wall. The Beast then goes after Lilah who tries first to shoot the creature and then negotiate, but he stabs her with one of his clawed fingers. After a couple of failed attempts at hurting the creature, Connor is recognized by the Beast and tossed aside into a stone pillar.
Wesley arrives to rescue Lilah, using a hand grenade to temporarily stun the fast-approaching demon. Lilah leads the way to a storage closet where one of the only two emergency exits can be found hidden behind some shelves. They escape through a small passage and into the sewers below the building. Wesley instructs her to start over a build a new life somewhere else before the Beast finds her. As he leaves, she informs him that Connor is trapped in the building.
Wesley returns to the hotel, and immediately Angel is determined to rescue his son. Meanwhile, Connor returns to his search for the Beast. As he passes over Gavin's body, the former lawyer's eyes fly open. Cordelia stays at the hotel with Lorne, and Wesley leads the rest of the gang back through the sewers to the secret exit of Wolfram and Hart. The group walks through piles of dead lawyer bodies and then split up to speed up the search.
Angel finds Connor, but before they can escape, Gavin attacks Angel. Angel quickly points out that Gavin's a zombie as he knocks the former lawyer aside. Connor and Angel make a break for it as the various dead bodies around the halls all start to awaken. Fred, Wesley and Gunn are soon attacked by zombies as well and barricade themselves in an office. The zombies prove too overwhelming and everyone needs to escape, but all of the routes are obstructed by the zombies. Angel suggests they try the Conduit of the White Room he was in once before, so they try to use the elevator. Gunn spots Gavin at the front and takes a moment to chop off the zombie's head, while Angel finally gets the secret access code to work, and they're transported to the special white room.
Once there, they spot the little girl lying on the ground as the Beast kneels above her, extracting a black cloud of energy, or possibly her life, from her. She tells them, "The answer is among you" and then before the Beast can get his hands on them, the young girl mutters some words and transports the gang back into the hotel. Cordelia hugs Connor while Lorne questions the others about what happened. Soon afterward, Cordelia tells Angel that she was worried and he rudely tells her to take her new boyfriend and get out, thinking she's in love with his son, Connor.
Writing[edit]
It is never established exactly why the Wolfram & Hart employees are re-animated as zombies. It is suggested that the Beast (or, by extension, anyone associated with it) was responsible, or alternatively that it is a mystical failsafe which is automatically activated at Wolfram & Hart during emergencies. However, in "Home" it is revealed that Lilah Morgan remains in the employ of Wolfram & Hart, even after her death. Lilah describes this as a "standard immortality clause", suggesting that all employees have such a contract.
Arc significance[edit]
Wesley breaks up with Lilah after several episodes of an ongoing complicated relationship. Lilah hides her pain with callousness, and expresses her belief that he is joining Angel Investigations again because of Fred.
The Beast's massacre leaves the Wolfram & Hart building in shambles, and its employees dead, with Lilah being the only known exception. It remains this way until the season finale, when it appears to have been mystically restored and remodeled.
This episode also hints that the evil is among them-the group mistakenly believes soon after this that the little girl from Wolfram and Hart meant Angelus, but it appears she was actually referring to Cordelia/Jasmine's role in everything taking place.
Continuity[edit]
Angel demonstrates his photographic memory, previously seen in "Supersymmetry".
The White Room was last seen in "Forgiving".
This episode marks the last appearance of Gavin and the second and last appearance of the Girl.
Cultural references[edit]
Habeas Corpus: The episode's title refers to the legal action.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Angel: Habeas Corpses Episode Summary". TV.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
External links[edit]
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"Long Day's Journey"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 9
Directed by
Terrence O'Hara
Written by
Mere Smith
Production code
4ADH09
Original air date
January 22, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Alexa Davalos as Gwen Raiden
Jack Kehler as Manny
Michael Chinyamurindi as Ashet
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast

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"Long Day's Journey" is episode nine of season four in the television show Angel. The electro-kinetic cat burglar-for-hire, Gwen Raiden, returns and reluctantly helps Angel and the group after they discover that the Beast is searching for five mystical Totems in order to block out sunlight from Los Angeles so that all demons and vampires can roam freely.


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2 Writing 2.1 Cultural references
2.2 Continuity
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Lorne brings Angel some blood in his room. Gwen Raiden meets a client, Mr. Ashet. Just as the man suggests not killing her for canceling on him, the Beast shoves a fist through the man's chest, sending Gwen flying.
Connor is restless in his warehouse. Cordelia gets a vision of the Beast and immediately rushes to talk to Angel. Gunn and Fred brainstorm the meaning of the little girl's words. Wesley reveals he has discovered the little girl was Wolfram and Hart's connection to the Senior Partners but she was also an entity named Mesektet. He explains that Mesektet was one of five totems in a group known as the Ra-Tet.
Lorne drops in with news of another killing; a Shaman whose heart was ripped out. Fred finds out it was Ma'at, another totem of the Ra-tet. she felt she was in the body of someone talking to the Beast. Gwen arrives at the hotel to mixed feelings about her presence, but her experience with the Beast proves to be useful to them.
Fred discovers Gwen's client was another Ra-tet member, one composed of light. Needing to find and protect at least one of the two remaining totems, Angel suggests he and Gwen go find Semkhet in Death Valley. Angel and Gwen sneak into the cave holding Semkhet, but find they're too late and the body has already been destroyed. As Angel wonders about the reason for the Beast killing off the Ra-tet, a rather ordinary man appears and explains that the beast is trying to stop the light of the sun. The man reveals himself to be Manjet, or Manny, the only surviving member of the Ra-tet, and keeper of the orb. Manny explains that the Beast is planning a ritual using the Ra-tet to eventually black out the whole world from the sun and turn the earth into a land for demons.
Angel brings Manny back to the hotel, but the gang quickly realizes the hotel is not the safest place for them to protect Manny. Gwen leads the gang to her surprisingly lavish home in a seemingly rundown building. Angel mentions to Cordelia that Gwen's money came from the Axis of Pythia he used to track Cordelia and then gave to Gwen. She has a panic room for Manjet to hide in that should be safe for him. The others split up into pairs to guard the entrance. While watching over the entrance to the secret room, Gwen picks up on Gunn's issues with Wesley, but the story's too long for him to tell. Gwen and Gunn depart for some rest, and by the time Gwen and Gunn awake, Manny has been brutally killed.
The gang brainstorm about Manny being an orb keeper, and what could have been taken from him. Gwen reveals that the Beast took something out of the chest of the Shaman she was visiting, despite earlier having claimed to have seen nothing. The timing and stealthiness of the attack and the spiked drinks lead the gang to believe it was an inside job, but no definite suspect can be pinned down. Gwen checks the security tapes of the rooms, but finds the feeds stopped just before Angel and Cordelia began their shift.
They return to the hotel and find information about the ritual from Lorne's research. An orb and two metal wings are three elements of the ritual and Gwen thinks she can help stop the events if she's able to get close enough to melt the metal wings. Wesley and Fred announce they've discovered what seems to be the only way to get rid of the Beast: opening a portal to send it through. Gunn reacts badly to this idea, but Fred reminds him it's their only option. Cordelia gets another vision about the Beast, in which it stands over a group of massacred people. Cordelia also senses she knew the person the Beast was talking to, leading them all to believe Connor is involved.
The Beast finds Connor at his warehouse and promptly throws him out the window. Angel and the gang pull up just in time, charging upstairs to stop the ritual. Wesley and Fred work on opening the portal while the others attack the Beast, who has already started the ritual. While the portal opens behind the Beast upstairs, outside Cordelia gets to see more of her vision and the sun begins to darken. With several consecutive blows, Angel and the others manage to send the Beast through the portal and out of their world. The sun continues to darken. Cordelia's vision continues too, and she sees the person the Beast was talking to: Angelus.
Upstairs, the Beast reappears behind the gang and speaks, saying he met Angelus in the past, and again offering a union of their evil. The beast grabs the orb and swallows it whole, then flies out the window. Cordelia figures out her vision was actually a memory from when she was a higher power and saw all of Angelus's actions over time. Angel doesn't remember such a meeting in the past, but Wesley suspects the Beast has been able to control Angel in some ways. Taking the little girl's words to heart, Wesley announces that the only one with power and knowledge to help defeat the Beast is Angelus, so they need him back.
Writing[edit]
The episode is dedicated to Glenn Quinn, one of Angel's original co-stars, who died on December 3, 2002 of a heroin overdose.
Cultural references[edit]
Long Day's Journey Into Night: The episode title refers to Eugene O'Neill's play.
Continuity[edit]
Lorne says to a depressed Angel "When all's said and done, Connor will still be your son", referencing Connor's future transition into a new family with new parents at the end of the season.
It is revealed that the Girl at Wolfram & Hart is actually a totem of the god Ra, one of the five Ra-Tet.
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"Awakening"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 10
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Fury
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
4ADH10
Original air date
January 29, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Roger Yuan as Wo-Pang
Larry McCormick as Himself

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"Awakening" is episode 10 of season 4 in the television show Angel.


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2 Production details 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Cultural References
2.3 Continuity
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
In an attempt to locate the Beast and restore the sun to Los Angeles, Wesley brings in a dark mystic, named Wo-Pang, to extract Angel’s soul and release the evil Angelus who apparently knew the Beast centuries before and who may know how to kill it. The gang build a large cage in the basement where they tie Angel down and Wo-Pang creates an illusion reality though this isn't revealed until the end of the episode.
In Angel's alternate reality, Wo-Pang betrays the gang by attempting to kill Angel. Cordelia has a vision that shows the location of a sword that can kill the Beast - which is conveniently below Los Angeles. Angel, Cordelia, Connor and Wesley venture to a subterranean tunnel filled with lethal trip-wire devices where Angel acquires the sword. In the tunnels, Cordelia and Angel confess their feelings for one another. Witness to the exchange, Connor initially is hurt, but eventually gives them his blessings.
Back at the hotel, the Beast attacks the group where with the sword, Angel kills the Beast. With the death of the Beast, the sun is restored. Against better judgement, Cordelia and Angel have sex causing Angel to experience a moment of perfect happiness. However, before he loses his soul, he says "Buffy" instead of Cordelia, raising the question of who he saw actually saw Cordelia as- herself, or Buffy. As a result, he loses his soul and thus the spell is broken.
Back in reality, the spell has had its intended effect. Angelus is back; Angel's soul is trapped in a glass container.
Production details[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Angel voluntarily gives up his soul and reverts to Angelus. He remains as such for the next several episodes.
Cultural References[edit]
The group's adventure under the city bears many resemblances to scenes from the Indiana Jones saga, most obviously in Angel's utterance of "Wood. Why'd it have to be wood?"
Continuity[edit]
This is the first true present-day appearance of Angelus since "Becoming", in season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Angel had temporarily taken on the behavior of Angelus briefly during "Eternity", due to a drug-enhanced delusion of happiness, and had played the part of Angelus convincingly in "Enemies" in an orchestrated attempt to convince Faith that Angel had turned on Buffy. Other than Cordelia (and Wesley, if the incident from "Eternity" is considered), this is the first encounter any of the gang has had with Angelus' former self.
After having an illusion of sex with Cordelia in the false reality created by Wo-Pang, Angel frantically whispers "Buffy", alluding to the first time he lost his soul in "Surprise".
This episode marks the second time a mystic is called upon to remove Angel's restored soul, the first (unsuccessful) attempt being "Enemies" from season three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In both episodes the two mystics are dressed in similar robes.
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Soulless (Angel)
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"Soulless"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 11
Directed by
Sean Astin
Written by
Sarah Fain
Elizabeth Craft
Production code
4ADH11
Original air date
February 5, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast

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"Soulless" is episode 11 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by actor Sean Astin, it was originally broadcast on February 5, 2003 on the WB network. In "Soulless", Angel’s soul has been locked away in an office safe so that his alter ego Angelus can be interrogated about the Beast. After taunting Wesley, Gunn, and Fred about their faults and revealing damaging secrets he, as Angel, knew, Cordelia strikes a deal with Angelus so that he will share information about the Beast.


