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* MakeMeWannaShout: When two Lubber demons decide to attack the Host, he sings a high note that makes them cover their ears in pain (cue off-screen GlassShatteringSound) then knocks them out.
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* DarkReprise: Gene loves to sing "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen. When he sings it at Caritas it's a pretty plain singing that won't knock anybody out (the poor Host did got knocked out, but that was because of the vision). When he sings it as he is setting up the quantum bubble machine, it's with a tone of sheer despair.
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* IronicEchoCut: "Not the kind of love that lasts".
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* IronicEchoCut: "Not the kind of love that lasts". Cue Gene installing his quantum preservation machine around his bed to preserve the sex (and love) forever.
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* [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Love Makes You Accidentally Destroy The World]]
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* [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Love Makes You Accidentally Destroy The World]]World]]: Gene loves his girlfriend. His girlfriend is tired of him and finds him a bit creepy and wants to give him one round of pity sex before gently (well, she expects it to be gently) dumping him. Gene, who is "a bit creepy" because of depression, sets up a machine that stops time to place them in a bubble that will keep them forever at the moment the sex climaxes. A demon DoomsdayCult hacks the machine so the bubble will cover the world.
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* DespairSpeech: The Host nudges a reluctant Angel into giving Gene AnAesop.
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* DespairSpeech: The Host nudges a reluctant Angel into giving Gene AnAesop.a lesson.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Angel admits to Lorne that he fired his team and severed all ties with them for their own good because the kind of dark territory he was treading would [[DespairEventHorizon damage them internally]] and [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice compromise their morality (while he was compromising his)]], and his mission to bring down Wolfram & Hart would have endangered their lives. So he had to make that he didn't care about them and ''just'' wanted them out of his way so they wouldn't worry about his well-being and that he'd do something as extreme again as letting Darla and Drusilla massacre the Wolfram & Hart lawyers, including Holland Manners, for making Darla a vampire again and ruining her chance of redeeming herself. He was willing to allow his team to hate him and consider it a betrayal [[WhatTheHellHero (and they did, especially Cordelia)]] in order to keep them from getting dragged down into the darkness with him and instead stick to the good fight he'd given up on.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Angel admits to Lorne that he fired his team and severed all ties with them for their own good because the kind of dark territory he was treading would [[DespairEventHorizon damage them internally]] and [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice compromise their morality (while he was compromising his)]], and his mission to bring down Wolfram & Hart would have endangered their lives. So he had to make that he didn't care about them them, and ''just'' wanted them out of his way way, so they wouldn't worry about his well-being and that he'd do something as extreme again as letting Darla and Drusilla massacre the Wolfram & Hart lawyers, including Holland Manners, for making Darla a vampire again and ruining her chance of redeeming herself. He was willing to allow his team to hate him and consider it a betrayal [[WhatTheHellHero (and they did, especially Cordelia)]] in order to keep them from getting dragged down into the darkness with him and instead stick to the good fight he'd given up on.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Angel admits to Lorne that he fired his team and severed all ties with them for their own good because the kind of dark territory he was treading would [[DespairEventHorizon damage them internally]] and [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice compromise their morality (while he was compromising his)]], and his mission to bring down Wolfram & Hart would have endangered their lives. So he had to make that he didn't care about them so they wouldn't worry about his well-being and that he'd do something as extreme as letting Darla and Drusilla massacre the Wolfram & Hart lawyers, including Holland Manners, for making Darla a vampire again and ruining his chance of redeeming her. He was willing to allow his team to hate him and consider it a betrayal [[WhatTheHellHero (and they did, especially Cordelia)]] just to keep them from getting darker as well and instead stick to the good fight he'd given up on.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Angel admits to Lorne that he fired his team and severed all ties with them for their own good because the kind of dark territory he was treading would [[DespairEventHorizon damage them internally]] and [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice compromise their morality (while he was compromising his)]], and his mission to bring down Wolfram & Hart would have endangered their lives. So he had to make that he didn't care about them and ''just'' wanted them out of his way so they wouldn't worry about his well-being and that he'd do something as extreme again as letting Darla and Drusilla massacre the Wolfram & Hart lawyers, including Holland Manners, for making Darla a vampire again and ruining his her chance of redeeming her. herself. He was willing to allow his team to hate him and consider it a betrayal [[WhatTheHellHero (and they did, especially Cordelia)]] just in order to keep them from getting darker as well dragged down into the darkness with him and instead stick to the good fight he'd given up on.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Host working with Angel preempts his role as a future member of the Fang Gang.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Host working with Angel preempts prefigures his future role as a future member of the Fang Gang.
