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First Impressions - 2ADH03
The Short: Angel Investigations is moving into the Hyperion Hotel,
but they need financial advice. This brings their former client David Nabbit
calling with advice, which helps out. Gunn enlists the help of Angel
Investigations in ousting the demon Deevak who has moved into his
neighborhood and is taking over the local crime. After an unsuccessful
attempt to get information from an informant, the group go home, only to
have Cordelia have a vision of Gunn in trouble.
She is unable to contact Wesley or Angel, so she takes Angel's car to save
Gunn by herself. When she arrives at Gunn's place he seems fine and the car
gets stolen. Gunn helps her recover the car, but falls into a trap set by
Deevak, who it ends up is the informant. Angel and Wesley catch up in
time to help Gunn defeat Deevak and his vampire minions, but Cordelia now
understands that the danger to Gunn wasn't the demon, but Gunn himself.
He keeps taking unnecessary risks and is going to get himself killed, so she
swears to watch out for him, despite his objections. Meanwhile Angel gets
reoccurring romantic dreams sent by Darla to seduce him back to her.
Deevak is a big strong demon who looks like his face is melted. He displayed
the power to turn into a human form, similar to vampires, Bracken and
Anomovic demons, but in his case the two forms
were so different you couldn't recognize that they were the same person.
In his human form he went by the name Jameel, and still had some level of
superhuman strength. He wanted to take over the street crime in
Gunn's part of Los Angeles and had humans and vampires working for him.
Ken and Barbie are a famous doll line by Kenner. Barbie has her own web site at http://www.barbie.com/. Also referenced by Willow in Welcome To The Hellmouth, Cordelia in Halloween, Pete in Beauty And The Beasts and by Sharon in Lonely Hearts.
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992
film with Michael
Madsen as Vic Vega. Plot: A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery
on a diamond warehouse. The police are after them so quickly that they
suspect they have a rat in their company. This film starts right after the
robbery, with flashbacks to before the robbery, and to the planning of the
crime. We are also introduced to the main characters in flashback mode.
Plenty of fast action, and plenty of blood and gore.
Malcolm X is a 1992 film
with Denzel
Washington as Malcolm X. Plot: Biography of Malcolm X, the famous
African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father was killed by the
Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation
of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out
of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he
converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He
changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white
teachings, as he realizes his mistakes. He is later on
assassinated and dies a Muslim martyr.
The Oscars (a.k.a. the Academy Awards) are the
annual presentation of awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences. An Oscar is considered the highest honor one can receive in show
business (and drive's one's asking price up as well).
Denzel was nominated for a best actor Oscar
for the roll of Malcolm X in 1993, but it was won by Al Pacino for his roll in
Scent of a Woman.
They have an official
web site at http://www.oscar.com/. Also
referenced by Xander in Beer
Bad and Cordelia in Eternity.
(Thanks to the BuffyGuide for this entry.)
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
David Herman as David Nabbit
Andy Hallett as the Host Demon (Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan)
Christopher Babers as Jameel
Cedrick Terrell as Henry
Julie Benz as Darla
Edwin Hodge as Keenan
Lucas Babin as Joey
Alan Shaw as Deevak
Angel Parker as Veronica
Ray Campbell as Desmond
Sarah Brooke as the Nurse
Janet Song as Doctor Thomas
Kelli Kirkland as the Young Black Woman
Sven Holmberg as Ty (Uncredited, seen in flashback to Warzone.)
Michele Kelly as Alonna (Uncredited, seen in flashback to Warzone.)
Sam Anderson as Holland Manners (Middle, uncredited, seen in flashback to To Shanshu In L.A.)
Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan (Uncredited, seen in flashback to Judgement.)
Kelli Kirkland, who
played the young black woman, played the part of Yolanda in the 1994
television series Superhuman
Samurai Cyber-Squad. She also played the part of Rinna in the
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Favorite Son 3.20.
