#3.14 Couplet

#3.14 Couplet Feb 5, 2009 17:27:18 GMT 1

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Post by Cynni on Feb 5, 2009 17:27:18 GMT 1

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Episode 14, Season 3
Title: " Couplet"

Written by: Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell
Directed by: Tim Minear
Original Air date: 18 February 2002

Teaser:

Angel is upstairs checking on Conner and Lorne joins him in playing down Groo’s greatness, muscles and height. Uncle Lorne knows better and notices the perfume on Angel’s coat. Angel accepts his lonesome status but he smells the perfume one last time as he hangs his coat and shuts the closet door.

At Cordy’s apartment, our vision girl is changing clothes while Groo explains his Pylean downfall, which is to blame on a bureaucratic system that escalated into charismatic leader that did the Dance of Revolution. Cordy wonders if he misses the power, but Groo assures her he doesn’t because his heart belongs to her. They kiss, but one moment his handsome face is before her and in another it turns into a black creature with white protruding spikes and speaks to her in Groo’s voice, “Princess?” A second later Groo’s handsome face returns, “Is something wrong?” She steps away from her Champion.

Act I

It’s morning at the Hyperion when Angel brings Conner downstairs. Wesley touches upon Conner’s role in the prophecy scrolls and despite that Wolfram & Hart now have them, he suggests looking at other sources for commentary on their meaning because Angel and the gang must be prepared. Cordy comes in and Angel is not liking that Groo is going through his weapons cabinet as she comments, “Poor guy, looks like that’s about all he’s gonna be handling.” Angel is relieved to know they didn’t com-shuk. She presents Wes with a drawing of the creature in her vision, which is rising later that day. In Pylea, the Royal Com-shuk would have taken the visions from Cordy and into Groo, which worries her now; she doesn’t want to lose her vision-ity Wes suggests a paranormal prophylactic, while Angel quickly counters with jogging to relieve that sort of tension.

Meanwhile at a diner, Gunn and Fred talk about last night’s kiss and how things are going to be different now. She assures Gunn that lWesley and her are just, “good friends.” We find out that the two have been doing breakfast together for weeks. Before they kiss, their beepers go off – it’s Wesley.

Back at the Hyperion, Wesley informs them the demon in Cordy’s vision is a Senih’d demon that manifests in its physical form only to feed and will rise in the mid-city area near a water treatment plant. Groo recognizes the picture in the book as similar to a creature that he slayed many times in the Skum-pits of Ur. This is good news for Wes who has Groo pair up with Angel to go through the sewer tunnels, while the rest will go by car to Sorensen Park near the water treatment plant. Angel objects to Wes as Cordy hands Groo Angel’s favorite sword!

In the underground tunnels the two warriors discuss Cordelia. Angel tries to explain why their vision girl is keeping her distance from Groo, but before they can talk further they find a trail of dark blood and follow it into the treatment plant. The Senih’d demon surprises them from above and a battle ensures. The creature is strong and breaks through the wall into the sunlit park outside. Angel scrambles away from the light as Groo quickly picks up the broadsword and invites Angel to join him. Our Vamp with a Soul is forced to refuse as Groo jumps into the light and into action, saving an innocent bystander from the creature and killing it just in time for Cordy and the rest of the crew to witness his bravery. The Senih’d demon melts away as Wesley spots Angel standing back in the shadows of the water treatment plant.

Act II

In the main office, Angel is listening to a new client, a woman who thinks her fiancée, Jerry, is bewitched -- because why else would he cheat on her?

Wesley is on the phone with a local bookstore locating the books he needs for his prophecy research as he inconspicuously admires Fred in the lobby, blocking out Gunn from view.

Ms. Frakes presents emails exchanged between Jerry and the other woman to Angel, but she only has her on-line nick. This will prove difficult and she suggests tailing her fiancée as Wes enters and recommends Gunn to do the surveillance. Fred quickly follows Gunn joining him in the stake out, much to Wes’s dismay.

Angel and Wesley arrive at the rare bookstore and Wes request Grammaticus’ Third Century Greek Commentaries from the clerk. Unnoticed by our two investigators is a copy of the Pylean ‘Wolf’ book sitting on a top shelf. Wes detects from Angel that he is afraid that Groo will replace him in Cordy’s eyes, especially with the events of that afternoon. Wes offers that Angel is, “Like a rare volume, one-of-a-kind”, but then the clerk interrupts with three copies of the GTCGC.

