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Angel
Season 4, Episode 15
Air date March 19, 2003
Written by Mere Smith
Directed by Terrence O'Hara
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This article is about the episode, for the drug, see Orpheus (drug)

Angelus gets the upper hand against Faith and begins to feed on her, but passes out from the near-fatal drug called orpheus taken from a vampire junkie at the demon bar and with which she had deliberately injected herself.

Wesley takes the unconscious Angelus and Faith back to the hotel. While in an orpheus induced coma, Angelus is forced to relive Angel's good deeds since arriving in Ellis Island, New York in 1902 with Faith at his side. Meanwhile, the rest of the team race to re-soul Angel.

Willow Rosenberg arrives to help after Fred contacted her, while the evil Cordelia plots in her room, first by trying to counter-spell Willow and then by stopping Willow from performing the Ritual of Restoration. Frustrated in both attempts, Cordelia then asks Connor to kill Angelus before the ritual is carried out.

Quotes

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Did the call of magic draw you here?
Willow Rosenburg: Oh, no. More like the call of Fred.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. I've been... I've changed. I've seen a darkness in myself. I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand...
Willow: I flayed a guy alive and tried to destroy the world.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Oh. So...
Willow: Darkness. Been there.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Yeah. Well, I never flayed. I had a woman chained in a closet.
Willow: Oh, well hey!
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: No, it doesn't compare.
Willow: No, dark. That's dark. You've been to a place.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: You seem exactly the same as when I left. No other major changes I'm not up on?
Willow: Just little things. So, uh, Fred. What's her story?

Faith: 'Cause I'm dying, dumbass.
Angelus: Not soon enough.
Faith: Way I figure, I got one last job. Baby-sit the psycho 'til they shove a soul up your...
Angelus: Not gonna happen.
Faith: Then I'm... whatever. Dust in the wind. Candle in the wind. There'll be a general wind theme.

Angelus: Oh, no. I remember this. I-I remember this place. I gotta get outta here.
Faith: Why? You freakin' out?
Angelus: It's coming, again.
Faith: What's coming?
Angelus: I can't do it again. I won't.

[Angel runs in front of a speeding car]

Faith: Angel, get out of the road!
Angelus: Arrrgh! No!
Faith: [laughing] Dude! You just rescued a puppy.

[with Faith, watching Angel decide whether or not to feed on a murder victim]
Angelus: I *love* this episode!
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