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2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 References
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Plot[edit]
At the Hyperion Hotel, the gang carefully put Angel's contained soul away in the safe, discussing the great risk they all face in dealing with Angelus. Meanwhile, an unchained Angelus sits alone in the basement cage. Wesley cautiously approaches the cage and starts up a discussion with Angelus. Angelus plays games with Wesley, avoiding the important information about The Beast in favor of taunting Wesley about his romantic interest in Fred while the rest of the gang watch the conversation from the lobby via video feed. Angelus continues to be difficult, raising issues of Wesley's failure with Faith and Connor. Connor returns to receive strange looks in the aftermath of Angelus's news, but misinterprets the looks as everyone thinking he's still connected to the Beast.
Gunn and Fred bring Angelus a glass of blood and Angelus happily takes advantage of the opportunity to taunt the couple about the sounds Angel could hear coming from Fred's room at night. Fred pushes a cart towards the cage and Angelus takes the glass, but also shoves the cart into Fred and grabs her when she falls towards the cage. Gunn moves in to rescue Fred, but it's Wesley who shoots Angelus with tranquilizer darts, freeing Fred and knocking Angelus out cold. In Wesley's office, Fred thanks him for saving her, but the conversation takes a turn for the romantic as Wesley kisses Fred. Gunn walks in and, after realizing what just happened between them, he gets furious. The two men begin to fight until Gunn accidentally hits Fred when she tries to stop them. Angelus is pleased with the discord he has created.
Connor approaches Angelus, who tells Connor that his mother Darla and his adoptive father Holtz were eager to get away from Connor. Connor calmly replies that he knows that Angelus is his real father. Angelus thinks he can take advantage of this and encourages Connor to approach, but Cordelia interrupts and sends Connor away. She then turns off the video camera and offers herself in exchange for all of Angelus's information on the Beast. Angelus is reluctant to take her offer, but later Cordelia informs the gang that Angelus is willing to talk, although she refuses to tell them what she did to get Angelus to talk. Wesley goes downstairs and begins to ask questions. Angelus explains that in 1789, the Beast tried to bribe Angelus into helping him kill three priestesses who were attempting to banish the Beast. Angelus refused to help, and then the priestesses appeared and banished the Beast. Gunn finds that the women live nearby.
Wesley, Cordelia and Connor find the priestesses and their families have already been murdered by the Beast. After seeing a "Daddy's Birthday" reminder on the family's calendar, Connor runs outside to be sick. Cordelia chases after him and she tries to talk to him, but some vampires interrupt the moment, sending the gang into battle mode. Connor disposes of one and Wesley gets the car for them to escape in. They return to the hotel and everyone realizes that without useful information from Angelus, they need to turn him back into Angel. Cordelia goes downstairs and, despite Angelus's enthusiasm to have her, Cordelia tells him the deal is off since they didn't get to save the world and that they're putting his soul back. Angelus doesn't seem too worried about that, as he's confident he'll get to see the apocalypse come to life. Cordelia returns to the office only to find bad news: the container holding Angel's soul is gone.
Production[edit]
"Soulless" was directed by actor Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. After Astin told writer/director and close friend Doug Petrie about his "fervent desire to be directing episodic television," he shadowed producers David Greenwalt and Tim Minear for several weeks to get a feel for the series before he was given this episode to direct. "Television sort of mandates that you keep moving," Astin says, "but you don't want to stop. Angelus [has] so many layers and so many different shades and qualities, you want to keep exploring them and mining them and pulling them out. It's such a rich, meaty character for him to do. He's good at evil. It's a little creepy."[1]
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Angelus refers to the Ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex when he tells Connor, "I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. There should be a play." He also refers to Fred and Gunn as Othello and Desdemona, and the line "Bodies, bodies everywhere, and not a drop to drink," is a reference to a similar line in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Angelus's reference to the "foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart" comes from the William Butler Yeats poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion", and that animalistic element is also present in his choice of music in his cage at the beginning, "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", a song which, later in the lyric, promises good things to the good, but also speaks of watching them (the bears) and "catch them unawares".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ 79986 ,00.html 1, "Sean Astin Loves 'Soulless' 'Angel'"
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"Calvary"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 12
Directed by
Bill L. Norton
Written by
Mere Smith
Steven S. DeKnight
Jeffrey Bell
Production code
4ADH12
Original air date
February 12, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Roger Yuan as Wo-Pang

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"Calvary" is episode 12 of season 4 in the television show Angel. The gang scrambles to locate Angel’s soul, while Angelus tells the group that the Beast is controlled by a higher being further up.


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2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 External links

Plot[edit]
Connor, Wesley and Cordelia force their way into the Shaman's chambers and question him about Angel's soul, only to find that Angel's soul still remains in its container, although he warns them that if the container is broken and the soul isn't being controlled, the soul will cease to exist, Angelus will get out, and they'll,"be screwed." Angelus continues to taunt the gang, angering Gunn over his relationship with Fred. Lilah sneaks in, emerging from the sewers holding a crowbar and attempts a deal with Angelus. Gunn finally spots Lilah on the video monitor and rushes downstairs to put a tranquilizer dart in Angelus, while Lilah runs off. While the others question Lilah's intentions, Wesley chases and catches her. He thumbs through her copy of Rhinehardt's Compendium, finding information his copy does not contain. Lilah had received her copy on the pan-dimensional black market, and Wesley determines someone had erased the information in this dimension.
Angelus wakes up and informs the gang that the Beast actually works for someone or something. Wesley returns with Lilah, but the gang are extremely suspicious of her and drill her about her intentions. Gunn leaves to keep watch on Angelus, who pushes Gunn's buttons again over his relationship with Fred and the gang. He mentions Dr. Seidel's death (from "Supersymmetry"), which he knows about because "even Angel's not that stupid." He offers to keep what Fred did a secret, but Gunn corrects him that Fred didn't kill Seidel, prompting Angelus to praise him for "steppin' up and bein' the man!" Angelus mock-commisserates with Gunn about Fred's affections shifting to Wesley, citing Wesley's recent descent into more violent behavior as the cause; "for once in your life," Angelus teases, "you just weren't dark enough." Gunn responds with a blast from his flame thrower, and Angelus crows that there's "hope" for Gunn yet.
Fred informs Wesley that she's no longer with Gunn, but Wesley takes the news as an opportunity to make another move on Fred, though he's interrupted by Cordelia and Lilah. Lilah and the gang argue about the possibility of saving the world, but then Cordelia gets a vision that allows her to see how to get Angel's soul back. Fred goes downstairs to inform Wesley about Cordy's vision, and she exchanges barbs with Angelus. While mock-praising Wesley, Angelus casually mentions his sexual liaisons with Lilah - another shock for Fred. Gunn and Connor dig up the grave of a soul eater, the skull of which is needed to return Angel's soul. Once they hit the coffin, the soul eater proves to be more active than dead and attacks the duo. With Connor incapacitated, Gunn is able to chop the demon to bits and retrieve the head.
Meanwhile, the Beast offers a gift to its unseen master; a knife made of his bones. Cordelia and Fred present the talismans they built for the spell while Gunn and Connor return with the fresh demon head. The spell is set up in the basement while Angelus tries to discourage them from trying. Wesley chants and a white soul-like mist emerges from the skull, passes through the talismans and surrounds Angelus in the cage. Angel's soul seems to be returned and once Angel sings for Lorne, it's concluded that his soul really has returned. Still worried, Angel decides to stay in the cage and direct the others. Cordelia refuses to take his orders because he's acting like a coward and convinces him that he needs to be out of the cage. Free, Angel grabs Cordy, revealing that the spell did not work and that he is still Angelus. Cordy fights back and tries to hide in the cage, but Angelus knocks her out and heads upstairs to continue his Angel charade.
Angelus drops in on Fred, and the others are still fooled by him, but they don't get long to chat as he leaves spouting an excuse about going out to save the world. Spotting an unconscious Cordy in the cage, they realize Angelus lied and depart to find him. A consensus is reached that they won't be saving Angelus, they'll be killing him on sight now. Angelus roams the crazy streets of LA, but can't find anything but dead bodies and vampires, and he doubles back to the hotel. Lilah fires a round of bullets at him and Cordy tries to shoot him with the crossbow, but none of the attempts are successful. Angelus throws the crossbow bolt back at Cordelia's leg, taking her down and leaving him to deal with Lilah. Connor tracks Angelus back to the hotel. Angelus stalks Lilah until he finally finds her trying to hide. He takes her ax from her, but before he can kill her with it, she tosses him over a stair railing and runs off. Cordelia stabs Lilah in the neck (using the dagger the beast offered to its master earlier in the episode), informing a dying Lilah that she let Angelus out for a reason.
Writing[edit]
During the episode, Lilah references sending in the "cavalry" (a group of warriors), which is often confused with the episode's title, "Calvary." The Calvary, or Golgotha, was the site near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
Arc significance[edit]
Lilah is murdered by Cordelia, who is under the possession of the being later known as Jasmine. Her possession becomes very apparent.
This episode signals the end of Gunn and Fred's relationship.
Angelus reveals that the Beast is not acting of his own accord. He is following orders.
Continuity[edit]
Wesley and Lilah's relationship is revealed.
Gunn mentions that the Chumash Indians buried the soul-eater that they're digging up. The Chumash previously featured prominently in the Buffy episode "Pangs."
Angelus echoes Faith's words when she is posing as Buffy in the Buffy episode "Who Are You" when he says "being evil is wrong."
When Fred and Wesley are researching methods to restore Angel's soul, she references The orb of Thesulah. The orb of Thesulah was first introduced in the Buffy episode "Passion". It is seen again in Buffy at the season two finale when Willow successfully restores Angel's soul. It is seen later in this season.
Cultural references[edit]
Gunn references Star Wars when he calls Angelus 'Darth Vampire'.
Cordelia also tells Angel that 'you might be their only hope, Obi-Wan,' again referencing Star Wars.
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"Salvage"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 13
Directed by
Jefferson Kibbee
Written by
David Fury
Production code
4ADH13
Original air date
March 5, 2003
Guest actors

Andy Hallett as Lorne
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Vladimir Kulich as The Beast
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Kara Holden as Young Woman
Billy Riek as Paco Vamp
Joel David Moore as Karl Vamp
Alonzo Bodden as Prison Guard
Joshua Grenrock Demon in Bar
Addie Daddio as Rosaria Vamp
Brett Wagner as Bohg'dar Demon
Spice Williams as Debbie