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Angel wasn't snarking
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* NotHyperbole: When the Host tells Angel that Gene's singing knocked him out, Angel snarks that Gene was probably that good. The Host then explains that, no, it's because seeing Gene's ([[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt lack of]]) a future instantly (and literally) knocked him out.
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* NotHyperbole: When the Host tells Angel that Gene's singing knocked him out, Angel snarks that asks if he means Gene was probably that good. The Host then explains that, no, it's it was because seeing Gene's ([[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt lack of]]) a future instantly (and literally) and literally knocked him out.
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* NoodleIncident: Due to investigation taking place off screen, TheSummation is full of references that we know nothing about.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn's investigation for the rich family happens offscreen, but Wesley's [[TheSummation summation]] makes it sound like an absolutely fascinating case.
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* SummationGathering: Gunn is being congratulated on having killed a demon who was threatening a rich family, only for Wesley to announce that the demon was being controlled by someone in this very room! Wes then launches into a classic Creator/AgathaChristie-style [[TheSummation summation]], listing the clues until he narrows it down to the guilty party.
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* SummationGathering: Gunn is being congratulated on having killed a demon who was threatening a rich family, only for Wesley to announce that the demon was being controlled by someone in this very room! Wes then launches into a classic Creator/AgathaChristie-style [[TheSummation summation]], listing the clues until he narrows it down to the guilty party. Once he's done Gunn comments that was damn cool...and Wes admits he had no idea who did it when he started talking, and just kept going over the evidence until he figured it out.
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* ArtifactName: The gang opts to keep operating under the name "Angel Investigations" without Angel. "It's just a name," says Wesley when asked which of them is Angel.
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* ContinuityNod: To the previous episode when the PowerTrio couldn't agree on a name to replace Angel Investigations. The Host also mentions the last two occasions he sent Angel on a mission which didn't work out well ("Guise Will Be Guise" and "The Trial").
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* ContinuityNod: To the previous episode when the PowerTrio trio couldn't agree on a name to replace Angel Investigations. The Host also mentions the last two occasions he sent Angel on a mission which didn't work out well ("Guise Will Be Guise" and "The Trial").
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: While Angel is dealing with the potential end of the world, the rest of the firm is engaged in an entire Agatha Christie-style murder mystery which we only see the end of.
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The Host reads an apparently ordinary grad student and discovers he'll cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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Wesley and Cordelia, cleaning up their new office, discuss their future as investigators without Angel and most likely without enough clients to keep their business running for long. The two decide to keep the name 'Angel Investigations' as Gunn walks in fresh from posting flyers. Unfortunately, the three then find out the phone line is still disconnected which is quickly followed with the power going out.
At the hotel, Angel awakes to the sounds of the Hostreads an apparently ordinary grad student singing "The Star Spangled Banner" down in the lobby. He tells Angel about a "normal-looking" guy who came to sing at Caritas and discovers when reading the man's aura, the he was literally knocked out, having seen that the world would be ending the following night and this man would have something to do with it. Unfortunately, the man left the bar without speaking to the Host so they have no idea who he is, where he is or how he'll cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
destroy the world. The Host came to Angel for help because Angel is a champion. Angel initially refuses to help, but eventually goes along.
The man singing at the bar, a physicist named Gene Rainy, is working on a device to stop time. His girlfriend, Denise, visits him and they talk of their plans for their first anniversary. With no other leads, Angel and the Host check out karaoke bars across LA to find Gene and eventually find one that Gene frequently visits and learn he's a student at UCLA. After an unsuccessful attempt to test his formula, Gene leaves his work area and two Lubber demons emerge from the shadows to alter the formula Gene has been working on.
