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Inside Out is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of Angel, and the eighty-third episode overall. While Cordelia attempts to have Connor kill a virgin to protect their child's birth, Angel gets to the bottom of why Cordelia is evil now.

Special Guest Star: Julie Benz (Darla)

Guest Stars: Gina Torres (Cordelia's Offspring), David Denman (Skip), Stephi Lineburg (Girl)

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

Angel Investigations discovers that Cordelia is the "master" evil that controlled the beast. However Connor helps her escape. Cordelia tells Connor that they need to use magic to speed up her pregnancy because Angel is coming after them. So he kidnaps a virgin to use as a sacrifice.

Meanwhile Angel visits Skip, who was Cordelia's guide in becoming a higher being. He deducts that Skip was involved the entire time. They fight and Angel brings Skip back to his dimension. They trap him inside a circle using magic and force him to tell them what is going on. Skip tells them that the being really is Cordelia, but that a demon is using her body to give birth to themselves.

Connor is visited by his mother, Darla, who tells him not to do what they are planning. He believes her at first, until Cordelia tells him that it is really a trick by Angel. They sacrifice the girl and Cordelia gives birth just as Angel is arriving.

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

There is no monster of the week in this episode.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Vampire	Connor	Staked	Alley
2	Girl	Cordelia	Throat Cut	Warehouse
3	Skip	Wesley	Shot	Hyperion

[edit] Music

There is no licensed music in this episode.

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

• Big(ger) Bad: It turns out that everything that's happened over the past four seasons (and maybe into the prefacing Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons) was orchestrated by the unnamed evil being born by Cordelia. That being is born in this episode

[edit] Characters

[edit] Referbacks

• 4x09 - Long Day's Journey: Manny, the remaining member of the Ra-tet, was put under the protection of Angel, Gwen, Gunn and Cordelia. However, Angel's blood was spiked shortly before his shift began, allowing the killer to sneak into the panic room and chop Manny into pieces with an axe.

Angel: Spiked my blood at Gwen's, snuck into the vault and killed Manny.

• 4x11 - Soulless: Angel's soul turned up missing, despite having hidden the jar containing it in a safe in the office. It turned out that Cordelia stole the jar and hid it in her room. Also in this episode, the Svea Priestesses were slaughtered (allegedly by the Beast, but more likely by Cordelia). They held the biggest hope of banishing the Beast.

Angel: While everyone was reeling from that failure, it was making sure my soul was off the market.

Angel: Taking out the Svea Priestesses was a lot easier.

• 4x12 - Calvary: Cordelia convinced the others that she had found a way to return Angel's soul to him and do away with Angelus. They performed a ceremony which appeared to work at first, but later turned out to be a ruse. Instead of re-ensouling Angel, Cordelia actually put the kibosh on Lorne's empathic powers so that Angelus could masquerade as Angel.

Lorne: Queen Beeyatch put the whammy on me.

• BtVS - 6x01 - Bargaining (1): Willow and the others brought Buffy back to life after she had sacrificed herself to save the world. It was heavily hinted at that Buffy had ascended to a higher dimension that very much resembled heaven, rather than the hell dimension that Willow had thought she was trapped in.

Skip: Nobody comes back from paradise. (beat) ...Okay, a Slayer once.

• 3x06 - Billy: Wolfram & Hart forced Angel to rescue Billy Blim, a congressman's nephew, from a fiery jail cell where he was doomed to burn for an eternity. Little did Angel know that he was allowed to rescue Billy from the flames by Skip as part of a grand master plan.

Skip: You know, the worst part about signing on for this gig was having to take a dive when you rescued that runt Billy from his box of fire.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

[edit] Behind the Scenes

[edit] Allusions and References

• Spider-Sense: One of Spider-Man's super powers is an enhanced danger sense that allows him to know when trouble will occur before it happens. Spider-Man often uses this sense in combination with his agility to dodge punches and, occasionally, bullets. Incidentally, one of the only dangerous things that flies under the radar of Spider-Man's sense is Venom, a symbiote that he once was attached to.

Cordelia: I get away with bringing the world down around you and two eensy words tingle your spider sense?

• Lizzie Borden: In 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Grey were slain by someone with an axe in their home. The two were found by Lizzie, daughter of Andrew and step-daughter of Abby, who was immediately called into question as the likely killer. During her trial, there was testimony that no blood was found on her after the murders. This statement led to the belief that she had either burned the dress that she killed the two in or she stripped down and killed them without any clothes on. Borden was eventually acquitted of the crime.

Wesley: Lizzie Borden. It wasn't wearing any.

• Legion of Doom: In Challenge of the Superfriends, the Legion of Doom is a large supervillain organization headed up by Lex Luthor. The villains often worked together to take over the world or make themselves wealthier, but were always stopped by Superfriends heroes like Superman and Batman.

Gunn: It could be when you're duking it out with the legion of doom or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

[edit] Reviews

• Overall Grade: D+, 2 reviews
• Review Breakdown: A+: 0 A: 0 A-: 0 B+: 0 B: 0 B-: 0 C+: 0 C: 0 C-: 1 D: 1 F: 0
• Man, I truely hate the season 4 storyline and this episode is a perfect encapsulation of all of that. I want to pretend like the tail end of season 3 and all of season 4 just never happens. Because with Connor coming back as an adult, of Cordelia having sex with him, getting pregnant by him, and then turning evil.... it was truely an ugly season. This episode represents that as we get to (grossly) see Cordelia manipulate Connor into doing things he know are wrong. And we have to watch one of the funnest minor characters, Skip, turn evil. Just a memory I wish would go away. --MateoP 19:59, 12 June 2006 (EDT)
• This episode felt like the end of a high school presentation. You're given 10 minutes to give your speech, but before you get three quarters of the way into your spiel, the teacher holds up the "2 minutes left" signal. So, you instinctively kick into overdrive and attempt to cram as much conclusion as possible into the bit of time you have left. This episode was so heavy on exposition and connecting plot threads that it makes your head spin. Then, to top it off, the grossly unconvincing mischaracterization of Connor, Cordelia and Skip turn this episode into one of the kings of the Angel hall of shame. D --IndieRockLance 05:48, 2 August 2006 (EDT)