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"Salvage" is episode 13 of season 4 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB television network. After discovering Lilah’s dead body, a grieving Wesley breaks rogue slayer Faith out of prison so she can help track down Angelus. Meanwhile, Lorne performs a sanctuary spell to keep Angelus out of the hotel while Cordelia—secretly revealed to be the big evil controlling the Beast—confides in Connor that she is pregnant.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Arc significance
2.3 Continuity
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Angelus, who has been stalking Lilah, is disappointed when he finds her already dead. Wesley and Gunn discover him holding her body, drinking whatever is left of her blood; he escapes through a window, allowing the two to assume he killed her. Downstairs, when Wesley and Gunn return to the lobby with news of Lilah's death, Lorne suggests protecting the hotel with the same magic that forbids violence at his club. When the group realizes that Angelus could have turned Lilah into a vampire, Wesley offers to prevent her potential rising.
Angelus visits a demon bar—where he is raucously received—to question the patrons on the whereabouts of the Beast. In the basement, Wesley prepares to behead Lilah. After an imaginary conversation where he apologizes for their "not-a-relationship", he finally brings down the ax. Connor intends to destroy Angelus despite Cordelia's protests, but when he starts to leave, Cordelia faints mid-speech and Connor stops to care for her.
Meanwhile, Slayer Faith works out in prison until another prisoner threatens her with a knife. Faith efficiently knocks the woman out. As the corrections officer hauls the other prisoner away, reassuring Faith they saw how she was attacked, Faith notices the ornate Bringer knife that was used. Angelus follows the scent of Lilah's blood to the weapon used to kill her, in the Beast's possession. The Beast says Angelus is a part of his master's plans, but Angelus refuses to take orders and leaves. Cordelia—revealed as the Beast's master—is disappointed. The Beast apologizes for his failures and she forgives him, then the two kiss.
Lorne performs the protection spell, and Wesley returns from the basement saying he intends to restore Angel's soul. Wesley visits Faith at the prison to ask for her help; she crashes through the glass, knocks out the officers, and jumps out of the high window with Wesley. (The clear implication is that Faith could have escaped prison any time she liked and only remained there as part of her self-imposed redemption efforts.) Faith tells him that she won't kill Angelus because of Angel's crucial role in her life and Wesley admits that's precisely why he chose her for the job. When they arrive at the hotel, Faith asserts herself as commander. Connor is displeased with her decision to rescue Angelus, not kill him, but Faith makes it clear her plan is the only plan.
Angelus, after overhearing a Slayer is in town, immediately calls Buffy Summers's house. When Dawn Summers confirms her sister is still in Sunnydale, he realizes Faith must be the Slayer on the loose. Connor leads Faith, Wesley and Gunn into a factory (where Angelus has, with typical sardonic intent, erected a "Welcome, Faith" banner) and despite Faith's orders, beheads the first vampire that crosses his path. Faith yells at the teen for disobeying her and then tells him to go home because he refuses to listen to her. The two fight, but Faith is clearly stronger and eventually holds a crossbow to Connor's throat in warning. Connor returns to the hotel with Gunn, as Wesley and Faith split up to search the factory.
Faith finds Angelus with the Beast; she is badly beaten by the creature until Angelus stabs the Beast with a dagger made of the Beast's flesh, killing the demon and restoring the sun. Faith knocks out a large window, flooding the room with sunlight, forcing Angelus to keep his distance. At the hotel, the gang rejoices in the return of the sun and Connor goes upstairs to tell Cordelia. Connor sings Faith's praises until Cordy interrupts with news that she's pregnant with his child.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Writer David Fury was pleased to write for Faith's character again: "I love her voice. And for whatever reason, her voice just comes to me," he says. "She has an attitude that is fun to write, saying things that are provocative or dirty or slightly off-color... That's the stuff that's most comfortable for me to do." However, he found writing the scene between Lilah and Wesley challenging because he'd never written for Lilah before, although it "turned out better than I imagined," Fury says.[1]
Arc significance[edit]
Faith escapes from prison to help the Angel Investigations team find Angelus.
Angelus kills the Beast and the sun returns.
It is revealed that "Cordelia" is the master of the Beast, and she reveals to Connor that she is pregnant with his child.
Continuity[edit]
Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: While in prison, Faith is attacked by an inmate hired by the Bringers, agents of the First Evil who try to eliminate the Slayer line in Season Seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The inmate, Debbie, is played by Spice Williams-Crosby, who previously played a human assassin working for the demonic Order of Taraka in "What's My Line, Part One"; it could be inferred that the two demon-employed criminals are in fact the same person, but the episode offers no clarification on this point. When Angelus calls Buffy's house, he talks to Dawn Summers. This phone call is not shown in any Buffy episode. Furthermore, the phone call represents the only interaction between Angel / Angelus and Dawn in either Buffy or Angel.
This episode also reconciles Wesley and Faith for the first time to finally work together as Watcher and Slayer. In Season Three of Buffy Wesley had been sent to Sunnydale to officially replace Rupert Giles as both Buffy and Faith's watcher, which never worked out as Faith never worked with him or Giles since she had her own agenda set up as a rogue Slayer, which later turned her into a rogue criminal for hire. Their other brief encounter since Sunnydale had seen Wesley abducted and brutally tortured by Faith when she was hired to kill Angel by Wolfram & Hart, and her departure in the next episode by voluntarily turning herself to the authorities in search of redemption.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ DiLullo, Tara, The Sound of the Fury: Part II of an Exclusive Interview with Writer & Co-Executive Producer David Fury, retrieved 2007-10-15
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"Release"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 14
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Sarah Fain
Elizabeth Craft
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
4ADH14
Original air date
March 12, 2003
Guest actors

Eliza Dushku as Faith
Christopher Neiman as Frotor Demon
Darren Laverty as Lackey Vamp #1
Sam Stefanski as Lackey Vamp #2
Catalina Larranaga as Vamp Waitress
Peter Renaday as Master's Voice
Becka Linder as Drugged Girl #1
Chris Huse as Drugged Vamp #2
Ian Anthony Dale as Drugged Vamp #3
Randall Rapstine as Reg
Andrew McGinnis as Mullet Head Vamp

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"Release" is episode 14 of season four in the television show Angel.


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4 External links

Plot[edit]
As a battered and bloodied Faith recovers at Wesley's apartment after her showdown with the Beast, they wonder why Angelus would suddenly kill the Beast and allow the sun to return to Los Angeles. At a demon bar, Angelus is spoken to by a deep disembodied voice, which turns out to originate from Cordelia, projecting from the hotel. Angelus then surprises Fred at the hotel, claiming he is immune to the protection spell. He demands information on the Beast's master and steals her research materials. Fred tries to shoot him with a tranquilizer dart but accidentally hits Lorne instead. Connor attempts to stop Angelus, but is repelled by the demon protection spell.
Angelus is contacted again by Cordelia telepathically, and this time she threatens to restore his soul if he refuses to help. Fred's mood worsens as she feels inadequate to fight Angelus. Fred and Gunn kiss, but part, unsure about their feelings. Meanwhile Cordelia convinces Connor to keep her sudden pregnancy a secret from everyone else. Faith and Wesley try to track Angelus at the demon bar. There they encounter human junkies, who get high on the vampire bites. Faith smacks one around, but Wesley finally gets the needed info by stabbing the woman. They are able to track Angelus to a deserted museum where Faith has another showdown with him. The fight does not go well for Faith - in the final scene she is bitten by Angelus.
Acting[edit]
After over 40 guest appearances, Andy Hallett joins the regular cast and is now billed in the opening credits.
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Connor's attack on Angelus is repelled by the sanctuary spell, leading him to wonder if he is a demon.
Both Angelus and Wesley refer to the events of "Five by Five".
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"Orpheus"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 15
Directed by
Terrence O'Hara
Written by
Mere Smith
Production code
4ADH15
Original air date
March 19, 2003
Guest actors

Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Eliza Dushku as Faith
E.J. Callahan as Old Craps Man
Jeremy Guskin as Cashier
Peter Renaday as Master's Voice

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"Orpheus" is episode 15 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Mere Smith and directed by Terrence O'Hara, it was originally broadcast on March 19, 2003 on the WB network. "Orpheus" concludes the three-episode arc involving guest star Eliza Dushku reprising her role as the Slayer Faith, beginning immediately where the previous episode ended: Angelus starts to feed on Faith. However, she had deliberately poisoned her blood with a psychedelic drug, and the two pass out. In his coma, Angelus is forced to relive his alter ego Angel's good deeds with Faith at his side, as Cordelia attempts to stop Willow Rosenberg from re-ensouling Angel.


