ANGEL eps 1.01 thru 1.08 reviews re-discovered
This review is a little longer, but I reckon that's ok, 'cause it's the
first ep of a new series
ANGEL ep 1.01 "City of....."
Angel's in a bar, drowning the sorrows of his broken heart. A pretty girl
leaves with some shadey looking characters, Angel tails them at a distance.
In the alley outside the bar, the girl is about to donate blood to an
un-worthy cause, when Angel arrives on-scene. He wipes the floor with the
nasty guys, before abrubtly taking his leave. (He really did want to stay
and lick her wounds clean for her).
Angel returns home to his basement apartment, to find an intruder. A bloke
calling himself "Doyle" claims to be a messenger for "the powers that be".
Doyle has a mission for them, saving lives and souls. He's had a
premonition. He gives Angel a scrap of paper with a firstname and the name
of a coffeeshop scrawled on if.
Angel gets talking to the waitress there, Tina. He waits outside for her
to get off work. As she's owed some money by a girlfriend, Angel gives her
a ride to a Hollywood party, where she hopes to collect. At the party
Angel bumps into Cordelia Chase and they briefly exchange pleasantries.
As Angel and Tina leave the party they are jumped by a couple of heavies
who snatch Tina. Angel chases the guys and catches up with them in the
basement parking garage. He gives them a bit of a spanking. Tina hops
into his car and they zoom off to his apartment, where he sets Tina a place
to sleep for the night.
Before going off to sleep, Tina says she's been having boyfriend trouble
with "Russell". She's left him but he's obsessive and won't let go of her.
While she sleeps, Angel does some research and finds that Russell might
indeed have murdered his last girlfriend who tried to leave him.
In the morning when Tina awakes she is frightened and paranoid. She gets
it in her head, that Angel may be secretly working for Russell. Tina runs
out the upstairs door, Angel follows and as a shaft of direct sunlight
strikes him, he fangs up and starts to burn. He retreats quickly but
Tina's seen him do his monster impression.
Returning to her pokey apartment to pack her stuff, Tina is surprised by
Russell. He says all the right things to sweet talk her. Oh yeah he kills
her right after that of course. Later Angel arrives. He enters her
apartment (which he can, un-invited, because: ) Tina lies dead on the
floor. After examining the wounds to her body, he leaves and drops-a-dime
to 911, for the bodybag brigade. Returning to his own apartment, he gets
Doyle to help him with research.
Meanwhile Russell's shopping for a new bit of skirt, to rough up. His gaze
falls upon some videotape containing footage of Cordelia.
Angel and Doyle's research has turned up some info on Russell, a wealthy
businessman.
That evening a stretch limo calls for Cordelia and whisks her off to
Russell's mansion. Angel and Doyle arrive outside the mansion's security
gates a few minutes later, and Angel "talks" the guard into letting him in.
Just as Russell is about to kill Cordy, Angel arrives. He gives Russ a wee
bit of a slap around, and then runs interference with Russell's
triggerhappy bodyguards, as he and Cordelia make their escape.
The next day, Angel seeks out Russell in his towerblock luxury office
suite. Angel boots an office chair out through a 40th storey plateglass
window. This leaves Russell, not; a happy chap-py.
Later back at Angel's building, Cordelia seems to have taken over the floor
above Angel's basement apartment. She's declared that they're now a team,
and elected herself secretary and chief organiser.
Doyle, with all the sensitivity and finesse we've come to expect of him,
remarks to Angel, that he thinks Cordelia is "a right stiffener".
Catherine Jemma 8 Feb y2k
Hi there
Just a query, are you actually re-typing my submissions in, or are you
using some cut-and-paste technique (I never have got the hang of that
myself) to grab what I wrote, as a whole.
Personally I'd prefer you were doing the cut-and-paste style grab. Because
I often specifically place commas, apostrophes and hyphens. (Sorry if I
sound like a broken record on this). You'll also notice a handful of
unusual (sometimes American) terminologies used occasionally. Also, and
you'll appreciate this more if you've actually seen the eps yourself, I
have often worded certain phrases very specifically to sidestep major
spoilers. (Example, re Angel ep one, Russell is actually a vampire and he
was still sitting on the office chair when Angel booted it out through the
highrise plate glass window, however I especially didn't want to give
"everything" away, eh.
I have to goto Perth for a few days on Friday returning Sunday and then
again from Wed next week to Friday. So don't expect any more reviews out
of me for a few days.
I should be able to do the Angel ep 3 review on next Monday morning 14 Feb,
and the fourth Angel review on next Tuesday 15 Feb, OK ??
Do let me know the web address asap, as I'd love to see my work "published"
cheers
ANGEL ep 1.02 "...Lonely Hearts"
Hangin' around the office with nothing to do, Doyle's trying to summon the
courage to ask Cordelia out on a date. However suddenly Doyle has a
premonition regarding a nightclub called "D'Oblique". No other details
being forthcoming, the team from "Angel Investigations" cruise the club,
handing out the business cards that Cordy's had printed.
Perhaps their technique needs some finetuning. Angel starts talking to a
pretty girl, but his foot seems to be in his mouth most of the time.
Meanwhile some creep asks Cordelia what the going rate is, if he wants her
for just an hour. Not surprisingly this leads to a bar room brawl.
Nothing else of consequence occurs that night, so the Angel team agree the
night's been a total washout.
The following day, Team Angel do research on the internet and it seems that
a number of young women have gone missing near the D'Oblique nightclub. In
one case at least, "eviscerated" remains were later found.
Angel cruises the club again that evening. Cordy and Doyle are back at
base camp leafing through ancient books, seeing what the world has to offer
in the way of eviscerating demons and other such nasties. While examining
an old drawing of a particularly grotesque fellow, Cordelia declares her
total hatred for all demons. The conversation isn't really headed in the
direction Doyle was hoping.
Angel has traced a girl from the club to her apartment. He enters to find
her spread across the bed, in a somewhat eviscerated state. Across the
room, an (apparent) young man is just putting his clothes back on. Angel
and the demon have an un-man to un-man talk followed by a fight that near
wrecks the apartment. The demon escapes just as "Kate Lockley", a pretty
young police detective, working undercover at the club, arrives. Needless
to say she believes that Angel's the killer. Angel knocks her 'round just
enough to facilitate his escape. The Angel team meet up at Cordy's
apartment, to exchange the information they've come up with and form an
action plan.
Angel phones Kate at the copshop and arranges to meet her at the club that
evening. She's tricked into going into a storeroom out back, where the
demon knocks the wind out of her and is about to really spoil her day,
when Angel strikes the demon from behind and knocks him away.
