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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Angel episodes."Five by Five" is episode 18 of season 1 in the television show Angel.Contner, it was originally broadcast on April 25, 2000 on the WB network.As Darla watches, Angelus vamps and bites the terrified girl high on the inner thigh.The next night, Darla returns to find that her darling boy, Angelus, is no longer the demon she created.As Lindsey McDonald takes heat for Angel's interference, lawyers Lilah Morgan and Lee Mercer contact Faith about a contract on Angel's life, which she accepts.Faith issues her challenge and disappears back onto the streets.Discerning that anger and fear for Buffy might incline his friend to kill Faith for revenge, Wesley shouts, "She's not a demon, Angel.She's a sick, sick girl."Later, Angel finds Faith in his outer office, where she stands protected from immediate attack by sunlight streaming through the raised blinds.The bullet is a blank, however, and he tosses the gun back.After mocking him for only trying to wound her, Faith explains her plan to destroy him, shoots him in the shoulder with a real bullet, then escapes by crashing through the sunny window.After disabling the first security guard on scene, and with a parting promise to Lindsey, Angel chooses discretion and leaves.Cordy thinks Dennis is jealous of Wesley until they discover that Faith has broken in.Faith knocks Cordelia and Wesley out, and takes Wesley back to her apartment, where she ties him to a chair and tortures him.Faith has correctly calculated that Angel, indifferent to being targeted himself, will be unable to ignore threats to his friends.Finding Wesley still defiant, Faith recites the list of the "five basic torture groups," blunt, sharp, hot, cold and loud, and decides to move from blunt to sharp.She breaks the glass in a picture frame and picks up a large shard.Before she does more than demonstrate a few scary bursts of flame, Angel smashes down the door and charges into the apartment.Faith drops her impromptu torch and swiftly moves to hold a knife at Wesley's throat, stopping Angel in his tracks.As he stumbles away down the muddy street, the girl he wanted to eat staggers out after him, disheveled and bitten, but alive.Angel immediately knocks Faith down with a tremendous kick and they commence a spectacular fight, a mortal contest that's been a long, long time coming.They continue to batter the furnishings and each other, then crash out a window together, only to resume combat in the alley three stories below.Rain begins to pour down and it becomes increasingly clear that Angel no longer intends to kill Faith, if he ever did.As Faith wearies, her fury fades, and Angel's own moves slow to become purely defensive.Finally breaking his long silence, he tells her, "Nice try, Faith.Meanwhile, Wesley cuts himself loose and staggers downstairs, armed with a kitchen carving knife.Face filled with an unbearable compassion, Angel finally takes Faith in his arms and goes to his knees with her, holding her close as she collapses in the dark downpour.Acting
Christian Kane returns as Lindsey in his first appearance since the pilot episode."Everyone else was a series regular and we were fighting for a pole position and although we were against each other we were on the same team...Massa choreographed the fight so that when Karen Sheperd (Eliza Dushku's stunt double) kicked him over the couch, he was right where he needed to be to use the ratchet, which flung him into the ceiling."We go through the fight and when it gets close to the gag, one of us will slip away and put a harness on.Hopefully as fast as we can and then we move right back on with the rest of the fight so that nothing gets slowed down."Arc significance
It should be noted that the guy who Faith mugged in the beginning of the episode is referred to as being in critical condition in the hospital, however, Angel still manages to enter his apartment without being invited.This is in stark contrast to the episode Untouched from season two in which Angel enters the apartment only after the owner has died.This also happened in the Buffy episode "Consequences", where Angel is able to enter Faith's apartment without being invited in.This page was last modified on 24 May 2008, at 06:38.This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Eternity
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Angel tries to convince a witness for the prosecution to testify to convict a client of Wolfram and Hart.When Angel arrives to save him he gets into a fight with Faith which lasts until Faith is too exhausted to present an obvious threat, at which point the point of Faith's efforts becomes obvious: she wants to be killed (She either doesn't have the bottle to do it herself or wants to reduce the amount of pity everyone feels for her when she dies).Contents
1 Synopsis
2 Quotes and trivia
3 Cast
