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Template:Angelepisode Eternity is the seventeenth episode of season one of Angel.

Angel befriends a television star with a dream of becoming eternally young and beautiful.

Synopsis

While attending a play with Cordelia as one of the stars, Angel and Wesley - trapped in the audience - are subjected to Cordelia's minimal acting talent. While leaving the play, they spot a famous actress, Rebecca Lowell, crossing the street. Angel rushes to save her from a car that purposely tries to run her over. Oliver, a producer that represents Rebecca, offers to pay Angel, but he doesn't want a reward.

The papers report on the rescue, but Angel pretends not to care when he is not mentioned. Rebecca shows up at the office the next day, and asks for his help with a stalker fan. Her career is on the rocks, and she'd feel safer if Angel would take care of this case. Cordelia is upset that Angel refused to take the case, and begs Angel to give it a chance so that she can have a jump-start into the life of fame. After a party, Rebecca's stalker shows up on her property, but Angel breaks through a window and fights the masked stalker.

Rebecca looks at a mirror and realizes Angel doesn't have a reflection; correctly guessing he is a vampire, she is intrigued rather than scared. That night, Angel attends a premiere with Rebecca, standing as her bodyguard. As they leave, an attacker pulls a gun on them, and Angel fights him off. Rebecca recognizes the attacker as a stunt man and realizes that Oliver set up the stalker for publicity, as her career is in danger as she grows older. She realizes that she won't be able to stay young forever, but Angel's immortality suddenly gives her another option.

After discovering the bullets were blanks, Wesley and Angel conclude that it wasn't a real attack. Rebecca and Cordelia go shopping together, and Cordelia helps Rebecca pick out a bottle of champagne for Angel. That night, while sipping champagne, Rebecca accidentally spills some on Angel and he has to go change his shirt. She slips a drug, later revealed to be doximal, into his drink and they toast and drink when he returns.

Cordelia confesses to Wesley that she told Rebecca all about Angel and how one could become a vampire by him. As the drug takes effect, Rebecca tries to convince Angel to make her a vampire. Angel says she doesn't realize what she's asking of him, and in a sudden burst of rage, he sprays blood into her mouth so she can taste what she's getting into. She confesses that she slipped a happy pill into his drink and it has given him the feeling of "perfect happiness." No longer Angel, Angelus attacks Rebecca, but she escapes through the elevator while Angelus goes outside to cut the power and phones.

In the office, Angelus confronts Rebecca and his two employees. He mocks Wesley for being inadequate, then tells Cordelia how bad she was in the play. She threatens him with water, trying to convince him that it's holy water. The water temporarily stuns him when it hits him, allowing Wesley to knock him down into the elevator shaft. Angel wakes up, chained to his bed, feeling horrible about the things he said. Cordelia reluctantly forgives him, but leaves Angel chained to the bed.

Cast

Main cast

Guest stars

Tamara Gorski as Rebecca Lowell
Michael Mantell as Oliver Simon

Co-star

Robin Meyers as Masseuse

Quotes and trivia

The play in which Cordelia stars at the beginning of this episode is A Doll's House by Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. Cordelia is playing Nora Helmer, the female main part. The scene shown is from the first act.

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+'''Eternity''' is the seventeenth episode of season one of ''Angel''.
-[[Angel]] saves a fading actress from being hit by a car one night, while walking home from a play that [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]] was in, with Cordelia and [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|Wesley]]. The actress, Rebecca, goes to Angel's office the day after in order to thank him properly. Angel finds himself attracted to this woman and accordingly refuses to take her case of alleged stalking and threats from a particularly scary fan. However, he likes her so much that decides to watch her just in case. This leads him to save her from an intruder at her Hollywood apartment, where she notices he's not reflected in the mirror and discovers that he's a vampire.
+Angel befriends a television star with a dream of becoming eternally young and beautiful.
-He agrees to protect her as a bodyguard, and shortly thereafter saves her life once again, this time from a man with a gun in an alley. It soon becomes evident that both attacks were a farce planned by her own manager, who is somewhat infatuated with her and also unsuccessfully trying to get her some publicity. Then it dawns on Rebecca that her fading beauty might not continue fading if she were made a vampire, so she hatches a plan to make Angel sire her.
-She shows up at Angel's place all dressed in black with champagne as a thank you gift. She drugs his champagne, and once Angel is under the influence, she asks to be made a vampire.  He refuses to do so, but the drug-induced bliss turns him into Angelus, his old evil self. He hurts her and almost succeeds in killing her, if not for Wesley and Cordelia, who manage to knock him unconscious and put him to sleep. When he wakes up Rebecca is gone for good, totally convinced it was all a very bad idea, and he's chained to his bed. Wes and Cordy are there waiting for an apology, which he gives them. They accept it but still leave him tied to the bed to get their point across.
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