Angel

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

The Good;
Lorne really comes into his own, we see him set up to become a regular character . Love Angel Investigation's Agatha Christie moment.

The Bad;
Why does the scientist act suprised at Lorne's appearance when he's been to Caritas? His plan is pretty stupid, surely after a while someone will notice and pull the plug? And won't the time freeze affect the demons too? And won't the time freeze stop the electricity thus disrupting the process?

Best line:
Gunn; "Truth is there's always more down"

Jeez, how did they get away with that?
Apocalypses: oh yeah
5

Angel Cliches

Damsel in distress; 17

In disguise; yep, posing as a grant fund agent
8

DB get's his shirt off; 11

Cordy's tattoo;3

Cheap Angel;
6

Fang Gang in bondage:
Cordy: 5
Angel: 8
Wes: 3

Fang gang knocked out: Lorne, all the makings of an Angel investigations regular right there
Cordy: 10
Angel: 12
Wes: 5
Doyle; 1
Gunn; 1
Lorne; 1

Kills: a demon for Gunn and 2 for Angel
Cordy: 5 vamps, 1 demons
Angel; 22 vamps, 33 and 1/2 demons, 3 humans
Doyle; 1 vamp
Wes; 1 demon
Kate; 3 vamps
Faith; 16 vamps, 6 demons, 3 humans.
Gunn; 5 vamps+ 2 demons.

Fang Gang go evil:
Cordy: 2
Angel: 2

Alternate Fang Gang:
Cordy: 2
Angel: 6

Characters killed:
30

Recurring characters killed;
4;

Total number of Angel Investigations: 3 or 1
4, Angel, Cordy, Wes and Gunn

Angel Investigations shot:
Angel: 10

Packing heat;
Wes; 2
Doyle; 1
Angel; 1

Notches on Fang Gang bedpost:
Cordy: 2 ?+Wilson/Hacksaw Beast
Angel: 1;Buffy
Wes; 2; Virginia and the bleached blonde

Kinky dinky:
The sympathy bone! Does anyone actually ever do that for real? The most slow motion sex in history. How exactly do they know that Kevin is impotent?

Captain Subtext;
Lorne acts in a stereotypically gay fashion but he describes Cordy as hot-o-rama suggesting he's actually Bi? The bartender remarks that they don't get many of Lorne's kind in his bar, we think for a moment he means gay but he actually means demon.

Know the face, different character; 2

Parking garages;
5,

Buffy characters on Angel; 14
Wetherby, Collins and Smith. Angel, Cordy, Oz, Spike, Buffy, Wes, Faith, Darla, Dru, Master, Anne

Questions and observations;
For some reason the demons seem to dress like Abraham Lincoln (or the Amish)? The weapons they use are similar to the hunga-munga used by Buffy in Anne. What do they do with Aunt Helen, turn her over to the police to charge her with murder by demon? A lovely metaphor from Lorne on holding the note. The beginning of Angel's eventual coming back to the good fight. Mike Hegarty who plays the Bartender is one of those faces you see all over US TV. Cordy dances, she's quite a groover just as she was in Buffy. Wes dances too and is much better now than he was in 'She'.
Marks out of 10; 7 out of 10, funny enough but not really a classic and suffers in comparison to what's gone before and what's to come.

Happy Anniversary is a dull, pointless episode and the worst of S2. The main story is ridiculous and completely uninteresting. The secondary storyline only gets about 5 minutes screen time but was good. This episode's only saving grace was Lorne.



The whole stopping time thing was frankly very stupid. It felt out of place in Angel's universe- far too sci-fi. The nerd who stopped time has to be the most boring character ever created; they could have made him a funny cliched nerd but they went for Uber Dull nerd. The whole breaking up with his girlfriend thing was just shown too much and it was unnecessary- they never appear again (thank God). The demons were as usual awful and annoying and they could have done the stopping time things themselves! The freezing the love thing was just ridiculous also- no one would ever do that unless they were psychotic which the nerd wasn't. This episode is like She from S1- much too sci-fi for Angel.



Lorne was this episode's one great thing. He was funny, interesting and it was good to see him put to a good use. Andy Hallett is excellent as him. I like how he interacted with Angel also- he finally got Angel to open up and be slightly less broody.



The Cordy/Wes/Gunn story was good IMO but too short. Virginia was funny and I liked seeing her again. The whole family demon thing was good and could have been put to a way better use and used instead of the time freeze story.