3.She goes to a nightclub, where she wildly dances to the pounding music until a girl objects to Faith dancing with her boyfriend; Faith nonchalantly elbows her in the face.The boyfriend flips instantly from lust to fury and takes a swing at Faith, who slams him into a group of people across the room, sparking an instant melee.Faith continues to dance while chaos rages around her, choreographing kicks and punches without missing a beat.Hart client, to do his civic duty.As Darla watches, Angelus vamps and bites the terrified girl high on the inner thigh.Cursed with a soul by the Gypsy girl's people, he is nearly mad with the grief and horror of 140 years of rampant vampirism, every detail of which he remembers with excruciating clarity.Darla, disgusted, furious, and a little afraid, drives Angel out into the night.Faith issues her challenge and disappears back onto the streets.She's a sick, sick girl."Later, Angel finds Faith in his outer office, where she stands protected from immediate attack by sunlight streaming through the raised blinds.She tosses Angel a gun, should he choose to shoot her, and he hesitates not a microsecond, aiming for her leg.The bullet is a blank, however, and he tosses the gun back.After mocking him for only trying to wound her, Faith explains her plan to destroy him, shoots him in the shoulder with a real bullet, then escapes by crashing through the sunny window.Hart office to try to discover Faith's whereabouts.After disabling the first security guard on scene, and with a parting promise to Lindsey, Angel chooses discretion and leaves.Faith has correctly calculated that Angel, indifferent to being targeted himself, will be unable to ignore threats to his friends.She breaks the glass in a picture frame and picks up a large shard.Outraged, the men rush Angel and force him into a dark alley as he shouts, "I'm a monster!"He grabs the shrieking, struggling young woman, drags her deeper into the alley, backs her up against the wall and bites her, then mutters, "I can't, oh God, I can't."In a brief exchange of verbal thrusts, one of Angel's barbs makes Faith drop her guard for a split second, and Wesley flings himself and his chair backward out of her grasp.Angel immediately knocks Faith down with a tremendous kick and they commence a spectacular fight, a mortal contest that's been a long, long time coming.As the battle rages, Faith seems to have the upper hand and she shouts, "Come on, Angel.Rain begins to pour down and it becomes increasingly clear that Angel no longer intends to kill Faith, if he ever did.His strategy has been to engage and distract the Slayer, not best her.As Faith wearies, her fury fades, and Angel's own moves slow to become purely defensive.Meanwhile, Wesley cuts himself loose and staggers downstairs, armed with a kitchen carving knife.An anguished Angel stands motionless in the pouring rain, as Faith keeps hold of his jacket like a drowning person.Unheeded behind them, Wesley stands agape as his knife falls from nerveless fingers.Quotes and trivia
Is the only episode of Angel rated an 18 certificate (for frequent, strong violence) in the UK.It's also interesting to note that the phrase appears in Stephen King's novel From a Buick 8, which was published two years after this episode's release, and was used therein to convey the same meaning.It is unknown as to where King picked up the phrase, although it is speculated that inspiration for its use may have been derived from previous experience in the radio industry or an affinity for the show.The former being meant to repel and drive away evil, the latter very naturally suggested itself, by a law of moral polarity, as a means of attracting good fortune, blessings, health, and peace.As the one was violently curative, the other was preventive.Rome, the owner being assured that it would keep them safe from all the ills which donkeys inherit.And in the year 1880, in one of the principal churches of Philadelphia, blessed candles were sold to a congregation under guarantee that the purchase of one would preserve its possessor for one year against all disorders of the throat, on which occasion a sermon was preached, in the which seven instances were given in which people had thus been cured.Between blessing and banning it soon became evident that many formulas of words could be used to bring about mysterious results.It is probable that the Exorcism in its original was simply the angry, elevated tone of voice which animals as well as men instinctively employ to repel an enemy or express a terror.All of the sagas, or legends,
p.Wabanaki were till within even fifty years chants or songs, and if they are now rapidly losing that character it is because they are no longer recited with the interest and accuracy which was once observed in the narrators.SHAKESPEARE, and BEN JONSON, and BYRON, and many more employ, as it would seem, instinctively, whenever witches speak or spells or charms are uttered.The Athenians as well as Gentiles excelled in these songs of sorcery, hence we are told (VARRO, "Q.It was in 1886 that I learned from a girl in Florence two exorcisms or
p.Bon sang ne peut mentir.Ne con uomini ne con donne non passa favellare, Finche a la porta di casa mia Non viene picchiare!"Enter into the body, into the blood, into the soul .Into the feelings of the body Of my lover, from whom I cannot live.For I cannot stand (exist), or drink, Or eat .Nor can I converse with men or women Till at the door of my house He shall come to knock."Italian spells with those of ancient Nineveh, he will not only find a close general resemblance, but all the several details or actual identity of words.This chapter is devoted to conjuring diseases of children by gypsies.The magic of the gypsies is not all deceit, though they deceive with it.They put faith themselves in their incantations, and practise them on their own account."And they believe that there are women, and sometimes men, who possess supernatural power, partly inherited and partly acquired."And the same holds good for the ninth in a series of boys, who may become a seer of the same sort.In the United States of America there are many women who advertise in the newspapers that they also are seventh daughters
