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* SpitefulSpit: Lorne's mom spits in the face of her prodigal son.
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* SpitefulSpit: After years of absence, Lorne returns home and has a touching reunion with his mom.
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Lorne takes Angel to his family's house, where his family starts to chase Lorne away, as they consider him to be a traitor. However, his cousin Landok identifies Angel as a hero who saved his life, and the people celebrate Angel, who is made the special guest of their upcoming village feast. He then tells stories of his adventures to the people of Pylea while Lorne is ignored. Landok offers Angel the honor of "swinging the crebbil in the Bach-nal," and Angel agrees to take part. But when he arrives, he discovers that it means beheading a human so the people of Pylea can feast on her. Winifred "Fred" Burkle is brought forth, but Angel refuses to kill her. Instead, he grabs her
While perusing the castle library, Wesley discovers "the cursed one" will have to perform something called a "com-shuk" with a Groosalugg. He considers asking the priests to translate the book, until he realizes it is part of a three-volume book marked with a different animal on the cover of each volume. The three animals are wolf, ram and hart, meaning that the books (and therefore the priests) likely have some connection to the supernatural law firm that plagues them back in Los Angeles. Wesley concludes that they cannot trust the priests. Silas, one of the priests, arrives to inform Cordelia that the Groosalugg has been summoned and that the "com-shuk" is a mating ritual. Wesley, Gunn, and Cordelia try to escape through a sewer tunnel, but
Fred leads Angel to a cave where she has been hiding for
Back at Fred's cave, Demon Angel sees his reflection in water and is suddenly motivated to switch back to human form. The ordeal leaves him shaken. In the forest, Gunn and Wesley are surrounded and tied up by rebel humans who want to send a message to the castle—they believe that Wesley and Gunn are spy-cows. Wesley tries to convince the rebels that they know the princess and suggest they use them to contact her. The rebels agree, but their idea involves decapitating the men and putting a note in the mouths of their severed heads. Fred comforts Angel as he painfully deals with the aftermath of being controlled by the demon inside of him. He concludes that his friends saw what he really was and now he can never go back to them.
The Groosalugg tells Cordelia that his human qualities make him unappealing to his people, so he battled with demons to end his existence, but instead of being killed by them, he defeated them, winning great honor as a warrior and earning the title of Groosalugg for his bravery and strength. Cordelia is, understandably, smitten. Lorne is brought before Cordelia for judgment and he is almost sentenced to death, but Cordelia pardons him and then kicks him out so she can be alone with her future mate. Cordelia explains to the Groosalugg that she is not a princess, but he doesn't believe her because he sees that she fulfills the prophecy. This emboldens her and she decides to start writing proclamations and laws for the people of Pylea. Silas tells his fellow priests that the princess has requested paper so she can write proclamations. He is angry at her independent will and goes into her chamber with a platter and kicks out Groosalugg. He tells her she and Groosalugg are just tools of the covenant and she will do what she is told. Cordelia refuses to accept that, until she is shocked into silence as Silas reveals Lorne's severed head displayed on the platter.
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* AliceAllusion: The title is a reference to to ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. In ''Literature/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', Alice steps through a mirror into an alternate reality, which is a parallel to the Angel Investigations crew entering Pylea through a portal.
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* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: Cordelia becomes princess of the demon planet Pylea, but is told she must com-shuck with the Groosalugg, recently summoned from the scum pits of Ur. After an abortive escape attempt she resigns herself to mating with the hideous Horned Humanoid who slouches into her throne room with a sack over his shoulder, only for the real Groosalugg — a handsome blue-eyed hero — to stride inside and tell the demon to just leave his stuff anywhere.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Cordelia does this to the Groosalugg, so much she almost misses her friend Lorne being hauled off to be executed.
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* GameFace / SuperMode: Angel vamps out to fight a mounted knight because he doesn't have weapons, only to turn into a red-eyed, green-skinned, spiky-faced demon.
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* GameFace / SuperMode: GameFace: Vampires' demonic faces become much worse (and the advantages and drawbacks both get amped up) in the dimension of Pylea, due to its unique metaphysical properties causing hybrid species such as vampires to manifest as either fully human or fully demon. When Angel vamps out to fight changes his face during a mounted knight because fight, he doesn't have weapons, only to turn ends up turning into a red-eyed, green-skinned, spiky-faced demon.ferocious demon called a "Van-Tal", the Pylean name for vampires, with green skin, red eyes, and horns. His strength and durability massively increase, but he can barely control his bloodlust in this form and nearly kills all his friends, and when he finally changes back to his human form, he's horrified. It's explained that in Pylea, the demon fully manifests, which means that's the true form of Angelus.
* SuperMode: Angel vamps out to fight a mounted knight because he doesn't have weapons, only to turn into a red-eyed, green-skinned, spiky-faced demon.
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[cut to forest rebels] '''Rebel:''' "I know how we send a message to the princess. We [[StormingTheCastle storm the palace]]."
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[cut to forest rebels] '''Rebel:''' "I know how we send a message to the princess. We [[StormingTheCastle storm the palace]].""
