Life
of the Party
Ben Edlund
It's Halloween, and Wolfram &
Hart throws the best party in town. The problems
begin when Lorne's suggestions start becoming
orders, making people do strange and dangerous
things, like Angel having sex with Eve.
Lorne, exhausted, has his sleep
removed, and starts to write the future,
instead of just reading it. Eventually, his
(very angry) subconscious materializes and kills
two guests at he party, one of them the of [Archduke
Sebassis]. Luckily, Wesley and Fred figure
this out before things get uglier, and save the
day.
To a ghost Spike, who is quite
depressed about his non-corporeal condition,
Lorne advises to be more positive, and shortly
thereafter the vampire is having the time of his
life everything is wonderful, he even gets
thrilled to see that Angel is "getting some"
with Eve...
TheCautionary
Tale of Numero Cinco
Jeffrey Bell
Angel is depressed; being the
head of Wolfram & Hart and having all
resources to fight evil, he starts questioning
his status as a Champion, making Wesley reminds
him of the prophecy [Shanshu] and tell him that
it can help, giving him hope.
With this state of mind, he gets
to know a former Champion, Mexican Numero Cinco,
who now works at W&H as mailman. In the
past, this man used to fight evil with his four
brothers, but after their deaths, he gave up
everything and took the offer of a job at the
evil law firm.
Angel and Numero Cinco join
forces to fight an Aztec demon Tezcatcatl
that comes to our world each 50 years to take
the heart of a Champion to be able to survive
another 50 years. But this time, the demon is
also after a talisman, passed from Champion to
Champion, that will make it invincible.
Eventually, Angel, Numero Cinco and his deceased
brothers kill the demon, and Numero Cinco passes
the talisman to Angel, who hands it to Wesley
(for him to keep?) Afterwards, Angel, who said
all prophecies are lies, looks for the book
about the Shanshu.
Spike helps the Fang Gang fight
the Aztec demon telling them that its weak
point is its heart, and, when researching with
Wesley, takes the chance and asks him about the
Shanshu adding that he himself died
heroically, closing the Hellmouth; Wesley just
says that the book refers to a vampire with a
soul, yes, but who isn't a ghost.
Lineage
Drew Goddard
Wesley's father, with whom he
always had a bad relationship, appears in Los
Angeles Watcher Roger Wyndham-Pryceis
reforming the Watchers Council, destroyed by
the [First Evil] and [Caleb] months before,
and wants Wesley to be a part of it again.
At the same time, the Fang Gang are
attacked by a troop of Ninja cyborgs, eventually
finding that Roger is behind the attack. When
his father tries to hold Fred hostage, Wesley
shoots his father to death just to learn that
"Roger" was also a cyborg.
Spike doesn't do much in this episode; he
asks Eve why the [Senior Partners] don't
release him, since the amulet was meant to be
used by Angel, and Eve replies with a question
"how do you know that it was for Angel
to wear it?" The vampire also saves Gunn of
being killed by one of the cyborgs and, when
Fred makes a comment about the robots being part
humans, he shoots his mouth off, saying that
"having sex with robots happens more often than
you think"...*
*Remember the [BuffyBot]?
Destiny
David Fury
Steve DeKnight
In flashbacks, we see Angelus, [Drusilla] and new-born
vampire [William]
in London. William, in love with Dru, suffers
when she sleeps with Angelus; the evil vampire
tells "Willy" that they will always have all
they want, but never will own anything.
In the present, Harmony opens an
envelope; from it a bright light emerges and
Spike, who is in the room, becomes corporeal
again. Things go havoc all over Wolfram &
Hart, phones start ringing, computers crash.
First thing Spike does, after drinking a mug
full of blood, is to grab Harmony and take her
to a room for a nooner. However, the poor
vampire doesn't manage to have sex with his ex,
because Harmony suddenly goes crazy and tries to
bite him, saying all he thinks is of his Slayer.
Other employees get mad, too.
Eve appears to explain that the
chaos has taken place everywhere because it
wasn't supposed to exist two Champion vampires
with a soul. All this have to do with the
prophecy Shanshu, the one that says "a vampire
with a soul will have an important role to play
(for good or evil) in the Apocalypse". Spike,
winning a soul and becoming a Champion and now
corporeal, has broken the balance of things. The
vampire says it's OK, he will leave Los Angeles
and go to Europe (where Buffy is), but Eve says
the whole universe is in chaos, not just Los
Angeles or California.
Gunn tries to go to the White
Room, but it and the Conduit (the Big Cat) that
lives there disappeared; the researcher [Sirk Rutherford] is called
(Wesley is on leave, after having shot the
cyborg he thought was his father) and explains
that the world will be in chaos until the
vampire with a soul referred by the prophecy
drinks the [Cup of Perpetual Torment].
Then, his past will be cleaned, he will become
human and will start fresh. The cup is in a
place called The Columns, a former opera house
in Nevada, in the Death Valley. Spike (driving
Angel's Viper*) and Angel (driving a GTO) rush
to there.
*The song
Spike is listening to is Too Drunk to F***,
by [Dead Kennedys].
Angel and Spike fight for the
Cup; Spike says he deserves to drink from it
because he chose to seek a soul, while Angel had
his forced on him; he adds that Drusilla sired
him, but Angelus made him a monster. Spike goes
on saying that he isn't like Angel and Angel
replies that's why Buffy never loved him. Spike
asks if Angel thinks that when he (Spike) and
Buffy were having sex, she was thinking of him
(Angel)?
Spike manages to pick up a piece
of wood and when he has the opportunity to dust
his rival, he just hurt Angel on the
shoulder; he says he doesn't want to have
trouble explaining things to a certain person.*
*Buffy...
Eventually, Spike manages to
drink from the Cup... Mountain Dew.
Angel goes back to Wolfram &
Hart and explains that the blood all over him is
because he "fell down some stairs"; Spike
arrives soon after, also covered in blood. They
say the Cup was a fake, a set-up, and when they
look for Sirk, they learn that he disappeared.
Eve tells everybody the Senior
Partners were able to intervene and temporarily
stabilize the universe; the chaos is over, the
White Room is back, but the Senior Partners are
furious and the problem of 2 vampires with a
soul still exist.
Later, Angel tells Gunn that
Spike managed to drink from the Cup and maybe
this means that he, Angel, isn't the chosen one.
Gunn replies that it can mean nothing, but Angel
doesn't seem convinced.
At Eve's place, we see her and [Lindsey McDonald] in bed
together. His body is all covered with runes.
