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* GlassesAreSexy: Jealous over Wesley's attraction to the [[NerdsAreSexy geeky Winifred Burkle]], Lilah Morgan waits for him in his office dressed in GirlishPigtails and NerdGlasses. As they're ripping off each others clothes to have sex, Wesley interrupts their passion to insist she keep the glasses on. He still breaks up with her in the next episode, despite Lilah's offer to wear the glasses again.



* SexySpectacles: Jealous over Wesley's attraction to the [[NerdsAreSexy geeky Winifred Burkle]], Lilah Morgan waits for him in his office dressed in GirlishPigtails and NerdGlasses. As they're ripping off each others clothes to have sex, Wesley interrupts their passion to insist she keep the glasses on. He still breaks up with her in the next episode, despite Lilah's offer to wear the glasses again.

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* AfterActionPatchup / ShirtlessScene: Ramping up the {{UST}} between Cordelia and Connor.

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* AfterActionPatchup / ShirtlessScene: AfterActionPatchup: Ramping up the {{UST}} between Cordelia and Connor.Connor.
* AnnoyingArrows: Angel yanks a pair of quarrels out of himself.



* BiggerStick: Wes goes from crossbow to handguns to pump-action shotgun. [[ImmuneToBullets None of it works.]]



* CurbStompBattle: The Fang Gang vs. the Beast
** AnnoyingArrows: Angel yanks a pair of quarrels out of himself.
** BiggerStick / MoreDakka: Wes goes from crossbow to handguns to pump-action shotgun. [[ImmuneToBullets None of it works.]]
** DualWielding: After losing his sword, Angel attacks with a couple of handaxes.
** FriendOrFoe: Lorne and Wes fire their crossbows. The Beast [[BulletDodge deflects the quarrels]] into Angel.
** GrievousHarmWithABody: As Lorne and Wes reload, the Beast throws Angel into them.
** GunsAkimbo: Wesley with dual handguns. Not quite a LeapAndFire, more like Run Sideways While Shooting In SlowMotion.
** HeroesPreferSwords: Angel starts the battle by attacking the Beast with a sword.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Angel gets [[ImpromptuTracheotomy stabbed in the neck]] by his own [[NothingUpMySleeve wrist-stake]].
** HopeSpot: The first is when Wesley's shotgun blasts bring the Beast to its knees, with him advancing on it firing from closer and closer - until he gets within range, at which point it grabs him, hurls him into a wall, and stands up as though its apparent injury was just an act. The second is when Angel puts his GameFace on and goes in for a rematch. He also manages to knock The Beast to its knees, produces a stake, and stabs it towards The Beast's eyes, the [[GoForTheEye only seemingly vulnerable part of it]]. He stops an inch away, and the [[RevealShot camera reveals]] the Beast had caught his wrist. Then it stabs him in the neck with his stake and hurls him off the skyscraper.
** MookChivalry: The Fang Gang should co-ordinate their attacks a bit. Not that it would have done much good.
** PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Frequently
** ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Beast smirks at Wesley emptying a couple of clips into its chest. [[MoreDakka Wes pulls a Mossberg 12-gauge from under his coat]] and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu empties it into the Beast's face]].
** SuperToughness: Nothing even phases the Beast.
** TheWorfBarrage: The Fang Gang hit the Beast with everything they have - axes, swords, crossbows, wooden stakes, Guns Akimbo pistols and finally a shotgun. None of it works.

