She (Angel episode)
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| “She” | |
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| Angel episode | |
 Angel remembers about the invoice for an ice shipment |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 13 |
| Guest stars | Bai Ling (Jhiera) Colby French |
| Written by | Marti Noxon David Greenwalt |
| Directed by | David Greenwalt |
| Production no. | 1ADH13 |
| Original airdate | February 8, 2000 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Expecting" | "I've Got You Under My Skin" |
| List of Angel episodes | |
"She" is episode 13 of season 1 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
[edit] Summary
Angel joins forces with Jhiera (played by Bai Ling), a demon princess, who arrives in Los Angeles to save the enslaved women from her dimension. The men of her land control the women by performing a sort of spinal lobotomy when they come of age. There is a showdown at a health spa where Jhiera has set up a sanctuary for her fellow refugees.
[edit] Expanded
Cordelia throws a party at her place, which Angel and Wesley both attend. A woman asks Angel to dance, but a mental flash of the wacky dancing he could do keeps Angel from saying yes. Angel mopes at the party, and finds his only friend is phantom Dennis. Flash to a man at an ice factory who hears voices from a large box and opens it.
The next morning, Cordelia informs Angel that he wasn't any fun at the party. Wesley is at a loss for money, so Angel offers him a job at Angel Investigations. Cordelia has a vision of a man being burned from the inside, which sends Angel and Wesley to the scene at the Ice Factory. Angel finds the remains of the man and the empty crate filled with ice. He finds a demon named Tae, who is from another dimension. He was sent to bring back the demon that has escaped from his realm.
Angel goes searching for information on Peter Wilkers, the man who was burned, by searching through his office. In the midst of his search however, Angel is attacked by a female demon that kills with the power of fire. She knocks Angel out of the way with a powerful blow and then leaves when she gets a call on her cell phone. Angel calls Cordelia on a bad cell phone connection while he chases after the she demon and describes to her the demon's markings. Angel follows her into an art gallery and begins to talk about the art to a group of people to avoid the security guards looking for him after the she demon tipped them off.
Angel goes to a back room and encounters the female demon, Jheira. She turns and realizes that he is not human because a human would have been knockerd out from her attack for hours. She tells him to leave and that she doesn't have time for this right now. Another female demon enters their world through a portal, but Tae and other males of the species arrive and attack them. In the ensuing fight they kidnap the girl and drive off. Angel asks what will happen to her and Jheira states that she will be "unmade". The demon warriors take the new girl and bring her to a building and with a special clamp, they proceed to tear off the grooves at the base of her neck.
At Angel's place, Jheira tells Angel about her kind. In her dimension, Oden Tal, their kind have their personality, desires, and passions in an area of the body called the Ko. It is located at the base of the neck and the ridges go down the spine. When the women come of age they are unmade, the men remove that area of the body in order to control their women. She tells him that when the Ko matures it is red hot, like fire under the skin and the women cannot control it. The only thing that helps is ice and that is how the men have been dying. When the Ko burns hot the men find the women desirable and in touching them, burn to death from the intense heat. Angel, who found Jheira attractive at first sight, is now deeply aroused by her nearness. He resists this and tells her that she and her people are killing innocent humans. Jheira becomes upset and leaves.
Meanwhile, Wesley discovers information on this demon species. Learning that the demon men are herbivores and must eat half their weight in partially rotted vegetation each day, Cordelia and Wesley go looking for compost. They find the demons and overhear a conversation about their plans to capture Jheira, who is a princess in their world, and bring her back. In the meantime, Jheira goes to the other women that are being kept safe on beds of ice. She talks with a man who is helping her take care of the other women from her world. They try to make arrangements for the females to be moved to another, safer location.
After Cordelia and Wesley tell Angel about what they heard, they head to the location where Jheira and the other women are. Angel has the address from a paper he stole from Wilkers' office. While Cordelia and Wesley get the other girls out, Angel helps Jheira fight. When the other women are safe, Wesley and Cordelia return to the fight. They get held hostage and Jheira is willing to let them die in exchange for the survival and freedom of her own kind. With the other girls in boxes of ice on the back of a truck, Jheira makes her way toward sthe driver's seat, but is attacked by two of the male demons. Before they can un-make her, Angel stops them and Jheira gets away.
The next day, Wesley apologizes for being taken as a hostage. Jheira shows up and she talks with Angel. The other women are safe, away from the city. The sexual and political tension thick between them, Angel promises that he'll do what he has to if she takes her mission to save the innocent too far. She says as long as they understand each other then there are no problems. As she passes Angel to leave, her Ko burns red hot and we see Angel stand immobile, his desire at war with his self-restraint.
[edit] Writing and acting
- Bai Ling who played Jheira, said of her character "[She's] so cool. She seduced Angel, and yet she's very dangerous and independent. She's got all those things that a modern woman wants, yet she's a princess. She has her own duty to do good things for the people in her land. She's got all this complexity and beauty."[1]
- According to Lai, the character was once considered for a return, "After that episode aired, David [Greenwalt] called me. They were so pleased by it, they wanted me to come back. I'd very much like to go back to Angel, because we all had a great time, and they loved the character. I don't know what the schedule is; I guess they're still working on it, so we're gonna talk about it when it is ready. I'm looking forward to contributing something."[2] However the actress never returned to the show, although the character did appear in the novel, Heat.
[edit] Production details
[edit] Music
- Channels - "Light Years On"
- Extreme music library - "Pure roots"
- Supreme Beings Of Leisure - "Strangelove Addiction"
[edit] Quotes and trivia
- The end credits feature additional footage of Wesley and Angel's dancing skills.
[edit] Translations
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Arc significance
[edit] Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: January 2000 - Spring 2000 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.12 A New Man |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.12 Expecting |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel graphic novel: Hunting Ground |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows/Love for sale |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.13 The I in Team |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.13 She |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.14 Goodbye Iowa |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy video game: Wrath of the Darkhul King |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.14 I've Got You Under My Skin |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.15 This Year's Girl |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.15 The Prodigal |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.16 Who Are You |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.16 The Ring |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy comic: Giles |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy comic: Jonathan (by Jane Espenson) |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.17 Superstar |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | Buffy/Angel graphic novel: Past Lives |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy graphic novel: Out of the Woodwork |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy book: These Our Actors |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.17 Eternity |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.18 Where the Wild Things Are |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.18 Five By Five |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.19 New Moon Rising |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.19 Sanctuary |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.20 The Yoko Factor |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.20 War Zone |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.21 Primeval |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.21 Blind Date |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | B4.22 Restless |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.22 To Shanshu in L.A. |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel comic: Cordelia special |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | Buffy/Angel books: Unseen [Trilogy] |
[edit] External links
- She at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Springer, Matt, "Some Like it Hot", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #17 (UK, February 2001), page 19.
- ^ Springer, Matt, "Some Like it Hot", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #17 (UK, February 2001), page 20.
