YMMV / Angel S 05 E 04 Hell Bound

• Complete Monster: Matthias "The Reaper" Pavayne was a Mad Doctor and Serial Killer who was sacrificed by Wolfram & Hart to deconsecrate the holy ground on which they built their Los Angeles office. Enduring as a ghost, Pavayne avoids his fate of being sent to hell by torturing the souls of others who died in the building, condemning them to hell in his place and reveling in his power over others. Cheating damnation for over two hundred years, Pavayne targets a ghostly Spike as his latest victim, tormenting him with visions of Pavayne's past victims before revealing himself and moving on to physical and psychological torture. When Angel and his team bring in a psychic to help Spike, Pavayne gruesomely murders her to avoid detection. When Fred tries to make Spike corporeal again to save him, Pavayne starts strangling her, intending to force Spike to choose between saving himself or saving Fred and allowing Pavayne to send him to hell.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Simon Templeman, who played Matthias Payne, would later have a recurring role as the Angel of Death on Charmed (1998).
• Ho Yay:
  • Gunn on Spike:
  20 minutes from now he'll be popping up next to you in the shower, making cracks about your... am I the only one he does that to?

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