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Eternity is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Angel, and the seventeenth episode overall. A celebrity attempts to hire Angel to help her with a stalker, but he fears getting close because of his curse.

Guest Stars: Tamara Gorski (Rebecca Lowell), Michael Mantell (Oliver Simon)

Co-Stars: Robin Meyers (Masseuse)

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

• The closest thing to a monster of the week in this episode is the brief return of Angelus.

[edit] Body Count

There are no deaths in this episode.

[edit] Music

There is no licensed music in this episode.

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

• Angel: Angel is briefly transformed into Angelus when he is given Doximal, a drug that instills feelings of bliss. Because it tricks the brain into believing it is in a state of perfect happiness, it also tricked him into being Angelus.

[edit] Referbacks

• BtVS - 2x14 - Innocence: Cordelia is likely referring to when Spike and Drusilla raised The Judge in the middle of the second season. She says "clean-up crew" because the Judge was killed with a rocket launcher.

Cordelia: Hey, you weren't around the last time Angel went mental. I, on the other hand, was on the first wave of the clean-up crew.

• BtVS - 2x21 - Becoming: Angelus attempted to perform a ritual that would suck the world into Hell during the second season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Angel: But, I almost had it sucked into hell once, too.

• 1x01 - City Of: Oliver gave Angel his card at the party he saw Cordelia at in the first episode of the series. Although he doesn't seem to remember Angel, this is more than likely a "out of sight, out of mind" Hollywood agent sort of thing.

• 1x11 - Somnambulist: If it sounds like Cordelia has been planning her contingencies for a while, she probably has been. She made it very clear in the episode with Penn that if Angel were to transform, she would "kill him dead."

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• Meta-Reference: Rebecca's character, Raven, is likely a reference to the vampire club in Forever Knight, another series that Tamara Gorski guest starred on.
• Goof: Doximal® is actually a brand name for doxycycline, which is an antibiotic and not a tranquilizer or otherwise mood-altering drug.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a 4.8/7 in the overnight Nielsen ratings. It was ranked 2nd out of the 16 WB shows which aired that week.
• Bargaining Chip: In an interview, Tamara Gorski said that this was the episode used by Joss Whedon to entice J. August Richards into guest starring on the show.

[edit] Allusions and References

• A Doll's House: The play that Cordelia is in at the beginning of the episode is A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen. The play was written in 1897 and acted as a scathing criticism of Victorian marriage and society's view of gender roles.

• Famous Vampires: Rebecca comments on how vampires can't be real and the only real vampires are actors playing roles. The actors she mentions, Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman, both played Dracula in adaptations of the novel. Lugosi starred in the 1931 version and Oldman in the 1992 version. Angel mentions Frank Langella, who starred in the 1979 adaptation.

Rebecca: Which is impossible. Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman, they're vampires.

• Ernest Borgnine: Ernest Borgnine is an Academy Award winning actor who most famously starred in McHale's Navy, a sitcom about a crew on a PT boat during World War 2.

Rebecca: According to those, I've slept with Ernest Borgnine, and I'm bulimic.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

• Angel: So we're okay then?
  Cordelia: I'm too big of a person to let something so petty get in the way of our friendship.
  Angel: I appreciate that. ...You're not going to untie me, are you?
  Cordelia: Pfft! (walks out of the room)
  Angel: Wesley? Cordelia? ...Guys?

[edit] Reviews

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