The Obligatory Fred Episode
Updated 2002-11-09 16:00:00
Previously on Angel, Cordy was sucked into Pylea, Fred said "Handsome man saved me from the monsters," and I screamed and screamed because I thought I'd never have to hear that line again, and I'd finally stopped hearing it in my head every time I see Fred, and now here it is again and I just can't stand it, and then my neighbors thought I was being killed, and I'm not sure what else happened in the previouslys, because there was a whole thing with the cops, and I couldn't stop screaming, and they finally had to use tranquilizers, and still the dreams come.
Let's move on. Someone's screaming at the Hyperion. Or is that still me? No, it's Fred. Which seems only fair, except she's screaming happily. She shows Gunn a copy of Modern Physics Review magazine, which contains her article. Gunn flips it open and we learn that the title is "Supersymmetry and P-Dimensional Subspace." Man, that's some kind of new record for getting the title in. Also: subspace. Hee. Gunn sits on the bed and starts to read the article aloud. Fred starts cuddling and kissing him, because technobabble is not the surefire ratings grabber UPN wants to believe. Gunn tosses the magazine aside, and Fred crawls on top of him so that we can see her shockingly short skirt. Gosh. Just as Gunn starts pulling his shirt off, and I think, "Finally!" we cut away. Damn.
Cary says, "Give it to me, sweetness." Eek. He's talking to Angel, but before you jump to any conclusions, he's just asking for his dinner tray. Cary's still convalescing, I take it. He asks if Angel just heard a scream, and Angel explains, "It's just Fred. I think it's a Texas thing." I suddenly feel very sorry for Angel, because he's got super-hearing and he's in the same building as Fred. He must hear her babbling all the time. I bet every night he thinks, "I know I did some bad things, but do I really deserve this?" Cary eats some soup and then puts it aside, claiming, "It's all too much Sturm und Drang for [his] appetite." Angel hesitantly asks if Cary's worried about "the whole slouching toward Bethlehem thing." Cary says no, and Angel suddenly looks eager, but Cary interrupts: "I jumped ahead. That 'no' was the one that comes after you asking me to read Cordy again." Angel insists that he was going to "build up to it subtly," hee, but Cary's mind is made up. He's afraid that if he reads Cordy, Wolfram & Hart will come after him again. Angel turns away and says, "I'm listening," as he walks to the door. Cary goes on talking about his unwillingness to get killed for another minute before he realizes, "When you say 'listening,' you don't mean to me." That kind of misunderstanding works on paper, but not as played. Angel didn't say, "I'm listening" the way you would if you meant, "I'm listening to something else." Oh well. Angel says that the noise is probably Fred, but goes down the hall to investigate. Cary pulls out a small axe and we hear him call, "I got your back," as we cut away.
Angel walks curiously down a hall. We hear something move in one of the rooms, and he quietly opens the door and enters.