We see four more baddies gathered around a desk at the car shop. Kate raises her pistol into the frame, aims, and shoots the three baddies who aren't allowed to talk. They fall down for some reason. Mind you, I don't mean that they shouldn't fall down because they're vampires; I mean they shouldn't fall down because if there's enough force behind those bullets to knock them off their feet, the recoil should probably knock Kate down, too. Aiming at the vampire spokesman, Kate says, "My father may not have known what you are, but I do." The spokesman approaches with a skeptical, "Do you?" so she shoots him in the arm. He doesn't fall down, and Kate says, "I know it won't kill you, but this will!" and pulls out a stake and dusts him. Pleatherface stomps in, asking, "What do you think you know? Do you know what walks this city?" Kate backs up, and the remaining vamps surround her. She shoots Pleatherface a few times with no effect. He says, "You don't understand what stands before you." There's a glaring continuity error here, as shots of Kate show her bracing her right arm with her left, while shots of Pleatherface show that from behind, Kate's left arm is down at her side.
Then Angel enters casually, toying with his axe, asking, "A big, ugly, drug-running demon who thinks he's a lot scarier than he really is, maybe?" Angel needs to read up on the element of surprise. Finally, we get the big fight. For some reason Kate chooses to keep pointing her gun at the vampires, instead of dropping it and using the stake. I want to like her, but it's difficult to do that when she's this dumb. Angel (or his stunt-double) gets to do a really lovely roundhouse kick, pulls Kate out of danger, and then puts his axe against Pleatherface's neck. Angel says, "We walk out of here now, you don't lose your head." Kate finally wises up and readies her stake. She and Angel start to move toward the door when Pleatherface makes his move. Kate rushes to stake one vamp, leaving room for Angel to go for a big finish. He tosses his axe up into the air, pops out his forearm-stakes and dusts the vampires on either side of him, then catches the axe before it lands, and beheads Pleatherface. Show-off. I wish I could stop there, but honestly compels me to admit that before being killed, Pleatherface shouted, "You're dead!" and Angel replied, "I'm already dead," then made with the chop-chop and added, "Welcome to the club." That wasn't funny or necessary in any way. Sigh. Kate crouches on the floor, and Angel asks if she's okay. She starts to cry again, and the most comforting thing Angel can think of to say is, "Never trust an evil Evil Thing." He starts to say something about her father, and Kate turns and says, "My father was human. And you don't know anything about that." She leaves.













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