History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel

* FalseReassurance: A pair of vampire assassins return to the Master after failing their assignment to kill Buffy. He tells them that [[YouHaveFailedMe killing them for their failure]] would bring him little joy, and they react with relief. Then Darla kills them gleefully, and he notes that sometimes a little is enough.

* ProfessionalKiller: The Three.

* {{Frameup}}: Darla leaving a big red hickey on Joyce, then tossing her into Angel's arms.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: An injured Angel gallantly takes the floor.

The next day, Angel camps out until nightfall while Buffy heads to school. Returning home, Buffy brings some supper for Angel. Angel mutters miserably that he's older than she is and that he should go. They take that last half-step toward each other and start kissing. Suddenly, Angel pulls back, and Buffy lets out a terrified scream; Angel's face is twisted into the guise of the vampire. With Joyce alerted, Angel haphazardly escapes out the window and returns to his dank apartment. He's a little surprised to see Darla sashaying from the shadows. They talk, and we learn that the two used to be an item. As a parting shot, she challenges him to tell Buffy about "the curse," and if it blows up in his face, he always has a home with The Master -- and her. Angel stands there looking Real Troubled.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: One of the vampire assassins has a scar over his eye.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Later episodes would have vampires rebound off an invisible barrier at the doorway; this one has one put his hand into the house.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Angel proves unwilling to off the Slayer, Darla taunts him and says he's sick for loving someone who hates vampires.

* ItsProbablyNothing / ScareChord: At home, Joyce s drinking coffee when she hears a noise outside. She peers out a window to check, but finds nothing. As she walks away from the kitchen door, we see Darla's vamped face outside.

* StupidEvil: Master killing The Three for a single failure while there were pretty much among the strongest units he was shown to possess by that point.

->''"I've killed a lot of vampires. I've never [[ItsPersonal hated one]] before."''

* BaitAndSwitchComment: The Master taking Colin aside for another lesson in leadership. "With power comes responsibility. True, [[YouHaveFailedMe they did fail]], but also true, we who walk at night share a common bond." Colin asks if the Master is going to spare them, and one of the Three [[FalseReassurance looks up hopefully]]. The Master considers it as he rises and says, "I am weary, and their deaths will bring me little joy." He starts to walk off with Colin, and behind them Darla raises her spear and stakes the first of the Three. The Master turns to Colin and finishes, "Of course, sometimes a ''little'' is enough." Oh, that wacky Master!

* VampireInvitation: Buffy shouts to Angel to get inside while they're being chased by the Three, inadvertently providing this. Though it doesn't matter, as he was already invited in the series premiere.

* BigDamnKiss: [[OrbitalKiss The camera circles]] Buffy and Angel as they exchange one more kiss in The Bronze, with the background band playing slow dance music.

* EvilPlan: Darla pitches one to The Master; frame Angel for biting Joyce and then BreakingSpeech him into killing Buffy. Then he will return to the fold. The Master approves.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: The Master tells the Annoying One that Darla was his favorite "for 400 years," but the Anointed One counsels that Darla was "[[WeHaveReserves weak]]." The Master is sad that he lost Darla to Angel, whom he'd planned to have right beside him come the day he took over the Earth. The Anointed One reassures the Master than when he rises, they'll kill 'em all. This cheers up the Master, and two stroll off hand-in-hand together. Aw.

* MandatoryLine: Cordelia's spat with Xander at the Bronze ("I don't know what '''everyone's''' talking about. '''That outfit''' doesn't '''[[QuoteMine make you look like a hooker!]]'''"). She turns up later in the quad, haranguing some girl for wearing an identical outfit.

* NotHerself: Buffy yanks Joyce inside the house, then tries to hustle her upstairs into her room as quickly as possible with the promise of hot tea. Joyce is suspicious at the gesture. "That's sweet. What'd you do?"

* StakingTheLovedOne: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Angel, who is revealed to have been undead all along.
* SuicideByCop: Contrary to Darla's {{plan}}, it seems Angel wants Buffy to kill him because he's miserable living as a vampire.

* VampireInvitation: Buffy shouts to Angel to get inside while they're being chased by the Three, inadvertently providing this.

