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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Subverted. Wesley, confined to a wheelchair after being shot in the previous episode, literally rises to Cordelia's defense against Angel... and as soon as Angel is out the door, he collapses back into the wheelchair and asks Cordelia to call an ambulance, since he just pulled all his stitches.
* TurnInYourBadge: Poor Kate.
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* CreatorCameo: Writer David Fury as an unsuccessful goat sacrificer.
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil
-->'''Holland:''' "Our firm has always been here. In one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And '''that''' -- friend -- is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works '''because''' of us."
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* CallBack: To the end of ''BTVS'' "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise Surprise]]" where Angel lost his soul after sleeping with Buffy -- once again as DramaticThunder crashes outside, Angel wakes next to a sleeping Darla in evident pain.

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* CallBack: To the end of ''BTVS'' "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise Surprise]]" where Angel lost his soul after sleeping with Buffy -- once again as DramaticThunder crashes outside, Angel wakes next to a sleeping Darla in [[ImHavingSoulPains evident pain.pain]].

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** The Host refuses to tell Angel what he saw in the futures of the W&H lawyers, but he can reveal what he overheard them talking about in the mens restroom.


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* LoopholeAbuse: The Host refuses to tell Angel what he saw in the futures of the W&H lawyers, but he can reveal what he overheard them talking about in the mens restroom.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Angel creeps down the corridor of an abandoned building, listening to what appear to be ghostly screams. He enters a room and switches on the light. My God, it's full of goats!

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* BaitAndSwitch: Angel creeps down the corridor of an abandoned building, listening to what appear to be [[HauntedHouse ghostly screams.screams]]. He enters a room and switches on the light. My God, it's full of goats!
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* {{Sideboob}}: We get a nice {{Fanservice}} shot of Darla's sexy side when she jumps into bed with Angel.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Kate leaves a drunken message on Angel's answering machine, cursing him for making her believe in him.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Kate leaves a drunken message on Angel's answering machine, cursing him Angel for making her believe in him.
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* DrivenToSuicide / DrowningHerSorrows: Kate gets drunk and takes an overdose of sleeping pills after being fired.

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* DrivenToSuicide / DrowningHerSorrows: DrowningMySorrows: Kate gets drunk and takes an overdose of sleeping pills after being fired.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Kate

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* DrivenToSuicide: KateDrivenToSuicide / DrowningHerSorrows: Kate gets drunk and takes an overdose of sleeping pills after being fired.

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* ThePowerOfTrust: Subverted; Kate leaves a drunken message on Angel's answering machine, cursing him for making her believe in him.


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* WhatTheHellHero: Kate leaves a drunken message on Angel's answering machine, cursing him for making her believe in him.
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* SuperSpeed: Angel PerpSweating the two goat sacrifices.

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* SuperSpeed: Angel PerpSweating the two goat sacrifices.sacrificers.
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* ThePowerOfTrust: Subverted; Kate leaves a drunken message on Angel's answering machine, cursing him for making her believe in him.
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* CallBack: To the end of ''BTVS'' "Surprise" where Angel lost his soul after sleeping with Buffy -- once again as DramaticThunder crashes outside, Angel wakes next to a sleeping Darla in evident pain.

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* CallBack: To the end of ''BTVS'' "Surprise" "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise Surprise]]" where Angel lost his soul after sleeping with Buffy -- once again as DramaticThunder crashes outside, Angel wakes next to a sleeping Darla in evident pain.
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* HeroInsurance: Averted; Kate loses her job -- letting Angel rough up Captain Atkinson is the final straw for the police department.

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* DeathGlare: Angel goes to Caritas and finds a bunch of Wolfram & Hart lawyers there, checking to see if they'll have a future post-review.

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* DeathGlare: Angel goes to Caritas and finds a bunch of Wolfram & Hart lawyers there, checking to see if they'll have a future post-review. The Host points out that they want one other thing -- Angel dead. Angel turns to see every one of the lawyers glaring hate at him.
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* NothingGoodEverHappensInAParkingGarage: Averted; not that it does Lilah any good.

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* NothingGoodEverHappensInAParkingGarage: Averted; not Angel notes that Lilah isn't using the underground garage any more. Not that it does Lilah any good.



* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lampshaded by Cordelia. At the end of the episode Angel seems to agree.

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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lampshaded by Cordelia. At By the end of the episode Angel seems to agree.
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* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Gal]]

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* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Gal]]Gal]]: After being fired, a member of the review board twists the knife by telling Kate that it's a good thing her father isn't alive to see this.

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* LimitedSocialCircle: Cordelia -- she ''has'' changed.

