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Post by Gin on Feb 4, 2009 23:28:10 GMT 1
from imdb
#5.08 Destiny
Original Air Date: 19 November 2003 Directed by Skip Schoolnik Writing credits: David Fury & 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 (credit only) Justin Connor ... Jerry Michael Halsey ... Rutherford Sirk Mark Kelly ... Reese Juliet Landau ... Drusilla Mercedes McNab ... Harmony Kendall Sarah Thompson ... Eve Christian Kane ... Lindsey McDonald (uncredited) Aaron D. Spears ... Security Guard #1 (uncredited)
Plot Spike receives a mysterious box of "flashy" in the mail and is shocked when it somehow recorporealizes him. He's thrilled to be solid again, but when odd things start happening at Wolfram & Hart, Eve says that they now have a problem. With Spike an un-ghosted Vampire Champion, the Shanshu Prophesy could also apply to him. Spike & Angel have to try and figure out which one of them is destined to become human again.
Goofs * Continuity: The handle of the cup Spike grabs from Angel points in different directions from shot to shot. * Plot holes: In the first episode of season 5, Angel beats the special ops team to a school to prevent them from killing everyone by taking his helicopter. In this episode he could have easily beaten Spike to the Cup of Perpetual Torment by flying while Spike was driving.
Soundtrack * "Too Drunk To f**k" Performed by Dead Kennedys
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Post by Cynni on Feb 5, 2009 19:16:49 GMT 1
from http://www.cityofangel.com:
Episode 8, Season 5 Title: "Destiny"
Written by: David Fury & Steven S. DeKnight Directed by: Skip Schoolnik Original Air Date: November 19th, 2003
Teaser:
Royal London Hotel, England 1880 ~ Drusilla and Spike burst through the doors into a suite belonging to a now dead Ambassador and his wife; they are slumped on the sofa, the bite marks evident, killed by Angel. He suddenly he appears in the shadows and Drusilla proudly shows off 'William' and asks after Darla but she is not there as Angel admits they have had a fight and she has gone to see 'The Master'. Angel looks Spike over wondering why Drusilla turned him and he grabs Spike's arm, smoke coming from his hand, as he confesses that he would like to share the slaughter of innocence with another man so then Spike holds out his arm, his hand also smoking and Angel laughs; he thinks they will be the best of friends.
Present day at Wolfram & Hart, Angel asks Spike to get away from him, he wants his own office, but Angel says no, so he asks for Wesley's office, who is on a leave of absence, but the answer is still no. As Spike rants at Angel's closed door, Harmony informs him that he has a parcel and opens it for him; a bright white light flashing briefly as it opens, only to find it is empty. The phone rings and Spike walks towards Angel's door, planning to go through it but instead hitting it full force and falling to the ground as Angel looks out to see what has happened.
Act I:
The phones are all ringing out of control, and Spike realises he can touch and taste as he grabs Angel's mug and gulps down the contents. Gunn arrives wondering how Spike has become corporeal so he explains to them about the box leaving Angel to wonder who could have sent it. Harmony approaches explaining to Angel that nobody knows what is wrong with the phones, Spike eyes her up then rushes over to kiss her, her protestations are short lived as she announces to Angel that she is taking a long lunch break.
London 1880 ~ In a carriage Spike and Angel laugh together at the memory of their most recent kill and Angel offers Spike the half dead woman in the carriage but Spike declines, keen to find Drusilla who is out prowling for street urchins, and confesses to Angel that she is his 'destiny'. Angel agrees she is special, although a little mad, and stops the coach to let Spike out.
Present day, Spike and Harmony are looking for a room and throw a guy out of his office, angrily he approaches a work colleague in the copy room to complain but as his colleague turns around his eyes are bleeding, eyeballs glowing red, and he picks up a fire extinguisher and begins to pound the guy with it.
