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* KillItWithFire: The demon's weakness.



* TrashcanBonfire: Talamour (in the bartender's body) tries to stick Angel's head in it, but ends up getting set on fire himself.

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* TrashcanBonfire: Talamour (in the bartender's body) tries to stick Angel's head in it, but [[KillItWithFire ends up getting set on fire himself.himself]].
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While the demon cruises for a fresh, undamaged body—having little luck "making a connection", given the bartender's blood-soaked shirt and peeling skin—Kate and Angel finally escape D'Oblique's basement and split up to search. Angel locates the bartender first, and again battles the demon in its bartender host, which is still strong enough to injure Angel. Still waiting for Kate to back him up, Angel barely manages to throw the demon into a nearby burn barrel before collapsing to the pavement. Ignited by the fire in the barrel, the bartender host is immediately engulfed in flames. Howling, the demon lurches purposefully toward Angel, who helplessly watches, unable to move. Circling back, Kate arrives just in time to shoot the bartender, knocking him to the ground and halting the attack on Angel. After more police and emergency services arrive on scene, Kate gets a moment alone with Angel. She admits that she never would have guessed the bartender was the killer, thanks Angel for saving her life earlier, and confesses to searching his apartment. Agreeing that the bartender had ample opportunity, Angel makes no mention of a body-hopping, parasitic demon being the real killer. Then, after thanking Kate for saving his life as well, Angel asks why she chose to tell him of her illegal search. When she says she wants the two of them to start over from the beginning, with no secrets between them, Angel pauses almost imperceptibly, then agrees.

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While the demon cruises for a fresh, undamaged body—having body--having little luck "making a connection", given the bartender's blood-soaked shirt and peeling skin—Kate skin--Kate and Angel finally escape D'Oblique's basement and split up to search. Angel locates the bartender first, and again battles the demon in its bartender host, which is still strong enough to injure Angel. Still waiting for Kate to back him up, Angel barely manages to throw the demon into a nearby burn barrel before collapsing to the pavement. Ignited by the fire in the barrel, the bartender host is immediately engulfed in flames. Howling, the demon lurches purposefully toward Angel, who helplessly watches, unable to move. Circling back, Kate arrives just in time to shoot the bartender, knocking him to the ground and halting the attack on Angel. After more police and emergency services arrive on scene, Kate gets a moment alone with Angel. She admits that she never would have guessed the bartender was the killer, thanks Angel for saving her life earlier, and confesses to searching his apartment. [[SureLetsGoWithThat Agreeing that the bartender had ample opportunity, Angel makes no mention of a body-hopping, parasitic demon being the real killer. killer.]] Then, after thanking Kate for saving his life as well, Angel asks why she chose to tell him of her illegal search. When she says she wants the two of them to start over from the beginning, with no secrets between them, Angel pauses almost imperceptibly, then agrees.



%%* KillItWithFire: The demon's rather convenient weakness.

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%%* * KillItWithFire: The demon's rather convenient weakness.



* SelfDeprecation: Doyle and Kate.

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* SelfDeprecation: Doyle and Kate.Doyle




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** And Kate.

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%%* KillItWithFire: The demon's rather convenient weakness.



* ManOnFire[=/=]KillItWithFire: The demon's rather convenient weakness.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: It's obviously far too early in the series for Angel Investigations to start getting heat from major villains or the police; this is the only explanation for why Kate didn't get a warrant to search the home and business of the man she found standing over a corpse, who then attacked her, jumped out a window, and disappeared.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This episode continue's the first's oddity of having Angel use spiffy gadgets. They'll disappear soon enough.
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* RedHerring: While Kate is at the bar waiting for Angel, a man comes up and starts aggressively hitting on her, talking about how she doesn't look like she belongs there. Then the bartender tells her Angel's out back, leads her through the storage, then hits her on the head and starts trying to transfer the parasite to her.
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* DepravedBisexual: The MonsterOfTheWeek is a [[BodySurf body surfing]] parasite that has sex with one partner after another, invading the new one and leaving a corpse behind, looking for "a connection".
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* HollywoodNerd: Neil

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* RealityEnsues: Since one can't just up and open a detective agency, not having a license puts Angel Investigations on Kate's radar as soon as she sees Angel on a crime scene. Earlier, when Cordelia starts distributing AI calling cards at the club, Doyle quickly cautions her against doing so, since they're technically vigilantes.


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* VigilanteMan: Portrayed realistically. Since one can't just up and open a detective agency, not having a license puts Angel Investigations on Kate's radar as soon as she sees Angel on a crime scene. Earlier, when Cordelia starts distributing AI calling cards at the club, Doyle quickly cautions her against doing so, since they're technically vigilantes.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Angel hits Kate in order to escape her arrest. He apologises though.
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* TheInternetIsForPorn: Doyle developed his computer skills downloading porn.
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* MustBeInvited: Averted. Angel can enter the killer's place uninvited because the invitation rule doesn't apply to demon lairs and the legal owner (the host body) is dead.

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* MustBeInvited: Averted.Angel needed this for Cordelia's house. Averted for Sharon's place. Angel can enter the killer's place uninvited because the invitation rule doesn't apply to demon lairs and the legal owner (the host body) is dead.



* PuppeteerParasite: The demon possesses human bodies and took over their mind, however it had to go from body to body on a regular basis, because once it's been in a body for too long, the body started to deteriorate...sensibly enough, as the initial immolation action would logically kill the victim, with the possessed body then being little more than a still-warm corpse. The third season also had the "sluks", transparent crustacean-like demons who entered their hosts through their mouths, the downside being that these creatures required lots of water to survive, causing their hosts to dry down and die.

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* PuppeteerParasite: The demon possesses human bodies and took over their mind, however it had to go from body to body on a regular basis, because once it's been in a body for too long, the body started to deteriorate...sensibly enough, as the initial immolation action would logically kill the victim, with the possessed body then being little more than a still-warm corpse. The third season also had the "sluks", transparent crustacean-like demons who entered their hosts through their mouths, the downside being that these creatures required lots of water to survive, causing their hosts to dry down and die.



* StealthHiBye: I'd get used to it, Kate. We actually see Angel move off when Kate's back is turned, but a second later when she turns back he's all the way down the alley.

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* StealthHiBye: I'd Kate should get used to it, Kate.it. We actually see Angel move off when Kate's back is turned, but a second later when she turns back he's all the way down the alley.
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* RealityEnsues: Since one can't just up and open a detective agency, not having a license puts Angel Investigations on Kate's radar as soon as she sees Angel on a crime scene. Earlier, when Cordelia starts distributing AI calling cards at the club, Doyle quickly cautions her against doing so, since they're technically vigilantes.
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* WholePlotReference: The plot is similar to ''Film/TheHidden'', where a LAPD detective is allied with an alien disguised like a FBI agent to find and eliminate a parasitic alien, serial killer and sex maniac. The monster is finally killed with a flamethrower.

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* AllThereInTheManual: The bartender's name (Danny) is revealed in the script.

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* AllThereInTheManual: AllThereInTheScript: The bartender's name (Danny) is revealed in the script.



* NamelessNarrative: The episode doesn't mention that the bartender's name is Danny.
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* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: This episode introduces [[FriendOnTheForce police officer Kate Locksley]].

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