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* LimitedSocialCircle: Wesley suggest that, being an attractive woman on a Friday night, Cordelia -- should forget work and go out with her friends. Cordelia frankly admits she ''has'' changed.doesn't have any -- things have certainly changed since Sunnydale.



* SexForSolace

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* SexForSolaceSexForSolace: A despairing Angel sleeps with Darla, not caring about the consequences.



* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lampshaded by Cordelia. At the end of the episode Angel seems to agree.

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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lampshaded by Cordelia. At the end of the episode Angel seems to agree.agree.
-->'''Cordy:''' "What a jerk. I mean if it was anybody else I would just say 'get laid already!' But no, not him. One decent boff and he switches to evil psycho vamp."

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-->'''Lilah:''' "I heard Henderson actually pulled her firstborn out of company daycare to offer it up to... Brown noser. My mother was right. I should have had children."



* MeaningfulEcho: "It's about power."

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* MeaningfulEcho: Darla's "It's about power."" -- ArcWords from Season 7 of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
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* CallBack / DramaticThunder: To the end of ''BTVS'' "Surprise".

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* CallBack / DramaticThunder: CallBack: To the end of ''BTVS'' "Surprise"."Surprise" where Angel lost his soul after sleeping with Buffy -- once again as DramaticThunder crashes outside, Angel wakes next to a sleeping Darla in evident pain.

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Tension mounts at Wolfram & Hart as their [[ThePurge 75-year review]] approaches. Kate is fired from the police force. Convinced he'll never be able to atone for his past, Angel decides to make an end run on Hell itself.

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Tension mounts at Wolfram & Hart as their [[ThePurge 75-year review]] approaches. Kate is fired from the police force. Convinced he'll never be able to atone for his past, Angel decides to use this opportunity to make an end run on Hell itself.
itself.

* BackFromTheDead: Holland Manner operates the lift to Hell. As he tells Angel, Wolfram & Hart contracts continue beyond death.



* DeathGlare
* DeathSeeker
* DespairEventHorizon

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* DeathGlare
DeathGlare: Angel goes to Caritas and finds a bunch of Wolfram & Hart lawyers there, checking to see if they'll have a future post-review.
* DeathSeeker
DeathSeeker: Angel
* DespairEventHorizonDespairEventHorizon: Angel and Kate



* DramaticShattering: Darla starts to give an EvilLaugh -- Angel asks her why she's laughing and throws her through the French doors.
* TheElevatorFromIpanema

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* DramaticShattering: Darla starts to give an EvilLaugh as Angel kisses her passionately -- Angel asks her why she's laughing and throws her through the French doors.
* TheElevatorFromIpanemaTheElevatorFromIpanema: The usual annoying music plays at the hellevator descends. Those Senior Partners really are evil!


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** The Host refuses to tell Angel what he saw in the futures of the W&H lawyers, but he can reveal what he overheard them talking about in the mens restroom.


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* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names for Evil Lawyers to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Senior Partner.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Angel creeps down the corridor of an abandoned building, listening to what appear to be ghostly screams. He enters a room and switches on the light to reveal...it's full of goats!

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* BaitAndSwitch: Angel creeps down the corridor of an abandoned building, listening to what appear to be ghostly screams. He enters a room and switches on the light to reveal...light. My God, it's full of goats!



* BorrowedBiometricBypass

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* BorrowedBiometricBypassBorrowedBiometricBypass: Angel kidnaps Lilah saying that he wants the same thing from her that he took from Lindsey. Lilah clearly thinks she's about to have her hand chopped off, but then we cut to her sensibly pressing her still-intact thumb against the scanner as Angel waits menacingly by her shoulder.

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Tension mounts at Wolfram & Hart as their 75-year review approaches. Kate is fired from the police force.

* BaitAndSwitchComment
* BloodMagic: Subverted

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Tension mounts at Wolfram & Hart as their [[ThePurge 75-year review review]] approaches. Kate is fired from the police force.

force. Convinced he'll never be able to atone for his past, Angel decides to make an end run on Hell itself.

* BaitAndSwitchComment
BaitAndSwitch: Angel creeps down the corridor of an abandoned building, listening to what appear to be ghostly screams. He enters a room and switches on the light to reveal...it's full of goats!
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Virginia appears to be asking Wesley to leave his demon-hunting life for her, but Wes surmises she's actually working up the nerve to break off with him.
* BloodMagic: SubvertedSpoofed with the two Wolfram & Hart employees following a list of instructions for a goat sacrifice.
-->(reading from a booklet) "Make sure all troths are securely fastened and sacrifices tilted as shown in diagram F-12 to ensure full drainage into sacred offering bowl. Using a clean, diagonal motion, slit throat of sacrifice with the pre-blessed ceremonial dagger provided...I didn't see that in the box."