Happy Anniversary is a boring episode- the plot is completely ridiculous and it wasn't put together well. You could easily give this episode a miss- but then again it's still Angel which is miles ahead of most TV.

Happy Anniversary was a perfect and classic episode of Angel. I really enjoyed watching this episode because we saw Cordelia, Wes, and Gunn all moving on and Angel doing his own thing. The episode had a really great story, and led to a lot of character development for all the caracters including the Host. I really enjoyed his line that music notes are just noise unless they change. There was a lot of action, drama and intrigue in this episode. I think that Angel realizes in this episode how much he needs his crew. I can't wait to watch what happens in the next episode!!!!!!!

Any episode that focuses strongly on Karaoke is a winner in my eyes. Otherwise, the writers really should stay away from writing "scientific mumbo-jumbo". It doesn't fit in the world of magic that the characters live in. This episode did have some funny moments, mostly playing off the fact that Angel in brood mode and Lorne in his normal, over-enthusiastic mode could not be more different. The show still feels wonky, due to Angel still excluding the rest of the gang. Mostly, this episode just fits strangely in the middle of the main Darla arc. It does give us a hint of Lorne's inclusion in Angel's adventures, but only a taste.

i think you have to be a big nerd to like this episode but does that mean it is bad? no, not really.



the episode is not well put in the season and season 2 does not work as filler but the episode has nothing wrong. it is actually funny and well written and angels ex crew move on and begin to have their own cases and that is good.



the episode is about a guy who is going to stop time but some demons are gonna stop the wrold from moving with that guys abilities. very nice episode but not what you were waiting for.

Angel is awakened by Lorne, singing the National Anthem in the hotel lobby and is none to happy to see him. We soon learn Lorne has read a guy who sang in the bar and has seen that the world is going to end because of something this guy does. They go on a hunt of all of the local Karaoke bars and hit paydirt when they learn this guy is a student at the local university. Meanwhile, Cor, Wes and Gunn are setting up shop in their new digs. They have one desk and a phone that doesnt work...but good news! They have a lead on a case from Virginia. We soon meet Gene, the man whom Lorne and Angel are desperately seeking. He is a grad student/genius who never intended to end the world. Unfortunately the Lubber demons who are assisting him (unbeknownst to him) are. Gene finds out his girlfriend is going to dump him, so he wants to freeze the perfect moment with her before she does and stay in that moment. Thankfully Angel and Lorne are able to stop him and get rid of the Lubbers. Angel successfully connects with a human being, which he definitely needs. Meanwhile, Cor, Wes and Gunn celebrate solving their case. They are doing just fine, it seems.

The main plot of this episode is a little weird. I’m not very sciencey so the idea that science could stop time seems a little ridiculous to me. Also the demon interference in the scientist work brings even less credibility to the plot.

Even if I were to buy into the plotline, there are other things that make this storyline flawed. Firstly the characters aren’t at all likeable, especially given their geeky awkwardness, but then again none of them are hateable either. Its not really possible to hate this geeky and rather lonely scientist, so while you don’t really sympathise him, you don’t villainise him either, therefore leaving the story to fall flat.



The other storylines are what keeps this episode going then. Angel and Lorne’s interaction are incredibly fun to watch. Lorne’s lighthearted ness really contrasts with Angel’s moodiness much like Cordy’s did back in season 1. Its fun to see Lorne involved in the mystery solving and I think this might be the first time he actually is involved.

Its good to provide Angel with someone who will actually talk to and who he might listen to. For a lot of the Darla storyline Angel will only listen to Lorne, so their pairing here is good.



On the other side Cordy, Gunn and Wes are setting up office. This is a fun little storyline, which allows us to see them swing from happy to down right depressed. This striving to set up the business really cements their friendship a factor that will be very important later on.

Their first official case as it says on the DVD synopsis comes from Virginia. I really like that they have a link outside the business who knows about their world but doesn’t really get involved in it that much. The case itself is a true detectives case. Wesley uses his power of deduction to solve the murder. This storyline while entertaining feels a little pointless purely because we don’t get any background detective work for it.



Overall another average episode. There are some interesting and good scenes but some of the stories are hard to believe.

