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* NotWearingPantsDream: Unfortunately it's only a Not Wearing Shoes dream.
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Lindsey approaches Spike in the guise of Doyle, claiming he is the new champion of The Powers That Be. Meanwhile Angel is trapped in a hallucinogenic coma.
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Lindsey approaches Spike in the guise of Doyle, claiming he is encouraging him to replace Angel as the new champion of The Powers That Be. Meanwhile Angel is trapped in a hallucinogenic coma.
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* EmergingFromTheShadows
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* EmergingFromTheShadowsEmergingFromTheShadows: Spike doing his first BigDamnHeroes.
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* AHouseDivided: Wesley and Gunn are starting to act behind Angel's back.
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* AHouseDivided: Wesley and Gunn are starting to act behind Angel's back.back; at first this is presented as simply allowing their boss to get some much-needed rest, but then they approach Spike about working for them as a Champion, and he quickly realises that Angel didn't send them.
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* TheHero
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* KillEmAll: Angel is tempted to use their corporate DeathRay to just wipe out the bad guys rather than continue with this moral ambiguity.
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* KillEmAll: Angel is tempted to use their corporate DeathRay to just wipe out the bad guys rather than continue with all this moral ambiguity.
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* KnightInSourArmor / BrokenHeel
* LotusEaterMachine: In the final dream the gang encourage him to give up his struggle.
* LastSecondWordSwap: Lindsey tells Spike that he's not the man he used to be; one who only did good deeds to impress (DeathGlare from Spike) ...women.
* LotusEaterMachine: In the final dream the gang encourage him to give up his struggle.
* LastSecondWordSwap: Lindsey tells Spike that he's not the man he used to be; one who only did good deeds to impress (DeathGlare from Spike) ...women.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: Lindsey tells Spike that he's not the man he used to
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* NothingUpMySleeve / DualWielding
* OutOfTheShadowsReveal: Spike doing his first BigDamnHeroes.
* OutOfTheShadowsReveal: Spike doing his first BigDamnHeroes.
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* NothingUpMySleeve / DualWielding
* OutOfTheShadowsReveal:DualWielding: Spike doing his first BigDamnHeroes.uses Angel's wrist-stake rig and quite likes them.
* OutOfTheShadowsReveal:
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** Spike gets to become a real boy, while Angel is the disillusioned mailman, just like Number 5.
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** Spike gets to become a real boy, while Angel is becomes the disillusioned mailman, just mailman like Number 5.
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** Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a goldfish bowl and a car license plate). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an [[EmptyShell allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him]].
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** Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a [[RuleOfFunny goldfish bowl and a car license plate). plate]]). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an [[EmptyShell allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is are doing to him]].
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* SlowMotion: Spike cool spinning kicks
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* SlowMotion: Spike cool spinning kickskicks in his second BigDamnHeroes.
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* VampiresAreRich
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* VampiresAreRichVampiresAreRich: Averted -- Spike gripes about becoming a BasementDweller again. Lindsey pointed says that an eternal being like him would surely have put something aside...
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* BodyDouble
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* BodyDoubleBodyDouble: An obvious stand-in is used for Buffy, with her voice dubbed with dialogue from BtVS "The Prom".
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* DivideAndConquer: Gunn's plan for the demon cult; which appears to reflect Lindsey/Eve's plan for Team Angel and the Senior Partners.
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* WhoAreYou / HeroicSelfDeprecation / ThinkNothingOfIt
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* WhoAreYou / HeroicSelfDeprecation / ThinkNothingOfItThinkNothingOfIt / TheHero
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The parasite would have put Angel in a permanent coma if Lindsey hadn't tipped off Spike.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The parasite would have put Angel in a permanent coma if Lindsey hadn't tipped off Spike.
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* EmptyShell / RuleOfSymbolism: Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a goldfish bowl and a car license plate). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him.
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* RuleOfSymbolism
** Spike gets to become a real boy, while Angel is the disillusioned mailman, just like Number 5.
** Wesley stabs Angel with a stake, showing that there's still lingering suspicion over his betrayal in the Connor affair.
** Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a goldfish bowl and a car license plate). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an [[EmptyShell allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him]].
** Spike gets to become a real boy, while Angel is the disillusioned mailman, just like Number 5.
** Wesley stabs Angel with a stake, showing that there's still lingering suspicion over his betrayal in the Connor affair.
** Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a goldfish bowl and a car license plate). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an [[EmptyShell allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him]].
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: When Fred is doing surgery on Angel in his coma-dream, she looks in and tells him "there's nothing left, just a shell". Although mainly referring to Angel, it was likely also a reference to her becoming a literal shell for Illyria several eps later.
** In the same ep, Gunn growls like a cat during another dream scene. In "A Hole In The World" the white room's cat conduit is gone, replaced with a evil Gunn twin.
** In the same ep, Gunn growls like a cat during another dream scene. In "A Hole In The World" the white room's cat conduit is gone, replaced with a evil Gunn twin.
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* {{Foreshadowing}} / DreamingOfThingsToCome: When Fred is doing surgery on Angel in his coma-dream, she looks in and tells him "there's nothing left, just a shell". Although mainly referring to Angel, it was likely also a reference to her becoming a literal shell for Illyria several eps later.
** In the same ep, Gunn growls like a cat during another dream scene. In "A Hole In The World" the white room's cat conduit is gone, replaced with a evil Gunn twin.
** In the same ep, Gunn growls like a cat during another dream scene. In "A Hole In The World" the white room's cat conduit is gone, replaced with a evil Gunn twin.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality
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* GreyAndGrayMoralityGreyAndGrayMorality / NeverSayThatAgain
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* HellishEyes: Cat!Gunn
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* HellishEyes: HellishPupils: Cat!Gunn
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* ExactWords: The Senior Partners are holding Eve's feet to the flames.
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* ExactWords: The Senior Partners are holding Eve's feet to the flames.
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* ExactWords: The Senior Partners are holding Eve's feet to the flames.EmergingFromTheShadows
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* WhoAreYou / HeroicSelfDepreciation / ThinkNothingOfIt
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* WhoAreYou / HeroicSelfDepreciation HeroicSelfDeprecation / ThinkNothingOfIt
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* RescueRomance
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* RescueRomanceRescueSex: Team Angel receive a report of a [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire certain ensouled vampire]] saving damsels in alleys, and then asking if they'd like to "have a few drinks and listen to some Sex Pistols?"
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* GoodIsNotNice: 'Doyle' tells Spike his treatment of a DamselInDistress could use some work.
->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman in alley]]:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!
->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman in alley]]:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!
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* GoodIsNotNice: 'Doyle' tells Spike his treatment of a DamselInDistress DistressedDamsel could use some work.
->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman -->'''Woman in alley]]:''' alley:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat -->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman -->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' -->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman -->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' -->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!
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* EmptyShell / RuleOfSymbolismRuleOfSymbolism: Angel is coma-dreaming about Fred doing surgery on him, removing all his internal organs (plus a goldfish bowl and a car license plate). She tells him "There's nothing left, just a shell", an allusion to what Wolfram and Hart is doing to him.
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* KillEmAll
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* KillEmAllHospitalHottie: All right -- who didn't think Fred was going to do something kinky when she snapped on those latex gloves?
* KillEmAll: Angel is tempted to use their corporate DeathRay to just wipe out the bad guys rather than continue with this moral ambiguity.
* KillEmAll: Angel is tempted to use their corporate DeathRay to just wipe out the bad guys rather than continue with this moral ambiguity.
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* NaughtyNurse: All right -- who didn't think Fred was going to do something kinky when she snapped on those latex gloves?
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* GoodIsNotNiceGoodIsNotNice: 'Doyle' tells Spike his treatment of a DamselInDistress could use some work.
->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman in alley]]:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!
->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman in alley]]:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!
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* CrypticConversation
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* CrypticConversationCrypticConversation: "Enough with the cryptic, butch."
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-->'''WESLEY:''' What is your plan?
