RangerWickett
Legend
So, as a full synopsis of the show, for those who want to be spoiled:
Teaser -- Gunn is about to get disemboweled in the holding dimension Wolfram & Hart was holding Lindsey in, when Illyria (hereafter called SmurFred) shows up and kicks the ass of the torturer. She rips off the necklace on Gunn, and Gunn tells her they can't leave unless someone has on the necklace. SmurFred turns and looks suggestively at the torturer, who is slowly recovering.
We cut to an image of the torturer lying on the table, looking dismayed. He picks up a big knife off the table next to him, holds it over his chest, and plunges in. Hee hee. He has to torture himself.
Main Plot -- Folks are complaining about SmurFred being a threat because of all her power. SmurFred returns with Gunn, and everyone's a little relieved. They're still angry at SmurFred, though, because she is obviously still evil and doesn't care about them, having only gone to get Gunn as some sort of creepy favor to Wesley. No mention is made of Connor from last week, or really much of Lindsey either.
As Gunn settles back into the real world, he talks with Wesley, who looks a little addle-brained and spooky-crazy, apparently from trying to fathom all the mysteries of the Old Ones (like Illyria/SmurFred).
Meanwhile, Spike is training in martial arts against SmurFred, who is cheating a bit with her time dilation powers. Angel tells Spike to quit so they can talk, and though SmurFred is completely unharmed from any of the fighting, in the middle of the conversation, she appears and looks winded and confused. Spike makes a snarky comment about how he kicked her ass.
Gunn and Angel are busy discussing some weird legal dispute in which some demons are trying to buy a woman's firstborn. The woman wants to do it in order to get her husband healed (he's gotten amnesia or brain damage), but Gunn is opposed because it's morally wrong. He holds up negotiations while Angel waffles on whether he cares. Their new liaison is accusing them of doing a poor job, and threatens they'll lose their position.
SmurFred keeps doing freaky stuff, and we get the obvious sense she's traveling through time, sorta. Eventually, she attacks Angel, demanding to know why he's betrayed her. Then she realizes she's at a different part of the time stream, and so he doesn't know what's going on. A few minutes later, Angel goes to talk to Wes and Spike, who've figured out that SmurFred is leaking energy, that her body cannot hold all the power of an Elder God, and that if they don't do something about it, she'll lose control and destroy hundreds of miles of California.
Heroically, the party (Wes, Spike, Angel, and Lorne; Gunn's trying to save the baby) goes to confront her, with a gadget of ancient extradimensional tech WR&H happens to have, with the ability to suck out god power. They track the power leakage to where they think SmurFred is, and they look around in confusion when she's nowhere to be found.
Suddenly, a wooden stake appears sticking through Spike's chest, and as he turns to dust, Illyria appears behind him. Everyone panics, and Wes brings his gun to bear. Illyria hurls the stake through Wes's heart, killing him, and then she kills Lorne. Angel screams and charges at her, and she grabs an axe off the wall and beheads him. He strikes the ground and turns to dust.
Pause for a moment as the audience gasps at what just happened.
After commercial, though, Illyria shifts back in time, and somehow grabs a 'past Angel' in her wake, pulling him through time in some sort of bizarre paradox. In this alternate timeline, they fly back to the future just after Illyria kills Angel, and she rants at him about her great power, and about how, even in this puny body, she's exerting all her power to try to get what she wants, whereas Angel is afraid to use his power at Wolf Ram and Hart to get what he wants. She's disgusted with him. Then, she grows weak, and an exhausted Illyria cracks open and explodes, destroying Los Angeles, but hurling Angel back in time just before he's supposed to die.
In this third timeline, he manages to save Spike from being staked, and then, with a little more time to think about it, Wes reveals that his plan was not to kill Illyria, but save her by draining away the excess power that would kill her. She at first refuses, saying that without her power, she won't be herself, but as she starts to crack open and begin to explode, they drain the power out (the power goes to some extra dimensional space), and Illyria falls to the ground, weakened.
A few minutes later, as Wes explains to Angel what he thinks is going to happen to SmurFred now, Angel muses about what Illyria told him. He goes and finds Gunn and the demons, and tells Gunn to make the woman sign the contract. They owe Wolfram and Hart good earnings, and the demons are their clients. Gunn is shocked that Angel's willing to give up the baby, but Angel doesn't care. He's going to use his power now.
