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Judgement - 2ADH01
The Long: This season opens with a demon singing I Will Survive at a
karaoke bar. Then we see Cordelia
taking acting lessons and doing very good before she gets a pager message
and has to run off (see Reference #1-#2). Wesley is
winning at a game of darts when he also gets paged away. Angel meets with Wesley and Cordelia at health club where
they walk in despite the manager's protests and stop some demons trying to
commit a human sacrifice.
Angel Investigations has moved into Cordelia's home where
Cordelia has a vision about a demon (see Continuity #1-#3). At Wolfram & Hart Lindsey and Lilah see to Darla's recovery (see Reference #3 &
Continuity #4-#5). Back at Cordelia's they figure
out the vision was of a Prio Motu demon (see Reference #4). Wesley suggests an informant at a demon
karaoke bar called Caritas he knows of and they make contact (see Reference #5-#6). They meet the informant and a demon
host who gets clairvoyant information about people he watches singing, but
Angel refuses to sing (see Reference #7). Once they get a
lead from the informant Angel rushes to the scene and promptly kills the
demon thinking he saved a pregnant woman, but when she grieves over it's
death, saying it was her protector, Angel realizes his mistake.
The woman says the demon was protecting her from the Tribunal and then runs
off. Angel decides to take on the job of protecting her, and
roughs up the informant for more information, leading him to the demon's
home (see Reference #8). Angel and Gunn check it out and Angel sends Gunn back to Cordelia's
with a coat of arms they find (see Reference #9-10 & Cool Quotes #1). The woman comes back to her hiding place and
Angel explains how he wants to help her (see Reference #11-13). They are attacked by a demon.
Angel kills the demon, but more are coming so they have to run. Gunn shows
up at Cordelia's with the coat of arms and gives it to Wesley (see Continuity #6-#7). On the run
Angel and the woman come across an abandoned hotel, where they split up as
Angel fights the demons. He tells her to meet him at Cordelia's. Angel makes
it back to Cordelia's, but she doesn't. Angel realizes there is only one way
to find her and goes to Caritas, where he sings Mandy for the host demon.
The demon sends him to where the woman is hiding (see Reference #14-#15). On the street the woman
walks and suddenly the Tribunal and a knight show up, wanting to know
where her Champion is. Angel shows up and declares himself her Champion.
Angel is supplied with a horse, shield and lance and he jousts the knight.
They are knocked off their horses, then fight on foot. The knight is able
to impale Angel with his own sword, but when the knight goes to claim the
woman's life Angel gets back up and beheads the knight. Angel is declared
the winner and the woman and her child have the protection of the Tribunal.
Back at Cordelia's place Angel decides they should start over. He goes off
to visit Faith in prison. She has had trouble with another prisoner, but
survives. He mentions how he had to sing Mandy in public and Faith feels
sorry for him. They talk about how they both have to work hard at
redemption (see Continuity #8).
Caritas is a karaoke bar which is a safe haven for demons. It is considered neutral ground and no demons fight there. The first demon we see singing at Caritas was a green skinned demon with red eyes and two small horns. Wesley describes him as anagogic, which means he has some sort of mystical sense about things, particularly he can know about people by watching them sing. He sings I Will Survive.
The demon from Cordelia's vision was Camal the Prio Motu demon.
They are an ancient Ofga-beast, bred to maim and massacre. Although
Prio Motu demons are supposed to be powerful evil demons, this one was
good.
Liz, the second demon who was singing at Caritas, seems to be the same species
of demon as Tom Cribb from The Ring. We learn that this kind of demon is
known for eating their young. The credits refer to him as a Lizard demon.
His song is I'm So Excited.
The demon that enters Caritas before Wesley seems to be the same species
as the telepathic demons Buffy fought in Earshot. Two other demons of this type were in Caritas as well.
Mordar the Bentback is the third demon seen singing at Caritas. He
sings Sexual Healing.
One of the demon extras in Caritas looks surprisingly like a demon who was
in the background in New Moon Rising.
Merl is a parasite demon who works as an informant. Parasite demons have no
tongues, pointed teeth, green scaly skin and red eyes.
The Tribunal is an extradimensional group that will allow people to come
before it with a champion who fights a chosen opponent in a jousting match
to the death. If the champion for the person seeking protection wins they
will be protected by the Tribunal. They look very similar to the cloaked
man who helped Rupert Giles in Enemies. The Coat of Arms is a symbol presented to the Tribunal by the champions that
come before it.
The knight Angel fights seems to be either undead or a demon of some type.
He might work for the Tribunal or the people who want Jo's baby dead.
Frederick Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish-French composer and pianist of the
Romantic period, best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano
concerti. Although he wrote little but piano works, many of them brief,
Chopin ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets by reason of superfine
imagination and fastidious craftsmanship. He made his last public appearance
on a concert platform at the Guildhall in London on Nov. 16, 1848, when, in
a final patriotic gesture, he played for the benefit of Polish refugees. He
returned to Paris, where he died the following year; he was buried at the
cemetery of Père Lachaise.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist of the
Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concertos, chamber music, piano
works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. Brahms was the great
master of symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century.
He appeared for the last time at a concert in March 1897, and in Vienna, in
April 1897, he died of cancer. Also mentioned by Spike in In The Dark.
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan
Andy Hallett as the Host Demon (Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan)
Justina Machado as Jo
Julie Benz as Darla
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Rob Boltin as the man playing Johnny Fontaine
Iris Fields as the Acting Teacher
Keith Campbell as the Health Club Manager
Jason Frasca as the White Guy
Andy Kreiss as the Lizard Demon (Liz)
Matthew James as Merl the Parasite Demon
Glenn David Calloway as the Judge
Edward James Gage as Mordar the Bentback (Credited as EJ Gage.)
Andy Hallett, who played the host demon, is from the tiny Cape Cod village of Osterville, part of the town of Barnstable. He attended Barnstable High School and then Assumption College in Worcester. Always shy, he didn't begin singing until Patti LaBelle invited him on stage at a concert. After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a runner for an agency and then as a property manager and personal assistant. When Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon saw Hallett singing in a Universal City blues revue, Whedon conceived the character of the host, an anagogic demon who reads people when they open up through singing. Hallett was invited to try out and got the part, his first job ever as an actor. He would go on to play Jack in the 2001 film Chance. Andy has an official web site at http://www.andy-hallett.net/.
Rob Boltin, who played the man playing Johnny Fontaine, also played the soldier in Restless. He has a good online acting resume at http://www.meltingglass.com/rob.html.
Keith Campbell, who played the health club manager, played the part of Oz the werewolf in Phases. He is a professional stunt man as well as an actor. He has been the stunt double for actor Tom Cruise on several occasions. You might also recognize Keith as the alien perp from the beginning of the 1997 sci-fi film Men In Black.
E.J. Gage, who played
Mordar the Bentback, appeared as Mover #1 in
Buffy vs. Dracula, which first broadcast on the same night as Judgement.
