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Lonely Hearts - 1ADH02
The Long: After a ''Previously on Angel'' segment (see Continuity #1) we see Angel sitting alone in his office in
the dark. Doyle walks in and turns on the light. Doyle tries to get Angel to
go out and meet people, saying they should celebrate the new company
with Cordelia. Angel isn't interested. Cordelia shows up and is happy the
new calling cards have come in (see Reference #1). Doyle
has a vision of trouble at a bar and Angel says they will be going out after
all. At the bar, called D'Oblique, a girl named Sharon
sits quietly and a man named Kevin approaches her with a pick up
line. (Listen to the teaser here.)
At the bar Sharon and Kevin make small talk (see Reference
#2). Angel, Cordelia and Doyle walk in and split up looking for the
trouble. Angel is clearly out of his environment around people. Cordelia
starts to pass out cards but Doyle stops her from drawing too much
attention. She insists she knows what she is doing, they see Sharon and
Kevin leave together (see Reference #3). Meanwhile Angel
has men thinking he's trying to pick them up then meets a woman named Kate
who wants to know if he's okay. They talk (see Reference
#4). Cordelia and Doyle talk about how she can't figure him out. She
wants to know about the visions (see Reference #5). A man
who got one of the cards tries to pick up Cordelia. Doyle tries to defend
her. Kate tells Angel she has trouble trusting men
(see Reference #6). She asks if he wants to leave, but he
says he can't. Trouble starts with the man trying to pick up Cordelia,
thinking she's a hooker. Doyle hits the man. There is a fight, Angel helps
then the bartender breaks it up and ejects the guy that approached Cordelia
and his friend. A woman named Marcie is impressed with Angel and they go to
the bar and talk (see Reference #7 & 8). Kate sees this and
leaves. At Kevin's place we see Kevin and Sharon in bed in afterglow. She
wants to leave, but he wants her to stay so he can hold her. At the bar
Angel, Cordelia and Doyle are sitting around at closing time and can't
figure out why they are there. They are told to leave. Cordelia mentions how
hard this is for Angel because of his curse (see Cool Quotes
#1). The next morning at Kevin's place Sharon is getting dressed calmly
as Kevin's body lays there dead and decomposing.
Back at the office the next night Angel, Cordelia and Doyle are researching
strange occurrences around that bar. On the computer they find newspaper
articles about a death and a disappearance near the bar. Angel decides to go
back there. When he arrives Angel bumps into Kate again. He apologizes for
abandoning her and tries to get her to stay away from the bar but can't say
why. She tells him off (see Continuity #2). Kate goes in
and gets a drink. She bumps into Sharon who is picking up a guy. Angel
notices a man asking for Kevin, who disappeared. At the office Cordelia and
Doyle look through the books for demons who might fit the pattern. Cordelia says
how much demons disgust her. At the bar Angel learns Kevin went out with
Sharon, he finds out her name from a guy and runs off to find her (see Reference #9). Kate notices how he runs off. At Sharon's
place Neil apologizes for his performance in bed to Sharon. She goes to
hold him. Angel runs down the street. Suddenly a monstrous snake thing
springs from Sharon and burrows into Neil's body. Angel rushes in to
discover the thing climbing into Neil, who knows Angel isn't human. Angel
says it has to stop, but Neil says he needs to find the right body. They
fight. Neil is strong and mops the floor with Angel, then disappears. Kate
rushes in not seeing Neil and pulls a gun and a badge on
Angel.
Kate says she with the police. Angel says he's tracking the killer too,
but she doesn't believe him. Angel apologizes then knocks her down and
dives out the window to the street below, meanwhile Neil watches from
the window ledge. Cordelia and Doyle show up at her place, which is in
a shambles. Angel shows up and she invites him in. He tells them how
now Kate thinks he's the killer and they need to lay low. Angel tells
them it's a burrower demon. He wants them to research it's weaknesses.
Angel leaves to look for it again. Angel looks for the demon as Kate looks for Angel.
