Angel

From Spoilerslayer.com By Tensai :

Angel: Damage

The episode opens at a mental institution. A doctor (Dr. Rabinaw) and the head nurse (Carol) are chatting when a nurse rushes up to them, because a patient is not reacting well to their medication. There was a mix-up, and the patient was given the wrong sedative. Dr. Rabinaw is horrified when he discovers exactly who wasn’t sedated. We discover why, as the heavily-reinforced door that contains this patient begins to take a beating from the occupant inside.

Rabinaw and some orderlies move to the door to the cell. Rabinaw is not worried, as the door can certainly handle this patient. Until it flies off the hinges and across the corridor. Inside, we see the patient. A young woman. A very tiny, slim and ’not the type to burst through metal doors’ woman. To further disprove this assumption, the young woman (Dana), quickly disables the orderlies and escapes.

Angel and Spike arrive at the aslyum, thanks to an anonymous phone call.

Note: Spike makes reference to Angel maybe needing to check himself in, due to some mind-twisting parasite that Spike saved him from. I would guess that this is what induces the hallucinations/dreams in the previous episode.

They ask for more information from Rabinaw, who explains that Dana’s family had been killed when she was only 10, and she was abducted and found wandering the streets months later. As Angel and Spike examine her room, which is covered with crayon drawings of a girl being accosted by demons, Rabinaw explains that up until a few months ago, she had pretty much catatonic. Then suddenly she came out of it, in a clearly agitated and schizophrenic state. She also seemed to be incredibly strong. Spike quickly takes a page from the ’Tru Davies book of Wrong Conclusions’, and deduces that she must have been possessed by a demon. He heads out to find her, while Angel ponders the drawings further.

Meanwhile, Dana has wandered into a nearby store, hugging a bone-saw to her chest. While eagerly devouring snacky goodness from the shelves, a stock boy confronts her with the old ’you eat it, you buy it’ routine. Which turns out to be a bad idea, as she breaks his arm without hesitation and heads off to get some clothes in another aisle. Where a armed security guard confronts her.

Back at the institution, Angel is approached by Carol (the nurse). He realizes that Carol was the one who called. Turns out that she’s heard about a few openings at the firm, and figures this could give her an ’in’. She takes Angel to a room where Rabinaw has been taping sessions with Dana. One of the tapes features Dana in restraints speaking in multiple tongues (just like your standard victim of demonic possession), which seems fine until she says something in a language that Angel understands.

Back at the store, Spike walks by as the security guard’s body is wheeled out under a bloody sheet. He smells some blood on the pavement, realizes that it’s Dana’s, and starts tracking her.

Missing a bit of the action here, but at some point Spike gets into a tussle with Dana. Dana is more than able to go head to head with Spike (have you figured it out yet?), and gets away. She is discovered at the docks by one of the workers, who goes over to her to see if she’s alright (his first, and final, mistake). Meanwhile at Wolfram and Hart, Wesley and Angel have figured out that Dana has been dreaming about Slayers.

At the docks, Spike stumbles upon Andrew, who stumbles himself on the remains of the dockworker. (yes, that Andrew. I think he shows up at the end of the previous episode, as Spike tells him to go back to the offices and isn’t surprised that he’s in town).

While this is going on, Angel and Lorne have gone with a Wolfram and Hart psychic (Vernon), to the house where Dana used to live. We discover what happened when Dana was 10, as her family was targeted and killed by a mysterious ’humming man’, who abducted Dana and tortured her until she escaped. Vernon realizes that she’s trying to return to the basement where she was imprisoned for so long

Which is where Spike finds her. It’s unclear if he’s figured out what Dana is (A Slayer), as she rambles on like the mad-woman she is. Spike tries to talk to her, since he has some experience with half-insane women, but she manages to get the drop on him and uses some medication she found in the basement to render him unconscious (the same thing that used to be done to her by the ’humming man’). Spike, mercifully, blacks out.

Warning: If you are eating, or thought that nothing could be worse than last season’s ’Kick-The-Spike’ on Buffy, stop reading now

Final scenes in the episode are a Wolfram and Hart strike team rushing the basement and Wesley tranquilizing Dana. Angel and the others discover Spike chained to a radiator, sans hands. As Spike is rushed out to a waiting ambulance, Fred is communicating with the medical team back at the firm. Another employee comes out with a cooler containing Spike’s hands. That’s all I have for now.

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From Voy.com/14810 By Clairel :

As previously reported by Filmjerk, there is a mentally disturbed young woman named Dana who has been in a mental asylum forabout 10 years. When she was a kid of 10 years old, her family was murdered and she was taken away by the murderer and tortured for months. She was found eventually, dazed and catatonic, and has been institutionalized ever since. She has superstrength and if she isn’t constantly sedated she goes berserk. A nurse mixes up the meds one day, Dana doesn’t get her sedative, and she breaks out.

For some reason both Spike and Angel have heard about this separately. It seems as if they are rival "do-gooders" now. Angel is annoyed when Spike shows up at the asylum to investigate at the same time he does. They both talk to the doctor a bit, then Spike leaves saying it’s time for action. Angel stays around and talks to the nurse. She wants a job with W&H and she shows Angels some videotapes and pictures she’s not supposed to show him.

