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Season 2, Episode 14
Written by Joss Whedon
Directed by Joss Whedon
Original Airdate: 20 January 1998
Spike "You've really got a yen to hurt this
girl, haven't you?"
Angelus "She made me feel like a human being. That's not the kind of
thing you just forgive."
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
SPECIAL GUEST STARS
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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Spike rolls into the room with Drusilla at his
side. The Judge is preparing in a corner. Suddenly Drusilla freaks out
and falls to the floor screaming in pain. For a moment, she smiles.
Something terrible is happening to Angel: he's fallen to the floor, in
pain. A woman smoking notices him and goes over to make sure he's okay.
He gets up, and suddenly turns around with his vampire face on. He takes
a bite, and then blows out her cigarette smoke.
Buffy goes home, confused and worried about the night before. She tries
to escape her mother but doesn't. Joyce senses something is wrong but
Buffy tries to hide it. In the library, Xander comes in to reveal he
spent the night at the Sunnydale Bus Depot. Everyone is worried because
Buffy hasn't checked in yet. As Xander and Willow are on their way to go
get her, she comes in. She tells everyone that the Judge is up and
working and that Angel is missing. Everyone heads off to class and
Willow catches up to Buffy. As they finish talking, Jenny comes into the
hallway and watches them walk away.
At the factory, Drusilla is laying on the table naming the stars...but
she can't see the stars. Spike asks what will happen to Angel, and then
suddenly Angel enters. He goes on about pursuing a dream of Broadway.
Then he tells Spike that he will always be there with him. Spike tells
him to turn around and the Judge tries to burn him. He can't. Angel's
fully evil and there is nothing to burn. They talk about their plans to
destroy the Slayer and kill the world. Angel asks for a day to make the
Slayer crazy so that she won't be in the way when they try to kill the
world. Angelus, the most evil vampire ever known, is back.
Jenny is talking to her uncle about Angel. She knows something bad has
happened but Enyos doesn't want to tell her. She admits to having
difficulty keeping Angel away from Buffy, but tries to convince her
uncle that there are some things she doesn't have power over. Meanwhile,
at the library, everyone is researching. Willow is talking to Buffy and
trying to reassure her that Angel isn't dead. Xander and Cordelia meet
behind the bookshelves and Xander apologizes for arguing with her
earlier. They kiss and just as they break away, Willow is standing there
in tears. She runs out and Xander follows. He tries to explain, but she
just blows up at him. She takes off.
Buffy tries to go home, but chooses to go to Angel's place. She gets
there and finds the bed made. As she turns around, Angelus is there
getting dressed. They hug and kiss and then he throws every possible
evil line to her about the previous night. She is in tears as he takes
off. Meanwhile, Willow returns to school, but only because she knows
that they have to cooperate to save the world. Then the lights go out.
Angelus appears in the shadows and tries to lure Willow to him. He sends
Xander away, and convinces Willow to walk towards him.
As Xander is running away, he stops and turns back since he realizes
something is wrong. Jenny steps forward and tells Willow to get away,
but it's too late: Angelus grabs her neck. Xander comes in just in time
to see him. Angelus says he has a message for Buffy and she suddenly
appears behind him. He turns around to face her and is on the verge of
snapping Willow's neck. Xander begins to walk up behind him with a
cross. He shoves it in Angelus' face and he lets go of Willow. On his
way out, Angelus grabs Buffy by the shoulders, kisses her and shoves her
into a wall.
At the library, Giles tries to find out what removed Angel's soul. Even
though Buffy knows, she won't tell. Xander has a plan to destroy the
judge. He asks Cordelia to come with him and look trashy. As Giles
continues to push Buffy for a cause, she runs out in tears and Willow
finally gets what happened. Buffy runs home and cries on her bed. She
falls asleep and has another dream. It starts with her and Angel in bed
together. Then it cuts to Angel and her at a cemetery during the day.
She looks over and sees Jenny standing next to her. When she wakes up
the next morning, she rushes to school, barges in Jenny's room and
pushes her down on the desk. Giles excuses everyone from class and Buffy
continues to interrogate Jenny. Finally, Jenny admits she knew that
Angel would lose his soul, but not why or how. She would have told her
if she did.
They go to Enyos' room for answers, only to find that Angelus has been
there first. On the wall above Enyos' body, "Was it good for you too?"
is written on the wall in his blood. Buffy knows what she has to do: she
must kill Angelus. Elsewhere, Xander and Cordelia break into a military
base and try to get to where they keep the guns. Willow and Oz stay in
the van. Xander gets caught just as he is entering the secured area. He
tries to convince the guard that he wants to spend a little quality time
with Cordelia, but the guard won't buy it. Xander then threatens to tell
the chief officer that the guard has the wrong boots, an unguarded post
and he holds his gun like a sissy. They get in and Xander reveals how he
remembers everything from when he was turned into a soldier at
Halloween.
