Continued~
Wednesday, Apr 23 -"Sacrifice"
Wednesday, Apr 16 - "The Magic Bullet"
UNDER THE MESSIAH'S SPELL ? With Angel (David Boreanaz)
and the others under Jasmine's (guest star Gina Torres)
extraordinarily divine power, Fred's (Amy Acker) life is in danger and she goes on the run. After discovering the secret to breaking Jasmine's spell over the nation's citizens, Fred must find a way to save the others before she's captured and killed.
Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards,
Vincent Kartheiser and Andy Hallett also star. The episode was written and directed by executive producer Jeffrey Bell
From Slave4buffy (courtesy of ignfilmforce)..
The cast of Angel
While there used to be a deal for Angel to move to UPN should the WB cancel the series, that deal has expired, leaving the series without any definite place to land should it be cancelled. The series is set to get its first exposure on UPN, however, during the Buffy finale. A guest cast list for Buffy's final episode included the entire cast of Angel and there will be a mention of the First Evil, the current Buffy "big bad," on Angel by the end of the season.
From EW magazine
Article
Wanda/Kristen Chat with the cast at E! has Charisma, David, Eliza, Aly and some Alexis!
From ShadowFax via SR for episode 19:
- Act 1 starts with a man coming into the already packed hotel. He's desperate to stay there because of Jasmine. He offers to give Lorne his house if he'll give him a room.
- Jasmine comes downstairs and talks to the people gathered there to see her.
- A few scenes later, Fred goes into a book store, meeting up with a guy named Ted (Not the evil robot Ted from Buffy), and discuss the mass hypnosis that happened three days ago. Fred can't figure out how it happened, since it affected everyone.
- Then it's revealed that Ted has been affected by Jasmine too and he can't think rationally.
- In the next scene, Connor and Angel are in the sewers, tracking Fred.
- A few scenes later, Fred is walking to the motel she's staying at, passing by some of Jasmine's happy followers.
- At the hotel, Jasmine says she can see Fred. She's able to see what the people are seeing.
- A few scenes later, Fred has ended up in a dimly lit cave with a demony creature.
< - The creature tells Fred he's a vegetarian
- In next scene, it's open mic night at the hotel with Lorne as the emcee. A series of people come up to say how Jasmine has effected them. A man says he was blind and now can see. A young boy reads a poem he wrote for her. Angel and Connor sing a song for Jasmine (Mandy with new lyrics). Lorne tells a joke about a green BMW and gets no response.
- The audience is too focused on Jasmine. A deaf woman says she wishes she could be in Fred's head so she could kill her. An old woman talks about naming all of her 37 cats after Jasmine.
- Lorne sings a "Freddie's Dead". Wes & Gunn listen from the counter.
- Back at the cave, Fred is talking to the creature. He wants to leave town to avoid Jasmine's followers.
- Fred tries to get the creature to help her, but then finds some human heads in the cave. The creature isn't what he claims to be.
- The creature attacks Fred and she kills it with a hatchet, but is injured.
- She goes back to the book store and some of Jasmine's followers are there. She still has the hatchet, is bloody, disheveled and looking "creepy". She challenges the people.
From 'TaraDi' (unconfirmed)
Ep. 17 is called "Inside Out"Darla (Julie Benz) is back in a flashback to Angelus' past.There is a character named Anna that will be in the ep. Not sure of her function in the ep. but she is listed as a feature in the call sheets. No actress name applied either. They shot Ep. 17 all last week - finishing this week.Fred and Connor are going to have a huge fight - physical - not sure exactly the ep. # for that.Skip the demon returns as well and there is one hell of a fight including him as well.
From ShadowFax via SR For Episode 18 "Shiny Happy People".
- Looks like it might be a more Fred-centric episode.
- In one of the beginning scenes, Angel is asking "The Woman" if Cordelia will wake up?
- The Woman (could this is Gina Torres' character?) says in rather poetic terms if they get rid of the demons that have taken over since the darkness came "which heralded her birth" and restore the world then Cordelia will be okay.
