History Recap / AngelS04E22Home

* ChekhovsGun: The locket plays an important role in the ''{{Buffy}}'' GrandFinale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]" and the Season 5 premiere of ''Angel''.

* ContinuityNod: Wesley is introduced to Sirk, a [[EvilCounterpart former Watcher working for Wolfram & Hart]] after the destruction of the Council in Season 7 ''{{Buffy}}''.

-->'''Angel:''' {{Buffy}} can handle herself.

* CallBack: To BtVS Season 5, in which reality was changed so that Buffy suddenly had a little sister, Dawn.

* SuggestiveCollision: Lorne starts to dance with Fred in the middle of the lobby. She spins out and [[ShipTease bumps into Wesley]].

* ContinuityNod: Wesley is introduced to Sirk, a former Watcher working for Wolfram & Hart after the destruction of the Council in Season 7 ''{{Buffy}}''.

* AmIJustAToyToYou: Lilah shows the neck scar where Wes chopped off her head.
-->'''Lilah:''' It's OK, lover. I never felt a thing.
-->'''Wesley:''' I'm sure that's true.

* BittersweetEnding

* DespairEventHorizon

** Lilah saying she's not a vampire. "Angelus drank from me, it's true, but like with most men, it was a one-way street."
* DrivenToSuicide / TakingYouWithMe: Connor has rigged the hostages, Cordelia's body and [[SuicideAttack himself with explosives]] so they will all die when Angel shows up to do his BigDamnHeroes thing.

* {{Great Big Book of Everything}}: Wolfram & Hart's source books, which can display text from any book in their library. Well it seemed pretty nifty in 2004, before Kindle.

* IronicEcho: "Nothing in this world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh, and it's cruel, but that's why there's you, Angel. You live as if the world were as it should be."

* TheLibraryOfBabel
* MarionetteMotion: Lilah appears to have some difficulty in walking when she first appears at the Hyperion, as if she's not quite used to moving around in her old body.

* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration

* YouCantFightFate: [[OffingTheOffspring Angel kills Connor]], ironically fulfilling the false prophecy responsible for Connor's messed-up life in the first place.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame
-->'''Angel:''' She was eating people!
-->'''Lilah:''' They knew what they were getting into.
-->'''Lorne:''' Her stomach?
-->'''Lilah:''' World peace comes at a price. Jasmine understood that. She consumed, what? Couple dozen souls a day? Now weigh that against ending the suffering of millions, (grins widely) but you fixed that.
-->'''Fred:''' No, we didn't. I—I mean, we did, we—we fixed it, but not in the way that you're trying to make it sound.
-->'''Lilah:''' Jeez, it's not like it was a criticism.

* {{Brainwashing for the Greater Good}} / {{Give Him A Normal Life}}

--'''Fred:''' No, we didn't. I—I mean, we did, we—we fixed it, but not in the way that you're trying to make it sound.

* ChekhovsGunman: Knox plays an important role in Season 5. Ex-Watcher Sirk will reappear in "Destiny".

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame

* DenoumentEpisode

* ElevatorGoingDown: Gunn clearly is hoping for this, and is shocked when his attractive guide takes her to see the Conduit instead.

* DrivenToSuicide / TakingYouWithMe: Connor has rigged the hostages, Cordelia's body and [[SuicideAttack himself with explosives]] so they call all die when Angel shows up to do his BigDamnHeroes thing.

-->'''Gunn:''' Already rubbed elbows with Little Miss Muffet once. Don't need a repeat with her replacement, and here I am thinking I'm getting seduced. Well, I'm getting screwed all...
* {{Great Big Book of Everything}}: Wolfram & Hart's source books. Well they seemed pretty nifty in 2004, before Kindle.

* KillItWithFire

* StunnedSilence

* ItMeantSomethingToMe: Wesley's efforts to free Lilah from her contract are futile, but she appreciates the effort.

* YouCantFightFate: Angel kills Connor, ironically fulfilling the false prophecy responsible for Connor's messed-up life in the first place.

* ContinuityNod: Wesley encounters a former Watcher working for Wolfram & Hart after the destruction of the Council in Season 7 ''{{Buffy}}''.

* DrivenToSuicide / SuicideAttack / TakingYouWithMe

* {{Great Big Book of Everything}}: Wolfram & Hart's source books. Well, they seemed pretty nifty in 2004, before the Kindle.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lorne is taken on a tour by a member of Wolfram & Hart's entertainment division.

-->'''Lorne:''' Uh, no, no, no, no. I don't think you have to tell me what you represent here, young man. I know. Evil. Pure evil in the— (Preston flips through the pages of the book, catching Lorne's attention) Huh. Which is also apparently everyone I've always wanted to meet.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Wes refuses to believe the woman in front of him is Lilah Morgan.

* ItMeantSomethingToMe: Lilah assures Wes re cutting off her head.

* SuggestiveCollision: Lorne starts to dance with Fred in the middle of the lobby. She spins out and [[{{foreshadowing}} bumps into Wesley]].
* TheUnreveal: What Gunn was offered by the Senior Partners.

* ChekhovsGunman: Knox plays an important role in Season 5.

* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Fred is offered a multi-million dollar state of the art lab, Wesley has access to Wolfram & Hart's extensive library, Lorne is offered the Entertainment Division and Gunn is offered [[spoiler:a brain upgrade]]. Angel gets an office with a view [[spoiler:and his son gets a lifetime of trauma wiped away.]]

* BetterLivingThroughEvil