Reprise (Angel episode)
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| Angel episode | |
| "Reprise" | |
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| Episode № | Season 2 Episode 15 |
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| Guest star(s) | Julie Benz (Darla) Andy Hallett (Lorne) Christian Kane (Lindsey) Stephanie Romanov (Lilah) Elisabeth Röhm (Kate) Brigid Brannagh (Virginia) |
| Writer(s) | Tim Minear |
| Director | James Whitmore |
| Production № | 2ADH15 |
| Airdate | February 20, 2001 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous episode | The Thin Dead Line |
| Next episode | Epiphany |
"Reprise" is episode 15 of season 2 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel (series) episodes for a complete list.
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[edit] Summary
While Lilah, Lindsey and the other lawyers of Wolfram & Hart prepare ritualistic gatherings for the demonic firm’s impending 75th year review, Angel learns from various sources, including the Lorne, that the historically deadly event involves a visit from one of the Senior Partners (who is a big, bad Kleynach demon). The good news for Angel is that this demon wears a ring with the power to take Angel straight to the firm’s home office in Hell so he can kill all the Senior Partners. But the bad news is that Angel needs a one-of-a-kind magic glove in order to touch the Kleynach demon without being incinerated. Things get more complicated when a revenge-seeking Darla shows up and gains possession of the glove. Meanwhile, Kate’s life begins to fall apart when she is forced to resign from the police force due to her mental instability. Also, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn’s new agency’s business slows down which leads them wanting to get away from each other.
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Angel arrives at an apartment building and finds one of the rooms filled with goats. Two men are performing a sacrificial ritual and Angel demands information on the ritual and their bosses, Wolfram and Hart. He then destroys the materials in the room, preventing the ritual from taking place. The Angel Investigations team completes the removal of the third eye from a young girl, Stephanie Sharp, but the Mrs. Sharp refuses to pay for it. Gunn returns to his old neighborhood while events at the office are slow.
Wolfram and Hart's 75 year review is coming soon and everyone is nervous for their life. Lindsey calms Lilah, telling her they can't do anything to save their lives during the review. Angel asks for Kate's help but she's being investigated for continuous problems and involvement with odd cases, so she tells him off. Lindsey returns to his home and finds Darla waiting for him. They talk about how Lindsey saved her from the sewers and Drusilla's departure. He gives her a container of blood then leaves to shower. When he leaves the room, Darla searches through paperwork in Lindsey's bag.
The Host reveals to Angel that a senior partner of Wolfram and Hart is coming to earth for the review. He reveals that the Band of Blacknil and "home office" are two bits of information he picked up through his mind reading. Angel shows up at the office of his former employees, needing one of the books that they took when they left. Cordelia puts up a fight, but Angel is cold and Wesley encourages her to give him the book so he can leave. Cordelia rants about Angel until Wesley catches her attention to show her that he's torn his stitches and needs medical help.
Kate faces a review board that dredges up every detail of her career before they fire her. Angel returns to the bookstore he visited fifty years ago in search of information on the senior partner. An older Denver tells Angel that it will take the form of a Kleynach demon and a glove will be needed to remove a ring that allows passage to Hell. Denver shows that he has the glove, but before he can give it to Angel, Darla stabs him with a sword. Angel is also impaled on the sword while Darla takes the glove and leaves.
Virginia talks with Wesley about how much danger he always is. Wesley mentions how difficult it is for her, to break up with him. Kate returns home and deals with being fired in her own self-destructive way. Angel grabs Lilah on her way to the office and uses her to get inside the building. Wesley and Cordelia talk on the phone, both depressed about their lives and lack of work. Cordelia gets a call from Mrs. Sharp offering to pay for the Angel Investigations services they previously refused. A demon is with Mrs. Sharp and kills her after she says that Cordelia is on her way.
Angel enters the room where the senior partner is being called forth. Angel spots Darla in the crowd and the two fight while the Kleynach demon materializes. Security guards attack Darla while Angel gets the glove. Placing the glove on his hand, Angel flies at the demon's throat, killing it, but also sending himself through a window with the force of his jump to land on the pavement below with the ring. Outside the office building where Angel fell, elevator doors open to reveal Holland and offering Angel a one-way trip to the "home office." Ring on his finger, Angel enters and talks with Holland about his purpose then the doors open to reveal that the "home office" is on earth, in L.A.
Angel returns to the hotel to hear a message from Kate, drunk and taking drugs, blaming him for her problems. Angel finds Darla waiting for him and realizes that he wants to feel something and kisses her. At first, she pushes him away but soon the two are mutually involved on the bed. Later, as a storm brews outside, Angel awakes from sleep with a gasp.
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[edit] Production details
The Wolfram and Hart exterior is a bank building in downtown Los Angeles. The scene of Angel jumping through the window and landing on the ground involved a live stuntman taking a fall from the bank building.
[edit] Music
- Master Source music library - My Heart Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
- Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
[edit] Quotes and trivia
In this episode, the glove is the only way to kill the Kleynach. When Angel drops the glove, leaving it in Holland's possession, the Kleynach demons become essentially invincible unless Wolfram and Hart says otherwise, establishing themselves as one of the few invulnerable races on Angel or Buffy.
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- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: January 2001 - Spring 2001 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.12 Checkpoint |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.12 Blood Money |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.13 Happy Anniversary |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.13 Blood Ties |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.14 The Thin Dead Line |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.15 Reprise |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.14 Crush |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.16 Epiphany |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Wisdom of War |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.15 I Was Made to Love You |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.17 Disharmony |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel book: Vengeance |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.16 The Body |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.18 Dead End |
| L.A., 2001 | Angel book: Haunted |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.17 Forever |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.19 Belonging |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: Ugly Little Monsters |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy comic: 'Chaos Bleeds' prequel |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy video game: Chaos Bleeds |
| L.A., 2001 | Tales of the Slayer: Again, Sunnydale |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.18 Intervention |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Tempted Champions |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Little Things |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Crossings |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy book: Sweet Sixteen |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.19 Tough Love |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.20 Over the Rainbow |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.20 Spiral |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.21 Through the Looking Glass |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.21 The Weight of the World |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | B5.22 The Gift |
| L.A., 2001 | A2.22 There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: Death of Buffy: Lost & Found’ |
| Sunnydale, 2001 | Buffy graphic novel: Death of Buffy |