- She also says that great evil has been done her name and that they're going to change the world.
- The next scene is in a ransacked bowling alley, with vamps using human heads to bowl with. The vamps whine about the sun returning.
- Angel, Connor, Wes, Gunn, Fred & The Woman arrive and there's a big fight.
- The Woman is injured in the battle, and Fred feels it's her fault.
- The battles carries on to a restaurant nearby, crowded with people.
- Angel stakes a vamp right in front of them.
- The restaurant patrons try to figure on what's going on.
- The Woman comes in, and they all kneel before her. She's sort of treated like a god and tells them she's here to bring peace, free them of their suffering and that the world will know the power of her love.
- A young man, John, who was scratched by the vamp, yells at her that she's lying and that she's a monster.
- John charges at the Woman with a knife.
- Angel vamps out, and viciously attacks John and beats him to protect the Woman. He's as close to being Angelus as he's ever been with a soul.
- The Woman stops Angel as John continues to yell that the Woman doesn't belong there. Wes calls an ambulance
- Later on, Fred is off on her own investigating John. It's about a week after the incident and he's at a psychiatric ward at a hospital.
- She sneaks in and talks to him. The side of John's face that the Woman touched is all deformed now.
- Fred has seen something (that includes maggots and rotting flesh, maybe a vision?). John tells her that they've been called and killing the Woman is their mission.
- Fred returns to the hotel to find the lobby filled with people. Lorne and Wes are there. (The people are probably there because of the Woman). Fred pulls Wes aside. ). Fred pulls Wes aside. Fred presumably tells Wes about John or suspicions about The Woman.
- A few scenes later, Angel, Wes and The Woman are preparing to go after Fred, who they see as a threat now.
- The Woman tells them to wait until tomorrow when they'll have more help looking for Fred. - In the next scene, Fred is at a coffee shop, telling another person at the counter that she's lost all of her friends.
- The local news is on the tv, and the Woman (who's now referred to as Jasmine) is appearing on screen, being interviewed by a reporter.
- Jasmine goes thru a speech about the earth being a garden and darkness corrupting it.
- All the patrons of the coffee shop drop to their knees to worship their new leader.
- As Fred walks out of the coffee shop, alone, in a brand new world.
- The episode ends there.
Originally posted by fredbabygrl:
Casting Sides for Episode 20
Showfax
-In the teaser, Connor and Angel fight. Angel pummels Connor in the face. His fists are left bloody.
-Apparently Angel,Wes,Lorne, and Gunn have now all joined up with Fred and no longer are worshipping Jasmine.Act 2 begins with them in the sewers, being surrounded by a gang of teenage kids. The kids have nail studded baseball bats and spears. The kids are threatening them, especially Lorne. Gunn struggles with one of the kids, who recognizes his name. Gunn knows the kid.
-There's a strange wailing sound. There's something in the tunnel.
-Back at the hotel,Connor cautiously enters Cordy's room and sees Jasmine seated across from Cordy's bed.
-Connor starts to apologize to Cordy for something, but then looks down and sees her bed is empty.
-Jasmine tells Connor that Cordelia's blood is dangerous and that the hate could spread.Cordelia is now where Jasmine wants her to be.
-Jasmine comforts Connor, then gets him to follow her. She's taking him somewhere.
-Angel and the others go with the kids to their stronghold in the sewers. The wailing continues.
-There's some sort of creature there that killed the brother of one of the kids. The kids are refugees and orphans from the craziness happening in L.A.
-The gang goes out hunting the monster terrorizing the kids.
-Wes gets separated from the group, and runs into the monster. The monster says he loved her. His kind loved her before everyone else, and built temples to her. He's rather angry that they had the audacity to name her Jasmine.
-Wes asks how the monster defines love,and the monster tells him that love is sacrifice.
-Wes sees that the monster has assembled a huge sphere out of corpse.
-One of the kids stops Angel from going to help Wes.
-Wes also sees a strange glowing orb set in bone in the monster's lair. Wes continues to talk to the monster as the monster works on the sphere.
