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The well-oiled, demon-fighting machine of Angel, Cordelia and Wesley is back in full force and joined by the streetwise vampire hunter Charles Gunn. After a case of mistaken identity leads Angel to slay a demon protecting an innocent girl, karaoke is the only way to make things right. Meanwhile, Angel struggles with the discovery that he may not always be eternal and Darla recovers from her resurrection from Hell.
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Director:
Michael Lange
Teleplay:
David Greenwalt
Story:
Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt
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Broadcast: 2000-09-26
Production No.: 2ADH01
Episode Overall No.: 23
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Other Music:
Music featured in this episode includes:
"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor (Lorne sings this at Caritas)
"Last Confession" from Kid Gloves Sampler CD (While Wesley is playing darts)
"Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20" by Chopin (What Lindsey plays for Darla)
"I'm So Excited" by The Pointer Sisters (Karaoke at Caritas)
"Mandy" by Barry Manilow (Angel sings this at Caritas)
"Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye (Karaoke at Caritas)
"Achy, Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus (Karaoke at Caritas)
"Friends In Low Places" by Garth Brooks (unknown) |
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This episode received a rating of 5.6/8 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking number one out of seventeen WB shows for the week.
Caritas is Latin for "mercy."
Although Eliza Dushku was not credited in the opening credits, she was credited as a Guest Star in the end credits. It was done this way to keep Angel's visit to Faith's prison a surprise.
The end credits are shown over footage of Angel singing "Mandy."
When Angel and gang come into Caritas early in the episode, you can see the same kind of mouthless demons that infected Buffy in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Earshot" (3x18).
This episode starts the apparent "rule" of adding to the title credits a character introduced three or four episodes prior to the last season's finale. This occured with Gunn (Season 2), Fred (Season 3) and Connor (Season 4).
First appearance of recurring character Lorne, here called The Host.
Faith's Prisoner Number is 43100.
We first see the Hyperion Hotel, which becomes the Angel Investigations Headquarters for the next 3 years in the next episode in this one.
J. August Richards joins the regular cast as of this episode.
Quotes:
Wesley: We're not running a race. We're doing a job... one soul at a time.
Angel: She doesn't trust me. Why should she?
Cordelia: You can't see everything - you're just a vampire, like everyone else... That didn't come out right.
Angel: There are three things I don't do: Tan, date... and sing in public!
Angel: Bad day?
Faith: A new girl tried to attack me in the yard. She had low self-esteem... and a homemade knife, so...
Angel: Well, is she... you know... alive?
Gunn: My name is Gunn. Angel sent me.
Cordelia: Wesley, you've heard Angel talk about Gun. He's a great guy with a really fly street tag.
Wesley: What's he fly?
Cordelia: It's how they know you on the street, dorko. Gun! It really let's you know you mean business.
Gunn: It's my name. Charles Gunn. Two N's.
Angel: I had to sing Barry Manilow.
Faith: You're kidding?
Angel: In front of people.
Faith: And here I am talking about my petty little problems.
Gym Manager: (talking about a demon) That guy has horns.
Angel: Steroids, not good for you.
Trivia:
When Angel, Cordy and Wesley are in Cordy's apartment with the white board, Cordy writes on the bottom... in between shots the handwriting appears to change constantly.
At the beginning, Angel calls up Cordelia and Wesley. Angel then goes and kills some demons, while they both watch. Neither Cordelia nor Wesley participate in the fight, so it doesn't really seem like it was necessary for them to be there at all.
In the episode "Epiphany" (2x16) we learn that Angel has never been to Wesley's appartment. Thus it seems that he must sleep on Cordy's couch until they move into the Hyperion. It's never mentioned, but it seems to be an important detail.
As Angel, Cordelia & Wesley walk back out through the mirror wall, you can see Angel's reflection. When they are walking in and the gym attendant is following them, on the large mirror it is obvious that Angel has no reflection; however, if you look to the far right of the shot, you see Angel standing there, waiting for the other three to catch up. He turns and walks with them for a bit.
For a very small period, Angel's reflection is visible on the mirror he is kicking in the club.
If you look closely as Angel and the demon are fighting in the street on the horses, there are bystanders in the street watching the entire thing. [They can be seen on the side that the demon starts on-down by the stoplights; standing on the crosswalk.]
When Angel is talking to Faith in the prison, the reflection on Angel's side shows his phone's cord as being stretched tightly. But from Faith's side, Angel isn't holding the phone like that. This was obviously a plan so we couldnt see Angel's reflection, but it backfired.
Wesley has written "N.D.U.O." on the white board, but it instantly disappears with no indication anyone erased it when Angel then steps up and writes "Pria Motu."
If you look not-so-hard you can see the fight-choreograph placement marks on the street that the stunt team uses, as Angel and the demon fight.
The hankerchief in the Caritas Host's/Lorne's pocket switches from side to side in consecutive shots.
The exterior shot of the prison Faith is in is of Fulsom Prison - an all-male correctional institute. |
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