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|number = 11
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|image = DamageMain.jpg
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|image = Damage Dana 02.jpg
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|airdate = January 28, 2004
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|airdate = January 28, [[2004]]
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|writer = [[Steven S. DeKnight]]<br>[[Drew Goddard]]
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|writer = [[Steven S. DeKnight]]<br />[[Drew Goddard]]
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|director = [[Jefferson Kibbee]]
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|director = [[Jefferson Kibbee]]
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|code = 5ADH11
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|previous = "[[Soul Purpose]]"
  
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|next = "[[You're Welcome]]"
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|series = ''[[Angel (series)|Angel]]''
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|previous = "[[Soul Purpose]]"
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|next = "[[You're Welcome]]"
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| starring = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=David Boreanaz|character=Angel}}
  
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|stars = [[David Boreanaz]] — [[Angel]]<br />[[James Marsters]] — [[Spike]]<br />[[J. August Richards]] — [[Charles Gunn|Gunn]]<br />[[Amy Acker]] — [[Winifred Burkle|Fred]]<br />[[Andy Hallett]] — [[Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan|Lorne]]<br />[[Alexis Denisof]] — [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|Wesley]]
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| {{CastActor|name=James Marsters|character=Spike}}
  
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|gueststars = [[Tom Lenk]] — [[Andrew Wells|Andrew]]<br />[[Mercedes McNab]] — [[Harmony Kendall|Harmony]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712550 Navi Rawat] — [[Dana]]
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| {{CastActor|name=J. August Richards|character=Charles Gunn|billed=Gunn}}
  
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|costars = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1228813 Jasmine Di Angelo] — [[Dana|Young Dana]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1556304 David Brouwer] — [[Unidentified stocker|Stock Boy]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703509 Kevin Quigley] — [[Rabinaw|Dr. Rabinaw]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018238 Alex S. Alexander] — [[Carol (nurse)|Carol]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1556548 Rebecca Metz] — [[Pat (nurse)|Young Nurse]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470462 Michael Krawic] — [[Vernon|Vernon the Creepy Psychic]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1009247 Mesan Anderson] — SWAT Team #1<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017853 William Stanford Davis] — [[Constanzo|Security Guard]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402242 Mike Hungerford] — Dock Worker<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572791 Debbie McLeod] — Real Estate Agent
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| {{CastActor|name=Amy Acker|character=Winifred Burkle|billed=Fred}}
  
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|uncredited = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6322329/ David Block] — Wolfram & Hart Lawyer<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2427756 Carlton Enoch] — [[Peterson|Paramedic]]<br />[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1178710 Stan Klimecko] — [[Walter Kindel|Walter]]
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| {{CastActor|name=Andy Hallett|character=Lorne}}
  
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| {{CastActor|name=Rebecca Metz|imdb=1556548|billed=Young Nurse}}
  
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| {{CastActor|name=Michael Krawic|imdb=0470462|character=Vernon|billed=Vernon the Creepy Psychic}}
  
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"'''Damage'''" is the eleventh episode of the [[List of Angel season five episodes|fifth season]] of ''[[Angel (series)|Angel]]'' and the ninety-ninth episode overall. Written by [[Steven S. DeKnight]] and [[Drew Goddard]] and directed by [[Jefferson Kibbee]].
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"'''{{PAGENAME}}'''" is the eleventh episode of the [[Angel season 5|fifth season]] of ''[[Angel (series)|Angel]]'' television show and the ninety-ninth episode in the series. Written by [[Steven S. DeKnight]] and [[Drew Goddard]], and directed by [[Jefferson Kibbee]], it originally broadcast on January 28, [[2004]] on [[The WB]].
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[[Angel]] calls on the [[Watchers Council]] for help in tracking down a psychotic vampire slayer named [[Dana]], who was tortured by a serial killer as a child.
  