Not much to say about this one. I really wasn't terribly interested in anything that was going on. They seem to be building on the relationship with Angel and Lorne which is probably the best thing to watch. There is a bit more progression with Wes, Cordy & Gunn setting up shop which is fine. The main story of a grad student with an experiment that was going to stop time for everybody (by accident) was really kind of stupid. Also, there was some type of demo involved in providing the grad student help to do this, but honestly I was so uninterested...I'm not even sure how that fit in.

Happy Anniversary-Angel and the Host search for a physicist who they fear will cause the end of the world, but they are hampered by two Lubber demons who are seeking to subvert the scientist's work to their own dark ends. Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn settle into their new digs, where Virginia brings them their first official case.



An episode with only a half decent plot but the hilarious moments make up for it. I have to say Lorne as Angel's unofficial sidekick through this hour was priceless. His just the perfect contrast to Angel's fatal dark mind state at the moment. The story with Gene and his time freezing invention that will end the world is hardly interesting, though the special effects used are stunning. The demons that worship Gene and his machine also look cool. Wesley, Gunn and Cordelia continue to entertain as the venture off to fight the good fight. I especially like how Wesley played Sherlock Homes in their latest case, with Cordelia eating the little snakes during it all, lol. But there was one plot hole I found where if the world was about to end, wouldn't Cordy get a vision about it? Doesn't really make much sense, despite the fun sudplot. All and All, an average episode that's just a fun filler.

I really like the interactions between Lorne and Angel in this episode. Even though Angel has pushed away all of his human companions he keeps going back to Lorne who is a demon, but still shows his need for connection. Lorne is great as he tries to get Angel back on the right path by helping Angel stop the end of the world. There is something so tragic about the scientist who can't stand to live in the world without his girlfriend so he decides to preserve that perfection forever. The way he apologizes at the end to Lorne and Angel is also really hilarious and I like the simple kind of danger that he presented.

The case that the new Angel investigations was pretty good and I love the part when they refuse to pay, because it could not possibly happen. The chemistry that Gunn, Wes and Cordy have is really great and it is nice to see them developing.

Lorne, or 'The Host', is a wonderful character. This episode was a nice break from the heavy-handedness of the season's arc. The story surrounding the nerd with a broken heart who's scientific experiement might end the world was creative, engaging, and fun.



The "go-betweens" of Cordy, Wes and Gunn trying to make it on their own was a nice touch. That, inter-cut with Angel and Lorne solving a case together worked magnificently. Lorne has oodles of one-liners that will leave you smiling, and for the first time we get to see Lorne's special power of "holding a note forever". This episode looks on the outset as a fun "filler", but the season needed this for a character outside the "core group" to tell Angel he's being a brooding ass to everyone around him. Lorne became Angel's otherworldly therapist for the duration of their investigation. Great episode.



"It's alright, he's the school mascot."

Happy Anniversary



Great episode, very funny and great. Gene was a good and sad character. I loved the moving on from Cordy/Wes and Gunn and I loved Lorne working with Angel and helping him and Angel telling his problems and how he feels. sometimes you just really wanna stop time. this episode is also hilarious!



we begin with Cordy and Wes in the new office, they don't think they will end for a lot time. then comes Gunn he takes the phone but it isn't working so Wes tries to fix it but damages it. Gunn says to be happy that he met them because it's entertaining. cut to Angel trying to sleep but then he hears Lorne singing and it annoys him. Lorne tells him that the world is gonna end tomorrow.



the credits start



cut to Lorne telling him what, in the club a guy was gonna sing and when he started to sing it knocked Lorne out it was because when he read him he noticed that there won't be any life after 10 a clock tomorrow for anyone. Lorne needed a hero and Angel is gonna help him. they are gonna search through the karaoke bars. cut to the man working and he wants to stop the time. his girlfriend comes by but it feels a little tense and they don't have anything to tell each other. tomorrow will be their one year anniversary.



cut to Angel and Lorne in a bar, the man isn't there and Lorne lets the barman sing and he recognise and them man knows. (Lorne is hilarious in this episode). cut to the guy, he tries to do it but it doesn't work and he goes. There’s some demons there and they say that he is the one and change his notes. cut to the guys very getting depressed when Virginia comes(Hilarious) she tells them that she has a job and that the people are very rich and they leave because there is a funky smell "well, I wasn't gonna say anything".



cut to the man coming to his work place, he sees the notes and then does what it says and it works. he stops time and he is very glad and it's a yee-ha moment. cut to Lorne and Angel in the library, they grab some books to know how to stop the world from ending and the demons are following them.



