Conviction

Angel: 'So it turns out [that] with this new deal and all, I own a helicopter!' With necrotempered windows, I assume. And he landed it in the underground helipad at the elementary school. Fine.

Wesley enters the courtroom and sits down to Cary. Wow, he got there in no time at all. So the court is, like, door to the Wolfram & Hart building? Or maybe Angel dropped him out of the helicopter as they passed over the courthouse. Oh look, I gave away the joke. Shame. Wesley asks how it's going, and then sees Fries glaring at them and says, "Never mind." Cary asks what the plan is, and Wesley pulls his jacket open to show a pistol. Wesley likes guns. And the courthouse has shitty security.

Cut to the school as the inconspicuous black van arrives and a bunch of inconspicuous ninja leap out and race into the building. Now wearing gas masks, they head straight to Matt's classroom, because the Wolfram & Hart files are incredibly detailed. One kicks the door open, and two others toss gas canisters into the room. They hurry inside and line up neatly along one wall, with their guns aimed at...empty desks. Wait, not entirely empty: Angel is sitting casually at one desk in the back of the room. He cheerily greets the ninja by saying, "So it turns out [that] with this new deal and all, I own a helicopter!" With necrotempered windows, I assume. And he landed it in the underground helipad at the elementary school. Fine. Hauser asks where Matt is, and Angel says that the ninja just missed him. Because along with the helicopter, Angel also has the ability and authority to evacuate a school in moments, without any difficulty. In Los Angeles. In 2003. The whole "How will Angel get to the school in time?" question seems to have been created solely to distract us from the "What exactly is he going to do when he gets there?" question, because answering that second one would take more than a punchline. Hauser guesses that Matt is isolated somewhere nearby. Angel asks, "Do I even have to start with how fired you all are?" Hauser laughs and removes his gas mask, insisting, "That's not how it works." Angel asks if Hauser wants to show him one of their traditions. Hauser does, and orders his troops to open fire. On Angel. The vampire. Now, the ninja should already know this, but just in case the audience doesn't, gunshots won't kill Angel. Bullets are sprayed all over the place, and luckily none of them breaks a window. Although Angel did think long enough to let the blinds down. Angel ducks behind the teacher's desk until the ninja get bored with the gratuitous gunfire. Finally, one ninja pulls out a wooden knife, which shows a little more sense, and approaches the desk. Angel, in vamp-face, knocks him out, and then there's some more gunfire and neck-snappage and desk-fu. Another ninja pulls out a little canteen marked with a cross, and they waited till now to pull out the holy water? It's not that they're evil; they should be fired for incompetence. Angel kicks it away, and then there's a lot of kicking and a whirling-dervish kick, and so on and so forth.



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