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Angel 5x15 A Hole In The World - Full Summary

By Pandora

Wednesday 25 February 2004, by Webmaster

After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mysterious illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what’s wrong with her.

In a flashback to eight years ago, Fred assures her parents as she moves out of her childhood home that she’ll be perfectly safe on her own in Los Angeles. Then, in the present, Fred and Wesley use flamethrowers to vanquish a nest of nasty-creature eggs, and then kiss in triumph. Meanwhile, back at Wolfram and Hart, Knox takes a middle-of-the-night delivery of an ancient sarcophagus addressed to Fred. The next day, while Angel and Spike argue over whether a caveman or an astronaut would win a fight if they were matched in battle, Fred and Knox examine the sarcophagus, but can’t get it to open. Then Fred leans in closer, and a small opening appears and blows a puff of stale air in her face. It doesn’t seem to affect her, but Knox advises her to get checked out by the company’s medical department just in case. Back in Angel’s office, he finally tires of he and Spike’s constant battling, and urges Spike, who is no longer physically or spectrally bound to the firm, to leave. Spike says he has nowhere to go, but then decides to go find Buffy in Europe, and Angel wishes him well. About the same time, Fred runs into Wesley and tells him about the mummy dust she breathed, but she assures him the doctors found nothing wrong with her. Wes invites her out to dinner, but then, as Fred starts to accept, she suddenly coughs blood all over Wesley’s face.

Fred wakes up later in a hospital room with Angel, Wes, Gunn, Spike, Lorne, and Knox gathered around her bed. They promise to do all they can to figure out what’s wrong with her, and Angel says that all the doctors can tell is that some sort of parasite is making its way through Fred’s system; and if it’s not stopped, it will soon liquefy her organs. To find out what’s going on, Wes returns to his office and pores over magical texts. Gunn goes to the White Room to speak with the conduit to the Powers That Be (which now appears as his own double), but the conduit says that if Gunn wants to help Fred, he’ll have to do it himself. Meanwhile Angel, Spike, and Lorne go to Lindsey’s apartment, where they find Eve in Lindsey’s bed. Angel accuses Eve and Lindsey of being involved in what’s happened to Fred, but Eve insists she had nothing to do with it and doesn’t even know where Lindsey is. Angel doesn’t believe her, but Lorne confirms her aura is clear. He threatens to tell the Senior Partners where Eve is hiding, however, so she says the sarcophagus may belong to one of the “Old Ones” - the original demons that inhabited the world before humans - and that Wesley should search ancient texts for references to the “Deeper Well.” Later, back at Wolfram and Hart, Wes learns the Deeper Well is the burial ground for the Old Ones, and figures out that one of them, Illyria, may be using Fred as a host to re-enter this world. Angel asks where the Deeper Well is, and when he learns it’s in England, he and Spike head for the company jet. As they do, Fred, in her hospital bed, suddenly opens her eyes.

Wes finds Fred in her lab trying to research her own disease. Wesley talks her into stopping, and she asks him to take her home. Meanwhile, as Angel and Spike fly to England, Knox suggests to Gunn that they may be able to slow the progress of Fred’s disease by freezing her until they find a cure. A bit later, at Fred’s apartment, Wes tucks Fred into bed and reads to her from her favorite book, Sara Crewe. Finally Angel and Spike arrive at a tree in a field in the Cotswolds that Angel says is the portal to the Deeper Well. At first they see nothing unusual, but then two demon warriors charge them, and as they fight them off, more appear. Back at Wolfram and Hart, Knox tries freezing a sample of Fred’s blood, but unfortunately the cold does nothing to slow the parasite activity. Knox apologizes to Gunn, saying that he cares about Fred so much, he practically worships “it”... which immediately arouses Gunn’s suspicions. Back in England, after Angel fights off the warriors, a man named Drogyn appears and Angel recognizes him as the keeper of the Well. Drogyn knows Angel and Spike have come about Illyria, and invites them inside. Back at Wolfram and Hart Gunn knocks Knox around, and Knox admits that he chose Fred to be Illyria’s host because he loves her so much. Knox says there’s no way to save Fred, however; and when Gunn says Angel will, Knox says that Angel not only can’t, but when he finds out what’s really going on, he will actually choose to let Fred die.

As Drogyn leads Angel and Spike into the Well, he explains that Illyria disappeared from his resting place about a month ago, in what appears to be part of a predestined escape plan. Spike accuses Drogyn of being remiss at watching his charges, but then they arrive in a tunnel, full of sarcophagi, which stretches all the way down into and through the earth, and Drogyn says Illyria was a very powerful demon who still has acolytes on earth. Meanwhile Knox, one of the acolytes, reveals to Gunn that he (Gunn) actually helped get the sarcophagus into this country (it’s what was on the ship Gunn expedited through customs for Dr. Sparrow in return for getting his mental powers restored). Meanwhile, at Fred’s apartment, her pain worsens, and as she tries to fight it, Wes promises never to leave her. Back in the Well, Spike demands that Drogyn tell them how to get the demon out of Fred’s body, and Drogyn says that a champion can do it; but if he does, Illyria will then enter and infect millions of others to keep from getting trapped by its pursuers. At first Angel declares that he will save Fred no matter what, but as Drogyn goes off to prepare the spell, Angel finally realizes he just can’t trade one life for so many others. Back at Fred’s apartment she gets sicker and sicker until, finally, she dies. Then a blue frost covers Fred’s eyes and her body bucks and rises, now with a mottled blue face and no pupils. As Wes watches in horror, Illyria looks at its new body and says, “This will do.”


