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Post by Gin on Feb 4, 2009 23:27:19 GMT 1
from imdb
#5.06 The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
Original Air Date: 5 November 2003 Directed by Jeffrey Bell Writing credits: Jeffrey Bell
Episode Cast David Boreanaz ... Angel James Marsters ... Spike J. August Richards ... Charles Gunn Amy Acker ... Winifred 'Fred' Burkle Andy Hallett ... Lorne Alexis Denisof ... Wesley Wyndam-Pryce Robert Alonzo ... Carlos / Lucha Libre #2 Bruno Gioiello ... Security Guard Danny Mora ... Number Five Ed Cray ... Homeless Murder Victim (uncredited)
Plot It turns out that the Wolfram & Hart mail guy is more than he seems. He and his brothers were once demon fighters. But, when he lost his family in battle, he gave up on being a Champion. When one of his old foes comes to town, though, he has to help Team Angel defeat it.
Trivia * This episode's plot is reminiscent of the "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" episode "Legacy of Terror". See also trivia for Angel Episode 5.7 "Lineage". * There is a flashback where one of the brothers answers the phone. What he says in Spanish translates to: "What? The devil built a robot?" Numero Cinco mentioned the incident with the Devil's Robot to Angel earlier in the episode.
Goofs * Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The business card that the Wolfram & Hart lawyer hands to Numero Cinco has a spelling mistake. It reads "Wolfram & Hart - Attorney's at Law". * Revealing mistakes: When Angel is on the phone with Fred, Angel's reflection is briefly visible in a window pane in front of him.
Soundtrack * "Guero Canelo" by Calexico * "Traeme Paz" by Patricia vonne
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Post by Cynni on Feb 5, 2009 19:19:23 GMT 1
from http://www.cityofangel.com:
Episode 6, Season 5 Title: "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"
Written & Directed by: Jeffrey Bell Original Air Date: November 5th, 2003
Teaser:
A security officer, Henderson, torch in hand, walks into the dark alley where on hearing a noise he descends some stairs to discover that the basement door is open. Finding a departing workman, Carlos, who has just cleaned out a septic pipe, Henderson reports in on his radio that everything is ok as suddenly there is a scream from Carlos on the stairs above. Ascending the stairs to investigate he is attacked by an unknown assailant.
At Wolfram & Hart a man wearing a strange red and blue mask with a number 5 on it is pushing a mail cart (he is the same man we saw in last weeks episode). Spotting him, Lorne stops to ask his advice, he has two types of birthday card and doesn't know which to give, the man says nothing and Fred arrives and having heard his plight advises him to send flowers instead!
In Angel's office, he and Gunn are signing documents in Angel's blood as Gunn tells him Demon Law requires blood signatures in all cases. Gunn notifies Angel that he has just bankrupted a company that dumps raw demon waste into Santa Monica Bay, sent some warlocks into a hell dimension and started a foster care program for kids orphaned by vampires. Angel appears disinterested, as Spike appears and asks sarcastically if they want to trade powers with him but Angel, not amused, admits he feels disconnected. "Are you serious?" asks Spike before reminding him of his cushy life and asking how he would like to be a ghost. The mail man pushes the cart through the office as Gunn admits he does miss the action too sometimes, at which point Wesley arrives with details of three murders where the victims have had their hearts cut out in the last 2 hours. The mail man lifts his head to hear Wesley surmise that the murders are demonic and as he leaves Gunn calls to him that he has forgotten a letter and Angel follows him out to the corridor where the man picks him up and throws him through the glass partition to his office.
Act I:
Picking himself up Angel informs Gunn, Wesley and Spike that the mail man attacked him so Gunn calls security for a lockdown as Spike laughs telling a recently arrived Fred that Angel attacked Number Five. Gunn confirms by phone that he has been escorted from the building and will be fired as Lorne arrives; he has put out a spin on the net that Angel beat up an old man; good for Wolfram & Hart PR. Angel just wants to concentrate on the now four bodies that have been found, the last one at an 'All Souls' special service for the 'Mexican Day of the Dead'.
Angel, Gunn and Wesley are in Angel's car with Spike who has tagged along uninvited. As Wesley gives directions, Angel suddenly swerves the car pulling it to a stop and jumping from the car, as the others follow him down an alley where they find another dead body, they are too late and his heart is missing, cut out by a crude knife guesses Wesley. Angel knows it is a fresh kill and they decide the assailant may be close by; he is behind them; an angry and very strong 'Ork' type demon with a shield and a sword who fights all of them easily. Wesley shoots him three times to no avail as he is thrown through the air by the demon and Gunn plunges an axe in his back, again with no effect then as Spike attempts to pick up a plank of wood and Angel prepares to fight again, the demon disappears.