In the library, Giles scans over the Watcher Diaries for any mention of Angel and pulls up Angelus, "the one with the angelic face", who wreaked havoc all over Ireland and Europe. He later migrated to America, where he shunned vampire life; after that, the record runs dry. Buffy argues that Angel has had ample opportunity to feed off people in Sunnydale but resisted. Xander, delighted by this news, reminds Buffy that it's her duty to slay Angel. Thanks.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Buffy's crossbow bolt. It comes up in the fight with Angel and then with Darla and then [[spoiler: Angel uses a bolt that missed to finish Darla off.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Master is weary that the Slayer is eliminating his "family" [[spoiler:and openly mourns Darla's death.]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: Darla is surprised when Angel plunges the bolt into her back. "Angel?" breathes Darla, right before she poofs into a pile of dust.]]

* HistoryRepeats / MeaningfulEcho:
** The Master says "out of the mouths of babes" after a comment made by the Anointed One and in the season 6 episode "Two to go", Xander repeats the line after a comment by Dawn, both of which relate to murder.
** Season 7's "Beneath You" parallels this one. In this episode after Buffy finds out Angel is a vampire with a soul, they kiss and we see the cross Angel gave her searing his chest. In "Beneath You" after Buffy realizes Spike has a soul, he drapes his body on a large cross as it burns him.
*** Angel tells her: "I wanted to kill you" and Spike [[MeaningfulEcho uses the words]] "I dreamt of killing you".
** [[spoiler:In a deliberate CallBack to this scene, when Darla is resurrected in the spin-off series, ''Series/{{Angel}}'' she burns Angel with a cross while shouting, "God doesn't want you, but I do!"]]
** Angel kills his sire and former paramour for the love of Buffy; in "Crush" Spike offers to kill Drusilla (also his sire and former paramour) to prove his love for Buffy. Unfortunately he lacks Angel's finesse.

* LastSecondWordSwap: Outside the school, Buffy just sits on the steps morosely as Xander says, "I know you have feelings for this guy, but it's not like you're ''in love'' with him, right?" When Buffy doesn't answer and instead just looks away, Xander exclaims, "You're IN LOVE with a VAMPIRE? What are you, outta your mind?!" Suddenly spotting Cordelia, Xander quickly amends this to, "How could you love an '''umpire'''? Everyone hates 'em!"
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Angel is a vampire!

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Xander is eager for Buffy to kill Angel, while Darla is trying to get Angel to kill Buffy. As it turns out, [[spoiler: it's Darla who gets offed.]]

* TantrumThrowing: The Master throws a few candelabra around his prison after [[spoiler: Darla bites it.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: The Master, [[spoiler: upon hearing news of Darla's death]] roars and breaks things and slouches.

* WhamEpisode: Angel is a vampire and he hooks up with Buffy after [[spoiler: killing Darla.]]

* DistressedDamsel / RescueRomance: Buffy, The Three and Angel.

* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Mom]]: Angel has a minor case of this towards Darla. Understandable because he has a soul. Then we see their backstory in the spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'', and discover Darla drove Angel out after he got his soul.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Angel gives the leader of The Three a lesson in manners.

* ShootingGallery: In the library as preparation for Angel, Buffy shoots a quarrel straight into the heart of a guy on a "{{No Smoking}}" poster.

* CoolGuns: The pistol in Darla's right hand is a Glock 17. The one in her left hand is a Sig Sauer 226. Might also serve as a ShoutOut, as [[TheXFiles Dana Scully]] was using these guns at the time.

** Darla claims to be a friend of Buffy's who has arrived for a study date. This is news to Joyce, who thought Buffy was studying with Willow at the library. Darla recovers by claiming that Willow's weak on the subject of TheAmericanRevolution, which is Darla's forte. "My family kinda goes back to those days."

* SeventhEpisodeTwist: Angel is a vampire. Not only that, he's a refugee from The Master's order. What's more, he and Darla have a long history together.

* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorst
** Time: Type 1 with Joyce.

* IHateYouVampireDad:
** Angel has a minor case of this towards Darla. Understandable because he has a soul. Then we see their backstory in the spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'', and discover Darla drove Angel out after he got his soul.

* BadassLonghair: Each of The Three.

* SeventhEpisodeTwist: Angel is a vampire. Not only that, he's a refugee from The Master's order. What's more, he and Darla [[UnholyMatrimony have a long history together]].

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Buffy's crossbow bolt.

