"Angel" The Price (2002)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Marita Grabiak

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator) &
David Greenwalt (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Angel" (1999)

Original Air Date:

29 April 2002 (Season 3, Episode 19)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller

Plot:

After performing dark magics back in "Forgiving," Angel knew there'd be a price and this is it. The...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Vampire Slayer | Redemption | Actress | Supernatural

Cast

David Boreanaz	...	Angel
Charisma Carpenter	...	Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof	...	Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
J. August Richards	...	Charles Gunn
Amy Acker	...	Winifred 'Fred' Burkle
Andy Hallett	...	Lorne
Stephanie Romanov	...	Lilah Morgan
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Gavin Park
Mark Lutz	...	The Groosalugg
John Short	...	Phil Spivey
Vincent Kartheiser	...	Connor
Wayne Ford	...	Kid
Waleed Moursi	...	Manager

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

Cordelia is on her hands and knees scrubbing out the pentacle on the floor and says, "We definitely have ring a round the lobby and it will not rub out." This is a paraphrase of a WISK Commercial from the 1970s.

Goofs:

Continuity: Water level in cooler at Wolfram & Hart while Lilah and Gavin are talking.

Quotes:

The Groosalugg: Angel, you and I have fought side by side on more than one occasion. Fellow warriors, shoulder to shoulder. By now, my council must assuredly hold weight. So I beseech you to heed my words.
Angel: Okay.
The Groosalugg: Pomegranate mist is the wrong color for this room.

I'm off to save my immortal enemy

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I'm off to save my immortal enemy - From this episode onwards, season 3 is just an unstoppable fabulous-arc. I've always thought ATS was a quite dark show, but it sometimes really missed the great monster-of-the-week episodes, 'The Price' had everything those type of episodes are supposed to have, it had tension, character development, a great script and great monsters (Who doesn't love glowy slugs?). And it also had a great catch-phrase - We're thirsty!. The fun of those slugs was whomever they possessed, became mad with thirst and if it didn't drank enough water it would fall into a pile of dust, so it's always great when they get one of the main cast in trouble, in this case it was 'Fred' who was DYING for a good storyline. My favorite scene was probably 'Wesley's, he has just turned into his extremely dark and broody-guy but still he found a way to save 'Fred'. I also loved 'Cordy'-in this, i'm probably the only one who liked her hair-cut and her relationship with 'Groo' (Although I rather have Cangel, obviously) towards the end of the episode she glowed and made all those evil slugs disappear. I also completely loved the Lilah/Gavin tension and of course 'Connor' re-appearing as a teenager at the end of the episode - Hi dad!. GROO: Sunburst Splendor is a hue more worthy of a champion. Or, or...perhaps this unique one called...Pur-pleh. ANGEL: Purple. Yet you have no problems pronouncing "pomegranate." GROO: It was my mother's name. (10 out of 10)