Guise Will Be Guise
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| “Guise Will Be Guise” | |
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| Angel episode | |
 Wesley impersonates Angel while he is out of town  The demon to whom Virginia is to be sacrificed |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 6 |
| Guest stars | Andy Hallett (The Host) Brigid Brannagh (Virginia) Todd Susman Art LaFleur |
| Written by | Jane Espenson |
| Directed by | Krishna Rao |
| Production no. | 2ADH06 |
| Original airdate | November 7, 2000 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Dear Boy" | "Darla" |
| List of Angel episodes | |
"Guise Will Be Guise" is episode 6 of season 2 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list.
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Following the guidance of the Caritas host, Angel leaves town to meet with a swami to try to help him brazen out his persona, while Wesley impersonates Angel when a shrewd and powerful businessman, named Bryce, asks him to guard his daughter Virginia from assassins from a rival corporation seeking to kill her. But both Angel and Wesley are unaware that their respective parties know about the deception. The impostor pretending to be the swami tries to keep Angel away from Los Angeles in order for Bryce to perform a ritual on his 50th birthday to become a demon by ritually sacrificing Virginia to a powerful demon.
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A potential client shows up at the hotel, in need of Angel's services, but he's not there and Wesley isn't the greatest example of a professional. Angel tries to hunt down Darla at Wolfram and Hart, but Cordelia and Wesley stop him. Angel consults the demon host at the karaoke bar, and without having to sing, the host refers Angel to Swami, T'ish Magev, for help. Cordelia and Wesley hold down the office while Angel is away, both glad that he is seeking help to calm his obsession with Darla.
At the office, a thug holds Cordelia at gunpoint, demanding to see Angel, and Wesley is forced to pose as their vampire boss in order to save her. At a quiet cabin, Angel talks with the unusually normal-looking Swami about his choice of clothing, style of car, and brand of hair gel. A rich businessman, Magnus Bryce is in need of Angel's services to protect his daughter from threats presented by a business opponent, Paul Lanier. He offers Wesley blood that he forces down, to keep from ruining his cover. Wesley meets the Mr. Bryce's daughter, Virginia, and then the two go shopping.
Cordelia sends Gunn to find Angel while she researches the man who took Wesley. Wesley and Virginia talk about her relationship with her father until two men working for Paul Lanier try to kidnap Virginia. Angel and the Swami fight with pool sticks. Angel is soundly defeated because he doesn't want to hurt the man. Later, the Swami talks to Paul Lanier over the phone, revealing that he's not the real Swami. Through their conversation, in which they both believe Angel is with them, they deduce that Wesley is not Angel. Lanier then informs Bryce that there is a fake protecting his daughter.
Cordelia finds a picture of the man who took Wesley in a magazine. Angel and the fake Magev fish and Angel is advised to find a blond woman to love then break the heart of so he will feel better about his situation with Darla. Virginia and Wesley talk about how she wants freedom from the prison her father's created for her, then the two kiss. The curse is an obstacle at first, but Wesley dispels the truth about the curse and the two have sex.
Gunn arrives at the swami cabin, but the fake swami knocks him out. Angel witnesses this, and uses a fishing pole to pull the man out of the sun and into his grasp. Cordelia arrives at the Bryce home, but before she can rescue Wesley, Virginia finds out that he's not really Angel. In order to get a significant amount of power from a Davric demon, Bryce plans to sacrifice his daughter. Angel and Wesley conclude that Lanier was trying to prevent the sacrifice so that Bryce wouldn't get the power.
Bryce starts the ritual of sacrificing his daughter, but Angel and crew interrupt. Yeska appears, but won't take Virginia as a sacrifice because she is not a virgin. Furious about her father's actions, Virginia punches him and disassociates herself from him. After reading an article in a magazine, both Cordelia and Angel are jealous of the fact that Wesley is embellishing on his work and getting a lot of attention as Virginia's bodyguard.
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In "Heartthrob", Angel again tries to seek out spiritual guidance after Buffy's death at the end of Season 2. This time he visits a group of Sri Lankan monks, who turn out to be Shur-hod demons.
(As the episode ends) Angel: There's no Wyndam-Pryce Agency.
[edit] Translations
- German title: "Angel für einen Tag" ("[Being] Angel for one day")
- Italian title: "Le apparenze ingannano" ("Guises are decieving")
[edit] See also
- Buffyverse chronology - List of Buffyverse stories (episodes, comics and novels) in chronological order.
- List of Buffyverse-related topics - Index of articles relating to Buffy and Angel.