While in the car, Willow asks Oz if he will make out with her. He says
no because he knows she is only trying to get back at Xander. He does
say that he daydreams about kissing her, but she is always kissing him
back. Back at the library, Jenny tries to help, but is sent away. Xander
teaches Buffy how to use the gun he has acquired. At the factory,
Angelus and Drusilla are ready to go. Spike can't attend because of his
wheelchair problem. Minutes later, Buffy and her crew arrive at the
factory to find that everyone is gone. Oz comes up with an idea of where
they went. At the mall, Angelus, the Judge, and Drusilla come through
some doors to do some damage. The Judge starts killing people. Buffy and
the gang come through the elevator. The Judge sends sparks through two
people and it is carried to people throughout the mall. Buffy shoots him
with a crossbow. He looses his sparkage for a second. She then grabs the
gun, in actuality a rocket launcher, and prepares to fire. As Angelus
and Drusilla fly to safety, she fires and the Judge is destroyed,
leaving pieces of himself lying around.
In the chaos, Buffy goes looking for Angelus. They find each other and
then they fight. She grabs a stake and is ready to kill him but can't.
He tells her that she can't kill him but then she kicks him in the
groin. He falls to the ground in extreme pain. She walks away,
exclaiming that she will be able to kill him soon. That night, Giles
drives her home. They talk about what she has done and what Angelus will
do. He also mentions that he is proud of her. Afterwards, Joyce presents
Buffy with a cupcake and a candle. Buffy chooses not to make a wish and
blow it out. She would rather just watch it burn.
TRIVIA
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Joss Whedon recalls worrying whether David
Boreanaz would be up to the transformation into Angelus. Boreanaz,
Whedon quickly discovered, “plays a bastard with extraordinary aplomb.”
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James Marsters actually broke the
wheelchair he used in season two. He kicked the wheelchair and broke it.
Joss wouldn't replace it, so James had to use the broken wheelchair from
then on.
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On his DVD commentary, Joss praises Robia
LaMorte's performance in this episode and jokes that for thanks, they
killed her. Interestingly, Jenny was supposed to die in this episode,
but she instead dies two episodes later in
Passion.
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Unlike the characters, the fans like to
distinguish Angel and Angelus by referring to them as separate entities.
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In the flashback scenes of Buffy and Angel
making love, the heavy breathing wasn't voiced by David and Sarah, but
rather by series creator Joss Whedon and supervising sound editor Cindy
Rabideau. Joss was too embarrassed to ask the stars to record it.
Naturally, it's TV sex, with no sweat, stains or discomfort.
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Angelus’ cruel dismissal of Buffy’s concern
for him the first time they meet after having sex is a scene which
transpires in his bedroom. It had actually already been filmed outside
of Buffy’s house, but no-one was satisfied with it so they filmed it
again. Buffy is still heard saying she saw him at "the house".
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The words Angelus scrawled in blood on the
wall at the scene of his murder of Uncle Enyos made Joss speak of his
amazement at what Buffy is sometimes able to “get away with.”
CONTINUITY
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Buffy refers to the events of
Some Assembly Required when she's
describing the Judge to Giles: 'no assembly required.'
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The rocket launcher makes a comeback in
Him, when Buffy tries to kill
Principal Wood to prove her love to RJ Brooks.
GOOFS
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Xander tells Cordelia to meet him at
Willow's house in thirty minutes, wearing "something trashier". Then
Buffy has a dream and goes to school the next day. It's then night again
and Xander, Willow, Cordelia and Oz are at the army base. Joss himself
has spoken on this: "I was watching the final mix of 'Innocence' when I
noticed this huge mistake. Let's just think of it as them going to
Willow's the night before to practice and go over what they were going
to do."
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How can Angel suck smoke out of the
prostitute's lungs and blow it out of his own when he doesn't have any
breath?
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Cordelia is doing her research in the
fiction section of the library.
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When Angel comes into Enyos' room, he just
walks in...doesn't a vampire have to be invited? He may be in a hotel
room, which is a public place and therefore needs no invite. But in
Passion, the magic shop owner implies
that Enyos lived in town.
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There's a mirror behind Enyos, in which you
can see Angel's reflection.
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Drusilla's reflection can be seen in a
pillar in the mall.
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The Judge bursts into flame before the
missile actually strikes him.
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In the final fight between Buffy and
Angelus, you can see their stunt doubles clearly.
When She Was
Bad |
Some Assembly Required |
School Hard |
Inca Mummy Girl |
Reptile Boy
Halloween |
Lie to Me |
The Dark Age |
What's My Line? (Part 1) |
What's My Line? (Part 2) |
Ted
Bad Eggs |
Surprise |
Innocence |
Phases |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
Passion
Killed by
Death |
I Only Have Eyes for You |
Go Fish |
Becoming (Part 1) |
Becoming (Part 2)
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