p.India, and probably in common with the lower or Shamanic religion of India from Turanian sources.But there is among the Hungarian gypsies a class of female magicians who stand far above their sisters of the hidden spell in power.In fact, in some of the incantations used we find the Urme, or fairies, directly appealed to for help.Doctor von WLISLOCKI, when asked what his age was.However, the Hungarian Romany have many medicines, more or less mysterious, which they also apply in connection with the "healing rhymes."When a mother begins to suffer the pangs of childbirth, a fire is made before her tent, which is kept up till the infant is baptized, in order to drive away evil spirits.English, or to ch in church.Nivashi And drive away thy smoke (pl.Nivasi Come into the field, Burn, burn, oh fire They bite the mother's foot, They destroy the sweet child; Fire, fire, oh burn!When the birth is very difficult, the mother's relations come to help,
p."When this egg is (shall be) decayed, Here (will be) is no milk!""Fast and fast the smoke flies, And flies, the moon flies, When they find (themselves) Health (yet) will come to thee, When the smoke no (longer) flies Thou wilt feel pain no more!"There is a strange, mysterious affinity between gypsies and the moon.India since in it Mekran is mentioned as the place where its incident occurred, details that there, owing to the misrepresentations of a sorcerer, the gypsy leader, CHEN, was made to, marry his sister GUIN, or KAN, which brought the curse of wandering upon his people.It is very evident that here we have CHON and KAN, or KAM, the Moon and Sun, which is confirmed by another gypsy legend which declares that the Sun, because he once violated or still seeks to seduce his sister, the Moon, continually follows her, being destined to wander for ever.I's believed will make a happy marriage."Full moon, high sea, Great man thou shalt be; Red dawning, cloudy sky, Bloody death shalt thou die.The great love of gypsy mothers for their children, says WLISLOCKI, induces their friends to seek remedies for the most trifling disorders.In it are placed seven coals, seven handfuls of meal, and seven cloves of garlic, all of which is put on the fire."Evil eyes look on thee, May they here extinguished be And then seven ravens Pluck out the evil eyes p.Much dust in the eyes, Thence may they become blind, Evil eyes now look on thee; May they soon extinguished be!May they burn, may they burn In the fire of God!"It is remarkable that the gypsies assert that lightning leaves behind it a smell like that of garlic.The ancients believed that the herb which Mercury gave to Ulysses to protect him from the enchantment of Circe, and which Homer calls moly, was the alium nigrum, or garlic, the poison of the witch being a narcotic.Among the modern Greeks and Turks, garlic is regarded as the most powerful charm against evil spirits, magic, and misfortune.For this reason they carry it with them, and hang it up in their houses as a protection against storms and bad weather.According to a popular belief the mere pronunciation of 'Garlic!And among the Poles garlic
p.The belief in garlic as something sacred appears to have been very widely spread, since the Druids attributed magic virtues to it; hence the reverence for the nearly allied leek, which is attached to King David and so much honoured by the Welsh."The onion (planted) which sprouts the first will clearly announce that the person whose name it bears is well."And in the same manner we can learn the name of the husband or wife whom we should choose, and this divination is in use in many cantons of Germany."As this root grows And as this blossom blows, May her heart be Turned unto me!"And it will come to pass that every day the one whom you love will be more and more inclined to you, till you get your heart's desire."This incantation indicates, like many others, a constant dwelling in lonely places, by wood and stream, as gypsies wont to do, and sweet familiarity with Nature, until one hears sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and voices in the wind.But nature is eternal, and while grass grows and rivers run man is ever likely to fall again into the eternal enchantments.If it appears that the child is overlooked, or "berufen," many means are resorted to, "one good if another fails," but we have here to do only with those which are connected with incantations.Three twigs are cut, each one from a different tree, and put into a pipkin which has been filled with water dipped or drawn with, not against, the current of a stream.This is repeated nine times, when the water in the tub, with the pipkin and its contents, are all thrown into the stream from which the
