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Jeff writes up the show promos for Buffy, Angel, and Firefly; he also does the Previouslys. Love him muchly, for he sees what we don't and reports it back to us.


Jeff Mejia - Mar 05, 2003 9:33:47 pm PST #62 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo for next week's Angel episode, "Release" :

Narrator: Next week on the WB Wednesday...

We open with a shot from "Deep Down", the part where Angel was dreaming about talking with Cordelia on the beach.

Narrator: Cordelia's love once drove Angel's passion.

We cut to a shot from "Waitng In the Wings", where we see Angel, posessed by a spirit, lay Cordelia (also posessed) back down on a couch as he swoops down for a kiss.

Cut to another shot from "Waitng In the Wings", where we see a close up, focussed on Angel, where they bring their foreheads together and stare intently into each other's eyes.

Narrator: Now, it will force his surrender.

Flash white, then cut to a shot of Cordelia snapping her head back, receiving the power from wherever it comes.

Cut to a shot of Angelus, standing in the Hyperion, wincing at what Cordelia is doing.

Cut back to Cordelia, and we see that her eyes have turned white, as other times when she recieved power.

We cut to see Angelus recoiling back, as though he was hit by some invisible force, as he leans into the Hyeperion front desk and spills papers all over the floor. He is holding a hand up to his temple.

Cut to another shot of Angelus as he staggers, holding his hand up to his temple.

We see a close up of Angelus, standing in the Hyperion lobby.

Angelus: "What do you want me to do..."

Cut to a white-eyed Cordelia, looking pleased.

Cut back to Angelus, as he chokes out the last word of the sentence.

Angelus: "master?"

Cut to a shot of Faith and Wesley in action. They are in some interior setting where scaffolding can be seen in the middle distance. Wesley is standing a couple of steps behind Faith and is wielding a shotgun. Faith looks intense and moves forward into action.

Narrator: But one Slayer stands in the way.

Cut to a shot of Faith, this time in the Hyperion office. She is turning towards the camera as though she is about to launch an attack on somebody off-screen.

Cut back to the location with the scaffolding. We see, from behind Angelus, Faith land a right cross to Angelus' cheek.

Reverse angle to behind Faith as we see Angelus reel from Fath's punch.

Flash to white, and fade in to reveal Angelus holding a shotgun in front of him and pointing it downwards.

Reverse to an angle behind Angelus, where we see Faith laid out on the floor in front of him, as she tries to scurry back away from the shotgun.

Pull out to show Angelus holding the shotgun on Faith.

Pull in to a cluse up of Faith, as Angelus pumps the shotgun to load it. Faith flinches at the sound.

Cue the Angel logo, with a shot of Faith walking in the location of the scaffolding set. There are some markings on the floor of the location.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Mar 13, 2003 9:18:39 pm PST #63 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for next week's Angel epsiode, "Orpheus" :

Narrator: Next Wednesday on the WB...

We open with a shot of Faith, lying down on a bed in the Hyperion. The shot is from the side, and her eyes are closed. Her brow is furrowed (but not in a vampire way). To be honest, it looks as if she is having a bad dream.

Overlap this shot with a shot of Faith, in the building where she fought Angelus, collapsing to the ground,.

Narrator: As one Slayer's soul departs, a new champion enters.

Cut to a shot of Angelus, standing in the Hyperion lobby, just in front of the door to the street. It is dark outside. The camera moves in for a close up as Angelus stares at something off-screen.

Fade to white, then fade in on a shot of Fred, seated at the lobby desk, holding one open book in her hands while she looks at another open book on the desk. She hears something and looks up and to her right, towards the weapons cabinet and the garden doors. The camera follows the direction of her gaze.

Overlap that shot with a shot of Willow standing inside the lobby, just in front of the garden doors.

Willow: "I think you need a witch."

The shot of Willow jumps closer to focus on her face as a slight smile appears.

Wesely (OS): "Willow!?!"

Cut to a shot of Willow holding out her left arm and hand as though casting a spell or creating some magical force. She is standing in the middle of the lobby, while Fred and Connor stand close to her, to her left. Willow's hair blows back a little from the magical power, and the whole scene starts to shake.

Narrator: Alyson Hannigan returns to the WB.

Pull back and up to show the lobby from above. We see Willow standing in the middle, holding her arms downward, as though drawing power from the ground. Connor and Fred are standing next to the circular couch thing, just to the left and behind Willow. Directly behind Willow, but just a bit further back, is Weseley. The ground shakes and the lights flicker on and off.

