Previously: Spike became corporeal again, leading he and Angel to have a giant dick measuring contest over nothing. Also, Lindsey’s back!
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Harm’s Way
Kirsti: We open with a pretty hilarious “Welcome to Wolfram & Hart” recruitment video. The guy giving the voiceover is infomercial peppy, and it’s intercut with shots of Angel looking awkward and stating their new employee policy: “If you don’t kill us, we won’t kill you.” That throws us into an alarm clock going off. (S: WEIRD. My version misses that peppy video, starting at the alarm clock, and now I’m sad.) (K: Womp womp…)
Harmony turns it off and throws us into a montage of her getting ready for the day. This includes her looking at her not-reflection and vamping out to brush her fangs as well as her teeth. I stop to wonder how the hell she does her make up when she can’t see her reflection… (S: Mind. Blown.) She gets dressed and heads out to work, greeting her dog-walking neighbour on the way. The dog barks at her and the neighbour ignores her. Harmony looks hurt.
Back at her desk, she briefs Angel on his meetings for the day. At the end of her spiel – which ends with a question – he makes some clicking noises in a demon language. She’s confused until he pulls out an earbud and reveals that he was trying to learn demon language the whole way through her spiel. He asks her to do something she already briefed him on, then rushes off to his office with Gunn. She follows, trying to tell him she’s already done it, and gets a door slammed in her face.
Sweeney: Poor Harmony. On the bright side, I think a Harmony-centric episode is a great way to wash out the bad taste the last episode left in my mouth. This season has made some interesting tone-jumping choices so far.
Lorraine: Harm’s always been presented as a little ditzy, but I liked this opening montage because we got to see that she is at least good at this job. Look at her go!
K: And the “good at this job but always overlooked” thing is something a lot of people can relate to.
A guy in a lab coat wheels a trolley up to her desk and says that it’s her turn to be randomly tested for human blood. She eyerolls and holds out her finger. She answers the phone as he fingerpricks her. The phone call is a wrong number, and the blood test comes up negative. A zombie looking dude named Eli walks up, and she perkily greets him by name. He awkwards “Hey…you” in response, then says that he has a meeting with Angel. She says it’s not on the books, but Gunn ushers him into Angel’s office. Harmony looks up to see Angel’s mug of blood still sitting on the desk. She carries it into Angel’s office just in time to see him slice Eli’s head off with a sword. “Get that cleaned up, would you?” he says. Electric cellos.
After the credits, Eli’s being dragged away in a body bag. Harmony asks why Angel killed him, and Angel says that he didn’t like what Eli was doing outside of work. Harmony tries to defend work-life balance, and is informed that Eli was dismembering virgins. She switches to a “Religious freedom, yo” stance, and Gunn tells her that Eli was doing it for fun. Bless her for not making assumptions though. She asks why they couldn’t have given Eli a warning, and Angel says that they have a zero tolerance policy and that no one at W&H gets away with murder. Except for, you know, him and all the murders that he does for the greater good?? Whatever.
Sweeney: Is there a filing process to get your murders approved? Maybe they should have an internal campaign to make people more aware of the requisite paperwork.
Lor: Right, because maybe those were evil virgins. Probably not, but I’d like to think there was some due diligence.
K: One would hope…
The rest of the Fang Gang turn up as a janitor carries Eli’s head away, and I’m going to stop to rant about how much I hate Fred’s costumes this season. They’ve basically turned her into a Barbie doll – nothing but heels and short skirts and frilly tops – and it drives me insane. Spike walks in, and Fred gushily asks him where he’s been because they haven’t seen him in days. Getting drunk, apparently, now that he’s all corporeal and shit. He says that he’s there to say goodbye, and Fred’s face falls. Angel, on the other hand, looks pretty thrilled. Until Spike says that there’s someone waiting for him (*cough* IN EUROPE *cough*). Then Angel glares and looks at the ground. Wes says that he shouldn’t leave because they still haven’t worked out the whole Shanshu thing. Spike has no fucks to give.
