Welcome to Rewatching Angel, the part of the blog where I rewatch the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off: Angel. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love these shows so many years ago.
The Trial
- Angel tells Wes and Cordelia that he’s letting go of his search for Darla.
- But then Gunn bursts into the hotel letting Angel know he’s tracked her down to a hotel that Wolfram & Hart don’t yet know about.
- Angel admits he lied. He figured Cordelia and Wes would nag him about it.
- Darla receives a visitor at her hotel room. But it’s not Angel.
- It’s Lindsey, Wolfram & Hart’s favorite stooge.
- He brings her back to the law office where Holland explains that she’s not their prisoner.
- He claims she’s their moral responsibility. Then he shows her a file.
- Angel and Gunn check out Darla’s room, but they find nothing useful.
- In a flashback to France, 1875, Angelus and Darla are on the run from a vampire hunter named Holtz.
- He’s relentless and he keeps finding the vampire duo, no matter where in Europe they go.
- Back in the present, Darla is chatting up a vampire in a bar. Looks like she’s trying to talk someone into turning her a vampire.
- She’s less than impressed with the fact that he’s only been undead since 1992.
- He takes her out to the alley and she has to explain to him how to sire her.
- But then Angel dusts him before he can start to drain her.
- Angel tries to talk Darla out of becoming a vampire again, that she should give her humanity a chance for more than just a few months.
- But she drops the bomb that she’s dying. That’s what Holland’s file revealed.
- Back in 1875, Darla hits Angelus and steals the horse so she can get away while Holtz and his posse focus on him.
- Meanwhile, Angel doesn’t believe that Darla’s really dying. He thinks it’s a Wolfram & Hart trick.
- He brings Darla to the hotel and asks Wes and Cordelia to watch over her while he goes to do something.
- Angel goes to Lindsey’s to get info. He invites Angel in and shares everything about Darla’s diagnosis.
- She’s dying of the same thing that was killing her the first time she was human.
- Lindsey tries to convince Angel to turn Darla, but he says he’ll find another way to save her.
- Angel takes Darla to the karaoke bar to let the Host read her.
- The Host gives him an address. Angel will face a pretty substantial quest.
- And it could kill him.
- Angel must face three trials. If he fails (or is killed), Darla dies instantly. If he succeeds, she will be made whole.
- In the first trial, Angel fights a demon, who he cuts in half with his own sword.
- But that doesn’t kill him. The demon can pull himself back together.
- Angel figures out that he has to cut the demon in half, then separate the halves, making it impossible for him to rejoin.
- In the second trial, Angel has to get through corridor with crosses everywhere: on the walls, the floor… and he’s barefoot.
- It’s like when Hans got his henchman to shoot the glass because John McClain had no shoes.
- Oh, and then he had to retrieve a key from the bottom of a bucket of holy water.
- But he did it.
- In trial three, Angel is bound by chains while a wall of wooden stakes comes at him.
- The third trial is death. For Darla to live, Angel must die.
- Angel is willing to die.
- But in the final split second, he’s saved.
- And then it’s explained that Darla can’t be saved. Because Wolfram & Hart gave her new life by supernatural means before, she can’t be saved again.
- Angel’s pissed.
- He takes her back to her hotel room and he’s reasoning that, maybe since he has a soul, if he were to turn her…
- But she stops him from that train of thought. Because while he was going through the trials, she experienced it all.
- She accepts her fate.
- They share a nice moment…
- Which is ruined when Wolfram & Hart’s goons bust in and incapacitate Angel.
- Lindsey strolls in, just ahead of Drusilla, who is all too happy to turn Darla back into a vampire.
- Body count: Vampires – 1; Humans – 1
I just discovered your blog and I love this! I am currently re-watching Buffy and I am starting Angel next. I’m a little behind because I’m currently on season 4 of Buffy but I’m looking forward to following this! 🙂
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