Angel and the demon do their best to bash the stuffing out of each other.
The demon gets away but Angel catches up with him in an alleyway outside.
The ensuing fight is heated, the demon getting a little more heated than he
would have liked. Kate runs up and puts a few rounds into the demon with
her service revolver. Probably not terribly effective, but it would've
made her feel better.
Detective Kate Lockley and Angel, come to a reconciliation and agreement,
of sorts.
Catherine Jemma 9 Feb y2k
ANGEL ep 1.03 "In The Dark"
The teaser opens with Angel saving yet another Damsel in distress down a
dark dingy alleyway, one night in downtown L.A. Some distance away, the
alleyway is being spied upon by Spike, muttering away to himself.
Oz turns up at the Angel Investigations office, where Cordelia recognises
him instantly. As talkative as he ever is, pleasantries are exchanged and
The Ring (which is The Gem of Omara) is handed over. (Note that this is a
minor crossover episode with Buffy 4.03).
The Damsel phones up, the police have let her violently abusive ex
boyfriend out of jail. Angel's about to cruise off to her in The
Angelmobile when Spike jumps him in his garage. They make with the
pummeling on each other. Spike wants The Gem of Omara, and no whimpy
little goody twoshoes Angel is going to come between him and the ring.
Cordy and Doyle enter the garage, and moments later Spike makes his escape.
At Angel's suggestion, Cordy and Doyle hide out at Doyle's apartment.
Meanwhile Doyle phones around to a few of his underworld contacts, trying
to get a bead on where Spike may be hiding out. Following a lead Doyle has
come up with, Angel sets out seeking Spike's hide-y hole. Angel is
cornered in an alleyway, overpowered and enchained by Spike and his evil
assistant. Taken to an old warehouse that's been set up as a torture
chamber. This is NOT, going to be one of Angel's better days. Spike
leaves Angel alone with the torturer, a sadistic vampire bastard, who comes
across like a deranged "Dr Mengeler".
Spike goes to Angel HQ and tosses the place seeking the ring, which Angel
didn't have on him when captured (he'd hidden it earlier). Cordelia and
Doyle have got worried because Angel's been out of contact for too long,
returning to the office they run into Spike there. He tells them to bring
the ring to a certain warehouse at sunset, or else he'll kill Angel.
Cordelia and Doyle search Angel's apartment to no avail. They then check
out the rat infested swers underneath. Doyle surrepticiously uses his
enhanced senses to sniff out the ring's hiding place. Later when they meet
up with Spike, they throw the ring towards him and are about to collect
Angel when Spike renegs on his side of the bargain and is about to kill
Angel anyway.
Suddenly a large van containing Oz crashes through the warehouse door. The
Angel team grab Angel up (who's in a severely bad way) push him into the
back of the van, and effect a high speed getaway. Spike searches the
warehouse floor looking for the ring, only to discover that his assistant,
that nasty torturer guy, has doublecrossed him and decamped with "his"
ring. Spike has a few choice words to say about this.
Despite his substantial injuries, Angel insists on the van being turned
around and going to a particular seaside pier where he thinks the (now
nearly invincible) vampire torturer guy may have been headed to engage in
some casual daytime mayhem.
Angel takes the biggest risk he's ever taken in his life, in an all out
fight with his torturer. Eventually Angel does prevail, and the torturer
guy is toast, well, ash.
Angel has a pretty cruise-y few hours, soaking up the sun. That evening he
stands atop a building prattling on philosophical mumbo-jumbo to Doyle,
while watching his first sunset in over 200 years.
There is a small (ok very small) amount of doubt in my mind as to what
happens in the final scene. At the moment when Angel's gaze is averted,
Doyle makes a quite specific and un-natural movement of his hand. Now I
don't know for sure, but '*if* Doyle was a cheat at cards in his younger
days, could he have been..........?
Catherine Jemma 14 Feb y2k
Hello again
Actually I see on the ng a very thorough review of Angel ep 1.01 posted by
a Robbie Mathews I think. It's an excellent review, but also so very
thorough that nothing is left to the imagination. Probably not a worry if
you've already seen the said episode. But a total and absolute spoiler for
anyone who hasn't. Still it's an excellent review, I suggest you check it
out.
ANGEL ep 1.04 ? title ?
Cordy and Doyle are discussing the team's lack of money due to Angel's lack
of wanting to charge for their services. Doyle gets another premonition,
and so Angel sets off.
At her workplace, a huge bunch of flowers arrives for "Melissa". Obviously
another case of excessive attention from an unwanted admirer. This puts
poor Melissa into a bit of a state. She heads off to the bathroom and
gobbles down a few pills before making a run for the basement parking
garage. She runs across Angel down there, he manages to have a few words
with her and gives her one of his businesscards. But she's out of her
mind, like a frightened rabbit, she hops into her car and does a runner.
Melissa stops at an ATM for some cash, but the machine doesn't seem to like
her today. She's still trying to get the machine to work for her when an
older man, "Ronald" steps up. He changed her PIN number "for her own
good". Apparently Ronald and Melissa went out on one date, once, and ever
since then he's been stalking her.
Melissa attends at Angel's office. She seems to be a bit sparse on details
though. "I know he's watching me, I can feel him watching me" sort of
thing. The A Team though are won over, they agree to take on the case,
reckoning that T.P.T.B only send messages to Doyle where Angel's help is
essential. Doyle does duty as a bodyguard while Angel heads off to the
copshop to speak to Detective Kate Lockley.
Kate pulls the paperwork, which describes how previously Melissa had indeed
lodged a complaint for stalking against Ronald. However because he was a
respected doctor and surgeon, and without any real evidence (and with legal
threats from the law firm of Wolfram and Hart) the case had to be dropped.
Angel sneaks into Doc Ronald's office and is having a poke around when the
doctor walks in on him. Angel gives a false name and spins a yarn about
his wife urgently needing a near impossible operation to save her life.
Angel leaves after surrepticiously pocketing a 'new age' type book.
Cordy's in a hospital cafetaria trying to dig up some dirt on The Doc,
Angel chases up the author of the new age book. A reclusive type guy, who
some years before had got to know the doctor quite well, and was downright
spooked out of his mind by him.
At night while she's in bed, Ronald breaks into Melissa's apartment (well
more or less). He sexually interferes with the sleeping Melissa. She
slowly awakes and then starts to scream her head off when she twigs as to
what's happening to her. A nearby black-and-white unit (assigned by
Detective Kate Lockley) hears the screaming and the cop goes in to
investigate.. He quickly searches her apartment but finds nothing. The
cop is then trying to calm down the hysterical Melissa, when old Doc Ronald
attacks the cop from behind, quickly gaining the upper hand. Melissa
(screaming, as per her usual state, of late) runs from her apartment
straight into Angel, as he arrives outside. Kate arrives with
re-inforcements, Ronald is nowhere to be found, although the cop lies dead
on Melissa's apartment floor.