   
 
==Synopsis==
  
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When an emotionally unstable woman, [[Dana]], escapes from a psychiatric ward, [[Angel]] learns that she was tortured as a child and is now searching for her tormentor. [[Andrew Wells|Andrew]], a [[watcher-in-training]], arrives from [[Sunnydale]] with surprising information about [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and to inform the group that Dana is also a [[Slayer|vampire slayer]]. Meanwhile, [[Spike]] believes that if he can save Dana, he will prove that he is destined to be the [[vampire]] champion.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041018212246/http://www.thewb.com:80/Shows/Episode/0,8201,%7C%7C1750,00.html "Episode"]. ''TheWB.com''. Archived from [http://www.thewb.com:80/Shows/Episode/0,8201,%7C%7C1750,00.html the original] October 18, 2004.</ref>
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At [[Wolfram & Hart]], [[Harmony Kendall|Harmony]] tells [[Angel]] that there was a mix-up with a girl named [[Dana|Dana's]] medication at a psychiatric hospital, and no longer sedated, she broke down her door, killed several people, and escaped. At the hospital, Dr. Rabinaw tells Angel and [[Spike]] that Dana had been kidnapped and tortured for months when she was ten, by the man who killed her family. Recently, she gained incredible strength. Angel realizes Dana - like [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] - is a vampire [[Slayer]], activated by the events in the [[Chosen|''Buffy'' series finale]].
  
   
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==Summary==
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[[Wesley Wyndam-Price|Wesley]] asks [[Rupert Giles|Giles]] to send “his top guy” to take care of Dana, which turns out to be [[Andrew Wells]]. He updates the group on how [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] [[Chosen|activated every potential "Slayer of the Vampyrs"]]; when Wesley wonders how the Slayers will be trained now that the [[Watchers Council]] is gone, Andrew explains that Giles and some “[[Sunnydale]] alums” have resuscitated the Council.
  
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At [[Wolfram & Hart]], [[Harmony Kendall|Harmony]] tells Angel what she suspects it's a case of demon possession. There was a mix-up with a patient named Dana's medication at a psychiatric hospital, and no longer sedated, she broke down her door, fought and killed one of the paramedics, and escaped.
   
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Angel and Spike arrive at the hospital, where Dr. [[Rabinaw]] tells them that Dana had been kidnapped and tortured for months when she was ten, by the man who killed her family. Recently, she gained incredible strength. As Spike leaves to deal with the girl, a nurse provides Angel with Dana's session tapes. She talks in various languages, and he understands what she says in Romanian. He then calls [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|Wesley]] and informs him: Dana is a Slayer.
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As Spike heads off to look for Dana, Angel follows [[Lorne]]'s suggestion to visit Dana's childhood home with a psychic. The psychic flashes back to Dana’s abduction and her family’s murder; the smell of molasses and a basement is "where her pain lives,” he says. Meanwhile, Dana goes to the basement of the building where she was held captive, flashing back to her torturer injecting her with various drugs. When she looks up at his face, it’s Spike.
  
   
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At Wolfram & Hart, [[Rupert Giles|Giles]] has sent "his top guy" to take care of Dana, which turns out to be Andrew Wells. He's emotional in his reunion with Spike, then updates the group on how [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] activated every [[Potential Slayer]] in the [[battle at the Hellmouth]] months earlier. Wesley wonders how the Slayers will be trained now that the [[Watchers Council]] is gone, so Andrew explains that Giles and some Sunnydale alums have resuscitated the Council.
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Andrew catches up with Spike, and updates him on the [[Scooby Gang|Scoobies’]] activities - [[Xander Harris|Xander]] is in Africa, Willow and [[Kennedy]] are in Brazil, [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Dawn Summers|Dawn]] are in Rome, and everyone else is in England. Andrew guesses that Buffy doesn’t know Spike is alive and wonders why he didn’t tell her. When Spike follows the scent of blood into Dana's trap, Andrew tries unsuccessfully to shoot Dana with a tranquilizer gun. Spike chases Dana to the basement, where she starts repeating what her torturer once said to her. Dana, channeling [[Nikki Wood|Nikki]], recognizes Spike as William the Bloody. Before he can explain that she’s dreaming of other Slayers, she injects him with a sedative. At Wolfram & Hart, Angel and Gunn realize the smell of molasses indicates Dana was held in a distillery, and send a tactical team to search abandoned distilleries.
  
   
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As Spike heads off to look for Dana, Angel follows [[Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan|Lorne]]'s suggestion to visit Dana's childhood home with a psychic. [[Vernon]] flashes back to Dana's abduction and her family's murder; the smell of molasses and a basement is "where her pain lives," he says. Meanwhile, Dana goes to the basement of the building where she was held captive, flashing back to her torturer injecting her with various drugs. When she looks up at his face, it's Spike.
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Back in the basement, Spike awakens to discover that Dana has cut off his hands. She tells Spike he can’t hurt her anymore, but when he insists she’s thinking of someone else she finally remembers who her torturer really was. Angel arrives, tells Dana her real torturer is dead, and knocks her out with a tranquilizer dart. Spike is taken to the hospital to have his hands reattached. Later, Andrew tells Angel that because Dana is a Slayer, she belongs in the care of the new Council. Andrew says none of the Scoobies trust Angel now that he works at Wolfram & Hart, and that they aren't on the same side. This makes him hurt and upset, Angel now knowing that Buffy doesn't trust him anymore.
  
