Angel

OK, here’s the scoopage. In episode 10, Spike is in a strip club when someone named Sean comes up to him and tries to get him to take on the role of champion, helping the helpless. I had a few thoughts when I learned this.

1. It sounded just like Doyle. 2. There were no casting sides for this character, and if I hadn’t known that Glenn Quinn was dead, I would have assumed it was GQ playing the role.

But it ends up that there may be bigger fish to fry, so to speak. According to a poster on Buffistas (thanks for the alert, K!), Lindsey is coming back to Angel, "but you can call him Sean."

So it looks like Christian Kane fans may get to see him in Episode 10 of Angel!

I’m just putting together the pieces. I have no firm confirmation of anything other than that there is a character named Sean in episode 10.

And now the episode 10 summary

Episode 10

While Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve looses a soul-sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing, feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.

As he did a few weeks ago, Angel watches Spike drink from the Cup of Perpetual Torment. This time the cup is real, and Spike is bathed in heavenly light while Angel’s face begins to melt off. Meanwhile, at a strip bar, Spike is approached by a man named Sean, who has several rune-like tattoos, and who seems to know everything about Spike. Sean asks Spike if he received any interesting mail lately, and Spike realizes Sean must be the one who brought his spirit back from the Hellmouth and sent him the package that made him corporeal again. Back at Wolfram and Hart, Wesley and Gunn consult Angel about an evil warlock they want to go after, but Angel says he’s tired of such problems. At the bar Sean explains that he’s been having searing visions of people in trouble who need a champion, but Spike says that’s Angel’s business. Sean says, however, that Angel has sold out to Wolfram and Hart, so someone new needs to take over his good deeds. Spike is reluctant, but Sean says he just had a vision… and a few moments later Spike is in an alley saving a cute young woman from a nasty vampire. After Spike dusts the vampire and the woman leaves, Sean congratulates him and says he’s looking forward to next time. Spike says there won’t be a next time, but then Sean compares him to Angel, which gets Spike’s attention. Meanwhile, as Gunn, Wes, and Fred argue about how to deter various evil-doers, Angel says they should just kill them all. Gunn asks if he’s feeling all right, and when Angel says he’s tired, Wesley escorts Angel back to his suite. As Wes helps Angel into bed, he pulls out a stake and drives it through Angel’s heart… and then Angel wakes up, realizes it was just a nightmare, and crashes back into bed.

A bit later Spike thwarts another vampire attack, and Sean says the odd feeling he has is valor. Spike is still skeptical, but can’t help being intrigued. Back at Wolfram and Hart, Eve delivers a rune-covered stone to Wes and asks him to figure out what it is as soon as possible. Harmony says Wesley should tell Angel about the relic, but Wes says they should let Angel rest. Meanwhile Fred goes to Angel’s suite, and he’s suddenly transported to her lab, where she slices him open, pulls out all his organs, then shouts an echoing “hello” into his bottomless body cavity to prove how empty he is. Then we see that it’s just another nightmare, as Angel tosses and turns in his bed. A bit later, as Wes and Harmony inspect the relic, Gunn brings them a newspaper account of a vampire-killing vigilante… whom they recognize as Spike. Meanwhile Sean takes Spike to a basement apartment, which he says is Spike’s new home. About the same time, Angel wakes up and sees Spike and Buffy making love on a couch across the room. Then Angel wakes from this dream too, shakes it off, gets dressed, and goes downstairs. When Angel gets to his office, however, it’s set up like a movie theater, and Wes, Gunn, Fred, Loren, and Harmony sit eating popcorn while Armageddon plays out outside a large picture window. Angel is shocked and says he must go out to help people, but Wes says Spike is handling it. Then, when Angel looks down at his shirt, there’s a large maroon stain spreading on it. Then we see Angel, really still in bed and still dreaming, with a large maroon parasite sucking at his chest.

A bit later Angel’s friends throw a party for Spike, who has single-handedly ended Armageddon and turned the world into a beautiful, happy place. As the Blue Fairy grants Spike’s wish to be a real boy again, Angel, dressed in a button-down shirt and clip-on tie, wheels a mail cart away… while the real Angel is still in bed, with the parasite still sucking at his chest. A bit later Wesley and Gunn find Spike at his new apartment, wave the newspaper story, and declare that if Spike wants to do good, he should come work with them at Wolfram and Hart. Spike realizes this invitation couldn’t be coming from Angel, so he turns them down. Meanwhile Eve and Sean cavort seductively in her bed, and we learn that it was Eve’s plan all along to distract Spike while they finish some other “project.” Then, finally, Eve asks if Sean is going to give her what she wants, and he hands her a small, rune-covered box. About the same time Wes and Gun return to Wolfram and Hart and tell Fred they had no luck luring Spike back. Fred suggests they consult Angel, and then they all realize that none of them have seen Angel today. Fred alerts Harmony, who tries to call Angel on the phone. As it rings in his room, he hears a piano playing and finds Lorne there, tickling the ivories. Downstairs Fred decides to go check on Angel, but runs into Eve, who asks how the rune deciphering is going. Back upstairs Angel asks Lorne to read his aura, but when Angel tries to sing, nothing comes out. Finally he looks down and sees the parasite on his shirt, and as he tries to rip it off, he wakes for real with his hands around the creature on his chest. Finally Angel squeezes the parasite to death, but then Eve pulls an even bigger parasite out of a box.

As the parasite crawls up Angel’s body, Eve leaves. Just before the parasite can latch on to Angel, he throws it off and falls out of bed. The parasite waits to strike again. Meanwhile Sean returns to Spike’s apartment, where he has a painful vision that he says will interest Spike. Back in Angel’s suite, Angel reaches for his phone, but as he dials, the parasite latches onto him. As it digs its fangs in, Angel finds himself in the middle of a sunny field. His friends approach and say he can stay as long as he wants… if he just stops caring. Just as Angel starts to look convinced, the others start to scream. At that moment in the real world, Spike pulls the parasite off Angel’s chest and splatters it against a wall. A bit later Fred gives Angel a cup of blood to revive him, and he recounts the horrible hallucinations he suffered when the parasite was on him. Wes explains that the parasite toxin would have left Angel in a permanent vegetative state if Spike hadn’t intervened when he did. Angel asks where the parasite came from, but then he remembers that Eve brought it. She says that was just another hallucination, but Angel disagrees and then, after wondering why the Senior Partners would try to kill him after so recently recruiting him, he realizes Eve must have been acting on her own. Angel says the Senior Partners won’t be happy to hear that, and that she just made herself expendable. Then she asks if he’s sure about that, warns him to look a few more moves ahead, and walks out.