Zoom back down to see Willow, Fred, and Connor staring upwards as the light show continues..

Cut to a shot of Evil!Cordy in her bedroom. This is a close up of her looking pissed off.

Evil!Cordy: "You wanna go Glinda..."

Cut to a close up of Willow shaking her head back. She looks pissed, too, as her hair goes flying. Her eyes are dark, but not pitch black.

Cut back to Evil!Cordy.

Evil!Cordy: "... we'll go."

The coloring of the shot of Cordelia changes (fades), as we see her move her arm as though casting a spell or projecting power.

Cut to a shot of Faith getting up from her bed, startled at something. Someone is standing next to the bed.

Cut to a shot of Angelus looking down on something, then raise his eyes towards the camera in a very evil glint.

Cue the Angel logo, as we here Angelus laughing in the background.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Mar 18, 2003 8:36:36 pm PST #64 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for next week's Buffy episode, "Lies My Parents Told Me" :

Narrator: The countdown has begun...

We open with a shot of Buffy walking around the room where the seal of Dazalthar is, from the scene where she threatened Andrew in "Storyteller". An orangeish, fiery glow colors the scene. Superimposed over the shot are the words THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. Also superimposed over the shot is a pocket watch used as a pendulum.

Narrator: ...to Buffy's final hour.

The first words fade out, and then a shot of Buffy in a black leather coat and a long sword fades in. This looks as if it's from "Selfless", when Buffy was going to take on Anya. The pendulum/pocket watch is still superimposed over the shot, and the words BUFFY'S FINAL HOUR are superimposed over the shot.

We get a very brief flash of three ghostly images of a face, in deep shadows. The images glow in kind of a greenish light and looks to consist of three identical faces lined up next to each other. The shot then flashes to its negative image, then back to the "normal" shot before disappearing.

Narrator: Next Tuesday, on an all-new Buffy...

We cut to a shot of Spike, apparently seated, with his head hung down as he brings it up towards the camera, looking very intense. He is wearing a black t-shirt. Superimposed over this is the UPN logo and the words NEXT TUESDAY.

Cut to a shot of Buffy standing in a cemetary at night. She is talking to someone standing near the camera position. She is wearing a black turtleneck sweater.

Buffy (emphatically): "He has a soul."

Cut to a shot of Xander leaning over a seated Spike. This is apparently in the basement, and Spike is seated on his cot. Xander looks to be locking the manacles to Spike's wrist and checking to see that they are secure.

Narrator: If no lock can stop him...

We see the hands of Robin Wood either locking, or most probably unlocking, a padlock that secures a set of wooden cabinet (maybe) doors. Robin has some tape over the knuckles of his left hand.

Narrator: ...no chains can hold him..

We see a shot of Spike, in vamp face, struggling to break free of the chains. These shots are blurred out.

Zoom in on Spike as he shouts and looks as though he breaks free.

Cut to a shot of Spike throwing his cot towards Giles as Giles scrambles out of the way.

Fade over that shot with a shot of Buffy, seated or standing next to Spike in the basement. Spike is in vampface and reaches his right hand out and grabs Buffy by the throat. Buffy reaches up to take his hand off her.

Narrator: ...then the evil in Spike must be destroyed.

Cut to a shot (in black and white) of a wall of crosses, or more properly, a lattice-work of crosses.

Cut to a close up of Spike (in vamp face) lunging at somebody.

Pull back to from behind Spike as we see him fighting Robin Wood. Behind him we can see that the walls are covered with crosses. Robin slams a two-fisted blow into Spike's face.

Reverse to behind Robin as we see Spike staggger from the blow and fall. The wall o'crosses appears to be around the entire room.

Cut to a shot of Robin prying a cross that is nailed to one of the walls. This cross has a bottom that is sharpened into a stake.

Cut to a shot of Spike lying on the floor, in vamp face, but motionless.

Cut to s ahot of Robin bringing the cross/stake downwards towards Spike.

We then see Spike raise his hands up to prevent the cross/stake from stabbing him.

Narrator: An all-new Buffy, UPN next Tuesday at 8, 7 Central.

We end up back with the orangeish shot, this time of Buffy holding a stake. We see the Buffy logo, but underneath it are the words THE FINAL HOURS. Beneath the logo can be seen a clock face and the pocket watch/pendulum.

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Jeff Mejia - Mar 19, 2003 8:51:20 pm PST #65 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo for next week's Angel episode, "Players" :

Narrator: Next week...