p.The punishment is apparent from the parallel of the bridge Al Sirat, borrowed by the Mahommedans from the Persians, over which the good souls passed to reward, and from which the wicked tumbled down into hell.When I first met EMERSON in 1849 I happened to remark that a bridge in a landscape was like a vase in a room, the point on which an eye trained to the picturesque involuntarily rested.As a bridge must cross a stream, or a torrent which is generally beautiful by itself, and as the cross or span has the effect of defining and framing the picture, as a circlet or tiara sets off a beautiful head, it is not remarkable that in all ages men have made such objects subjects of legend and song.Another spell for the purpose of averting the effects of the evil eye is as follows: The mother of the overlooked child fills her mouth with salt water, and lets it drop or trickle on the limbs of the infant, and when this has been done, repeats:
p.It is a very ancient essential to sacrifices, and is offered to the spirits of the stream to appease them, as it was often given for the same purpose to the wind."Dear Wind, be not so wild, Take that unto thy child!"Papists who would fain appease the Donnerwetter, or thunderstorms, with the sound of baptized bells, as though they were raging round like famished lions, or grim wolves, or a soldier foraging, seeking what they may devour."Flow, flow, as I desire To my hungry child!"German belief, children which have nothing human about them except the skin."This bears manifest mark of Hindoo origin, and I have no doubt that the same ceremony in every detail is practised in India at the present day.With this water she washes the head of her child, and pours some of it on a black dog."Be thou, be thou, be thou weak (i.Go thou into the earth, May I see thee never more Bring knives, knives, Give (i.Then the knife is stuck three, seven, or nine times into the earth.If the child has pains in the stomach, the hair of a black dog is burned to powder and kneaded with the mother's milk and some of the feces of the child into a paste.Rome in the fourth century: "Cape mel atticum et stercus infantis quod primum
p."Depart from the belly Live in the green!Remain, remain thou here I say, I say to thee!"The black dogs of Faust and of Cornelius Agrippa will occur to most readers.Lilith, the mother of all witchcraft, did the same.At the present day the Slavonian gypsies have spells against such a spirit.We can admit that the Jews were in Babylon and wandered thence all over the world, but that any other religious or superstitious system should have done the same would be obstinately denied.And by an incredible inconsistency, scholars who admit the early migrations of whole races on a vast scale, from the remotest regions of the East to Western Europe, deny that legends and myths come with them or that they could have spread in like manner.This spell of the Tresevica.Here, as in all the other variants, the demon is a feminine one."I, Sisveas, I came down from the Mount of Olives, saw the Archangel Gabriel as he met the Avestitza, wing of Satan, and seized her by the hair and asked her where she was going.The archangel asked her how she could get into houses so as to steal the children, and she answered that she changed herself into a fly or a cat or such forms.This is extremely interesting, as it casts some light on a question which has greatly puzzled all writers on witchcraft as to how or why Herodias was so generally worshipped in company with Diana by witches as a goddess in Italy.The name is probably much older than that of the Herodias of the New Testament.In this work, as well as in the German Mythology, by the same author, and in RUDOLF ROTH'S "Litteratur und Geschichte des Veda" (Stuttgart, 1846), the reader will find, as also in the works of the elder CATO and PLINY, numbers of these incantations.From such sights and sounds there resulted impressions which were reflected in his dreams (Vide Scott, "Lady of the Lake," and notes).The fact that running water often makes sounds like the human voice has been observed by the Algonkin Indians of Maine and Nova Scotia (Vide "The Algonkin Legends of New England," by Charles G.It was an impulse that had brought Nichol Nielsen into the gypsy woman's carriage.He had just finished an evening of studying at the Portland State University library when he saw her carriage secluded in the back streets where he parked his car.It was 11 o'clock on a Thursday night, and he had to be at work at the brokerage the next morning at five.As was typical, he would eat something from his freezer, sleep a few hours, then repeat his cycle of working and studying the next day.But this night, while walking with his brief case of marketing books, stock report histories, and the last two Wall Street Journals, he was questioning how much more he could tolerate.The young attractive gypsy woman faced Nichol."What's ahead of me," Nichol said with a grimace, awaiting a death sentence."Is it worth working ten hours a day and taking classes at night?""What do you see in the future?""The future is when you eat your dinner late tonight," Madame Ramona continued in her translated English.At what portion of the future do you wish to see?"No wait, I want to be the most successful financial planner in America.And I know I can do it by the time I'm forty.Her eyes grabbed Nichol, taking possession of him.Madame Ramona shifted her concentration to the opaque ball, her distorted image reflecting back.Her hands rubbed the sphere in a pace that matched her breathing.Was something wrong with her?Madame Ramona stopped, abruptly enough that Nichol jerked as hard as if he were in a car screeching to a stop.Nichol Nielson," Madame Ramona announced."You no longer live in an apartment off Lovejoy in Northwest Portland."How did you know where I lived?"He