History Recap / AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld

** Eve sings a snippet of "L.A. Song", the song Lindsey strummed on his guitar at Caritas in "[[AngelS02E18DeadEnd Dead End]]".

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Angel tells Spike that he should leave, and explains his theory: "Lindsey brought you back as a spirit bound to this place so you'd become invested in it. He only made you corporeal again once you'd gotten used to it, attached to it." He just wants Spike to go away so he can have the [[MacGuffin Amulet]] [[FanNickname of Assitude]] all to himself, and offers to use Wolfram & Hart's resources to transfer Spike anywhere he'd like, all expenses paid: "You fight the good fight, but in style. And if possible, in Outer Mongolia."

* FamousLastWords: "Please, Wesley, why can't I stay?"

* WhamLine: "This will do." No ShockingSwerve saved Fred. Illyria's here, and Fred is gone forever.

** Uttered by Wesley to Gunn in "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole in the World]]":

* WhamEpisode: All season long, Angel and his crew have been able to come out ahead in their dealings with Wolfram & Hart. This episode kills Fred, the soul of the team in what is arguably ''Angel's'' equivalent to ''Buffy's'' ''[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]''.

* NoSympathy: Angel has a sword through his chest, impaling a bug on his back. He tells Fred not to worry when she walks up looking concerned.

* NoodleIncident: Fred and Knox are in the lab, talking about the sarcophagus. Knox says that there wasn't an invoice, so he thought she "went crazy on
{{Website/EBay}}." Fred retorts, "After that commemorative plate incident, I'm living clean."

* DamselInDistress: Fred tries to fight her status as this:
---->'''Wesley:''' You have to lie down.\\
'''Fred:''' I am not -- I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that!
** The gang takes off to save her anyway, this turns out to be tragic as they cannot save her without killing thousands.

** Huge {{irony}} that time, as Gunn soon discovers in that episode that his own actions [[spoiler:led to her death.]]

* AfterActionHealingDrama

* AncientConspiracy: The handful of cultists who still worship Illyria.
* AncientKeeper: Drogyn the Battlebrand, guardian of the Deeper Well.
* AncientTomb: The Deeper Well.
* AnywhereButTheirLips / RuleOfThree: Wesley twice kisses Fred on the forehead -- as Fred is infected with a lethal pathogen, it's only sensible to avoid swopping body fluids. As Fred is dying in his arms however, Wesley kisses her fully on the mouth because he no longer cares what happens to him.
* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: Why the Conduit is no longer a kitty.
* ArtifactOfDeath: Illyria's sarcophagus.
* BadBoss / GoodIsNotNice: See MakeAnExampleOfThem.

* BloodFromTheMouth / BloodSplatteredInnocents: Fred coughs blood into Wesley's face before collapsing.

* CannotTellALie: According to [[WordOfGod Joss Whedon]], he did this to make sure the audience would believe Drogyn when he told Angel that he couldn't save Fred.

* ContinuityNod: Wesley asks if Gunn's okay with him dating Fred, and Gunn says, "Last year you wouldn't have asked me that question. The man becomes civilized!"
** When Fred asks, "I'm a mummy, aren't I?", Spike replies, "I've fought plenty of mummies, and none of them were as pretty as you." After a beat, he amends that: "--Well, almost none." This could be a possible reference to the ''Buffy'' S2 episode "Inca Mummy Girl". However, Spike did not appear in that episode.
** Eve sings a snippet of "L.A. Song", the song Lindsey strummed on his guitar at Caritas in "Dead End".
** Lorne says that Eve reads clean. Angel says, "You've been wrong before," referencing the time a traitorous W&H employee slipped through Lorne's mind reading in "Hellbound", as well as the time Lorne failed to detect that Angel's soul had not been restored in Angelus.

** While en route to England, Angel anxiously mentions that he's never flown in an airplane before -- though he has rode in a helicopter. This alludes to the helicopter he used to thwart Wolfram & Hart's Spec Ops team in the season premiere ("Conviction"). Angel has also hung onto the outside of an airborne helicopter ("Sanctuary").
** The Great Old Ones who ruled Earth before humanity were first mentioned in the premiere episode of ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'' and the Master attempted to open the Hellmouth for the surviving ones to return in the show's first season finale.

* DamselInDistress: Fred actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.

* DoubleVision / EvilTwin: The Conduit takes on Gunn's shape.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove / LastKiss: Wesley and Fred.

* EldritchLocation: The Deeper Well.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The gang wonder if the Senior Partners sent the sarcophagus; Gunn says he'll talk to the Conduit. Gunn goes to the White Room and tries to summon the panther, who doesn't appear. Instead, he gets socked in the face and turns to see ''himself'' (The Conduit in the form of Gunn). Although Gunn doesn't realize it yet, The Conduit has shown him the true 'culprit' behind Illyria's escape.
** Lorne's prophecy about Eve's future -- "not too bright" -- comes to fruition in "Not Fade Away".

* GeekyTurnOn

* GreatBigBookOfEverything

* ILetGwenStacyDie: Fred dies in this episode. This makes her the third core member of Angel Investigations to die (after Doyle in "Hero", who sacrificed himself to save Angel, and Cordelia in "You're Welcome").

