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To Shanshu In L.A. - 1ADH22
The Long: After a ''Previously on Angel'' segment (see Continuity #1) we see Angel Investigations at night where
Wesley is translating the scroll Angel stole (see Cool Quotes
#1). He is having trouble with the
word Shanshu, saying it is important to the prophecy about Angel. Cordelia
wants to know if the prophecy mentions her (see Reference #1). We see a cloaked figure wandering into Angel Investigations.
Cordelia finds a newspaper story about how Lindsey McDonald was just
promoted by Wolfram & Hart to junior partner (see Reference
#2). Angel senses they have a visitor and they go to see who is there.
It turns out to be David Nabbit, who decided to blow off his board of
directors meeting since it was his night to be Dungeon Master, and hang with the Angel Investigations staff (see Reference
#3 & Continuity #2). David is in awe of all the good works Angel Investigations
does, and how his millions don't compare to it. Switch to an outdoor scene
where two robed figures perform a ritual that raises a masked man, who is
immediately welcomed by Lindsey, Lilah and Holland outside Wolfram & Hart.
At Angel Investigations David makes uncomfortable small talk with Angel, Cordelia and Wesley
then decides to leave. Wesley thinks he knows what the word on the scroll
means, and looks it up in another book, where he finds it means death.
Cordelia is upset that the prophecy is that Angel will die, but Angel seems
unphased by it, so much so it bothers Wesley. Cordelia has a vision of a
homeless woman being attacked by a slime demon and gives Angel the
information he needs to find it (see Reference #4). At Wolfram & Hart the cloaked man is upset
that they let someone steal the prophecy of Aberjian, since without it they
cannot perform the raising. Lindsey claims responsibility. The cloaked man
says he will handle it but learns Angel has the scroll and is even more
upset because the raising was meant to remove Angel from the Powers That Be.
In a dark alley two police officers notice Detective Kate Lockley has shown
up and make light of the fact she is there for another ''other
worldly'' case (see Reference #5). Kate walks alone
in an alley and finds Angel helping the homeless woman (see Reference #6). She asks what happened and Angel says it was
a slime demon, but he took care of it. Kate is very hostile and says she is
going to rid the city of his kind, the kind that murdered her father (see Continuity #3). The next morning Wesley says every source
he can find says Shanshu means death, then he talks to Cordelia about
Angel's lack of concern. He says Angel lacks wanting anything from life and
after some talk they decide to try to turn Angel around (see Goof #1). Angel comes up from
downstairs to get a book, Cordelia and Wesley confront him. Wesley decides
he needs reference books from the store to help translate the scrolls and
has Angel lock up the scroll while he is gone. As he leaves Wesley suggests
Angel consult the Oracles, but Angels says he doesn't need to (see Continuity #4). Inside the Oracles' realm we see the Oracles
telling someone that they shouldn't have come to them, and we see the
cloaked man arguing with them. As they talk he slips his hand behind his
back and a bladed weapon forms in his hand. The Oracles say they will speak
no more, and the man agrees with an evil tone in his voice.
Outdoors during the day Cordelia wanders through several sales boothes,
looking for something for Angel. She looks at buying some paints and art
supplies for him, when we see the cloaked man walk through the crowd
unnoticed. As Cordelia pays for the supplies he passes her and brushes her
hand with his. A moment later Cordelia has a vision, causing her to drop her
bags. She recovers and reaches for her cell phone, but as she does she has
another vision, this time the vision doesn't stop.
Passers by call 911. At
Angel Investigations the cloaked man walks in. Inside Angel is reading the scroll, but doesn't
see the man. Angel locks the scroll in the weapon cabinet then gets a phone
call, telling him about Cordelia. Angel rushes out. The man breaks open the
weapons cabinet,
where he takes the scroll and leaves something we can't see. At the hospital
Angel finds Cordelia screaming and restrained to her bed (see Goof #2). The doctors can't
seem to find a reason or be able to sedate her. At Angel Investigations Wesley comes back
with arms full
of reference books. He goes to the cabinet, which he notices is broken. He
opens it then runs. Outside Angel is getting back just as a
massive explosion takes out Angel Investigations.
Angel rushes inside the burning building, where he finds an unconscious
Wesley on the stairs. He takes him outside, where an ambulance takes Wesley
away. Kate approaches Angel and accuses him of causing trouble. When she
tries to stop him from leaving the scene he dares her to stop him. Angel
says he's sorry her father died, but he didn't kill him, so stop blaming
him. Angel and Kate are now enemies. At the hospital Angel visits an
unconscious Wesley and Cordelia, who is still having constant visions.