-One of the corpse turns out to be a vampire and wakes up.
-The kids discover Angel is a vampire.Matthew (the kid's leader)has vamp issues since his family was murdered by vamps.
-Wes continues talking to the monster,uncovering that Jasmine has a real,secret name that has power over her.
-Angel and the other finally reach Wes and the monster.
Episode 21
Casting Sides for Episode 21
Showfax has posted casting sides for episode 21. Here's a rundown of the details:
-Act 2 begins with many of Jasmine's followers naked in the banquet room of Angel's hotel.There's a young girl thanking Jasmine.
-Connor interrupts, telling Jasmine he needs to talk to her. Connor wants to know about Cordelia.
-In the next scene, Angel is talking to a High Priest. The High Priest tells Angel he's going to fail and loose "him".
-Back at the hotel, Connor makes his way through a large group of reporters all assembled in the Hotel's lobby waiting for Jasmine. They're setting up satellite feeds that will air around the world.
-Connor looking for Cordelia, and stops when he finds a young woman that smells like her. The young woman knows Cordelia from an article about her in People magazine. The young woman refers to Cordelia as Jasmine's mother.
-A female reporter startsto interview Connor and refers to him as Jasmine's father. But he's not interested in talking about Jasmine.
-Connor goes outside to the garden. Several of Jasmine's followers are there, disussing how the Lakers just disbanded because of Jasmine.
-Connor asks them if they know where Cordelia is, since he was told they're the guys who helped hide her.
-They refuse to tell him, He can smell her on them.-One of the guys attacks Connor, but Connor knocks him out. He threatens the other guy (Jeremy), and asks again where Cordy is.
-At a Ziggurat, Angel is fighting The Keeper as the High Priest is talking about how much effort Angel is putting forth trying to make things right for Connor and why he should bother when time and time again he fails to win him back.
-The High Priest says that Connor should never have existed and his only purpose was to bring about Jasmine. Angel continues fighting the monster while arguing with the High Priest about Connor.
-A few scenes later, Connor goes to a church. He finds 2 cops there guarding it on Jasmine's orders. Connor needs to get inside and ends up fighting the cops. As he finishes fighting the cops, he looks up and finds Cordy lying near the pulpit covered in a shroud.
-A bit later, there's more of the press conference at the hotel with numerous reporters.
-Jeremy goes to tell Jasmine that Connor forced him to tell him where he took Cordelia. (thanks to FredBabyGrl)
New Spoilers and such:
Posted by Fraz
ANGEL BATTLES A MONSTER FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION, THE NATIONAL GUARD IS CALLED OUT AND LAWYERS RISE FROM THE DEAD ON ?ANGEL?
The critically acclaimed ANGEL winds up a fantastic season with Angel's trip to another dimension to battle a monster and the return of an old nemesis everyone thought was dead on April 30. The explosive season finale airs on May 7.
Wednesday, May 7 - "Home"
A NEW BEGINNING ? Angel (David Boreanaz) and the gang are made an offer they can't refuse when they are given the opportunity to take over Wolfram & Hart and obtain all of the firm's secret and powerful information. Meanwhile, Angel has a chance to change the future for his son Connor (Vincent Kartheiser), who is physically and emotionally lost and wandering through the city. Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards, Amy Acker and Andy Hallett also star. The episode was written & directed by Tim Minear.
From Ain't It Cool News
All rejoice now.ANGEL's Fate Determined?
I am ? Hercules!
We've not been able to confirm this with our best sources, who appear to have retired for the evening, but the switchboard has been lighting up all Tuesday night with news from lesser sources that the WB finally decided to slide ?Angel? off the bubble and into a fifth-season renewal.
For those just joining us, this is exceedingly good news, because:
a) Tim Minear's fourth-season finale script is an amazing knee-slapper, and spins the show into a wholly unexpected direction (hint: one of the show's most prized elements returns to loom larger in the Team Angel lives than ever before);
b) Some of the best writers from ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer? and ?Firefly? are expected to migrate toward Team Angel, transforming the franchise into a kind of Mutant Enemy supershow; and
c) For the many asking if Spike will die at the end of the ?Buffy? series finale or if Spike will be a component of the ?Angel? cast next season, the answer is apparently ?yes.? You heard me.
