''Angel faces the woman brought back to life to destroy him. This time, she will win.''

Synopsis

The Short: From the

1. Cordelia: ''What do you mean? We didn't even charge you for the mandrake.''
   Mandrake is a southern European plant, Mandragora officinarum, having greenish-yellow flowers and a branched root. This plant was once believed to have magical powers because its root resembles the human body.
   
   
2. Host demon: ''Well, every seventy-five years your friends over at Wolfram & Hart have this review. I think the general angst isn't so much about the review, but more about the reviewer, and let's just say it ain't Rex Reed.''
   Angel: ''What is it?''
   Host demon: ''It's evil. It's dark. It's merciless. Actually, now that I say it out loud it sounds an awful lot like Rex, doesn't it?''
   Rex Reed is a film critic.
   
   
3. Host demon: ''Most anything that can manifest in order to move in this dimension can be killed. Kinda the down side of being here. That and the so-called 'musicals' of Andrew Lloyd Webber.''
   Andrew Lloyd Webber is a writer of musicals. His works include Cats.
   
   
4. Cordelia: ''Oh, geez, Wesley. Zippity duh-dah, all right?''
   Zippity Duh-Dah is an incredibly happy song from the 1946 muscial film Song of the South. Plot: Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Brer Rabbit to help little Johnny deal his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation. The tales: The Briar Patch, The Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place.
   
   
5. Holland: ''Now I don't think that's true. Be honest. You got the tiniest bit of give a crap left. Otherwise you wouldn't be going on this Kamikaze mission.''
   Kamaikaze is Japanese for divine wind, the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan's fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. In World War II the term was used for a Japanese suicide air force composed of fliers who crashed their bomb-laden planes into their targets, usually ships. The kamikaze was first used extensively at Leyte Gulf and was especially active at Okinawa.
   
   
6. Holland: ''That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We, go on, no matter what. Our firm has always been here. In one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being, and that, friend, is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.''
   The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella with the reluctant approval of Sixtus IV. One of the first and most notorious heads was Tomas de Torquemada. The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to discover and punish converted Jews and later Muslims who were insincere. However, soon no Spaniard could feel safe from it. The Spanish Inquisition was much harsher, more highly organized, and far freer with the death penalty than the medieval Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition was finally abolished in 1834.
   The Khmer Rouge is the name given to native Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, began a large-scale insurgency against government forces in 1970, quickly gaining control over more than two thirds of the country. The strength of the Khmer Rouge rose dramatically from around 3,000 in 1970 to more than 30,000 in 1973, enabling most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to withdraw. In 1975 the movement, led by Pol Pot, overthrew the Cambodian government, establishing "Democratic Kampuchea". The new government carried out a radical program of evacuating cities, closing schools and factories, and herding the population into collective farms. Intellectuals and skilled workers were assassinated, and a total of perhaps as many as 1.5 million died, inclusive of starvation and forced marches.
   
   

1. Gunn: ''Previously on Angel.''
   Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been - Angel meets Denver and has him help fight a demon. Angel turns his back on the people of the Hyperion hotel.
   Happy Anniversary - Angel tells the host of Caritas that he can't atone for all the evil he did, and now he has Wolfram & Hart dogging him.
   Reunion - Holland says Lindsey is doing stellar work and that the senior partners have noticed. Drusilla prepares Darla's dead body for her raising as a vampire. Lilah and Holland beg for Angel to help them, but he doesn't care. Darla attacks Holland.
   The Thin Dead Line - Wesley tries to help Gunn with a zombie police officer and gets shot. Kate says this job is making her crazy, Angel knows the feeling.
   
   
2. Cordelia: ''When she goes back to school the other kids will never even notice that there was a third eye growing back there.''
   The Thin Dead Line - Mrs. Sharp hired Angel Investigations to try to cure Stephanie of the third eye she was growing in the back of her head.
   
   
3. Lindsey: ''He set them on fire, Lilah. Even vampires as strong as Darla and Drusilla need time to recover from something like that.''
   Redefinition - Angel set Darla and Drusilla on fire after killing the demon they tried to make into their army.
   
   
4. Holland: ''Now I don't think that's true. Be honest. You got the tiniest bit of give a crap left. Otherwise you wouldn't be going on this Kamikaze mission. Now let me see, there was something, in a sacred prophecy, some oblique reference to you. Something you're supposed to prevent. Now what was that?''
   Angel: ''The apocalypse.''
   To Shanshu In L.A. - Angel learned from scrolls he stole from Wolfram & Hart that he was a destined to save the world, and be rewarded with becoming human.

Francine and Stephanie Sharp are the 24th and 25th reoccurring non-star characters on the show. They were last seen in The Thin Dead Line. Denver is the 26th reoccurring non-star character on the show. He was last seen in Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been.

Two Wolfram & Hart Lawyers sing the song Reunited by Peaches and Herb. You can download a clip of the real song here. You can read the lyrics here.

Denver said he picked up the Blessed Glove in 1975.

New name for Angel: Angelcakes (by the host demon).

Points Of View

Mathew:

I was glad to see Denver return, but did they have to kill him off so quickly? The story with the eye in the back of the head is a little drawn out for me. Finishing it in two eps would have been fine. Having Denver have the exact glove Angel needed was a little too easy. So what happens to all of Denver's books and stuff?

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