Angel arranges a meet with Ronald at his doctor's offices (ostensibly
regarding his wife's surgery). But as soon as Angel arrives it's obvious
that somehow the Ronald's onto him. Doc Ronald shoots Angel full of an
experimental animal tranquiliser and leaves him to die on the floor.
Meanwhile Melissa's been filled up on whiskey and crashed out on Angel's
bad, watched over by Cordelia and Doyle.
Despite the best efforts of Cordy and Doyle, Ronald gains entry to Angel's
apartment. He roughs up Cordy and locks her in a closet, while slinging
Doyle down into the sewer tunnels. Ronald confronts Melissa in person,
face to face. She's not afraid anymore, she's past being afraid. Melissa
stares him down and gives him a severe talking to. The good doc's about to
cut Melissa up real bad, using a surgical scalpel he has handy, when Angel
arrives, much to the doctor's surprise. Angel then gets to bust Ronald up
a bit.
Later he details to Cordelia and Doyle how he's sorted out the old doctor,
good and proper. Melissa arrives at Angel's office. She's not a sucker
for punishment anymore, she's got control of her life back, and she's not
going to swallow any more rubbish. Some minor trouble with a "Bill" is
quickly cleared up and Melissa departs after giving Angel a potplant.
Doyle wants a drink "to celebrate" and leaves with Cordy, although Angel
prefers to stay behind at the office that day.
Catherine Jemma 21 Feb y2k
Hi there, golly it's after 5 pm and I still haven't gone online today yet.
It's getting later and later, eh.
Mother bantam hen has 7 chicks hatched out alive under her when I checked a
few mins ago, they are so cute
ANGEL ep 1.05 Room With A View
Cordelia seems to be having trouble with trashbags, and the telephone too.
She does a bunk from the office leaving Doyle trying to pump Angel for info
on her.
Arriving home at her apartment (which is such a dump that it'd need major
renovations just to get up-graded to "condemned" status) the cockroach
invasion gets the better of her, and she frantically dials up Doyle. He
can't come to the phone right now though, because he's getting the hard
word put upon him by a debt collector guy. He does a runner from his
apartment with the debt collector chasing right behind him.
Angel's leisurely shower, to a background of classical music, is
interrupted by Cordy banging furiously on his door. 'Not that (Angel) was
her last resort, just that (she) had nowhere else to go'. In thirty
seconds of fast talking she's hijacked Angel's apartment/shower/and only
bed.
Doyle arrives at the office to find Cordelia suffering from lack-of-mirror.
When quizzed, she admits to giving out his home address over the phone to
someone claiming to be a relative. Angel pulls a stunt on Doyle and gets
him to admit he owes money. Doyle wants Angel to intercede on his behalf,
but Angel's got a more important issue to deal with first. They make an
agreement that if Doyle will help Angel with his "problem", then Angel will
sort things out with the debt collector.
Cordelia's having trouble finding an apartment. All the one's she's looked
at seem to be unsuitable for one reason or another. Doyle reckons he
"knows a guy" and can get her a good deal. A respectable real estate agent
shows Cordelia a huge fully furnished luxury apartment. It seems perfect.
But what Doyle and Cordy don't see as they inspect it, is a wall looking at
them. The apartment is available immediately so Cordy signs the papers on
the spot and moves in that day.
That night Cordelia's just gotten to sleep when the apartment starts to
have a go at her. At sunrise things seem to settle down, to a degree, but
then as Doyle and Angel arrive, the haunting revs up into high gear. The
guys drag Cordy out, she's still screamin' that she'll die before she gives
up "her" apartment. The ghost of a little old lady agrees with her.
Back at Angel's office, Doyle's researching the building's history and
previous occupants. Angel slopes off to chat up his favourite policewoman.
Later that day, arriving back at the, by then, deserted office, Cordy gets
a phone message from Angel to meet him at her apartment. Once she gets
there however, the apartment locks her in and the ghost of the old woman
turns nasty. Angel and Kate discover that a large number of the
apartment's former tenants have died all from apparent suicides. From the
copshop he phones his office, Doyle takes the call having just arrived
back. Doyle retrieves the earlier message off of the answering machine.
They twig that the message is a fake and race off to the apartment with
great fears for Cordelia's safety.
Meanwhile the old lady ghost has seen to it that Cordelia is hung up to
die. Angel and Doyle arrrive just in time to cut her down. They then try
a spell, but Cordy's totally lost it, and is just a waste of space. It's
around this time that the debt collector bursts in, with some extra muscle
to back him up. While Doyle and Angel are fighting them off, the ghost
corners Cordy in the bedroom, and sets about 'suiciding' her again. Cordy
finally comes to her sense and engages "Bitch" mode (something which we
haven't seen since her SunnyDale days) and goes one on one with the ghost.
(Really mate, the ghost doesn't stand a chance, eh)
The ghost seems to have been vanquished, and by then the 2 guys have beaten
the bulldust outa the debt collector blokes, when suddenly Cordelia becomes
possessed by something and starts to smash down an internal wall with
little more than brute force. We see a flashback scene which explains a
part of the apartments history. Ultimately the situation becomes resolved
to Cordelia's benefit, albeit in a somewhat atypical manner.
Catherine Jemma 8 March y2k
I haven't been 100 % over the last couple of days, but wanted to ensure you
had this review intime to allow your webpage to maintain being one week
ahead of tv screenings.
Angel ep 1.06 Sense and Sensitivity
Burglarboy's doing a runner, down a dark alleyway (where else) when
Detective Kate Lockley tackles him and then uses her female charm, NOT, to
try to extract information from him.
Octupus has been on the dinner menu lately for the team at Angel
Investigations. Cordelia accuses Angel of being "insensitive" (the pot
calling the kettle black?) and rates his apology as "lame".
Kate needs some extra assistance on a case so asks Angel to help track down
a monster, er sorry that should be mobster. It takes Angel all of a
couple of hours to do what the whole police force can't do, and Kate soon
has the crimeboss esconced in the local lockup. But he's soon represented
by a lawyer from the firm 'Wolfram and Hart' (that in itself is almost an
admission of guilt). The lawyer makes trouble for the cops, and they are
all forced to go on a "sensitivity training course". Even from behind
bars, the crimeboss has big plans for Kate's downfall and his 'early
release' from incarceration.
