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Post by Gin on Feb 4, 2009 23:26:13 GMT 1
from imdb
#5.04 Hell-Bound
Original Air Date: 22 October 2003 Directed by Steven S. DeKnight Writing credits: 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 Willow Geer ... Glass Woman Peter Kanetis ... Lawyer #1 Allison Barcott ... Armless Woman Dorie Barton ... Claire the Medium Elliott Grey ... Hanging Man Judson Pearce Morgan ... Bloody Lawyer Simon Templeman ... Matthias Pavayne Sarah Thompson ... Eve
Plot: Spike keeps disappearing into a hell dimension, the team tries to help, but they're distracted by ghosts. Spike discovers the source is a powerful ghost wizard whose tormenting Spike and the Team Angel. They must find a way to defeat the ghost, but how do you defeat someone whose already dead?
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Post by Cynni on Feb 5, 2009 19:20:46 GMT 1
from http://www.cityofangel.com:
Episode 4, Season 5 Title: "Hell Bound"
Written & Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight Original Air Date: October 22nd, 2003
Teaser:
Cue eerie music as Fred walks down the corridor through to her office; she turns around with a mock scream as Spike dejectedly asks how long she knew he was following her. Fred runs an electronic temperature scanner along his body, confirming he is becoming colder as Spike admits he is feeling the tug of eternal damnation. Fred promises him she won't let that happen as she has a theory, although she can't make him like Angel with the prophecy, to which Spike asks, "What prophecy?" and she explains to a rather miffed Spike that Angel may become human again if he helps enough people. Fred thinks the key to making Spike corporeal is linked to the amulet he wore whilst saving the world.
Spike leans on the counter in the lab and falling through it finds himself in a dark basement where a man is sitting at a desk, his back to us, hacking away at his own fingers and as Spike approaches him he turns and we see his face is also covered in deep cuts before he suddenly vanishes leaving a confused Spike alone in the basement...
Act I:
In the lobby at Wolfram & Hart, Lorne chats to a client on the phone as Fred passes him and heads to Wesley's office handing him a list of things she needs as soon as possible. The Magdelaine Gremoire, The Grenomicon Des Mortes and Huckstadters Treatise on Fractual Geometry and Twelve-Dimensional Space are antiquities of the rarest order but Wesley, as the new head of Research and Intelligence, can get them in 20 minutes as long as she has dinner. She misreads him as he is merely concerned about her not eating and working too hard and she reassures him she is fine before turning to face Eve who makes her jump.
In Angel's office with Eve, Fred reassures Angel that she is fine and will eat and get some sleep, only to find that his concern is the Science Department's spending and Eve tells her it has exceeded the quarterly budget by $800,000. Fred points out that making Spike corporeal will cost money, but Angel just wants Spike out of Wolfram & Hart making Fred keen to remind him that Spike has a soul, saved the world and is a champion who could be an asset to them. Angel and Fred exchange words about Spike and Buffy ending with Angel advising her to be careful with Spike and his charming ways but Fred is not stupid and this is about doing what is right so Angel agrees to leave it to her finally warning her that some people can't be saved.
Alone in Fred's lab, Spike notices the lamp flickering as a shadow runs behind him and thinking it may be the man he saw in the basement he calls out to him; just then ceiling lights begin to flicker, going out in the room and along the corridor one by one, leaving Spike in total darkness. Someone is sobbing and Spike sees a woman, crouched at the end of the corridor, who stands begging him to hold her, she has no arms and as she walks towards him she suddenly disappears.
Angel enters his apartment to find Spike waiting; he pours himself a glass of blood as Spike tells him he just wants to hang out, but Angel knows he is feeling close to hell. Spike reminds Angel that he escaped from hell admitting also his knowledge of Angel's prophecy, but Angel is quick to argue that prophecies are not written in stone, he did end up saving the world only to be running an evil law firm and only their evil deeds will count in the end resulting in them both going to hell. "So why bother?" asks Spike, because what else are they to do states Angel as Spike decides to try a bit of bonding, unsurprisingly resulting in their usual 'kids in the playground' bickering. Spike is suddenly distracted by the vision of a dead man, hanging from the ceiling, who vanishes and reappears behind Angel.
Wesley and Fred arrive to find Spike pacing the room shouting at the ghosts only he can see, then Gunn and Eve appear confirming the building has been swept and Spike is the only non-corporeal on site, just as the ghostly lady from earlier tells Spike 'It' is coming for him. Spike turns to Fred asking for her help as he fades away and the gang decide to look for him, but although they can't see him he is still there and a voice says, "No-one can help you now William."
Act II:
Heading upstairs and along the hall in Angel's apartment Spike is startled by the elevator door opening and sighing he decides to get in.
In his office Wesley discusses Spikes disappearances with Fred and Gunn, admitting that Spike is a unique case and he may be going mad and prompting Fred to confess that he has told her about his trips to hell; they are not in the least surprised.
The elevator door opens and Spike, finding himself back in the basement, approaches the table where the previously severed fingers twitch and another dead woman, with a large piece of glass protruding from her eye, appears to tell him that the Reaper is going to get him before pulling out the glass and slashing his cheek.
Fred is working on formulas in her office as Spike appears telling her that his visions are his welcoming party before the Reaper collects him and thanking her for trying to help, but Fred is oblivious to his presence becoming frustrated because she can't figure things out. Spike grabs her arm and she feels a shot of electricity, although she can't see him, she calls his name and knowing she felt him he desperately shouts that they can't take him yet. Angel appears, startling Fred, to advise her that the mystics have been unable to trace any ghostly activity, but Fred is adamant that they must find a way to contact Spike before he goes for good.
