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* EnemyMine / AnAesop: Averted; Jackson stops helping the minute the zombie cops are all dead.

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* EnemyMine / AnAesop: : Averted; Jackson stops helping the minute the zombie cops are all dead.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Jackson. After Gunn saves his life he helps to try and prevent the zombie cops from getting inside, but after they are defeated he goes back to being a selfish jerk.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Jackson. After Gunn saves his life he helps to try and prevent the zombie cops from getting inside, but after they are defeated he goes back to being a selfish jerk.jerk and thanks Gunn for getting rid of the cops getting in the way of his business as he walks off into the night.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Jackson. After Gunn saves his life he helps to try and prevent the zombie cops from getting inside, but after they are defeated he goes back to his old ways.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Jackson. After Gunn saves his life he helps to try and prevent the zombie cops from getting inside, but after they are defeated he goes back to his old ways.being a selfish jerk.
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At a teen shelter, two teens show up after curfew in search of safety, and their fear convinces shelter administrator Anne to make an exception to the rules. Kenny explains that he and Len were unfairly attacked by a policeman, which has been happening to other street kids as well. Anne takes the problem to Gunn at Angel Investigations. He accompanies her back to the shelter and questions the kids about the incidents with the police. Angel, who has surreptitiously trailed Gunn, is attacked by a policeman while standing outside. Angel fights back, but the officer rises every time he's knocked down, until the vampire kicks the cop's head completely off and even then, the head keeps talking for a moment. Deciding to investigate this himself, Angel goes to Kate to look up the dead cop's badge, she finds that he's been dead for six months. More sleuthing reveals that someone is putting dead cops back on the streets as zombies.

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At a teen shelter, two teens show up after curfew in search of safety, and their fear convinces shelter administrator Anne to make an exception to the rules. Kenny explains that he and Len were unfairly attacked by a policeman, which has been happening to other street kids as well. Anne takes the problem to Gunn at Angel Investigations. He accompanies her back to the shelter and questions the kids about the incidents with the police. Angel, who has surreptitiously trailed Gunn, is attacked by a policeman while standing outside. Angel fights back, but the officer rises every time he's knocked down, until the vampire kicks the cop's head completely off and even then, the head keeps talking for a moment. Deciding to investigate this himself, Angel goes to Kate to look up the dead [[GenericCopBadges cop's badge, badge]], she finds that he's been dead for six months. More sleuthing reveals that someone is putting dead cops back on the streets as zombies.
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* WhatHappenedTOTheMouse: The girl with the eye in the back of her head shows up early in the episode, but that thread is dropped and only referenced once or twice more. She won't show up again until after "Epiphany".
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* WhatHappenedTOTheMouse: The girl with the eye in the back of her head shows up early in the episode, but that thread is dropped and only referenced once or twice more. She won't show up again until after "Epiphany".
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Jackson tries to ScrewThisImOuttaHere and sneak out, only to immediately get grabbed and beaten by a cop, requiring Gunn to save him.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Angel barges into a police captain's office...
-->'''Captain:''' What are you doing?!\\
'''Angel:''' Looking around.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: While Kate agrees that getting rid of the murderous zombie cops was the right thing, she also points out that they were preventing a murder every 2 weeks, a rape every 2 days, and a robbery every hour.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: Jackson is a thug and probable drug dealer, and affirms pretty much every negative stereotype of African-Americans. Gunn eventually tells him that while racism from the police department ''is'' a problem, Jackson himself is a part of that same problem.
-->"A thug with a gun, keeping the cycle going."
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* KillerCop: Captain Atkinson suppresses crime in his district by raising recently deceased police officers as zombies and having them indiscriminately and violently harass people on the streets after dark. They end up committing several murders themselves.

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A group of zombie cops terrorize Anne's neighbourhood. Both Angel and his former friends investigate the events separately.

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A group In the hotel, Angel starts to feel the weight of his self-imposed loneliness and stands at the spot the team used to gather before and, in a flash of anger, shoves a pile of papers off the desk. He then goes to get some information regarding Wolfram & Hart out of Merl, who is leaving town, and is reminded of the fact he fired his friends and hasn't thought to check on them. A friend of Virginia brings her daughter to the soon-to-be-renamed Angel Investigations, asking them to remove the eye that grew out of the back of her head after she was attacked by an unseen assailant. Wesley assures the mother that they will find a way to get rid of the eye.

At a teen shelter, two teens show up after curfew in search of safety, and their fear convinces shelter administrator Anne to make an exception to the rules. Kenny explains that he and Len were unfairly attacked by a policeman, which has been happening to other street kids as well. Anne takes the problem to Gunn at Angel Investigations. He accompanies her back to the shelter and questions the kids about the incidents with the police. Angel, who has surreptitiously trailed Gunn, is attacked by a policeman while standing outside. Angel fights back, but the officer rises every time he's knocked down, until the vampire kicks the cop's head completely off and even then, the head keeps talking for a moment. Deciding to investigate this himself, Angel goes to Kate to look up the dead cop's badge, she finds that he's been dead for six months. More sleuthing reveals that someone is putting dead cops back on the streets as zombies.

Cordelia rants about Gunn's dangerous decision to call in several members of his old crew to deal with the police by filming the police assaulting them, but she and Wesley resolve to go back him up anyway. Wesley comes upon Gunn and his friends secretly filming their exchange with a police officer, to demonstrate that cops are reacting violently without just cause. Wesley tries to save Gunn, but the cop turns and shoots Wesley. A struggle takes place and George shoots the cop. The three men move Wesley to safety as the cop sits up, seemingly unaffected by the bullets. Gunn and friends get Wesley into an ambulance, but as they're driving away, several police cars get in the way. When the driver is shot, Gunn is forced to drive the ambulance. He eventually stops at the shelter and carries Wesley inside with the EMT, who warns that Wesley needs to get to a hospital fast. At the shelter, Cordelia sees a teen wearing some of her clothes and realizes Angel gave away the clothing she had left at the Hyperion. Cordelia helps Anne supervise barricading the shelter with everything they can find as an army of dead cops gather outside. The
zombie cops terrorize Anne's neighbourhood. Both force their way inside the shelter through the windows and doors, hurting several teens in the process.

Angel visits the precinct where the zombie cops were from. The police captain confesses that he has been using supernatural means to return good cops to the streets and his protect previously violence-ridden neighborhoods. Angel finds an Idol of Granath and smashes it, returning all the zombie cops to their former friends investigate dead, decaying states.

Kate and Angel discuss
the events separately.
ambiguous ramifications of their victory for the neighborhood, and Kate confides in Angel that the job is making her crazy. After hearing of Wesley's injuries, Angel attempts to visit him in the hospital, only to run afoul of Cordelia, who coldly tells him that Wesley doesn't need him and, since he walked out on them in the first place, he should just stay away from them. After briefly looking into Wesley's room, Angel obliges.




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