The WB announces its autumn slate on May 12.
Thanx to Wamdue
SACRIFICE
Written by Ben Edlund, directed by David Straiton
Airing 4/23/03
Picks up right where The Magic Bullet leaves off, with Connor in the hallway about to unleash Jasmine's hordes upon the MoG in the hotel room. Angel tries to tell Connor that he's wrong about Jasmine, but Connor stops him, saying no, Angel's wrong, not just about Jasmine, about everything. The Jasmaniacs come running up behind him, and Angel slams the door to prevent them entering. Angel tells everyone to run, and they do, leaving him to hold the door. Finally, the door breaks, and Angel is forced to vamp out and fight his way through the crowd, beating Connor into unconsciousness.
Outside, the gang is in the Angelmobile, waiting, when Connor's body lands on the hood, Angel not far behind it. Angel gets in the car and tells Wes to drive, leaving Connor behind on the street. A throng of Jasmaniacs follow them.
We see Jasmine, in her hotel room, "watching" them through the eyes of the Jasmaniacs.
In the car, the MoG listen to Jasmine Radio as they try to decide what to do. Wes points out that they're almost out of gas, and Fred tells Angel (again) that they should have taken Connor. Angel blows her off.
Connor lies on Jasmine's divan, still almost dead from Angel's beating, plenty of naked Jasmaniacs looking on. Jasmine does the green glowy thing to heal him (the naked people are eaten at this point). Connor tries to question Jasmine about what exactly is going on with his former friends/family, and why did they rub blood on me, and Jasmine avoids his questions with lots of smiley platitudes, as per usual. She tells Connor not to worry, everything's connected, my followers are my eyes, my skin, my limbs, and if need be, my fists.
Outside, the gang has stopped for gas. They have to fight off the attendants and other customers, who then start speaking in Jasmine's voice, which creeps them out. Through her followers, she tells the MoG that they are a disease in the body Jasmine, and will be incorporated into the Matrix purged. Fight fight fight, gas gas gas.
The gang has pulled into an alley because the entire LAPD is chasing them. Wes points out that, technically, they're the only criminals in the city, hence the unusually large number of police cars. Angel, shockingly, suggests they go into the sewers. They do.
In the sewers, Angel and Gunn argue briefly about whether or not they have a plan. They do not, but both agree that when they do get one, eating rats should not be a part of it. Fred realizes that they left Cordy bleeding from the wrist back at the hotel. Angel tells her to forget about Cordy, because to survive this fight they have to be heartless.
Luckily, Connor had bandaged Cordy's wrist before she bled to death. Jasmine walks in on him sitting by her bedside, realizes that Cordy's blood is dangerous, and tells Connor that she wants to be alone with her mother.
MoG, still in the sewers, talking about how much they miss Jasmine, come across a booby trap, which they all survive unscathed. The trap-setter is a 13 y.o. boy named Golden. Also in this gang are a girl, Holly, and their leader, 18 y.o. Golden. They are not Jasmaniacs, as they've been living underground since before the sun came back out. They bandy words with the MoG. After a bit, Golden recognizes Gunn (his older brother used to be in Gunn's crew) and now they're all friends until an inhuman wail interrupts the banter.
Connor comes back into Cordy's room, sees Jasmine sitting on the now-empty bed. Connor doesn't like that Cordy's missing, but Jasmine explains that her blood was a danger, so she moved her to a safe place, and no, she won't tell him where it is. But she exudes love, so Connor accepts it.
Golden shows Angel the traps they've set to keep the sewer demon (the one with the inhuman wail) from killing them. Angel is not overly impressed, but c'mon, they're kids. Angel, still resisting any kind of emotion, is not sympathetic when the kids explain how they got down there (no sun, lots of demons, etc) and how there used to be more of them. He takes control, and a machete, and says let's go kill this thing.