18 Forum messages

  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    2 February 2004 00:28, by Anonymous
    Fred dies? She better be brought back to life.
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    2 February 2004 01:34, by Anonymous
    Nooooooo!! Poor fred, i’m gonna kill Knox myself, that evil guy :’(
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    2 February 2004 03:14, by Liz
    They’re always killing the cool people...
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    2 February 2004 05:33, by Anonymous
    i’m so confused this spoiler, and the spoiler posted earlier have nothing to do with eachother! In the other one there is a talking hamburger, and talk about lorne dying? Don’t kill Fred right after Cordy (supposeddly) dies! :( they are getting rid of all the female characters! Watch out Harmony!
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    2 February 2004 14:33, by Teresa

    OMG OMG OMG!!!! It sounds sooo cool! And Fred dies- NOOOOO!

    But I think the whole ’Fred now being evil thing’ is a bit too close to the ’evil cordy’ thing for my liking.

  • HUH?

    3 February 2004 03:23, by Anonymous
    So confused right now, how does Fred die at the end of this episode but then in the spoilers for 5x16 she’s supposedly in that episode. . .
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    4 February 2004 09:26, by Fiona
    to steal a quote from buffy- if Fred dies - im done - i quit
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    4 February 2004 16:03, by Anonymous
    Fred dies? Good. That’s what this show needs, more dramatic death. (Not that we don’t love ya, Amy Acker!). Besides, there was never enough to Fred to deserve recurring status, but there is enough to provide a satisfying and long overdue death scene. And I think Gunn’s in more danger than Harmony is....
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    4 February 2004 21:20, by Aurelius
    Given the Buffyverse history with this kind of thing, here’s betting that they do the Illyria for a few episodes (until the season finale?) and then find that Fred’s consciousness is just ’submerged’ and they get her back. Either that or there’s some kind of sacrifice/ritual to get her back later. I severely doubt this is permanent.
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    5 February 2004 00:01, by Anonymous
    Got to say, if Fred dies, I’m out too.
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    7 February 2004 21:31, by Aurelius
    Look. This implies that Amy Acker’s still around (it’s Fred’s body that just goes blue etc) and I doubt they’d want to keep her in makeup for the rest of the show, however long they have. In other words, they’re doing a Spike. Instead of being a ghost, Fred’s body walks around blue with another consciousness. Who wants to bet how long that’ll be for?
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    8 February 2004 20:29, by Lindsey’s girl
    This show is just starting to copy itself. I mean is everyone just going to decide to go evil at one point or another this is stupid If Joss keeps killing off all of his charaters he won’t have much of a show anymore. I think he is copying the Cordy story line too close. If he is doing this to Fred he might as well put her in a coma to. I’m not really that big of a fan on Fred’s, I mean I would have rather had her died instead of Cordy, but this is stupid. I think Joss needs to get more ideas.
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    11 February 2004 09:46, by Inca
    She so is going to be brought back, well if she doesnt a big ol whatever to whedon. no, i have faith we’ll be seeing her back as fred, probably in the season finale or close to
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    22 February 2004 09:03, by Anonymous
    Joss is a god, whatever happens it’ll be good. To bad the show is ending, makes me want to cry.
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    22 February 2004 10:09, by Jax
    Grr Joss is just going to kill everyone off because the show is ending, so I doubt Fred’s going to be brought back
  • > Angel 5x15 Another Day in L.A. - Full Summary

    24 February 2004 08:28, by Winston

    Aurelius, you’re mistaken. If you read closely, it states that only her eyeslids are covered in a blue frost, not her entire body [like Mystique from X-men.] Amy will still play Fred, but now Fred is Illiria.

    I’ve also noticed that there are 2 names for 5X15? ’A hole in the world’ and ’Another day in L.A.’ What’s up with that?

  • > Angel 5x15 A Hole In The World - Full Summary

    29 February 2004 16:52, by Krich
    Why every person that Wes love have to die. Cordy, Lilah and now Fred. Oh and why Joss have to kill every lovely female character (Tara, Cordy, Lilah and Fred). So sad
  • > Angel 5x15 A Hole In The World - Full Summary

    1 March 2004 23:24, by Gonzalo

    I thought the Old Ones were supposed to be trapped beneath the Hellmouth. Remember that the Master wanted to open the Hellmouth to release the Old Ones once again.

    Then again, the Deeper Well might be another entrance to the Old Ones’ prison