<Episode 9: Hero (Angel, the Series)>

EPISODE COLLAGE: Hero
Season: Episode 9 of Season 1
Original Air Date: 11/30/1999
Written by: Howard Gordon and Tim Minear
Directed by: Tucker Gates

Notes:
Nazi Demons (the Scourge) menace harmless Lister Demons.

Plot Highlights:

Cordy envisions a Dark Avenger commercial for AI. Doyle reads for Cordy's 2nd commercial. Angel tells Cordy about his day as a human with Buffy. Doyle starts to tell Cordy he's half-demon, gets hit with a vision. Angel & Doyle find the hiding Lister demons. Doyle tells Angel about his previous encounter with the Scourge. Cordy meets the Listers while Angel makes cruise arranagements. Doyle goes after a young rebellious Lister. Cordy makes arrangements at the boat. Angel pretends to want to join the Scourge. Cordy berates Doyle for not telling her about being half-demon. Angel battles the Scourge, Doyle deactivates their human-killing device at the cost of his life. Angel & Cordy watch Doyle's commercial.

Memorable Moments:

  • Cordy babbling about "the Dark Avenger" as Angel pointedly ignores her. Doyle's efforts to imagine Angel in tights garnering free publicity.
  • Flashback to Doyle finding the bodies of his fellow Brachan demons, who he refused to help because of the danger involved.
  • Cordelia dressing Doyle down for not telling her about his demon heritage, and then ordering him to ask her out already.
  • Doyle deciding to take Angel's place and sacrifice his life to deactivate the beacon device and save everyone.
  • Rewatching the commercial filmed earlier, heavy on the irony this time around.

Transcript Source:
Download from http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season1/transcripts/09_tran.shtml
Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by me.
(If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)

There are 15 clips for this episode

The following AKAs appeared in this episode:
The following characters appeared in this episode:
|Angel |Cordelia |Doyle |

The following Story Arcs where represented in this episode:

NOTES ON EPISODE ART: CREATED 07/2003 ~Yet another in the "AtS Season 1" series... it seems like I've made a zillion, but I'm not even half done with the season yet... sigh. I have this thing about matching sets, so expect more as I continue working on the season! Anyway, not much to say about this one, except that blue was suggested by all the cool night-street scenes in the episode. For texture, I used a stock photo of some smoke and custom brushes from insomniac brushes. Caps are mostly from buffyfanfic.de, with one or two from buffycaps.be.



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