We open with a shot of Cordelia walking down a catwalk that sits above the floor of a warehouse. The place is very gloomy, with very little lighting. It looks similar to the catwalk that Angel and Buffy were watching the Judge and company in BtVS S2 episode "Surprise".

Narrator: ...the deception continues.

Cut to a close up of high-heels coming down some narrow steps in the warehouse.

Cut to a shot from behind somebody, directed towards Cordelia as she approaches. She is holding a stake in her right hand and has it poised to strike.

Narrator: But for how long?

Cut to a close up of Wesley's face. He appears to be in the Hyperion lobby.

Cut to a shot of Fred, standing in front of the office bookcase, as she twirls around to face whatever is at the camera position.

Cut to a shot of Angel, leaning over the second-floor railing, looking down into the lobby of the Hyperion. He is holding a book as he turns towards the direction of the camera.

Cordelia (whispering): "Everything happens for a reason."

Cut the Angel logo.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Mar 26, 2003 9:32:06 pm PST #66 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for next week's Angel episode, "Inside Out" :

Narrator: Next Wednesday...all their torment and pain has led to this moment.

Under the voice of the narrator, we get many quick shots of the gang from past episodes, with the color kind of washed out.

We first see Angel walking in the office.

Cut to Faith gasping in pain, reeling from the beating she took in "Salvage".

Cut to a shot of Wesley carrying Faith in his arms, during "Orpheus".

We see Angel walking in front of the Hyperion desk, with Lorne standing behind him, from "Awakening".

Cut to a shot of Connor in one of the Hyperion bedrooms, getting to his feet.

We see a shot of Cordelia's "ascension", from "Tomorrow".

We see Willow magically holding a ball of flame, from "Orpheus".

We see Angel's dream sequence of him meeting Cordelia at the beach, from "Deep Down".

Fade to black, then fade in (with normal color) on a shot of Darla, standing in front of a wooden wall.

Darla: "Listen to your heart."

Cut to a shot of Angel walking into a burned-out room, head down in grim determination.

Narrator: One choice...

We see a shot of Cordelia lying down on a bedspread and some pillows, looking pissed off.

Cut to a shot of Fred standing in the Hyperion lobby.

Fred: "He's going to kill Cordelia."

Cut to a shot of Cordelia lying on the ground, screaming.

Narrator: ...True love or the birth of the unthinkable.

We see Angel looking down on Cordelia, then bring a sword up above his head.

Cut to a shot of Wesley and Fred standing together in the lobby (in front of the elevator), as the ground begins to shake.

Cut to a shot of Angel, standing in a dark room as he turns back and to the left.

We see a shot of Fred, Gun, and Wesley, walking in a darkened room. Wesley has a flashlight and Gunn has a weapon (probably his axe).

Cut to a shot of Wesley stanind in the office doorway, as he falls down due to an earthquake hitting.

Cut back to Angel, as he reaches up to bring extra oomph as he brings his sword down.

Cut to a shot of Cordelia lying on the floor, flinching.

We see Angel standing in the Hyperion office, talking to the gang.

Angel: "Don't worry, a walk in the park."

Cut to multiple shots of Cordelia sceaming in agony, apparently due to labor pains.

Cordelia: "Aaaaaaghhh!"

We see Angel standing in the corner of a dark room. A lit candle hangs in a basket suspended from the ceiling. The occasional skull can be seen embedded in the walls.

Angel; "I really hate the park."

Cue the Angel logo.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Apr 02, 2003 9:23:42 pm PST #67 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for next week's Angel episode, "Shiny Happy People" :

Narrator: Next Wednesday on the WB...

We open with a shot of Gina Torres as the New!Evil, as the glow fades from her birth.

Narrator: Her power is unparalled....

Cut to a shot of Angel, kneeling down. This appeas to be in the Hyperion lobby.

Pull back to reveal a wider shot of the Hyperion. Angel is kneeling at the far right. Standing next to him and weaing a painter's overalls is Wesley, as he kneels to the floor. Next to him is Fred. Gunn is leaning against the lobby desk behind Fred. He is also wearing painter's overalls. Next to him is Lorne, and furthest to the left of the shot is Connor. All of them are kneeling.

New!Evil (VO, ethereal): "With my help, all things are possible."

Cut to a shot of an outdoor courtyard at night. A group of people are gathered as the New!Evil walks through the crowd. The people all kneel as she approaches. She is escorted by Connor, Gunn, and Wesley. All are holding weapons (appear to be swords)

Narrator: Their devotion is undying...