cut to Gene running to his girlfriend and hears her talking to her friend about what she's gonna do. She's gonna brake up with Gene, she thinks he's really sweet but hollow. when she's with him she feels lonely and that's why she's gonna brake up. after the anniversary they are gonna have sex and then brake up. Gene hears everything and goes away all disappointed. cut to Angel going to a man. he talks to him when suddenly Angel is attacked by the demon. They fight but Angel's too strong and the demon goes away. Lorne says that his kind want to end human kind and that their probably working for the scientist so they have to find Gene.



cut to Angel and Lorne coming over and finding a guy and the equipment is gone. He tells them that Gene wants to stop time, It would have his own universe they now need to find Gene. cut to Lorne and Angel in the car. Lorne thinks that Angel is in a very bad mood and asks why, Angel says that he's screwed, the law firm has been making him crazy and Darla deserved a second chance but they took it from her and now he has to kill her and he's in the cold so it was better to fire his crew, Lorne says that things can change, they just need to be fast. then they ride on a demon and there come a lot of demons towards them.



cut to Diane coming over to Gene. He thinks she's beautiful but doesn't say it "Well, Happy anniversary". cut to the house where the three went. they killed the demon but Wes says that someone was controlling him. he goes to everyone when he reaches the aunt and they have her.(hilarious scene! especially Cordy!). cut to them fighting again. Lorne screams and hits them then. cut to Gene and Diane, they are both uncomfortable and Diane feels very sorry. she's done with eating. cut back, Angel and Lorne defeated the demons and then they take off.



cut to Gene and Diane starting to have sex, the demons do something that it grows and make time stop everywhere. Angel and Lorne crash in to kill the demons. Angel fights them and destroys the machine turning everything back, also Gene and Diane. then she brakes up with him. cut to later with Angel and Lorne over. they tell him and he says that he didn't know and is sorry. Angel relates a little to him. they understand. Angel feels a little bad because he says that he left his friends in the cold. cut to them having a party. a guy comes for help and asks who's Angel and they say it's just a name.



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Best episode quotes:



Wesley: When they went out of business they just left these here?

Cordelia: Yup. Also the desk. We'll share.

Wesley: And when we go out of business we can just leave our stuff for the next guy.

Cordelia: Hey, hey, negative energy boy, with all of our money pooled together we can stay here a long time.

Wesley: Hmm. 20 minutes.

Cordelia: At least.

Wesley: Angel Investigations without the angel. - You think we can do it?

Cordelia: Well, we better. I mean, what else can we do? And I still have the visions. That'll keep us busy sometimes.

Wesley: We're gonna need a lot more than that. A steady, outside clientele.

Cordelia: It'll happen. This is our future, you know? And, personally, I think it is pretty bright. Ow! Dead plant! - Not symbolizing our future. Really!

Gunn: Okay, everyone parked within ten blocks has a flyer on their windshield. We just slightly irritated almost a hundred people. Does it smell funky in here to you?

Cordelia: It'll air out. And good job with the flyers. Now we can just sit back and let the calls roll in.

Gunn: They better roll in through a bull horn. We've got no dial tone.

Cordelia: What?

Wesley: Perhaps it's the wires.

Cordelia: They said it would be on by now!

Gunn: One desk? We're sharing?

Wesley: Aha! Things are looking up. I think I found the right wire. Ah!

Gunn: I'm so glad I met you guys. It's entertaining. Really.



Angel: So the world's gonna end.

Host: Brings you right down, doesn't it? - Don't feel the need to offer your guest a frothy cappuccino or a hot cinnamon roll.

Angel: I don't.

Host: Man, you just get darker and darker. And the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.

Angel: I don't have coffee.

Host: Or a duster, buster. I don't know why you fired those three plucky kids. They were good company. Not to mention, Cordelia? Uh! Hot-o-rama! In the 'oh my sizzling loins' sense of the word, if you know what I mean. And the British boy? He's gonna be playing a huge – well …

Angel: Are you gonna get to the world ending or are you just gonna chat until it does?



Host: ...Oh. The man is such a moron. You have no idea how I'm suffering since Ramone left.

Angel: Oh, I have an idea. Can you just get to the point already?

Host: Yes, I can, if you'd let me get a word in edgewise, Mr. Get-to-the-point-y-pants. - So this guy I've never seen before - gets up to sing. Usually I love it. You know, they sing, I read their futures, their auras, I see into their souls...

