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* AdventuresInComaland

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* AdventuresInComalandAdventuresInComaland: Faith and Angelus dream of Angel and Angelus' past after Faith takes Orpheus and feeds herself to Angelus. Faith has to choose to keep fighting in order to live.



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* {{Battle in the Center of the Mind}}: Angel vs. Angelus. Technically it's a tag-team bout, since Faith is in Angel's brain, too.

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* {{Battle in the Center of the Mind}}: BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Angel vs. Angelus. Technically it's a tag-team bout, since Faith is in Angel's brain, too.



* CallBack: Faith seeking to atone for her crimes with a grand yet suicidal gesture, as Angel tried to do in "Reprise".

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Faith seeking to atone for her crimes with a grand yet suicidal gesture, as Angel tried to do in "Reprise"."[[Recap/AngelS02E15Reprise Reprise]]".



* CliffhangerCopout / OnceMoreWithClarity: We're treated to a flashback of the end of the last episode -- only this time, the camera holds on Faith so we can see her pump herself full of magical heroin before fighting Angelus.
* ContinuityNod
** Angel listening to the song ''Mandy'', which he confessed to being fond of.

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* CliffhangerCopout / OnceMoreWithClarity: We're treated CliffhangerCopout: The previous episode ends with Angelus defeating Faith, drinking her blood, and declaring that he's going to turn her into a vampire. This opens with a flashback of the end of the last episode -- only this time, the camera holds on Faith so we can see her pump drugging herself full of magical heroin before fighting with the titular drug as a back-up plan for defeating Angelus.
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** Angel listening to the song ''Mandy'', "Mandy", which he confessed to being fond of.



* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The drug traps both Angelus and Faith inside his memories until his soul is restored.

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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The drug traps both EpiphanyTherapy: We see how agonizing it is for the evil Angelus and Faith to be trapped inside his memories until his soul is restored.the brooding but heroic Angel - he screams in horror when forced to relive a night when Angel saved a puppy. He quickly gets over this problem when he remembers that he can still torment Angel, no matter what happens in the outside world.



* FantasticDrug: Orpheus.



* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Wes re letting Faith dope herself.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Wes re letting Wesley says this almost exactly as his reasoning for allowing Faith dope herself.
to drug herself, perhaps fatally, in order to capture Angelus.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The drug traps both Angelus and Faith inside his memories until his soul is restored.



* MundaneSolution: Willow's solution is to cast a spell to break the jar.



* MundaneSolution: Willow's solution is to cast a spell to break the jar.



* NoSenseOfHumor

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* OrpheanRescue

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* OrpheanRescueOnceMoreWithClarity: We're treated to a flashback of the end of the last episode -- only this time, the camera holds on Faith so we can see her pump herself full of magical heroin before fighting Angelus.
* OrpheanRescue: Angelus and Faith end up sharing a drugged dream state where they trade barbs while observing Angel's memories from his quest for redemption as she tries to find a way to restore his soul.



* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: Willow appears for the third and final time. Whereas her previous guest roles were cameos, here she's a main guest star.



* RockBottom: Angelus thinks EvilIsCool so having [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] who used to think this see him so uncool (to him) that he rescues puppies and listens to ''Mandy'' is his worst fear made real. It's akin to what he would see were he around in the episode ''Nightmares.''

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* RockBottom: Angelus thinks EvilIsCool so having [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] who used to think this see him so uncool (to him) that he rescues puppies and listens to ''Mandy'' "Mandy" is his worst fear made real. It's akin to what he would see were he around in the episode ''Nightmares.''



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Faith captures Angelus and they both go on a mindtrip together.

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Faith captures After drinking from Faith, Angelus pulls away in shock as she flashes back to earlier, when she injected herself with a drug stolen from a vampire junkie at the demon bar. Angelus and Faith both collapse, unconscious. Gunn drags Angelus's body to the Hyperion Hotel, where he and Connor shackle Angelus securely in the basement cage. Wesley brings a barely alive Faith to one of the hotel bedrooms. Knowing Faith injected herself with Orpheus, an enchanted psychedelic drug that poses a serious threat to her life, Lorne yells at Wesley for allowing Faith to purposely get bit by Angelus. Connor updates Cordelia on Faith and Angelus' conditions. Suddenly, Cordelia brutally shoves Connor into a wall in response to his constant talk about Faith. He's shocked and she tries to cover her behavior by blaming it on the hormones of pregnancy.

