War Zone (Angel episode)

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Contents

0.1 Summary
0.2 Expanded overview

1 Writing and acting
2 Production details

2.1 Music

3 Quotes and trivia
4 Continuity

4.1 Arc significance
4.2 Timing

5 External links

Summary

While Angel is helping David Nabbit, a software millionaire, in tracking down a blackmailer, he gets caught up in the middle of a gang war between a group of street kids, led by Charles Gunn, who is an amateur vampire slayer battling vampires who have settled in Gunn‘s South-Central neighborhood. Angel offers his assistance to Gunn and his gang to track down a vampire nest whose members have abducted and killed Gunn‘s sister.

Expanded overview

A girl named Alonna walks down the street, followed by a group of vampires, but when the vampires turn around, Alonna's brother Gunn and many others are there, armed and ready for a fight. Cordelia, Wesley and Angel go to a party where they meet a prospective client and multi-billionaire, David Nabbit. He is being blackmailed for going to a demonic specialty club, Madam Dorion's. A man named Lenny Edwards is holding pictures of him at the club as blackmail.

The vampire gang fights with the young humans on the street with both medieval and modern weapons. Several are killed on both sides and in the end the vampires run off leaving the humans to deal with the wounded. Angel goes to a Madam Dorion's and a demon named Lina helps give Angel information about Lenny Edwards. Gunn receives news about the vampire nest, and that a vampire is near by.

Angel talks with Lenny and makes it very clear that he will get what he wants. Gunn witnesses this argument from afar, plotting to do away with Angel. David pays Cordelia and Wesley with a very large check, and promises more is on the way when the job is done. The next night, Angel meets with Lenny, who brought the photos and a demon security guard. Angel kills the demon and gets away with the photos. However, he gets staked in the chest by a couple of the human gang members. He is chased and forced to run through a gauntlet of vampire killing weapons. When confronted by Gunn and the others, Angel tries to explain that he is fighting for good.

Cordelia dresses Angel's wounds while they look at the graphic pictures that were being held for blackmail. Angel's still in pain, but goes off to find the nest of vampires before the gang of kids find it. Knox, the leader of the vampire gang talks to his followers, mapping out a plan. Gunn questions Angel and his motivations for supposedly helping them. The vampires throw smoke bombs into the humans' hideaway, forcing them to escape to the surface. Covered in heavy clothes and wearing gas masks, the vampires capture several of the teen gang members, including Alonna.

Cordelia and Wesley go searching for information, and try to find the human gang's lair. Angel forces his way in and tries to help Gunn and the others. Gunn refuses the help and locks Angel in a meat locker. Searching for the vampire's lair, Gunn goes first into a building and finds a newly undead Alonna. With her being his sister, Gunn can't bring himself to kill her. Angel tries to punch his way out of the meat locker he was locked in only to have Cordelia and Wesley open the door for him.

As Alonna is about to make her brother a vampire, he stakes her. Then Angel and the two gangs--vampire and human--come together. Angel kills Knox and arranges a truce with the rest of the group. He lets the vampires live if they leave town and never return. Cordelia and Wesley talk about the gang kids and their rough life. Cordelia considers getting involved with David for his money, but ends up talking herself out of it. Angel talks with Gunn and both plan to keep on fighting evil, and Angel tells Gunn he may need his help in the future.

Writing and acting

Production details

Music

A Friend From Rio - "Para Lennon & Mc Cartney"
APM - "Hellfire"

Quotes and trivia

Continuity

Arc significance

First appearance of Gunn, who would go on to become a major character.

Timing

Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

Location, time (if known)	Buffyverse chronology: January 2000 - Spring 2000 (non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.12 A New Man (Buffy episode)>A New Man
L.A., 2000	A1.12 Expecting (Angel episode)>Expecting
L.A., 2000	Angel graphic novel: Hunting Ground (Angel comic)>Hunting Ground
L.A., 2000	Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)#Angel #10>Strange Bedfellows/Love for sale
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.13 The I in Team (Buffy episode)>The I in Team
L.A., 2000	A1.13 She (Angel episode)>She
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.14 Goodbye Iowa (Buffy episode)>Goodbye Iowa
Sunnydale, 2000	Buffy video game:
L.A., 2000	A1.14 I've Got You Under My Skin (Angel episode)>I've Got You Under My Skin
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.15 This Year's Girl (Buffy episode)>This Year's Girl
L.A., 2000	A1.15 The Prodigal (Angel episode)>The Prodigal
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.16 Who Are You? (Buffy episode)>Who Are You?
L.A., 2000	A1.16 The Ring (Angel episode)>The Ring
Sunnydale, 2000	Buffy comic: Giles (Buffy comic)>Giles
Sunnydale, 2000	Buffy comic: Jonathan (Buffy comic)>Jonathan (by Jane Espenson)
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.17 Superstar (Buffy episode)>Superstar
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000	Buffy/Angel graphic novel: Past Lives (Buffy/Angel comic)>Past Lives
Sunnydale, 2000	Buffy graphic novel: Out of the Woodwork (Buffy comic)>Out of the Woodwork
Sunnydale, 2000	Buffy book: These Our Actors (Buffy novel)>These Our Actors
L.A., 2000	A1.17 Eternity (Angel episode)>Eternity
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.18 Where the Wild Things Are (Buffy episode)>Where the Wild Things Are
L.A., 2000	A1.18 Five By Five (Angel episode)>Five By Five
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.19 New Moon Rising (Buffy episode)>New Moon Rising
L.A., 2000	A1.19 Sanctuary (Angel episode)>Sanctuary
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.20 The Yoko Factor (Buffy episode)>The Yoko Factor
L.A., 2000	A1.20 War Zone (Angel episode)>War Zone
Sunnydale, 2000	B4.21 Primeval (Buffy episode)>Primeval
L.A., 2000	A1.21 Blind Date (Angel episode)>Blind Date
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000	B4.22 Restless (Buffy episode)>Restless
L.A., 2000	A1.22 To Shanshu in L.A. (Angel episode)>To Shanshu in L.A.
L.A., 2000	Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)#Angel #17>Cordelia special
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000	Buffy/Angel books: Unseen (Buffy/Angel novel)>Unseen [Trilogy]

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