FILMOGRAPHY

DARK ANGEL

Season 2, Episode 5
Episode Title: Boo
Production Code: 2ADE05
Original Air Date: November 2, 2001
Written by Moira Kirkland Dekker & Charles H. Eglee
Directed by Les Landau

Summary

      Logan and Asha are busy looking up a hitman when Max arrives at Logan's apartment. Logan and Asha don't need Max's help though and Logan pretty much ignores Max's request to go out to Crash for Halloween that night.

      Normal is having a hard time getting the attention of his workers at Jam Pony, a courier business. Sketchy in particular is dressed up for Halloween as Dracula, he shows Normal one of his tabloid newspapers with articles about mutant freaks. Regardless of what Normal wants, the messengers of Jam Pony threaten to trash the place if they don't get out early from work tonight. Rafer shows up at Crash, inviting Max out tonight to Crash. Original Cindy and Max bike over to Joshua's place to drop off some groceries. Dog-boy Joshua answers the knocking door, only to find that it's a bunch of trick or treaters out on his porch. They scream when they see him, but it was only to frighten him, and not because of his dog-like appearance; they just assumed he was wearing a costume. Max and Original Cindy arrive at the door and shoo the kids away by handing them money. Joshua realizes that Halloween is the one night in the year where he can actually go outside into the real world without being attacked or scaring anybody. Max, however, doesn't like the idea because it leaves Joshua far too exposed, even if it is Halloween and everybody thinks he's wearing a costume. Original Cindy tries to convince Max that it'd be okay for Joshua to go out, but she won't hear of it. She'd rather that Joshua stay safe and sound inside. A dejected Joshua sits down in his chair to read yet another book since he can't do anything else.

      Max, after boiling dozens upon dozens of buckets of water, can finally relax in a nice warm bath. She closes her eyes and relaxes in the tub. Original Cindy awakens her later to let her know that Rafer is waiting for her. Max quickly dresses in her normal clothing and then asks Rafer what he's dressed as. He says he's a genetically altered human who's escaped from a lab. He promptly shows her the barcode he pasted on to the back of his neck. Max is shocked, but quickly recovers. Rafer then asks her if she's willing to meet his mother, even though he knows it's a strange request. Rafer's mother turns out to be a very bizarre fortune teller. Rafer's mother gazes into a crystal ball, asking questions about Max. She can see that Max has no name, only numbers. She sees dark secrets and that Max is running from something dangerous. She also claims to see the face of death in her crystal ball and she swoons in her seat. Suddenly Joshua shows up at Rafer's mother's house while Rafer and his mother are in the other room. Joshua takes Max outside and shows him Sally, a man lying on the ground with his head twisted all the way around. He's from Manticore as well and he's made out of cartilege instead of bone, which is why his head is twisted all the way around. Max and Joshua try to twist his head back into position but they only succeed in yanking Sally's head right off his body. While Max is holding Sally's head, the rest of his body runs off. Rafer comes outside to find out what's going on and they ask to borrow his car, which turns out to be an ambulance. Sally suggests getting in touch with some transgenic friends in order to track down his body. Sally first calls Katarina, a trangenic who's half cat, half human. Katarina is slightly pissed off with Sally because he's stood her up three times in a row now. Katarina gets in touch with her lizard-friend Deeter in the hopes of putting together a search party for Sally's body. Rafer drives Max, Joshua and Sally's head to a diner where they meet up with Katarina and Deeter. Max is trying to pass off that they're doing a scavenger hunt but Rafer is just confused by Max's strange friends. When Rafer goes off to the bathrom, Max tells the rest of the transgenics that Rafer is NOT to find out that they're all Manticore freaks. Max asks the bodiless Sally where he's supposed to be right now and he thinks his body might be at Jam Pony picking up a package. Unfortunately, Normal is also eating at the diner where Max and her friends are seated. Normal gets up and introduces himself to the group. As he's doing so, he sneezes; he's allergic to cats, but he can't figure out why he's sneezing when there aren't any cats around. Katarina looks away, knowing that her cat DNA is probably setting off Normal's allergies. Max and company bolt from the diner.

      They finally get to Jam Pony and start riffling through the packages, trying to find Sally's particular package. Just as they begin their search, Normal and a bunch of thugs walk into Jam Pony. He hands out pictures of Max and her friends to the group telling them that a headless freak stole a package from Jam Pony and that Max and her friends are transgenic freaks that need to be captured. Normal sends his thugs off to find the transgenics. Sally then remembers that he was supposed to meet someone at the bar Crash with the package, much to Max's disbelief.

      Max, Katarina, Deeter, Joshua and Rafer show up at Crash looking for their headless body. Max finds the headless body in the backroom where he's hitting on some redhead. He runs off as soon as he "sees" Max. He rushes out of Crash before Max can catch him. Max and her gang jump into Rafer's ambulance and chase down the headless man who's on a motorcycle. Unfortunately, the ambulance runs out of gas and dies. Finally Max figures out that Sally is the hitman that Logan was talking about and he's out to get Pierpont Lemkin. Max changes the plan and they all head over to Logan's to tell him the news. While Logan and Max do some research the others play charades with Asha. Max finally gets out of Sally that they're after a priest called McAllister who the hits been put out on. Rafer begins to figure out that Max and her friends are mutants, so she knocks him out. Max and the gang leave Logan's and head over to the warehouse where father McAllister is supposed to be. They all split up to find the headless body. Max runs into him first. She first takes his gun away and then they go at it, punching and kicking, each trying to gain the upperhand. Just as the headless body is about to shoot down Father McAllister, Max jumps in and kicks him down four floors to the bottom floor of the warehouse. Max tries to convince Father McAllister that the headless man was just trying to play a prank on him for Halloween. The cops rush in and arrest Joshua, even though Max tries to stop them, she cowardly says that she's not one of them, them being the mutants. Original Cindy joins her on the Space Needle later on that night telling her that now Joshua's going to be stuck in a cage for the rest of his life, and all because Max denied who she really is. Suddenly, Max finds herself back in her bathtub, she just had the weirdest dream. Original Cindy tells her that Rafer is waiting for her, but Max says to get rid of him, she's got something else to do. Max gets dressed and goes over to Joshua's place. She tells him that they have to stick together, so she's taking him out into the night.

Summary written by Chelle

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Cast Listing

Jessica Alba	-	Max Guevara
Michael Weatherly	-	Logan Cale
Richard Gunn	-	Sketchy
J.C. MacKenzie	-	Normal
Valarie Rae Miller	-	Original Cindy
Kevin Durand	-	Joshua
Ashley Scott	-	Asha Barlowe
Deanne Henry	-	Serena, Rafer's Mom
Jillian Marie	-	Tina
Todd Stashwick	-	Sally
Kris Pope	-	Rafer
Sarah Carter	-	Katarina
G. Michael Gray	-	Deeter
Travis MacDonald	-	Bum
Jillian Marie Hubert	-	Trina
Leslie Jones	-	Waitress
Rob DeLeeuw	-	Man
Jona Ritter	-	Asha Lookalike
Jason Albertini	-	Logan Lookalike
Angelika Baran	-	Pretty Redhead
French Tickner	-	Father McAllister
Brian Jensen	-	Cop At Venue