Downstairs, Connor shouts at Fred and Wesley about the need for killing Angelus, when Willow appears at the door suggesting that she's a better alternative. Fred called Willow for help since she's the only one alive to have successfully restored Angel's soul. Willow wants to see Cordelia again and Connor reluctantly takes her upstairs. As Willow talks about the difficulties associated with ensouling Angelus, Cordelia secretly reaches for a large knife under her pillow and tries to get Willow close enough to strike. Willow realizes that while the jar housing the soul is impervious to magic it can still be broken and if it is the soul will be released into the ether (after which it can be resummoned), and Willow knows a spell that will let them strike the jar despite not knowing where it is. Willow rushes out of the room in time to unknowingly avoid the knife thrown at her, which hits the door instead.

In their shared coma, Angelus and Faith witness the 1920s version of Angel rescue a small puppy from an oncoming car. Angelus is infuriated at being subjected to the memory again, and Faith realizes with glee that they're experiencing Angel's good deeds of the past. Next, a hippie Angel walks into a diner and selects "Mandy" on the jukebox, as Angelus complains to Faith about watching Angel's self-induced misery. A man barges into the diner and asks for money, but shoots the cashier when he doesn't react quickly enough. The shooter runs away, and Angel struggles with his desire to feed on the cashier, which wins out. The bite marks on dream-Faith's neck begins to bleed and she realizes Angel could have saved the cashier. Angelus watches on as Angel suffers with the guilt of feeding, enjoying Faith's pain as well.

Before Willow can begin her spell to break the jar holding Angel's soul, the Beast Master's deep voice screams a warning to stop. Willow's magic overpowers the Master's, and Willow begins her spell as Cordelia works counter-magic from the bedroom. When Connor breaks Cordelia's concentration by trying to enter the bedroom, Willow's projectile is able to magically shatter the jar. Using the Orb of Thesulah, Willow and Fred begin the ritual that will give Angel back his soul. Dream-Faith finds herself in a dirty alley with Angelus again, watching a filthy past-Angel feed on a rat. Angelus tells Faith that, following what happened in the diner, Angel chose to cut himself off completely from humanity and live in the gutter. In a twist, past-Angel turns and addresses the twosome. Angelus and Angel face-off and begin to exchange blows, as Angel convinces Faith that life is worth living and she has to wake up. Faith disappears.

When Connor finally breaks into her barricaded bedroom, Cordy smashes a lamp over his head, then pretends not to have known it was him. Cordy deceives Connor into thinking Willow's magic is evil and threatens their unborn child. She tells him he has to kill Angelus to protect their family. Willow completes the restoration spell, pulling Angelus and Angel into one body, while Faith wakes up and rushes downstairs to the basement in time to stop Connor from staking Angel. She begins to beat up Connor until Angel wakes up and stops the fight. Later, Faith tells Angel that she is going back to Sunnydale with Willow to aid Buffy and her allies. After
they both go on leave, a mindtrip together.
very pregnant Cordelia comes downstairs and shocks the gang with the serious trouble they still have to deal with.




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* RealLifeRelative: That's Creator/ElizaDushku's brother playing the robber.



-->'''Angelus:''' No, but I [[SelfMadeOrphan ate her with it]].

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* SharedDream: Angelus and Faith have a shared drug-induced hallucination, after Faith took the drug and lured Angelus into biting her, to incapacitate him.
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* StrawNihilist: Angelus flat-out states that as far as he's concerned, humans only exist to suffer and die.
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* MoralEventHorizon: 1970's Angel waiting for a man to die so he can feed off him, completing the transformation into the [[ReducedToRatburgers homeless rat-eater]] we remember from BTVS "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 Becoming]]".

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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, 1970's Angel waiting for a man to die so he can feed off him, completing the transformation into the [[ReducedToRatburgers homeless rat-eater]] we remember from BTVS "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 Becoming]]".Becoming]]". For Angelus above any of the good deeds he's done he treats the Manilow concerts as this.
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* DomesticAbuse: Evil!Cordy's treatment of Connor has a very unsettling resemblance of an abusive spouse, in the way she speaks to him, physically strikes him in anger, manipulates him, and then plays the abuse off with excuses and apologies.
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* AllsWellThatEndsWell: Averted with Pregnant!Cordelia's WalkInChimeIn.
-->'''Cordy:''' Sorry, Angel. But if this is the speech about how the worst is behind us, you may want to save it for later.
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* RockBottom

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* RockBottomRockBottom: Angelus thinks EvilIsCool so having [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] who used to think this see him so uncool (to him) that he rescues puppies and listens to ''Mandy'' is his worst fear made real. It's akin to what he would see were he around in the episode ''Nightmares.''
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* AdventuresInComaland
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* OrpheanRescue
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* ThinkNothingOfIt: Subverted, Willow is blase about thanks for restoring Angel, but much of that is due to getting one hell of a recompense in Faith.
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* HumiliationConga: For Angelus. Yes, [[CompleteMonster that]] Angelus. The first half is basically him being tortured over how uncool he saw Angel with [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] along for the ride.

