Spoilers
I can not say enough about the dramatic writing ability of Jim Kouf in the "Five by Five" Angel Episode. It was a tremendous dramatic story, that lets one see the humanity of the Faith Lehane. Faith Lehane was played by Eliza Dushku and Eliza gave the most powerful performance of any television actress. It was something to behold.
Most of the Angel shows are gimmick filled. When I say gimmick filled, I mean, they have things like, why is Angel acting so sensitive or what are these people hiding. The same was true in this show. The title probably should have been the special gimmick. The title very intelligently clues one into the ending, because the meaning of the title (I read your signal loud and clear) ties into why Angel does what he does.
What does Angel do?
It is really about what he does not do!
Faith Lehane the murderous rogue vampire slayer left Sunnydale and comes to Angels town of LA and accepted a contract to kill the good vampire, Angel. Also, because Faith is a slayer, she is considered to have the upper hand in any confrontation with a vampire, including Angel.
Angel recognizes the tortured soul in Faith Lehane as he finds out she is out to kill him. She wants him to come after her, so she can kill him but Angel avoids the confrontation. To catipalt the confrontation Faith captures Angel's friend Wesley and this forces Angel bursts on the scene and deal with Faith.
However, Angel mysteriously tells Faith he knows what she is after (Remember what the title of the show means). An epic life and death struggle ensues and as it continues, Faith belts out loud death threats and comments about being unbeatable in her most authoritative and angry voice, telling Angel, he's "gonna die!".
The long grueling fight now in a dark dank outside alley, begins to wear Faith down, and as Faith begins to tire, Angel is now certain he can avoid Faith's intentions and says, "I know what you want, and I'm not gonna do it!" This causes Faith to fight her hardest and the music builds to a crishendo over Faiths grunts and screams in the darkness. Afterwards, in the downpour of rain and through sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning, Faith tires and is totally frustrated.
Then looking like a drowned rat in the downpour, Faith steps under bright street lights and screams comments in desperation at the top of her lungs in Angel's face.
(I' ll stop the spoiler there and tell you to just see it for yourself, so you can experience it.)
I have watched this episode and especially the last 15 minutes of this episode over 200 hundred times and never get tired of it. It is always a powerful dramatic experience, despite the fact that I know the ending so well.
I can not say enough about the dramatic writing ability of Jim Kouf in the "Five by Five" Angel Episode. It was a tremendous dramatic story, that lets one see the humanity of the Faith Lehane. Faith Lehane was played by Eliza Dushku and Eliza gave the most powerful performance of any television actress. It was something to behold.
Most of the Angel shows are gimmick filled. When I say gimmick filled, I mean, they have things like, why is Angel acting so sensitive or what are these people hiding. The same was true in this show. The title probably should have been the special gimmick. The title very intelligently clues one into the ending, because the meaning of the title (I read your signal loud and clear) ties into why Angel does what he does.
What does Angel do?
It is really about what he does not do!
Faith Lehane the murderous rogue vampire slayer left Sunnydale and comes to Angels town of LA and accepted a contract to kill the good vampire, Angel. Also, because Faith is a slayer, she is considered to have the upper hand in any confrontation with a vampire, including Angel.
Angel recognizes the tortured soul in Faith Lehane as he finds out she is out to kill him. She wants him to come after her, so she can kill him but Angel avoids the confrontation. To catipalt the confrontation Faith captures Angel's friend Wesley and this forces Angel bursts on the scene and deal with Faith.
However, Angel mysteriously tells Faith he knows what she is after (Remember what the title of the show means). An epic life and death struggle ensues and as it continues, Faith belts out loud death threats and comments about being unbeatable in her most authoritative and angry voice, telling Angel, he's "gonna die!".
The long grueling fight now in a dark dank outside alley, begins to wear Faith down, and as Faith begins to tire, Angel is now certain he can avoid Faith's intentions and says, "I know what you want, and I'm not gonna do it!" This causes Faith to fight her hardest and the music builds to a crishendo over Faiths grunts and screams in the darkness. Afterwards, in the downpour of rain and through sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning, Faith tires and is totally frustrated.
Then looking like a drowned rat in the downpour, Faith steps under bright street lights and screams comments in desperation at the top of her lungs in Angel's face.
(I' ll stop the spoiler there and tell you to just see it for yourself, so you can experience it.)
I have watched this episode and especially the last 15 minutes of this episode over 200 hundred times and never get tired of it. It is always a powerful dramatic experience, despite the fact that I know the ending so well.