   
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Andrew catches up with Spike, and updates him on the [[Scooby Gang|Scoobies']] activities — [[Alexander Harris|Xander]] is in Africa, Willow and [[Kennedy]] are in Brazil, Buffy and [[Dawn Summers|Dawn]] are in Rome, and everyone else is in England. Andrew guesses that Buffy doesn't know Spike is alive and wonders why he didn't tell her. When Spike follows the scent of blood into Dana's trap, Andrew tries unsuccessfully to shoot Dana with a tranquilizer gun. Spike chases Dana to the basement, where she starts repeating what her torturer once said to her. Dana, channeling [[Nikki Wood|Nikki]], recognizes Spike as William the Bloody. Before he can explain that she's dreaming of other Slayers, she injects him with a sedative. At Wolfram & Hart, Fred realizes that the smell of molasses indicates Dana was held in a distillery, and Angel sends a tactical team to search abandoned distilleries.
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Angel visits Spike at the hospital, where Spike admits he’s never thought much about what being evil means. He and Angel note that they were innocent victims once, too. Spike says Dana is like them - someone turned her into a monster.
  
   
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Back in the basement, Spike awakens to discover that Dana has cut off his hands. She tells Spike he can't hurt her anymore, but when he insists she's thinking of someone else she finally remembers who her torturer really was. Angel arrives, tells Dana her real torturer is dead, and knocks her out with a tranquilizer dart. Spike is taken to the hospital to have his hands reattached. Later, Andrew tells Angel that because Dana is a Slayer, she belongs in the care of the new Council. Andrew says none of the Scoobies trust Angel now that he works at Wolfram & Hart, and that they aren't on the same side.
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==Continuity==
  
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*It has been six months since the events of the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' episode "[[Chosen]]".
  
   
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Angel visits Spike at the hospital, now with his hands reattached. Spike admits he's never thought much about what being evil means. He says Dana is like them — someone turned her into a monster. Angel notes that she's an innocent victims, but they agree they both were too, once upon a time.
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*The events of this episode are a result of the actions in the Buffy series finale, in which Willow turned every Potential on Earth into a Slayer.
  
   
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==Continuity==
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*It is revealed that, because of their newfound affiliation with Wolfram & Hart, the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy. Knowing that Buffy and the others didn't trust him may have contribuited to Angel's attitude in Your Welcome.
  
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*Team Angel discusses Eve's behavior against Angel in "[[Soul Purpose]]".
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*Angel mentions having seen cases of possession, being a victim himself in "[[The Dark Age]]", "[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]", and "[[Waiting in the Wings]]", and was responsible for the exorcised in "[[I've Got You Under My Skin]]".
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*Some of the pictures Dana draws are of the [[Shadowmen]] from "[[Get It Done]]". She also marks herself in the same way as [[Sineya]], the First Slayer ("[[Restless]]").
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*Andrew establishes the events of this episode as six months after the [[battle at the Hellmouth]] in "[[Chosen]]". Dana's status as a Slayer is a result of the events from Willow's [[Slayer activation spell]] performed then.
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*When Dana and Spike fight, she channels the Slayer [[Xin Rong]]; his answer "Sorry love, I don't speak Chinese." is a repeat of the line he said just before killing her during the flashbacks in episode "[[Fool for Love]]".
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*Andrew's storytelling persona resurfaces in this episode. It was previously seen in "[[Storyteller]]", including his pronunciation of the word "vampyr".
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*Andrew says Buffy's in Rome, as Angel and Spike will explore in "[[The Girl in Question]]". Although, the Slayer they'll find is one of Buffy's decoys, put there by Andrew's suggestion, while the real Buffy is in Scotland (''[[The Long Way Home, Part One]]'').
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*Spike says he'd take care of letting Buffy know he isn't dead; Willow will tell him Buffy knows it in ''[[Give and Take]]'', but he'll only contact her in ''[[Twilight, Part Four]]'', when she apologizes for not being in touch with him (''[[Last Gleaming, Part One]]'').
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*Dana, channeling Nikki, begs Spike to spare her so she could return to her son, confirming what Spike stated about her in "[[School Hard]]".
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*It is revealed that, because of their newfound affiliation with Wolfram & Hart, the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy. This will result in Giles unhelpful attitude in "[[A Hole in the World]]".
   