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

Plot[edit]
After drinking from Faith, Angelus pulls away in shock as she flashes back to earlier, when she injected herself with a drug stolen from a vampire junkie at the demon bar. Angelus and Faith both collapse, unconscious. Gunn drags Angelus's body to the Hyperion Hotel, where he and Connor shackle Angelus securely in the basement cage. Wesley brings a barely alive Faith to one of the hotel bedrooms. Knowing Faith injected herself with Orpheus, an enchanted psychedelic drug that poses a serious threat to her life, Lorne yells at Wesley for allowing Faith to purposely get bit by Angelus. Connor updates Cordelia on Faith and Angelus' conditions. Suddenly, Cordelia brutally shoves Connor into a wall in response to his constant talk about Faith. He's shocked and she tries to cover her behavior by blaming it on the pregnancy and crazy hormones.
Downstairs, Connor shouts at Fred and Wesley about the need for killing Angelus, when Willow Rosenberg appears at the door suggesting that she's a better alternative. Fred called Willow for help since she's the only one alive to have successfully restored Angel's soul. Willow wants to see Cordelia again and Connor reluctantly takes her upstairs. As Willow talks about the difficulties associated with ensouling Angelus, Cordelia secretly reaches for a large knife under her pillow and tries to get Willow close enough to strike. Willow realizes if they break the jar, they can avoid all the complications and free the soul. Willow rushes out of the room in time to unknowingly avoid the knife thrown at her, which hits the door instead.
In their shared coma, Angelus and Faith witness the 1920s-version of Angel rescue a small puppy from an oncoming car. Angelus is infuriated at being subjected to the memory again, and Faith realizes with glee that they're experiencing Angel's good deeds of the past. Next, a hippie Angel walks into a diner and selects "Mandy" on the jukebox, as Angelus complains to Faith about watching Angel's self-induced misery. A man barges into the diner and asks for money, but shoots the cashier when he doesn't react quickly enough. The shooter runs away, and Angel struggles with his desire to feed on the cashier, which wins out. The bite marks on dream-Faith's neck begins to bleed and she realizes Angel could have saved the cashier. Angelus watches on as Angel suffers with the guilt of feeding, enjoying Faith's pain as well.
Before Willow can begin her spell to locate the jar holding Angel's soul, the Beast Master's deep voice screams a warning to stop. Willow's magic overpowers the Master's, and Willow begins her spell as Cordelia works counter-magic from the bedroom. When Connor breaks Cordelia's concentration by trying to enter the bedroom, Willow is able to magically shatter the jar. Using the Orb of Thesulah, Willow and Fred begin the ritual that will give Angel back his soul. Dream-Faith finds herself in a dirty alley with Angelus again, watching past-Angel, having forsaken all human ties, feed on a rat (shortly prior to the events of the 1996 flashback in Becoming, Part One, wherein the demon Whistler almost literally dragged Angel from the gutter—commenting on his rat-feeding habits in the process—and set him on the path to his supposed destiny as Buffy's ally and a champion of the Powers That Be). In a twist, past-Angel turns and addresses the twosome. Angelus and Angel face-off and begin to exchange blows, as Angel convinces Faith that life is worth living and she has to wake up. Faith disappears.
When Connor finally breaks into her barricaded bedroom, Cordy smashes a lamp over his head, then pretends not to have known it was him. Cordy deceives Connor into thinking Willow's magic is evil and threatens their unborn child. She tells him he has to kill Angelus to protect their family. Willow completes the restoration spell, pulling Angelus and Angel into one body, while Faith wakes up and rushes downstairs to the basement in time to stop Connor from staking Angel. She begins to beat up Connor until Angel wakes up and stops the fight. Later, Faith tells Angel that she is going back to Sunnydale with Willow to aid Buffy and her allies. After they leave, a very pregnant Cordelia comes downstairs and shocks the gang with the serious trouble they still have to deal with.
Production[edit]
The WB network cut short the final moments of the first airing of "Orpheus" for an emergency broadcast announcing that the United States had invaded Iraq. The episode was rerun the following Saturday.[1][2]
Director Terrence O'Hara says the fight scene at the end of the previous episode and the beginning of this episode is "probably my favorite just because of the content of the show and the difficulty." The scene was shot in an abandoned bank in downtown Los Angeles and employed scaffolding to make the fight "more vertical" according to producer Jeffrey Bell. O'Hara explains that due to Alexis Denisof's bad back, the show-motion shot of Wesley carrying Faith was a difficult one.[3] The fight scene between Angel and Angelus, which took two days to film, was something that Bell had "waited to do for four years." It was made possible by a split screen and a camera lock-off, explains O'Hara. "We played back to match shot for shot. He was hitting space."[3]
The scenes of Chicago in the 1920s were filmed on Universal Studios' back lot. O'Hara enjoyed the look of the classic cars, although many of the moving cars were actually being pushed by the grips "because they were very noisy," O'Hara says. Additional scenes showing Angel and Faith reliving portions of the episode "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" had to be cut due to length.[3]
Jeffrey Bell says, "we apologize for the big, stupid floaty head" that appeared during the magical battle between Willow and Cordelia. He explains, "We had really great hopes for it and it just became something you'd see on It's a Small World in Disneyland. Just not quite as scary as we had hoped."[3] During the final shot of Faith and Angel on the terrace, which Bell describes as "a hallmark of a Joss Whedon show - all the good-byes and the sentiments without anyone ever getting sentimental" - Eliza Dushku came to the set with laryngitis and could not speak. "This scene was supposed to be first up," says O'Hara. "I begged (show runner) Kelly Manners to keep it to the end of the day and let her recover, and she did."[3]
Acting[edit]
Producer Tim Minear had the idea to bring back actress Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg to re-ensoul Angel.[3] This episode is Hannigan's third crossover into Angel; she previously appeared on the phone to Cordelia in "Disharmony", and delivered the news of Buffy's death at the end of "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb".[4] Hannigan, involved in both American Pie and Buffy while this episode filmed, was excited to work with her fiance, Alexis Denisof, whom she met while the two were on Buffy. Denisof was also excited. "I feel like it's a play day. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm at work," he said. "My girl is here... really all I want to do is run over and give her a hug."[5]
Terrence points out in the donut shop scene with Angel and Faith that, "The gunman here is actually Eliza's brother Nate."[3]
Charisma Carpenter is genuinely pregnant in this episode, and has been since Cordelia's return from the "higher plane".
Writing[edit]
The title refers to the Greek myth of Orpheus. A legendary musician, Orpheus followed his dead wife into the Underworld to beg for her return.[4]
Asked how prison has changed the angry, aggressive Faith, Eliza Dushku says, "How would prison change anyone? There was something about the fact that she's a Slayer, so she wouldn't really be there unless she wanted to be, because she's got superhuman strength. She could have busted out of that joint if she really wanted to. But she and Angel developed this relationship. He was leading her down the road to redemption, kind of facing the things she's done and recovering from that, and hopefully being a better her. She's been in there, doing the time, thinking. She's still a tough girl, but she really has to suppress her demons a little more. In these past few shows, that's what we're seeing—her teetering on the line between the old her and the new her."[5]
"It's a big arc for us," says David Boreanaz. He explains that Faith and Angel "really get along well together. They owe each other... That's why, when she hears Angelus is out, she automatically breaks out of prison. She doesn't even think it, she's out. Because of what he's done for her. And they share that common bond." He adds, "It's going to be interesting to see how Angelus relates to Faith, because he's never met her before and this is going to be fun for him."[6]
Willow and (evil) Cordelia's conversation about what they've been up to since they last communicated, is similar to a conversation Buffy Summers and Amy Madison have in the 6th season of Buffy.
Willow: (sits on the bed beside Cordy) How've you been?
Cordelia: Higher power. You?
Willow: Ultimate evil. But I got better.
Buffy: Hi. (awkwardly) How've you been?
Amy: Rat. You?
Buffy: Dead.
Amy: Oh.
Arc significance[edit]
Faith accompanies Willow back to Sunnydale in "Dirty Girls" to aid in the battle against The First Evil.
Willow restores Angel's soul for the second time, and magically battles Jasmine (in Cordelia's body).
Continuity[edit]
In Angelus' flashback, Angel chooses "Mandy" by Barry Manilow, the same song he sings the first time he sings at Caritas in "Judgment," another pivotal moment in his fall and rise to eventual hero status. "Mandy" was first released in 1974, meaning the flashback must occur at some point after that; later in the episode, Angelus remarks that Angel spent twenty years feeding on rats after this incident, placing it in 1976, since a flashback in the Buffy episode "Becoming" depicts Angel as being lifted from his rat-feeding days by Whistler in 1996 (see above). Angelus also mentions that Angel sometimes attended Manilow concerts, much to Angelus' disgust. Whether coincidentally or not, the lyrics to "Mandy" are unusually relevant to Angel's life; the singer/narrator first describes himself as "a shadow of a man... crying in the night," reminiscent of Angel's post-ensoulment despair and isolation. The lyrics also describe how the man "walked away when love was" his to have, similar to Angel's departure from Sunnydale years before, at the end of "Graduation Day," leaving Buffy despite their love for each other.
Crossover with Buffy: Willow received Fred's phone call in "Lies My Parents Told Me". Several references to past events in Buffy the Vampire Slayer are mentioned by Willow including being gay, dating Kennedy, and Willow's turn to the dark side at the end of Season 6.
Fred references Sunnydale's Hellmouth.
This episodes marks Willow's third and final appearance on Angel. It is also the last Angel episode in which Faith is seen.
Reception[edit]
The Faith trilogy (beginning with "Salvage" and ending with this episode) was generally well received. UGO Networks called this arc "truly the high point of the entire season," although was disappointed in the frequent silences on the director's commentary.[7] However, webzine PopMatters complained about the rapid resolution of seemingly unsolvable problems in the last quarter of this episode. "We're left thinking none of them is so terrible as they seemed," the reviewer wrote. "'Apocalypse' can only be uttered so many times before it starts to lose its urgency."[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ NBC 12 Richmond: Yay you
2.Jump up ^ Angel News
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Bratton, Kristy, ANGEL Season Four DVD Collection REVIEW
4.^ Jump up to: a b Angel Season Four Episode Guide: Orpheus, BBC
5.^ Jump up to: a b 80592 ,00.html 1, "'Angel' Calls on Faith, Gets Willow"
6.Jump up ^ Ferrante, Anthony C.; Collura, Scott (March 12, 2003), Talk Like an Angel: David Boreanaz talks Angel, Faith, and Willow... and returning to BUFFY to say goodbye, retrieved 2007-12-18
7.Jump up ^ Sullivan, Michael Patrick, Angel Season Four DVD Review
8.Jump up ^ Klunk, Christine (8 November 2004), ANGEL: SEASON FOUR Review, retrieved 2007-12-18
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Players (Angel)
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"Players"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 16
Directed by
Michael Grossman
Written by
Sarah Fain
Elizabeth Craft
Jeffrey Bell
Production code
4ADH16
Original air date
March 26, 2003
Guest actors

Alexa Davalos as Gwen Raiden
Dana Lee as Takeshi Morimoto
David Monahan as Garrett
Hope Shin as Aiko Morimoto
Wendy Haines as Over-Jeweled Woman
Michael Patrick McGill as Checkpoint Guard
John Fremont as Security Guy

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"Players" is episode 16 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Gwen Raiden returns to ask Gunn to help her rescue a little girl from a wealthy and powerful tycoon. Meanwhile, Angel and the rest of his team are researching Cordelia’s sudden pregnancy.


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2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot[edit]
Gwen exchanges money for information with a man in downtown Los Angeles and is then soon struck by lightning. She is planning a heist, ostensibly to rescue a little girl, Lisa, from a tycoon who kidnapped her from the head of a company over a business deal gone bad. She enlists the help of Gunn, someone suave enough for the job. They arrive by limo at the tycoon's compound, dressed in formal wear for a dinner party. After some difficulty, Gunn gains entrance by speaking Japanese and charming the host, Takeshi Morimoto.
It soon becomes apparent to Gunn that Gwen has tricked him: Instead of a kidnapped girl, Gwen is after a high-tech military device titled L.I.S.A. which will enable Gwen to control her electrical powers and touch other people. Gunn is caught in the ruse taking the daughter of Morimoto, though he is able to fight his way free. He finds Gwen after the distraction he had created for her, but they are cornered by Morimoto and his men. Gwen sends a shock of electricity through them all, and Gunn and Gwen escape back to her place. They test the device, a prototype that regulates components of the body for the purpose of stealth, on Gwen. It enters her system through her bare back, and they both realize it works. With relief, the two kiss. Without much human contact in all her years and knowing that L.I.S.A. is only a prototype, Gwen is reluctant to let things continue, but Gunn convinces her otherwise, and they continue to kiss and it's presumed they have sex.
Meanwhile at the hotel, the gang reels from the shock of Cordelia's very sudden pregnancy. Connor is still agitated by the situation, and Cordelia continues to manipulate his feelings about their family. She explains that she may ask him to do other things before the baby arrives, but there will be a good reason for them all. Fred and Wesley research and talk about the strange relationship between Cordelia and Connor. At the office, Angel tries to remember an ancient code from Lilah's book that may tell them something about the Master. Cordelia tries to disguise her displeasure that they could be getting crucial information about her and attempts to spill coffee on the paper, but Angel's not-so-accurate memory of the text saves her the trouble.
Lorne returns with news that he has information on a ritual that can be performed to restore his empathic powers and that he has to go off on his own to do it. In an empty building, Lorne prepares the ritual, while unknown to him, Cordelia watches from a hidden spot above. Lorne begins the ritual and starts to sing as Cordelia slowly descends some stairs and approaches with a raised knife. Before she can strike, the lights suddenly turn on, exposing Cordelia and Angel standing behind her. Cordy turns and finds Fred and Wesley are also there, both with guns pointed at her, and Lorne refers to a Magic 8-ball to find out if Cordy's been bad. Lorne then turns to read the Magic 8-ball, and it says "definitely."
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
The Gwen arc ends.
The gang (without Connor and Gunn) discovers that Cordelia has been evil and tricks her.
Connor also begins to question why she seemed to lie to him and tell him to kill Angelus.
This episode is the first in the fourth season to explicitly reference the short time span during which the season takes place. When Cordelia says she has known of the pregnancy since Angelus' return, Gunn responds that has only been a "couple of weeks." Later Gunn makes a similar reference, mentioning the rooftop battle as seen in "Apocalypse, Nowish" (9 episodes prior) as having happened in the past "two weeks."
Wesley refers to the events of the Season One episode "Expecting" in which Cordelia was impregnated by a Haxil beast and came to full term overnight. Fred and Gunn's surprised reactions would suggest that they were previously unaware of this incident.
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Inside Out (Angel)
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"Inside Out"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 17
Directed by
Steven S. DeKnight
Written by
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
4ADH17
Original air date
April 2, 2003
Guest actors

Julie Benz as Darla
Gina Torres as Jasmine
David Denman as Skip
Stephi Lineburg as Girl

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"Inside Out" is episode 17 of season four in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Steven S. DeKnight, it was originally broadcast on April 2, 2003 on the WB network. Angel roughs up the demon guide Skip to find out why Cordelia has turned evil. Skip tells them a higher being has manipulated events over the past few years to cause itself to be reborn. Meanwhile, Cordelia convinces Connor to mystically expedite the birth using the blood of a virgin. Angel arrives in time to stop him, but hesitates, and Cordelia gives birth to a full grown woman.


