History Recap / AngelS04E10Awakening

'''Cordelia''': Yes. Exactly. They think alike, always a step or two ahead of us. I mean, what is it about evil that jacks up the I.Q. points?[[note]]Of course, this is possessed Cordelia talking.[[/note]]

* SeriesContinuityError: In the first act, Angel emphasizes that there is "no way" to bring Angelus back. After Wesley comes up with a way, Angel tells him that he's never met Angelus, "all you know about him is what you've read in books." And Cordy refers to two previous run-ins with Angelus, when he ran rampant in Sunnydale (BTVS season 2) and when she saw it from her higher plane. All three of them have seemingly forgotten the events of S01E17 "Eternity", in which Rebecca Lowell temporarily awakened Angelus by spiking Angel's drink with a euphoria-inducing drug. On that occasion, the drugs wore off and Angel was as good as new. If anyone in this episode had remembered that one, they would've had a (relatively) simple and harmless way to get a conversation with Angelus.

* TemptingFate: Wesley is working out the code to raise the wall.
-->'''Cordelia:''' This is it, you did-- (the wall lowers back down) You didn't.

* SeriesContinuityError: In the first act, Angel emphasizes that there is "no way" to bring Angelus back. After Wesley comes up with a way, Angel tells him that he's never met Angelus, "all you know about him is what you've read in books." And Cordy refers to two previous run-ins with Angelus, when he ran rampant in Sunnydale (BTVS season 2) and when she saw it from her higher plane. All three of them have seemingly forgotten the events of [[AngelS01E17Eternity "Eternity"]], in which Rebecca Lowell temporarily awakened Angelus by spiking Angel's drink with a euphoria-inducing drug. On that occasion, the drugs wore off and Angel was as good as new. If anyone in this episode had remembered that one, they would've had a (relatively) simple and harmless way to get a conversation with Angelus.

* SeriesContinuityError: In the first act, Angel emphasizes that there is "no way" to bring Angelus back. After Wesley comes up with a way, Angel tells him that he's never met Angelus, "all you know about him is what you've read in books." And Cordy refers to two previous run-ins with Angelus, when he ran rampant in Sunnydale (BTVS season 2) and when she saw it from her higher plane. All three of them have seemingly forgotten the events of [[Recap / AngelS01E17Eternity "Eternity"]], in which Rebecca Lowell temporarily awakened Angelus by spiking Angel's drink with a euphoria-inducing drug. On that occasion, the drugs wore off and Angel was as good as new. If anyone in this episode had remembered that one, they would've had a (relatively) simple and harmless way to get a conversation with Angelus.

* WrongNameOutburst: Angel says Buffy's name - not Cordelia's - as he loses his soul. According to David Fury, though, this was simply Angel remembering when he last lost his soul in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise Surprise]]".

* {{Wangst}}: Though justified InUniverse as this is Angel's fantasy, so it reflects how he sees Connor.

* ProperlyParanoid: Everyone is terrified of Angelus and the evil he's capable of. They're right.
* PutOnABus: By the of this episode, the protagonist and title character of the show is essentially gone, with Creator/DavidBoreanaz now portraying his evil alter-ego Angelus.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Fang Gang hire a somewhat nefarious-looking shaman to cast the spell that would revive Angelus. The shaman, however, is revealed to be an assassin, and attempts to kill Angel, leaving the spell un-cast, though Angel and company decide they have to face the Beast regardless. Over the course of the episode, it plays out just like a normal episode, with gains and losses, things happening, until the Beast is actually defeated and everyone is happy. Then... everything starts getting freaky as ''too'' much happiness results, with far too many good things happening, culminating in a rewind back to the supposedly "failed" spell, which actually worked. The entire episode was an induced hallucination of Angel's, creating a day where everything fit together perfectly in such a way that it culminated in a moment of true, pure happiness. His soul was taken from his body, and we come face to face with Angelus (again0.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Fang Gang hire a somewhat nefarious-looking shaman to cast the spell that would revive Angelus. The shaman, however, is revealed to be an assassin, and attempts to kill Angel, leaving the spell un-cast, though Angel and company decide they have to face the Beast regardless. Over the course of the episode, it plays out just like a normal episode, with gains and losses, things happening, until the Beast is actually defeated and everyone is happy. Then... everything starts getting freaky as too much happiness results, with far too many good things happening, culminating in a rewind back to the supposedly "failed" spell, which actually worked. The entire episode was a hallucination of Angel's, creating a day where everything fit together perfectly in such a way that it culminated in a moment of true happiness. His soul was taken from his body, and we come face to face with Angelus.

* [[GoodIsDumb Good Is Not ''As'' Smart]]: Apparently