Meanwhile the sensitivity classes are turning the local constabulary into
emasculated pussycats.
Kate's dad, a uniformed officer, is retiring, and as his retirement bash
turns first into a huge sobfest and then starts to go awry, Angel whisks
Kate out of there. With the crew all assembled back at his office, Angel
manages to get out of Kate details about the sensitivity training course,
and goes off to investigate the man running it. He finds the dude and a
fight ensues.
Detective Dipstick Kate (she's so bad you can nearly see the high and low
marks) had been left at Angel's office with Cordelia and Doyle watching
over her, but she pulls her gun on them and flees. They follow discretely
and arrive outside the poliice station. Kate's gone inside, where it's
utter bedlam. A "sensitive" custody officer has opened the cell doors and
let all the crims out. All the other police officers are just as rat-arsed
on excess emotions and the whole area (both inside and outside the copshop)
is going to hell-in-a-handbasket real fast.
Angel meets up with Cordy and Doyle outside the police station, but he's
been whammied too, and isn't much cop either. Cordy and Doyle have to take
the lead. The mobster guy's got out of the cells and siezed a pump action
riotgun and has it trained on Kate. C/D/A arrive in the detective's
squadroom and when Angel sees Kate's staring down the barrel of a 12 gauge,
at near pointblank range, he gets in touch with his more hostile feelings
in order to save her.
Review by Catherine Jemma 20 March y2k
ANGEL ep 1.07 The Bachelor Party
It's evening and the two blokes are hanging around the office with nothing
better to do. Cordelia steps in, the way she's dressed it looks like she's
on her way out to The Academy Awards. A slick yuppie arrives and whisks
her away for the evening (after that is, getting a verbal grilling by
Angel, who's doing an impression of an over protective father). After
Cordelia's left, Doyle gets a vision, so he and Angel head-off to off-head,
the evil.
Cordelia's in a fancy restaurant, bored titless by the stockmarket
monologue issuing from her dinner-date's lips. She feigns illness and has
her date drop her off back by Angel's office. A vampire jumps them both,
on the footpath right outside the office. Yuppie-sissy-boy does a bunk,
leaving Cordy to take all the heat. Doyle arrives onscene. He takes a
hell of a pounding, but eventually bests the vamp.
Doyle's wife Harry stops by. She wants him to sign the divorce papers she's
brought, so she can re-marry. A moment later, some guy wanders into
Angel's office too. It's her new beau, 'Richard', scopin' out his gal's
last hubby.
Doyle still cares for Harry and is concerned for her. He asks Angel to do
a bit of an obbo on this Richard guy. Later Angel sees Richard go demon
and advance on Harry as they're alone together in a deserted restaurant,
Angel smashes his way in, and a brief fight ensues, but it turns out that
Harry knows all about Richard's family tree.
Doyle agrees to sign the divorce papers, and is invited to the bachelor
party. Cordelia's invited to Harry's 'shower. Doyle drags Angel along
with him (although he wasn't actually invited) to the bachelor party.
Angel though remains somewhat aloof. He seems to have a bad feeling in his
gut.
But hey, the bachelor party seems to be running par for the course. Lots
of beer, lots of obnoxious behaviour, testosterone overload and a half
naked strippergirl. Angel sees some of Richard's rellies doing some demon
ritually things in a backroom. They discover Angel and beat him into
unconsciousness.
Doyle is restrained and preparations are well underway for Richard to eat
his brain. Doyle's mere moments away from going topless, when Angel
regains consciousness, fangs up, and starts kickin' the crap out of the
place.
The fight ends abruptly when Cordy and Harry turn up and Harry tells her
prospective hubby that his prospects for being her hubby aren't so good
anymore. Harry and Cordy, Angel and Doyle, walk out of the bachelor party,
the demons let them go unchallenged. (They reckon that a wife whose knees,
only bend the one way, just plain isn't worth it)
Later back at Angel's office, the trio's de-briefing is interupted by Doyle
having a vision. Buffy is in mortal danger. (This leads to the
Buffy/Angel major crossover episodes 4.08/1.08)
Review by Catherine Jemma 28 March y2k
I'll be away from the comp until about Monday.
ANGEL ep 1.08 I Will Remember You
Angel's back, from his 3 days in SunnyDale (see ep B 4.08). He's partway
through sorting out his desk when Buffy walks in. Cordy and Doyle beat a
hasty retreat, leaving Buffy, who's right bitchy to have her whinge at
Angel.
They say what they have to, to each other, and Buffy's about to leave when
Samurai Warrior Demon Guy smashes in through the office window. The
ensuing rumble wrecks the office but the demon escapes, injured and
bleeding.
Buffy and Angel cruise the sewers together (following a demonblood trail)
having a heart to heart talk as they go. They split up, Buffy going
topside into the daylight while Angel stays searching below. Angel comes
across the demon in the sewers, he suffers a minor cut, but succeeds in
killing the demon, however some of the demon's blood infects his cut.
After collapsing to the ground, and glowing for a few seconds, Angel
doesn't not have a heartbeat anymore.
Cordelia and Doyle arrive back at the office to find it trashed (from the
fight earlier) a few seconds later Angel walks in. Within all of 15
seconds he's done a refridgerator raid. Angel wants to know why,
The-Powers-That-Be have/have allowed him to become mortal again. He gets
Doyle to open a gateway to "The Oracles", they say only that he's
"released" and is to lead a mortal life (and death) from now on.
Angel seeks out Buffy and surprises her by meeting her outside in the full
sunlight. They retire to his basement apartment. Cordelia and Doyle are
upstairs, Cordy's got a very firm opinion on what they're doing. In the
basement though, they're just having afternoon tea and a chat. No Really !
! After a lot of talking, Buffy's about to leave, when (to take a quote
from The Bloodhound Gang's recent hit song The Bad Touch) "You and me baby
aren't nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery
Channel".
Doyle and Cordy are in a bar wondering about their future. Doyle's happy
he won't be getting anymore "Headsplitting Mindnumbing Visions". When
suddenly he's floored by a headsplitting mindnumbing vision. Apparently
Samurai demonguy has regenerated himself and is even bigger and stronger
than before. Doyle tells Angel about his vision, but Angel refuese to
bring Buffy into the loop. Angel and Doyle go off to fight the demon.
Angel gets the Kakka kicked out of him, and would've been killed if it
wasn't for Buffy's timely arrival.
Later Angel again seeks out The Oracles, he wants his Vampirism back. They
agree it can be done, but subject to some pretty heavy conditions on our
poor little Ange-man.