Cut to a shot of the gang walking through a doorway into a warehouse, looking to be on the attack. Angel is at the forefront, with Connor, Wesley, and Gunn behind him.

Switch to a different warehouse, with various large machines. Angel is running down a central path between the machinery.

Switch to a fight scene in another large room. Angel is facing the camera as he swings his sword at an off-screen opponent. Wesley is behind him, facing in the other direction (therefore they are back-to-back, but separated by a bid to distance) as he appears to take a hit.

Fade out, then fade in on the New!Evil's smiling face as she looks down.

Reverse to a shot of a kneeling Angel, looking up at the New!Evil.

Angel: "I don't want to fail you again."

We see a shot of Fred, seated at the counter of a diner. The cook in the diner is looking up at something on the TV. Fred is looking away from the TV, out towards the rest of the diner, with a look of horror on her face.

Narrator: But only one will see the truth.

Fade out, then fade in on Fred, standing outside the doorway of the diner. She still has a look of horror on her face.

Fred (VO, whispering): "Oh my God!"

Pull out from Fred as she looks to her right. We notice that everyone in the diner is looking up at the TV and kneeling.

A shot overlaps that one as we pull further out to see the kneeling cutomers, and Fred is walking down a very empty street by herself.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Apr 14, 2003 9:04:30 pm PDT #68 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

A little late to the game for some, but here is the promo breakdown for this week's Buffy episode, "Dirty Girls" (I couldn't post it during the downtime):

Narrator: The countdown has begun...

We open with a shot of Buffy walking around the room where the seal of Dazalthar is, from the scene where she threatened Andrew in "Storyteller". An orangeish, fiery glow colors the scene. Superimposed over the shot are the words THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. Also superimposed over the shot is a pocket watch used as a pendulum.

Narrator: ...to Buffy's final hour.

The first words fade out, and then a shot of Buffy in a black leather coat and a long sword fades in. This looks as if it's from "Selfless", when Buffy was going to take on Anya. The pendulum/pocket watch is still superimposed over the shot, and the words BUFFY'S FINAL HOUR are superimposed over the shot.

Narrator: Only 6 weeks are left.

We continue with a shot of Buffy, this time risning up, looking concerned about somehting. I can't place where this is from. The pendulum/pocket watch is still superimposed over the shot, and the words ONLY 6 WEEKS LEFT appear on the screen.

We get a very brief flash of three ghostly images of a face, in deep shadows. The images glow in kind of a greenish light and looks to consist of three identical faces lined up next to each other. The shot then flashes to its negative image, then back to the "normal" shot before disappearing.

Narrator: Next Tuesday, on an all-new Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

We open with a shot of Faith walking down a road, in front of a parked car with its lights on. It is a night shot, and as Faith moves closer to the camera, the opening guitar riff from George Michael's "Faith" can be heard underscoring the scene, as the UPN logo and the words NEXT TUESDAY are superimposed on the shot.

Cut to a close up of Faith from the side, as a fist comes into the scene and hits Faith on the cheek.

The camera pans left, then we get a scene wipe to show Buffy standing in the usual cemetary scene, at night, as she realizes Faith has appeared.

Buffy: "Faith? I didn't realize that was you."

Cut to a shot of Faith recovering from the punch, rubbing her chin and holding a wry smile on her face.

Faith: "That's all right, B. Luckily, you still punch like you used to."

What follows are some quick shots of Faith's past and a couple of new scenes. The montage is underscored by the "Faith" guitar riff.

Narrator: If you want to throw a really killer apocalypse...

We open with a shot of Faith and Buffy dancing in the Bronze, from "Bad Girls".

Cut to a shot of Faith bringing the tranquilizer rifle up as she aims at Oz, from "Beauty and the Beasts".

Switch to a shot of Buffy and Faith attacking a vamp nest in daytime, standing side by side, stakes at the ready. From "Bad Girls".

We see a shot of Faith in her apartment, working on a punching bag, from "Graduation Day 1".

Cut to Faith fighting Angel, from "Revelations".

We now switch to new scenes of Faith.

Narrator: ...you gotta have Faith.

We see Faith in a cave setting, holding a loonng sword, have covered with blood. The words YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH are superimposed on the scene, so you can't really see much. It does look as though Faith has just pulled the sword out of something.

Cut to an interior shot, in one of the bedrooms at Casa Summers, as Faith takes her jacket off to reveal her cleavage.