* ContinuityDrift: Angel tells Buffy that he has not fed on another living human since his soul was restored, but this is contradicted by a flashback in Angel that showed in 1943 he sired a mortally-wounded engineer to save a submarine. As the kid would have died anyway Angel may not have thought it a big deal to omit this case. About 1975, he fed on an unnamed gunshot victim in a café, though that person was already dead when Angel fed. He fed on ''many'' humans after his soul was restored, when he was still trying to be with Darla. They were just all evil humans.
** Or Angel could simply be [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation lying to a girl to whom he has seductive intentions]].

* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: Darla does this as part of her creepy-sexy look (she's in GameFace). {{Subverted|trope}} in that she's actually hiding two pistols behind her back.

* DistressedDamsel / RescueRomance: Staged with Buffy, The Three and Angel.

* FamousLastWords: Darla is surprised when Angel plunges the bolt into her back. "Angel?" breathes Darla, right before she poofs into a pile of dust.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Darla volunteers to be the next target in Buffy's turkey shoot, but The Master thinks she has too much of a "personal interest" in the matter.

* GypsyCurse
* HalfTruth: While alone in her room with Angel, Buffy asks him him why he's in the vampire hunting business, and he struggles to avoid telling the whole truth. Luckily for him, Buffy asks him if his family was killed by vampires, to which he replies [[SelfMadeOrphan that they were]].
** Angel's "older" than Buffy.

* HistoryRepeats / MeaningfulEcho: The Master says "out of the mouths of babes" after a comment made by the Anointed One and in the season 6 episode "Two to go", Xander repeats the line after a comment by Dawn, both of which relate to murder.

* HypocriticalHumor: Right off the heels of lambasting Buffy for letting Angel sleep over, Xander offers to her crash at his house while those "samurai guys" are after her.

* IHateYouVampireDad: Angel has a minor case of this towards Darla. Understandable because he has a soul.
** Even more understandable once we see their backstory in the spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'', and discover Darla drove Angel out after he got his soul.

* ImprovisedWeapon: While Buffy struggles with the other two, the leader of the Three breaks off an iron bar from a nearby window and swings it at Angel.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Darla, least for the rest of this series. It won't be until much later she'll turn up in Series/{{Angel}}]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Xander is eager for Buffy to kill Angel, while Darla is trying to get Angel to kill Buffy. As it turns out, it's Darla who gets offed.

* NoodleIncident: Xander declaring that guys will do anything to impress a girl. In fact, he, Xander, once drank a gallon of Gatorade without stopping to take a breath.

* NotListeningToMeAreYou: At the Bronze, Willow and Buffy are sitting at a table, and Buffy is lost in her thoughts. Willow guess that she's dreamily thinking of Angel, but Buffy nixes that idea. "I can just see him in a relationship. 'Hi, honey, [[MysteriousProtector you're in grave danger]]. [[MandatoryLine See you next month]]."
** And later when Willow struggles with getting Buffy to focus on studying.

* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in the one-shot ''Lorne'' comic written as a send-off to ''Series/{{Angel}}'''s Andy Hallet. In it, a malevolent trio of deities known as The Three seek to shatter the [[MagicMusic Music of the Spheres]].
* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Type 1 with Joyce.

* RelationshipUpgrade: At the end of the episode Buffy and Angel agree that [[StarCrossedLovers any relationship between them just wouldn't work]]. Moments later they're kissing passionately.

* RuleOfSymbolism: After the kiss, Buffy says she'll see him around, and leaves. The camera pans down from Angel's face and reveals the crucifix that he gave her earlier in the season has [[LoveHurts burned an impression into his chest]].

* ShapedLikeItself: To Willow's question about when the Reconstruction began, Buffy tries to focus and replies, " Um, Reconstruction...uh, Reconstruction began after the...construction, which was shoddy so they had to reconstruct."

* SmashCut: Buffy curls up on her bed after handing Angel a spare blanket, and they both go to sleep. Cut to the next day in the library: Xander is aghast to hear that Angel slept over, but Willow wants to hear all the juicy details.

* SuicideByCop: Contrary to Darla's plan, it seems Angel wants Buffy to kill him because he's miserable living as a vampire.

* TantrumThrowing: The Master throws a few candelabra around his prison after Darla bites it.

* TroubleEntendre: Like a good mom, Joyce ushers Darla into the kitchen, asking if she would like something to eat. Behind her, Darla is now wearing her GameFace and replies that she's pretty peckish.
* VillainousBreakdown: The Master, upon hearing news of Darla's death.

* WhamEpisode