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* %%ZCE* CurbStompBattle: The Fang Gang vs. the Beast
** AnnoyingArrows: Angel yanks a pair of quarrels out of himself.
** BiggerStick / MoreDakka: Wes goes from crossbow to handguns to pump-action shotgun. [[ImmuneToBullets None of it works.]]
** DualWielding: After losing his sword, Angel attacks with a couple of handaxes.
** FriendOrFoe: Lorne and Wes fire their crossbows. The Beast [[BulletDodge deflects the quarrels]] into Angel.
** GrievousHarmWithABody: As Lorne and Wes reload, the Beast throws Angel into them.
** GunsAkimbo: Wesley with dual handguns. Not quite a LeapAndFire, more like Run Sideways While Shooting In SlowMotion.
** HeroesPreferSwords: Angel starts the battle by attacking the Beast with a sword.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Angel gets [[ImpromptuTracheotomy stabbed in the neck]] by his own [[NothingUpMySleeve wrist-stake]].
** HopeSpot: The first is when Wesley's shotgun blasts bring the Beast to its knees, with him advancing on it firing from closer and closer - until he gets within range, at which point it grabs him, hurls him into a wall, and stands up as though its apparent injury was just an act. The second is when Angel puts his GameFace on and goes in for a rematch. He also manages to knock The Beast to its knees, produces a stake, and stabs it towards The Beast's eyes, the [[GoForTheEye only seemingly vulnerable part of it]]. He stops an inch away, and the [[RevealShot camera reveals]] the Beast had caught his wrist. Then it stabs him in the neck with his stake and hurls him off the skyscraper.
** MookChivalry: The Fang Gang should co-ordinate their attacks a bit. Not that it would have done much good.
** PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Frequently
** ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Beast smirks at Wesley emptying a couple of clips into its chest. [[MoreDakka Wes pulls a Mossberg 12-gauge from under his coat]] and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu empties it into the Beast's face]].
** SuperToughness: Nothing even phases the Beast.
** TheWorfBarrage: The Fang Gang hit the Beast with everything they have - axes, swords, crossbows, wooden stakes, Guns Akimbo pistols and finally a shotgun. None of it works.
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* DualWielding: After losing his sword, Angel attacks with a couple of handaxes.



* FriendOrFoe: Lorne and Wes fire their crossbows. The Beast [[BulletDodge deflects the quarrels]] into Angel.



* GrievousHarmWithABody: As Lorne and Wes reload, the Beast throws Angel into them.
* GunsAkimbo: Wesley with dual handguns. Not quite a LeapAndFire, more like Run Sideways While Shooting In SlowMotion.



* HumanSacrifice

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* HumanSacrificeHeroesPreferSwords: Angel starts the battle by attacking the Beast with a sword.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Angel gets [[ImpromptuTracheotomy stabbed in the neck]] by his own [[NothingUpMySleeve wrist-stake]].
* HopeSpot: The first is when Wesley's shotgun blasts bring the Beast to its knees, with him advancing on it firing from closer and closer - until he gets within range, at which point it grabs him, hurls him into a wall, and stands up as though its apparent injury was just an act. The second is when Angel puts his GameFace on and goes in for a rematch. He also manages to knock The Beast to its knees, produces a stake, and stabs it towards The Beast's eyes, the [[GoForTheEye only seemingly vulnerable part of it]]. He stops an inch away, and the [[RevealShot camera reveals]] the Beast had caught his wrist. Then it stabs him in the neck with his stake and hurls him off the skyscraper.



* LoveConfession / BaitAndSwitchComment: Cordelia says she loves Angel, but while she was a higher being she looked back in time and saw (and experienced) [[TooMuchInformation all the evil that Angelus did]].

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* LoveConfession / BaitAndSwitchComment: LoveConfession: Cordelia says she loves Angel, but while she was a higher being she looked back in time and saw (and experienced) [[TooMuchInformation all the evil that Angelus did]].



* MookChivalry: The Fang Gang should co-ordinate their attacks a bit. Not that it would have done much good.



%%ZCE* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Frequently



* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Beast smirks at Wesley emptying a couple of clips into its chest. [[MoreDakka Wes pulls a Mossberg 12-gauge from under his coat]] and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu empties it into the Beast's face]].



* SuperToughness: Nothing even phases the Beast.



* TerseTalker

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* VaguenessIsComing: But it doesn't stay vague for long.

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* TheWorfBarrage: The Fang Gang hit the Beast with everything they have - axes, swords, crossbows, wooden stakes, Guns Akimbo pistols and finally a shotgun. None of it works.
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* TheWorfBarrage: The Fang Gang hits the Beast with everything in their arsenal, to no effect.

