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Post by Gin on Feb 4, 2009 23:31:14 GMT 1
from imdb
#5.13 Why We Fight
Original Air Date: 11 February 2004 Directed by Terrence O'Hara Writing credits: Drew Goddard & Steven S. DeKnight
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 Mikey Day ... O'Shea Lindsey Ginter ... Commander Petrie Scott Klace ... Fury Bart McCarthy ... Nostroyev Eyal Podell ... Lawson Joel Polis ... Captain Franklin Bradley Snedeker ... Tyler Nick Spano ... Spinelli Camden Toy ... Prince of Lies Roy Werner ... Heinreich
Plot: Angel's past comes to haunt him. An ally from World War II takes Fred, Gunn, and Wes hostage while seeking Angel. This is the only vampire Angel sired after he got his soul back. Angel relives the past and must determine his future.
Trivia * The character the Prince of Lies is a reference to Max Schreck, who played the main vampire in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), and Willem Dafoe, who played Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
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Post by Cynni on Feb 5, 2009 19:09:34 GMT 1
from http://www.cityofangel.com:
Episode 13, Season 5 Title: "Why We Fight"
Written by: Drew Goddard & Steven S. DeKnight Directed by: Terrence O'Hara Original Air Date: February 11th, 2004
Teaser:
Atlantic Ocean 1943 - Aboard a German submarine a red alert sounds and the crew are in a state of panic when the captain is attacked by an unknown assailant. As they attempt to rescue him we see he is clutching his bleeding neck and as he is once again attacked, the crew members, sprayed with blood, escape through a hatch into their quarters.
At Wolfram & Hart, Gunn informs the gang that Eve has vanished and Wesley is concerned that she left swearing vengeance. Gunn thinks she was probably whisked away by the Senior Partners although admittedly it is difficult to obtain information as the White Room is empty and Eve was their link to the Senior Partners, he begins to tell them that there may be a way to re-establish links but loses his train of thought blaming it on tiredness. Angel thinks they should call it a night but the others have lots of work to catch up on which means no time for socialising so Angel asks if they could all meet in a few hours anyway even if just to talk about work. As they head off the elevator opens in the lobby and a young man named Lawson, one of the crew from the submarine, steps out smiling.
Act I:
As Fred enters her lab, Lawson is looking through one of her files and she asks if she can help him. He tells her not be alarmed, and she questions how he knows her name but he ignores her, asking if she likes her job and as she attempts to escape he warns her not to and tells her he is here to see Angel with whom he was friends back in the day.
Flashback to New York City 1943, a sullen looking Angel sits in his apartment when suddenly the door bursts open and two men, armed with a crossbow and a stake enter, followed by an officer, Commander Petrie, who tells him to sit down as they need to talk. Petrie asks if Angel has considered joining the war effort as they need able bodied men but Angel knows they are aware he isn't a man; still he goes on to tell Angel that they have captured a T-Class German prototype submarine. Something went wrong when they tried to bring the submarine in and Petrie asks Angel if he has heard the sound of men screaming for their lives as a fourth civilian man, Mr Fury, watching from the door until now, says of course he has. The submarine, stuck in enemy waters, is essential to the war effort but it has sunk too deep for a human to withstand the pressure and Fury now approaches Angel announcing that he represents a new organisation, the 'Demon Research Initiative' who have been watching him and have decided he is their man. Angel says he's not interested and is punched in the stomach by one of the henchmen as Petrie makes it clear he has no choice and hands him a file adding that he knows what attacked their men; as Angel opens it he looks up at Petrie.
On the submarine in the crew quarters, Lawson discusses the situation with three other crewmen, Hodge, Tyler and Spinelli, they can't control the ship and they have only two days of air so they decide to ask the captured German officer, Heinreich, about their attackers; he doesn't understand. Suddenly they hear another crewman scream from the other side of the door and Lawson wants to go and help him but Spinelli pulls a gun, refusing to let him go as they will all die. They hear a sound above them and follow it through to the Torpedo room where they decide it is coming from the tubes and hearing an S.O.S tap on tube number one Lawson instructs them to open it - Angel is inside.