Angel: So this guy...

Host: The thing that was remarkable about him was there was absolutely nothing remarkable about him...

Host: ...Just your average Joe about to mangle a tune and bore me with some bland vision of his bland future...But when he started singing - man, he knocked me out!

Angel: He was good?

Host: No, Angel-face, he knocked me OUT.



Angel: Why'd you come to me?

Host: Isn't it obvious? You're a champion. A unique force for good in a troubled world. - Also, all the other champions I know are currently out of town or - dead. Why? You don't want to work with me? - Is this because I sent you on a couple of missions that turned out to be a little...

Angel: Pointless and deadly?

Host: As for example. But I sent you on those missions in good faith. And we interrupt this broadcast to inform you: world ending? Kind of an emergency situation here. You might want to get on board.



Mike: Someone forgot to wind time-boy.

Val: He's thinking. Something you ought to try.

Mike: Very funny. He's really not that much smarter than the rest of us.

Val: I guess that's why his work on the time paradox earned Professor Orfalla a Nobel nomination and your work on carpet mold was promptly forgotten by everyone?

Mike: You know what you are?

Val: Yes. I do, Mike. And if you say it I'll put your face in liquid nitrogen. Hey. What's the good word?"

Gene: Entanglement.

Val: How's that again?

Gene: In Newton's world space and time are separate entities, in Einstein's their entwined.

Val: Einstein's entwined. Can you say that ten times really fast?

Gene: So how is it that altering one particle of an entangled pair causes the other particle to be affected - without any communication between the two.

Val: Because space and time are one.

Gene: So how do you separate an entwined pair? You don't. You can't. In fact you probably shouldn't even try.

Val: I never do.

Gene: What you should do is carve out - one instant - at a time.

Val: Look, I like the theory of freezing time as much as the next Star Trek nerd...

Gene: It's not freezing time, although that is what it would look like to an outside observer. I'm talking about removing one infinitesimal space-time aggregate of from all that surrounds it.

Val: A tiny event horizon.

Gene: Sort of. And then growing that event into something measurable and controllable. Your dog and his favorite bone preserved forever - in his own impenetrable little bubble.

Val: And who's gonna clean up that bubble?

Gene: If I could just get the math right, I should be able to prove it by generating a focal point with the accelerator's beams here and passing liquid mercury - through that point.

Val: Suspending the mercury. Snatching it out of our time-space continuum - and freezing the moment.

Gene: Forever.

Val: Denise. Thank god you're here. Your boyfriend was just coming on to me with the old Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation.

Denise: That's what got me - out of physics and into theatre.



Angel: Seventeen Karaoke bars. You know, I need to lie down and scrub out the inside of my head.



Host: Hey, Goliath, you got a good picture of this grad student in your head? Well, how about singing a few bars of 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow', hmm?

Angel: Oh, you know, he's a demon. You better do what he says or he might - talk your ears off.

Bartender: For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow...

Host: Yeah, it's him. It's our boy. Fabulous tone by the way, really nice vibrato. And you keep plugging away on that novel, F. Scott. Art is its own reward. Got to give the people hope.



Cordelia: There. See? We'll work without the harsh glare of flourescents, or all that distracting computer information.

Gunn: Cordelia - stop trying.

Cordelia: Really?

Wesley: Join us. Sometimes you need to wallow. Just let the depression settle in - silently.

Virginia: Hey! Wow. This place is great. I brought champagne. You guys must be so excited in that really dry, suicidal way.

Wesley: Sorry, sweetheart. You just caught us in a moment of... Well...

Cordelia: Reality.

Virginia: Oh - that. I avoid that.

Gunn: How do you avoid reality?

Virginia: Money. It cures everything but boredom and food cures boredom, so there you go. Imported chips and packets of cheese.

Gunn: Thanks.

Wesley: We'll enjoy them huddled around our pathetic candles.

Cordelia: We'll make pathetic nachos.

Virginia: You guys are really down.

Gunn: Yeah. And don't try to tell us there is no way to go but up, because the truth is - there is always more down.

Virginia: Oh! And that was very well said by the way. But I found a case for you. A client. A rich one.

Wesley: Really?

Cordelia: And this isn't the first thing you say when you come in the room?