Review by Catherine Jemma 30 March y2k
first ep of a new series
ANGEL ep 1.01 "City of....."
Angel's in a bar, drowning the sorrows of his broken heart. A pretty girl
leaves with some shadey looking characters, Angel tails them at a distance.
In the alley outside the bar, the girl is about to donate blood to an
un-worthy cause, when Angel arrives on-scene. He wipes the floor with the
nasty guys, before abrubtly taking his leave. (He really did want to stay
and lick her wounds clean for her).
Angel returns home to his basement apartment, to find an intruder. A bloke
calling himself "Doyle" claims to be a messenger for "the powers that be".
Doyle has a mission for them, saving lives and souls. He's had a
premonition. He gives Angel a scrap of paper with a firstname and the name
of a coffeeshop scrawled on if.
Angel gets talking to the waitress there, Tina. He waits outside for her
to get off work. As she's owed some money by a girlfriend, Angel gives her
a ride to a Hollywood party, where she hopes to collect. At the party
Angel bumps into Cordelia Chase and they briefly exchange pleasantries.
As Angel and Tina leave the party they are jumped by a couple of heavies
who snatch Tina. Angel chases the guys and catches up with them in the
basement parking garage. He gives them a bit of a spanking. Tina hops
into his car and they zoom off to his apartment, where he sets Tina a place
to sleep for the night.
Before going off to sleep, Tina says she's been having boyfriend trouble
with "Russell". She's left him but he's obsessive and won't let go of her.
While she sleeps, Angel does some research and finds that Russell might
indeed have murdered his last girlfriend who tried to leave him.
In the morning when Tina awakes she is frightened and paranoid. She gets
it in her head, that Angel may be secretly working for Russell. Tina runs
out the upstairs door, Angel follows and as a shaft of direct sunlight
strikes him, he fangs up and starts to burn. He retreats quickly but
Tina's seen him do his monster impression.
Returning to her pokey apartment to pack her stuff, Tina is surprised by
Russell. He says all the right things to sweet talk her. Oh yeah he kills
her right after that of course. Later Angel arrives. He enters her
apartment (which he can, un-invited, because: ) Tina lies dead on the
floor. After examining the wounds to her body, he leaves and drops-a-dime
to 911, for the bodybag brigade. Returning to his own apartment, he gets
Doyle to help him with research.
Meanwhile Russell's shopping for a new bit of skirt, to rough up. His gaze
falls upon some videotape containing footage of Cordelia.
Angel and Doyle's research has turned up some info on Russell, a wealthy
businessman.
That evening a stretch limo calls for Cordelia and whisks her off to
Russell's mansion. Angel and Doyle arrive outside the mansion's security
gates a few minutes later, and Angel "talks" the guard into letting him in.
Just as Russell is about to kill Cordy, Angel arrives. He gives Russ a wee
bit of a slap around, and then runs interference with Russell's
triggerhappy bodyguards, as he and Cordelia make their escape.
The next day, Angel seeks out Russell in his towerblock luxury office
suite. Angel boots an office chair out through a 40th storey plateglass
window. This leaves Russell, not; a happy chap-py.
Later back at Angel's building, Cordelia seems to have taken over the floor
above Angel's basement apartment. She's declared that they're now a team,
and elected herself secretary and chief organiser.
Doyle, with all the sensitivity and finesse we've come to expect of him,
remarks to Angel, that he thinks Cordelia is "a right stiffener".
Catherine Jemma 8 Feb y2k
Hi there
Just a query, are you actually re-typing my submissions in, or are you
using some cut-and-paste technique (I never have got the hang of that
myself) to grab what I wrote, as a whole.
Personally I'd prefer you were doing the cut-and-paste style grab. Because
I often specifically place commas, apostrophes and hyphens. (Sorry if I
sound like a broken record on this). You'll also notice a handful of
unusual (sometimes American) terminologies used occasionally. Also, and
you'll appreciate this more if you've actually seen the eps yourself, I
have often worded certain phrases very specifically to sidestep major
spoilers. (Example, re Angel ep one, Russell is actually a vampire and he
was still sitting on the office chair when Angel booted it out through the
highrise plate glass window, however I especially didn't want to give
"everything" away, eh.
I have to goto Perth for a few days on Friday returning Sunday and then
again from Wed next week to Friday. So don't expect any more reviews out
of me for a few days.
I should be able to do the Angel ep 3 review on next Monday morning 14 Feb,
and the fourth Angel review on next Tuesday 15 Feb, OK ??
Do let me know the web address asap, as I'd love to see my work "published"
cheers
ANGEL ep 1.02 "...Lonely Hearts"
Hangin' around the office with nothing to do, Doyle's trying to summon the
courage to ask Cordelia out on a date. However suddenly Doyle has a
premonition regarding a nightclub called "D'Oblique". No other details
being forthcoming, the team from "Angel Investigations" cruise the club,
handing out the business cards that Cordy's had printed.
Perhaps their technique needs some finetuning. Angel starts talking to a
pretty girl, but his foot seems to be in his mouth most of the time.
Meanwhile some creep asks Cordelia what the going rate is, if he wants her
for just an hour. Not surprisingly this leads to a bar room brawl.
Nothing else of consequence occurs that night, so the Angel team agree the
night's been a total washout.
The following day, Team Angel do research on the internet and it seems that
a number of young women have gone missing near the D'Oblique nightclub. In
one case at least, "eviscerated" remains were later found.
Angel cruises the club again that evening. Cordy and Doyle are back at
base camp leafing through ancient books, seeing what the world has to offer
in the way of eviscerating demons and other such nasties. While examining
an old drawing of a particularly grotesque fellow, Cordelia declares her
total hatred for all demons. The conversation isn't really headed in the
direction Doyle was hoping.
Angel has traced a girl from the club to her apartment. He enters to find
her spread across the bed, in a somewhat eviscerated state. Across the
room, an (apparent) young man is just putting his clothes back on. Angel
and the demon have an un-man to un-man talk followed by a fight that near
wrecks the apartment. The demon escapes just as "Kate Lockley", a pretty
young police detective, working undercover at the club, arrives. Needless
to say she believes that Angel's the killer. Angel knocks her 'round just
enough to facilitate his escape. The Angel team meet up at Cordy's
apartment, to exchange the information they've come up with and form an
action plan.
Angel phones Kate at the copshop and arranges to meet her at the club that
evening. She's tricked into going into a storeroom out back, where the
demon knocks the wind out of her and is about to really spoil her day,
when Angel strikes the demon from behind and knocks him away.
Angel and the demon do their best to bash the stuffing out of each other.