He asks Angel for money, and then calls him a cheapskate when Angel’s all “LOL NOPE”. He asks for a car instead, which Angel readily gives him so that he’ll leave. Spike asks if Angel wants him to pass on a message to Buffy, and Angel replies “Tell her you’re a moron” as he walks away. Hee. Gunn and Wes leave without comment. Lorne tells Spike not to be a stranger. Spike and Fred share a moony moment about her believing in him, and then he heads for the elevator. Harmony, already having a shitty day, tearily demands to know why she doesn’t get a goodbye. He basically eyerolls and walks away. Her bottom lip quivers.
Sweeney: To go from, “the first thing I want to do with my corporeal form is jump your bones,” to, “I won’t even acknowledge you on my way out and will laugh at the idea that I should,” is super fucked up.
Lor: Worst. I mean, that plus the whole, “Buffy is waiting for me!” thing, because the first thing he did was bang not Buffy. Super fucked up.
K: Angel’s office. The Fang Gang discuss the peace talks they’re holding the next day between two rival demon clans who’ve been at war for five generations because once upon a time, someone used the wrong fork at a banquet (seriously). (L: Is this supposed to make the Drusilla thing better in comparison?) (K: Possibly?) Gunn says that there’s a demon rights activist working as liaison to both clans and he called them for help. Wes wants to know why they don’t just let the clans murder each other forever, and Gunn says that it’ll show all the demons how big W&H’s balls are if they can pull this off. Wes flips through a fat document of demon customs and says they should probably memorise it before tomorrow. Harmony, off in the background taking the minutes, bounces in her chair a little because she doesn’t have a copy.
The guy Harmony queue jumped for the microwave sticks his head in the door to tell Lorne that he’s finished the seating plan. His name is Dan, but Lorne calls him Dandito, which I heard as Dorito. Obviously, I shall call him that for the rest of the episode. While Lorne’s going over the seating plan, Fred informs Angel that she’s finished upgrading a weapons detector. Gunn chimes in that none of the demons speak English, so he’ll be doing most of the talking, as W&H shoved a bunch of demon languages in his head along with the law and Gilbert & Sullivan. (S: LOL. The brain hole magic with Gunn was already some silly, ridiculous contrivance. I like the way the show just runs with it. It’s basically implied that there’s an added, “isn’t that convenient?” That self aware stuff was a big part of what I enjoyed forever ago.) Fred asks Angel if there are any other potential minefields, and he says that their etiquette is big on superstition. Harmony excitedly chimes in that she’s been doing some research on them, and rattles off a couple of facts. Wes says he’s glad she’s there because they could use some lunch. The others agree, and her face falls.
Break room. Harmony sits at a table by herself as the gossiping girls from earlier gossip about whether Fred’s boning Gunn or Knox. Harmony chimes in that they shouldn’t forget about Wesley and his creepy possessive ubercrush. Bitchy Gossip #1 scoffs because everyone knows that Wes is… She trails off as Dorito walks in carrying a basket of muffins from Shaq – apparently Lorne has declared his office a carb free zone. The Bitchy Gossips tell Dorito that Lorne is totally grooming him for a higher position, and Harmony tries to join in again by saying that Angel’s doing the same with her. The Bitchy Gossips eyeroll, and Harmony’s phone rings. She answers to Angel yelling at her to get back to the foyer immediately, ending with a “Why can’t you do anything right?!” She tears up a little as she tries to cover the fact that he’s yelling at her to the Bitchy Gossips.
Down in the foyer, Angel demands to know what “this” is. She says that she should have called the caterers to confirm that the food was for tomorrow, not today. The camera pans around to reveal a live camel standing in the foyer. She says that she did a lot of research on the demon clans, and camel meat is a delicacy for them, so she thought that it would be a nice bonding experience for them all to slaughter it together. Angel starts to yell, and Fred interjects that maybe the camel wasn’t the way to go. Angel snaps “Harmony, you are supposed to answer the phones, make appointments, and anticipate my needs, which does not include a petting zoo in my lobby.” She awkwardly says that the caterer said there were no returns. Angel storms off and Harmony starts crying. Fred tries to comfort her. Harmony cries that everyone hates her. Fred says that they don’t hate her, it’s just that they don’t really KNOW her. Harmony perks up a little and asks Fred what she’s doing after work. Fred grimaces a little.
Lor: I FEEL SO BAD FOR HARMONY. Apparently, in an effort to make us feel bad for Harmony, this episode is going to make everyone else seem like a jerk.