In the lobby Angel instructs security to shut everything down. Fred approaches Gunn and Angel; not only are the phones and computers down but all the instruments in her lab have blown up because the needles on the atmospheric gages spiked into the red, and she suspects it is more than some kind of electrical surge. Picking up his mug in his office, Angel realises Spike has drunk all his blood and calls for Harmony who is, as Gunn reminds him, 'having a nooner with Spike'. Fred is shocked to learn that Spike is corporeal and they suddenly realise that this coincides with what is happening around them, Fred thinks his matter reforming may have had a ripple effect on the immediate environment.
Eve arrives to inform them that the universe is being thrown into turmoil and they have a harbinger and big trouble - this is all to do with the Shanshu Prophecy. Basically the prophecy does not call Angel by name and Spike becoming en-souled threw things out of balance but only when he saved the world and became a champion, as he died it didn't matter then but now he is back he is disrupting the natural order of things. Gunn leaves to check something and Eve asks how they brought Spike back, surprised to learn that it wasn't them so Angel reminds her that she only knows what she is told, asking her more about the Harbinger whom she will only confirm is seriously dangerous.
As Spike and Harmony have sex, blood begins to pour from her eyes and she vamps out biting Spike.
Act II:
Spike jumps up as Harmony begins to shout at him, angry that he is using her and convinced he only wants his 'Slayer sleeper' finally threatening to kill him to which he punches her over the desk.
In the copy room, as the earlier employee is tended to and wheeled away, having also attacked Lorne, Angel instructs security to seal the building and asks Lorne to drop by Fred's lab to remind her that Angel has to be informed the minute she has any information.
As they head off down the hallway, Eve reminds Angel that reality is slipping just as Spike steps out of the office and tells them what happened with Harmony. Eve explains to Spike how there is only meant to be one Vampire with a soul and how there is not enough room for him and Angel so Spike adopts a 'screw you' attitude and decides that he will go to Europe. As he reaches the elevator, Eve tells him that his leaving may make things worse as Gunn steps from the elevator in shock; he has been to the White Room and the cat has gone, so has the White Room, which means that the conduit has gone and they are alone confirms Eve. Angel asks Spike to stay and Eve suggests that they need to find out which one of them belongs to the prophecy but Angel has read it, much to Spike's surprise, and there is nothing that indicates which one. As Wesley is on leave they decide to consult someone from his department, Angel still adamant that there is nothing in the prophecy.
In his office Sirk tells Angel that he only read a translation of the prophecy and there are some newly translated pages from which he reads part, 'the root of the tree will split in two and each then will seek nourishment from the buried river', he then tells them that the balance will falter until the vampire with a soul drinks from the 'Cup of Perpetual Torment'. He will have the weight of worlds upon him binding his limbs and grinding his bones to meal until he saves creation or destroys it, the vampire will then have his past washed clean and live again in mortal form. Spike, upset as Gunn has assumed it means Angel, begins to argue with Angel but Sirk informs them that the drinking of the cup is predestined; whoever drinks from the cup was meant to, this in turn leading to the universe realigning itself. Gunn asks where the cup is and Sirk traces it path from where it was originally housed in Petra through to Death Valley in Nevada where it will be marked by the columns. Angel remembers the Columns Opera House which was buried in an earthquake in 1938 and makes his plans to go but Spike has already left.
Spike is in Angel's viper on the highway and the phone rings, it is Angel reminding Spike that this is a prophecy and it is not about him but Spike is sure he is 'the one', why else would he have been made corporeal.
Eve enters Gunn's office; he is suspicious of how she became part of Wolfram & Hart and her connections but she reminds him that he speaks to the cat so is far more connected. As they spar, a man with a huge axe approaches the glass window to the hallway but is brought down before he can strike.
Angel arrives at the old opera house and Spike calls to him that the two heroes are together and ready but Angel tells him he is not yet a hero as Spike disappears upstairs and Angel goes up to look for him.
London 1880 ~ Spike walks into the bedroom to find Angel and Drusilla having sex, he is clearly devastated as Angel mocks him telling Drusilla that Spike thinks she is his destiny.
In the present, Angel finds the cup placed on a column on the stage and surrounded by a beam of light but Spike is right behind him. Angel wonders what they should do next before Spike punches him.
