Angel/Orpheus

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Orpheus
Orpheus
Season 4, Episode 15
Airdate March 19, 2003
Production Number 4ADH15
Writer(s) Mere Smith
Director(s) Terrence O'Hara
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Angel — Season Four

Orpheus is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of Angel, and the eighty-first episode overall. Fred calls in the big guns to help return Angel's soul to his body. While Willow casts her spell, Faith fights for her life in the hallucinations of Angelus.

Special Guest Star: Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg)

And: Eliza Dushku (Faith)

Co-Stars: E.J. Callahan (Old Craps Man), Jeremy Guskin (Cashier), Peter Renaday (Master's Voice)

Uncredited: Nate Dushku (Armed Robber), Adrienne Wilkinson (Flapper)

Contents

[edit] Plot Overview

[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 Cashier Robber Shot Donut Shop

[edit] Music

Music is listed in order of appearance in the episode:

  • Donna Summer - MacArthur Park
  • Barry Manilow - Mandy

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

  • Angel: In 1902, immigrated to the United States by way of Ellis Island. Up until the 1920s, he did everything he could to avoid human contact. He ventured more and more into human life until the 1970s when he fed off a dead shopkeeper. Due to the guilt, he fed off of rats until the 1990s when he was tapped by Whistler to go into service for good.

[edit] Referbacks

  • BtVS - 3x22 - Graduation Day: Faith went into a coma from bloodloss in the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer due to a fight with Buffy. She later awoke from her coma and possessed Buffy's body.
Cordelia: Like she hasn’t pulled that one before.
  • BtVS - 2x22 - Becoming: The first spell Willow ever learned was to re-ensoul Angel in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The spell that was cast then is the exact same spell cast in this episode, with the exception of having the aid of a book.
Wesley: Of course. Bring in the only living person to ever re-ensoul Angel.
  • BtVS - 6x20 - Villains: After her love Tara was shot by Warren, Willow sought to extract revenge from the Trio and skinned and incinerated Warren.
Willow: I flayed a guy alive…
  • BtVS - 6x22 - Grave: Unable to bear the grief of the world she was perceiving, Willow decided to end it. The world, that is. Fortunately Xander managed to talk her out of it.
Willow: …and tried to destroy the world.
  • 4x01 - Deep Down: Wesley kept Justine chained in his closet during the time when he forced her to help him find the spot in the ocean where she had sunk Angel.
Wesley: I had a woman chained in a closet.
  • 1x19 - Sanctuary: Faith says that they can't be hugging because the last time they did, Buffy walked in on them mid-embrace and took things in such a wrong way that she got violent.
Faith: Don't even start. It's only gonna lead to hugging and...
Angel: No, we can't have that.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

[edit] Behind the Scenes

  • Rerun: Due to a presidental address in the United States, many viewers missed the conclusion of this episode. WB later rebroadcast the episode on Sunday, March 23, at 9:00 PM. The episode took the place of a previously scheduled screening of Blade.
  • Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a 3.5/5 in the overnight Nielsen ratings.

[edit] Allusions and References

  • Jacob Marley: In A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens, Jacob Marley was Ebeneezer Scrooge's business partner until his death. He appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve to tell him that he'll be visited by three ghosts that night:The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Angelus: And why do you get to be Marley's ghost?
  • Glinda: Cordelia refers to Glinda, the good witch of the North in the Wizard of Oz novel and film. Glinda is the good counterpart to the wicked witch of the West who set Dorothy on her way down the yellow brick road to meet the Wizard of Oz, who would find a way to send her home to Kansas.
Cordelia: You want to go, Glinda? We'll go.
  • Dylan Thomas: Angelus quotes from a poem by Dylan Thomas called "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." The 1951 villanelle is considered to be one of Thomas' most famous and defining works. The poem was written by Thomas for his dying father.
Angelus: And now for a poem: Faith goes gently into that good night.

[edit] Memorable Moments

  • In one last flashback, Angel and Angelus can see one another and are corporeal. The two fight each other in an abandoned alley during the 1990s, before Angel was brought out of his fear of closeness to humans by Whistler.

[edit] Quotes

  • Willow: How have you been?
    Cordelia: Higher power. You?
    Willow: Ultimate evil. But I got better.
  • Willow: Good things come in jars. Peanut butter. Jelly. Those two-headed fetal pigs at the natural history museum.
  • Faith: You kiss your mama with that mouth?
    Angelus: No, but I ate her with it.

[edit] Reviews

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  • Review Breakdown: A+: 0 A: 0 A-: 0 B+: 0 B: 0 B-: 0 C+: 0 C: 0 C-: 0 D: 0 F: 0
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