History Recap / AngelS05E19TimeBomb

* DescriptionCut / BitingTheHandHumor

* LaymansTerms: Spike's engine-leak analogy for Wes' {{techobabble}} about how Illyria is shedding her power.

* AloofAlly: Wesley points out that Illyria could be a powerful ally against the Senior Partners, but Angel is skeptical, and her rescue of Gunn doesn't change his mind.

* IllKillYou: Illyria to Wesley, after he drains her powers.
-->'''Illyria:''' Touch me and die, vermin.

* InadvertentEntranceCue: Inverted -- Gunn expresses distaste for continuing to serve the interests of ugly demons, only for their next client to enter, an attractive pregnant woman.

-->"I repeat, [[SpySpeak Bluebird got wise. Secret Demon's cover is blown.]] Over. Hel-hello?! Is this on? (Lorne puts the walkie-talkie away) Hey, Leery, now, when did you catch on to me? In the elevator? That was a tough one."
* KilledMidSentence: Spike

* LaymansTerms: Spike's engine-leak analogy.

* MeaningfulEcho: Angel's repeats Illyria's words, "Serve no master but your ambition" before he goes and makes Gunn hand over Amanda's child to the Fell Brethren.
* MoodWhiplash: The Fell Brethren are cooing over Amanda and her child; meanwhile Gunn is trying to get her to look at the fine print of the contract she has to sign. Gunn suddenly realises the child will be sacrificed and is blurting this out when the Fell leader pounds the table and shouts, ''"WHOSE LAWYER ARE YOU?!"''

* NotHerself: Illyria. Wesley too is starting to worry his friends with his obsession with her.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Gunn watches uneasily as Wesley beavers away in his office strewn with TomeOfEldritchLore, obsessively gathering every fact he can on Illyria. Lorne later warns him to stay away from there. "That's where he keeps his full-strength crazy!"

* TemptingFate: "Bill me." "We will."

* UnstuckInTime

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Illyria frees Gunn and wipes out Wolfram & Hart's profit margin at the same time.

* YouRemindMeOfX: Gunn describes the worst of his StepfordSuburbia being the buried knowledge that the the happy facade concealed horrors without ever being able to know what they were. Angel, who had his son's memories wiped and placed him with a happy, suburban family to conceal the horrors of his past, is silently but noticeably troubled by the description.

* IllKillYou

* GoodCostumeSwitch: Gunn now wears a hooded sweatshirt more suited to his gangbanger days, rather than the [[SharpDressedMan pin-striped suit]] he wore since his brain upgrade.

* DealWithTheDevil: Amanda's husband can no longer work due to brain damage from a workplace injury, and they can't afford to raise a child. The Fell Brethren has promised to cure her husband and raise her child in a dimension where he will be worshiped as holy.

* DePower: Illyria can no longer stop time or travel to other dimensions, though she still has a lot of her strength.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Pretty much a RunningGag in this episode. Angel, Wesley and Spike all flirt with death by deliberately pissing off a PhysicalGod.

* EnemyMine: Marcus tips off Wesley as to what's wrong with Illyria in the hope Team Angel will destroy her -- the Senior Partners know her of old and they ''really'' don't want her around. Once she's safely depowered, Angel accepts she's more useful as an ally against the Senior Partners than dead.
* FalseReassurance
-->'''Spike:''' It's not murder if you say yes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Angel's more ruthless tactics enable him to infiltrate the Circle of the Black Thorn, but also create suspicion among his colleagues.]]

* AloofAlly

-->'''Marcus:''' Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man. 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and 8 beautifully maintained lawns.

-->'''Illyria:''' You want to take my power... to let me live. But [[IAmTheNoun I am my power]]. And I would rather be a titanic crater than to be like unto you.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Illyria steps through a portal into Angel's office, with Gunn in a NeckLift. She asks how much he's worth to them. Angel {{Death Glare}}s and snarls threats; Wesley quickly steps in saying they are grateful to her for rescuing their valued friend. Satisfied that she's got a marker from Team Angel, Illyria tosses Gunn at their feet and strides off.
* CurbStompBattle: Illyria kills Spike, Wesley, Lorne and Angel in just 20 seconds, without even slowing down time.

* DeadpanSnarker: Wesley mood-shifts between this and the ragged edge of lunacy.

-->"My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for [[PunyEarthlings when-we-were-muck]] stories?"

* [[StakingTheLovedOne Striking the Loved One]]: Subverted with Illyria and Spike -- he doesn't care if she has Fred's body, even though Fred was his buddy.
-->'''Illyria:''' You held affection for this shell, and yet you strike at its form without remorse.

* PunyEarthlings: Loads of this from Illyria.

* HilariousInHindsight: Illyria saying re vampires, "You sparkled and you stank!" At least for those not impressed by ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' anyway.

* GoodCostumeSwitch: Gunn now wears a hooded sweatshirt more suited to his gangbanger days, rather than the natty suit he wore after his brain upgrade.

-->'''Angel:''' All the evil we've stopped so far, and we're still the partners' number-one earner.

* ILied
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Inverted

* DePower

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Illyria frees Gunn and wipes out their profit margin at the same time.

* DramaticNecklaceRemoval

* GoodCostumeSwitch: Gunn now wears the hooded sweatshirt of his gangbanger days, rather than the natty suit he wore after his brain upgrade.

-->'''Spike:''' Well, that's the problem. You don't always see her when she's-- (explodes into ash, revealing Illyria behind him with a stake)

* SelfHarm / LaserGuidedKarma: The Wrath

* BecomingTheMask: Illyria accuses Wesley of betrayal, then realises that the fact that it bothers her is more disturbing, given [[BlueAndOrangeMorality that sort of behaviour was not regarded as immoral in her time]].

* SenseiForScoundrels: Illyria can't believe Angel is actually ''{{wangst}}ing'' over ''being the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate''. At the end of the episode, Angel takes her words to heart.
-->'''Illyria:''' (CirclingMonologue) A true ruler is as moral as a hurricane, empty but for the force of his gale. But you... trapped in the web of the Wolf, the Ram, the Hart. So much power here! And you quibble at its price. If you want to win a war, you must serve no master but your own ambition.

* BattleDiscretionShot: Illyria's rampage through the holding dimension. We only hear the sound of gunfire, then she [[OpenSaysMe kicks the cellar door]] [[DynamicEntry down the stairs]] and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches the Wrath across the room]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Why would Wes claim the device would kill her, seeing as Angel wanted Illyria depowered anyway?

* BecomingTheMask: Illyria accuses Wesley of betrayal, then realises that the fact that it bothers her is more disturbing.

* BattleDiscretionShot / OpenSaysMe / PunchedAcrossTheRoom

* YouOweMe: Angel argues that Illyria is hanging around Wolfram & Hart because "this place reeks of influence". Illyria picks that moment

Illyria rescues Gunn so Team Angel will owe her a favour. But when she starts moving back and forth in time, she becomes convinced they want her dead.

* YouOweMe

-->'''Illyria:''' A true ruler is as moral as a hurricane, empty but for the force of his gale. But you... trapped in the web of the Wolf, the Ram, the Hart. So much power here! And you quibble at its price. If you want to win a war, you must serve no master but your own ambition.

* CurbStompBattle: Illyria wipes out Team Angel in less than a minute, without even slowing down time.

* EnemyMine: Marcus tips off Wesley as to what's wrong with Illyria in the hope Team Angel will destroy her -- the Senior Partners know her of old and they ''really' don't want her around. Angel realises she's more useful as an ally against the Senior Partners than dead.