Virginia: Well, I got distracted by your waves of desperation. But it's true. My friend Patricia, her family, they've got like this big guy that's been harassing them, hanging around the house getting scary, and they'd be really grateful if someone got rid of him.

Gunn: That sounds easy.

Cordelia: Uh, wait. By 'big guy' do you mean demon?

Virginia: Yeah. And by 'house' I mean palatial estate, and by 'grateful' I mean they'll give you big tubs of cash. Really rich family. They invented, uhm, I don't know, like - chairs, or something.

Cordelia: We'll do it! We'll do anything.

Virginia: Oh, that's so sad. Anyway, he's a Wainakay demon, and he got the eldest son already.

Cordelia: So there's been a death? You just let these facts kind of dribble out, don't you?

Virginia: I'll call Patty and tell her you'll take the job.

Wesley: Uh, sweetie, no phone.

Cordelia: Also no lights.

Gunn: And there's a funky smell.

Virginia: I wasn't gonna say anything.



Gene: I did it. -- Oh, this is a yee-ha moment. I -- I definitely think this is a yee-ha moment! Yee-ha-ha!



Angel: Where did you learn how to drive?

Host: Just now in your car. Not bad for a beginner, huh?

Angel: What? You nearly got us killed -- four times.



Denise: I just - I just don't think that it's gonna work out with me and Gene.

Val: Oh. And tonight is your guy's one year anniversary!

Denise: You think I don't know that?

Val: Oh, honey.

Denise: I mean, Gene's a wonderful guy.

Val: Yeah?

Denise: But he's just sort of - hollow, or something. When I'm with him I feel - I feel lonely.

Val: Maybe that's because he is. You know I love him, but he is an energy sucker.

Denise: I have to break up with him.

Val: Uh. Not to be a massive bitch or anything, but couldn't you figure that out before the big anniversary do?

Denise: He's got the whole thing planned. He's making me dinner at his place.

Val: What are you gonna do? Oh, my god. You're gonna give him the sympathy bone, aren't you? It's gonna be dinner, sympathy bone, and adios Gene. I'm totally right, aren't I?

Denise: Well, we've been together for a year. I can't just - walk out on him! It just wouldn't be right. Not after all we've...

Val: No, you're right. The post-sympathy-bone-walk-out is you're only escape hatch now.

Denise: It was really sweet there for a while. Really sweet. But it's just - it's just not the kind of love that lasts.



Gene: So I'll give her the kind of love that lasts.



Mike: What's that?

Angel: Don't worry. It's just the new school mascot.

Mike: For the Buccaneers?

Host: Not your school, silly.

Angel: Do you know what Gene Rainy was working on?

Mike: Ah. Time paradox. Accelerate specific particles out of our continuum into their own excised universe.

Angel: Come again?

Host: Stopping time.

Mike: Which is impossible by the way. No one can do the math. Does anybody listen to me? No. He gets the grants I get carpet mold.



Host: So there is another gear after that number two thingy? Oh, relax. I'll pay for a tune-up. Unless the world ends, then I'm off the hook.

Angel: Well, if it saves you some money, then I guess it's a good thing.

Host: Oh, this whole sour pussy mode of yours, it's starting to grate. You know what your problem is? - Are you listening?

Angel: Do I have a choice?

Host: Your heart isn't in it anymore.

Angel: I don't have a pulse so technically I don't have a heart.

Host: Technically, someone puts a stake through it you don't have anything anymore. So, Bubba, your heart counts.

Angel: I have no idea what you're babbling about.

Host: Yes, you do. If the world were to end tonight, would it really, in your heart of hearts, be such a terrible thing? Now- now, sweetie, is that a fun place to be?

Angel: I think you should shut up now.

Host: I'm the host. Have you met me? I never shut up. You pushed your friends away. You went from helping the helpless to hunting down the guilty. Blood vengeance is a luxury of the lesser beings. You're a champion, Angel. I mean - you were, at least.

Angel: What do you want me to tell you?

Host: Everything. What's in your heart, why you stopped caring. You know, the whole ball of wax, so I can help you get back on your path. No need to rush, we got time. You know - not a lot.



Angel: You want to know what my problem is? I'm screwed. That's my problem. I can't win. I'm trying to atone for a hundred years of unthinkable evil. News flash! I never can! Never going to be enough. Now I got Wolfram and Hart dogging me, it's too much! Two hundred highly intelligent law-school graduates working fulltime driving me crazy. Why the hell is everyone so surprised that it's working? But no, it's 'Angel, why you're so cranky?' 'Angel, you should lighten up. You should smile. You should wear a nice plaid.'