Back in the present at Wolfram & Hart, Wesley finds Fred bound and gagged in his office but before he can react he is knocked out by Lawson.
Back in the submarine, Angel, at gunpoint, asks for the captain and, upon finding he is dead, asks who is in charge before issuing orders under Naval Op 407 and confirming to Lawson the password, Nautilus. The crew lower their weapons as Angel asks them to remove the manacles from his feet. Hodge and Spinelli decide Angel is some sort of super-soldier as Lawson informs Angel that everyone bar them is dead. Angel goes through to the crew quarters where, at the door, he orders Lawson to lock it behind him refusing Lawson's offer of a weapon; he knows what he is up against. Angel goes to the door at the other end and opens the hatch to find Spike, wearing a swastika on his arm, at the other side.
Act II:
Spike is surprised to see Angel and assumes he was also captured by the SS as they have been rounding up the 'baddest of the bad' and he introduces him (as Angelus) to Nostroyev and The Prince Of Lies, two other previously captured vampires. Angel asks if there is anyone left alive and Spike confirms they are all dead before asking if Angel has left any where he has been. At Angel's nod that there are some crew left, Spike and the vampires want to kill them but Angel tells them they are needed alive to steer the submarine back to the surface. Nostroyev grabs an axe stating that they will leave one alive but Angel bars his way and as Nostroyev threatens him he pretends to stand aside before dusting Nostroyev with the axe handle, making it clear that no humans will be killed until they reach land.
Angel's office in the present, Lawson approaches Angel who recognises him and folding his arms, he sits back on the sofa as Lawson talks. Lawson thinks he has come a long way from eating rats in the gutter, he has been keeping tabs on Angel, checking in every decade or so and he can't understand how Angel went from the gutter to fighting evil from a place like Wolfram & Hart. Angel tells him it is complicated and Lawson agrees they used to live in simpler times.
Back to 1943 and Angel leads the crew through to the main control room on the submarine, instructing them to stay alert and promising they will get out ok, before introducing them to Spike and the Prince of Lies. Lawson instructs his crew to man their sections and get the submarine moving again and as they go to their posts Angel suggests that Lawson help him move the dead bodies.
As they place the dead bodies in the crew quarters Lawson admits that he knows there is something more going on but that he doesn't understand why they are working with the monsters who butchered his crew and he assumes that Spike is in the SS but Angel tells him he isn't, he just liked the jacket. Angel tries to justify why they are being kept alive but Lawson will not accept his reasons so Angel tells him they just need to follow orders but Lawson thinks there is a difference between orders and purpose. Lawson tells Angel that evil is spreading and it is on his ship and he can handle dying as long as he knows it is for a greater purpose but Angel assures him he doesn't need him to understand every detail only that they are fighting on the same side, finally asking him to trust that he will get them through this safe and sound.
Back to the present day in Angel's office and Lawson sarcastically states, "Safe and sound", before asking if Angel cared about any of it as Angel wonders what Lawson wants; he just wants to understand, same as always. Suddenly Angel kicks the coffee table into pieces and grabbing a makeshift stake knocks Lawson to ground preparing to dust him which he said he would do if he ever saw him again. Lawson counters that he wouldn't have come in knowing that without having an ace in the hole so Angel releases him asking what he has done.
Lawson takes Angel to the lobby where he is shocked to find, Fred, Wesley and Gunn standing on chairs, bound and gagged, with wire around their necks in preparation for hanging. Lawson recites Angel speech from the submarine.
Act III:
Angel tells Lawson that whatever he wants from him this is not the way to get it but Lawson can see the fear in Angel's eyes as he wonders what will happen next.