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==Appearances==
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*When Dana and Spike fight, she channels the Chinese Slayer; his line "Sorry love, I don't speak Chinese," is a repeat of the line he said just before killing the Chinese Slayer during the flashbacks to the [[Wikipedia:Boxer Rebellion|Boxer Rebellion]] in "[[Fool for Love]]". Dana's memories of Nikki Wood and Spike's killing of her were also first seen in "Fool for Love", though further memories of Nikki's death were explored in the ''Buffy'' season seven episode "[[Lies My Parents Told Me]]".
  
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===Individuals===
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*[[Angel]]
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*[[Braeden]] {{Om}}
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*[[Winifred Burkle]]
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*[[Carol (nurse)|Carol]]
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*[[Constanzo]]
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*[[Dana]]
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*[[Dana's father]] {{FBO}}
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*[[Dana's mother]] {{FBO}}
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*[[Danny (Wolfram & Hart)|Danny]] {{Om}}
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*[[Drusilla]] {{Om}}
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*[[Eve (Wolfram & Hart)|Eve]] {{Om}}
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*[[Rupert Giles]] {{Om}}
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*[[Charles Gunn]]
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*[[Alexander Harris]] {{Om}}
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*[[Jacobson]] {{Om}}
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*[[Harmony Kendall]]
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*[[Kennedy]] {{Om}}
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*[[Walter Kindel]] {{FBO}}
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*[[Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan]]
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*[[Pat (nurse)|Pat]]
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*[[Peterson]]
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*[[Phillip (Damage)|Phillip]]
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*[[Rabinaw]]
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*[[Xin Rong]] {{Om}}
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*[[Willow Rosenberg]] {{Om}}
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*[[Sineya]] {{Om}}
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*[[Spike]]
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*[[Buffy Summers]] {{Om}}
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*[[Dawn Summers]] {{Om}}
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*[[Vernon]]
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*[[Andrew Wells]]
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*[[Nikki Wood]] {{Om}}
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*[[Robin Wood]] {{Om}}
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*[[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]]
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*[[Unidentified stocker]]
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===Organizations and titles===
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*[[Angel Investigations]]
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*[[Los Angeles Police Department]]
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*[[Potential Slayer]] {{FBO}}
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*[[Scooby Gang]] {{Om}}
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*[[Senior Partners]] {{Om}}
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*[[Shadowmen]] {{Om}}
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*[[Slayer]]
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*[[Slayer Organization]]
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*[[Watchers Council]] {{Om}}
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*[[Witch]] {{Om}}
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*[[Wolfram & Hart]]
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*[[Wolfram & Hart Special Operations Team]]
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===Species===
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*[[Demon]]
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**[[Deathwok Clan]]
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**[[Shadow demon]] {{Om}}
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**[[Selminth parasite]] {{Om}}
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*[[Human]]
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*[[Vampire]]
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===Locations===
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*Africa {{Om}}
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*Brazil {{Om}}
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**Rio de Janeiro {{Om}}
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**São Paulo {{Om}}
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*China {{Om}}
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*Europe {{Om}}
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**Italy {{Om}}
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***Rome {{Om}}
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**Romania {{Om}}
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*Mexico {{Om}}
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*USA
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**Los Angeles
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***[[Wolfram & Hart Los Angeles branch]]
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**New York City {{Om}}
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**[[Sunnydale]] {{Om}}
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***[[Hellmouth]] {{Om}}
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===Weapons and objects===
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*[[Blood]]
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*[[Soul]] {{Om}}
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*[[Spike's duster]]
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*[[Stake]]
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===Rituals and spells===
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*[[Slayer activation spell]] {{Om}}
   
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==Death count==
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*Andrew's storytelling persona resurfaces in this episode. It was previously seen in "[[Storyteller]]", including his pronunciation of the word "vampyr".
  