The demon gets away but Angel catches up with him in an alleyway outside.
The ensuing fight is heated, the demon getting a little more heated than he
would have liked. Kate runs up and puts a few rounds into the demon with
her service revolver. Probably not terribly effective, but it would've
made her feel better.
Detective Kate Lockley and Angel, come to a reconciliation and agreement,
of sorts.
Catherine Jemma 9 Feb y2k
ANGEL ep 1.03 "In The Dark"
The teaser opens with Angel saving yet another Damsel in distress down a
dark dingy alleyway, one night in downtown L.A. Some distance away, the
alleyway is being spied upon by Spike, muttering away to himself.
Oz turns up at the Angel Investigations office, where Cordelia recognises
him instantly. As talkative as he ever is, pleasantries are exchanged and
The Ring (which is The Gem of Omara) is handed over. (Note that this is a
minor crossover episode with Buffy 4.03).
The Damsel phones up, the police have let her violently abusive ex
boyfriend out of jail. Angel's about to cruise off to her in The
Angelmobile when Spike jumps him in his garage. They make with the
pummeling on each other. Spike wants The Gem of Omara, and no whimpy
little goody twoshoes Angel is going to come between him and the ring.
Cordy and Doyle enter the garage, and moments later Spike makes his escape.
At Angel's suggestion, Cordy and Doyle hide out at Doyle's apartment.
Meanwhile Doyle phones around to a few of his underworld contacts, trying
to get a bead on where Spike may be hiding out. Following a lead Doyle has
come up with, Angel sets out seeking Spike's hide-y hole. Angel is
cornered in an alleyway, overpowered and enchained by Spike and his evil
assistant. Taken to an old warehouse that's been set up as a torture
chamber. This is NOT, going to be one of Angel's better days. Spike
leaves Angel alone with the torturer, a sadistic vampire bastard, who comes
across like a deranged "Dr Mengeler".
Spike goes to Angel HQ and tosses the place seeking the ring, which Angel
didn't have on him when captured (he'd hidden it earlier). Cordelia and
Doyle have got worried because Angel's been out of contact for too long,
returning to the office they run into Spike there. He tells them to bring
the ring to a certain warehouse at sunset, or else he'll kill Angel.
Cordelia and Doyle search Angel's apartment to no avail. They then check
out the rat infested swers underneath. Doyle surrepticiously uses his
enhanced senses to sniff out the ring's hiding place. Later when they meet
up with Spike, they throw the ring towards him and are about to collect
Angel when Spike renegs on his side of the bargain and is about to kill
Angel anyway.
Suddenly a large van containing Oz crashes through the warehouse door. The
Angel team grab Angel up (who's in a severely bad way) push him into the
back of the van, and effect a high speed getaway. Spike searches the
warehouse floor looking for the ring, only to discover that his assistant,
that nasty torturer guy, has doublecrossed him and decamped with "his"
ring. Spike has a few choice words to say about this.
Despite his substantial injuries, Angel insists on the van being turned
around and going to a particular seaside pier where he thinks the (now
nearly invincible) vampire torturer guy may have been headed to engage in
some casual daytime mayhem.
Angel takes the biggest risk he's ever taken in his life, in an all out
fight with his torturer. Eventually Angel does prevail, and the torturer
guy is toast, well, ash.
Angel has a pretty cruise-y few hours, soaking up the sun. That evening he
stands atop a building prattling on philosophical mumbo-jumbo to Doyle,
while watching his first sunset in over 200 years.
There is a small (ok very small) amount of doubt in my mind as to what
happens in the final scene. At the moment when Angel's gaze is averted,
Doyle makes a quite specific and un-natural movement of his hand. Now I
don't know for sure, but '*if* Doyle was a cheat at cards in his younger
days, could he have been..........?
Catherine Jemma 14 Feb y2k
Hello again
Actually I see on the ng a very thorough review of Angel ep 1.01 posted by
a Robbie Mathews I think. It's an excellent review, but also so very
thorough that nothing is left to the imagination. Probably not a worry if
you've already seen the said episode. But a total and absolute spoiler for
anyone who hasn't. Still it's an excellent review, I suggest you check it
out.
ANGEL ep 1.04 ? title ?
Cordy and Doyle are discussing the team's lack of money due to Angel's lack
of wanting to charge for their services. Doyle gets another premonition,
and so Angel sets off.
At her workplace, a huge bunch of flowers arrives for "Melissa". Obviously
another case of excessive attention from an unwanted admirer. This puts
poor Melissa into a bit of a state. She heads off to the bathroom and
gobbles down a few pills before making a run for the basement parking
garage. She runs across Angel down there, he manages to have a few words
with her and gives her one of his businesscards. But she's out of her
mind, like a frightened rabbit, she hops into her car and does a runner.
Melissa stops at an ATM for some cash, but the machine doesn't seem to like
her today. She's still trying to get the machine to work for her when an
older man, "Ronald" steps up. He changed her PIN number "for her own
good". Apparently Ronald and Melissa went out on one date, once, and ever
since then he's been stalking her.
Melissa attends at Angel's office. She seems to be a bit sparse on details
though. "I know he's watching me, I can feel him watching me" sort of
thing. The A Team though are won over, they agree to take on the case,
reckoning that T.P.T.B only send messages to Doyle where Angel's help is
essential. Doyle does duty as a bodyguard while Angel heads off to the
copshop to speak to Detective Kate Lockley.
Kate pulls the paperwork, which describes how previously Melissa had indeed
lodged a complaint for stalking against Ronald. However because he was a
respected doctor and surgeon, and without any real evidence (and with legal
threats from the law firm of Wolfram and Hart) the case had to be dropped.
Angel sneaks into Doc Ronald's office and is having a poke around when the
doctor walks in on him. Angel gives a false name and spins a yarn about
his wife urgently needing a near impossible operation to save her life.
Angel leaves after surrepticiously pocketing a 'new age' type book.
Cordy's in a hospital cafetaria trying to dig up some dirt on The Doc,
Angel chases up the author of the new age book. A reclusive type guy, who
some years before had got to know the doctor quite well, and was downright
spooked out of his mind by him.
At night while she's in bed, Ronald breaks into Melissa's apartment (well
more or less). He sexually interferes with the sleeping Melissa. She
slowly awakes and then starts to scream her head off when she twigs as to
what's happening to her. A nearby black-and-white unit (assigned by
Detective Kate Lockley) hears the screaming and the cop goes in to
investigate.. He quickly searches her apartment but finds nothing. The
cop is then trying to calm down the hysterical Melissa, when old Doc Ronald
attacks the cop from behind, quickly gaining the upper hand. Melissa
(screaming, as per her usual state, of late) runs from her apartment
straight into Angel, as he arrives outside. Kate arrives with
re-inforcements, Ronald is nowhere to be found, although the cop lies dead
on Melissa's apartment floor.
