History Recap / AngelS03E18DoubleOrNothing

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[FanNickname Saint Cordy]] returns from her holiday as a blonde with a BobHaircut.

* IconicItem: Wesley's china tea set is packed up in a box and delivered to him by Fred. Cordy realises Angel is starting to move on when he begins dismantling Connor's crib.

-->'''Angel:''' I know!

* BigEater: Fred eats so much that [[EveryoneHasStandards even she is full]].

* BigEater: Fred eats so much that [[BeyondTheImpossible even she is full]].

* BigEater: Fred eats so much that even she is full.

* {{Flashback}}: To 17 year-old Gangbanger!Gunn's deal with Jenoff.

* RuleOfThrees: Happens literally when Angel turns up the Three of Hearts (to Jerrod's Five of Clubs).

** Repo Man's first meeting with Gangbanger!Gunn.

* RunningGag: From ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' -- [[AllMythsAreTrue Leprechauns don't exist.]]

* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer / OutOfCharacterAlert: Gunn tries to push Fred away with some very mean words in order to spare her the pain of his leaving/death (not clear). Although visibly upset at first, she sees right through this ploy and tells the others he must be in some VERY BAD trouble because Gunn would never really say those things unless he was TRYING to push her away to protect her.

* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer / SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: Gunn tries to push Fred away with some very mean words in order to spare her the pain of his leaving/death (not clear). Although visibly upset at first, she sees right through this ploy and tells the others he must be in some VERY BAD trouble because Gunn would never really say those things unless he was TRYING to push her away to protect her.

* WhatTheHellHero: Fred tells Wesley that he should have told his friends about the prophecy.

* BigEater / BeyondTheImpossible: Fred eats so much that even she is full.

* AccidentalInnuendo

* BigEater / BeyondTheImpossible: Fred eats so much that even she is too full.
* BloodOath: The soul contract.

* CaptainObvious: The Fang Gang try their BigDamnHeroes thing, only to find they're vastly outnumbered.

* CharacterDevelopment: Gunn as the BloodKnight DeathSeeker who'd sell his soul for a truck because he thinks he's got no future anyway, to someone who now has TrueCompanions and a LoveInterest to lose.

* CornerOfWoe: Angel sits in the burnt-out room, staring at Connor's crib.

* {{Flashback}}: To 17 year-old Gunn's deal with Jenoff.

* ImpaledPalm / OffWithHisHead
* LastDayToLive: Having been told he's got to hand over his soul tomorrow, Gunn takes Fred out for a day of fun, frolic and food. Unfortunately halfway through the day Fred realises what Gunn is up to.

* TheConfidant: Cordelia spends hours sitting with Angel in his burnt-out apartment so she can provide comfort and a sympathetic ear when he needs it.
* RedEyesTakeWarning

-->'''Angel:''' You live as long as I do, eventually you lose everyone. It's what happens. I'm not sayin' you get used to it but you expect it, you deal. But he was just... (beat)...he was just a little... You think you know something about living, cause you have this really long past. And that's really all you have, in my case anyway. Then one day you wake up and you have something else...

* ZergRush: [[NotQuiteDead Jenoff starts growing another head out of his body]] and he sounds pissed. Angel looks around at the casino patrons and says, "How many of you owe this guy money?" Team Angel rush out as [[AssholeVictim everyone starts pounding on Jenoff]].

* AssholeVictim: Angel invoked this trope to enlist the casino patrons help to kill NotQuiteDead Jenoff. "How many of you owe this guy money?" Team Angel walk out as [[ZergRush everyone else starts pounding on Jenoff]].

-->'''Cordy:''' A future.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[FanNickname Saint Cordy]] is now blonde.

* AssholeVictim: Angel invoked this trope to enlist the casino patrons help to kill NotQuiteDead Jenoff. "How many of you owe this guy money?" Team Angel walk out as everyone else starts pounding on Jenoff.

* LastDayToLive: Having been told he's got to hand over his soul tomorrow, Gunn takes out Fred for a day of fun, frolic and food.

* {{Flashback}}: To Gunn's deal with Jenoff seven years ago.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: True to the title, Angel wages his soul and Gunn's against Jenoff in a card game.

Years ago Gunn sold his soul to the owner of a demon casino. Now he wants to collect.

* {{Flashback}}

** Repo Man's first meeting with GangBanger Gunn.

* IronicEchoCut / NeverSayThatAgain
-->'''Lorne:''' Groo, you might want to avoid saying the name--
-->Cut to '''Monica:''' Wesley, right. [snip] That's who we talked to. Is he here?

* TwistedEchoCut:
-->"You got a name or just a 'tude?" / "Name's Gunn."
-->"You might want to avoid saying the name--" "Wesley, that's it."

* AssholeVictim: Angel invoked this trope to enlist bystanders' help in taking down a hard-to-kill-for-good mob boss. "How many of you owe this guy money?"

Nine years ago Gunn sold his soul to the owner of a demon casino. Now he wants to collect.

* BloodOath
* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: When Fred begins to suspect that Gunn

* CharacterDevelopment: Gunn as the BloodKnight DeathSeeker who'd sell his soul for a truck, to someone who now has TrueCompanions and a LoveInterest.

* CoveredInGunge: Averted by Gunn for once, causing him to think it's his lucky day. It's not.
* CornerOfWoe: Angel sits in the burnt-out room, staring at Connor's crypt.

* IconicItem: Wesley's china tea set is packed up in a box and delivered to him by Fred. Cordy realises Angel is starting to move on when he starts to dismantle Connor's crib.

* IronicEchoCut / NeverSayThatAgain: Wesley, right.
* LastDayToLive: Gunn takes out Fred for a day of fun, frollic and food.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple / [[FinishingEachOthersSentences Finishing Each Others Insults]]
* LoanShark: Jenoff, a demonic casino owner who comes to collect Gunn's soul. In his teens, life in the ghetto hardened Gunn to the extent that he traded his soul for a pickup truck, believing that he had no future.
* MundaneSolution: Subverted -- Angel cuts off Jenoff's head, only for Gunn to say that if it was that easy he'd have killed Jenoff himself. Cue OhCrap moment as Jenoff starts growing a new head.
* MundaneWish / BaitAndSwitch / CargoShip: The beauty Gunn sold his soul for turns out to be the pickup truck he uses to fight vamps.

* NotQuiteDead
* ObliviousToLove

* TheConfidant: Cordelia sits with Angel in his burnt-out apartment so she can provide comfort and a sympathetic ear when he needs it.

* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Another one between Fred and Gunn as he turns up with breakfast waffles in bed.
* SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: Also played with in the episode "Double or Nothing" when an old debt of Gunn's is called in (his soul) and he tries to push Fred away with some very mean words in order to spare her the pain of his leaving/death (not clear). Although visibly upset at first, she sees right through this ploy and tell the others he must be in some VERY BAD trouble because Gunn would never really say those things unless he was TRYING to push her away to protect her.

* WalkInChimeIn / TemptingFate