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With Angel and Cordy missing for three months, Fred and Gunn are frustrated at the lack of clues regarding their friends' disappearance, especially after Connor is forced to kill the only eyewitness to Angel. Of course, actually Connor knows all about where Angel is and disposes of the vampire witness to cover his tracks. Meanwhile, Wes has captured Justine and while maintaining a sexual relationship with Lilah, is searching for Angel's sunken box. He eventually finds Angel, whose brain may be damaged from lack of blood. Giving up his own blood and letting Justine go, Wes tells Fred and Gunn about Connor's betrayal. They capture him and he escapes to confront Angel, who tells him he loves him but he has to get out.
Meanwhile, Lilah arranges to get ahead in the ranks of Wolfram & Hart and Cordy is bored.
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Director:
Terrence O'Hara
Writer:
Steven S. DeKnight
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Broadcast: 2002-10-06
Production No.: 4ADH01
Episode Overall No.: 67
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Vincent Kartheiser joins the regular cast and is listed in the opening credits.
This episode received a 3.7/5 in the overnight ratings.
This line by the vampire Marissa was cut from the episode due to length. Marissa: I didn't see nothing, I swear. You know how dark it is down by the bluffs? And hey, my eyes were never that good. Sure, the creature of the night thing helps, but...
Lorne's family nickname on Pylea translates as "fragrant tuber" and Gunn's self-styled nickname is Big Dog.
Angel mentions having been sent to Hell for a hundred years by his girlfriend. The girlfriend is Buffy. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - episode "Becoming (2)").
Andy Hallett does the "Previously on Angel" voiceover.
In an interview with Steven DeKnight, he reveals that David Greenwalt was to write Angel's fourth season premiere, but a fight with 20th Century Fox persuaded him to leave Angel and create Miracles for ABC. As a result, DeKnight was recruited to write "Deep Down."
This is the only season premiere in which Angel does not slay a demon in the opening scenes. In "City of..." Angel takes down a group of vampires; in "Judgement" Angel, Wes, and Cordy take down the demon in the gym; in "Heartthrob" Angel fights the demon monks; and in "Conviction" Angel saves the girl from the vampire.
One of the Senior Parnters' name is mentioned in this episode, Mr. Suvarta.
This marks Laurel Holloman's (Justine) final appearance on the show.
Lilah now becomes Head of the Special Projects Division following the death of Linwood.
Andy Hallett (Lorne) is credited as "Special Guest Star Andy Hallett."
This episode marks the death of Linwood (John Rubinstein).
Alexis Denisof is now listed last in the credits as opposed to third place where he has been in previous seasons, he is also credited as "and Alexis Denisof".
Despite initial plans to have continuing character Gwen Raiden appear in the first episode of the new season, her first appearance was deferred to a later date.
In-joke time: in the board meeting Linwood twice mentions his "corner of the sky". Actor John Rubinstein played Pippin in the Broadway production of Pippin and the first song he sings in the musical is "Corner of the Sky". You can hear him on the album/CD soundtrack still available.
Quotes:
Angel: I love you, Connor. Now get out of my house.
Angel: What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective.
Angel: (raising his glass) To family.
Lorne: As long as it is not mine!
Gunn: You're gonna eat all that?
Fred: Until I'm fat and happy.
Angel: Sit down!
Connor: You're to weak to take me.
Angel: You really think that?
(Connor thinks about it, quickly sits down)
Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me 'sweet potato.'
Connor: Really?
Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was 'fragrant tuber' but...
Fred: (to Connor) I know you're still hurting, but I promise... it's not nearly as much as you're going to hurt for what you did to your father.
Gunn: (to Connor on Angel's return) That's right, Sparky, daddy's coming home. And I'm guessing there's going to be a spanking.
Connor: I'm telling the truth!
Angel: I can tell. You've done enough lying for me to tell the difference. Truth has a better sound to it. Less nasal, you know
Gunn: (about Connor) If he's not dead I'm gonna kill him!
Angel: We live as the world should be to show it what it can be.
Angel: I did get the time to think. About us. About the world. Nothing in this world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh. And cruel. But thats why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from. What we've done or suffered or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was as it should be. To show it what it can be.
Cordelia: God, I am so bored!
Lorne: (on phone to Fred) Make sure Fluffy is getting enough love.
Gunn: Did he have anything?
Fred: No, and who's Fluffy? Are you Fluffy?
Gunn: He called me Fluffy?
Fred: He said make sure... Wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
Fred: He's testing you. With Angel gone, you're the alpha male.
Gunn: Damn straight.
Fred: Don't let it go to your head.
Gunn: That's not the direction it's flowing.
Angel: So - how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Justine: The great Wesley Wyndham-Price, the shining beacon of all that's good and pure. But wait, no! That's before he started banging the enemy and keeping slave-girls in his closet.
Trivia:
In a parallel to the 3rd-season premiere of "Buffy," Angel is separated from his friends and dreams of Cordelia, who has been (though unbeknownst to him) sent to another plane; in the 3rd-season premiere of "Buffy," Buffy, willingly separated from her friends for the summer, dreams of Angel, who she KNOWS has been exiled to another plane--because she sent him there. Each episode ends with the title character's homecoming and the loved one still missing and/or presumed dead for several more episodes.
In Angel's dream-dinner, all of his favourite current friends/family have assembled (Cordelia, Connor, Fred, Gunn, and Wesley). This would probaly be Angel's 'perfect' dinner, because even though Angel was unaware that Groo left, Groo is mysteriously absent from this scene.
After the second dream sequence, Angel screams out loud. While it is possible to make noise underwater, there MUST be air in the lungs to make audible sounds. Whatever air may have been trapped when he went under must have already been expelled in three months.
Angel has been under the ocean for 3 months yet he his hair hasn't grown nor does he have any facial hair. I realize that the character is undead and all but we have seen in flashbacks at various points that he has had long hair etc. So will be locked in a box at the bottom of the ocean when did he have time to find a barber?
In the dream sequence at the beginning, Angel is hallucinating a dinner party. At this party Gunn has a beard, like he does now. But when Angel was buried alive Gunn had no beard, granted it is only a dream, but it would still be an odd coincident.
Why does Gunn tell Fred to let the phone ring? They've been trying to find clues all summer, but don't respond but when someone calls them.
Granted, Lilah probably knew which chair Linwood habitually sat in. But how did she know he wouldn't stand up?
No one seems too concerned, worried, or curious about where Groo is, even though he would most likely have clues about what happened to Cordelia and was never implied to have told anyone else he was leaving.
Allusions:
Angel tells Connor that he could poke his eyes out in the dream-dinner scene. Oedipus Rex did poke his eyes out. This could be foreshadowing towards the Oedipus theme that revolves around Connor later in this season.
Gunn: Been playing a little Ahab.
Gunn compares Wesley to the obsessed captain trying to find the whale in the novel Moby Dick.
Lorne: Not a peep. But if I Miracle-Ear anything I'll send up a smoke signal.
Lorne is referring to the hearing aid that is advertised as being so small it's nearly invisible.
Gunn: His nickname back in Quor-toth was 'The Destroyer,' and unless you put 'Conan' in front of that I'm guessing it's not a good sign.
This is a reference to the novels and later film (Conan the Destroyer), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Gunn: Evil Dead was probably just messing with us.
Referring to the 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, which spawned two sequels.
Lilah: Mr. Suvarta didn't think Linwood's corner of the sky was sunny enough.
"Corner of the Sky" is a song from the Broadway musical Pippin,which starred John Rubenstein (Linwood) in the lead role when it debuted in the 1970's. |
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Angel (1999) - 4x01 - Deep Down