
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.
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- Angel sits alone at his conference room table and none of his team is joining him.
- Harmony gives the catch up exposition…
- Wes is babysitting Illyria… Gunn is still in the hospital… Lorne is still MIA since Fred died…
- Then Spike arrives for his first official staff meeting as part of the team.
- But he’s not taking it too seriously, opening a beer that he pulled from his briefcase.
- Angel remembers his first encounter with Fred… “Handsome man saved me from the monsters.”
- He’s second guessing their decision to join Wolfram & Hart again.
- He also doesn’t want to wait for the Senior Partners to enact whatever plan they have for him.
- So Angel and Spike visit Eve again, but she’s less than cooperative.
- They threaten to reveal her location to the Senior Partners if she doesn’t help them out.
- Suddenly the room begins to shake and the magical symbols that are hiding her disappear.
- Eve begs Angel to protect her just before the door is smashed in revealing Adam Baldwin.
- New player in town.
- He scans the empty room.
- Lorne drowns his sorrows in a bar where a demon bartender sings to him to find out if his girlfriend is going to say yes to his proposal.
- He gives him good news… but then monologues about his own misery since Fred’s death.
- But he’s going to pretend like he’s okay and head back into the belly of the beast because that’s what he does.
- Angel, Spike, and Eve arrive back at the office and Harmony is told to beef up security and be on the look out for this new guy.
- Then Angel visits Gunn in his hospital bed, needing to know if there’s a way he can protect Eve.
- Gunn doesn’t feel up to lawyering right now, but Angel reminds him that he paid a high price for that brain, so he needs to use it.
- Gunn then lets Angel know about something in his contract that should work and he’ll make a call to make sure he’s able to protect Eve with it.
- Angel then reminds Gunn that he’s bothered by what he did because he’s a good man and that there’s no end of second chances where atonement is concerned, so he has to seize every one that comes along.
- Wes is having a conversation with Fred…
- Uh… what?
- Oh… dream…
- Illyria then points out that he’s been sitting for a long time, that he drank a lot of that poison and called her names meant to hurt feelings she no longer has.
- She and Wes are both disappointed with this world, so she asks why he doesn’t leave.
- Eve begins revealing what exactly she is… a child of the Senior Partners, created to do their bidding.
- So she’s immortal?
- Unfortunately, she doesn’t have access to the Senior Partners’ secrets, claiming it’s locked away in her head but she doesn’t have the key.
- Then she tells Angel that he gave the Senior Partners the one person who knows more about the Senior Partners than anyone else in this dimension.
- Eve is convinced that Lindsey is still alive somewhere because the Senior Partners would want him to suffer unspeakable horrors day after day.
- Cut to Lindsey waking up in bed next to a beautiful wife and a kid who jumps onto the bed to say good morning.
- Yeah… looks like torture.
- Lindsey steps outside to get the newspaper at the exact same time as every other dad in the neighborhood before returning to all of their identical homes.
- He’s wearing a distinctive necklace that must mean something…
- Spike points out that there are countless hell dimensions, so they have to figure out which one he’s in before they can figure out how to pull him out.
- Lindsey is helping his son with his homework when his wife tells him the oven light has gone out and asks him to get a new bulb from the basement.
- Lindsey really doesn’t want to go down into the basement.
- But she insists, so he slowly makes his way down the stairs.
- According to Gunn, Lindsey isn’t in hell, he’s in a Wolfram & Hart holding dimension.
- Angel, Spike, and Gunn take a special Camaro through the tunnel from Back to the Future Part II, coming out in Lindsey’s suburban neighborhood.
- Gunn warns that they’ll have to face something called The Wrath if they want to get back out.
- Wes tries to encourage Illyria to leave this world since she actually has the power to do so.
- She’s starts to flip out, claiming everything here is too small… that her face isn’t her face…
- So Wes tells her to come with him.
- As if it’s Groundhog Day, Lindsey relives the going out to get the paper scene.
- The Camaro pulls up and Gunn gets out, scaring Angel and Spike because of the bright sunshine…
- But it’s a different dimension… so no bursting into flames.
- They ring the doorbell and the Mrs. opens up.
- Lindsey has no idea who they are.
- He also has no memory if his previous life.
- Lindsey thinks these guys are pulling a prank on him, and it’s not funny.
- Meanwhile, Eve is freaking out, wondering why it’s taking so long.
- Lorne tries to calm her down saying that no one can get in the building without Angel’s say so.
- Then the alarms start blaring.
- Eve, Lorne, and Harmony watch as Adam Baldwin gets off the elevator and punches a hole straight through the sternum of a security guard.
- So the new guy is super strong… awesome.
- Lindsey insists that our guys leave his house, but Angel recognizes that the necklace must have something to do with whatever spell Lindsey’s under.
- Angel rips it off Lindsey’s neck and he remembers everything.
- Then his fake wife comes in with a machine gun shooting at everyone.
- Angel fights while the others try to get Lindsey out to the car… except the car is gone.
- The guy driving the ice cream truck and the mailman start shooting, too, driving everyone back inside the house, where the kid has now joined the firefight.
- Gunn reminds them about facing The Wrath, so Lindsey leads them to the basement, warning them that they’re gonna day.
- Angel says not today… but Lindsey says every day.
- Adam Baldwin strolls into Angel’s office like he didn’t just punch through a guy and Harmony tries to fight him.
- He shrugs her off like she’s nothing while Lorne and Eve take Angel’s private elevator away from the office.
- Down in Lindsey’s basement is a torture chamber…
- …Where Spike finds a pile of human hearts.
- They all belong to Lindsey.
- A huge demon emerges from the dark of the basement and fights Spike and Angel while Gunn tries to guard Lindsey.
- Gunn decides to put on Lindsey’s necklace, knowing the whole time that for one to leave, another has to stay.
- This opens the door for the others to escape.
- Lorne and Eve emerge in the garage and get ready to leave in one of the cars, then Angel, Spike, and Lindsey fall on top of the car.
- Lorne warns them about the guy upstairs, who then storms his way into the garage.
- Eve pleads with the guy, asking him to tell the Senior Partners it’s a mistake.
- He pulls out a pen and a contract that she knows she has to sign.
- He introduces himself as Marcus Hamilton, the new liaison to the Senior Partners.
- Eve signs away her duties as liaison and her immortality.
- Elsewhere, Illyria and Wes continue their conversation on the roof of Fred’s apartment building.
- She fears that if she went to any other dimension in her current form, she would be prey to those she once knew.
- Angel’s ready to get some answers from Lindsey about the Senior Partners’ plan.
- Lindsey tells him that the apocalypse is here, right under their noses the whole time.
- He points out that heroes don’t accept the world the way it is, the way they’ve been doing since they’ve been at Wolfram & Hart.
- Everything they’ve done is a distraction… keeping them from fighting the bad guys.
- Lindsey points out the war is happening and he’s down two soldiers already.
- Back in that pocket dimension, Gunn helps his son with his homework and his wife asks him to get a bulb from the basement…
- Body count: Humans – 1