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* PunchPunchUhOh: The Beast stands there and repeatedly soaks the best shots of almost the entire cast, effortlessly bouncing flurries of punches, axe strikes, sword blows, bullets, and shotgun slugs, before casually throwing them through walls or off buildings.

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* PunchPunchUhOh: PunchPunchPunchUhOh: The Beast stands there and repeatedly soaks the best shots of almost the entire cast, effortlessly bouncing [[TheWorfBarrage flurries of punches, axe strikes, sword blows, bullets, and shotgun slugs, slugs]], before casually throwing them through walls or off buildings.


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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
-->'''Wesley:''' Maybe if we pool our data...
-->'''Gunn:''' [[ADateWithRosiePalms Go pool yourself.]]

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-->'''Wesley:''' Maybe if we pool our data...
-->'''Gunn:''' [[ADateWithRosiePalms Go pool yourself.]]
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* SnakesAreSexy: That is, if [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar we read one of Lorne's phone conversations right]].

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* SnakesAreSexy: That is, if [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar we read one of Lorne's phone conversations right]].right.

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** PunchedAcrossTheRoom

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** PunchedAcrossTheRoomPunchedAcrossTheRoom: Frequently



** TheWorfBarrage: The Fang Gang hit the Beast with everything they have - axes, swords, crossbows, wooden stakes, Guns Akimbo pistols and finally a shotgun. None of it works.



* TheWorfBarrage: When the Beast makes its appearance, the Fang Gang hit it with everything they have - axes, swords, crossbows, wooden stakes, Guns Akimbo pistols and finally a shotgun. None of it works and the Beast thrashes the lot of them.
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* PunchPunchUhOh: The Beast stands there and repeatedly soaks the best shots of almost the entire cast, effortlessly bouncing flurries of punches, axe strikes, sword blows, bullets, and shotgun slugs, before casually throwing them through walls or off buildings.

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Old enmities are put aside before the signs of an imminent apocalypse.

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Old enmities As Gunn and Fred gear up to deal with "spookies in a pipe", Angel and Lorne argue about when they should have Cordelia Chase sing for Lorne. Connor returns to his apartment with food as Cordelia is watching an old movie on TV. Cordelia thanks Connor for everything. Cordelia informs Connor that she has been unable to sleep, seeing visions of something horrible clawing its way up from underneath. Cordelia suddenly wakes up screaming after The Beast grabs hold of her neck.

Lorne takes a call about snakes, asking Angel if they fight snakes. Angel replies "only if they
are put aside giants, or demons, or giant demons." Fred and Gunn arrive at the client's apartment. They enter the bathroom, commenting on how big and luxurious it is as well as it being the kind of bathroom they want in the future. the room starts shaking and all of a sudden the glass on the medicine cabinet explodes. Rats are seen in the medicine cabinet, as well as coming out of every drain. They quickly leave the apartment, telling the client they need to hire an exterminator or burn the place down. Wesley arrives home, finding Lilah waiting for him. Lilah is dressed like and acting like Fred. As they begin to make love, Wesley tells Lilah to keep the glasses on. Fred and Gunn arrive back at the hotel, Fred being cool towards Gunn about taking a bath together. Gunn wants to have a meaningful conversation with her, Fred reluctantly agrees. Fred runs off after telling Gunn it wasn't his decision to kill Professor Sidell. Lorne continues taking calls as Angel arranges weapons. Gunn starts fielding calls and Lorne & Angel discuss how to arrange weapons. Connor arrives at the hotel and informs Angel that Cordelia is staying with him and that Angel should talk to her. Angel arrives at Connor's apartment. Angel and Cordelia start talking, Cordelia telling Angel that she was able to see and feel everything he did as Angelus. Cordelia gets a vision of The Beast coming through the pavement.