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Cordelia pardons Lorne for helping Angel and Fred escape, then starts drawing up proclamations to ban slavery, polyester and other evils. The Covenant priests show her where the real power lies by presenting Cordelia with Lorne's head on a dish.]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Cordelia Cordelia pardons Lorne for helping Angel and Fred escape, then starts drawing up proclamations to ban slavery, polyester and other evils. The Covenant priests show her where the real power lies by presenting Cordelia with Lorne's head on a dish.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: Our heroes expect Cordelia to free them, only for her to proclaim, "Off with their heads!" When the guards pull out their swords she quickly says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat Just kidding!]]" When Wesley [[IdiotBall tells the rebels they're friends of the princess]] who can deliver their demands personally to her, the leader of the rebels orders his men to draw up a list of demands, place them in Wes and Gunn's mouths and [[DecapitationPresentation leave their heads outside her window]]. [[spoiler: Not PlayedForLaughs when the priests get annoyed with Cordelia's independent attitude and show her Lorne's severed head on a tray.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: Our heroes expect Cordelia to free them, only for her to proclaim, "Off with their heads!" When the guards pull out their swords she quickly says, "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat Just kidding!]]" When Wesley [[IdiotBall tells the rebels they're friends of the princess]] who can deliver their demands personally to her, the leader of the rebels orders his men to draw up a list of demands, place them in Wes and Gunn's mouths and [[DecapitationPresentation leave their heads outside her window]]. [[spoiler: Not PlayedForLaughs when the priests get annoyed with Cordelia's independent attitude and show her Lorne's severed head on a tray.]]
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* TheReveal[=/=]{{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The ''real'' meaning behind the name "Wolfram & Hart" is revealed, and the thus giving the first hints to the true nature of the Senior Partners; The Wolf, The Ram, and the Hart.]]
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-->'''Lorne:''' [as the demons rush at Angel] [[BattleInterruptingShout STOP!]] ''in the naaaame of loooove...''
-->'''Landok:''' What sorcery is this?
-->'''Mom:''' [clasping her ears] [[Literature/TheTwoTowers It burns! It burns!]]
-->'''Landok:''' What sorcery is this?
-->'''Mom:''' [clasping her ears] [[Literature/TheTwoTowers It burns! It burns!]]
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-->'''Lorne:''' [as the demons rush at Angel] [[BattleInterruptingShout STOP!]] ''in the naaaame of loooove...''
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'''Landok:''' What sorcery isthis?
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'''Mom:''' [clasping her ears][[Literature/TheTwoTowers [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings It burns! It burns!]]
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* DecapitationPresentation DecapitationPresentation: The WhamShot at the end of the episode - a head that looks a lot like the Host's is presented to Cordy.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Angel happily looks in a pool of reflected water in Fred's cave, but flees from the reflection when he's in his demon form.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: MissingReflection: One of the vampiric weaknesses that Angel doesn't have in this world. Angel happily looks in a pool of reflected water in Fred's cave, but flees from the reflection when he's in his demon form.
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* TheReveal: TheReveal/Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: The ''real'' meaning behind the name Wolfram&Hart is revealed, and the thus giving the first hints to the true nature of the Senior Partners; The Wolf, The Ram, and the Hart.]]
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* OhCrap: Wesley casually notes that a 'hart' (a male deer) is on the cover of one of three spellbooks. Suddenly his face gets serious and he rearranges the covers so they display, in turn -- a wolf, a ram, and a hart e.g, Wolfram & Hart.
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* OhCrap: Wesley casually notes that a 'hart' (a male deer) is on the cover of one of three spellbooks. Suddenly his face gets serious and he rearranges the covers so they display, in turn -- a wolf, a ram, and a hart e.g, hart, i.e. Wolfram & Hart.
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* GroupHug: Averted; after being freed from their bonds, Cordelia's friends rush past her outstretched arms and tuck into the food.
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* GroupHug: Averted; after being freed from their bonds, Cordelia's friends rush past her outstretched arms and [[DeliciousDistraction tuck into the food.]]
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-->'''Mom:''' [re Lorne] Your father was right, we ate the wrong son.
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-->'''Mom:''' [re [re: Lorne] Your father was right, we ate the wrong son.
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-->'''Lorne:''' Right! Right. [[SarcasmMode Because that's a good one]].one.
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* HumansAreUgly: The demon residents of Pylea consider humans repulsive. The Groosalugg is respected for his warrior prowess but shunned for his human-like looks (he's MrFanservice by our standards, Lorne describes him as the lovechild of Fabio and KeanuReeves).
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* HumansAreUgly: The demon residents of Pylea consider humans repulsive. The Groosalugg is respected for his warrior prowess but shunned for his human-like looks (he's MrFanservice by our standards, Lorne describes him as the lovechild of Fabio and KeanuReeves).Creator/KeanuReeves).
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent / CreatorCameo: JossWhedon as 'Numfar', doing the Dance of Joy and the Dance of Honor.
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** Everyone in the throne room starts filing out the door when Cordy exclaims, "Get out!" (because she's impressed with the Groosalugg's tales of heroic deeds)
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-->'''Lorne:''' "They see you a certain way. You start to see yourself that way. You become that image. I get it. I do. [[BornLoser Because I know how they see me!]]"
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-->'''Lorne:''' "They see you a certain way. You start to see yourself that way. You become that image. I get it. I do. [[BornLoser Because I know how they see me!]]"me!"
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-->'''Lorne:''' "They see you a certain way. You start to see yourself that way. You become that image. I get it. I do. [[BornLoser Because I know how they see me!"me!]]"
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Fred has been living as chattel for five years: Her [[MessyHair hair is messy]] and her face is a little bit dirty.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Fred has been living as chattel for five years: Her [[MessyHair [[UnkemptBeauty hair is messy]] and her face is a little bit dirty.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Fred has been living as chattel for five years: Her hair is messy and her face is a little bit dirty.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Fred has been living as chattel for five years: Her [[MessyHair hair is messy messy]] and her face is a little bit dirty.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: "I've often prayed that I might look upon your face. ''([[SpitefulSpit spits in Lorne's face]])'' You have shamed our clan and betrayed our kind."
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: "I've often prayed that I might look upon your face. ''(spits ''([[SpitefulSpit spits in it)'' Lorne's face]])'' You have shamed our clan and betrayed our kind."
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