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Fredless - 3ADH05
Back at the Hyperion Gunn tires of the inventory and wishes Cordelia would get a vision. She trips on a spring loaded device Fred built, but they have no clue what it's for. A couple walk in looking for Angel Investigations. The couple, Roger and Trish say they are looking for their daughter. At first the crew think they lost their daughter to demons and want to hire them, but they eventually learn they are Fred's parents and they heard she was staying with them. About that time a lone Fred walks in licking her ice cream and sees them parents talking in the next room and unseen by everyone panics and runs up stairs to her room. Wesley says that Fred is out at the moment. Roger and Trish want to know where their daughter has been for five years, but the crew cover for her, saying she was depressed. Roger and Trish say they got a letter from Fred, with no return address, saying not to look for her. Right then Angel walks in with the severed Durslar head in
his hand bragging about how tough it was before he notices the couple (see Reference #3). Cordelia covers for him saying he works in the movies and that the head is a prop, then introduces him to Fred's parents. Up in Fred's room she tries to clean the walls of her writings and tidy up in vain. Back in the office Angel tries to make small talk with the parents. They want to know when Fred will be back, and Angel guesses she came back already and is in her room. They go to her room and see the ice cream wrapper, so they know she was there. Roger and Trish are freaked out by the writing on Fred's walls. Cordelia and the others are suspicious of the parents and why Fred seemingly ran away. Out on the streets Fred acts lost and frightened.
Roger and Trish talk in the lobby of the Hyperion as the crew talk in the office. Cordelia says something is off about the couple. They wonder why Fred would run away from her parents. They try to figure out where Fred would go, but can't come up with any good ideas. Angel decides to check out the sewers while the others go with Fred and Trish to the library Fred worked at. At a closed Caritas Fred knocks on the door, rousing the host from enjoying television (see Reference #4). The place is still a wreck as he reluctantly lets Fred in (see Reference #5). Fred wants cash to get out of town. The host is sympathetic and talks with her. In the sewers Angel looks for Fred. As he does pair of glowing eyes watch him. At the library Cordelia talks to Fred's parents as Wesley and Gunn find she isn't there. Cordelia learns Trish drives a school bus. Roger thinks it's off that a physicist works for a detective agency. They crew don't know where to turn, then it hits them (see Reference #6). In the sewers Angel gets a cell phone call from the crew and they tell
them what they thought of. He leaves as a bug-like monster watches him. In Caritas the whole crew and the parents surprise the host (see Reference #7). The host is still uncomfortable with Gunn being there. Angel talks to the host as Roger says he thinks the crew is hiding Fred from them. The host stalls then gives up where they can find Fred, but he warns it will be ugly. In the bus station Fred talks to herself and frightens off a bum. She considers going to Las Vegas and learning to count cards for money as she calculates PI to relax (see Reference #8). Then her parents walk in and she panics and runs off, but the parents stop her. Fred is freaked because meeting means her life was real, that it really happened and isn't a story book story. She breaks down and cries in her mothers arms. As Rogers says she is safe now a giant bug jumps down from the roof and hisses at them.
The Durslar Beast is a large humanoid demon who makes more noise then is really dangerous. It's sub-terrainian and rarely goes above ground.
David Boreanaz as Angel
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
J. August Richards as Charles Gunn
Amy Acker as Winifred "Fred" Burkle
Andy Hallett as the Host Demon (Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan)
Gary Grubbs as Roger Burkle
Jennifer Griffin as Trish Burkle
Gary Grubbs, who played Roger Burkle, played Fire Captain Miles Cooles in the 1998 X-Files film. He also played Sheriff Thomas Arnes in the X-Files episode Our Town 2.24.
Jennifer Griffin who played Trish Burkle, played Doctor Miryum in the X-Files episode Per Manum 8.13.
