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Lonely Hearts is the second episode of the first season of Angel and is the second episode overall. Doyle gets a vision of a bar and it leads Angel to a demon serial killer.

Guest Stars: Elisabeth Rohm (Kate Lockley), Lillian Birdsell (Sharon Richler), Obi Ndefo (Bartender)

Co-Stars: Derek Hughes (Neil), Johnny Messner (Kevin), Jennifer Tung (Neil Pick-Up Girl), Tracy Stone (Pretty Girl), David Nisic (Slick Guy), Ken Rush (Guy), Connor Kelley (Regular)

Contents 1 Plot Summary 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 Summary

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

• Tahlmer: Tahlmer is a burrower parasite. A burrower is a demon that requires a host body to survive in. It jumps from body to body, leaving a mangled, eviscerated carcass where its last host was. Because the body decomposes after so long, the burrower must evacuate and inhabit another body before it dies along with the body. The parasite inbues the host with extraordinary powers for a short time, but it has a weakness for fire.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Kevin	Tahlmer	Eviscerated	Kevin's Bedroom
2	Sharon	Tahlmer	Eviscerated	Neil's Bedroom
3	Neil	Tahlmer	Eviscerated	Asian Woman's Apartment
4	Bartender/Tahlmer	Angel	Burned Alive	D'Oblique

[edit] Music

Songs are listed in order of appearance in the episode.

• THC - Girlflesh
• Sapien - Neo-Climactic
• Ian Fletcher - Deadside
• Kathy Soce - Do You Want Me
• Mark Cherrie & Ian McKenzie - Lazy Daze
• Chainsuck - Emily Says
• Helix - Quango
• Vast - Touched
• Chucho Merchan - Ballad of Amave
• Adam Hamilton - For You

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

• Angel Investigations: The detective agency is officially named "Angel Investigations" in this episode. Their phone number is 555-0162.
• Vampire Mythos: Doyle expands upon the idea that a vampire can't come into someone's home uninvited by saying that vampires only need an invitation as long as the owner of the house is alive. This explains why Angel didn't need an invitation into Russell's home in the previous episode.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Referbacks

• BtVS - 2x22 - Becoming (2): In order to stop Angelus's reign of terror, Buffy was forced to kill him, which sent him to Hell.

Kate: Well, I’ll tell you what: I can go where ever I want and you can go to hell.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• First Appearance: This episode marks the first appearance of Detective Kate Lockley.
• Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a Nielson overnight rating of 5.6/9. It was ranked 3rd out of the 15 WB shows which aired that week.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Too Much?: This episode is a replacement for another episode originally written called "Corrupt." Originally, the series was thought to be much darker in tone than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so David Fury wrote a script that fit that mold. The original script, Kate was taking drugs and prostituting herself and Angel drinking blood from a murder victim, horrified WB executives. The executives closed down production until Fury wrote a less dark episode.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Bat Signal: The bat signal is a device used by the Gotham police department to signal Batman for help. This goes along with the theme of Batman references for Angel, another in this episode being his (failed) attempt at using a grappling hook which is similar to scenes from the Batman series of films.

Doyle: It's not like you have a signal folks can shine in the sky whenever they need help.

• Peter Pan Complex: A Peter Pan Complex is the term used for someone who exhibits the qualities of the children's book character of the same name. Those characteristics being an inability to grow up and accept both maturity and responsibility.

Cordelia: You see jazz-hands over there? Mama's boy. Peter Pan complex.

• Mission: Impossible: Cordelia makes a reference to the tapes which give the Impossible Mission Force their covert missions. The tapes always self-destruct after they are played. Incidentally, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, regular cast members of the series, are the parents of Juliet Landau, who has a recurring role in the Buffy universe as Drusilla.

Cordelia: They should send you one of those self-destructing tapes.

• Screech: Samuel "Screech" Powers is a nerdy cast member of Saved by the Bell, a sitcom about several teenagers at Bayside High School. Screech, played by Dustin Diamond, was an archetypical awkward nerd. He later went on to become the assistant principal of the school in Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

Bartender: Ah, she was there just a minute ago, getting it on with some Screech.

• Cagney & Lacey: Cagney & Lacey was a crime drama that aired during the 1980s about two female detectives named Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey. The series aired for six seasons on CBS.

Cordelia: "Cagney and Lacey" Kate? I thought we were hiding from her.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

• Doyle: Because we deserve a night of fun, don't you think? I mean, it breaks up those nights of death and mayhem.

[edit] Reviews

• Overall Grade: no reviews yet
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