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| writer = [[David Fury]]
| director = [[James A. Contner]]
| previous = "[[The Girl in Question]]"
| next = "[[Not Fade Away]]"
| cast = {{CastList
| starring = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=David Boreanaz|character=Angel}}
| {{CastActor|name=James Marsters|character=Spike}}
| {{CastActor|name=J. August Richards|character=Charles Gunn|billed=Gunn}}
| {{CastActor|name=Amy Acker|character=Illyria}}
| {{CastActor|name=Andy Hallett|character=Lorne}}
| {{CastActor|name=Mercedes McNab|character=Harmony Kendall|billed=Harmony}}
| {{CastActor|name=Alexis Denisof|character=Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|billed=Wesley}}}}
| specialgueststarring = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=Christian Kane|character=Lindsey McDonald|billed=Lindsey}}}}
| gueststarring = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=Dennis Christopher|character=Cyvus Vail|billed=Vail}}
| {{CastActor|name=Alec Newman|imdb=0627995|character=Drogyn}}
| {{CastActor|name=Jenny Mollen|character=Nina Ash|billed=Nina}}
| {{CastActor|name=Leland Crooke|imdb=0188882|character=Archduke Sebassis|billed=Sebassis}}
| {{CastActor|name=Stacey Travis|imdb=0006826|character=Helen Brucker|billed=Senator Brucker}}
| {{CastActor|name=Adam Baldwin|character=Marcus Hamilton|billed=Marcus}}}}
| costarring = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=Mark Colson|imdb=0173246|character=Izzerial|billed=Izzy}}
| {{CastActor|name=Elimu Nelson|imdb=0625351|character=Ernesto}}}}
| uncredited = {{CastGroup|{{CastActor|name=Olga Vilner|imdb=0734864|billed=Vinji Leader}}
| {{CastActor|name=Charisma Carpenter|character=Cordelia Chase|billed=Cordelia}}}}}}
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In Wesley’s office, Wesley is researching Boretz demons. Instead of finding information, his book tells him that he is looking in the wrong place, and a strange circular symbol with eight spurs appears. Gunn walks in on the confused Wesley, whose book had just returned to normal.
At a racquetball court, Angel is sparring against [[Izzerial|Izzy]], the red devil. Izzy mentions that the leader of the [[Fell Brethren]] is very happy over the sacrificial baby Angel helped the Brethren to acquire. Angel asks when will he get an answer, and Izzy tells him that it will be soon.
At a dark, abandoned amusement park, Spike and Illyria are searching for the Boretz demon. Illyria tells Spike that Angel has become corrupted, through power. Spike asks why. Illyria noticed that Angel does not notice the small battles, to which there is no gain. Angel also now ignores his close counsel. Spike disagrees about Angel being corrupt. Illyria darkly suggests that Angel will murder one of his inner circle. [[Drogyn]], the battlebrand, appears and claims Angel has already committed a murder. Illyria looks unhappy to be confronted by her previous jailer. The Boretz appears, and fights Spike, who is thrown. Illyria fights the Boretz, and kills it with a forceful kick. Drogyn says that he has come to warn Spike, but falls over. Illyria notices that Drogyn is bleeding, and Drogyn claims that it is because of Angel.
Angel explains that after Fred was killed, he used her death to his advantage, to join the Black Thorn. Finally, Angel reveals his plan of killing all the members of the Black Thorn, and for a single moment, stopping the apocalypse, and getting the Senior Partners really angry. Angel also assumes that once the Black Thorn is eliminated, the Senior Partners won’t stop until all of them are dead too. Spike grimly refers to it as a suicidal, "burn the house down, while we're still in it" strategy. Gunn, Lorne, Spike and Wesley agree to help. The episode ends with Hamilton ominously watching them from the window outside the office, suspicious to team Angel's agenda. Although he can only see them fighting with each other and not the fact that they have planned to eliminate every member of the Black Thorn.
== Background Information ==
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[[Video:521 - Power Play|thumb|300px|right|Power Play - TV Promo]]
*Spike tells Illyria to play "Crash Bandicoot" on his Xbox while she guards Drogyn. The only Crash Bandicoot game released on the Xbox by the air date of the episode was "Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex."
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