Lonely Hearts (Angel episode)
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| “Lonely Hearts” | |
|---|---|
| Angel episode | |
 Cordelia and Doyle look up the demon responsible for the killings |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Guest stars | Elisabeth Röhm (Kate) Lillian Birdsell (Sharon) Obi Ndefo (Bartender) |
| Written by | David Fury |
| Directed by | James Contner |
| Production no. | 1ADH02 |
| Original airdate | October 12, 1999 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "City of" | "In the Dark" |
"Lonely Hearts" is episode 2 of season 1 of the television show Angel. See also List of Angel (series) episodes.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
[edit] Summary
Acting on one of Doyle's visions, Angel Investigations looks into a series of killings linked to D'Oblique, a trendy L.A. singles club. Casing the bar for people in need of rescue, Angel meets a young woman named Kate Lockley, who later turns out to be an LAPD detective also tracking the serial killer. After a violent battle in the apartment of its latest victim, Angel discovers that the killer is actually a body-hopping eviscerating demon. Led by circumstantial evidence to believe Angel himself is the murderer, yet unable to take him into custody, Kate resorts to an illegal search at Angel Investigations. Armed with knowledge of the demon's weaknesses gleaned by Cordelia and Doyle, Angel persuades Kate to meet him at D'Oblique, where she is attacked by the bartender, now possessed by the demon. When Angel comes to Kate's rescue, the demon flees into the night, desperately seeking a fresh body to possess. Together, Kate and Angel track down and destroy the killer. Kate, believing the bartender committed all the murders, accepts a provisional truce with a circumspect Angel. Doyle and Cordelia mercifully let their friend brood in the dark alone.
[edit] Expanded overview
At the office, Doyle asks Angel to put in a good word with Cordelia for him, since he's very much interested. Cordelia arrives with the calling cards she had made for Angel's soul saving services, which have a little angel on them, that no one can recognize as such. Doyle gets one of his visions which just shows a bar, no one particular, and they go out and see if they can find someone in need of help.
At the bar, a woman named Sharon runs into a man, Kevin, and both lonely and desperate, they find a common interest. They later leave the bar together. Cordelia passes Angel's calling cards around, offering their help until Doyle stops her. Angel meets a woman named Kate and both have a hard time communicating with each other, although they seem to have quite a bit in common. A guy thinks Cordelia is offering services of a different kind with the cards she was passing around and Doyle tries to stand up for her. A bar fight breaks out, and Angel comes to the rescue. The two guys are kicked out, and a woman impressed by Angel's heroic actions introduces herself to him. Angel talks to her to see if she's in need of help, but Kate sees them, and leaves.
The next morning, after a night together, Sharon gets dressed. Blood everywhere, Kevin is revealed to be dead. At the office, they do some research, looking for any incidents at the club D'Oblique. Their search turns up a badly mutilated and eviscerated body that was found. While Doyle and Cordelia search for more, Angel goes back to the club to see if he can find the killer. On his way in, he runs into Kate who tells him to go to Hell after he tries to warn her about the danger inside the club. Angel talks to the bartender and finds out that Kevin disappeared after going home with Sharon. After a few more questions are asked, Angel tracks down Sharon and goes to her place to try to prevent the next murder.
Angel arrives at the apartment just in time to see that Sharon is dead and the loser guy she went home with is alive and has the parasitic demon in him. The two fight, but the guy gets away just as Kate arrives and finds Angel. She pulls a gun on him, revealing she's a detective with the LAPD, and tries to arrest him. When Angel sees that she won't be convinced that he's not the killer, he knocks her down and dives out the window. Doyle, Cordelia and Angel set up a meeting at Cordelia's less-than-clean apartment. Angel tells them to search for information on Burrowers--demons that move from body to body searching for the perfect one to live in. Meanwhile, Kate illegally searches Angel's place, and the demon transfers bodies again into a woman.
Cordelia and Doyle are asleep when Angel returns in the early morning. They have found a name for their burrower, Talamere, and that it doesn't have too many weaknesses other than a dislike of fire. Angel calls Kate and asks for five minutes to explain himself, to prove that he isn't the killer. At the club, Kate asks the bartender to notify her when Angel arrives and a few minutes later, the bartender tells her he thinks Angel is out back. When they get to the back room, the bartender knocks her out. Angel arrives just in time to keep the burrower from transferring to Kate's body, and then fights with the bartender. Eventually, Angel and Kate are tossed down into the basement and locked in.
While the bartender looks for the next available body, having little luck with his blood soaked shirt and peeling skin, Kate and Angel search for a way out of the basement. They finally get out, and after some searching, Angel finds the bartender with a girl out in an alley. Again, he fights with the bartender while the girl runs away and then throws him into a nearby barrel. The fire that was in the barrel ignites the bartender and then Kate arrives just in time to shoot him once, and keep him from attacking Angel again. Later, after everything is taken care of, Angel and Kate talk. She tells him about searching his apartment and he tells her he'll be around.
At the office one night, Angel reluctantly offers for the three of them to go out and do something, but instead, Cordelia and Doyle leave him to sit in the dark alone, by himself.
[edit] Writing and acting
[edit] Production details
[edit] Music
- Adam Hamilton - "For You"
- Chainsuck - "Emily Says"
- Extreme music library -" Ballad of Amave"
- Helix - "Quango"
- Kathy Soce - "Do You Want Me"
- Mark Cherrie and Ian McKenzie (JW music library) - "Lazy Daze"
- T.H.C. - "Girlflesh"
- Ultra-Electronic - "Dissonance"
- VAST - "Touched"
[edit] Quotes and trivia
- Kate: "Go to hell."
Angel: "Been there, done that."
- This episode was written after the WB Network rejected David Fury's original script, "Corrupt".
[edit] Translations
- German title: "Einsame Herzen" ("Lonely Hearts")
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Arc significance
Introduces the character of Kate Lockley who would play a larger role until the end of year 2.
[edit] Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1999 - December 1999 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| L.A. 1999 | Angel comic: Doyle: Spotlight |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.01 City of |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.01 The Freshman |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.02 Living Conditions |
| L.A. 1999 | |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.02 Lonely Hearts |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.00 Unaired Angel pilot |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Not Forgotten |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.03 The Harsh Light of Day |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.03 In the Dark |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.04 Fear, Itself |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy graphic novel: Blood of Carthage |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel graphic novel: Surrogates |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows story, Angel #4 |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy video game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Game Boy Color) |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Tales of the Slayer: All That You Do Comes Back.. |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.04 I Fall to Pieces |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.05 Beer Bad |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.05 Rm w/a Vu |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy books: Lost Slayer series |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.06 Wild at Heart |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy graphic novel: Oz |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.06 Sense & Sensitivity |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.07 The Initiative |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.07 Bachelor Party |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Close to the Ground |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Soul Trade |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel graphic novel: Earthly Possessions |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Redemption |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Shakedown |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Hollywood Noir |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Avatar |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Bruja |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: The Summoned |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.08 Pangs |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.08 I Will Remember You |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.09 Something Blue |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.09 Hero |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.10 Hush |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.10 Parting Gifts |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.11 Doomed |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.11 Somnambulist |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Lonely Hearts at the Internet Movie Database
- http://rapidshare.de/files/16223034/Corrupt__unaired_Angel_episode_.doc.html Rapidshare.de - 150kb Download of "Corrupt" draft by David Fury (.doc file)]