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*Two nurses, killed by Dana with a saw.
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*Dana's parents, killed by Walter Kindel (in flashback).
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*Constanzo, killed by Dana with a saw.
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*A dock worker, killed by Dana with a saw.
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*Walter Kindel, shot five years before (only mentioned).
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==Behind the scenes==
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[[File:"Damage" promo|thumb|200px]]
   
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===Pop culture references===
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*When Andrew is describing the effects of Willow's spell, it appears that Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, and Fred were all unaware of the spell's vast effects, and even of its existence in the first place; none of them knew that all of the Potentials were activated as Slayers.
  
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*Eve is called "[[w:c:parasiteeve:Parasite Eve (novel)|Parasite Eve]]" in reference to the 1995 horror novel, adapted into [[w:c:parasiteeve:Parasite Eve (film)|a film]] in 1997 then a [[w:c:parasiteeve:Parasite Eve (series)|video game franchise]] (1998–2011).
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*Lorne refers to Eve as "[[wikipedia:Twiggy|Twiggy]]", a comparison with the prominent teenage model in swinging sixties.
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*Harmony says Dana "went all Cuckoo's Nest", a reference to the book about a mental asylum "[[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]" (1962), adapted into [[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)|a play]] in 1963 and [[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|a movie]] in 1975.
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*Harmony also says Dana has gone "all kinds of ''Exorcist''", a reference to the [[wikipedia:The Exorcist (novel)|1971 horror novel]] and its [[wikipedia:The Exorcist (film)|1973 film adaptation]].
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*Andrew compares Spike to [[w:c:lotr:Gandalf|Gandalf]]'s resurrection in "[[w:c:lotr:The Two Towers (novel)|The Two Towers]]" novel, the scene included in the [[w:c:lotr:The Two Towers (film)|2002 movie adaptation]] as well as the [[w:c:lotr:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|1978 animated film]].
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*Andrew compares the Slayer Organization with the [[wikipedia:X-Men|X-Men]] superhero team, although rejecting the movie ''[[wikipedia:X-Men: The Last Stand|X-Men: The Last Stand]]'' (2006).
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*Andrew mentions the character [[wikipedia:Yoda|Yoda]] from the ''[[wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' franchise.
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*Lorne says Vernon does readings for actor [[wikipedia:Tom Arnold (actor)|Tom Arnold]].
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*Andrew says "Check the [[w:c:memory-alpha:viewscreen|viewscreen]], [[w:c:memory-alpha:Nyota Uhura|Uhura]]," a reference to the ''[[w:c:memory-alpha:Star Trek|Star Trek]]'' franchise.
   
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===Music===
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*It is revealed in the canonical ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight]]'' comic books that the effects of Willow's spell caused some Potentials-turned-Slayers other than Dana to use their newfound powers in violent and illegal ways.
  
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*[[wikipedia:White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]] — "Blood, Milk and Sky"
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*[[Robert J. Kral]] — original score
   
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===International titles===
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*Spike's comment that Angel is looking "old" is an in-joke reference to David Boreanaz's inevitable visible signs of aging, despite the fact that Angel, as a vampire, is immortal.
  
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*'''Czech:''' "Následky" (Aftermath)
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*'''Finnish:''' "Vampyyrintappaja" (The Vampire Slayer)
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*'''French:''' "Folle" (Crazy)
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*'''German:''' "Die Auserwählte" (The Chosen One)
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*'''Hungarian:''' "Ámokfutó vámpírvadász"
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*'''Italian:''' "Il Danno" (The Damage)
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*'''Japanese:''' "傷" (Wound)
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*'''Portuguese (Brazil):''' "Sofrimento" (Suffering)
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*'''Russian:''' "Травма" (Trauma)
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*'''Spanish (Latin America):''' "Daños" (Damages)
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*'''Spanish (Spain):''' "Tocado" (Touched)
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*'''Turkish:''' "Hasar" (Damage)
   
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==Gallery==
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*It is known that the Scoobies are collecting and organizing the Slayers. Giles is training new Slayers, Willow and Kennedy are still a couple and are in South America, Xander is in Africa, and Buffy is in Rome, with Dawn in "Italian School".
  