K: Especially Angel.
Cut to Fred and Harmony having cocktails. Harmony says that she can’t even quit her job because she has nowhere else to go. She tried being all independent and evil, but she sucked at it. Fred suggests that’s probably a good thing, but Harmony replies that she’s no good at her current job either, and that Angel’s right – she’s useless. Fred tells her not to take things so personally, and Harmony sighs that she wishes she were more like Fred. Except not the science part or the flat chested part. Mostly the two-hot-guys-chasing-her part. Fred’s all “Skkkrrt, WHA?”, and Harmony gushes that everyone thinks the two guys are Knox and Gunn but SHE knows it’s Knox and Wes.
Fred then wonders why she’s telling Harmony all of this. Harmony says that they’re doing the girly bonding thing and it’s awesome because Fred can teach her about life and she can teach Fred how to dress better. Fred gives her a fairly epic “WTF?” face in response. Which, FAIR. Then Fred starts to gush about how Knox and Wes are both hot before stopping to wonder why everyone at work cares who she’s dating. Harmony says it’s because they want to know what’s going on with the bigwigs, and then says that people could just ask her but….. Fred awkwardly asks if Harmony has any friends at work. Harmony tearfully replies that she used to be super-popular in high school, but she’s had trouble connecting with people since she got turned.
Sweeney: Sunnydale High School callback shots! I didn’t see a Fred/Harmony friendship coming, but this scene is adorable. Also worth noting how totally Bechdel Faily this show is. The sausage fest has three named female regulars who almost never interact with one another and the first time Fred and Harmony do get together, it’s to gush about guys. I don’t think a single episode this season passes, come to think of it.
The scene is still adorable if I don’t think too much about how sad this show makes me.
Lor: A+ observation, Sweeney.
K: Agreed.
Fred looks around the bar and says that Harmony needs to mingle more, as there are lots of W&H people there. Harmony says that they’re all alive and she gravitates more to the undead. Fred suggests she give it a go, and suggests she go and chat to the cute guy at the bar. She gives Harmony some tips, then watches her go up to the bar before leaving. Harmony introduces herself to the guy, and word vomits a bunch of questions before he smiles and asks if she wants a drink. Cut to Harmony’s alarm going off the following morning. She does the universal “Ow, too many cocktails” grimace, and rolls over in bed. She comes face to face with Bar Guy, and sits up in surprise. She peers under the covers and gets an “Oh God, did I just have a one night stand?” face. She smiles a little as she goes to wake him, but when she pushes his shoulder, he rolls over to reveal two dirty great fang marks in his neck. “Oops,” she says. Fade to black.
After the Not Commercial Break, Harmony shiftily checks the hallway of her apartment building before walking out with Dead!Bar Guy’s body over her shoulder, stuffed in a stripy laundry bag. She starts to shove his body down the garbage chute but is interrupted by her judgey dog walking neighbour. She covers awkwardly until Judgey Neighbour gets in the elevator, then starts shoving again. The body falls down the chute, then bounces off the edge of the dumpster and onto the floor of the car park. She rushes down the stairs and bends to pick up the body. Another bag of garbage comes down the chute and hits her as the elevator dings. She effortlessly picks up the body and throws it in the dumpster as Judgey Neighbour passes, then empties the bag of garbage over the top.
At the office, she gives herself a pep talk in the elevator, then slouches down in her chair when she sees the random blood test guy coming around. Angel appears to demand his blood, bitching that nothing can go wrong today and how dare she be late. She heads to the break room and shoves his blood in the microwave. While it heats, she mutters to herself, trying to remember the previous night. Her verdict is basically “Too much drinking = bad.” Dorito appears to yell at her for stealing the microwave again, and she blames it on Angel. Then she grabs her unicorn sticker covered thermos from the fridge and takes a sip. Then she starts to guzzle it down, only stopping when she notices that everyone is staring at her. She awkwards that she’s stress eating because of the demon summit, then hurries away after a “WHERE’S MY BLOOD DAMMIT?” phone call from Angel.
Sweeney: What an asshole. I suppose it’s interesting that this show has so little concern for making its titular character likable. At all. (Or, at least, I hope that’s the case, because it’s been a long while since they made him remotely endearing. I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt an assume it’s on purpose.)
