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From: Dori <ms_dori@e...>
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:25 am
Subject: SPIKEFEED SPOILERS: Damage, short
WOW. What an episode! This one kicks ass.
High points:
Andrew seeing Spike for the first time. He sees Spike, and he's
stunned. He gets up, goes to Spike, touches him tentatively. Pats
Spike's chest, like he can't believe he's really there. Then he
throws his arms around Spike's neck and hugs him. He says Spike is
like Gandalf the White, back from the pit of the Balrog, "More
beautiful than ever!" He touches Spike's face, still not entirely
con inced that he's real. "He's alive, Frodo," Andrew says, burying
his face in Spike's shoulder, "He's alive!" Spike, meanwhile, is
standing there enduring the embrace and all the emotional
goings-on--Andrew is on the brink of tears, but doesn't actually cry.
Angel takes pity on Spike, and asks, "So you know each other?"
Trying really hard not to sound as amused as he no doubt is. <G>
Andrew breaks off the hug, pulls himself together and they get on
with the Slayer briefing. We get a shout-out to "Storyteller" when
Andrew starts it out the same way he did his video.
Spike and Andrew walking on the docks, looking for Dana, while Spike
catches up with the Scoobies. Andrew tells him that Xander is in
Africa, Willow and Kennedy are in Brazil. Spike, trying hard not to
give anything away, asks casually about Buffy. Andrew says she's in
Rome, where Dawn is in school. She seems to have settled there, from
the way he's talking. Andrew realizes that she doesn't know Spike's
alive, and wants to know if Spike wants him to tell her. Spike says,
"NO. I'll take care of it." Spike's a little surprised that Buffy's
living in Rome, now.
Andrew, backed up by a dozen Slayers, claiming Dana from Angel.
Angel says, "I'll just check this out with Buffy."
"Where do you think my orders came from?" Andrew says, and he looks
almost sorry for Angel. He tells Angel that they don't trust him now
that he's working at W&H. "No one trusts you," he says, "=No one=."
He's breaking bad news, and he knows it. Angel looks a little
shellshocked; he realizes what Andrew is saying--BUFFY doesn't trust
him any more. He lets Andrew and his Slayers take Dana away.
In Spike's hospital room, after his hands are reattached, Angel comes
in to visit. He's very kind, not at all snarky, and when Spike says
the pain is what he deserves, Angel says, "I didn't say that."
"No," Spike says. "I did." He tells Angel that he never thought
much about the nature of evil while he was unsouled. He loved the
rush, loved the crunch. "I never looked back at the victims."
"I couldn't take my eyes off them," Angel says softly. "And I was
just in it for the evil."
Spike, while not willing to say that Angel's right ("because
I'm...physically incapable of sayin' that!") is still thinking
seriously, and maybe for the first time, about what he's done. He's
finally seeing the victims, and it's eating him up.
He tells Angel that he's afraid it's too late for Dana, that, "She's
one of us now. She's a monster."
"She's an innocent victim," Angel says.
"So were we," Spike says, and his face says he's seeing the past
instead of the room in front of him. "Once upon a time."
Angel looks grave. "Once upon a time," he murmurs.
General notes:
All the Andrew bits are priceless. <G>
The revelation of the stumps isn't really too bad. There are bloody
bandages, and we only have a couple of seconds to see, and then it's
a quick fade to black.
Dana remembers Spike as the man who tortured her, but it's very clear
at the end of the episode that Spike was never there, that it was
some other man. When Spike is trying to tell her that it wasn't him,
she has flashes of memory where Spike turns into the other man, and
Angel is very clear that it wasn't Spike.
And YAY! Lorne has more to do than talk on the phone in one brief scene! Yay!
--
Dori
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