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===Promotional stills===
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<gallery widths="100" spacing="small" orientation="portrait">
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Damage Angel 01.jpg
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Damage Angel 02.jpg
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Damage Spike Angel.jpg
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Damage Andrew 01.jpg
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Damage Andrew 02.jpg
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Damage Dana 01.jpg
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Damage Dana 02.jpg
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Damage Dana 03.jpg
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Damage Dana 05.jpg
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Damage Spike 04.jpg
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Damage Dana 06.jpg
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</gallery>
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===Behind the scenes===
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<gallery widths="100" spacing="small" orientation="portrait">
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Damage Hallet Acker.jpg
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Damage Dana 04.jpg
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</gallery>
   
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==References==
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*Spike's statement about his pre-soul self not caring much for the nature of evil, that he was in it more for the party, reflects his attitude in the Buffy Season 2 episode "Becoming, Part II," where he admits to betraying Angelus because he likes the world.
  
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{{References}}
   
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[[de:Die Auserwählte]]
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== Behind the Scenes ==
  
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[[Video:511 - Damage|thumb|right|Damage - TV Promo]]
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[[nl:Damage]]
   
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[[Category:Angel episodes]]
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=== Goofs, Bloopers & Continuity Errors ===
  
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*The statement that "Chosen" occurred six months prior doesn't reconcile with the timeline that was presented during Angel's fourth season and Buffy's seventh season, which featured serialized storylines that didn't play out over a prolonged period of time. Given the characters' statements about the passage of time on Angel, the defeat of Jasmine took place about four months after Angel was freed from the bottom of the ocean. This would put the episode "Home" as taking place in February 2003. "Chosen" takes place within a few days of "Home." Angel's first official day as CEO of Wolfram & Hart was 19 days later, according to "Just Rewards," which would be March 2003 at the latest. Yet the fifth episode of season five, "Life of the Party" takes place on Halloween, which would mean Angel would have been at Wolfram & Hart for seven months at that time, going against other dialogue that indicated he had only been there for a month. So while "six months" makes sense from the standpoint of where the episodes aired, within the context of the show it would be closer to 10 months. The six month figure could, of course, be a generalization.
  

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"Damage" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of Angel television show and the ninety-ninth episode in the series. Written by Steven S. DeKnight and Drew Goddard, and directed by Jefferson Kibbee, it originally broadcast on January 28, 2004 on The WB.

Synopsis

When an emotionally unstable woman, Dana, escapes from a psychiatric ward, Angel learns that she was tortured as a child and is now searching for her tormentor. Andrew, a watcher-in-training, arrives from Sunnydale with surprising information about Buffy and to inform the group that Dana is also a vampire slayer. Meanwhile, Spike believes that if he can save Dana, he will prove that he is destined to be the vampire champion.[1]

Summary

At Wolfram & Hart, Harmony tells Angel what she suspects it's a case of demon possession. There was a mix-up with a patient named Dana's medication at a psychiatric hospital, and no longer sedated, she broke down her door, fought and killed one of the paramedics, and escaped.

Angel and Spike arrive at the hospital, where Dr. Rabinaw tells them that Dana had been kidnapped and tortured for months when she was ten, by the man who killed her family. Recently, she gained incredible strength. As Spike leaves to deal with the girl, a nurse provides Angel with Dana's session tapes. She talks in various languages, and he understands what she says in Romanian. He then calls Wesley and informs him: Dana is a Slayer.

At Wolfram & Hart, Giles has sent "his top guy" to take care of Dana, which turns out to be Andrew Wells. He's emotional in his reunion with Spike, then updates the group on how Willow activated every Potential Slayer in the battle at the Hellmouth months earlier. Wesley wonders how the Slayers will be trained now that the Watchers Council is gone, so Andrew explains that Giles and some Sunnydale alums have resuscitated the Council.

As Spike heads off to look for Dana, Angel follows Lorne's suggestion to visit Dana's childhood home with a psychic. Vernon flashes back to Dana's abduction and her family's murder; the smell of molasses and a basement is "where her pain lives," he says. Meanwhile, Dana goes to the basement of the building where she was held captive, flashing back to her torturer injecting her with various drugs. When she looks up at his face, it's Spike.

Andrew catches up with Spike, and updates him on the Scoobies' activities — Xander is in Africa, Willow and Kennedy are in Brazil, Buffy and Dawn are in Rome, and everyone else is in England. Andrew guesses that Buffy doesn't know Spike is alive and wonders why he didn't tell her. When Spike follows the scent of blood into Dana's trap, Andrew tries unsuccessfully to shoot Dana with a tranquilizer gun. Spike chases Dana to the basement, where she starts repeating what her torturer once said to her. Dana, channeling Nikki, recognizes Spike as William the Bloody. Before he can explain that she's dreaming of other Slayers, she injects him with a sedative. At Wolfram & Hart, Fred realizes that the smell of molasses indicates Dana was held in a distillery, and Angel sends a tactical team to search abandoned distilleries.