Cordelia tells Angel that her visions are more intense, the old ones being a lawn sprinkler and the new ones like Niagara Falls. Cordelia says she needs to know more about The Beast, asking if Lorne could read her again. Lorne and Gunn are taking calls while the phones are ringing off the hook. Lorne asks Gunn to get Fred to help, Gunn saying he doesn't know where she is, prompting Lorne to ask if they are okay. Before the discussion can get any further, a thump is heard at the door. Checking, Gunn finds a sparrow that killed itself by slamming into the door. As Gunn checks it over, Lorne yells at him to close the door which he does just
before an entire flock of sparrows start throwing themselves into it. At Wolfram & Hart, Angel is waiting for Lilah in her office. Angel knows Lilah wouldn't say anything, so he tied Gavin Park to a chair. Angel tells Lilah he wanted to torture Gavin more, but that Gavin wouldn't stop talking long enough for him to do so. Angel wants to know what Wolfram & Hart has learned about the signs info they sucked out of Lorne. The psychics who have been working on that info haven't been good at deciphering it, as every time they peel back a layer, their heads explode. Angel tells Lilah that helping him is win-win for her - she helps him and he succeeds, she will be in their good graces; if he fails, Lilah wins with Angel dead. At Connor's apartment, Cordelia is about to leave and Connor returns, surprising her. She wants to go outside for a walk because she has been inside all day. Cordelia and Connor roam the streets aimlessly at first, finally arriving at the exact spot where Connor was born. The Beast suddenly appears from below ground.

Connor attacks The Beast, doing no damage to it as he flings Connor aside. It approaches Cordelia, looks at her, laughs, then flies off. Gunn is calling around, looking for Fred as Lorne continues taking calls. As Lorne and Gunn are about to leave the hotel to look for Fred, Wesley arrives. Wesley suggests they pool their resources to figure out what's happening. Gunn says he is going to look for Fred and Angel arrives holding a folder, telling him he isn't leaving. The guys pore over the pages of info Wolfram & Hart were able to decipher from Lorne's vision, unable to make sense of it. Angel asks Lorne to start mapping out where the calls have been coming from. The pages are made up of glyphs, symbols, and archaic languages, all jumbled together. Gunn gets up to stretch, looking over Wesley's shoulder as he does. Gunn realizes that they are looking too close at the pages, seeing a pattern from a distance. They lay the pages out, revealing
an imminent apocalypse.
even larger symbol, the eye of fire. Lorne shows them a map of where the calls have been coming from, the pattern being a diamond. Fred is at the diner, talking to the waitress about how she feels. The diner starts shaking and Fred tells everyone to get away from the windows. Cordelia is tending to Connor's wounds from his encounter with The Beast. Back at the hotel, they draw the symbol on the map Lorne drew, finding that the center of the map is a temple to the flesh. They head off to the bar after arming themselves. After arriving at the rooftop bar, they see a pile of bodies and The Beast.

They start attacking The Beast, having little to no effect on it. The Beast is easily able to deflect any attack, only the shotgun blasts seem to slow it down a little. Angel engages The Beast in hand to hand combat, not doing any damage. The Beast grabs Angel and stabs Angel in the neck with a stake and tosses him off of the rooftop. The Beast then slams his fist into the ground, starting a fire in the shape of the symbol they discovered earlier. The Beast then flies off again. As the guys regroup, they realize Angel isn't with them. Angel is laying on the ground, gasping and bleeding. A column of fire shoots towards the sky. Fireballs start raining down on the city as Connor and Cordelia make love. Angel watches them from a rooftop as fireballs continue raining down.




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* MassOhCrap: The Fang Gang stop and stare in alarm at seeing the Beast.

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* MightyGlacier: When it comes down to just Angel and the Beast, the latter lands all of one real hit, with Angel dodging or blocking every other swing. Unfortunately, the Beast's armor prevents Angel from doing any lasting damage - and its reflexes are still good enough to stop Angel going for the eye.

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** MadeOfIron: Nothing even phases the Beast.


