English Analysis Final Draft (Portfolio)

In the episode of Angel there is a demon that takes the fears and insecurities and turns them into certainty and hate. The victims of its torment were tenants in a shifty hotel who all had something to hide. Many people succumbed to visions of their fears and paranoia. One character, Judy, is an example of this.
Judy is a bank teller before she is first introduced in the episode. She is doing very well and is about to get married. She is doing a very good job at work until her boss found out she is half black. Her boss fired her and her friends where she worked were alienated from her and began to hate her. Worst of all, her fiancé abandoned her after he found out as well. Upset, she stole money from her job and fled to a hotel where the majority of the story took place.
When she reached the hotel, she hid the money in her room but is still convinced that police will pursue her and thinks about giving the money back. She stayed in her room with the money hidden in it, but is still nervous that someone will come. When a police inspector came to her room to look for her, she hid in Angel’s room to find a place to put the money. When Angel came back in she tried to pass herself as a cleaning lady in order to plant the money in his room. At first Angel thinks Judy is stealing from him and she begged him not to turn her in. He told her that there is nothing to steal and that she could get out. Soon the police inspector came and knocked on the door when he checked Judy’s room. Instead of turning her in Angel hid her and didn’t let the inspector inside. She lied at first then told Angel why she is in her room. Angel found the money and they had a brief discussion on why she is there. Judy thinks that she will be ousted by him but he didn’t and told her that everyone had something to hide and that nobody is who they appeared to be.
When Judy started to hear voices in her head that the paranoia demon planted in her mind, her concerns about being found out started to get anxious about whether to leave or stay. If she stayed she could be found out, and if she left it will appear suspicious. When the other tenants started to get riled up about a man being shot, her fears started to become reality, because police will come and she will think that they will search her room. The hotel owner decided not to report it because it will lead to bad publicity, but Judy’s fears were still there because she felt that it is imminent that police will come.
The voices in Judy’s head started to get the best of her when she started to panic, so she went to talk to Angel whenever she is afraid. She reveals a little bit of her story at a time because she trusted him. Angel had already forgiven her when she broke into his room, which gave her a thought. She wondered whether her previous place of work will forgive and forget if she turned the money back in, and if she will be cleared of the charges. However she had doubts because of how her friends turned on her because of her secrets coming to light.
When her voices get worse and when people around her started to get paranoid, she started to have doubts about whether or not she will be forgiven, and started to grow more fearful and paranoid as well. She gets frightened when the tenants started to get aggressive with each other. She is frightened even more when Angel is gone getting some things from a shop to draw out and destroy the paranoia demon.
Soon enough when Angel came back from a shop that sold supernatural items, he returned to the hallway with his room to see tenants swarming Judy. They were accusing her of the suicide, which they think is a murder. Blind with rage, the crowd is about to kill her out of retribution. She then saw Angel coming down the hallway with strange items including an axe. Out of fear and desperation, she shouted out that he is the one. The crowd had no rationality and immediately went after him. Judy watched in horror as they hung Angel over the railing killing him. Judy left because she thinks if she showed sympathy, the crowd will turn on her as well. When everyone left, Angel got down from the railing and removed the noose from his neck.
The paranoia demon appeared to Angel and told him that humans will turn on each other at the slightest chance. Angel believed this because after all the kindness she had shown Judy, the human had turned on her. Angel then left the hotel to the demon, and told him to do what he wishes with the tenants.