Dana is in a grocery store chowing down on Hostess Ding Dongs, and snapping the clerk’s arm like a twig when he asks her to pay for the food.

Later there’s a street scene with a bloody corpse. Spike arrives and sniffs the blood, prepared to track the perp (who I guess is Dana).

Spike also runs into Andrew, who is freaked out by the bloody corpse and screams like a little girl. Evidently it isn’t their first encounter in LA; Spike tells Andrew to go back to Wolfram & Hart, and Andrew talks about how Giles has been training him and he is now 82% more manly than he was before. He also shows Spike a variety of weapons stashed inside his coat.

There is also a scene with Lorne, a real estate agent, and someone named Vernon who I think is a psychic. They’re walking through a house that I think is Dana’s childhood house. The psychic is talking about what happened to her and her family, and how "her pain is still here." There is also a mention of how Dana has been dreaming about Slayers for years (perhaps she’s a Slayer herself now and that’s why she has superstrength?).

There are flashbacks with Dana at the age of ten, screaming in fear at a man in jeans and work boots whose face is never seen. He’s called the Humming Man because he hums all the time. He is preparing torture devices for Dana.

There is no casting side for the Humming Man himself. My guess is that the Humming Man is actually Spike, or at least the audience is supposed to think it is. It’s also mentioned that he wears a black teeshirt, and when adult Dana sees a dark-colored teeshirt she freaks out and has a memory flashback.

Later—brace yourselves, because this is upsetting—Dana evidently must have gotten hold of Spike, knocked him out, and chained him to a radiator somewhere. It’s mentioned that his arms are stumps, and Dana has a saw: evidently she sawed off Spike’s hands. Fred has arrived with an ambulance and a med team and is taking Spike back to her lab to operate on him and give him new hands.

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By BubonicPlague :

Teaser:

The episode opens at night, in a shabby, rundown asylum.

We see Doctor Rabinaw, an older, tired man, coming down the hall to his nurse, Carol, who’s doing a crossword. They discussing stocking up on psychiatric medications, and then the crossword.

Suddenly another nurse calls the doctor urgently to go to a patient, Phillip, a guy in late 20s, who’s convulsing. Dr. Rabinaw asks what happened, and the young nurse says she doesn’t know. They discuss his meds, and discover the nurse got them mixed up - and they realize that Phillip got someone else’s sedatives, and panic sets in. Just then they hear a loud noise of something large slamming against a metal door.

Dr. Rabinaw runs down the hall, joined by a couple of orderlies, as the door-pounding noise, coming from the end of the hall, continues, and then stops. The doctor laughs, relieved, thinking that the door can’t be breached...

And then it flies open! Inside is Dana, a young woman, dirty, ill-kempt, and scarred on her arms and legs.

Dr. Rabinaw attempts to calm Dana as the orderlies move towards her, but Dana sees the needle the doctor’s holding. The orderlies attempt to subdue her, but even though they’re far bigger, she kicks their butts.

Rabinaw is immobile, terrified.

End of Teaser.

(we skip some pages here)

Back at the asylum, again, night. Two elevators open, and Spike comes from one, and Angel from another. Angel is less than thrilled, Spike is cheerful. Spike asks if Angel’s head got muddled by the slug Spike saved him from, and if he’s here to get it checked out. Angel is not amused, and tells SPike he should be out patrolling the streets.

Spike snarks back that, what with Angel being in the office all the time, he feels like he needs to help out. They continue walking down the hall, and through a torn-up security gate.

Nurse Carol and Dr. Rabinaw see them, and the doctor asks if he can help them. Spike says no, that he and Angel are there to help the doctor. Apparently Dana flew the coop. Angel hands the doctor his card, saying that he’s going to help get her back.

Dr. Rabinaw is confused by the W&H business card, saying he already went over everything with the police, but Angel asks for the details again, and Spike plays "bad cop", backing up Angel’s request. The doc gets the picture.

Next scene - Angel, Spike and the doctor in Dana’s room, which has crazy crayon drawings of monsters and a young girl taped all over the walls. Spike looks them over while Angel talks with the doctor.

The doctor tells about the medication mixup, revealing that Dana was on a very high dose of sedatives. Angel questions this, and the doctor explains that Dana’s case was unusual. She witnessed her family’s murder at age 10, and was kidnapped and tortured by the murderer afterwards. She was found months later and has been almost catatonic since.

Spike looks at the busted door and says that it looks like she’s not so catatonic anymore.

The doctor says that several months ago, Dana’s behavior changed. He spouts a lot of pschyiatric diagostic tersm - schizophrenia, MPD, etc... Spike pulls off one of the drawings, and sums it up as demon posession, which the doctor scoffs at. Spike scoffs at the doctor’s mustache in return, and Angel tells him that it’s not helping. Spike comes back saying, no, he’s not helping, he’s doing, and he’s off to repossess that demon. And he leaves, as Angel glares after him.

Angel apologizes to the doctor about Spike’s terminal idiocy. The doctor says he should go after him, because otherwise, Dana will kill him, too, and then leaves. Angel says to himself that Spike will just come back again if he’s killed.