* ExactWords: Lilah tells Lindsey what happened at the last 75-year review.
-->"Nearly half of mid-management was sacked. And Lindsey, they use actual sacks."



* HumansAreBastards: If they didn't, they'd be angels.

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* HumansAreBastards: If they didn't, weren't, they'd be angels.



* KilledMidSentence

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* KilledMidSentenceKilledMidSentence: Denver, right in the middle of saying that [[TemptingFate this time things are going to be different]].



* MundaneUtility: Using the gauntlett as an oven mitt.
* NeckSnap
* NoodleIncident: The Purge of '65.

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* MundaneUtility: Using Denver had been using the gauntlett Kleynach gauntlet as an oven mitt.
* NeckSnap
NeckSnap: Mrs Sharp
* NoodleIncident: The Christmas Purge of '65.



* PowerFist

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* PowerFistPowerFist: The knight's gauntlet used to kill the Kleynach.



* RingOfPower

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* RingOfPowerRingOfPower: The band of Blacknil is a plain-looking ring that enables the wearer to move between dimensions.



* SuperSpeed
* SingleStrokeBattle
* SuicideMission
* TalkToTheFist: Lindsey punching Lilah.
* UngratefulBastard

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* SuperSpeed
SuperSpeed: Angel PerpSweating the two goat sacrifices.
* SingleStrokeBattle
SingleStrokeBattle: Angel knocks out both of Lilah's bodyguards at once.
* SuicideMission
SuicideMission: Convinced he'll never be able to atone for his past sins, Angel decides to launch an assault on Hell itself.
* TalkToTheFist: Lindsey punching Lilah.
Lilah when she urges the guards to "Stake the bitch!" (Darla)
* UngratefulBastardUngratefulBastard: After having successfully exorcised the demon hatching in Stephanie, the Fang Gang find that the parents don't want to pay -- after all Angel Investigations can hardly take them to court and claim an eye was growing in the back of her head.



* WoundedGazelleGambit

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* WoundedGazelleGambitWoundedGazelleGambit: Lindsey is letting Darla recover at his apartment; once he's left the room to shower she throws off the blanket and starts going through his files.
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* RingOfPower

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* DeathSeeker



* HeyDudeWheresMyReward


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* UngratefulBastard
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass

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* BloodMagic

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* BloodMagicBaitAndSwitchComment
* BloodMagic: Subverted


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* HeyDudeWheresMyReward


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* HumanSacrifice


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* LimitedSocialCircle: Cordelia -- she ''has'' changed.


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* SuperSpeed


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* DynamicShattering: Darla starts to give an EvilLaugh -- Angel asks her why she's laughing and throws her through the French doors.

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* DynamicShattering: DramaticShattering: Darla starts to give an EvilLaugh -- Angel asks her why she's laughing and throws her through the French doors.



* KilledMidSentance

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* KilledMidSentanceKilledMidSentence



* PowerGlove

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* PowerGlovePowerFist


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* SingleStrokeBattle
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Tension mounts at Wolfram & Hart as their 75-year review approaches. Kate is fired from the police force.

* BloodMagic
* CallBack / DramaticThunder: To the end of ''BTVS'' "Surprise".
* DeathGlare
* DespairEventHorizon
* DestinationDefenestration: Angel goes out the window of Wolfram & Hart. Won't be the last time either.
* DrivenToSuicide: Kate
* DynamicShattering: Darla starts to give an EvilLaugh -- Angel asks her why she's laughing and throws her through the French doors.
* TheElevatorFromIpanema
* {{Hellevator}}: Angel is invited to finally enter the "Home Office", the source of Wolfram & Hart's power, and gets into an elevator... which goes down. And down. And down. And down... and finally arrives at street-level, the exact same spot. Even Angel has to point out the Anviliciousness of the "Our world is Hell" moral.
* HumansAreBastards: If they didn't, they'd be angels.
* HopelessWar
* KilledMidSentance
* LadyInRed: Darla
* MeaningfulEcho: "It's about power."
* MundaneUtility: Using the gauntlett as an oven mitt.
* NoodleIncident: The Purge of '65.
* NothingGoodEverHappensInAParkingGarage: Averted; not that it does Lilah any good.
* OminousLatinChanting
* PowerGlove
* PunchClockVillain: The two W&H employees sacrificing the goats.
* SexForSolace
* SuicideMission
* TalkToTheFist: Lindsey punching Lilah.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Gal]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lampshaded by Cordelia. At the end of the episode Angel seems to agree.

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