Lor: Huh. I wonder if it would change my viewing if I assumed all the stupid shit the show was doing was on purpose. Probably not, but an interesting theory.
K: It really is. I mean, he’s usually pretty bad, what with the brooding and all. But he’s particularly awful in this episode.
At her desk, she fields phone calls while crossing things off an adorably bubble lettered To Do list. A woman walks past, and Harmony stares at her neck. The phone rings. She answers, then informs Angel that the LOLPD want to talk to him. She transfers the call, but listens in as the detective tells Angel that they found a vampire victim. Angel realises that she’s still on the line and yells at her to hang up. She does so, then watches nervously through the window. She flaps her hands in panic as Wes and Gunn cross the lobby to Angel’s office.
Angel informs Wes and Gunn that the LOLPD have found a body. Harmony wants to know where. Angel gives her a “butt out” look before saying that the body was found at the city dump in a laundry bag. Wes asked why the LOLPD called him, and he informs them that W&H owns the LOLPD. Wes and Gunn are all “Well THAT explains a lot,” which YUP. But they also called Angel because the dead guy had Angel’s card in his pocket. In short, the dead guy is the liaison between the demon clans. Womp womp. Wes, Gunn and Angel start discussing damage control while Harmony awkwardly asks if the cops have any actual leads. They all give her “WTF” face.
Sweeney: Harmony, you’re doing staying-under-the-radar wrong.
K: Angel’s office. He has the demon clans on speaker phone as Gunn translates. Wes suggests that Angel say something to reassure them. Gunn tells the demon clans that the summit can proceed. Angel tries to contribute, but the subtitles tell us that he says “Be disembowelled.” The demon leader gets pissy and calls him a filthy man whore (LOL) while Gunn hurriedly tries to mend fences. Harmony says that they should forgive and forget, and Gunn’s all “LOL NOPE” because the demons are super pissed. Angel says that hopefully Fred will be able to tell them something soon because she’s got the body in her lab. At that, Harmony turns and rushes out the door.
Evil Radio Shack. Fred examines the body while taking notes on a little tape recorder. When Harmony appears, she gets all “Ugh, did Angel send you to hurry me up? Because RUDE.” Harmony replies that that’s totally how it happened YUP TOTALLY and also does Fred know anything yet. Fred says that the body’s only been there 20 minutes, and then tells Harmony that she had fun the previous night. Harmony has no fucks to give because she may have murdered someone. Fred takes some notes about the bite marks and tells Harmony that they indicate it was a female vampire. Harmony awkwards. Fred asks for the gossip on Bar Guy, and Harmony says that he was a loser before rushing out.
Harmony walks down the hall, muttering to herself about how she should change her name and move to Mexico. Suddenly, she realises something – Fred said the guy was bitten on the right side of his neck. She bounces with excitement and says she couldn’t have done it before planting a kiss on the person coming towards her, who turns out to be Random Blood Test Guy. He grabs her finger and does a test, which comes back positive. They stare at each other for a second before she knocks him out. Fade to black.
Sweeney: This was about the point that the episode started to switch from, “LOL, fun” to “I’m a little grossed out and uncomfortable.” Stand by to find out if this changes.
K: After the Not Commercial Break, she shoves his body in a store cupboard and heads off down the corridor only to come face to face with Lorne. He asks her if she’s seen Dorito, and she’s all “NOPE. Hey, BTW, where do the blood test results go?” He informs her that they’re automatically transmitted to the lab, then stops as he hears a moan from the closet. Cut to Harmony shoving an unconscious Lorne in the cupboard too.
Down in the lab, Fred stares at some paperwork, then jumps when Harmony appears behind her. Fred makes excuses as Harmony insists that she can explain and it wasn’t her and that someone must have drugged her. She says that she doesn’t remember anything – she just woke up, and the guy that Fred made her talk to was in her bed. Fred’s all “Wait, WHAT?!” as Harmony says that it couldn’t have been her because he was bitten on the right. She says that she’s a right biter, which means the wound would be on the left, and she grabs Fred to demonstrate that it can’t have been her. Fred awkwards that it’s a convincing, if unscientific, argument.
