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.
Reunion
- After the events of last week, Gunn manages to get Angel back to the Hyperion.
- Angel explains that Drusilla is back and made Darla drink.
- He finds a stake in his office and says he can save her from another lifetime as a vampire.
- Angel goes back to Lindsey’s apartment, but it’s been cleared out.
- A realtor reveals that Lindsey’s odd English cousin was excited about having a baby.
- Drusilla wants Darla to be reborn under the stars.
- Lindsey and Dru have Darla’s body in a greenhouse where Lilah and Holland drop in to check on things.
- It’s good to see that Drusilla is still as insane as ever.
- Team Angel figures out that Dru will probably want Darla’s rebirth to take place in a plant nursery.
- Angel is able to find the right one and uncovers Darla in a shallow dirt box.
- Just as he’s about to stake her, Dru beats him with a shovel.
- While they struggle, Darla wakes up.
- Then the girls have Angel at something of a disadvantage.
- After a pretty drawn out scuffle, Dru and Darla disappear.
- Drusilla heads over to Lindsey’s office. And, eventually, so does Darla.
- She grabs Dru and they run off together.
- On their way to Wolfram & Hart, Cordelia has a vision, forcing Team Angel to turn and go the other way.
- Darla, meanwhile, fights with Dru and wants to know why she turned her.
- Then she comforts the upset Drusilla.
- When a disgruntled driver decides to voice his anger at them being in the middle of the road, Darla feeds for the first time in her new afterlife.
- Angel stops a guy from killing himself in the name of some demon, but he doesn’t really care to help him.
- The others point out that the Powers That Be may have sent the vision to keep Angel from going after the girls. But he doesn’t seem to care.
- Holland calls a cell phone that was planted on Dru while the girls are in a quaint little shop where they’ve just killed a quaint little shop girl. And then another.
- Holland suggests that, instead of a kill spree, they go on a massacre. Which should keep Angel busy.
- Angel bursts into Lindsey’s office and meets Holland Manners for the first time.
- Holland explains that he’s head of Special Projects. And Angel is the project.
- Angel: “You set things in motion, play your little games in your glass and chrome tower, and people die. Innocent people.”
- Holland: “And yet I just can’t seem to care.”
- It’s a great little exchange. I’m always a fan of the hero and villain having a little parlay.
- Holland has Angel escorted out of the building. He says he’d walk him out himself, but he’s late for a wine tasting at his home.
- Wolfram & Hart has Angel arrested. And guess who’s in the back seat of the police cruiser…
- It’s Detective Kate Lockley! Always a pleasure.
- She explains that Darla and Dru are on a killing spree and she wants Angel to stop them. So she lets him go.
- At Holland’s wine tasting, Dru and Darla show up. Holland’s wife invited them in. Right before they fed on her.
- Holland said he wanted a massacre. They’re here to deliver.
- At the shop, Angel finds a survivor hiding in the dressing rooms. She lets him know that she overheard the girls talking about going to the wine tasting.
- Holland’s wife isn’t quite dead and is alive enough to beg Angel to help them when he arrives. That must be enough of an invitation.
- Angel heads down to the wine cellar.
- Holland: “Angel, please. People are going to die.”
- Angel: “And yet, somehow, I just can’t seem to care.”
- And then he locks Dru and Darla in with the lawyers.
- Let the massacre begin.
- Angel’s team can’t believe that he allowed Drusilla and Darla to kill all those people. They think he’s crossed the line.
- So he fires them.
- Body count: Humans – Too many to count.
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