Gunn gives Fred the axe to test for blood in her lab, she thinks the gunk on the blade may be haematological cellular enzymes, obviously a full SMA 20, at which point Gunn is lost and on leaving her too it Spike arrives to complain about Angel. Fred reminds him how difficult it is being a champion and how he should know having saved the world but Spike tells her he just stood there and didn't do much, then she reminds him that he also saved her life.
In his office Wesley has several employees researching the demon and its weapons and holding a large book he speaks to it asking for the Xiaochimayan Codex and as the symbols appear on the pages Angel arrives. Confirming to Angel that he is researching the Meso-American era, Angel looks at a loss for something to do and decides to go back to his office. At his desk Wesley senses Spike looking over his shoulder and wonders if Spike can read Cuauhtitlan pictograms but Spike wants to know if it is a prophecy book. Wesley tells him it is only a source book and each one ties into a discipline within the Wolfram & Hart archives; he points out the one dedicated to prophecies on the chair arm. Spike asks if Wesley could look up the Shanshu prophecy, Wesley explains that it tells of an epic apocalyptic battle where a vampire with a soul plays a major role in that battle and may get to live again. Wondering if it could relate to himself and the closing of the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, Spike asks if they are specific about the name of the vampire and Wesley admits it could relate to any vampire with a soul. Spike reveals that Angel does not believe the prophecy but as Wesley looks up at this he is called over by a female employee who has located the demon type.
In Angel's office Wesley informs him the demon is an Aztec demon called Tezcatcatl and it was here 50 years ago to the day where it rose in the same place, East LA, and killed over a dozen people before being defeated by five brothers, champions who were all killed bar one. The remaining brother is still alive and Angel asks if they have his number, Wesley confirms that they do.
Knocking on Apartment 8 the door is opened by Number Five.
Act II:
Angel is pulled through the door and pushed against the wall; it seems that he mistakenly thought Angel was going to pull him into his quest to find the demon when Angel had attempted to give him the mail. Angel wants to enlist his help in defeating the demon but Number Five has retired and refuses to help, talking of the greatness of his brothers, wrestlers named 'Los Hermanos Numeros' and showing Angel a shrine to their memory.
Going back in time we see the five wrestlers, each wearing a different coloured and numbered mask, competing and winning in a wrestling ring, they were great champions and they never lost in all the years they fought. A man in the audience at the match raises a gun and seeing this the brothers prepare to stop him as we suddenly flash back to the present and Number Five explains how they looked after their fellow Mexicans and fought monsters and gangsters, always together. Again to the past the brothers are in a bar, playing cards, wearing their masks ready for action as the telephone rings and they spring to action.
In the present once again, Angel needs to know about the Aztec warrior but not ready to discuss it yet Number Five tells Angel that after his brothers were killed he tried, without heart, to carry on solo until one night he was approached by a young Holland Manners who recruited him for Wolfram & Hart. Confessing that Wolfram & Hart represented everything he despised, he still decided to work there having lost hope after the death of his brothers and shows Angel the shrine he builds every year but his brothers do not visit as he is not worthy. Angel tells him that it's because he quit that they never visit and asks why he stopped caring to which Number Five offers to show him.
In the wrestling ring once more but this time in the present day, Number Five complains to Angel that what was once a sport for heroes has now become a farce, adding that his brothers are dead and Tezcatcatl is back so what difference did they make? Angel gives him a pep talk about being a hero but he seems to be trying to convince himself, lost in the moment and suddenly discovering that Number Five has left.
Back in Wesley's office he and Gunn continue to research the Aztec culture, puzzling over the female victim from the 'All Souls' mass; it seems she was specifically chosen. Wesley asks Gunn if he thinks Angel is ok and Gunn admits he knows Angel is feeling disconnected but still doing the hero thing then turning his thoughts to the guy in the alley, who Wesley confirms was a Gulf War veteran, they both reach the same conclusion - it's taking the hearts of heroes.