-->'''GUNN:''' We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass.
-->'''HARMONY:''' (rolls her eyes) It's Matchabelli, Einstein; and it doesn't come in a can.
-->'''GUNN:''' We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass.
-->'''HARMONY:''' (rolls her eyes) It's Matchabelli, Einstein; and it doesn't come in a can.
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* LastSecondWordSwapLastSecondWordSwap: Lindsey tells Spike that he's not the man he used to be; one who only did good deeds to impress (DeathGlare from Spike) ...women.
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** And later
-->'''ANGEL:''' OK. Explain it to me again.
-->'''SPIKE:''' (walking out on 'Doyle') I've heard enough.
-->'''ANGEL:''' OK. Explain it to me again.
-->'''SPIKE:''' (walking out on 'Doyle') I've heard enough.
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* BaitAndSwitch: TheTeaser appears to be Angel in trouble again, but it's actually a replay of the fight in "Destiny" shot from a different angle.
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** Spike adopts the CrucifiedHeroPose he had in "Chosen", only this time Angel burns up instead.
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** Spike adopts the CrucifiedHeroPose CrucifiedHeroShot he had in "Chosen", only this time Angel burns up instead.
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-->'''FRED:''' Well, we do have an orbital-range microwave cannon up there. Focuses the satellite's communications signals into a pinpoint beam. It can raise the temperature of the targeted area 1,000 degrees in less than 5 seconds. So, yeah, in theory, we could. That is, if we did that sort of thing. (to Angel) Do we do that sort of thing?
-->'''WESLEY:''' It might be the thing to do.
-->'''GUNN:''' Think someone won't notice us firing a sci-fi {{death ray}} from outer space?
-->'''FRED:''' Well, actually, the beam reads like cell phone static on most atmospheric scanning equipment.
-->'''WESLEY:''' It might be the thing to do.
-->'''GUNN:''' Think someone won't notice us firing a sci-fi {{death ray}} from outer space?
-->'''FRED:''' Well, actually, the beam reads like cell phone static on most atmospheric scanning equipment.
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-->'''LINDSEY:''' You got your life back now. What are you gonna do about it?
-->''(Cut to Wesley and Gunn are having a heated discussion)
-->'''WESLEY:''' I say we make a pre-emptive strike.
-->''(Cut to Wesley and Gunn are having a heated discussion)
-->'''WESLEY:''' I say we make a pre-emptive strike.
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* BedmateReveal: Spuffy
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* DescriptionCut
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The first vampire
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* GreyAndGrayMorality
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* HeroicBSOD
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* KillSat
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* OutOfTheShadowsReveal: Spike doing his first BigDamnHeroes.
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* SlowMotion: Spike cool spinning kicks
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* TwistedEchoCut
* VampiresAreRich
* VampiresAreRich
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* CrypticConversation
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* LastSecondWordSwap
* MistakenForGay: Lindsey when he first approaches Spike.
* NaughtyNurse: All right -- who didn't think Fred was going to do something kinky when she snapped on those latex gloves?
* MistakenForGay: Lindsey when he first approaches Spike.
* NaughtyNurse: All right -- who didn't think Fred was going to do something kinky when she snapped on those latex gloves?
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* AnxietyDreams
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** Spike adopts the CrucifiedHeroPose he had in "Chosen", only this time Angel burns up instead.
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* CatapultNightmare: Angel waking up from his first dream, in which he burns up after Spike wins the Cup of Perpetual Torment.
* DaydreamSurprise
* DaydreamSurprise
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* ExactWords: The Senior Partners are holding Eve's feet to the flames.
* ExactWords: The Senior Partners are holding Eve's feet to the flames.
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* HellishEyes: Cat!Gunn
* LotusEaterMachine: In the final dream the gang encourage him to give up his struggle.