Switch to a scene in the basement. This is shot from behind Spike, towards Faith. Faith is sitting on a table, facing Spike as she talks to hm, a cigarette in her hand. spike is shirtless.

Faith: "I figure if you can't beat 'em..."

Reverse to Spike, who is revealed to be chained up again.

Spike: "...join 'em."

Cut to a shot of Buffy, standing by the basement steps, as she turns her head towards the camera and gives a little shake of annoyance.

We end up back with the orangeish shot, this time of Buffy holding a stake. We see the Buffy logo, but underneath it are the words THE FINAL HOURS. Beneath the logo can be seen a clock face and the pocket watch/pendulum.

Narrator: These are the final hours of Buffy. UPN next Tuesday at 8, 7 Central.

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Jeff Mejia - Apr 14, 2003 9:09:15 pm PDT #69 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

And here is the promo breakdown for this week's Angel episode, "The Magic Bullet" (also lost during the downtime):

Narrator: Next Wednesday, on the WB....

We open up on a shot of Connor and Angel, standing together and singing into a microphone. They are in the Hyperion lobby.

Angel and Connor (singing, badly, to the tune of Barry Manilow's "Mandy"): "So Jasmine, and you came and you -"

Pull back to reveal Connor and Angel standing next to a blond, long-haired man playing a guitar.

Cut to a shot of an adoring crowd standing in the Hyperion lobby and swaying to the music. Wesley stands guard at the door in the back of the crowd.

Fade out, and fade in on a shot of Angle standing in (presumably) Cordelia's room and looking down.

An image of Jasmine, with her eyes closed, fades in and out over the scene.

A shot of Wesley, standing in the lobby, with his eyes closed, fades in and out.

The image of Jasmine fades in completely and she opens her eye.

Narrator: They rejoice in their leader, but the truth...

Cut to a split screen shot. On the left, we see Jasmine, with her eyes open, looking pissed off. In the other section of the screen (over her shoulder, but obviously a different shot), we see Wesley, Lorne, and Gunn standing in the Hyperion lobby. Connor is seated on a sofa facing the guys with his back to the camera.

Cut to a shot of Angle leaning against a wall (the one with the ariel photographs of Los Angeles as wallpaper in the office), looking shocked at something off camera.

Flash, and we see Angel standing away from the wall and backing towards it, then cut back to the earlier shot of Angel looking shocked.

Angel: "No, it can't be."

Cut to a shot of Angel appearing from behind a desk (the hotel desk? a library desk?), carrying Fred in his arms as she appears to be unconscious.

Narrator: ...will set Angel free...

Fade out, then fade in on a close up on Fred with a big bruise on her forehead, near the left temple.

Fred: "I'm so sorry."

Cut to a shot of Angel and Fred standing in a dark room, talking to each other. The shot is from behind Fred, looking towards Angel.

Cut to a reverse angle, where we see Fred with her back to Angel. She suddenly spins around to face him.

Narrator: ...and into the arms of his only ally.

Fred moves up towards Angel and begins to kiss him, then Angel leans in and returns the kiss.

All-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday Night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Apr 16, 2003 9:30:24 pm PDT #70 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for next week's Angel episode, "Sacrifice" :

Narrator: Next Wednesday on the WB...

We open with a shot of Angel and Wesley, standing in a sewer tunnle or concrete bunker. Welsey is holding a round, blue orb in his hands that is circled by a black material of some kind. Angel glances upwards, as though hearing something above him or far away.

Angel: "Something's goin' down."

Cut to a shot of Wesley climbing in the passenger seat of the Angelmobile. The rest of the gang are already inside it, and the top is up.

Narrator: On the run.

Cut to a shot of the car going in reverse, then doing a 180 to speed off away from the camera. The scene is at night (as was the previous shot).

Switch to a shot of two police cars, lights flashing, as they burn through the parking lot of a motel or strip mall, as though they are in pursuit.

Cut back to the scene in the sewer/bunker, only showing a close up of Angel.

Angel: "Something bad."

Fade to black, then fade in on a shot in the sewer tunnels. These are the smaller tunnels, only about head high or so, and rounded. Gunn leads the way, followed by Fred, then Lorne.

Narrator: Forced underground.

Flash some beams of light, then we fade to a shot of people in camoflage uniforms running through the tunnels, flashlights in hand.

More lights flash, then we cut to a shot of Jasmine standing in her hotel room, holding her arms open wide and laughing heartily, once could say evilly (if that's a word).

Cut back to the sewer/bunker scene. Now we see Angel, Wesley, Lorne, and Gunn leaning up against a door, trying to keep it shut.