Host: Oh. Not this season, honey.

Angel: Redemption. Darla had a shot at redemption. They took it from her. Now I have to hunt her down and kill her. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna kill her, and then I'm gonna burn that law firm to the ground. My crew -- they couldn't handle that. That's good. It means that they're still human. It means their better off fired.

Host: You kind of left them in the cold.

Angel: It's a lot colder in here.

Host: It's not always gonna be this way. The song changes. Unless, of course, we don't get there on time, in which case -- you'll be frozen in this crappy mood forever. I shudder to think.



Patty's dad: Good job, man. We're very grateful.

Wesley: Oh, yes. We found the killer just not the murderer.

Aunt: What's he talking about?

Wesley: This demon was a puppet. Acting under the control of someone else. Someone in this room.

Cordelia: Are these for everyone?

Wesley: What do we know? We know that when we arrived yesterday there was a noticeable scent of foxglove and hellebore. Not to keep this demon out, as one might suspect, but rather to keep him in so he could carry out the murderer's clever plan. Such a plan would require the skills of a master wizard.

Dad: I don't do that stuff anymore.

Wesley: Then we have the footprints in the soft soil under the widow outside the solarium - far too small and not webbed to belong to this demon.

Aunt: But Kevin told you, those were his.

Dad: He snuck in late last night.

Wesley: Loudly, so we all could hear. Supposedly from seeing that shop girl in town. But we all know that Kevin is impotent, so why put on the show? Perhaps to cover for the real killer - unless Kevin in fact is the real killer. With Derek gone, the family inheritance falls to you, the younger brother and black sheep of the family. - Unfortunately you had neither the opportunity nor the intelligence to perpetrate this crime. - Sorry about the impotent remark. - So if Kevin was to have control of the money, who would have control of Kevin?

Cordelia: Are there any more of these little ... Sorry.

Wesley: His sister? His mother? - Both powerful forces in his life, both with their own agendas. But only one person knew the secret that would allow them to blackmail Kevin for the rest of his life. Only one person took pains to hide their muddy shoes. Only one person reeked of foxglove and hellebore. Only one person was responsible for the death of Derek Bointon - his own sweet, doting Aunt Helen!

Dad: Helen!

Cordelia: Not so fast, sister.

Gunn: That was cool.

Wesley: It wasn't that difficult. You just - have to keep sifting the evidence until the truth finally hits you.



Gene: I can't believe this - Listen, I am - really, really sorry. I had no idea I was putting the whole world in jeopardy or - or there were all these demons. - Although the idea of aliens among us is consistent with Murdoch's multi-verse. I just - I just didn't want her to leave.

Angel: Well, you know - love - it's a fire.

Gene: You been there.

Angel: It burns you. - Alive. Down to the bone. And then it turns the bone to ash...

Host: I-I think what my chipper friend is trying to say here, Gene, is the wheel keeps turning. You can't stop it. Sometimes things get worse, sometimes they get better.

Gene: I want the wheel to stop - which probably explains the whole time in a box disaster. I can't emphasize enough how sorry I am about that.

Host: It just don't work, Gene-y. It's like a song. Now, I can hold a note for a long time - actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Gene: I guess. - You guys like beer?

Angel: Beer sounds great.

Gene: I'm glad you guys, ah...

Host: You're connecting to a human. That's a start. Although I'd go easy on the bone and ash metaphors for a while.

Angel: Well, the guy is a disaster at love, and nearly destroyed the world. I can relate. - Yeah, I guess I did kind of leave 'em in the cold.

Host: What, your buddies? By firing them?

Angel: Yeah. - Yeah, I guess I made it pretty hard for 'em.



Man: I just -- I need help. Is this Angel Investigations?

Wesley: Uh, yeah, you're in the right place. Ah. Sorry about the confusion.

Cordelia: We're just having a little celebration. A new beginning kind of thing.

Man: Oh, well, maybe I should...

Wesley: No!

Gunn: No, no. You need help, you're in the right place. We can talk in back. Come on in.

Man: Which one of you is Angel?

Wesley: It's just a name.



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Story: 10

Acting: 9

Writing: 10

Picture: 9

Gripping: 9

My Rank: 9

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Total: 9.3