We see Neil pick up a new woman. Kate breaks into Angel Investigations
and searches his home. The demon in Neil takes over the woman. Angel
returns to Cordelia's place and finds Cordelia and
Doyle asleep covered in books.
Cordelia says she found a demon called Talamour who fits the description.
She says it is strong, doesn't like fire, and when it leaves a body it
starts to fall apart. Angel calls Kate to warn her (see Reference #10). He says he'll meet her at the bar. She
reluctantly agrees. At the bar Kate tells the bartender to let her know when
Angel arrives, and shows she's a cop. A man tries to pick Kate up. The
bartender tells Kate he saw Angel in the alley and leads her out. Once
outside the bartender jumps her, knocks her out and pulls off her shirt.
Angel knocks out the bartender before the demon can enter Kate, but the
bartender's body
has started to fall apart. Angel and Kate are knocked into a room and
locked in, as the bartender goes out to try to pick up a woman to jump
into. He is falling apart and no one will talk to him. Angel tries to
use a line shooter to pull them out a window to escape, but fails. Kate
pulls out a gun and shoots off the lock (see Goof #1). The bartender is rapidly
deteriorating. They chase him outside into an alley where he has
grabbed a woman. Angel jumps him and they fight. Angel flips him
into a burn barrel and right as the flaming body is about to get Angel
Kate shows up and shoots it, saving Angel. As the paramedics take the
body away Kate and Angel talk. She assumes it was the bartender all along.
She thanks him and tells him she searched his place illegally. He shows
her a calling card and he walks off (see Goof #2). Back at Angel Investigations, Angel thanks Cordelia and Doyle
and asks if they want to go out, but they are glad to go home and rest.
Angel is thankful to sit alone again in the dark.
The villain of this episode is a Burrower demon named Talamour. He has the
ability to burrow into bodies of victims, killing them and taking them over.
When inside a body he it is very strong and resistant to damage. He is able
to tell Angel wasn't human upon seeing him and is vulnerable to fire.
Doyle mentions a demon named Piasca, a flesh-eating Indian demon that enters
victims through the mouth and eviscerates from within. Cordelia mentions a demon who wears a writhe of intestines on it's head.
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David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Glenn Quinn as Allen Francis Doyle
Elizabeth Rohm as Detective Kate Lockley
Lillian Birdsell as Sharon Richler
Obi Ndefo as the Bartender
Derek Hughs as Neil
Johnny Messner as Kevin
Jennifer Tung as Neil's pick-up girl
Tracey Stone as the Pretty Girl (Marcie, Left)
David Nisic as the Slick Guy (Right)
Ken Rush as the Guy (Left)
Connor Kelly as the Regular
Tracy Middendorf as Tina (Uncredited, seen in flashback to City Of.)
Vyto Ruginis as Russell Winters (Uncredited, seen in flashback to City Of.)
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald (Uncredited, seen in flashback to City Of.)
Renee Ridgeley as Margo (Uncredited, seen in flashback to City Of.)
Josh Wolloway as the Good Looking Guy (Uncredited, seen in flashback to City Of.)
Obi Ndefo, who played the
bartender, played the part of Kelemane in the Star Trek: Voyager episode
Blink of An Eye 6.12 and played Drex in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
The Way of The Warrior 4.01.
Obsessive Star Trek fans may recognize Neil's pick-up girl for her small part as a Trek actress. Jennifer Tung played the female ensign in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection. She played Klea in the Charmed episode The Demon Who Came In From The Cold 3.19. She was crowned Miss Chinatown U.S.A. at the age of 17.
Tracey Stone, who played Marcie, played on Malibu Shores with Charisma
Carpenter in the episode The Fall in 1996. She was also in the 1998 film
Dead Man On Campus as the girl
groupie with Alyson Hannigan, who plays Willow Rosenberg on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Ken Rush, who played the guy, has his own web site at http://www.kenrush.com/.