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3 Continuity
4 Reception and reviews
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Cordelia is in the basement of the Hyperion, surrounded by the team, who have figured out that she was the Beast's master. She brags that there was a time when she would have figured out that they were using Lorne as bait eons before it even crossed their minds; she claims to be a lot smarter than Angel. She asks what tipped Angel off and he replies, "Tongue, slip of." In a flashback, Cordelia tells the gang about the baby and calling it "my sweet." Angel says that this was the same phrase the Beast's master used when she talked to Angelus. Cordelia is surprised that she was almost able to end the world and it was two words that tipped him off. Angel demands to know where the real Cordelia is. Connor jumps down through the glass roof and Angel tries to convince him that Cordelia isn’t who he thinks she is, but he doesn’t listen. He fights off the gang, and runs off with Cordelia. "What are you?" Angel manages to ask, before passing out, and Lorne's Magic 8-Ball rolls next to him, replying, "Ask Again Later." After the group has recovered from Connor's attack, Gunn returns to the hotel from his romp with Gwen and they fill him in. Fred and Wesley realize Cordelia has been "grooming Connor as her champion." They wonder when Cordelia turned evil and if her amnesia upon returning from the higher plane was an act or a side effect. Angel points out that nothing happened until Lorne gave Cordelia the memory potion in "Spin the Bottle." Lorne realizes that Wolfram & Hart stole information from his head to keep the gang from knowing about the Beast's master.
Gunn wonders how Cordelia could get away with killing Manny, since she didn't have any blood on her clothes; Wesley determines that she took off her clothes first. She was then able to slip out, kill the Svea priestesses, and steal Angel's soul. Her vision of how to re-ensoul Angel was misdirection, so that she could put a spell on Lorne and keep him from reading Angelus properly. She then released Angelus from the cage and killed Lilah. The gang wonder what exactly Cordelia is pregnant with.
Cordelia and Connor head to a deserted warehouse, where Cordelia tells Connor that the gang were trying to hurt her "You were right about Angel," she tells him. "He's an animal, and he's turned everyone against us." He promises he’ll kill all of them before he lets them hurt her. "My sweet, sweet boy," she replies. Angel returns to the Hyperion, having had no success finding Cordelia and Connor. Wesley tells him that he's wasting his time looking for them; Connor will stay hidden if he wants to. Angel is distraught that the truth was in front of him the whole time, but Wesley says that Cordelia played on his emotions in order to cloud his judgment. Wesley suggests going to the Powers That Be, but Angel reminds him that the last few times he's gone, they haven’t been forthcoming. He says that they wouldn't stop Cordelia because they "didn’t want to get their hands dirty," so they need to find someone who's willing to: "somebody right in the middle of all this." Angel goes to ask Skip about Cordelia and at first, Skip pretends to be clueless. As they talk, Angel suspects Skip is part of a conspicuous act to keep them in the dark and protect whatever it is that Cordelia's doing. Angel eventually overpowers Skip and hauls him back to his (Angel's) dimension.
Cordelia suggests they perform a ritual to speed up her pregnancy and bring the baby to life immediately. Connor rescues a young girl from a vampire attack, but then knocks her out and brings her, unconscious, to Cordelia, so that they can use her blood in the ritual. However, a vision of Connor's dead mother Darla appears before him, claiming to be sent by the Powers. She explains why she couldn't be part of his life, then tries to convince him that killing an innocent is the wrong choice.
After Skip wakes up, trapped by a magical circle, Fred and Angel threaten him with the Sphere of the Infinite Agonies until Skip confesses Cordelia is not in control of her own body. Cordelia didn't ascend to a higher plane because she was a good deserving soul, it was because she was a part of the plan all along. Skip explains all the big events in their lives have been designed for a much bigger purpose: Cordy receiving the visions, Lorne leaving Pylea, Gunn's sister being sired, Fred going to Pylea, and Wesley sleeping with Lilah. Gunn argues that they have free will, but Skip says only about little stuff. The team realize that Connor's birth was also a part of the whole plan; "an impossible birth to make one possible." Angel says that Connor was a vessel and Gunn realizes that the being controlling Cordelia is going to give birth to itself. Angel asks how to stop this being, but Skip tells him that the only way is to kill Cordelia. When she gives birth to the being, the strain will be too much and she'll either die or become incapacitated.
Gunn tries to reassure Fred that even though it appears their future is out of their hands, they always need to act as if the decisions are theirs because they may never know when they will be. After Wesley and Lorne locate Cordelia, Angel arms himself and prepares to leave. He refuses to let any of the others go with him, unable to let them carry the burden of killing Cordelia.
Darla coaches Connor as he starts to free the young girl, but Cordelia catches him and realizes that Darla is trying to turn him away from her. Connor finds himself in the middle as Darla and Cordelia fill his head with opposing suggestions until Connor can't take anymore and sides with Cordelia, grabbing the girl and dragging her into the other room. Cordelia slashes the woman's throat with a cleaver - Connor sees the woman as Darla and stares at the scene before him, reality hitting him. Then Cordelia has Connor coat his hand in the dead woman's blood and place it on her stomach. The bloody print is soaked into Cordy's skin, her labor begins and everything begins to shake around them.
The circle around Skip breaks and he attacks the others; Wesley shoots him dead after finding an open spot. Angel arrives at the factory, intent upon destroying Cordelia before she can have the baby, but Connor stands in his way. Angel and Connor fight with each other while Cordelia struggles with labor. After tossing Connor aside, Angel raises his sword to kill Cordelia but a bright light sends him and Connor flying back. The being using Cordy's body rises in the form of a full-grown, nude, dark-skinned woman. Angel raises his sword again to kill this being, but on sight of her, he drops to his knees with Connor, seemingly awestruck.
Production details[edit]
The costume for Skip took three and a half hours to put on, and required an additional five hours of makeup. Although David Denman hated the process, he was "surprised and very excited" after learning that Skip was actually a villain.[1]
Julie Benz was called back to reprise her role as Darla, in her first and only scene with Vincent Kartheiser, who plays her character's son. "I loved the dynamic between the two of them," Benz says. "Darla really is the mother who gave up everything for her son and he doesn't appreciate it." To subtly emphasize that Darla finally achieved redemption, the wardrobe department had Darla wear a soft, virginal dress, and lit her in warm candlelight. Benz explains that she attempted to convey "the pure love that exists in a relationship between mother and son. It's an unconditional love, and it’s probably the most simple relationship Darla has ever had."[2]



Continuity[edit]
When Angel is confronting Skip about Cordelia on what happened to her on the higher plane. He mentions to Angel that nobody comes back from paradise meaning the higher plane. But he does recall one slayer did. He is referring to Buffy when the Scoobies brought her back in the episode "Bargaining".
Reception and reviews[edit]
Author Peter David said he was "underwhelmed" by the suggestion that all events of consequence in the series had been manipulated so that Jasmine could be born. "That's pushing predestination to the point where it seems that every decision the characters have made was fated," he complains.[3] However actor David Denman, who plays Skip, calls this episode "probably the best so far. You find out what Skip's all about and where he's from."[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stafford, Nikki (2004), Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel, ECW Press, p. 283, ISBN 1-55022-654-1
2.Jump up ^ Simpson, Paul, Darla Departed (4), Angel Magazine
3.Jump up ^ David, Peter (April 3, 2003), LAST NIGHT'S ANGEL (SPOILERS), PeterDavid.net, retrieved 2007-09-20
4.Jump up ^ 80790 ,00.html 1, "Skip Tracer"
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Shiny Happy People (Angel)
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"Shiny Happy People"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 18
Directed by
Marita Grabiak
Written by
Sarah Fain
Elizabeth Craft
Production code
4ADH18
Original air date
April 9, 2003
Guest actors

Gina Torres as Jasmine
Sam Witwer as John Stoler
David Figlioli as Vamp Leader
Suzette Craft as Teacherly Woman
Annie Wersching as Awed Woman
Steven Bean as Middle-Aged Man
Lynette Romero as News Anchor
Lyle Kanouse as Diner Counter Guy
Tawny Rene Hamilton as Host of Good Morning LA
Chane't Johnson as Martha Jane
Jackie Tohn as Woman #1

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"Shiny Happy People" is episode 18 of season 4 of the television show Angel. Written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, and directed by Marita Grabiak, it was originally broadcast on April 9, 2003 on the WB network. As Cordelia lies in a coma following her demonic delivery, the rest of the gang becomes enchanted by her unexpected offspring - a full grown woman, whom Angel names Jasmine, who hypnotizes anyone she meets by mere sight. Jasmine tells the gang that she is a former higher being who wants the world clean of all evil. But when Fred has a sudden vision of Jasmine as something other than good, or human, she must find the root to Jasmine’s true nature on her own.


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After bursting from Cordelia's womb in a flash of blue-green light, the godly woman materializes and covers herself with a blanket. She appreciates the world around her and thanks Cordelia for giving her life. Guiltily, Angel offers the woman his sword to punish him for his earlier intentions of killing her. Fred cleans up around the office while she worries and rants to Lorne about what happened with Cordelia and whether Angel could have really killed her. Connor returns to the hotel and Fred pulls a knife on him, but his strange peaceful behavior confuses her. Angel shows that he's returned as well with a no-longer pregnant Cordelia and he's just as strangely happy as Connor. Wesley and Gunn come upstairs from the basement where they were dismembering Skip, and they all marvel over Cordelia's return and the strange behavior of Angel and Connor.
Awe-struck Angel and Connor boast about this godly creature that rose from Cordelia whom they don't want to kill, but merely to worship. Wesley tries to convince Angel that he's under a magical influence and this creature is evil, but then the woman arrives and kindly offers to help the gang as they all fall to their knees. Later, as Cordelia rests in a bed and candles are lit around the room, the woman explains how she was a power in the very beginning, before man, then became a watcher as humans developed, and finally could not stand to watch any longer and planned a return. She explains how Angel's trip to the trials to win Darla's life bought not Darla's life but Connor's, which was just one of the miracles necessary to bring her into the world. Once Connor was born and Cordelia had ascended to a higher plane, she had the vessels necessary to bring her into the world. She then tells the group that they have all been drowning in the war against evil, but that soon she will take them on the offensive and turn the tide.
A group of vampires tries bowling with a human head for a ball, but it doesn't work. One of them tries to explain that they're there for a good reason, but he doesn't have time to finish as the gang appear and start to fight. The woman and Fred sit and talk about a name, but as they sit, one vampire scratches the woman with its claws. Angel chases the vampire outside and stakes it in front of a crowd of dining people. The woman comes outside, her arm bleeding from the scratch and the crowd falls to their knees. She preaches to them about her power and how wonderful the world will be now that she's there. A man in the crowd grabs a knife and charges at this apparent "monster," but Angel vamps and stops the man, punching him repeatedly. The woman stops Angel and brushes her hand across the man's face before asking Wesley to call for an ambulance. She continues to preach to the crowd about good things as the beaten man wonders why the others can't see what he sees.
At the hotel, the gang tries to brainstorm ideas for a name that fits for the woman. Fred feels guilty about letting the woman get hurt, and muses about how she can clean the shirt for the woman, despite the lack of need for it. As Fred rushes off to continue trying to clean the shirt, the woman observes the common love Wesley and Gunn have for Fred. Connor apologizes for allowing the woman to be hurt, but she shows that the wound has almost healed completely already. He questions why the man tried to hurt her, but she doesn't have much of an explanation for him. The woman moves outside to see Angel, admiring the smell of the jasmine in the Hotel's garden. Angel feels terrible about failing her again and worries about becoming too happy, but the woman offers him inspiration and comfort for his feelings.
Fred scrubs roughly at the shirt while Angel and the other males set out on a mission to destroy vampires and demons, guided by the all-powerful woman. The next day, Fred returns to the lobby, revealing that she had to buy a new shirt for the woman, then breaks down into tears because she can't stand not being around the woman. Upstairs, Lorne shows the woman her new, beautifully decorated room and she loves it. After Lorne leaves, she senses Connor walking in the halls outside and invites him in to talk. She explains why he's special, why he deserves happiness and why he was chosen to be her father. Fred comes into the room to give the woman the new shirt, but instead of the woman's normal beauty, Fred sees a decaying corpse covered in insects. She panics and as the others come in to see what the fuss is about, but she quickly excuses herself.
Fred goes to talk to a still unconscious Cordelia, and tells her about the seriousness of their situation since no one else seems aware that there might be a problem or how to deal with it. Angel catches Fred and talks to her about the great new woman in their lives. Fred tries to get him to think about the strangeness of their situation and this seemingly wonderful woman, but Angel's faith is unwavering. Later, Fred goes to the local hospital to check up on the man that tried to attack the godly woman. The receptionist eventually tells Fred where she can find the man, John Stoler: in the Psychiatric ward. Fred sneaks into John Stoler's room, where he's strapped to a bed, and confronts him about what he saw. She convinces him that she saw the same thing and then he reveals that the side of his face that Jasmine touched has become deformed and decayed. He tells her she's been called like him to stop this woman and her evil, but Fred doesn't like that idea very much and runs off.
Fred returns to the hotel to find that the hotel is full of people that followed Jasmine back to the hotel after she took a walk. Fred talks covertly to Wesley about her visit to the hospital and what she saw. Wesley says he believes her then goes over to talk to Gunn and then Jasmine upstairs. The news spreads amongst the gang and Fred panics, heading for the weapons cabinet. She grabs a crossbow and lets a bolt fly at Jasmine. Angel takes the bolt in the shoulder and drops to the floor below with Connor chasing after. Lorne tries to confront Fred about her actions, but she pulls a knife on him and uses him to keep the others at bay. Jasmine tells Fred that her love will always be there and Fred lets Lorne go to run away alone.
Fred drives alone and stops along the street, crying to herself. Later, after the other guests have left, Angel brings the woman a bundle of jasmine flowers, while the others talk about the fact that Fred is now evil. The woman tries to motivate and keep the mood positive, but classifies Fred as a danger to their purpose. The gang decides that they need to kill Fred, but the woman suggests they wait and try to help her first. A depressed Fred has breakfast at a diner and she watches as the morning news program has a special guest: the godly creature, Jasmine. The other patrons in the diner drop to their knees and a horrified Fred wanders out onto the streets, alone.
Production[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode demonstrates, though does not state, the power of Jasmine's blood to reveal her true form. Both Fred and Stoler (the restaurant patron who attacked Jasmine) were exposed; Fred to the blood on Jasmine's sweater, which she scrubbed until her own fingers bled, and Stoler to the blood on the vampire's claws before Angel could stake him.
Reception[edit]
In this episode, Jasmine draws a line all the way back to "The Trial" in explaining all the events of the last two seasons. Webzine PopMatters was dissatisfied with this idea, complaining that "the whole 'it's all part of the Plan' thing becomes an excuse for all sorts of leaps in the plot."[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Klunk, Christine (8 November 2004), ANGEL: SEASON FOUR Review, retrieved 2007-12-18
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The Magic Bullet (Angel)
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"The Magic Bullet"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 19
Directed by
Jeffrey Bell
Written by
Jeffrey Bell
Production code
4ADH19
Original air date
April 16, 2003
Guest actors