Jasmine is preparing for a television appearance. Connor wants to go out and find the MoG, but Jasmine won't let him, saying it'll all be fine, soon the world shall be ours, muahahahaha, er, I mean, I bring you love. Notices that Connor isn't smiling, and tells him that he hasn't yet truly surrendered his pain to her. She grabs his hand and presses her nails in hard enough to draw blood, and takes his pain away (VERY SIMILAR TO CORDY'S DEMON POWER, HUH?). He is now a much more pliable slave.
Back to the MoG, still tracking. Angel vamps out in a moment of stress, which freaks the kids out and causes a brief moment of possible mutiny. Nothing comes of this because they are interrupted by a huge skittering monster, who takes Wes back to it's lair before anyone realizes what had happened.
Inside the lair, the monster (which turns out to be an enourmous bug-thing who talks like Gollum), hisses "We loved her first!"
Wes, trying desperately to both stay alive and get any information he can, tries talking to Gollum, and learns that before she came to Earth, Jasmine was the goddess of the insect-things' world. Gollum is horrified that humans deigned to give The Devourer a name, and starts muttering again about how they loved her first, the precious, and they stole it from us. Wes interjects, asking how do insect-monster-things define love, exactly? Same as all bodies, it says, love is sacrifice.
We now see that Gollum has been building a nice big geodesic dome out of dead body parts.
After seeing Angel in vamp-face, Matthew (the youngest) has run off, and Fred and Gunn look for him. Fred and Gunn talk on the way about how they're feeling (awful) and how weird Angel's been acting. Gunn says Angel's right, feelings don't matter anymore, and Fred says, no, we can't be fighting for the right to be heartless shells. Gunn says remember when we killed that guy, and you were able to turn off how you felt and do what needed to be done? And Fred says yeah, except, dude, I felt every second of it, and it still eats me up inside, so there.
More Wes & Gollum talk. Wes learns that Gollum's dimension's atmosphere would kill humans, but ooh, here's an orb that'll take me there, if only I didn't need to breathe?Gollum mutters more about how She doesn't care for word-magic, blood-magic older, more powerful, she will feel it and remember her precious, there is only one word she cares for?Wes picks up on this, puts 2 and 2 together, figures Jasmine's true name has power over her. Turns out one of the bodies in the sculpture is a vampire, and isn't quite dead yet. This annoys Gollum. Wes tries to explain the problem, but is shushed.
Outside, Fred and Gunn find Matthew, who is surprised that the sun's out, but won't return with them, and they end up knocking him out and carrying him back.
Wes tries to get more information out of Gollum, like what is Jasmine's true name? Gollum says no, stupid talky meat, only the High Priest knows that, I'm just a messenger, at which point Angel bursts in with his new machete and says "I guess it's time to shoot the messenger" and we all die groaning.
Fred and Gunn return, try to explain why Matthew is unconscious without saying "we hit him over the head," and are saved from embarrassment by Matthew waking up and talking in Jasmine's voice, telling the other kids, look at what these horrible people did to Matthew, wouldn't you like to kill them? The kids, now enthralled, are filled with Jasmine's bloodlust.
The MoG head for the tunnel's entrance, only to find it blocked by a sillouette who turns out to be Connor, flanked by the National Guard.
Angel kills Gollum rather violently, with more bad quippage. Wes tells Angel about the orb that can take them to the insect-world, but remembers the thing about the atmosphere, so Angel has to go.
Connor & his Guardsmen are bearing down on our heroes. Wes, puzzled about how to work the orb, remembers the other thing about blood magic, smears blood from his brow onto the orb, which starts to glow. Everyone looks tenderly at Angel, who leaps through the offstage portal.
Big fight scene, intercut with Jasmine in the hotel, scantily clad, the wounds of her followers appearing on her body but healing instantly, laughing in sensualist glory.
The last shot is of Angel in the "We loved her first" dimension, which turns out to be a bleak and mountainous place filled with icky insect demons just like the one he killed.