Back in 1943 on the submarine and Lawson check the progress of his crew as Spike informs Angel that he wants to be called captain; after all he did kill him he scoffs as Lawson holds back a member of the crew. Angel angrily orders Spike to check the torpedoes, meanwhile Lawson, watching the exchange, deduces that Angel knew Spike from before and tells Angel that he just wants to make sure the boat gets to its destination with his crew intact as Angel reminds him they all need to keep their cool. Just then there is a scream so Lawson and Angel run to investigate where they find the Prince of Light attacking Heinreich, he will not desist so Angel stakes him in front of Lawson and two of the crew. They are shocked that he 'exploded' and after Lawson has sent them back to their stations, Angel tells him the monster was a vampire. They wonder what set the Prince of Light off and Spike appears with a German document he suspects may be the cause. Spike vamps out, threatening the prisoner and Lawson, able to understand German, translates the text - it transpires that they have been testing vampires by cutting into their brains, the object being to raise a vampire army. Heinreich laughs and tells Lawson that Angel already knew leading Spike to the conclusion that Angel is playing both sides, Spike makes it clear that he won't be experimented on by the US government either. Lawson draws his gun but Angel tells him he will get the ship with the men that are still alive and that's all, with that he orders Spike to burn the document. Suddenly the submarine rocks as it is hit from above and they all fall to the floor.
Lawson enters the control room, closely followed by Angel and Spike, where Hodge informs them there are four destroyers above. Unable to take them on Lawson orders a 60 feet fast dive and all is silent for a while until they are badly hit again causing the motors to go down leaving them dead in the water. Hit once more the submarine rocks and Angel and Spike go to seal the compartments from incoming water as Lawson attempts to repair the motors.
Angel and Spike find a member of crew attempting to repair a broken pipe and Angel pushes it back into place with his hand as the man watches in awe and Spike suddenly notices that Heinreich has disappeared.
Lawson can't find the screwdriver and as he stands up Heinreich suddenly stabs him in the stomachw with it; Lawson manages to knock him down with a wrench before collapsing to the floor.
Back at Wolfram & Hart, Lawson reflects how it is funny what goes through a man's mind when he is dying, how you'd think it would be the good things but no you just think it really sucks and then you're gone.
Back in 1943, Angel finds Lawson dying and he is the only one able to fix the engines so Angel, left with no choice, vamps out, bites Lawson then feeds him blood from his own wrist thus making him a vampire.
Act IV:
Back in the engine room, the air has almost gone and the crew are exhausted but Angel arrives to assure Spike that Lawson will get the job done, almost immediately the engines start.
Angel goes back to Lawson and confirms that the submarine is surfacing as the crew are out of air but Lawson is hungry so Angel reminds him they are still his men, Lawson vamps out and Angel grabs him, telling him he is new at this and they need to take a walk.
Back in the control room again, Angel informs Lawson he has eight hours until sunrise and apologises for what he did but warns if he ever sees him again he will kill him. Lawson climbs the ladders to the surface as Spike scoffs that Angel turned Lawson to save the ship only to send him to possible death by sunlight; he suddenly realises that he is going the same way!
Back in the present day at the law firm, Lawson asks if they tortured Angel and he admits didn't give them a chance as he jumped ship off Maine and escaped underground until the war was over. He tells Lawson he didn't mean to turn him but Lawson says he understands that the technology they discovered was important, one person damned to save the world seems a fair trade except he wants to kill Angel's friends because that will hurt Angel. He thinks he may have found his mission again, a reason to live even though he is already dead; the simple life was good enough for him until he met Angel and learned to embrace the joy of death and destruction. Through it all he felt nothing and he asks if it is him or does everyone Angel has sired feel the same but Angel confesses that he is the only one he sired after he regained his soul. Lawson asks if he has one too but Angel quietly admits it doesn't work that way and Lawson launches at him resulting in a fight. Lawson believes Angel gave him just enough to keep him trapped between who he was before and what he is now - nothing; he attempts another punch but Angel throws him through an interior window. Lawson picks up a broken piece of wood and face to face they battle with it until Lawson says, "C'mon Chief, give me a mission," and Angel stakes him.
Angel sits alone in his office, gazing sadly out the window. Spike approaches; he knows that Lawson finally came back and is surprised it took so long as revenge is not best served cold, but Angel doesn't believe he was looking for revenge and Spike wonders what then as Angel whispers, "A reason".
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