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Dead End is the eighteenth episode of the second season of Angel, and the fortieth episode overall. Lindsey gains a new hand to replace the one Angel cut off, but when it turns out to be evil, he must make a decision on where to take his life.

Guest Stars: Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald), Stephanie Romanov (Lilah Morgan), Andy Hallett (Caritas Host), Gerry Becker (Nathan Reed), Michael Dempsey (Irv Kraigle), Mik Scriba (Parole Officer)

Co-Stars: Meagen Thomas (Young Lawyer #1), Ted Broden (Young Lawyer #2), Dennis Gersten (Dr. Michaels), Kavita Patil (Nurse), Pete Gardner (Joseph Kramer), Stephanie Nash (Wife), Steven DeRelian (Bradley Scott)

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 5.1 Song Lyrics 6 Reviews

[edit] Plot Overview

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

• The Pockla: The Pockla are a group of demon healers who have the ability to regenerate flesh. But, because they're demons, they likely have no love for any humans who aren't sacrificing things for them, so they possibly imbued the reattached body parts with some of its former owner's mind.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Brad	Lindsey	Cut Life Support	Travel Agency

[edit] Music

No licensed music was used in this episode. The song that Lindsey sings was written by David Greenwalt and is called "L.A. Song."

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

• Wolfram & Hart: Wolfram & Hart has giving its employees new appendages care of a bank of bodies in life support fueled holding cells. The people in this bank are apparently disgraced old employees, possibly ones who were caught doing something illegal or were scapegoatted to save the firm. Lindsey destroys the bank when he feels sympathy for Brad.

[edit] Characters

• Lindsey: Wolfram & Hart give Lindsey a second chance at having two hands. A new right hand is grafted onto where Angel hacked it off in the first season. He uses his newfound dexterity to start playing the guitar again. But, when the hand starts to act on its own, he decides to leave Wolfram & Hart because they gave him an evil hand.

• Lilah: Although Lindsey was going to be the one promoted, he lays the "evil hand" speech on the board room and makes a case for Lilah. She's promoted when he leaves.

[edit] Referbacks

• 1x22 - To Shanshu in L.A.: When Lindsey attempted to incinerate a prophecy that involved Angel, Angel cut off his hand to keep it away from the fire. Also in this episode, Cordelia was sent into seizures when the Powers' filter was removed from her vision abilities.

Lindsey: I've got a murderous hand on me and you're telling me to team up with the guy who cut mine off in the first place?

Wesley: Last year a demon unleashed a slew of these visions on her. She wound up in a hospital out of her mind.

• 2x16 - Epiphany: Kate was once an ally on the police force for Angel, but she was fired after being blamed for Angel pummelling a police captain who was raising zombie cops.

Angel: We did, but she got fired. Get over it.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a 4.0/6 in the overnight Nielsen ratings. It was ranked 4th out of the 17 WB shows which aired that week.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Sally Field: Lilah misquotes the ending line of Sally Field's Oscar acceptance speech for 1985's Places in the Heart. The correct ending line is, "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" But this is routinely misquoted to "you like me, you really like me."

Lilah: I guess they like you. They really, really like you.

• Stairway to Heaven: "Stairway to Heaven" is an eight-minute long song on Led Zeppelin IV (otherwise known as Zoso) about Robert Plant's search for spiritual perfection. The song is the most requested song on FM radio despite never being released as a single and routinely tops "best rock song" lists.

Angel: I was thinking about Stairway to Heaven.

• 48 Hours: 48 Hours is a buddy cop movie starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. The movie was Eddie Murphy's film debut and set many of the standards for "Buddy Cop" movies, particularly the wacky sidekick and the grim straight man.

Host: Am I the only one who saw 48 Hours?

• The Jetsons: The Jetsons is an animated series by Hanna-Barbara about an average family living in the late 21st century. Many of the technological advances that people think of when they think "the future" come from this show, including flying cars and robots.

Angel: You know, back in the fifties we all thought life was gonna be like in the Jetsons by now.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

• Angel: There is only one thing we can do now.
  Cordelia: Oh, god. Oh, no.
  Wesley: The Karaoke bar.
  Gunn: Angel's gonna sing?
  Cordelia: Isn't there some other way?
  Wesley: There has to be. Think, damn it!
  Angel: Hey!

[edit] Song Lyrics

Pretty girl on every corner
Sunshine turns the sky to gold
Warm, warm, it's always warm here
I can't take the cold

Streets littered with diamonds
Every one's glistening
This whole world shines so brightly
I can't see a thing

Pretty as a picture
She is like a golden dream
Fills me with love and laughter
I can't feel a thing

The sky's gonna open
People gonna pray and crawl
Gonna rain down fire
Gonna burn us all

The sky's gonna open
People gonna pray and sing
Oh I can't feel a thing

Pretty as a picture
She is like a golden dream
Fills me with love and laughter
And I—I can't feel a thing

The sky's gonna open
People gonna pray and crawl
Gonna rain down fire
Gonna burn us all

The sky's gonna open
People gonna pray and sing
And I can't feel a thing
Oh, I can't feel.

[edit] Reviews

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