Wesley: "Someone who knows the truth has to live through this."

Cut to another shot of the soldiers in the sewer tunnels with their flashlights.

Return to the door, only this time the people holding it shut are Fred, Wesley, Lorne, and Gunn. Wesley throws the blue orb back towards the camera, presumably to Angel.

Cut to a shot from the other side of the door, where we see the soldiers come out of the tunnel and approach it.

Flash back to see Angel catching the blue orb that Wesely threw to him.

Narrator: Only one can survive. The others - left behind.

Cut back to the other side of the door, where the soldiers appear to be trying to ram it open. Connor looks to be directing things.

Cut back to the gang holding the door up, as the camera (and Angel, presumably), moves away from them.

Switch back to the shot of Jasmine, laughing.

Finish with a shot of Angel standing before a large sewer screen, looking upwards.

Angel: "That thing is really pissing me off."

Cut the Angel logo.

Narrator: All-new Angel, next week on the WB Wedenesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

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Jeff Mejia - Apr 22, 2003 9:07:58 pm PDT #71 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown of next week's Buffy episode, "Empty Places" :

Narrator: Acuvue-cam presents a preview of next week's Buffy the Vampire Slayer....

As the opening scenes that we've seen in the previous promos for the final episodes scroll across the screen, we here the song "Goodbye to You", sung by Michelle Branch, as the backing music. (That was the song that ended the episode "Tabula Rasa"

Goodbye to you,
Goodbye to everything that I knew...

We open with a shot of Buffy walking around the room where the seal of Dazalthar is, from the scene where she threatened Andrew in "Storyteller". An orangeish, fiery glow colors the scene. Superimposed over the shot are the words THE COUNTDOWN IS ON. Also superimposed over the shot is a pocket watch used as a pendulum.

That scene fades out, and another scene fades in, this time shot of Buffy in a black leather coat and a long sword fades in. This looks as if it's from "Selfless", when Buffy was going to take on Anya. The pendulum/pocket watch is still superimposed over the shot. The THE COUNTDOWN IS ON words disappear, and they are replaced by ONLY 4 WEEKS LEFT. The words stay on the screen while the scene fades out, and we continue with a shot of Buffy, this time risning up, looking concerned about somehting. I can't place where this is from. The pendulum/pocket watch is still superimposed over the shot.

We get a very brief flash of three ghostly images of a face, in deep shadows. The images glow in kind of a greenish light and looks to consist of three identical faces lined up next to each other. The shot then flashes to its negative image, then back to the "normal" shot before disappearing.

We cut to a shot of a darkened sky, with storm clouds rolling rapidly by. The UPN logo and the words NEXT TUESDAY appear on the screen, then they fly off the screen to be replaced by the words BETRAYAL HURTS.

The music recedes, and we see Buffy standing in her living room talking to the Scoobies and the Potentials. As Buffy speaks, several shots of the group appear.

Buffy: "For seven years I've kept us safe, and, and now what, suddenly you're all acting like you can't trust me?"

After the first shot of Buffy talking, we cut to a shot of many of the group listening, with downcast faces. In the forefront of this shot we see Xander, with a gauze bandage over his left eye, and Dawn seated next to him.

We then cut to a shot of Anya and Willow listening to Buffy. They both have sour looks on their faces.

Cut to a close up of Buffy, looking around the room. Dawn is standing close, but not next to her, and a little behind her.

We get a quick shot of Robin Wood standing next to Faith, as they both look on. Robin appears to be completely recovered from his injuries. Faith still has a couple of scrapes.

We pull back from that shot, where we see Dawn lean in to whisper something to Buffy or kiss her on the cheek, as Robin and Faith look on.

Switch to a close up of Dawn leaning in towards Buffy.

Switch angles to from behind Dawn as she leans in. The scene changes coloring, becoming whiter and "bleached out".

As the scene shifts, the music turns up a little bit and the narrator voices over the next set of scenes.

You were the one thing that I loved,
the one thing that I tried to hold on to...

Narrator: Anything can happen, when you're this close to the end.

We see a shot of Buffy's body crashing through the big window by her desk at her office in the school.

Cut to another shot to see Buffy, having crashed to the window, slam into the wall opposite her office. Buffy crumples face down to the floor.

Cut to a shot of Buffy lying on the floor next to the damaged wall, as Caleb looks down at her, then turns and walks down the hallway, away from the camera.

Narrator: An all-new Buffy, sponsored in part by Acuvue contact lenses.

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