OT-Angel

["Patrick Sanders" <rsand21266@xxxxxxxxx>]

This comes from Ain't it Cool News and may be the first act of 
Angel's fifth season.

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* The first characters we see are Buffy and Spike. It's a flashback 
to Spike's final moments over the Sunnydale hellmouth. Spike goes all 
bright and dusty, then: 
* The first new scene is set in Wolfram & Hart's "White Room." It's 
somebody's point of view. Somebody on his or her back. Winifred, 
Charles and Wesley are all peering down. None of the trio has ever 
seen this mystery-person before, but Wes seems to have a pretty good 
idea who it is. Angel arrives and eliminates any abmbiguity with a 
single-word: "Spike." No more POV. Spike naked save a familiar-
looking amulet, turns groggily toward Angel and mutters, "Oh ? bloody 
hell." He hear a violin and the title credits roll. 
* Actually, before the big reveal, the first thing we hear in the 
White Room POV shot is heavy breathing. But when we see Team Angel 
hovering, none of them seems to be breathing very hard. 
* When Angel offers Spike a cup of blood in the law firm's 
examination room, Spike says he actually feels like a chocolate 
shake. 
* The second Spike learns Buffy survived the big doings in what used 
to be Sunnydale, he starts off to find his true love. But Angel won't 
let him leave until he can figure out why Spike is still alive. "Oh 
reeaaly?" asks Spike. "And are we sure that's the reason now?" Angel 
also wants the amulet back, since it's technically Wolfram & Hart 
property. A big Spike-Angel fight ensues. 
* There is much shattering of law-firm glass. As the Spike-Angel 
fight grows more intense, Angel goes into vamp-face. Spike tries to 
do the same, but finds he can't! 
* Angel manages to yank the Amulet away from Spike. Spike begins 
gasping and turning blue. "Angel, the amulet," cries Wesley. "I think 
he needs it. He's dying." Angel hesitates, but Fred reminds Angel 
that Spike just finished saving the world. 
* Angel returns the amulet and Spike's complexion immediately turns 
rosier. "His breathing is returning to normal," advises 
Wes. "`Breathing?'" asks Fred. 
* Angel rips a giant mirror from the wall. He can't see himself in 
it, but Spike casts a reflection! 
* Lilah turns up with Spike's blood test. The DNA matches what the 
Initiative took out of Hostile 17 four years ago, but the amulet 
seems to have "cleansed" the vampire right out of Spike. He's all 
human now! 
* Wes remembers the Shanshu prophecy. "When that a souled vampire 
fulfills his destiny ? whatever that may be ? he becomes human." 
* But if Spike's human, why is so strong, and able to fight Angel so 
effectively? Wes remembers speaking to Willow by phone about 
the "joining spell" that turned all the potentials into slayers. "So 
when the cleansing began," asks Lilah, "did you ? I dunno ? touch 
Buffy?" Spike answers in the affirmative, flashing back to the fiery 
hand-holding. 
* And then, at the end of this first act, Lilah and Wes come to the 
same conclusion ? and reveal one last amazing thing about this new 
Spike: 
* He's now the world's first male vampire slayer. 

Okay.

Anybody else wanna barf?

Joss screw the vamp, bring back Tara dammit!

I'll go away now,

Patrick