Harmony says that someone must have spiked her thermos to disrupt the summit. Fred suggests that they call Angel, but Harmony grabs the phone from her on account of Angel’s zero tolerance head chopping policy. Fred insists that Angel will want to hear what she has to say and that no heads will be chopped as she takes the phone back and starts to dial. Cut to Harmony shoved Fred into the closet and slapping a piece of tape over her mouth.
Sweeney: Fred was the one with most immediate means to prove that something was fishy – possibly testing her blood for the roofies or whatever. It’s a little grating that we’ve seen her express a willingness to take a beat before going to Angel for someone else *ahem* but not here, given that she had at least one immediate step she could have taken on Harmony’s behalf.
Lor: Well, shit. It’s funny that this happens in an episode we start with Spike thanking Fred for essentially picking him and keeping things from her boss.
K: Welp, that hadn’t even occurred to me before now. Ugh.
Harmony mutters her way down the hall again, saying that maybe she can get fingerprints from her thermos to prove who’s framing her. She stops when she gets to the lobby because the demon tribes have arrived and are in full clicky screaming mode. One informs Angel that if he can’t give them the blood of the murderer, one of his own must die before they can start the summit. “They want a blood sacrifice? Harmony!” Angel yells. She pops out, saying that it was only one little mistake… But he just wants her to go and find Fred and ask what she’s found out from the body. She rushes across the lobby.
Sweeney: Also, also: this would have been a convenient time to browse the roster of potentially evil/murdering W&H employees and offer up a faux-sacrifice.
K: True!
Break room. Harmony finds Dorito moving her thermos and immediately jumps to conclusions. She slams him against the fridge, demanding to know why he hates her. He replies that he doesn’t care enough to hate her. She vamps out and he panics. When she mentions murder though, he starts to sob. He begs for his life, and someone off screen smashes a glass container on his head, knocking him out. Harmony turns to find the girl she bumped into at the start standing behind her. “Hey, it was YOU! …Who are you?” Harmony says. Fade to black.
After the Not Commercial Break, Ruined Shirt Girl tells Harmony to think real hard, and maybe focus on the steno pool. Harmony realises that they sat next to each other during the whole month that she was down there. Ruined Shirt Girl, whose name is Tamika, yells that she’s been there for five years and has a pleasant phone voice and types 80 words per minute and WHY DOES HARMONY GET THE BEST DESK IN THE OFFICE. Uh, maybe because you can only type 80 words per minute? (L: Don’t gloat, K. This was a different time?) (K: It was 2004. I’m pretty sure I could type 100 words per minute in 2004…) Tamika bitches about Harmony being the popular one, and Harmony’s all “Seriously????” Apparently by “popular”, though, Tamika means “gets to sit in on important meetings.” Right. Okay. Whatever.
Basically, her big plan from this point is “I have witnesses who saw you attack Dorito, so now when I go to Angel, he’ll give me your job.” Tamika kicks a table at Harmony. Harmony jumps over it, and vamps out, saying that she has the advantage. Tamika vamps out too, and Harmony’s all “Oh. Whoops.” They fight, and it’s totally ridiculous because Harmony’s pulling all these martial arts moves and remember when Harmony fought Xander and it was all hair pulling and standing on the other person’s foot? Good times…
Sweeney: MEMORIES!
K: Anyway, Tamika pins Harmony against the wall and consults the Big Book of Villain Gloating, saying that she slipped a roofie into Harmony’s drink, waited until she went home with Bar Guy and passed out, then broke in and drained him. Harmony’s pissed. She kicks Tamika away, and they resume fighting. But this time, they both have a pair of chopsticks. Sure, show. An office run by a vampire would TOTALLY have pointy wooden objects lying all over the place! Tamika says that the first thing she’ll do when she gets Harmony’s desk will be to smash all the unicorns.
Cut to Harmony marching a headlocked Tamika down the hallway, saying that she’s going to tell Angel all about how she framed Harmony. Tamika stamps on her foot and Harmony loses her grip. They resume fighting. Cut to Angel’s conference room. The demon clans are still demanding a sacrifice before the summit can begin. Just then, Harmony and Tamika smash through the glass window. Harmony slams Tamika down on the table and stakes her with a chopstick. She oopses to Angel that she didn’t mean to do that yet. The demon clans agree that Tamika was a suitable sacrifice and get down to business. “I…can explain?” Harmony says as everyone turns to stare at Angel, who crosses his arms and looks pissy.