Teaser -- Gunn is about to get disemboweled in the holding dimension Wolfram & Hart was holding Lindsey in, when Illyria (hereafter called SmurFred) shows up and kicks the ass of the torturer. She rips off the necklace on Gunn, and Gunn tells her they can't leave unless someone has on the necklace. SmurFred turns and looks suggestively at the torturer, who is slowly recovering.
We cut to an image of the torturer lying on the table, looking dismayed. He picks up a big knife off the table next to him, holds it over his chest, and plunges in. Hee hee. He has to torture himself.
Main Plot -- Folks are complaining about SmurFred being a threat because of all her power. SmurFred returns with Gunn, and everyone's a little relieved. They're still angry at SmurFred, though, because she is obviously still evil and doesn't care about them, having only gone to get Gunn as some sort of creepy favor to Wesley. No mention is made of Connor from last week, or really much of Lindsey either.
As Gunn settles back into the real world, he talks with Wesley, who looks a little addle-brained and spooky-crazy, apparently from trying to fathom all the mysteries of the Old Ones (like Illyria/SmurFred).
Meanwhile, Spike is training in martial arts against SmurFred, who is cheating a bit with her time dilation powers. Angel tells Spike to quit so they can talk, and though SmurFred is completely unharmed from any of the fighting, in the middle of the conversation, she appears and looks winded and confused. Spike makes a snarky comment about how he kicked her ass.
Gunn and Angel are busy discussing some weird legal dispute in which some demons are trying to buy a woman's firstborn. The woman wants to do it in order to get her husband healed (he's gotten amnesia or brain damage), but Gunn is opposed because it's morally wrong. He holds up negotiations while Angel waffles on whether he cares. Their new liaison is accusing them of doing a poor job, and threatens they'll lose their position.
SmurFred keeps doing freaky stuff, and we get the obvious sense she's traveling through time, sorta. Eventually, she attacks Angel, demanding to know why he's betrayed her. Then she realizes she's at a different part of the time stream, and so he doesn't know what's going on. A few minutes later, Angel goes to talk to Wes and Spike, who've figured out that SmurFred is leaking energy, that her body cannot hold all the power of an Elder God, and that if they don't do something about it, she'll lose control and destroy hundreds of miles of California.
Heroically, the party (Wes, Spike, Angel, and Lorne; Gunn's trying to save the baby) goes to confront her, with a gadget of ancient extradimensional tech WR&H happens to have, with the ability to suck out god power. They track the power leakage to where they think SmurFred is, and they look around in confusion when she's nowhere to be found.
Suddenly, a wooden stake appears sticking through Spike's chest, and as he turns to dust, Illyria appears behind him. Everyone panics, and Wes brings his gun to bear. Illyria hurls the stake through Wes's heart, killing him, and then she kills Lorne. Angel screams and charges at her, and she grabs an axe off the wall and beheads him. He strikes the ground and turns to dust.
Pause for a moment as the audience gasps at what just happened.
After commercial, though, Illyria shifts back in time, and somehow grabs a 'past Angel' in her wake, pulling him through time in some sort of bizarre paradox. In this alternate timeline, they fly back to the future just after Illyria kills Angel, and she rants at him about her great power, and about how, even in this puny body, she's exerting all her power to try to get what she wants, whereas Angel is afraid to use his power at Wolf Ram and Hart to get what he wants. She's disgusted with him. Then, she grows weak, and an exhausted Illyria cracks open and explodes, destroying Los Angeles, but hurling Angel back in time just before he's supposed to die.
In this third timeline, he manages to save Spike from being staked, and then, with a little more time to think about it, Wes reveals that his plan was not to kill Illyria, but save her by draining away the excess power that would kill her. She at first refuses, saying that without her power, she won't be herself, but as she starts to crack open and begin to explode, they drain the power out (the power goes to some extra dimensional space), and Illyria falls to the ground, weakened.
A few minutes later, as Wes explains to Angel what he thinks is going to happen to SmurFred now, Angel muses about what Illyria told him. He goes and finds Gunn and the demons, and tells Gunn to make the woman sign the contract. They owe Wolfram and Hart good earnings, and the demons are their clients. Gunn is shocked that Angel's willing to give up the baby, but Angel doesn't care. He's going to use his power now.