At the Hyperion, Cordy is going to makeover Groo, which he hopes will make her like him more, but Cordy catches on quickly and explains that she can’t give him what he wants. Groo understands she means the visions and the com-shuk.

In another part of L.A., Jerry’s car pulls up at Plummer Park while Gunn and Fred stop nearby and watch their target stand underneath a large tree with a rose in his hand. Fred sets up the camera, but Gunn has other plans and steals a few kisses, but Fred knows better. It’s too late and they find Jerry has disappeared.

Wesley and Angel enter the Hyperion to find Groo has had completed his makeover: short hair and wearing Angel’s clothes; long black coat and red shirt with black pants. Angel is not at all happy and talks to Cordy in the office, but before he can really explain, Cordy turns serious and asks for his help. Angel is concerned but his face falls to disbelief when she reveals, “I need you to help me have sex …with Groo.”

Act III

In the main office, Cordy realizes the visions were just an excuse to keeping her from being close. She also realizes that she’s tired of being lonely and has decided to research the paranormal prophylactic as Wes suggested. “I take it and bang! I CAN!” Anita at a demon brothel who makes these types of potions has one available. Cordy hands him the cash and asks Angel to accompany Groo to buy it because unlike Groo, a woman can’t tempt Angel.

At Plummer Park, Gunn and Fred are searching around the tree for clues but find only the rose. Fred rewinds the camera and they watche Jerry grappled by long tree limbs and sucked underground in the very spot they are both standing. Uh-oh.

At the demon brothel, Anita leads the two handsome dressed-alike champions through the maze of rooms and into her bedroom to get the potion. She gets the cash and she hands Groo the potion as Angel’s cell phone rings. Fred and Gunn are trapped under Plummer Park in the tentacles of a tree demon.

Underground, the demon’s tree limbs type into computers connected to the internet that attracts men to visit the tree as a meeting place with imaginary women and once near it takes them down and sucks the life out of them via its limbs. Fred and Gunn are suspiciously reluctant to call Wesley for help and decide to ask for Groo’s help instead due to their being bound together.

Beneath the sewers, Groo and Angle find the lair of the tree demon. Groo is anxious for battle and hands Angel the potion to keep it safe. With a battle cry and sword drawn, he enters and slashes away but the demon quickly drives one of its limbs into Groo’s chest. Angel walks into the scene of Groo on his knees as the demon sucks his life out and only has one thing to say, “That’s my shirt!”

Act IV

Angel picks up the sword quickly and Fred observes that cutting it will not hurt it because it has no vital organs and it has grown stronger since tapping into Groo. Angel now has to rescue Groo, and his approach is intertwined with psychology and jealousy as he down plays Groo’s strengths to the tree demon while beating on the helpless Champion which seems to hurt the tree demon as well. The limb lets go and stabs Angel in the heart, but the demon realizes too late that Angel is a vampire and can offer no life. The limbs begin to dry up and the demon is defeated.

At the Hyperion main office, Wesley gets off the phone with a happy Ms. Frakes, glad to have her fiancée back alive as Gunn and Fred listen in. As Fred leaves to clean up, Wes wants a word with Gunn regarding the new romantic relationship between them but Gunn gets defensive when questioned. Wesley just wants the best for Fred and makes it clear, “She chose.” Gunn assures him that Fred will not get hurt.

Out in the lobby, Cordy rips open Groo’s shirt to check his wound, but he feels ashamed for his recklessness and failure. Angel gives him the credit for saving everyone but Groo sets things straight, which makes Cordy love her Champion even more. She grabs the potion but before they can dash out the door, Angel stops her and hands her a large roll of money. He makes her promise that she will take a break for a couple of weeks with Groo in a place where there’s some sun.

Upstairs, Uncle Lorne is putting Conner to bed as Angel comes in battered and still bruised. Our Vampy-dad watches his son with love in his eyes.

Downstairs, Wesley is hard at work at the translations and seems to have discovered a major development. Angel, now cleaned up, comes in with Connor in his arms, and startles Wes, “I thought I was alone.” Angel replies, “Yeah, so did I.” and kisses his son as he returns to his bedroom. Wes stares at the completed translation on his tablet of notes, The Father Will Kill The Son. Is there no respite for our Vampire with a Soul?

Once more,with feeling & friends

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