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Marcus Roscoe was a retired salesman who was adept at forcibly exchanging bodies with young athletic men to engage in adventures.[1]

Biography[]

Marcus acquired a mystical urn and enchantment that allowed him to perform body switching with others. The transference was only temporary, with the younger bodies inevitably collapsing into a pile of skin after a certain amount of time. Marcus nevertheless continued, his selected victims, like Woodrow Raglan, being the members of the health club opposite his retirement home, the Monserrat Retirement Community.[1]

His scheme came to a head when he switched bodies with Angel after the vampire came to question him for information about the deaths of the club members. Initially, Marcus managed to escape detection despite his minor misconceptions. He assumed that he and Cordelia Chase were going to the Hyperion Hotel for a romantic liaison, rather than because it was a place of work; that Angel was gay after being told he needed to talk with Winifred Burkle, before learning that Fred was a woman (after initially assuming that it was Wesley Wyndam-Pryce).[1]

However, after he instinctively "vamped out" while making out with Lilah Morgan, who had recently made Angel's acquisition of the hotel legal as part of her plan to upstage her firm rival Gavin Park, Marcus realized Angel's true vampire nature. Angel's friends initially assumed that Angel had became soulless again, but they quickly deduced the truth when they discovered that Marcus had been reading books about vampires, something that he wouldn't need to do in whatever state.[1]

Having spent a few hours at a club, Marcus returned to the retirement home to confront Angel, having finally discovered the "perfect" body — one that would never collapse. He taunted Angel about how he was a pathetic example of a vampire, due to him helping people rather than killing them. Before he could kill Angel, he was attacked and knocked out by Angel's friends.[1]

They dragged Marcus back to his room and Angel reversed the spell. Angel destroyed the orb he used to perform the body swaps, preventing him from doing it again. As the team departed, Marcus yelled after Angel that he didn't deserve that body, only to suffer a heart attack. Angel told Marcus that the reason he had a weak heart was because he didn't use it much, then suggested him to keep a lid on his rage as it wasn't healthy for him. The group left the room as the orderlies arrived for Marcus.[1]

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