Angel arranges a meet with Ronald at his doctor's offices (ostensibly
regarding his wife's surgery). But as soon as Angel arrives it's obvious
that somehow the Ronald's onto him. Doc Ronald shoots Angel full of an
experimental animal tranquiliser and leaves him to die on the floor.
Meanwhile Melissa's been filled up on whiskey and crashed out on Angel's
bad, watched over by Cordelia and Doyle.
Despite the best efforts of Cordy and Doyle, Ronald gains entry to Angel's
apartment. He roughs up Cordy and locks her in a closet, while slinging
Doyle down into the sewer tunnels. Ronald confronts Melissa in person,
face to face. She's not afraid anymore, she's past being afraid. Melissa
stares him down and gives him a severe talking to. The good doc's about to
cut Melissa up real bad, using a surgical scalpel he has handy, when Angel
arrives, much to the doctor's surprise. Angel then gets to bust Ronald up
a bit.
Later he details to Cordelia and Doyle how he's sorted out the old doctor,
good and proper. Melissa arrives at Angel's office. She's not a sucker
for punishment anymore, she's got control of her life back, and she's not
going to swallow any more rubbish. Some minor trouble with a "Bill" is
quickly cleared up and Melissa departs after giving Angel a potplant.
Doyle wants a drink "to celebrate" and leaves with Cordy, although Angel
prefers to stay behind at the office that day.
Catherine Jemma 21 Feb y2k
Hi there, golly it's after 5 pm and I still haven't gone online today yet.
It's getting later and later, eh.
Mother bantam hen has 7 chicks hatched out alive under her when I checked a
few mins ago, they are so cute
ANGEL ep 1.05 Room With A View
Cordelia seems to be having trouble with trashbags, and the telephone too.
She does a bunk from the office leaving Doyle trying to pump Angel for info
on her.
Arriving home at her apartment (which is such a dump that it'd need major
renovations just to get up-graded to "condemned" status) the cockroach
invasion gets the better of her, and she frantically dials up Doyle. He
can't come to the phone right now though, because he's getting the hard
word put upon him by a debt collector guy. He does a runner from his
apartment with the debt collector chasing right behind him.
Angel's leisurely shower, to a background of classical music, is
interrupted by Cordy banging furiously on his door. 'Not that (Angel) was
her last resort, just that (she) had nowhere else to go'. In thirty
seconds of fast talking she's hijacked Angel's apartment/shower/and only
bed.
Doyle arrives at the office to find Cordelia suffering from lack-of-mirror.
When quizzed, she admits to giving out his home address over the phone to
someone claiming to be a relative. Angel pulls a stunt on Doyle and gets
him to admit he owes money. Doyle wants Angel to intercede on his behalf,
but Angel's got a more important issue to deal with first. They make an
agreement that if Doyle will help Angel with his "problem", then Angel will
sort things out with the debt collector.
Cordelia's having trouble finding an apartment. All the one's she's looked
at seem to be unsuitable for one reason or another. Doyle reckons he
"knows a guy" and can get her a good deal. A respectable real estate agent
shows Cordelia a huge fully furnished luxury apartment. It seems perfect.
But what Doyle and Cordy don't see as they inspect it, is a wall looking at
them. The apartment is available immediately so Cordy signs the papers on
the spot and moves in that day.
That night Cordelia's just gotten to sleep when the apartment starts to
have a go at her. At sunrise things seem to settle down, to a degree, but
then as Doyle and Angel arrive, the haunting revs up into high gear. The
guys drag Cordy out, she's still screamin' that she'll die before she gives
up "her" apartment. The ghost of a little old lady agrees with her.
Back at Angel's office, Doyle's researching the building's history and
previous occupants. Angel slopes off to chat up his favourite policewoman.
Later that day, arriving back at the, by then, deserted office, Cordy gets
a phone message from Angel to meet him at her apartment. Once she gets
there however, the apartment locks her in and the ghost of the old woman
turns nasty. Angel and Kate discover that a large number of the
apartment's former tenants have died all from apparent suicides. From the
copshop he phones his office, Doyle takes the call having just arrived
back. Doyle retrieves the earlier message off of the answering machine.
They twig that the message is a fake and race off to the apartment with
great fears for Cordelia's safety.
Meanwhile the old lady ghost has seen to it that Cordelia is hung up to
die. Angel and Doyle arrrive just in time to cut her down. They then try
a spell, but Cordy's totally lost it, and is just a waste of space. It's
around this time that the debt collector bursts in, with some extra muscle
to back him up. While Doyle and Angel are fighting them off, the ghost
corners Cordy in the bedroom, and sets about 'suiciding' her again. Cordy
finally comes to her sense and engages "Bitch" mode (something which we
haven't seen since her SunnyDale days) and goes one on one with the ghost.
(Really mate, the ghost doesn't stand a chance, eh)
The ghost seems to have been vanquished, and by then the 2 guys have beaten
the bulldust outa the debt collector blokes, when suddenly Cordelia becomes
possessed by something and starts to smash down an internal wall with
little more than brute force. We see a flashback scene which explains a
part of the apartments history. Ultimately the situation becomes resolved
to Cordelia's benefit, albeit in a somewhat atypical manner.
Catherine Jemma 8 March y2k
I haven't been 100 % over the last couple of days, but wanted to ensure you
had this review intime to allow your webpage to maintain being one week
ahead of tv screenings.
Angel ep 1.06 Sense and Sensitivity
Burglarboy's doing a runner, down a dark alleyway (where else) when
Detective Kate Lockley tackles him and then uses her female charm, NOT, to
try to extract information from him.
Octupus has been on the dinner menu lately for the team at Angel
Investigations. Cordelia accuses Angel of being "insensitive" (the pot
calling the kettle black?) and rates his apology as "lame".
Kate needs some extra assistance on a case so asks Angel to help track down
a monster, er sorry that should be mobster. It takes Angel all of a
couple of hours to do what the whole police force can't do, and Kate soon
has the crimeboss esconced in the local lockup. But he's soon represented
by a lawyer from the firm 'Wolfram and Hart' (that in itself is almost an
admission of guilt). The lawyer makes trouble for the cops, and they are
all forced to go on a "sensitivity training course". Even from behind
bars, the crimeboss has big plans for Kate's downfall and his 'early
release' from incarceration.