Out in the street Angel, looking for Number Five, sees him on a passing by bus and turning to leave is suddenly faced with Tezcatcatl who throws him onto a car bonnet stabbing him in the stomach with his sword but preparing to remove his heart he seems to realise Angel's heart is dead and disappears suddenly.
Act III:
A disgruntled Angel arrives back at Wolfram & Hart strongly disputing that the demon is after the hearts of heroes as it didn't take his, but Wesley and Gunn reassure him that it is after the meat and his heart is old and shrivelled which doesn't comfort him in the least. Gunn heads off to see if there is any sort of contract in the archives as he figures that since the demon came back after fifty years it may have made a deal of some sort leaving Wesley to try and talk to Angel. He worries that Angel's heart is not in his work which is why the demon didn't want his heart; he thinks Angel has lost hope and so the work has no meaning and divulges that Spike has told him he no longer believes in the Shanshu prophecy. Admitting he doesn't, prophecies are nonsense, Angel reminds Wesley of all the things they have seen in the last couple of years for example 'The father will kill the son', of course Wesley has no idea what he is talking about. Angel thinks it doesn't matter as long as he continues to help people but Wesley assures him that nothing matters more, hope is the only thing that will keep him from ending up like Number Five. The phone rings, Fred has found something.
In Fred's lab she confirms that its eating the hearts of heroes gives the demon super power. Spike is sure that the demon has an Achilles heel, its heart, and Fred asks if he deduced that from science but he says he saw it in the poetry. Gunn arrives to confirm that Spike is right, Tezcatcatl was one of the Aztec's most powerful warriors who forged a mystical talisman that harnessed the power of their sun god but he was found out and sentenced to die on the 'Day of the Dead'. Making a mystical deal he had a shaman put a curse upon him so that he could return every fifty years to search for the talisman which was given to a great hero in charge of protecting him and would have been passed down through the generations. As Gunn describes the talisman Angel suddenly remembers seeing it at Number Five's house and dashes out.
Angel arrives at Number Five's house to find him and his shrine, including the talisman, gone.
In the graveyard at the gravestone of 'Los Hermanos Numeros', Number Five has erected the shrine and is holding the talisman above a candle and summoning the demon. Angel approaches him stating that it won't work, the demon will not kill him, but Number Five is confident of his arrival and as Angel asks him for the talisman he lies, saying he doesn't have it. Seeing Tezcatcatl approaching, Angel demands that Number Five give him the talisman but admitting Angel was right about him not being a hero he confesses he has swallowed the talisman so that the demon will have to kill him to retrieve it. Throwing Angel through the air he turns to face Tezcatcatl taunting him with the knowledge that he destroyed him last time, telling him that the talisman is in his stomach. The demon punches him but, determined to be killed, he approaches a second time and as Tezcatcatl pulls a sword preparing to strike, Angel rips out a metal fence post and blocks the sword. A fight ensues and falling to the ground Angel loses his makeshift sword then as Number Five grabs it, continuing the fight, he is stabbed by Tezcatcatl and with his own blood on his hand he falls on the gravestone smearing it across the name as he falls to the ground. Angel continues to fight the demon then hitting the ground beneath the gravestone a hand suddenly rises up beneath him.
Act IV:
Angel looks amazed as Number Five's four dead brothers rise from the grave to face Tezcatcatl and somersaulting across the graveyard they each pull out two metal posts and prepare to fight the demon calling Angel to join them. A huge fight begins and as Angel takes on the demon too, one of the brothers somersaults through the air wrapping his legs around the demon's neck and throwing him to the ground. As he turns they stake him through each arm and leg as Angel delivers the killer blow, staking him through his heart, and he disintegrates to dust.
Number Five lies dieing by the gravestone and Angel runs to him assuring him they came back because he is worthy even though Tezcatcatl did not want either of their hearts. He asks Angel for the coffee flask, as this is where he hid the talisman, stating, "I may not be a hero, but I am not a fool" as he dies and his brothers approach to claim him. Angel looks on as they carry him to the gravestone and disappear leaving him alone with the talisman in his hand.
Back at Angel's office in Wolfram & Hart, Angel hands the talisman to Wesley for safe keeping confirming he is ok; he got the job done but he is tired and he needs to go to bed. As he is leaving Fred asks if Number Five helped at the end and he confirms that he did and that he died a hero.
Wandering through the halls of the law firm alone, Angel makes his way to Wesley's office and, once there, picks up the Prophecy book asking for, "Shanshu Prophecy, English translation". The book opens...
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