felt unjustly invaded, and considered himself in danger.Madame Ramona ignored Nichol, her deep brown eyes fascinated with the opaque ball."You will retire soon after your goal.In these days to be, you will be well known.You have the money to satisfy every desire."From the top of her dark eyes, Madame Ramona was giving Nichol a condemning look.Madame Ramona returned to the images only she could see in the crystal ball.Nichol could only see reflections of the small room on the opaque ball.Madame Ramona's breaths were shorter and more at ease than her earlier trance."Your hair is gray, your face is old.There are people with you, friends I would say, who have aged as you.She rubbed the ball tighter, with more energy.Her eyes were hard into the ball, a wondrous smile creeping across her face."As I have said," Madame Ramona said, the warmth returning to her speech, "I see these images as they appear, but not as they are."Energy that Nichol hadn't felt in months began to return.It exhilarated him to hear about the rewards of his labors."What will occur, will arise in its time," Madame Ramona said, rising from her chair and moving toward a wall of the carriage."But you can belong to that time."From this bag, she held up a stick that looked like a wheat stalk covered with a layer of thick buds.And included with it is the path to return to those histories."If you breathe in the scent from the burning branch, the embers will carry you with them to one of these periods.You will be left at this date.""Think of fifteen years from today," Madame Ramona said, pulling a long match from another bag in the drawer on the wall."And to return," Madame Ramona continued, "I will give you...."You agree that I'll be healthy and I'll live a long time."It is what I have seen, and it is what will be," she said, as strict as a school teacher."You may visit your days to be, or you may remain with them.""I'm going, and I'm not coming back.""How do I pay you then, if I'm not coming back?""There are still fifteen years until your present body will catch up with you," Madame Ramona said, her smirk equally as glib as Nichol's."You will of course exist in the succeeding time.That person may pay me after your transfer to the future.""If I'm as rich as you say I'll be, I should pay you a lot.Holding her hand around the flame, she lowered it to the tray, then lit the buds on the branch.When the first whiff of the smoke touched Nichol's nose, he remembered the gypsy's instructions.Looking into the ball, Nichol saw a twisted likeness of himself and the wall behind him reflecting from the sphere.As more smoke spread around the room, Nichol began to find it difficult to see through the gray mist.Over and over, "April 17, 1994"."April 17, 1994, April 17, 1994...."Nichol swore he wasn't reciting the date, but he still heard himself talking; a musical recording of his voice stuck on one phrase.The mist from the Branch of Generations had thinned to nothing more than a trail of cigarette smoke.His eyes traced the arm to find a man in a vest and tie sitting next to him.He had all the money and all the material goods he needed, but he wouldn't be able to enjoy them.He'd be rotting in a cell where all his possessions would be worthless paper.Nichol said, fighting to get words through his sudden horror.The man's hand again rested assuredly on Nichol's back.The two rows of chairs on the three sides of the room facing the judge were pressed together, with an interested person leaning forward in each one.Everyone in the room had a formal appearance and were, as Nichol thought, dressed to kill.When his eyes raised to look at Nichol, Nichol felt his stomach shake.Nichol fought back the need to vomit.And he sensed that the unknown crowd was preparing to jump him and induce an unnameable torture."Your plan was very clever.Through the promotion of your junk bond virus through every banking institution and mutual fund in America, you have created a personal fortune.But like the leader of any degenerate movement, you were able to coerce others to do the real work.The crime for promoting others to sell and buy what they choose is small in your terms.Looking at the expensive suit he was now wearing, Nichol knew what he was hearing was true.He didn't want to look at himself, so he shifted his glance to a side of the courtroom."To let you go free would be the saddest day in American justice," the judge said, his anger obviously restrained."It is with great regret, Mr.Nielson, that I accept the plea bargain presented by your attorney."The man at Nichol's side dipped his head in recognition."It is the decision of this court that your assets be used to replenish the damaged banking system," the judge said.He knew he was still as rich as he had desired, but not at the cost he had expected.Nielson," shouted the horde of people off their seats in the courtroom.Nielsen," shouted an angry woman carrying a notepad."My husband's been out of work for six months because of you.""But I can't go back, can I?"Nichol said, an apology dripping down.Nichol knew his return was impossible.He had told Madame Ramona that he only wanted to be rich.Nichol turned to he attorney.Cameras were clicking every few seconds.He ashamedly looked at the people squeezing together to hear him say something.That would solace anyone's guilt over damaging the financial structure of a country.
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