Gina Torres as Jasmine
Danny Woodburn as Creature
Patrick Fischler as Ted
Zakk Wylde as himself
Terrylene as Deaf Woman
Mia Kelly as Woman
Andre Hotchko as Man in Lobby
Ajgie Kirkland as Black Man
Michael McElroy as Young Boy
Chad Williams as Rock Dude
Phyllis Flax as Very Old Woman
Amy Raymond as Weeping Woman
Steve Forbess as Mexican Man

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"The Magic Bullet" is episode 19 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Jeffrey Bell, it was originally broadcast on April 16, 2003 on the WB network. While Jasmine settles in at the hotel with her followers for a mysterious gathering, Fred is forced to flee Los Angeles while the rest of the gang hunt her down, with assistance from most of the populace, who are also under Jasmine’s enchantment. Fred learns that Jasmine’s blood is the key to seeing her for what she really is and plots to free Angel and the gang from Jasmine's influence.


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

Plot[edit]
Thanks to the events of "Shiny Happy People," everyone in L.A. is happy and cheerful. The first scene opens with the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn't It Be Nice?” playing behind a montage of harmonious street scenes of pedestrians and drivers in the city, until Fred runs into a car at an intersection and the music stops. She’s pursued by Wesley and Gunn, but Fred eludes them by hiding out in a sewer under a shopping center. Back at the Hyperion, Lorne has to turn away people who have come to the hotel to see Jasmine. She makes time to talk to many of them, and Angel asks how Jasmine always knows exactly what to say to people. She tells him that she looks into their hearts, though sometimes what they need is right on their faces. She tells a man in Spanish that his mustache "provides [him] great strength and dignity." Wesley and Gunn return with the news that Fred escaped. Connor wants to kill her and bring her back, but Wesley reminds him that Jasmine wants her alive.
In the lobby, Jasmine invites a couple of people to go upstairs with her. Fred goes to the Magic Bullet Bookstore, which she apparently visited three days earlier to read up on mass hypnosis. Now she’s looking for information on mind control. The shopkeeper says that he used to be obsessed with mind control, and though he still believes in it, he just doesn’t worry about it anymore because of Jasmine. The shopkeeper pulls out a gun (as well as a yoyo and a book called Making Mind Control Work for You) and says that he thinks Fred is trying to get the government to learn about Jasmine’s love. Connor and Angel try to track Fred through the sewers; Angel learns that Connor has been tracking people since he was a kid. Holtz would tie him to a tree and then run away, expecting Connor to free himself and find Holtz. Angel is shocked that Holtz abandoned Connor like that, but Connor considers it good, since he learned to track. Angel and Connor both suddenly close their eyes, receiving a message that Jasmine wants them back at the Hyperion.
Jasmine explains that everyone is connected by love, and she wants to test that connection to see if they can find Fred. Everyone holds hands as Jasmine tells them to picture Fred and concentrate on finding her. Fred checks into a motel, where people around her start looking at her. Fred takes off running, passing a man who is fueling his car. Another car hits his car, which sets off a fire. The guy from the car gets out and, in flames, walks to Fred and tells her not to be afraid. Jasmine’s hand starts smoking and burning as she takes the physical damage of the man; she adds that she saw Fred, and now that all of the Jasmaniacs know what she looks like, she can’t hide anywhere. Fred walks by the side of a highway and falls down a hill while trying to run from an SUV. She takes refuge in a cave where a short demon is also holed up. The creature assures Fred that he is vegetarian and won’t hurt her; it doesn’t seem to matter, since Fred makes sure he knows that she can handle herself. Back at the Hyperion, Lorne gives the “hourly Jasmine report,” then announces that he has a surprise - open mic night.
A montage follows of various odes to Jasmine, including Lorne singing "Freddie's Dead" and Angel and Connor singing a revised version of "Mandy". The demon in the cave reveals that he’s hiding out because of "those freakin’ Jasminites and their demon jihad", but then he uncovers a bunch of human hands, revealing himself to be carnivorous and attacks Fred, who is injured but fights back with an axe. Fred returns to the Magic Bullet Bookstore, luring a crowd of people outside. The shopkeeper tells Fred that she’s famous now, and that he’s not supposed to hurt her.
Jasmine arrives with Angel and Connor and, in exchange for the shopkeeper’s help, tells him that Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone in assassinating JFK. Fred says that she’s sorry, and Jasmine accepts the apology, but it turns out that Fred is talking to Angel. She raises the shopkeeper’s handgun, aims at Jasmine, and fires. The bullet goes through Jasmine and then into Angel’s shoulder. Angel vamps out and attacks Fred, grabbing the gun and pointing it at her jaw. Crying, Fred tells him to look at Jasmine. He does, seeing the same decaying, maggot-infested flesh that Fred saw earlier. Jasmine realizes that it was her blood that released Fred and Angel and tells Connor that Angel is infected. Fred shoots Jasmine several more times before Connor stops her. Angel runs out with Fred and Jasmine keeps Connor from following them. Jasmine sees how much blood she’s lost and tells the shopkeeper to burn the store down. In the hotel office, Jasmine explains that they’ve lost Angel to Fred: "by being loving to Fred, I opened the door to her hate. By trying to save Fred, I lost Angel. It won’t happen again. We must eradicate their hate."
Fred explains that Jasmine’s blood breaks the spell - she got it in her system when she washed Jasmine’s shirt, and Angel got it after the bullet passed through Jasmine. Fred decides that they need to get more of Jasmine’s blood so that they can break the spell for the others. They hear people coming, and Fred kisses Angel to throw the people off, but they do have to run. Later they sneak not-so-stealthily into Cordelia’s room, where she’s still comatose. Angel apologizes to Cordelia, then starts to cut her arm with a knife. She grabs his wrist and he panics, thinking that she’s awake. Fred has to tell him that people in comas sometimes move or do things that don’t mean they’re waking up. Meanwhile, Jasmine tells Connor to keep guard in the hallway as she goes into her room with her chosen guests. She tells them to strip, and as they do, she heals her gunshot wounds. Connor stands guard outside Jasmine’s room; inside, green light shines. In the next act, the green light disappears from Jasmine’s room. Connor asks her where the people went, and Jasmine replies, "I ate them." "Cool," Connor says.
Angel and Fred succeed in "infecting" Lorne with Cordelia's blood to break the spell. Lorne lures Wesley and Gunn upstairs, grabs a baseball bat, and knocks them out so that Fred can administer the cure. When they come to, Wesley brings Connor in, and the others hold him down for the cure. After Connor calms down, Angel tells him they had to make him see the truth. "You understand why we’re here?" Angel asks. Connor nods and goes to the door. He throws it open and yells, "They’re here! Come quick!"
Production[edit]
This was Jeffrey Bell's first experience as a director. "What's the word?" Bell says when asked how it felt to direct. "Terrifying."[1]
Arc significance[edit]
Angel, Lorne, Wes, and Gunn are exposed to Jasmine's true visage.
It is revealed that Jasmine eats people.
Connor is revealed to be impervious to Jasmine's blood.
Continuity[edit]
At least a week had passed since Fred was exposed to Jasmine's blood in "Shiny Happy People"
Cultural references[edit]
The title of the bookstore and the episode itself is a reference to the Single Bullet Theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Jasmine confirms the theory when she tells the shopkeeper that "Oswald acted alone", thus implying that a single bullet struck two people, moments before the same thing happens to her.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ M., Deborah (2003-12-17), Jeff Bell - Cult Times Magazine Interview (28), Cult Times Magazine Special Edition
External links[edit]
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"The Magic Bullet" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Magic Bullet" at TV.com


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Sacrifice (Angel)
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"Sacrifice"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 20
Directed by
David Straiton
Written by
Ben Edlund
Production code
4ADH20
Original air date
April 23, 2003
Guest actors

Gina Torres as Jasmine
Avery Kidd Waddell as Randall Golden
Micah Henson as Matthew
Jeff Ricketts as Spider Monster
Tristine Skylar as Holly
Bradley Stryker as Sculpture Vamp
Taylor Lundeen as Little Girl

