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The Hyperion Hotel was the headquarters for Angel Investigations[1] after the destruction of their previous office in 2000.[2] Built in 1928, the hotel was located at 1481 Hyperion Avenue, in Los Angeles.[3]

History[]

Origins[]

The Hyperion was built in 1928 into California Spanish, Deco influence style in what was then the heart of Hollywood.[4] It was located in 1481 Hyperion Avenue[5] and there were 68 apartments in the hotel.[4]

Before the building was even completed, it was claimed by a Thesulac demon, a generally incorporeal entity that fed on paranoia. A legacy of suspicious deaths began almost immediately, beginning near the end of construction when a roofer went mad and jumped to his death, taking two coworkers with him.[4]

1950s[]

Angel was a resident of the room 217 of the hotel in 1952. In the room next door, a candle salesman was shot in the head, the third apparent suicide in the Hyperion in as many months. Fearing police involvement, the manager ordered that it be covered up and the body be stored in the meat locker.[4]

The salesman's death and the whispers of the demon fed a wave of paranoia among the remaining guests, culminating a few days later in the formation of a lynch mob that strung Angel up from the second floor balcony. Angel, who had been about to attempt a ritual to rid the hotel of the demonic presence, waited until the mob had dispersed before freeing himself and leaving them to the demon out of disgust.[4]

At some point afterward, the police were called in, and in 1954 the bellhop was executed for murdering the salesman and hiding his body.[4]

Closure[]

The Hyperion finally closed on December 16, 1979, when the concierge "made his morning wake-up call with a 12-gauge shotgun, room to room."[4] It remained empty until Angel Investigations took it over in the fall of 2000.[1]

Angel Investigations[]

Angel rediscovered the abandoned hotel through a tunnel while he was fleeing demons with Jo.[6] In an attempt to atone for his actions fifty years before, Angel and his team killed the Thesulac demon and freed the lone remaining inhabitant, a fugitive named Judy Kovacs in the room 214, whom the demon had been feasting off of for fifty years.[4] They cleaned up the Hyperion and made it the new home of Angel Investigations.[1] At this time, Angel's apartment number was 312.[citation needed]

When Angel briefly became corrupted and fired Wesley, Cordelia, and Gunn, he remained in the Hyperion by himself, while his former colleagues continued the agency without him in a rented office.[7] They returned to the Hyperion after Angel returned to the group.[8]

The Hyperion was also home for Angel, Gunn, Fred, Lorne, and Connor.[9] It also occasionally harbored the group's other members and people they helped, like the telekinetic Bethany Chaulk,[10] Fred's parents Trish and Roger Burkle,[11] a pregnant Darla,[12] and the Slayer Faith while she was unconscious.[13]

The Team Angel remained at the Hyperion until they stopped the reign of Jasmine and moved their headquarters to the Wolfram & Hart Los Angeles branch.[14] Later, they confronted Wolfram & Hart's demon army in the alleyway behind the Hyperion.[15]

Proceeding the end of magic, Angel and Gunn returned to the Hyperion with Willow, Faith, and Connor to open an entrance to Quor'toth as part of Willow's quest to restore Earth's magic.[16]

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Behind the scenes[]

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Fanmade floorplan.

  • Exterior shots of the hotel were taken at the Los Altos Hotel & Apartments, at 4121 Wilshire Blvd. Some interior shots were done in The Ambassador Hotel, according to DVD commentary about "Billy".
  • The name Hyperion comes from Greek mythology and is sometimes considered synonymous with Helios, the god of the Sun.
  • The courtyard setting for the Burns residence in "I Fall to Pieces" is also the same set for the Courtyard of the Hyperion.
  • Angel production designer Stuart Blatt described the setting: "An old hotel, something [the writers] could use to evoke the past of Los Angeles and some of Angel's history, something kind of creepy and spooky but not too dark because they didn't want something depressing, it's called the Hyperion Hotel. It's based on many hotels in Los Angeles... Angel lived in a larger suite in the hotel, like a honeymoon suite, the producers wanted Angel to have enough room to relax and get away from it all, do a little pondering, a little brooding, a little research. Every once in a while someone will come up to have a little conversation."[17]
  • A Hyperion Hotel is mentioned in the Bones episode "The Girl with the Curl," which stars David Boreanaz; and in the Dollhouse episode "Stop Loss," which was produced by Mutant Enemy Productions and stars Eliza Dushku.

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