Angel Episode #5: "Room With A View"
Episode Guide
SYNOPSIS At the office, Cordelia is too
distracted complaining to Doyle about not getting a role in a commercial to
answer the phone. It turns out it is Aura who's called, and then Cordelia leaves
early. At Doyle's request, Angel talks a bit about what Cordelia used to be like
back in High School. At her incredibly rundown apartment, Cordelia finds lights
that don't work, brown water comes from the faucet, and then finally the
multitude of roaches makes her call Doyle for help. On his way to answer the
phone, Doyle runs into a little trouble, as a demon collecting money from him
either wants the money, or Doyle's life. Fortunately, Doyle is able to get away
with a wounded hand. Cordelia however, goes straight to Angel's place,
interrupting his shower and moving herself in.
The next morning, Doyle goes down to Angel's place and finds Cordelia there. The
exchange of words between her and Angel about peanut butter on the bed leads him
to the wrong conclusions, but Angel quickly explains. Doyle asks some questions,
and finds out that Cordelia gave out his address to the demon collecting from
him. Having noticed the bruise on Doyle's hand, Angel tricks him into thinking
someone was there to collect money. Doyle tells him what's going on and they
make a deal: Angel will take care of the demon if Doyle finds Cordelia an
apartment.
Doyle and Cordelia go hunting for an apartment, and after many failed attempts,
Doyle calls someone he knows and they find a beautiful apartment at a cheap
price. Of course, later that night, Cordelia discovers that the reason it's
cheap, beautiful, and available is because it's haunted. Angel meets up with the
demon collecting money from Doyle at Doyle's apartment. Using a little violent
persuasion, he tells the demon he'll get the money, but then they leave Doyle
alone. Doyle's not happy that he has to pay, but he is grateful he gets to live.
Desperate to keep the apartment, Cordelia pretends not to be affected by all the
moving objects and blowing wind that the ghost is trying to use to make her
leave. Angel and Doyle stop by to check out her new place, and after discovering
the place is haunted, and that the ghost obviously wants Cordelia out, they make
her leave with them. At the office, they research to see who the ghost might be
and how to get rid of them. They believe it's Maude Pierson, who used to own the
building and also lived in one of the apartments. Doyle leaves to get the
supplies they need to get rid of the ghost while Angel pays a visit to Kate to
see if any police records could be of help.
Cordelia gets a call from Angel telling her to meet him at the apartment.
However, when Angel calls Doyle, and they hear the conversation saved on the
answering machine, it's revealed that it wasn't Angel on the phone. At the
apartment, Cordelia finds that the ghost of Maude Pierson was just playing
tricks, and that she thinks Cordelia is the girl who wanted to marry her son and
take him away from his mother. Doyle and Angel arrive to perform the spell and
find Cordelia an emotional mess because of what the ghost said to her. Wind
blowing, objects flying, and Cordelia is too preoccupied with crying and feeling
sorry for herself to help complete the spell, they try to leave. Instead, they
are greeted by the Caliph demon and two friends, all armed with guns.
While the demons are occupied with fighting against Doyle and Angel, Cordelia is
pulled back into the bedroom where Maude's ghost attacks her verbally. Suddenly,
something inside Cordelia snaps, and she's back to her old self, telling the
ghost off. Meanwhile, as the wind and flying objects stop, Angel kills the last
demon. Cordelia comes out of the bedroom, and suddenly her eyes turn an icy blue
color, and she grabs a lamp. With all her strength, she knocks down a brick wall
with the metal stand of the lamp, revealing a skeleton behind the wall. Flashing
back, we see that Maude Pierson didn't want her son, Dennis to run away with a
girl, tied him up, and then built the wall up around him, leaving Dennis to die.
Angel talks to Doyle about the way he lives, and Doyle says it'll get better,
it'll just take some time. Cordelia loves her new apartment and raves about it
to Aura on the phone. She does have to share the apartment though, with the much
less-scary ghost of Dennis Pierson.
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