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Underneath is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of Angel, and the one-hundred and fifth episode overall. Angel, Spike and Gunn attempt to rescue Lindsey from his prison after he decided to wage all out war on the Senior Partners. Meanwhile, Wesley attempts to come to grips with Fred's death and Illyria.

Special Guest Star: Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald)

Guest Stars: Sarah Thompson (Eve)

And: Adam Baldwin (Marcus Hamilton)

Co-Stars: Nicholl Hiren (Trish), Christian Boewe (Zach), Jared Poe (Carlos)

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

There is no monster of the week in this episode.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Security	Marcus	Hole Punched Through Body	Wolfram & Hart

[edit] Music

Music is listed in order of appearance in the episode:

• Lionel Richie, "Lady"

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

• Eve: Eve is an immortal, she was created by the Senior Partners to act as a liaison and as a watcher. Her job description is a watcher and messenger. She signs over her immortality and duties to Marcus at the end of the episode.

• Lindsey: Lindsey was taken by the Senior Partners because they couldn't afford the possibility of him talking with Angel. From there, he was put into a bizarre suburban holding dimension where he has a wife (Trish) and son (Zach), but is brutally tortured whenever he goes into the cellar. He is rescued by Angel.

• Gunn: In order to get Lindsay out of the holding dimension, Gunn takes his place as the torture subject. He claims that this is necessary for his atonement.

[edit] Referbacks

• 2x21 - Through the Looking Glass: Angel, as the revered champion of the village, was told to execute a runaway slave that turned out to be Fred. Instead of complying with this, he fought off the Pyleans and rescued her from death. The first thing she said to him after she was safe was "Handsome man saved me from the monsters."

Angel: That's the first thing Fred said to me. In Pylea.

• 2x15 - Reprise: Angel attempted to go on a suicide mission into the home office of Wolfram & Hart so that he could destroy the Senior Partners once and for all. However, when he activated the key, it was just Holland Manners in an elevator who showed him that everyone has evil inside of them and that the center of evil is really on the Earthly plane.

Angel: Yeah, hell's on earth. Holland Manners tried to sell me that line three years ago.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• First Appearance: This episode marks the first appearance of Marcus Hamilton, played by Adam Baldwin. He is the second Firefly cast member to appear in the series.
• Regression: The remaining historic main characters all begin to regress into their former selves starting with this episode. Angel and Gunn change their looks to reflect older seasons and Wesley changes his attitude to something more resembling how he was in season four. Spike is the only one of the main cast not to change because he was never changed by Wolfram & Hart in the first place.
• Continuity: Illyria mentions that she once visited a dimension where there was nothing but shrimp. Anya once mentioned that such a dimension exists in Triangle.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Ratings: On its first airing, this episode scored a 3.6/5 in the overnight Nielsen ratings.
• Credits Change-Up: The opening credits now include Mercedes McNab after appearing in a majority of the episodes airing this season and being one of the longest running Buffy characters. (Harmony, played by McNab, was already in the unaired pilot). Amy Acker's credit was also changed slightly to be more Illyria-centric.
• Uncredited: Joss Whedon wrote all of the scenes between Illyria and Wesley.
• Down Note: This was the episode that was filming when the cast and crew received word from WB that the series would not go on for another season.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Knight Rider: Knight Rider was an NBC drama series starring David Hasselhoff as a high-tech crimefighter that drove an artificially intelligent car named K.I.T.T.. The creator of the series once referred to it as "The Lone Ranger with a car."

Spike: What, you never heard of Knight Rider? The Knight Industries 2000? K.I.T.T.?

• Smurfs: The Smurfs are a race of blue creatures that live in a European forest. They originally came from a Franco-Belgian comic strip before gaining incredible popularity around the world. Eventually they went on to star in their own Hanna-Barbara cartoon series.

Illyria: I'm trapped on a roof. Just one roof... in this time and this place, with an unstable human who drinks too much whiskey and called me a Smurf.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

[edit] Reviews

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