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* HumiliationConga: For Angelus. Yes, [[CompleteMonster that]] Angelus. The first half is basically him being tortured over how uncool he saw Angel with [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] along for the ride.
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* HumiliationConga: For Angelus. Yes, [[CompleteMonster that]] Angelus. The first half is basically him being tortured over how uncool he saw Angel with [[DeadpanSnarker Faith]] along for the ride.
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* TheNicknamer: Cordelia refers to Willow as [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Glinda]].
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** Willow's reunion with Cordelia rings similar to Buffy's exchange with Amy in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed Smashed]]:
--> '''Willow''': How've you been?
--> '''Cordelia''': Higher Power. You?
--> '''Willow''': Ultimate Evil.
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* MeaningfulName: [[ClassicalMythology Orpheus]].

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* MeaningfulName: [[ClassicalMythology [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus]].
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* RescueSex: The flapper girl is willing to be very grateful to the handsome man who saved her puppy. As Angel is [[IDoNotDrinkWine craving something else]], he tells her to take a walk.

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* RescueSex: The flapper girl TheFlapper is willing to be very grateful to the handsome man who saved her puppy. As Angel is [[IDoNotDrinkWine craving something else]], he tells her to take a walk.
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* RealLifeRelative: That's ElizaDushku's brother playing the robber.

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* RealLifeRelative: That's ElizaDushku's Creator/ElizaDushku's brother playing the robber.
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* AttackHello: Cordelia breaks a vase over Connor's head to make him think she's afraid of the Huge Floaty Head (and probably to punish him for making her break Angel's SoulJar).

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* AttackHello: Cordelia breaks a vase over Connor's head to make him think she's afraid of the Huge Floaty Head (and [[EvilIsPetty probably to punish him him]] for making her break Angel's SoulJar).



* BlackEyesOfEvil: Connor wonders aloud if Willow is powerful enough to take on the Beastmaster. Next moment it's hello, Dark-Eyed Girl!

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Connor wonders aloud if Willow is powerful enough to take on the Beastmaster. [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Next moment it's hello, Dark-Eyed Girl!Girl!]]
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* HalfTruth: Wesley asks Willow if anything else (besides the whole turning evil thing) has changed with her. Willow says, "Oh, [[LipstickLesbian little things]]..." then 'casually' inquires about Fred.

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* HalfTruth: Wesley asks Willow if anything else (besides the whole turning evil thing) has changed with her. Willow says, "Oh, [[LipstickLesbian [[SuddenlySexuality little things]]..." then 'casually' inquires about Fred.

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* CharacterOverlap: Willow crosses over from ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'', and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls later brings Faith back with her]]. Willow is shown receiving the call from Fred in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]]".



* CrossOver: Willow crosses over from ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'', and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls later brings Faith back with her]]. Willow is shown receiving the call from Fred in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me]]".
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* RealLifeRelative: That's Eliza Dushku's brother playing the robber.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: CharismaCarpenter's pregnancy required a lot of shuffling around of the intended story.

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* RealLifeRelative: That's Eliza Dushku's ElizaDushku's brother playing the robber.
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* AmazonChaser: Cordelia's description of Connor/Faith reaches FetishFuel proportions.

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-->'''Faith:''' See. Brits know how to say goodbye. Angel here wanted a hug.

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-->'''Faith:''' See. [[BritishStuffiness Brits know how to say goodbye. goodbye.]] Angel here wanted a hug.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Angelus starts freaking out when he realises he's flashed back to the 1920's. We see Angel, apparently DrivenToSuicide, but he's actually diving in front of a vehicle to save a puppy, to Angelus' [[BrickJoke total disgust]].

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* BaitAndSwitch: Angelus starts freaking out when he realises he's flashed back to the 1920's. We see Angel, apparently DrivenToSuicide, but he's actually [[DivingSave diving in front of a vehicle to save a puppy, puppy]], to Angelus' [[BrickJoke total disgust]].
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* AmazonChaser: Cordelia's description of Connor/Faith.

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* AmazonChaser: Cordelia's description of Connor/Faith.Connor/Faith reaches FetishFuel proportions.
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* OhMyGods: Willow says "Hecate's sake."
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* SpoilerOpening: Averted. Guest Starring AlysonHannigan was removed from the opening credits to hide the surprise; instead she got top billing in the end credits.
** You sure about that? In the version aired on the Horror Channel, AlysonHannigan was given a Special Guest Starring alongside ElizaDushku

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