Wesley, Gunn and Cordelia mope about their job troubles, but Virginia stops by with food, champagne, and a case they can take to earn a lot of money—a wealthy family is being menaced by a demon, who has killed the eldest son.
Gene successfully tests his new theory and equipment, while Angel and the Host look at yearbooks at the college library for the name of their depressed mystery man. Denise confesses to her friend that she has to break up with Gene because things aren't working out. However, as its their anniversary that night, she still plans to go through with the romantic evening which includes having sex with Gene. Little does Denise realize that Gene has overheard everything and he returns to the lab, dejected. While getting directions to Gene and the physics lab, Angel is attacked by the Lubber demons. The Host identifies them as a species of demon that are awaiting a promised one who will end the world. Angel reasons that the promised one is Gene, and that he's got the demons protecting him.
When Angel finally gets to the physics lab, he discovers that Gene is gone and so is his equipment. It turns out that Gene took the equipment home because he has plans to freeze time during a moment of love between him and Denise. As they race to Gene's apartment, the Host asks Angel if a part of him wouldn't mind if the world ended that night. Angel's lack of response confirms this, and the Host tries to get Angel to talk about his recent steps into darkness and how he's gone from helping the innocent to punishing the guilty. After some prodding Angel eventually vents his feelings about his supposed redemption, Wolfram & Hart's attempts to turn him to the dark side and the resurrection and siring of Darla and the fact that despite everything people expect him to lighten up. He pledges to kill Darla, then destroy Wolfram & Hart, and he fired his friends because he feels they won't be able to handle it which he says is a good thing.
Meanwhile, Gunn kills the demon that he and the others were hired to protect a rich family from. In a Sherlock Holmes fashion, Wesley uses deductive reasoning to reveal the real truth behind the murder, that one of the family hired the demon to kill the eldest son and heir and thereby gain control of the family money.
Angel and the Host fight several Lubber demons who are trying to prevent them from stopping Gene. They then rush to stop Gene before it was too late. Gene freezes Denise and himself at his moment of greatest passion, but thanks to the altered calculations the bubble encasing Gene and Denise expands and threatens to freeze the whole world. Thankfully Angel is able to defeat the remaining Lubber demons and turn off the machine and undo the whole process, and Denise breaks up with Gene afterwards. When Angel and the Host talk to Gene later, Gene confesses he did not know the overall effects of his actions; he just didn't want to lose his love. Angel and the Host convince Gene that things need to move on, and while sometimes things do not work out that's part of life. Gene goes to get some drinks, and the Host commends Angel on connecting with a human for the first time in a while. Angel can relate, given they have both had disasters in the romance area and nearly destroyed the world and starts to feel guilty about firing his friends and leaving them with nothing.
At their new office, Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn party in celebration of their success with several friends until a man shows up in need of their services. The three immediately offer to help, and he asks which on the three is the Angel of Angel Investigations. Wesley tells him it was just a name.
At the hotel, Angel awakes to the sounds of the Host
The man singing at the bar, a physicist named Gene Rainy, is working on a device to stop time. His girlfriend, Denise, visits him and they talk of their plans for their first anniversary. With no other leads, Angel and the Host check out karaoke bars across LA to find Gene and eventually find one that Gene frequently visits and learn he's a student at UCLA. After an unsuccessful attempt to test his formula, Gene leaves his work area and two Lubber demons emerge from the shadows to alter the formula Gene has been working on.
Wesley, Gunn and Cordelia mope about their job troubles, but Virginia stops by with food, champagne, and a case they can take to earn a lot of money—a wealthy family is being menaced by a demon, who has killed the eldest son.
Gene successfully tests his new theory and equipment, while Angel and the Host look at yearbooks at the college library for the name of their depressed mystery man. Denise confesses to her friend that she has to break up with Gene because things aren't working out. However, as its their anniversary that night, she still plans to go through with the romantic evening which includes having sex with Gene. Little does Denise realize that Gene has overheard everything and he returns to the lab, dejected. While getting directions to Gene and the physics lab, Angel is attacked by the Lubber demons. The Host identifies them as a species of demon that are awaiting a promised one who will end the world. Angel reasons that the promised one is Gene, and that he's got the demons protecting him.