Angel looks at the drawings on the walls again, and wonders out loud what the doctor wasn’t telling him. He turns, and we realize he was talking to Nurse Carol in the doorway.

Part two guys...scenes are separated by "*******" when we are missing sections. This jumps around a bit.

Drugstore at night - A stockboy passes an aisle and notices something strange and pauses. Dana (in her dirty asylum gown) is tearing open snack cakes and devouring them. The stockboy confronts her, but she ignores him and continues.

He tries to stop her, but she grabs his arm and snaps it in two. He falls to the ground, screaming in pain. She grabs her saw (she’s carrying a saw with her like a security blanket) and steps over him and moves on to a clothing aisle where she grabs a pair of pants and a dark shirt which triggers a flashback.

Flashback to basement - Flashes of bloody tools, chains, and a man wearing a dark t-shirt. We never see his face. The man is humming an upbeat tune as he selects his next tool, a small saw. He turns around, and we pan to a bloody 10 year-old Dana, who is chained to a radiator.

Back to the drugstore - A security guard points his gun at Dana. He tries to calm her down, but she has a cold, blank stare on her face.

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Wharf at night - Dana is walking amongst empty buildings. She has had a run in with Spike (we don’t know anything about it). A boat horn triggers another flashback.

Flashback to basement - Dana chained up, bloody and terrified. The Man reaches for a tin container, and Dana screams in terror.

Back to the Wharf - She’s bloody and crying. A dockworker notices her and asks her if she’s okay. She looks up at him confused.

Angel’s conference room - They’re in full research mode - stuff strewn everywhere. Wes is reading Dana’s psychiatric reports. Angel is frustrated that they aren’t making progress.

Angel mentions that they’ve identified all the slayers that Dana has dreamt about. (Missing the rest of this scene)

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Scene with Andrew and Spike. Yes, Andrew is back!

Spike is annoyed that Andrew is tagging along and tells him to go back to W&H. Andrew wants to be where the action is though, and he opens his coat to reveal a ton of weapons. He’s prepared. He says that Mr. Giles has been training him, and he’s more manly. Then he trips on the pavement, and turns around to see what caused it. He sees the bloody remains of the dockworker that tried to help Dana. He lets out a girly scream.

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Suburban home, night - real estate agent is showing Angel, Lorne and the a blue-skinned, robed psychic through the house.

He’s mentioning all the features, but they’re ignoring him. The psychic, Vernon, says that the walls scream with the blood of the innocent. Angel asks Lorne if Vernon is reliable. Lorne assures him, he’s Madonna’s psychic after all.

Flash to what Vernon is seeing - Fifteen years ago inside the house, Dana’s family is murdered. Her mom is screaming and bloody. Dad’s bloody body hitting the floor. A bloody baby crib.

Back to Vernon - Vernon continues to wander from room to room feeling the walls muttering that he needed them to suffer.

Flashback to Dana hiding under her bed. The humming man stops by her bed and suddenly throws the bed, revealing a ten-year-old Dana.

Back to Vernon - Vernon jerks out of his vision. Angel asks him where the man took her. Vernon says somewhere dark, cold, dusty - that’s where her pain lives. It’s still calling to her.

Note: this bit should go before the part where Fred, the Swat Team, and EMT are helping Spike.

Spike is speaking to Dana in a basement, saying that he’s got her scent and he can track her now, so not to bother running away again. She speaks in whispers, and it’s not clear whether she is speaking to Spike, or to herself. She says that there is no escaping. Spike says that’s right, and comes carefully closer to her, explaing that eh doesn’t what to hurt her. Dana says that it doesn’t hurt if you hold still, and begins wandering about. She mentions heart and heads, and then says she has to get home. Spike pines that she’s completely loony, but pauses and says that’s okay, he used to date a girl who wasn’t totally there. He asks is she’d like to go looks at the moon and tear up some dolls, while Dana keeps rambling about heart and head. Spike tries to explain that a couple of months ago, Dana’s head got all jumbled which was a shame because she sounds like she wasn’t all there to begin with. Dana whispers to herself that she has to get home to her son, and Spike says not to think about that. She backs into the wall, confused, and mumbles not to be scared, and the head and the heart mantra.

As Spike gets closer, she whips out, cutting Spike to the floor by sweeping his legs out from under him, and then jams a syringe into his next. Dana disappears as Spike begins to regain control, but he’s going weak and asks what she did to him. She replies from somewhere hidden that yellows make you weak. Spike’s starting to spin now, and his knees buckle. Dana reappears and kicks him hard in the stomach and then punches him, sending him to the ground. He’s struggling to regain himself, but it’s not happening. She stands over him, saying not to cry, they can’t hear… and the pulls out another syringe out of a cookie box, This she fills with clear liquid, saying yellow makes you weak, and clear makes you sleepy, and injects Spike in the arm with the stuff. She sits back, mumbling about head and heart again, and adds that something/someone can’t hurt her anymore, Spike says she’s crazy, he never… and she shushes him, saying to count backwards from ten, which she begins to do as he passes out.