Angel pitch tape
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A six-minutes pitch tape (sometimes refered to as the "unaired Angel Pilot") produced by Joss Whedon which was never intended to air, but employed in 1999 to show the WB Network the potential of Angel.
It contains clips of scenes later used in the Angel pilot, clips taken from Buffy and also footage later used in the Angel opening titles.
Angel stands on a skyscraper over night-time Los Angeles. He explains key moments in his history that eventually brought him to L.A.. Angel has not been in the city long. He promises to stir the waters and challenge powerful forces that have made great business out of people's despair.
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Appearances
- Angel/Liam/Angelus
- Cordelia Chase
- Allen Francis Doyle
- Darla(Only in flashbacks)
- Margaret(Only in flashbacks)
- Daniel(Only in flashbacks)
- Jenny Calendar(Only in flashbacks)
- Kalderash Girl(Only in flashbacks)
- Magda Kalderash(Only in flashbacks)
- Buffy Summers(Only in flashbacks)
- Acathla(Only in flashbacks)
- unidentified prostitute
- unidentified bald demon
- unidentified demon prostitute
- Richard Anderson(Only in flashbacks)
- Anyanka(Only in flashbacks)
- Faith Lehane(Only in flashbacks)
- Drusilla(Only in flashbacks)
- Dalton(Only in flashbacks)
- Spike(Only in flashbacks)
- Ken(Only in flashbacks)
- unidentified Wolfram & Hart lawyers
Quotes
- Powerful forces
- ALLEN FRANCIS DOYLE: "There's powerful forces out here. Agents of pure evil. They've made great business out of people's despair."
- Doyle is referring to powers like Wolfram and Hart.
- Stirring waters
- ANGEL: "They're not going to like me stirring up the waters."
- ALLEN FRANCIS DOYLE : "What, and you're afraid of that?"
- ANGEL : "I'm counting on that. "
- Whilst having good intentions all along, Angel foreshadows his obsessive challenge against the system during Angel Season 2, that will almost cost him all his links to humanity.
Music
The tape features songs from the band VAST, particularly their album Visual Audio Sensory Theater.
- Here
- Dirty Hole
- Touched
- I'm Dying
Behind the scenes
The tape contains a reused footage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, specially the episodes Becoming (parts 1 and 2), Amends - both of which focus on Angel - and Anne, which is set in Los Angeles and deals with evil preying on the helpless, a theme which would be deeply explored in the new series.
