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Billy is the sixth episode of the third season of Angel, and the fiftieth episode overall. The man that Angel broke out of the hell dimension earlier this season is back and is indirectly causing the deaths of several women. Cordelia decides that she needs to settle this score once and for all.

Guest Stars: Stephanie Romanov (Lilah Morgan), Daniel Dae Kim (Gavin Park), Justin Shilton (Billy Blim)

Co-Stars: Richard Livingston (Congressman), Jennifer Brooke (Clerk), Cheri Rae Russell (Female Officer), Gwen McGee (Detective), Kristoffer Polaha (Dylan), Rey Gallegos (Sanchez), Charlie Parker (Guy), Joy Lang (Amber), Timothy McNeil (Cab Driver)

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 2.1 Monster of the Week 2.2 Body Count 2.3 Music 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes 6 Reviews

[edit] Plot Overview

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

• Billy Blim: Billy has an ability that allows him to activate a primal misogyny in men that he comes in contact with. Additionally, he can temporarily supercharge his strength and power by absorbing energy from the ground into his hands. Although it is clear that he has some kind of demonic origin, what that exact lineage is was not expressed in this episode.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Billy Blim	Lilah	Shot	Airstrip

[edit] Music

Music is listed in order of appearance in the episode:

• Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
• Elwood - Slow

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

• Lilah: Even if it was just for her own satisfaction, Lilah temporarilly aligns herself with Angel Investigations when she kills Billy.

• Wesley and Fred: Wesley's crush on Fred is revealed in this episode, but it's unlikely that it will go anywhere anytime soon considering that he chased her with an axe for the majority of the episode.

[edit] Referbacks

• 3x02 - That Vision Thing: Angel broke Billy out of a box of fire when Wolfram & Hart bargained with him to save Cordelia's life in trade. It was foreshadowed in that episode that he would return and cause trouble.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• Musical Cue: The piano music that plays while Wesley is hunting Fred in the Hyperion will be used again prominently throughout the fourth season. It appears for the first time in this episode.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a 4.1/6 in the overnight Nielsen ratings. It was ranked 8th out of the 18 WB shows which aired that week.
• Rewrites: Two scenes of this episode were written by series creator Joss Whedon: the scene where Angel visits Lilah and the later scene where Cordelia visits her.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Terminator: In the first Terminator movie by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg sent back from the future to kill the mother of a man who would become a revolutionary leader against the robots. In once scene in the movie, the Terminator shoots up a police station and kills many of the officers inside.

Cordelia: Wait, Angel, you can't barge into a police precinct and go all Terminator.

• The Shining: Many of the scenes in which Wesley chased Fred throughout the hotel with an axe were clearly inspired by Jack Nicholsen in The Shining. In the movie, a writer and his family look after an empty hotel for the winter, but the solitude drives Jack insane and causes him to go after his family. In one of the most well known scenes, the character hacks his way through a door, sticks his head in the hole and says, "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!"

[edit] Memorable Moments

• Wesley stalking Fred throughout the hotel after being infected by Billy's blood, culminating in Fred building a trap to stop him with a swinging fire extinguisher and a hole in the floorboards.

[edit] Quotes

• Angel: I'm looking for Billy Blim?
  Dylan: Are you a friend of his or what?
  Angel: Friend? To be honest I'm looking to kill the bastard.
  Dylan: Oh. Come on in.

[edit] Reviews

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