Rm w/a Vu
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| “Rm w/a Vu” | |
|---|---|
| Angel episode | |
 Cordelia is not alone in her new apartment |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Guest stars | Elisabeth Röhm (Kate) Beth Grant (Maude) |
| Written by | Jane Espenson (teleplay & story), David Greenwalt (story) |
| Directed by | Scott McGinnis |
| Production no. | 1ADH05 |
| Original airdate | November 2, 1999 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "I Fall to Pieces" | "Sense & Sensitivity" |
| List of Angel episodes | |
"Rm w/a Vu" is episode 5 of season 1 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
[edit] Summary
Cordelia flees her cockroach-infested apartment and camps on a horrified Angel. Meanwhile, Doyle dodges demon bounty hunters working for a demon loan shark. Desperate, Angel offers Doyle a deal: he'll handle the thugs if Doyle will find Cordelia a new place, pronto. Cordelia is enchanted when Doyle shows her a beautiful, spacious, rent-controlled apartment which, naturally, turns out to be haunted. Unable to dent Cordelia's determination to live there, the team discovers that the former tenant was an old woman who died under suspicious circumstances. An exorcism attempt reveals that the place is actually haunted by two ghosts; the old woman suffered a fatal heart attack immediately after bricking up her grown son, Dennis, in one of the walls -- alive. Just as things get dicey with Cordelia (getting no-holds-barred help from Angel and Doyle) and Dennis separately fighting for the chance to be free, Doyle's bounty hunters track him down and get caught in the crossfire. When the dust clears, the only ones left standing are Team Angel -- and Dennis.
[edit] Expanded overview
At the office, Cordelia is too distracted complaining to Doyle about not getting a role in a commercial to answer the phone. It turns out it is Aura who's called, and then Cordelia leaves early. At Doyle's request, Angel talks a bit about what Cordelia used to be like back in High School. At her incredibly rundown apartment, Cordelia finds lights that don't work, brown water comes from the faucet, and then finally the multitude of roaches makes her call Doyle for help. On his way to answer the phone, Doyle runs into a little trouble, as a demon collecting money from him either wants the money, or Doyle's life. Fortunately, Doyle is able to get away with a wounded hand. Cordelia however, goes straight to Angel's place, interrupting his shower and moving herself in.
The next morning, Doyle goes down to Angel's place and finds Cordelia there. The exchange of words between her and Angel about peanut butter on the bed leads him to the wrong conclusions, but Angel quickly explains. Doyle asks some questions, and finds out that Cordelia gave out his address to the demon collecting from him. Having noticed the bruise on Doyle's hand, Angel tricks him into thinking someone was there to collect money. Doyle tells him what's going on and they make a deal: Angel will take care of the demon if Doyle finds Cordelia an apartment.
Doyle and Cordelia go hunting for an apartment, and after many failed attempts, Doyle calls someone he knows and they find a beautiful apartment at a cheap price. Of course, later that night, Cordelia discovers that the reason it's cheap, beautiful, and available is because it's haunted. Angel meets up with the demon collecting money from Doyle at Doyle's apartment. Using a little violent persuasion, he tells the demon he'll get the money, but then they leave Doyle alone. Doyle's not happy that he has to pay, but he is grateful he gets to live.
Desperate to keep the apartment, Cordelia pretends not to be affected by all the moving objects and blowing wind that the ghost is trying to use to make her leave. Angel and Doyle stop by to check out her new place, and after discovering the place is haunted, and that the ghost obviously wants Cordelia out, they make her leave with them. At the office, they research to see who the ghost might be and how to get rid of them. They believe it's Maude Pearson, who used to own the building and also lived in one of the apartments. Doyle leaves to get the supplies they need to get rid of the ghost while Angel pays a visit to Kate to see if any police records could be of help.
Cordelia gets a call from Angel telling her to meet him at the apartment. However, when Angel calls Doyle, and they hear the conversation saved on the answering machine, it's revealed that it wasn't Angel on the phone. At the apartment, Cordelia finds that the ghost of Maude Pearson was just playing tricks, and that she thinks Cordelia is the girl who wanted to marry her son and take him away from his mother. Doyle and Angel arrive to perform the spell and find Cordelia an emotional mess because of what the ghost said to her. Wind blowing, objects flying, and Cordelia is too preoccupied with crying and feeling sorry for herself to help complete the spell, they try to leave. Instead, they are greeted by the Caliph demon and two friends, all armed with guns.
While the demons are occupied with fighting against Doyle and Angel, Cordelia is pulled back into the bedroom where Maude's ghost attacks her verbally. When the ghost calls Cordelia a bitch, something inside Cordelia snaps, and she's back to her old self, telling the ghost off. Meanwhile, as the wind and flying objects stop, Angel kills the last demon. Cordelia comes out of the bedroom, and suddenly her eyes turn an icy blue color, and she grabs a lamp. With all her strength, she knocks down a brick wall with the metal stand of the lamp, revealing a skeleton behind the wall. Flashing back, we see that Maude Pearson didn't want her son, Dennis, to run away with a girl, tied him up, and then built the wall up around him before suffering a heart attack.
Angel talks to Doyle about the way he lives, and Doyle says it'll get better, it'll just take some time. Cordelia loves her new apartment and raves about it to Aura on the phone. She does have to share the apartment though, with the much less-scary ghost of Dennis Pearson.
[edit] Writing and Acting
[edit] Production Details
[edit] Music
- Beethoven - "Ode to Joy"
- Mills Brothers - "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
- Tommy Henriksen - "Every Day"
[edit] Quotes and trivia
The face of "Dennis" actually belongs to Danny Nero who was the stand-in for David Boreanaz for the first 3 seasons of Angel.
RM W/A Vu stands for "Room with a view"
Cordelia's friend Aura was seen in the Buffy episode "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and mentioned in "Prophecy Girl".
[edit] Translations
- German title: "Zimmer mit Aussicht" ("Room with a View")
- Italian title: "Il Fantasma di Maude" ("Maude's Ghost")
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Arc Significance
[edit] Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1999 - December 1999 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| L.A. 1999 | Angel comic: Doyle: Spotlight |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.01 City of |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.01 The Freshman |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.02 Living Conditions |
| L.A. 1999 | |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.02 Lonely Hearts |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.00 Unaired Angel pilot |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Not Forgotten |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.03 The Harsh Light of Day |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.03 In the Dark |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.04 Fear, Itself |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy graphic novel: Blood of Carthage |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel graphic novel: Surrogates |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows story, Angel #4 |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy video game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Game Boy Color) |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Tales of the Slayer: All That You Do Comes Back.. |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.04 I Fall to Pieces |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.05 Beer Bad |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.05 Rm w/a Vu |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy books: Lost Slayer series |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.06 Wild at Heart |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy graphic novel: Oz |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.06 Sense & Sensitivity |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.07 The Initiative |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.07 Bachelor Party |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Close to the Ground |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Soul Trade |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel graphic novel: Earthly Possessions |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Redemption |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Shakedown |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Hollywood Noir |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Avatar |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: Bruja |
| L.A. 1999 | Angel book: The Summoned |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.08 Pangs |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.08 I Will Remember You |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.09 Something Blue |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.09 Hero |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.10 Hush |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.10 Parting Gifts |
| Sunnydale, 1999 | B4.11 Doomed |
| L.A. 1999 | A1.11 Somnambulist |
[edit] External links
- Rm w/a Vu at the Internet Movie Database