Back in the basement, Spike awakens to discover that Dana has cut off his hands. She tells Spike he can't hurt her anymore, but when he insists she's thinking of someone else she finally remembers who her torturer really was. Angel arrives, tells Dana her real torturer is dead, and knocks her out with a tranquilizer dart. Spike is taken to the hospital to have his hands reattached. Later, Andrew tells Angel that because Dana is a Slayer, she belongs in the care of the new Council. Andrew says none of the Scoobies trust Angel now that he works at Wolfram & Hart, and that they aren't on the same side.

Angel visits Spike at the hospital, now with his hands reattached. Spike admits he's never thought much about what being evil means. He says Dana is like them — someone turned her into a monster. Angel notes that she's an innocent victims, but they agree they both were too, once upon a time.

Continuity

  • Team Angel discusses Eve's behavior against Angel in "Soul Purpose".
  • Angel mentions having seen cases of possession, being a victim himself in "The Dark Age", "I Only Have Eyes for You", and "Waiting in the Wings", and was responsible for the exorcised in "I've Got You Under My Skin".
  • Some of the pictures Dana draws are of the Shadowmen from "Get It Done". She also marks herself in the same way as Sineya, the First Slayer ("Restless").
  • Andrew establishes the events of this episode as six months after the battle at the Hellmouth in "Chosen". Dana's status as a Slayer is a result of the events from Willow's Slayer activation spell performed then.
  • When Dana and Spike fight, she channels the Slayer Xin Rong; his answer "Sorry love, I don't speak Chinese." is a repeat of the line he said just before killing her during the flashbacks in episode "Fool for Love".
  • Andrew's storytelling persona resurfaces in this episode. It was previously seen in "Storyteller", including his pronunciation of the word "vampyr".
  • Andrew says Buffy's in Rome, as Angel and Spike will explore in "The Girl in Question". Although, the Slayer they'll find is one of Buffy's decoys, put there by Andrew's suggestion, while the real Buffy is in Scotland (The Long Way Home, Part One).
  • Spike says he'd take care of letting Buffy know he isn't dead; Willow will tell him Buffy knows it in Give and Take, but he'll only contact her in Twilight, Part Four, when she apologizes for not being in touch with him (Last Gleaming, Part One).
  • Dana, channeling Nikki, begs Spike to spare her so she could return to her son, confirming what Spike stated about her in "School Hard".
  • It is revealed that, because of their newfound affiliation with Wolfram & Hart, the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy. This will result in Giles unhelpful attitude in "A Hole in the World".

Appearances

Individuals

Organizations and titles

Species

Locations

  • Africa (Only mentioned)
  • Brazil (Only mentioned)
    • Rio de Janeiro (Only mentioned)
    • São Paulo (Only mentioned)
  • China (Only mentioned)
  • Europe (Only mentioned)
    • Italy (Only mentioned)
      • Rome (Only mentioned)
    • Romania (Only mentioned)
  • Mexico (Only mentioned)
  • USA

Weapons and objects

Rituals and spells

Death count

  • Two nurses, killed by Dana with a saw.
  • Dana's parents, killed by Walter Kindel (in flashback).
  • Constanzo, killed by Dana with a saw.
  • A dock worker, killed by Dana with a saw.
  • Walter Kindel, shot five years before (only mentioned).

Behind the scenes

"Damage"_promo

"Damage" promo

Pop culture references

Music

International titles

  • Czech: "Následky" (Aftermath)
  • Finnish: "Vampyyrintappaja" (The Vampire Slayer)
  • French: "Folle" (Crazy)
  • German: "Die Auserwählte" (The Chosen One)
  • Hungarian: "Ámokfutó vámpírvadász"
  • Italian: "Il Danno" (The Damage)
  • Japanese: "傷" (Wound)
  • Portuguese (Brazil): "Sofrimento" (Suffering)
  • Russian: "Травма" (Trauma)
  • Spanish (Latin America): "Daños" (Damages)
  • Spanish (Spain): "Tocado" (Touched)
  • Turkish: "Hasar" (Damage)

Gallery

Promotional stills

Behind the scenes

References

  1. ↑ "Episode". TheWB.com. Archived from the original October 18, 2004.
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