Unleashed (Angel)
| "Unleashed" | |
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| Angel episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Marita Grabiak |
| Written by |
Sarah Fain Elizabeth Craft |
| Production code | 5ADH03 |
| Original air date | October 15, 2003 |
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"Unleashed" is episode 3 of season 5 in the television show Angel. Written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by Marita Grabiak, it was originally broadcast on October 15, 2003 on the WB network. A young woman named Nina gets bitten and undergoes a transformation into a werewolf during the three nights of the lunar cycle during which the moon is most illuminated (full moon, and the previous and next nights). Angel tries to help Nina, unaware that she is being hunted by an exclusive club which specializes in exotic meals.
The gang's meeting in a park is interrupted as a young woman named Nina (Jenny Mollen) is attacked and bitten by a werewolf. The woman runs off before Angel kills the werewolf. At Wolfram & Hart the next day, Gunn notes that there are two more nights in which the woman will transform into a new werewolf. They need to find the woman, since she will not know what happened to her.
Spike pays Fred a visit, asking her to consider his condition a priority over the woman from the park. He tells her that his disappearances "to the netherworld" are lasting longer. Fred suggests that Spike let Wesley help him, but Spike says that he and Wesley have a history. Fred does not believe him, so Spike admits that he just does not want anyone else to know what he is going through. Fred assures him that they will figure things out.
At her home, Nina wakes from a restless sleep and heads to the kitchen, where her sister Jill and niece Amanda are cooking. Nina discovers that her hearing is improved and she does not remember the bruise on her neck. She studies hamburgers cooking on the stove and imagines slashing Amanda's neck. At the science lab, the gang tracks down Nina's address. That night, Nina baby-sits Amanda; she starts feeling sick and goes upstairs, where she begins turning into a werewolf.
Angel pulls Nina through her bedroom window and Wesley tranquilizes her. The next day, Nina wakes up naked in a cell. Angel tries to tell her that she is safe, and shows her a video of herself as a wolf in the cell the night before. She is upset with her condition and the fact that she wanted to hurt Amanda. He tries to tell her that it was the monster inside her that caused the violent impulses, and tells her that she can control herself - he does it every day. Nina asks if he can cure her and Angel admits that he can not, but says he can protect her. Angel meets with Fred and Royce, telling them Nina agreed to stay in the holding cell that night. Royce warns that Nina might hurt herself, but she might be okay if they take her back to her place; the familiarity will calm her. Angel agrees to let Nina go home; Fred and Nina head to Nina's place. Fred tries to tell her that her life does not have to change too much, since she is only a werewolf three nights out of the month.
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