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Dirty Player (20k)
Season: Episode 7 of Season 5
Original Air Date: 11/12/2003
Written by: Drew Goddard
Directed by: Jefferson Kibbee
<b>Notes:</b>
Wesley's father comes to visit. Sort of.
<b>Plot Highlights:</b>
Wesley's arms deal gets a cyborg party crasher. Angel chews Wes out for allowing Fred to be injured. Eve brings up Connor with Angel again. Wesley apologizes to Fred, ticking her off. Wes' father (Roger) arrives, informs him he's to be evaluated. Roger meets Lorne & Gunn in the lobby, then Spike & Angel in the lab. Wes accidentally activates a self-destruct mechanism, but Roger stops it. Angel, Wes & Fred discuss the accident. Roger fills Fred in on 7-year old Wes' zombie bird hijinks. Roger gives Wes love advice. Spike interrogates Eve. Cyborg ninjas invade W&H. Roger knocks Wes out, steals a magic wand. Wes tortures a half-dead cyborg for info. Spike helps Gunn fight off a cyborg. Roger tells Angel Wes is waiting for him on the roof, ambushes him there using the wand. Wes confronts his father on the roof, & shoots him when he threatens Fred. Roger turns out to be a cyborg copy of Wes' father. Angel & Wes chat in Angel's office. Wes makes a veiled declaration to Fred, but sends her home with Knox. Wes calls home, with the usual results.
<b>Quotes:</b>
ROGER: You know what that vampire is and what he's done, and you follow him anyway?
WESLEY: Maybe I know what I'm doing. Why can't you trust that?
ROGER: You disgrace yourself with the council, you join forces with him, and you have the nerve to ask me why I can't trust you?
WESLEY: I've done everything you ever asked, and I've done it well.
ROGER: I asked for this, hmm? I wanted to be humiliated?
WESLEY: No, I suppose I don't know what you really wanted. You never had any use for me as a child, and you can't bear the thought of me as an adult. Tell me, father, what is it that galls you so, that I was never as good at the job as you... or that I just might be better?
ROGER: Oh, yes, this is Los Angeles. We have to talk about our feelings. Then maybe we'll hug.