In the boardroom, the gang are all seated around the table as Eve arrives with a medium who attempts to contact Spike, calling upon the Guardian of Souls, Spike appears beside her but she doesn't see him, she sees the 'dark soul' coming, the Reaper. Suddenly she is being strangled and as blood runs from her nose Angel believing it to be Spike, orders him to stop as he in turn professes his innocence and the medium vomits a spurt of blood all over Fred before falling dead to the floor.
In his office, Wesley discusses the 'dark soul' with Gunn deducing that the medium was in contact with something other than Spike.
As Fred takes a shower in her lab, she senses someone watching but unable to see Spike she continues to shower as Spike ponders why the Reaper killed the medium. He realises that the Reaper must have been trying to hide something and calls Fred's name at the same time touching the glass on the shower wall in surprise. He manages to write REAPER on the glass and Fred, upon finishing her shower, sees this just as the glass smashes and Spike is picked up and hurled through the air landing in the upstairs lobby where the ghosts appear and begin to taunt him. Angrily Spike shouts that he is not going to take him to hell, finally causing the Reaper to appear and as he stabs Spike he tells him he is taking him to an eternity of pain and suffering but he gets to play first.
Act III:
In Angel's office, he researches the 'dark soul' with Wesley and Gunn as Fred arrives to confirm that they are looking for the Reaper. Angel finds him in his book, Matthias Pavayne, 'dark soul' number 182, an 18th Century doctor nicknamed the Reaper for performing unnecessary surgery on his patients. Finding an internal file in archives on his computer Wesley explains that he arrived in California during Spanish rule and a series of ritualistic type murders occurred which spread over a period of 20 years and he was never caught by the authorities. Wolfram & Hart wanted to build a new office in Los Angeles but the site recommended by their seers rested on a Spanish Mission and they needed Pavayne's blood as a sacrifice to deconsecrate the grounds. His knowledge of the dark arts may be the reason he has managed to stay around and not be picked up by the mystics; Angel notes the lack of ghostly activity around Wolfram & Hart considering the things that go on and Fred is even surer they need to find Spike now!
Spike, his face and hands covered in criss-cross shaped cuts, crawls along the floor in the lab as Fred arrives in her office upstairs and seeing her Pavayne taunts Spike provoking him to stand and throw a punch which goes straight through him. Pavayne explains how he rules the reality, moving Spike to the basement once more, as Spike learns how he has been responsible for the things that have happened to him at the law firm. The blood disappears from Spike's face as he suddenly finds himself naked and surrounded by the ghosts, all former employees of Wolfram & Hart who have gone to hell and Pavayne subjects him to mental torture, reminding him of his falling in love and that, despite gaining a soul, hell still calls to him. Pavayne stabs Spike in the shoulder and he falls to the ground in agony.
Angel, Wes and Gunn arrive in Fred's lab to find her writing formula on the window as she ran out of white board, and she explains that they need a massive surge of dark energy in order for her theory to work, so where will they get that wonders Angel?
Gunn takes Angel to The White Room to try and steal some of the inter-dimensional energy. Hearing the cat growling, Gunn attempts to ask for help explaining the gravity of the situation as the black panther suddenly appears and Gunn strokes it.
In the basement, Pavayne is disappointed in Spike, who lies writhing and naked on the floor, and wonders if he has too much conscience perhaps. As a large portal opens up, Pavayne explains that Spike's soul is what will condemn him to eternal suffering and grabbing Spike's hair he says, "You go now William so I can stay"
Act IV:
Spike admits Pavayne is right, he does deserve to go to hell...but not today and standing up he punches Pavayne realising that reality bends to desire which is why he was able to touch the glass and why he can now hit out. His clothes reappear as he glares angrily at Pavayne and throws him through the wall; he knows now that Pavayne has avoided hell by sending others and a huge fight ensues taking them through desks and walls.
In the lab, Angel arrives with Gunn; carrying a large bottle of the panther's blood, as Wesley and Fred prepare the re-corporealisation machine and instruments we see a large ritual circle on the floor.
In the lobby Spike and Pavayne continue to fight; as Spike weakens Pavayne tells him how he has avoided hell for hundreds of years and he is now very strong but before he can hit Spike there is an electrical flash as the machine is turned on and Spike runs.
In the lab, Fred calls to Spike to get in the circle as it is the only chance to make him corporeal but Pavayne grabs her by the throat as the others are thrown to the ground and Spike arrives; he has a decision, his corporeal form or Fred's life. He punches Pavayne who lands in the circle and, becoming corporeal, is knocked out by Angel as Wesley and Gunn aide Fred. Spike reminds Angel not to kill Pavayne as they don't want him to be a spirit again as he is too dangerous.
Wesley and Gunn clear the mess in the lab as a disheartened Fred enters her office and Spike arrives asking if there is any way the ritual could be repeated. Fred apologises as the pieces of the circle were one of a kind not to mention the power source, but Spike tells her not to be sorry he made his choice and he doesn't want to end up like Pavayne anyway, cheating hell any way he can, there are worse things than being a ghost. Fred smiles at him, she was right, he is worth saving.
Pavayne, wrapped in iron bars, stands paralysed in a metal box room somewhere in the depths of Wolfram & Hart as Eve tells Angel that the firm can keep him in storage for ever and Angel closes the door locking him in, remarking that he did give him a window and parting with, "Welcome to hell".
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