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** SuperToughness: Nothing even phases the Beast.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Angel says that Lilah can be very giving Wesley is all, ''[[AsideGlance Okay that was for my benefit.]]'' A waitress friend of Fred says she might warp into another dimension from TooMuchCaffeine leads to her opening up.

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-->'''Angel:''' If it's alive, we kill it. If it's not, we bury it. Gunn reverts back to his old habits by seeing the clue in the files: it's not a translation but put them together a certain way and they form a pattern, leading to where the Beast is.

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-->'''Angel:''' If it's alive, we kill it. If it's not, we bury it.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Angel says that Lilah can be very giving Wesley is all, ''[[AsideGlance Okay that was for my benefit.]]'' A waitress friend of Fred says she might warp into another dimension from TooMuchCaffine leads to her opening up.

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* IResembleThatRemark: When Angel says that Lilah can be very giving Wesley is all, ''[[AsideGlance Okay that was for my benefit.]]'' A waitress friend of Fred says she might warp into another dimension from TooMuchCaffine TooMuchCaffeine leads to her opening up.



-->'''Angel:''' If it's alive, we kill it. If it's not, we bury it.

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-->'''Angel:''' If it's alive, we kill it. If it's not, we bury it. Gunn reverts back to his old habits by seeing the clue in the files: it's not a translation but put them together a certain way and they form a pattern, leading to where the Beast is.
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* IResembleThatRemark: When Angel says that Lilah can be very giving Wesley is all, ''[[AsideGlance Okay that was for my benefit.]]'' A waitress friend of Fred says she might warp into another dimension from TooMuchCaffine leads to her opening up.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Wolfram & Hart (and by extension the Senior Partners) want to stop the Beast because they the world to end ''their way'', not its way.
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** HeroesPreferSwords: Angel starts the battle by attacking the Beast with a sword.


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** MadeOfIron: Nothing even phases the Beast.


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* MassOhCrap: The Fang Gang stop and stare in alarm at seeing the Beast.
** And everyone looks horrified when the rain of fire falls from the sky.
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* BigNo: Gunn when Angel gets tossed off the roof.

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* TemptingFate: It's not like the world is going to end this second.

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* TemptingFate: It's TemptingFate:
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** "As long as you've got love, it can't be that bad." (BadVibrations start)
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* HiddenInPlainSight (along with HiddenDepths): After Wesley and Angel drive themselves to frustration over the symbols, it's Gunn who realises that all the pages form a symbol.

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* HiddenInPlainSight (along with HiddenDepths): After Wesley and Angel drive themselves to frustration over the symbols, it's Gunn who realises that all the pages form a symbol. And a map.
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* HiddenInPlainSight (along with HiddenDepths): After Wesley and Angel drive themselves to frustration over the symbols, it's Gunn who realises that all the pages form a symbol.
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** Angel says "We need to figure this out." Cut to Gunn saying after pondering the portents, "We're never going to figure this out."
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* TrespassingToTalk: Angel shows up in Lilah's office to have that promised conversation about Lorne.
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* WallOfWeapons: Angel wonders how he should rack them -- alphabetically or by potential damage inflicted?
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* LadyInRed: When Wesley rips open the top of her geek outfit, Lilah is wearing a red bra underneath.

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* LadyInRed: When Wesley rips open the top of her geek outfit, Lilah is shown to be wearing a red bra underneath.that matches her nail polish.
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* LadyInRed: When Wesley rips off her top, Lilah is wearing a red bra underneath.

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* LadyInRed: When Wesley rips off open the top of her top, geek outfit, Lilah is wearing a red bra underneath.
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* BattleDiscretionShot: Wesley enters his house with a bruised face from fighting BigCreepyCrawlies.

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* BattleDiscretionShot: Wesley enters his house with a bruised face from fighting BigCreepyCrawlies.a [[TheSwarm swarm of bugs]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Gunn is peering down the sink, and instead of the expected faceful of blood or a plumbing demon, the mirrors break to reveal a swarm of rats.

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