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Season: Episode 22 of Season 1
Original Air Date: 05/23/2000
Written by: David Greenwalt
Directed by: David Greenwalt
<b>Notes:</b>
Amgel must retrieve the Scroll of Aberjian to break a spell that leaves Cordy locked in a vision-overload coma.
<b>Plot Highlights:</b>
Wes studies the Scroll. Nabbit drops by. Wes interprets "shanshu". W&H summon the Vocah. Kate won't work with Angel. Wesley & Cordy worry about Angel. Cordy buys Angel pastels. the Vocah infects her. AI HQ go boom. Angel calss Kate on her issues. Angel contacts the slain Oracles, gets Gunn to watch over Cordy & Wes. Angel interrupts the raising ritual, gets the scroll, saves Cordy. Wes reinterprets "shanshu". Lilah welcomes Darla.
<b>Quotes:</b>
WESLEY: Uh - oops. I may have made a tiny mistake. The word "Shanshu" that I said meant you were going to die? Actually I think it means you're going to live.
CORDELIA: Okay, as tiny mistakes go... that's not one.
WESLEY: Shanshu has roots in so many different languages. The most ancient source is the Proto-Bantu and they consider life and death the same thing. It's part of a cycle. Only a thing that's not alive never dies. It's - it's saying that you get to live until you die. It's saying - it's saying... you become human.
CORDELIA: That's the prophecy?
WESLEY: Ah, the vampire with a soul, once he fulfills his destiny, will Shanshu. Become human. It's his reward.