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* ShoutOut: Loads of cultural references (see TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Purpose_%28Angel%29 for details]])
* ThinkNothingOfIt
* WhoAreYou
* ThinkNothingOfIt
* WhoAreYou
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* ShoutOut: Loads of cultural references (see TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Purpose_%28Angel%29 for details]])
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*ThinkNothingOfIt
SpotTheImposter: Eve's earrings
*WhoAreYouWhoAreYou / HeroicSelfDepreciation / ThinkNothingOfIt
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Lindsey finds Spike hanging out in a strip club, getting pissed.
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* Written-In Infirmity: David Boreanaz directed "Soul Purpose", in which Angel is rendered immobile for the majority of its running time. Boreanaz suffered a severe knee injury prior to filming, which necessitated a story in which he doesn't move very much.
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* WhoAreYou
* WhoAreYou
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Lindsey approaches Spike in the guise of Doyle, claiming he is the new champion of The Powers That Be. Meanwhile Angel is trapped in a hallucinogenic coma.
* BodyDouble
* BodyDouble
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** Much like when Numero Cinco stopped being a hero, in Angel's dream world he becomes the new Wolfram and Hart mailman.
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* ShoutOut: Loads of cultural references (see TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Purpose_%28Angel%29 for details]])
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* CallBack: Plenty to "City Of"
* DirectedByCastMember
* EmptyShell
* {{Foreshadowing}} / DreamingOfThingsToCome: When Fred is doing surgery on Angel in his coma-dream, she looks in and tells him "there's nothing left, just a shell". Although mainly referring to Angel, it was likely also a reference to her becoming a literal shell for Illyria several eps later.
** In the same ep, Gunn growls like a cat during another dream scene. In "A Hole In The World" the white room's cat conduit is gone, replaced with a evil Gunn twin.
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* KnightInSourArmor / BrokenHeelBrokenHeel
* Written-In Infirmity: David Boreanaz directed "Soul Purpose", in which Angel is rendered immobile for the majority of its running time. Boreanaz suffered a severe knee injury prior to filming, which necessitated a story in which he doesn't move very much.
* NothingUpMySleeve / DualWielding
* SchrodingersButterfly
* WrittenInInfirmity: Angel was confined to bed by a nightmare-demon-parasite thing in the fifth-season episode "Soul Purpose," then turned into a puppet four episodes later in "Smile Time" as David Boreanaz recovered from knee surgery. Even still, they framed several episodes to have Angel constantly sitting in his chair or otherwise leaning against his desk just to give David a break. (Unable to stand or walk much, Boreanaz contributed by directing "Soul Purpose," his first TV director's credit.)
** Although Joss Whedon maintains he wanted to kill off an "opening credits" character early in the first season from the beginning the decision for it to be Doyle was made due to the actor's ongoing problems with drugs making him impossible to work with. He was going to be written into the last season (according to fifth season DVD commentaries), but due to the actor's death, the role was rewritten to bring back another fan favorite Lindsey instead, who uses the original character's name as a disguise.
* Written-In Infirmity: David Boreanaz directed "Soul Purpose", in which Angel is rendered immobile for the majority of its running time. Boreanaz suffered a severe knee injury prior to filming, which necessitated a story in which he doesn't move very much.
* NothingUpMySleeve / DualWielding
* SchrodingersButterfly
* WrittenInInfirmity: Angel was confined to bed by a nightmare-demon-parasite thing in the fifth-season episode "Soul Purpose," then turned into a puppet four episodes later in "Smile Time" as David Boreanaz recovered from knee surgery. Even still, they framed several episodes to have Angel constantly sitting in his chair or otherwise leaning against his desk just to give David a break. (Unable to stand or walk much, Boreanaz contributed by directing "Soul Purpose," his first TV director's credit.)
** Although Joss Whedon maintains he wanted to kill off an "opening credits" character early in the first season from the beginning the decision for it to be Doyle was made due to the actor's ongoing problems with drugs making him impossible to work with. He was going to be written into the last season (according to fifth season DVD commentaries), but due to the actor's death, the role was rewritten to bring back another fan favorite Lindsey instead, who uses the original character's name as a disguise.
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* KnightInSourArmor
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* KnightInSourArmorKnightInSourArmor / BrokenHeel