Meanwhile the sensitivity classes are turning the local constabulary into
emasculated pussycats.
Kate's dad, a uniformed officer, is retiring, and as his retirement bash
turns first into a huge sobfest and then starts to go awry, Angel whisks
Kate out of there. With the crew all assembled back at his office, Angel
manages to get out of Kate details about the sensitivity training course,
and goes off to investigate the man running it. He finds the dude and a
fight ensues.
Detective Dipstick Kate (she's so bad you can nearly see the high and low
marks) had been left at Angel's office with Cordelia and Doyle watching
over her, but she pulls her gun on them and flees. They follow discretely
and arrive outside the poliice station. Kate's gone inside, where it's
utter bedlam. A "sensitive" custody officer has opened the cell doors and
let all the crims out. All the other police officers are just as rat-arsed
on excess emotions and the whole area (both inside and outside the copshop)
is going to hell-in-a-handbasket real fast.
Angel meets up with Cordy and Doyle outside the police station, but he's
been whammied too, and isn't much cop either. Cordy and Doyle have to take
the lead. The mobster guy's got out of the cells and siezed a pump action
riotgun and has it trained on Kate. C/D/A arrive in the detective's
squadroom and when Angel sees Kate's staring down the barrel of a 12 gauge,
at near pointblank range, he gets in touch with his more hostile feelings
in order to save her.
Review by Catherine Jemma 20 March y2k
ANGEL ep 1.07 The Bachelor Party
It's evening and the two blokes are hanging around the office with nothing
better to do. Cordelia steps in, the way she's dressed it looks like she's
on her way out to The Academy Awards. A slick yuppie arrives and whisks
her away for the evening (after that is, getting a verbal grilling by
Angel, who's doing an impression of an over protective father). After
Cordelia's left, Doyle gets a vision, so he and Angel head-off to off-head,
the evil.
Cordelia's in a fancy restaurant, bored titless by the stockmarket
monologue issuing from her dinner-date's lips. She feigns illness and has
her date drop her off back by Angel's office. A vampire jumps them both,
on the footpath right outside the office. Yuppie-sissy-boy does a bunk,
leaving Cordy to take all the heat. Doyle arrives onscene. He takes a
hell of a pounding, but eventually bests the vamp.
Doyle's wife Harry stops by. She wants him to sign the divorce papers she's
brought, so she can re-marry. A moment later, some guy wanders into
Angel's office too. It's her new beau, 'Richard', scopin' out his gal's
last hubby.
Doyle still cares for Harry and is concerned for her. He asks Angel to do
a bit of an obbo on this Richard guy. Later Angel sees Richard go demon
and advance on Harry as they're alone together in a deserted restaurant,
Angel smashes his way in, and a brief fight ensues, but it turns out that
Harry knows all about Richard's family tree.
Doyle agrees to sign the divorce papers, and is invited to the bachelor
party. Cordelia's invited to Harry's 'shower. Doyle drags Angel along
with him (although he wasn't actually invited) to the bachelor party.
Angel though remains somewhat aloof. He seems to have a bad feeling in his
gut.
But hey, the bachelor party seems to be running par for the course. Lots
of beer, lots of obnoxious behaviour, testosterone overload and a half
naked strippergirl. Angel sees some of Richard's rellies doing some demon
ritually things in a backroom. They discover Angel and beat him into
unconsciousness.
Doyle is restrained and preparations are well underway for Richard to eat
his brain. Doyle's mere moments away from going topless, when Angel
regains consciousness, fangs up, and starts kickin' the crap out of the
place.
The fight ends abruptly when Cordy and Harry turn up and Harry tells her
prospective hubby that his prospects for being her hubby aren't so good
anymore. Harry and Cordy, Angel and Doyle, walk out of the bachelor party,
the demons let them go unchallenged. (They reckon that a wife whose knees,
only bend the one way, just plain isn't worth it)
Later back at Angel's office, the trio's de-briefing is interupted by Doyle
having a vision. Buffy is in mortal danger. (This leads to the
Buffy/Angel major crossover episodes 4.08/1.08)
Review by Catherine Jemma 28 March y2k
I'll be away from the comp until about Monday.
ANGEL ep 1.08 I Will Remember You
Angel's back, from his 3 days in SunnyDale (see ep B 4.08). He's partway
through sorting out his desk when Buffy walks in. Cordy and Doyle beat a
hasty retreat, leaving Buffy, who's right bitchy to have her whinge at
Angel.
They say what they have to, to each other, and Buffy's about to leave when
Samurai Warrior Demon Guy smashes in through the office window. The
ensuing rumble wrecks the office but the demon escapes, injured and
bleeding.
Buffy and Angel cruise the sewers together (following a demonblood trail)
having a heart to heart talk as they go. They split up, Buffy going
topside into the daylight while Angel stays searching below. Angel comes
across the demon in the sewers, he suffers a minor cut, but succeeds in
killing the demon, however some of the demon's blood infects his cut.
After collapsing to the ground, and glowing for a few seconds, Angel
doesn't not have a heartbeat anymore.
Cordelia and Doyle arrive back at the office to find it trashed (from the
fight earlier) a few seconds later Angel walks in. Within all of 15
seconds he's done a refridgerator raid. Angel wants to know why,
The-Powers-That-Be have/have allowed him to become mortal again. He gets
Doyle to open a gateway to "The Oracles", they say only that he's
"released" and is to lead a mortal life (and death) from now on.
Angel seeks out Buffy and surprises her by meeting her outside in the full
sunlight. They retire to his basement apartment. Cordelia and Doyle are
upstairs, Cordy's got a very firm opinion on what they're doing. In the
basement though, they're just having afternoon tea and a chat. No Really !
! After a lot of talking, Buffy's about to leave, when (to take a quote
from The Bloodhound Gang's recent hit song The Bad Touch) "You and me baby
aren't nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery
Channel".
Doyle and Cordy are in a bar wondering about their future. Doyle's happy
he won't be getting anymore "Headsplitting Mindnumbing Visions". When
suddenly he's floored by a headsplitting mindnumbing vision. Apparently
Samurai demonguy has regenerated himself and is even bigger and stronger
than before. Doyle tells Angel about his vision, but Angel refuese to
bring Buffy into the loop. Angel and Doyle go off to fight the demon.
Angel gets the Kakka kicked out of him, and would've been killed if it
wasn't for Buffy's timely arrival.
Later Angel again seeks out The Oracles, he wants his Vampirism back. They
agree it can be done, but subject to some pretty heavy conditions on our
poor little Ange-man.
Review by Catherine Jemma 30 March y2k
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