Act III:
Angel tells Spike that they don't have time to fight; they do anyway but then Spike tells Angel that he [Spike] is different and Angel knows it, Angel had a soul forced on him as a curse but he fought for his soul through the demon trials, he kept fighting because he knew it was the right thing to do. Angel quips that he heard it was just to get in a girl's pants and they begin to fight again.
In Fred's lab, Harmony is wheeled away on a stretcher as Gunn tells Eve that they have 6 more cases and Fred confesses that she can find no pattern or common factor with the victims. Gunn, his head bowed, tells Fred not to trust Eve but as he raises his head his eyes are bleeding and he launches at Eve beginning to strangle her as Fred rushes for the tranquiliser gun but he hits her, knocking her to the ground. His eyes are now bulging as he shouts at Eve, asking who or what she really is and Fred, recovering, grabs the nearest object, hitting him on the side of the head.
At the Opera house, Angel and Spike are in full battle with metal poles, Spike eventually knocking Angel down a couple of stories where he lies bleeding but as Spike taunts him about his choice to run Wolfram & Hart, preparing to spear him, Angel grabs the other end of the pole turning Spike over and telling him he was always a bit simple. Angel walks towards the cup.
London 1880 ~ In the bedroom Spike orders Angel to take his hands off Drusilla telling him that he knew she was his and then punching him. Angel punches back saying that things are different now, he can take what he wants; when he wants, but nothing is his, not even Drusilla to which Spike informs him he is wrong, that Spike and Drusilla are forever. Angel walks to Drusilla wrapping his arms around her, and tells Spike that if he wants her to come and take her so Spike charges at them.
In the present, Spike charges at Angel just as he is about to lift the cup and they punch each other mercilessly. Spike knows why Angel can't stand the sight of him, because it reminds him of all the things he has done, Drusilla sired him but it was Angel who made Spike a monster but Angel says that he just opened the door and let him out. Spike picks up a huge cross and hits Angel, sending him though the air, his hands burning where he holds the cross as he tells Angel, "You never knew the real me". He tells Angel that he is nothing like him and Angel agrees; Spike is less which is why Buffy never loved him because he wasn't Angel. They fight again and Spike attempts to stake Angel who vamps out as does Spike leading Angel to call for them to finish it once and for all.
Act IV:
Eve is in shock, her neck very bruised as Fred attempts to comfort her in her office, but Eve thinks it is all an act as she knows what they think of her. As she leaves, she tells Fred she is not the bad guy.
At the Opera house, Spike and Angel continue to fight until Spike gets the upper hand and prepares to stake Angel only to stab his right shoulder instead as they both return to human face. Spike picks up the cup and is about to drink but Angel calls out, reminding him that it is not a trophy but a burden and asking him if this is really his destiny, does he really want it or is it about taking something away from Angel. He admits it is a bit of both before drinking the cup and dropping it as Angel can only watch, but they are both shocked when it turns out there was only mountain dew in the cup.
Angel arrives back at the lab at Wolfram & Hart and tells Fred that the cup was a fake; Gunn and Harmony are on tables still unconscious, and Spike arrives, confirming that Sirk has disappeared. As they wonder what do next, Gunn and Harmony suddenly wake up, asking what happened to them.
In Angel's office, Eve informs Angel, Spike and Gunn that the Senior Partners stepped in and temporarily balanced the universal equilibrium and they also do not know anything about Sirk or the cup which Angel doubts. As she prepares to leave, Gunn apologises but she just reminds him that they have an unresolved Shanshu Prophecy and two vampires with souls. Spike decides to go and get drunk, leaving Gunn to ask after Angel who is worried because Spike beat him for the first time, he was stronger and he wanted the cup more and he wonders if that means that he [Angel] is not the one!
Eve enters a room, the wall covered in ancient language and symbols, and smiles as says to an as yet unseen person that sending the universe out of whack was not as much fun as it seems, showing the bruises on her neck, but adds that they did fall for the cup thing just like the unknown person thought they would. As she undresses, she continues, stating that Mr Sirk disappeared without a hitch right under the Senior Partners' noses and Spike did not kill Angel but they beat each other up. Climbing into bed she snuggles up to Lindsey McDonald who says, "Wow, It's a start!"
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