When Angel finally gets to the physics lab, he discovers that Gene is gone and so is his equipment. It turns out that Gene took the equipment home because he has plans to freeze time during a moment of love between him and Denise. As they race to Gene's apartment, the Host asks Angel if a part of him wouldn't mind if the world ended that night. Angel's lack of response confirms this, and the Host tries to get Angel to talk about his recent steps into darkness and how he's gone from helping the innocent to punishing the guilty. After some prodding Angel eventually vents his feelings about his supposed redemption, Wolfram & Hart's attempts to turn him to the dark side and the resurrection and siring of Darla and the fact that despite everything people expect him to lighten up. He pledges to kill Darla, then destroy Wolfram & Hart, and he fired his friends because he feels they won't be able to handle it which he says is a good thing.
Meanwhile, Gunn kills the demon that he and the others were hired to protect a rich family from. In a Sherlock Holmes fashion, Wesley uses deductive reasoning to reveal the real truth behind the murder, that one of the family hired the demon to kill the eldest son and heir and thereby gain control of the family money.
Angel and the Host fight several Lubber demons who are trying to prevent them from stopping Gene. They then rush to stop Gene before it was too late. Gene freezes Denise and himself at his moment of greatest passion, but thanks to the altered calculations the bubble encasing Gene and Denise expands and threatens to freeze the whole world. Thankfully Angel is able to defeat the remaining Lubber demons and turn off the machine and undo the whole process, and Denise breaks up with Gene afterwards. When Angel and the Host talk to Gene later, Gene confesses he did not know the overall effects of his actions; he just didn't want to lose his love. Angel and the Host convince Gene that things need to move on, and while sometimes things do not work out that's part of life. Gene goes to get some drinks, and the Host commends Angel on connecting with a human for the first time in a while. Angel can relate, given they have both had disasters in the romance area and nearly destroyed the world and starts to feel guilty about firing his friends and leaving them with nothing.
At their new office, Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn party in celebration of their success with several friends until a man shows up in need of their services. The three immediately offer to help, and he asks which on the three is the Angel of Angel Investigations. Wesley tells him it was just a name.
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* NotHyperbole: When the Host tells Angel that Gene's singing knocked him out, Angel snarks that Gene was probably that good. The Host then explains that, no, it's because seeing Gene's ([[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt lack of]]) a future instantly (and literally) knocked him out.
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHimIDidWhatIHadToDo: Angel admits to Lorne that he fired his team and severed all ties with them for their own good because the kind of dark territory he was treading would [[DespairEventHorizon damage them internally]] and [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice compromise their morality (while he was compromising his)]], and his mission to bring down Wolfram & Hart would have endangered their lives. So he had to make that he didn't care about them so they wouldn't worry about his well-being and that he'd do something as extreme as letting Darla and Drusilla massacre the Wolfram & Hart lawyers, including Holland Manners, for making Darla a vampire again and ruining his chance of redeeming her. He was willing to allow his team to hate him and consider it a betrayal [[WhatTheHellHero (and they did, especially Cordelia)]] just to keep them from getting darker as well and instead stick to the good fight he'd given up on.
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* TimeStandsStillTimeStandsStill: Gene attempts to create one of these so that he and his girlfriend won't break up, but will stay frozen forever. In the midst of having the break-up sex. At the moment of climax, in fact. There are worse moments to be stuck at.
* WhamEpisode: Downplayed, but Angel reveals to Lorne that he fired his team to keep them away from that kind of dark territory, as he thought it would do more damage to them than firing them and staying away from them, despite that they would've rather prevented Angel from doing anything as horrible (or more horrible) as what he did to Wolfram & Hart's lawyers, as they cared about him.
* WhamEpisode: Downplayed, but Angel reveals to Lorne that he fired his team to keep them away from that kind of dark territory, as he thought it would do more damage to them than firing them and staying away from them, despite that they would've rather prevented Angel from doing anything as horrible (or more horrible) as what he did to Wolfram & Hart's lawyers, as they cared about him.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: The Host's difficulties of finding a bartender who can make a proper Sea Breeze after Ramone's departure.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: The Host's difficulties of finding a bartender who can make a proper Sea Breeze after Ramone's departure.