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Gunn adds that it's fine with him, adding, "Our thing's long done, and I know how you feel about her." Wesley thanks him sincerely, and Gunn adds, "And to add the necessary boiler point, you ever hurt her, Ima [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon kill you like a chicken]]." Wesley agrees to these terms.
* InsectoidAliens

* ItsPersonal

* TomeOfEldritchLore

* WillNotBeAVictim: Fred explicitly says as much.

* SoundtrackDissonance/YouAreMySunshine: Lorne sings this moments before Fred collapses. That's called 'asking for it.'
* YouTalkTooMuch: Drogyn re Spike.

* GeniusBonus: Fred named her [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed rabbit]] after American physicist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum Mitchell Feigenbaum]] -- hence, the "[[RedBaron Master of Chaos]]."

* {{Sealed Evil in a Can}}: The Deeper Well is practically the Canned Evil aisle.

* ShoutOut: Joss took inspiration from an Emmylou Harris song entitled "Deeper Well", which appears on her album ''Wrecking Ball''.

* YouCantFightFate: All the events are predestined to occur.

* DescriptionCut: Fred says she always likes a new speciman. Cut to the sarcophagus being wheeled through the double doors into Fred's lab.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Fred in Wesley's arms

** Fred manages to get ''one line'' into "You make me happy", a [[SoHappyTogether classic target for this trope]], before coughing up blood and collapsing.

* StarCrossedLovers: It's a Whedon show. It's hardly unexpected that when the OfficialCouple finally get together one of them will have their soul consumed and become possessed by an ancient demon. That said, a pretty brutal way to go out.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique / OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lorne -- a pacifist up to this point -- delivers not only his first punch, but first ''death threat'' to Eve. Lorne could make good on his threat and kill her in an instant (which we know from the look at his homeland), but he opts not to, instead suggesting she'll soon die anyway.

* DiggingToChina: As Spike stands on the bridge, peering into the depths of the Well, he surmises on the possibility of "a bloke somewhere in New Zealand" staring right back down at him.

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Gunn adds that it's fine with him, adding, "Our thing's long done, and I know how you feel about her." Wesley thanks him sincerely, and Gunn adds, "And not to add the necessary boiler point, but you ever hurt her, Ima [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon kill you like a chicken]]." Wesley agrees to these terms.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Wesley makes it clear to his staff that Fred has become their priority when a toadie enters Wesley's office requesting a file. Wesley tells him it can wait, but when he complains, [[TranquilFury Wes calmly pulls out a gun]] from the drawer and [[{{Kneecapping}} shoots him in the kneecap]].

* TooHappyToLive: A textbook example with Wesley and Fred, who get to spend approximately ten minutes of one episode as a happy couple after seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey before Fred is slowly and painfully killed so her body can host Illyria.

* WhamEpisode: All season long, Angel and his crew have been able to come out ahead in their dealings with Wolfram & Hart. This episode kills Fred, the soul of the team in what is arguably ''Angel'''s equivalent to ''Buffy'''s ''[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]''.

* WhamEpisode: All season long, Angel and his crew have been able to come out ahead in their dealings with Wolfram & Hart. This episode kills Fred, the soul of the team.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original idea for the episode saw Angel and Spike fly out to England to see Giles, as Joss needed someone whom Angel considered credible to give the bad news. The limited budget prevented them from flying in Anthony Stewart Head for a cameo, though (ironically, from England).
** Joss had planned for Fred to return in season 6, fighting Illyria for control of her body. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled, and so Fred remains dead and even, as we learn in the next episode, deprived of an afterlife, which comes off as quite pointlessly cruel if you don't know the behind the scenes story.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Fred, and how.

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Gunn adds that it's fine with him, adding, "Our thing's long done, and I know how you feel about her." Wesley thanks him sincerely, and Gunn adds, "You ever hurt her, and I'm gonna [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon kill you like a chicken]]." Wesley agrees to these terms.

* NoodleIncident: Fred and Knox are in the lab, talking about the sarcophagus. Knox says that there wasn't an invoice, so he thought she "went crazy on Website/EBay." Fred retorts, "After that commemorative plate incident, I'm living clean."

* StarCrossedLovers: It's a Whedon show. It's hardly unexpected that when the OfficialCouple finally get together one of them will have their soul consumed and become possessed by an ancient demon.

* AncientKeeper: Drogyn the Battlebrand, guardian of the Deeper Well
* AncientTomb: The Deeper Well

* ArtifactOfDeath: Illyria's sarcophagus

* TheBadGuyWins

* BookEnds

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Fred
* DamselInDistress: Fred, again

* DyingDeclarationOfLove / LastKiss

* EldritchLocation: The Deeper Well

* GutPunch

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom

* SadisticChoice: Angel has to choose between saving Fred, but killing thousands of innocents, or letting his friend die horribly.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Fred's death.

* WHAMEpisode: All season long, Angel and his crew have been able to come out ahead in their dealings with Wolfram & Hart. This episode kills Fred, the soul of the team.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Angel says that Spike just likes stabbing him.
-->'''Spike''': I'm shocked -- '''shocked''' --- that you'd say that. I much prefer hitting you with blunt instruments.

-->'''Lorne:''' If I hear one note -- ''one quarter note'' -- that tells me you had any involvement, these two won't even have ''time'' to kill you.

* {{Protectorate}}

* WHAMEpisode