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 This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary. It should be expanded to provide more balanced coverage that includes real-world context. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. (October 2011)
"Sacrifice" is episode 20 of season 4 in the television show Angel.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc Significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Connor, unaffected by Jasmine's blood (which enabled Angel and his gang to discover the truth about Jasmine), threatens them all, but Angel shuts the door on him, letting the others escape through the fire escape. Connor pounds on the door while he proclaims how he won't give up the opportunity he has now—being a part of something. Angel barges out into the hall and begins to pound Connor into unconsciousness, then as Fred and the others bring the car around on the street, Angel and Connor come flying out of the window. Angel gets in the car and orders Wesley to drive, even as Jasmine and her followers approach. They listen to a radio announcer reporting that the mayor has named L.A. a “citadel of Jasmine.” In addition, all Catholic churches in L.A. are removing “false idols” and replacing them with images of Jasmine. The gang discuss the fact that the universe owes them a break. Upstairs in Jasmine's suite, Jasmine has several of her followers undress and then come to her while a badly-beaten Connor wakes from his unconsciousness. Restored by feeding on her followers, Jasmine heals Connor then reassures him that they'll deal with Angel and the others.
Wesley pulls up at a gas station and the gang talk about their plan to get the gas quickly and avoid the bystanders. Gunn knocks out a man getting ready to fill his car with gas and steals the pump while Wesley backs the car into place. While Gunn fills the car with gas, the others are attacked by people at the station speaking with Jasmine's voice. Once the car is filled, they all take off, but police cars and other followers chase after them. Leaving the car behind, Angel leads the others down into the sewers and lets them have a minute to rest. Fred remembers that they left Cordelia behind, but Angel tells her and the others to forget about Cordelia and let go of their emotions that Jasmine controlled them through. The gang continues through the sewer tunnel, unaware that something with red eyes watches them.
Connor sits by Cordelia's side and talks with Jasmine about what the others did to Cordy. Jasmine asks him to leave her alone with Cordelia and he does. As they walk through the sewers, the gang talk about Cordelia and how easy life was when they were blind followers to Jasmine. Angel and Wesley suddenly fall through the floor, but Wesley's caught by Gunn before he can hit the ground. A group of young kids point sticks and makeshift spears at the gang. Connor goes to check on Jasmine, but finds that Cordelia's no longer on the bed. Jasmine explains that Cordy's in a safe place where her blood can't be used as a threat. Angel flies out of the hole and the others disarm the kids, but Angel calls off any efforts to hurt them. One of the kids recognizes Gunn and turns out to be Golden, the younger brother of one of Gunn's former crew members. Something causes their surrounding to shake and the youngest of the crew, Matthew, warns that it's back.
The kids guide Angel and the others to their hideout, which is secured by bars and makeshift gates. Matthew tries to befriend Angel, but the vampire's cold to him. Angel notices the blood on his hand, Connor's blood, and rushes to wash it off quickly. Still hard and determined, Angel grabs a weapon and directs his team to go out and help get rid of this unidentified monster. Jasmine gets off the phone with the Governor and talks with Connor. He wants to go out and find Angel and the others, but Jasmine won't let him yet. Jasmine gouges her nails into Connor's hand as she demands that he let go of his pain and give it to her. As she releases his hand and Connor releases his pain, the wounds on his hand appear on hers as well. While searching for the creature in the sewers, Golden is grabbed and pulled up into a high tunnel, but Angel flies up after him and saves him. Angel returns, but in vamp face and he scares Matthew into running away. Fred and Gunn chase after him while Angel realizes that Wesley has been taken while they weren't looking.
A demonic crab-like creature approaches Wesley, proclaiming that his kind loved "her" first. Angel tells Lorne to stay with the others while he goes to find Wesley, but in light of Angel's newly discovered demon side, Golden and the others are not keen on the idea of letting Angel out of their sight alone. The insect-demon praises the one he loves, but once Wesley realizes that the demon is talking of Jasmine, the demon scolds Wesley for giving her a name. A splatter of blood and flesh falls on the ground beside Wesley, reminding the demon of his project. It scurries off to work on a web-y mass of flesh and bone against a wall. Fred and Gunn chase after Matthew as they talk about feelings. They start to talk about when they killed the professor and how much that it hurts them both.
With spears pointed at him, Angel doesn't bother trying to defend his nature, saying he wouldn't be able to, and instead points out that if he chose, he could kill them all without difficulty. Fred and Gunn arrive on the surface and carefully scour the streets for Matthew. Meanwhile, the demon works on project, cutting and stitching together the body of a vampire. Wesley questions where the demon is from and he points out a blue sphere that's the key to his dimension, but warns that the dimension is not one a human can survive. The demon explains that he's working on blood magic, not magic that consists of words. The vampire trapped in the sadistic web asks to just be killed, but the demon rips its tongue out to stop it from talking. Wesley realizes that there is a word that can hurt Jasmine—her name—but the demon refuses to provide it and instead threatens to kill Wesley for speaking of it at all.
Fred and Gunn find Matthew in an alley and try to convince him to return with them. He refuses, and to stop him from screaming, Gunn knocks the boy unconscious. Fred is stunned by the action, but helps Gunn carry the boy back anyway. Back in the demon's lair, Wesley is cornered by the demon as it prepares to kill him, but Angel arrives in time to stop it. Lorne lectures the rest of the gang about hurtful words just before Gunn and Fred return with Matthew. Golden doesn't like the situation as it unfolds, but Gunn defends Matthew's unconscious state as a matter of necessity. Matthew begins to laugh in Jasmine's voice, interrupting the fight, and confirming Matthew's exposure to Jasmine. Jasmine's voice turns the others on Gunn, Lorne and Fred and the three run for their lives. Before they can get far though, they run into Connor and a group of military men to back him up.
Angel and the demon fight, but ultimately Angel stabs the demon in the neck with one of its own claws, killing it. Wesley grabs the blue orb and explains the other dimension to Angel while he ponders a way to make it work for them. Angel senses danger and Connor's presence. As Connor and Jasmine sense Angel in return, Angel signals the others to him and Wesley. Wesley figures blood magic is the answer to working the orb and uses a cut on his head as the source. A portal opens before them and while the others hold the door against Connor and the soldiers, Angel is given the undesirable task of going through the portal. Reluctantly, Angel takes the orb from Wesley and moves through the portal as the others finally release the door and prepare for battle. The battle however is not easy because all the damage they make to Connor and the soldiers turns to Jasmine's body, who heals them instantly, making her followers practically immortal. As the fight breaks out, Angel finds himself in another dimension, surrounded by the Spider Demons.
Continuity[edit]
Arc Significance[edit]
The Angel Investigations team discovers that by discovering Jasmine's true name, they will be able to defeat her.
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Peace Out
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"Peace Out"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 21
Directed by
Jefferson Kibbee
Written by
David Fury
Production code
4ADH21
Original air date
April 30, 2003
Guest actors

Gina Torres as Jasmine
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Robert Towers as High Priest
Bonita Friedericy as Patience
Eliza Pryor Nagel as Susan
Bob Pescovitz as News Producer
Gerry Katzman as Technician
Audrey Kearns as Young Woman
Kristin Richardson as Female Reporter
Kyle Ingleman as Jeremy
Jeff Scott Bass as Brent
Kimble Jemison as Cop #1
Blair Hickey as Male News Reporter
Angelica Castro as Telemundo Reporter
Brian Bradley as Grizzled Reporter

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"Peace Out" is episode 21 of season 4 in the television show Angel.


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2 Acting 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The gang, minus Angel, are fighting Connor and his band of Jasminites in the mantis demons lair. Angel and the blue orb are in the demon world, where he’s spotted a bridge to a city that holds a temple. Connor takes Wesley, Fred, Gunn, and Lorne captive and announces that he has to kill them. He says that the heroes are all alone and don’t belong there. Gunn is happy not to belong, since everyone else is worshipping a false god. Before Connor can kill anyone, a guard speaks in Jasmine’s voice and tells him to bring the others back to the Hyperion. As Angel climbs a cliff to the temple, Jasmine thanks some of the Jasminites for being loyal followers. Connor brings in the gang and Jasmine tells them that they’ve caused themselves pain by abandoning her. She asks where Angel is and Wesley taunts her, saying she should know since she’s omniscient. Wesley asks about mantis demon and she compares his past world to the humans’ world. She says that when she came along, she “kicked their evolution up a few ticks,” but it obviously didn’t work out (also that she has a better chance in this world as it can be taken over quickly, as mass communications speed the spread of her message). She adds that Angel is wasting his time in the demon world, but Wesley says that if she really believed that, she would have killed them already. Jasmine tells a follower to tell the media that she’ll be down soon; Wesley realizes that she’s about to beam out her “love” to everyone. Fred tries to get Connor to stop her, telling him that Jasmine will enslave everyone, but he says that she’ll bring everyone together. Fred says that they tried to show him what Jasmine really is; he tells her that he knows. He looks at Jasmine, and Connor sees what they have been seeing - her maggot-infested flesh. “She’s beautiful,” Connor says. Jasmine heads for her press interview, telling Connor that she won’t be able to keep an eye on everyone while it’s going on, so he’ll have to do that for her. Connor asks what Angel has gone after and Jasmine replies, “The unattainable.”
Angel makes it to the temple, where he encounters the high priest. The priest says that he’s come this far only to die. He calls himself “guardian of the word, caretaker of her most blessed temple” and Angel notes that there don’t seem to be any other followers. The high priest is sure that Jasmine will return when she’s done with the human world. Angel tries to get the priest to say Jasmine’s real name, but the priest won’t say it. Angel tries to intimidate him and the priest tells him, “You can take away her power, but you’ve already lost…everything.” Connor sticks Wesley and company in Angelus’ cage in the basement and Wesley notes that the blood ritual didn’t work on Connor because he’s seen Jasmine’s true face all along. Connor says that appearance doesn’t matter to him, since he grew up in Quor-toth. Fred tries to get Connor to feel badly about Cordelia; Connor tells her that Cordelia has been moved. Wesley asks Connor what Jasmine eats, since the demon called her “the devourer.” Connor denies that he knows, but Wesley has already figured out that she eats her followers. Gunn worries that Cordelia has already been eaten. Angel demands that the priest give him Jasmine’s true name, but the priest reveals that he can’t - only the Keeper of the name has it. The priest is the guardian of the word, but the guardian of the word is not the keeper of the name. The word is the name, so the priest is the guardian of the Keeper - the keeper of the Keeper. The Keeper happens to be in the corner of the room, but the priest warns that he’ll only speak Jasmine’s real name with his last breath. Turns out he’s right, since the Keeper’s mouth is sewn shut.
Connor heads to the banquet hall, where Jasmine is chatting with some of her followers who have no idea that they’re about to be eaten. He pulls her aside and asks where she took Cordelia. Jasmine assures him that she didn’t eat Cordelia; Connor tries to pretend that he didn’t think that, but he’s relieved. However, Jasmine won’t tell him where she took Cordelia. Angel fights the Keeper as the priest taunts that his friends are probably dead by now, so there’s no reason for Angel to try to fight for his world. The priest points out that his world doesn’t care about him or want him, but Angel counters that it needs him. The priest says that he’s actually fighting for Connor; and he’s going to lose Connor. Meanwhile in the human world the press sets up for the conference, excited to be sharing Jasmine with the rest of the world. A reporter tries to get an interview with Connor, but he’s not up for it. He finds a couple of followers who moved Cordelia and demands to know where she is. Back at the temple, the priest wonders why Angel keeps trying to make things right with Connor. The priest points out that Connor was only brought about to bring Jasmine into the world. “He will never love you,” the priest taunts. Angel says that it doesn’t matter. He ducks a swing from the Keeper and lets the priest get knocked into a wall instead. In the basement of the Hyperion, Gunn is kicking the cage to try to break out of it, but he’s mostly just succeeding at annoying Lorne. Fred notes that Connor left them unguarded. Wesley wonders why Jasmine had Cordelia moved, since the gang were the only people using her blood to turn others. He asks why Jasmine doesn’t just kill Cordelia. Fred thinks that she can’t and Wesley agrees that Jasmine is dependent on Cordelia - she can’t hurt her without hurting herself. However, Cordelia might be able to hurt Jasmine. The gang decide that they should figure out how to wake up Cordelia, though first they’ll have to find her.
Connor finds a church (with a sign reading, “God is nowhere. Jasmine is the way”) and tries to get past the police officers outside. Connor knocks the cops out and goes into the church, where he finds Cordelia. Back at the banquet hall, Jasmine eats a large group of people and then prepares for her press conference. At the church, Connor gives a little impassioned speech to Cordelia about needing a reason to fight. He says that he doesn’t have one now and wants to just stop. He admits that he never believed in Jasmine but went along because everyone else did and he wanted to belong. She’s bringing peace to everyone and helping them get rid of their hatred, but it’s not working for him. He says that his whole life has been built on lies, but he thought this one was better than the other ones. In the lobby of the Hyperion, the media prepares for the press conference. Upstairs, one of the men Connor attacked for info on Cordelia alerts Jasmine. Jasmine heads to the press conference and starts talking about love, her image broadcast around the world. From the basement, Wesley and company hear the audience cheering and realize that Jasmine has started her world broadcast. They realise that they really are alone now. Back at the conference, Jasmine tells everyone that they don’t have to give her anything, just show her love along with a large temple to stand as a beacon of hope.
As Angel suddenly appears during her speech she orders her followers to attack him. They do but Angel cuts the sewn mouth of the Keeper and a long hissing sound is heard. With her name revealed, Jasmine glows and screams are heard as her face switches between her beauty and true form until it settles in the middle. Now with purple eyes and covered in boils Jasmine begs her followers to calm down as they erupt into chaos and despair. Convinced that something has gone terribly wrong Gunn kicks open the door to the cage and they head upstairs. Out in the streets of L.A., everything is chaotic and Jasmine is upset that no one is worshipping her anymore. She contacts Connor through one of the cops at the church; Connor runs off to find her. Angel catches up to Jasmine and tells her that she lost. She replies, “There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven’t you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise. You chose this!” He counters that he chose this world because he could; she had taken choice away from everyone. “And look what free will has gotten you,” Jasmine says. Angel responds that free will is what makes humans human; Jasmine points out that he’s not human. “Working on it,” he says. She heads off, wanting to be alone, and Angel says that he’s not going to let her hurt anyone else. He lists the things she’s done, pointing out that thousands of people are dead because of her. Jasmine asks how many people will die because Angel stopped world peace. She argues that she murdered thousands in order to save billions, but now the world has to fend for itself. “The price was too high, Jasmine,” Angel says. “Our fate has to be our own, or we’re nothing.” He tells her that everyone has done horrible stuff, but they can make up for it; she doesn’t have the world she wanted, but she can still try to make it better. Jasmine doesn’t want to. She punches Angel off of a bridge and then uses a car as a weapon. She tells him that she loved the world and sacrificed everything to be there. Angel counters that she did so in order to run the world. Jasmine says that the other Powers That Be didn’t care enough unlike her and he knows it.
The fighting continues and Jasmine reminds Angel of the prophecy that said he would play a role in the apocalypse. He never knew which side he would be on, but now he does - she’s going to wipe out the human race with the last of her energy, and the blood will be on his hands. He tells her to go to hell; she replies, “You first, baby,” then kisses him. Connor arrives, noting that once again Angel is involved with a girl who was Connor’s first. Jasmine is thrilled that Connor is finally there. Wesley, Gunn and Fred search the hotel but find that everyone has taken off. Lorne notes that all of the TV stations are off the air, which means that something big happened. Wesley realizes that Angel came back and that they need to find him and Cordelia before Jasmine does. Before the gang can get out the door, they’re met by something - or someone - surprising. On the bridge, Jasmine tells Connor that Angel can’t defeat both of them. “You still believe in me, don’t you?” she asks. “You still love me?” “Yes,” Connor replies, before punching her through her maggoty head and killing her. Angel tries to comfort Connor, but he runs off. Angel heads back to the Hyperion, where he’s shocked to see that the others are still alive. He tells them that Jasmine is dead and Connor killed her. As Wesley tries to interrupt and tell him something, Angel says that he’s never seen Connor like that before. “I think he’s gonna do something,” Angel says. “You know, he might--.” “End world peace?” a woman replies. Angel looks over to see Lilah in the office doorway. “Well, you already took care of that,” she says. “Congratulations.”
Acting[edit]
Unlike other episodes, Stephanie Romanov's name appears in the opening guest star credits, despite her making a surprise appearance in the last few seconds of the episode.
Arc significance[edit]
Connor kills Jasmine.
The keeper of the word foreshadows Angel losing Connor in the following episode.
Lilah returns.
Continuity[edit]
When Angel says he's "working on" being human, he's referring to the Shanshu Prophecy first mentioned in the Season 1 finale, "To Shanshu in L.A."
Peace out is what some people say to one another when saying hello, waving goodbye, or even wishing good luck.
Cultural references[edit]
When Gunn says, "Never give up, never surrender", this is a quotation from the movie Galaxy Quest.
Gunn makes reference to the classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man."
Whether intended to be so or not, this episode is also strongly and obviously reminiscent of both the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live, and the 1968 Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead," both of which involve a situation where people are temporarily blinded to someone's true appearance by some kind of a mass illusion, but eventually see the actual ugliness after the illusion is stripped away as a result of the hero's efforts.
Reception[edit]
The Futon Critic named it the 25th-best episode of 2003.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brian Ford Sullivan (January 14, 2004). "The 50 Best Episodes of 2003 - #30-21". The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
External links[edit]
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"Home"
Angel episode
Episode no.
Season 4
 Episode 22
Directed by
Tim Minear
Written by
Tim Minear
Production code
4ADH22
Original air date
May 7, 2003
Guest actors

Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Jim Abele as Connor's Father
Jonathan M. Woodward as Knox
Jason Winer as Preston
Michael Halsey as Sirk
Merle Dandridge as Lacey
Jason Padgett as Suicidal Cop
James Calvert as Surgery Patient
Anthony Diaz-Perez as Hostage Father
Adrienne Brett Evans as Connor's Mother
Stacy Solodkin as Connor's Aunt
Emma Hunton as Connor's Kid Sister
Ariel Baker as Angel Greeter #1
Michael Ness as Angel Greeter #2
Alex Craig Mann as Angel Greeter #3
Nichole Pelerine as Angel Greeter #4
Joshua Grenrock as Angel Greeter #5

Episode chronology

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 "Conviction"

List of Angel episodes
"Home" is episode 22 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on May 7, 2003 on the WB network. In the Season Four finale, Connor – having defeated Jasmine in the previous episode – plans to blow himself up with a comatose Cordelia and other hostages, while an undead Lilah Morgan offers Angel Investigations control of the Wolfram & Hart L.A. branch.


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

Plot[edit]
While Wesley doubts that the Lilah before them is real, Angel (with his preternatural vampire senses) confirms that it's really her. Lilah also shows her beheading scar as she explains that the "Senior Partners", the ruling counsel of the demonic firm who are based in Hell, are offering them control as thanks for bringing back chaos and discord in Los Angeles in "Peace Out", which the group intended for the greater good. On the streets, while people raid stores, Connor spots a cop on top of a building, and catches him before he shoots himself with his own gun. The confused cop reveals that he has a family that are his "home." Enraged by the thought that the man would leave his family, Connor attacks the cop.
Wesley confides his doubts to Gunn, worrying his remaining feelings for Lilah cloud his perspective. Lorne returns without news on Connor or Cordy, but with the news that mayhem has been released on the streets in the aftermath. Angel warns the others against going to Wolfram & Hart, but as dawn approaches, the group finds themselves drawn to the offer of touring the Wolfram & Hart offices. One by one, they sneak off and get into the limo, surprised to see the others there.
At the office, the group is approached by guides for their individual tours. Lorne is introduced to the manager of the entertainment department, who gives Lorne a glimpse of the talent managed by the firm. Wesley's guide, former Watcher Rutherford Sirk, impresses him with a vast collection of mystical references. Fred's guide is Knox, a smart young man who shows off the science department which she would run. Lilah shows Angel his new office, private elevator, and special windows that allow him to be in the sun without burning. She presents him with a file labeled "Sunnydale" and an amulet that Buffy needs for a battle, but he still acts uninterested. But when Lilah shows him a TV news report about Connor holding several people hostage, including the comatose Cordelia, in a sporting-goods store, Angel is finally ready to make a deal. Gunn is met by an attractive woman, and after mentioning he doesn't see how he would fit in at Wolfram & Hart, she takes him on a long elevator ride to the White Room. Alone in the room, Gunn is greeted by a black panther.
Connor shouts at one of his captives, who struggles to hold his crying daughter because of a broken arm, then notices Angel has arrived. Meanwhile, Wesley knocks Sirk unconscious and makes his way to the records room, where Lilah finds him searching through the files. Wesley finds her contract with the law firm and burns it in an effort to free her, but the contract just reappears in the drawer. She says she already knew the price when she signed the contract but still appreciated his feeling.
Angel cautiously approaches Connor as the teen warns the hostages are rigged with explosives. As Connor rises - revealing he and a still unconscious Cordelia are rigged similarly - he rages that he can't seem to feel anything and doesn't feel loved. Angel tries to promise a better future, but Connor, unconvinced, starts to push the denotation trigger. Angel punches him, yanks the trigger from the explosives around Connor, release the hostages, and throws a knife into Connor's leg before he can injure Cordy. Promising to prove his love, Angel brings the knife down in a deadly blow, fulfilling the prophecy.
Gunn joins the group in the lobby, proclaiming he is taking the job whether the others do or not. Wesley reveals that he's considering taking the job as well and then Angel says he already took the deal for them. Lilah confirms that Cordelia is getting the best of care and if a return is possible from her coma, they'll find the way. Completing their deal, Angel asks to see Connor and although Lilah argues that wasn't part of the deal, she agrees to let it happen. Lilah hands over the folder on Sunnydale and the amulet and Angel leaves to see Connor, while Fred wonders aloud, "Who's Connor?". A limo takes Angel to a cabin in the woods where he spies through the window. Connor sits with his new family as they enjoy dinner and laugh about the promising college life before him. Angel walks away, pleased that his son has a new life filled with the love and happiness he lacked.
Production details[edit]
The scenes in the Wolfram & Hart offices were shot on location in the Thousand Oaks business complex. "They were kind enough to let us come in on a working day," Tim Minear explains, and worked while the crew was filming.[1]
The "White Room" scene was accomplished via greenscreen and split screen. The endless room in the background was computer generated, with an actual leopard on the same stage as J. August Richards. While filming, the big cat "kind of got out of its chain," says Minear. "J. thankfully didn't tell me until the shot was done and they had it back in its chain because I would have run screaming from the room like a girl."[1]
Acting[edit]
This episode marks Charisma Carpenter and Vincent Kartheiser's last appearances as regular cast members in the credits, and Stephanie Romanov's last appearance in the series.
Actor Jonathan M. Woodward, who plays Knox, also appeared in two other Mutant Enemy-produced television shows. He was the vampire psychology student Holden Webster in the Buffy episode "Conversations with Dead People" (November, 2002), as well as Private Tracey in the Firefly episode "The Message" (July, 2003).
Writing[edit]
Tim Minear returned to Angel for this episode, after having not written for Angel since "Benediction" due to being busy with Firefly. He both wrote and directed the episode, which he says acted like a pilot in order to demonstrate to both the network and the television audience that the show could move in a new and interesting direction. Minear says, "It's setting up the new configuration for the show."[2] Writer David Fury explains, "You can't sell [the network] on a show they've already been producing so you have to kind of sell them on a new paradigm - something to enliven it. It may not be broke but they feel like a little change won't hurt."[3]
Minear explains that he decided to open this episode with the assumption that Lilah's offer of taking over Wolfram & Hart happened off-screen during the commercial break. "I watched the clock for 40 or 50 seconds and have each actor just shift uncomfortably for about a minute. It got pretty hilarious after a while but I got all the pieces. And Stephanie just kicked it out. So once my name is clear of the screen," Tim laughs, "someone will speak."[1]
Wesley's guide around Wolfram & Hart asks him how he knew he was a watcher. Wesley says, "there's something about Watchers and libraries," referencing Rupert Giles (Buffy Summers' watcher), who was employed as the Sunnydale High School librarian during the first three seasons of Buffy.
This episode's tone mirrors that of the Season 4 finale of "Buffy." Whedon comments about "Restless" that he didn't want to do the traditional big action, explosion, fighting finale that had been done in previous Buffy finales. For this episode, there is no significant fight sequence barring Angel and Connor toward the end of the episode. Both episodes also precede significant story changers; Buffy with new 14 year old sister Dawn, and Angel now in charge of the L.A. branch of Wolfram and Hart.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Buffy: Following the events of this episode, Angel travels to Sunnydale for "End of Days" and "Chosen", bearing an amulet that will be worn by Spike in the coming battle, and setting the stage for Spike's return in "Conviction".
This episode acts as an intriguing new beginning for the characters. They ultimately agree to work within an inherently evil organization, hoping to fight evil from within "the belly of the beast."
As a side effect of the spell it took to replace Connor's memories and put him with a new family, Angel becomes the only one who knows and remembers Connor. Everyone else forgets. But he will later find out that Eve has knowledge of this change in Conviction and that Cordelia remembers Connor in "You're Welcome".
Continuity[edit]
Wesley's guide, Rutherford Sirk, comments that the Watchers' Council no longer exists, a reference to the events of "Never Leave Me".
The 'false' prophecy, "The father will kill the son," appeared to come true when Angel seemingly kills Connor by cutting his throat.
The true reason behind Connor's hatred for his father, is revealed of basing Holtz' lies about Angel of sending both him and Connor to Quor'Toth. Angel, however, did not attempt to deny this out of guilt of his son's plight, as he does held both himself and Sahjhan responsible. Connor would learn the truth in Season 5's episode "Origin"
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Bratton, Kristy, ANGEL Season Four DVD Collection REVIEW
2.Jump up ^ Thompson, Phillip; Karnopp, Kris (April 30, 2003), "'Angel' season ends with return in doubt", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2007-09-18
3.Jump up ^ DiLullo, Tara, The Sound of the Fury: Part II of an Exclusive Interview with Writer & Co-Executive Producer David Fury, retrieved 2007-10-16
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Home
"Home" at the Internet Movie Database
"Home" at TV.com


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