5x22 Not Fade Away - Angel Episode Guide

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- Episode 05x22

Episode: 05x22
Title: Not Fade Away
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 5ADH22
First Aired: May. 19, 2004

Season 5 » Episode #22 - Not Fade Away

Summary: In the series finale, Angel and the gang prepare for the fight of their lives as they prepare to take on the entire organization of The Circle of the Black Thorn.

Who appeared in this episode?

Illyria	played by Amy Acker
Bartender	played by David Figlioli
Archduke Sebassis	played by Leland Crooke
Izzy	played by Mark Colson
Cyvus Vail	played by Dennis Christopher
Marcus Hamilton	played by Adam Baldwin
Demon Slave	played by Ryan Alvarez
Senator Helen Brucker	played by Stacey Travis
Nina Ash	played by Jenny Mollen

	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Not Fade Away Angel: Those who care for nothing, will never understand those who do. Marcus Hamilton: Yeah, but we won't care.
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Not Fade Away Lindsey McDonald: Everybody goes on about your soul, vampire with a soul. Nobody ever mentions the fact that you're really a vampire with big brass testes.

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TRIVIA

The poem Spike reads in the bar is the same poem he reads to Cecily, the object of his affection, in "Fool for Love" in season 5 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. After Cecily rejects him, he wanders around London until he runs into Drusilla, who sires him.
Charles Gunn uses a pair of retractable stakes, hidden in his sleeves, while fighting the senatorial candidate's cronies. These are exactly like the ones used by Angel in the series' first season.
As of the series finale, David Boreanaz is the only actor to have appeared in every episode, David Boreanaz and Christian Kane are the only actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of the series and David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, Julie Benz and J. August Richards are the only actors to have appeared in every season.
Just before Lindsay meets his fate, Lorne tells him "I've heard you sing." This is technically true, as Lindsay did sing in front of Lorne - in Season 2, Episode 18 ("Dead End"), three years earlier. The all-seeing Lorne did not seem anything less than pleased with Lindsay's song in that episode.