Five by Five (Angel)
| "Five by Five" | |
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| Angel episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 18 |
| Directed by | James A. Contner |
| Written by | Jim Kouf |
| Production code | 1ADH18 |
| Original air date | April 25, 2000 |
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"Five by Five" is episode 18 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Jim Kouf and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on April 25, 2000 on the WB network. In "Five by Five", guest star Eliza Dushku makes her first appearance on Angel as rogue Slayer Faith, hired by Wolfram & Hart to assassinate Angel in exchange for getting all criminal charges against her back in Sunnydale dropped. Though Faith agrees, it eventually becomes clear to Angel that she has plans of her own. The episode draws parallels between the flashbacks of Angel towards the part of his life that he felt the first guilt for his actions and Faith at the present time.
Angel tries to convince a witness for the prosecution to testify to convict a client of Wolfram and Hart. They don't take too well to this inconvenience, so when Faith Lehane arrives in Los Angeles they offer her the job of killing Angel.
Faith instead winds Angel up by attacking him ineffectually and then abducting Wesley, using him for anger management purposes (in that she tortures him mercilessly and brutally). 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 courage to do it herself, or wants to reduce the amount of pity everyone feels for her when she dies).
Faith cries in Angel's arms and Wesley looking on in shock and feeling somewhat ignored since Angel's offering comfort to the person who was minutes ago torturing him.
A guy runs into several very ugly demons on the street and they chase after him. Angel beheads a couple of the demons and rescues the guy who turns out to be a gangbanger needed to testify in court. Faith, the second Slayer, gets off a bus in L.A. then robs a guy of his coat, money, and keys. In Borsa, Romania, 1898, Darla leads a blindfolded Angelus to a young gypsy woman bound on the floor. With Darla watching, he morphs and bites her inner thigh. Angel talks some sense into gang member he saved from the streets.
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