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Darla - 2ADH07
The Long: After a ''Previously on Angel'' segment (see Continuity #1) we open on Angel in his room, where he
is drawing a picture of Darla. Wesley comes in and wants to know if
there is anything on his mind he wants to share, but Angel insists he's
fine. Welsey points out that the floor is covered with drawings of Darla.
Elsewhere Lindsey walks in on Darla, finding her injured and cowering in
the corner, all the mirrors in her room shattered. She babbles about her
past and cries about how she's Angel's soul mate.
We open in 1609 somewhere in the Virginia Colony, where a sickly and human
Darla is being leeched by a doctor as nurses look on. A heavily robed
priest walks in and sends the others out. Darla, who it turns out is a
wealthy whore, isn't interested in having her soul saved, and says let the
devil take her. The priest removes his hood revealing he is the Master.
She recognizes him as the man who came to her last night and sang to her,
she invited him in then. He then offers to be her savior and bites her.
In the present Angel talks to Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn in his office about
wanting to find Darla. The group are skeptical until Gunn points out that
they must be keeping her at some safe house, so they should look into
realestate holdings of Wolfram & Hart (see Continuity #2-#4) . In 1760 London Darla introduces
Angel to the Master. She tells the tale of the bloody death they reaped
since she sired him in Galway (see Reference #1 & Continuity #5). Although the Master tires to be impressive,
Angel looks down on him for living in a rat infested stink hole and looking
like a bat. The Master beats the snot out of Angel, but allows him to
leave with Darla (see Reference #2). He gives their relationship a century tops. Back in the
present at Angel Investigations, Angel learns that Darla means dear one,
but didn't come into popular use until over 100 years after Darla was born
and realizes it's not her original name. Wesley states he has fears that
Wolfram & Hart wanted Angel busy and out of the game, because it's
working. In Lindsey's office, Lindsey walks in with Darla. Holland greets
them then wants to speak to Lindsey alone. Holland is happy to learn she
is cracking up, but warns she may try to kill herself.
In 1880 London Darla, Angel and Drusilla stand over a freshly dead man who Dru
drained (see Continuity #6). Drusilla says she's all alone, Angel suggests making herself a playmate
as a human Spike bumps into Angel on the street and walks off, obviously
hurt over something, Drusilla is very interested in him (see Cool Quotes
#1). In the present at Angel
Investigations Cordelia and Wesley think they have narrowed down where
Wolfram & Hart are keeping Darla (see Continuity #7). Although Angel wants to check it out,
they convince him to let them go and scope out the place first, especially
since it's the early afternoon and the address is in Sun Valley (see Reference #3). At
Lindsey's office Lindsey and Darla talk about her life before she was a
vampire, which she barely remembers. She doesn't know what she is now.
He kisses her, but she says it's not her he wants to screw, it's Angel.
They get all hot and heavy, but then she bites him. She doesn't know
what or who she is. Back in 1898 Romania, Angel wanders aimlessly in the woods with
his fresh new soul (see Continuity #8). Darla begs to have the gypsy man return him to his former
state, but he refuses. As Drusilla kills gypsies in the camp Darla says
she will protect the man's wife and children, who are in a wagon, if he
fixes Angel. Spike walks out of the wagon with blood on his lips
and belches. Darla realizes he killed the family and she kills the gypsy
man. Wesley and Gunn report back to Angel about how they found Darla's home
wrecked, but seemingly by Darla. As Wesley and Angel argue about
whether Darla needs Angel's help, Cordelia takes a phone call, which ends
up being Darla herself calling from Lindsey's office (see Cool Quotes
#2). She wants to know
where she was when she was dead. She's afraid and wants Angel's help. Lindsey
walks in and catches her on the phone. A security guard tries to take
Lindsey and Darla to Holland's office. As she runs off there is a struggle
which Angel overhears on the phone, and then the sound of a gunshot.
In Holland's office Lindsey and Holland review the security tape of the
guard being shot as Lindsey helps Darla escape. Holland thinks Lindsey is
too emotional when it comes to Darla and takes Lindsey off the project.
Wolfram & Hart picked her up already and Holland plans to terminate the
project. Angel leaves to help Darla. In 1900 China Darla is found packing
clothes in her room during the Boxer Rebelion (see Continuity #9). A dirty and foul smelling
Angel sneaks up on Darla. She pulls a knife on him, but is unable to kill
him. He offers to try to make it like it was between them. He wants to try
to put things back together despite his soul. She accepts and they kiss.
In the present Angel jumps Lindsey in the parking lot looking for Darla,
but it seems Lindsey was trying to contact Angel. Lindsey knows where they
probably took Darla to kill her and wants Angel to help her. In the past
a better dressed Angel looks for Darla in the streets as the rebelion continues. He comes
across a misionary family with a baby in an alley and protects them from a rioter,
then he notices Darla and blocks her from seeing them. He gets her to go
looking for food some place else. They run into Spike and Dru, seems Spike
killed a Slayer. Drusilla senses fear in the direction of the missionaries, but
Angel says he's getting bored with the rebellion and the
four vampires walk the street together ignoring the chaos around
them. In the present two thugs throw Darla from the back of a van then
pull a gun on her.
The Master is an ancient and powerful vampire, so old when he sired
Darla in 1609 that he had lost his human features completely and gained a
more demonic appearance. The Master is the progenator of
a long line of vampires. We know he sired Darla, who sired Angel. Angel
sired Penn, Drusilla and Theresa Klusmeyer. Drusilla sired Spike and
Sheila. The Master is the head of a vampire cult called the Order of
Aurelius, who worship the ''old ones'' and plan to bring about the
end of the plague of humanity on Earth.
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Mark Metcalf as the Master
Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald
Sam Anderson as Holland Manners
Julie Benz as Darla
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
James Marsters as Spike
Zitto Kazann as the Gypsy Man
Bart Petty as the Guard
Mark Metcalf, who played the Master, played the part of the Hirogen medic in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes The Killing Game Part 1 4.18 and The Killing Game Part 2 4.19. He also played the part of the father in several Twisted Sister music videos.
Zitto Kazann, who played
the gypsy man, played a council member in the Charmed episode Be Careful
What You Witch For 2.22.