Cut to Fred, Lorne and Random Blood Test Guy holding ice packs on their heads. Angel tells Harmony that she should have come to him. She replies that she was scared and she knew Angel never wanted her as his assistant and that she’ll try harder. Gunn walks in from the conference room, and Wes asks how it’s going. He says it’s going okay. Fred says that at least Harmony didn’t kill anyone as Random Blood Test Guy informs Harmony that her blood will be clean in two days, but they’ll be watching her. She says that she’ll pack up her desk, and turns to go. Angel tells her to bring some coffee, and she walks out looking confused.
Seizure cut to the bar. Harmony’s moping to the bartender about how she saved the summit by killing Tamika and the only thanks she gets is “COFFEE NOW.” The bartender shakes his head in disbelief. Spike appears to commiserate and Harmony asks what he’s doing there, in a place where Buffy is not. He awkwardly says that he booked his passage on a boat, then realised that after you’ve burnt to death saving the world, it’s kind of anticlimactic to turn up three months later. Otherwise known as “We’re paying you a lot of money to get second billing in this show, so CONTRIVANCE.”
Sweeney: Yeah, none of his reasons really made sense. He didn’t ask to come back so the dying thing doesn’t suddenly get invalidated. This was 100% “Actually I am still contractually bound to Wolfram & Hart because I have another 13 episodes to be in.“
Lor: Which, fine. I didn’t expect Spike to go anywhere. Why not just use that first contrivance of needing to stick around for the Shanshu, though? Why add this piece in there, where we’re supposed to believe that Buffy who has died for the world and come back twice would somehow invalidate Spike’s act of sacrifice or see him as anything lesser for coming back?
K: YUP.
Harmony rolls her eyes, and says that all it would take was one look at him, and then Buffy would go all tingly and forget about how badly he treated her and how he took her for granted… She trails off as he interrupts that he never took Buffy for granted before he twigs that Harmony was talking about herself. He says that Buffy would be pleased to see him, but if he turns up now, his dying to save the world thing won’t matter. Which is literally what he just said thirty seconds earlier repeated in a different way. Were the writers even trying at this point??
Harmony says that she understands the not mattering part on account of everyone ignores her. Spike points out that she matters to someone, and she looks up, all hopeful. He says that she mattered to Tamika. Harmony perkily realises that she DOES matter because someone tried to frame her for murder. Wheeeeeeee. She grins and sips her drink. Fade to black.
Sweeney: But at least we have another drinking gif now!
K: Always appreciated.
That was a thing. I have a weird soft spot for Harmony, so was sort of a FUN thing to see her bumbling her way through an emergency situation. But so much of it was heavy handed and “LOOK HOW DUMB HARMONY IS!” And Angel was SUCH a moody bitch the whole way through that I wanted to punch him. Usually when he’s all broody, it’s the funny kind of broody. But this was just bad mood “I HATE EVERYONE” territory, and it was infuriating. So yeah. It was meh, but a weird sort of fun meh? I don’t even know any more.
Sweeney: Angel’s been insufferable for a few episodes now. As annoying as I generally find it, it was kind of fitting for this episode because we were concentrating on Harmony’s POV, so his role should be reduced to pain in the ass boss. It was a perspective shift in the style of (though not at the quality level of) several Buffy episodes. It was a good choice that was just weakened by the fact that he’s been so unlikable for a while now that the choice didn’t stand out as much.
Lor: This episode was silly and just a bit nonsensical, and I think that in lots of places, it was on purpose. It had that campy vibe that I often appreciate, but to borrow what Sweeney said, because this show has been silly and nonsensical so much in the past (and probably not on purpose) this episode doesn’t stand out as much as it should. Plus, there wasn’t s suitable resolution for me. In the end, Harmony was still overlooked without even the satisfaction of say, having her be right by that random-ass camel.
K: True. It’s like it was trying to be The Zeppo and make the butt-of-all-the-jokes character into the lead, but didn’t quite hit the mark…
Next time: The Cowboy Boots of Revenge pay a visit to Spike, while Angel’s off in hallucination land. Find out more in Angel S05 E10 – Soul Purpose.
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