Angel Episode #9: "Hero"
Episode Guide
SYNOPSIS Cordelia proposes the idea of a
commercial to advertise their services, but Angel isn't interested. She then
tries to get Doyle to act in the commercial. Doyle nervously works his way
through saying his lines. After one failed attempt, Doyle goes to talk to Angel
and finds that he's still upset over Buffy. Angel tells Doyle about the day that
was erased to everyone but himself and then says that he's worried about the End
of Days that is going to take place soon.
Doyle talks to Cordelia about secrets and then he has a vision about a bunch of
demons. Outside that night, two demons run away and hide as a large army of
unknown creatures walks the streets. Angel and Doyle check out the place that
Doyle saw in his vision and find a large group of demons hidden under the floor.
Doyle tells Angel about a time many years ago when another demon comes to Doyle
for help. Doyle has his first vision then, and when he goes to the place he sees
in his vision, he finds a bunch of Bracken demons like himself, dead. He reveals
that the Scourge is a virtually invincible group of purebred demons out to kill
any half-breeds.
Cordelia arrives to help them transfer the demons out of the country so they can
hide from the Scourge. Angel uses his threatening ways to make sure the demons
will be taken by boat and nothing will stop them from getting to their
destination. A young Lister demon, Reef runs away just before they are to leave
and Doyle goes to find him. Doyle manages to convince him to go back and as
they're reaching the building the Scourge comes down the street. Doyle and Reef
hide as the Scourge look everywhere, breaking windows and setting fire to cars
in the process. Doyle runs out to distract them and ends up meeting up with
Angel. When confronting the leader of the Scourge, Angel pretends to snap
Doyle's neck and then asks to join them.
Reef finds Doyle and sees that he's alive. Doyle just snaps his neck back in
place and reveals that he's stronger in demon form. After getting everyone onto
the ship safely, Cordelia makes them wait for Reef, Doyle and Angel to arrive.
While talking to one of the Lister demons, Cordelia discovers that Doyle is
half-demon. Meanwhile, Angel stands among the demons, listening to their plan to
eliminate anything with human blood. Using a large light that will do just
that--kill anything with human blood, they demonstrate its power on a human man.
When Doyle finally arrives, Cordelia tells him they were worried, and then slaps
him for not telling her he was half-demon. He starts to ask her out to dinner,
but Angel shows up, closely followed by the Scourge. Angel tries to fight them
all alone, and when he starts to fight their leader, the fight gets taken inside
of the ship. Meanwhile, the other Scourge demons are lowering the light into the
ship. Angel kills their leader, but the Lister demons are trapped inside and the
light is going to detonate and kill them all. The only way to stop it is by
disconnecting the cable, but that also means death for whoever does it.
Doyle won't let Angel do it, and he knocks him off the platform and to the
ground. Doyle kisses Cordelia, and a small purple haze travels from him to her,
then he jumps out onto the light. The light burns him as he struggles to break
the cable, but he finally does and then the light destroys him. In the end,
Angel and Cordelia sit in the office and watch the commercial with Doyle in it.
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