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1.11 Somnambulist

Cordelia: "My glamorous L.A. life. I get to make the coffee *and* chain the boss to the bed."

Angel revealed his vampire nature to his Buffy surrogate, Kate. And Wesley (Alexis Denisoff) joined the cast, which I knew was coming. I'm not a Wesley fan, but his presence wasn't as discordant in this episode as it was in the last one; maybe he's finding his niche.

Penn was a really cool villain. In fact, it's too bad they didn't keep him around for a few more episodes. Did he have more-extreme-than-usual vamp powers, or are The Angel Powers That Be expanding the range of powers for Angel, too?

It was nice to see Cordy standing up for Angel, and bonding with him. Although it was pretty obvious that that Angel/Cordy scene at the end had been written for Angel/Doyle. And the shackles were back! Maybe sometime when I'm catching up on Buffy reruns, I'll make note of how many times those same shackles show up, and who has been in them.

Bits and pieces:

-- What was with the Early Edition syndrome? Someone dies at dawn and it's in the paper that morning? I don't think so, Dave. But if they hadn't done that, poor Angel would have been in those shackles for a couple of days and it would have put a crimp in the plot. Things like that always jump out at me, though. Couldn't they have checked the news on TV? It would have been more convincing.

-- I enjoyed the scene where Kate was describing possible attributes of the suspect, all of which fit Angel to a T. Nice touch.

-- Nocturnal commission. :)

-- Wesley actually had a great line in this one -- "maybe because he's here and has me by the throat." I like Wesley better when he's not being a fussbudget.

Quotes:

Angel: "Who were you talking to?"
Cordelia: "Nobody. And Wesley."

Cordelia: "Third body found in alley. So? Not exactly front page news."
Wesley: "Actually that is the front page, but still, note the modus operandi? The mutilation of the corpse with a religious icon?"
Cordelia: "I'm against it?"

Cordelia: "I don't care how many files you have on all the horrible things he did back in the powdered wig days. He is good now. And he's my friend. And nothing you or anyone else can say will make me turn on a friend."
Angel: "Cordelia. He's right."
Cordelia: "You stake him and I'll cut his head off."

Cordelia: "Vampires can't sleepwalk. He'd take one step out of the front door and his peejays would burst into flames."

Cordelia: "No offense, Angel, but maybe you are committing those horrible crimes just in your dreams. But even so, I don't want to stick around for your nocturnal commissions."

Wesley: "You can't walk into a police precinct with intimate knowledge about these murders and claim a two-hundred-year-old Puritan is responsible. You'd be locked up faster than Lady Hamilton's virtue. (Looks at Cordelia) My apologies."
Cordelia: "That's okay. I don't know what that meant."

Cordelia: "So, you've discovered the seamy underbelly of the candy coated America, have you? Well, you've come to the right place! Here at Angel Investigations we won't judge, but we will charge."

Kate: "What are you going to do?"
Penn: "Well, first I thought I'd stop everything and tell you my plan."

Cordelia: "People really do change."
Angel: "Yes they do. And sometimes they change back. If the day ever comes that I..."
Cordelia: "Oh, I'll kill you dead."
Angel: "Thanks."
Cordelia: "What are friends for?"

Let's say a two out of four stakes for this one,

Billie





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