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2.12 Blood Money

Anne: "A few years ago it would have been a big turn on. I thought vampires were the coolest."
Angel: "What happened?"
Anne: "I met one."

Why don't I like the new, ambiguous Angel? He didn't look or feel right to me. Was David Boreanaz projecting some kind of "dead inside" emotion that made me uncomfortable? Was he channeling the killer from the movie he just did? Did they give him a bad haircut or something? I can't put my finger on it. But we did finally learn in this episode why Wolfram & Hart want Angel alive (Angel being a "major player" in the coming Apocalypse) and that kind of made sense. But here's what I didn't get: if Angel didn't care any more, why did he give the blood money to Miss Teenage Homeless Shelter?

Our supporting cast trio continued to bond as they completed their second successful vision-related case. I wonder what they'll name their agency? All three of them have last names that would work for a detective agency. How's this for a motto -- we'll Chase bad guys with a Gunn for a Price?

Lilah is getting more and more interesting, and she and Lindsey continued to bicker beautifully. I also liked the video-within-a-video shot they did when Lindsey and Lilah were running across the floor trying to stop Anne from putting the tape into the machine.

Bits:

-- Anne, Miss Teenage Homeless Shelter, was called Chanterelle in the Buffy second season episode, "Lie to Me", and Lily in the Buffy third season opener, "Anne." Chanterelle/Lily took the name Anne because it was runaway Buffy's alias as well as Buffy's middle name. In truth, we still don't know what Chanterelle/Lily/Anne's name actually is.

-- I liked Boone, the cool blue-faced guy. Gotta go for a demon with integrity.

-- Risk must be a game that requires testosterone. I could never figure out why guys go so bananas for it.

-- Merle the informant demon has gotten beat up in how many episodes now?

Quotes:

Gunn: "So it's big."
Wesley: "Big."
Gunn: "And fire breathing."
Wesley: "Breathing."
Gunn: "Big, two-headed, fire-breathing..."
Wesley: "I think we all have the picture, Gunn. It's not a teddy bear and it probably shouldn't be attending the Kenyard School for Girls."

Anne: (pulls out a flowered blouse) "Well, that's not what I expected. What's the matter, it doesn't fit you anymore?"
Angel: "Cuts me across the bust."

Angel: "The game. It's actually kind of fun when you know the rules. I mean, when you know that there aren't any. You screw with me, and you screw with me, and you screw with me. And now, I get to screw with you. It's gonna be great!"

Lindsey: "You opened your mouth to someone, and now he's got it on tape, probably."
Lilah: "No, you're the one with the sporadic professional death wish. How do I know you're not on one of your Kamikaze missions, with me as your co-pilot?"

Lilah: "Well, it's a pretty simple formula. Rich people pay to touch famous people. Cameras catch all the not quite prostitutional action. Pretty profitable, and it all goes into the public consciousness as a good deed, courtesy of Wolfram and Hart. It's really true, charity gives you this warm glow, you know?"

I'm sort of hovering between a two and a three for this one. 2.5?

Billie





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