Cordelia has withdrawn into a non responsive state. Angel holds her hand and
swears he will help her, then he notices a symbol tattooed to her hand.
Switch to the gateway to the Oracles' realm where Angel casts the ritual to
get in. Inside he sees the dead Oracles, with the blade that killed them
resting on top of their bloodied bodies. A ghostly apparition of the female
Oracle appears before him and tell Angel the symbol is that of the one who
did this, Vocah. She says a spell on the scroll can cure Cordelia. The ghost
fades as she tells Angel that Vocah hides behind man's law. Angel takes the
blade and goes. At a place called Milano's Italian Kitchen Gunn and his men load up the
truck with food, which he says is to help people (see Reference #7). Angel pulls up in the car
(see Goof #3). Gunn recalls the last time they met, when
he tossed a vampire in Wolfram & Hart headquarters (see Continuity #5). Angel tells Gunn he needs him to protect
his people in the hospital while Angel tracks down the guy who put them
there. At a cemetery five vampires are chained to a large
box as Vocah and the two robed men prepare a ritual.
At Wolfram & Hart Lindsey, Lilah, Holland and several trucks and limos pull out on
their way to the ritual. Angel hides in the shadows, following them in his
car (see Goof #4). Back in the cemetary the ritual
continues. The lawyers walk in then Vocah pauses and sets down the scroll.
The lawyers wonder what's wrong as Vocah creates another blade in his hands.
Then Angel crashes in through the window and the two
fight. Lindsey picks up
the scroll and completes the ritual as Vocah and Angel fight. As he does a
wind storm picks up that destroys the vampires and creates a blinding flash
of light in the box, knocking Lindsey out. The lawyers pick up and leave
with the box as the fight continues. Eventually Angel is able to unmask and
kill Vocah just as Lindsey wakes up (see Goof #5 & 6).
Lindsey grabs a large cross and the scroll, threatening to destroy the
scroll in a fire. Angel throws the blade and severs Lindsey's arm, saving
the scroll (see Goof #7). Angel leaves a bleeding Lindsey, taking the scroll
(see Goof #8). At the hospital a wounded but awake
Wesley reads from the scroll and removes the curse from Cordelia.
Cordelia slowly awakens and says they have to help the people she saw.
At Cordelia's place Cordelia prepares food as Welsey translates more of
the scroll (see Reference #8). Although he can't
figure out what the Wolfram & Hart people raised, Welsey realizes that
Shanshu in it's oldest form means to live and die, in a cycle
(see Goof #9). Therefore
the prophecy says after Angel stops the coming darkness he will become
alive then live a normal life and death. Cordelia is happy for him
(see Reference #9). In the Wolfram & Hart safe Lindsey, Lilah
and Holland talk about their coming plans for getting revenge on Angel,
starting on what is in the box. Lilah leans down and tells
Darla, who is inside, that things will be all right
(see Continuity #6).
Vocah, Warrior of the Underworld is a extradimensional killer with a serious
grim reaper style going for him. He is strong, fast, can place curses on
people with a touch and can call his weapon in his hand at will.
Wolfram & Hart employ a pair of robed men who aid them in magic rituals.
They are probably some type of magic practitioners for hire.
We have the third and possibly last appearance of the Oracles, as well
as the ghost of the female Oracle.
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
Elizabeth Rohm as Detective Kate Lockley
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan (Right)
Sam Anderson as Holland Manners (Middle)
Todd Stashwick as Vocah
Carey Cannon as the Female Orcale (Right)
Randall Slavin the Male Oracle (Left)
David Herman as David Nabbit
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Julie Benz as Darla
Louise Claps as the Homeless Woman (Left)
Daren Rice as Uniform #1
Jon Ecklund as Uniform #2
Lia Johnson as the Vendor
Robyn Cohen as the Nurse
Susan Savage as the Doctor
John Eddins as Monk #1
Gerado O'Donnel as Monk #2
Turner Brahman as the Young Tough Guy
Grant Langston as the Market Guitarist (Uncredited)
Jeremy Renner as Penn (Uncredited, appeared in flashback to Somnambulist.)
Susan Savage, who played
the doctor, played a part in the Charmed episode called Pardon My Past 2.14. She also played the alien woman in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Memorial 6.14.
Grant Langston, who played the Market Guitarist, played the Strolling Minstrel in the 2001 film Chance. He is a professional musician who has his own web site at http://www.grantlangston.com/.
