| The Angriest Angel | |
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| Season 1, Episode 15 | |
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| Air date | February 11, 1996 |
| Written by | Glen Morgan and James Wong |
| Directed by | Henri Safran |
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The Angriest Angel is the fifteenth episode of Season 1 of Space: Above and Beyond.
The episode aired February 11, 1996 on the Fox Network.
A plan to trap and destroy Chiggy von Richthofen, who pilots a prototype Chig stealth space fighter, fails. Colonel T. C. McQueen, a survivor of the destroyed elite 127th Squadron, The Angry Angels, prepares himself to search, find, engage and destroy the enemy ace.
Summary[]
Howard Sewell returns to the USS SARATOGA aboard an ISSCV with the suitcase of glowing material, and explains to senior Earth Forces leaders the nature and uses of "Sewell Fuel", and tells them that Chiggy von Richtofen already uses it. They discuss building a missile, and finding a way to deploy it against the alien ace.
Later in the Tun Tavern, Wang, West, Damphousse, and Hawkes play Chig fooseball, while Vansen and Winslow are in deep discussion at another table. However, when first Winslow and then Wang get too familiar with him, McQueen blows up at them and storms out. We see him later in his quarters while he works on a strategy for deploying the missile, which he then presents to the senior leaders in the conference room. He asks to be the one to fly the mission, and is refused because of his grounded status. They then discuss the reason for his grounding, and the possibility of re-instatement.
In the meantime, Sewell goes to see the missile as it is being worked on, and gets toasted in a lab fire, which is later determined to be due to sabotage.
Winslow later goes to McQueen's quarters to apologize to him for her part of the scene in the tavern, and then the conversation turns to his former marriage.
As the missile is being readied a second time, an intruder is discovered, and the missile suddenly goes hot. The 58th chase the intruder, and catch him trying to hijack an ISSCV -- it is another Elroy EL model. McQueen and Wang interrogate him, and McQueen tortures him to get the location of Chiggy von Richtofen.
McQueen undergoes an operation to have the MEF device removed from his inner ear, and combats vertigo to try and regain his flight status. However, Ross believes that he is not well enough to fly and assigns deployment of the missile to a Colonel Schrader, who will use the 58th as bait. The 58th flies out to find Chiggy von Richtofen, who kills first Schrader, and then Winslow, as the 58th flee.
While the 58th prepare to attend Winslow's funeral, McQueen dresses in his Angry Angels gear, preparing to go after the Chig. Ross tries to talk him out of it, but does not succeed. The chaplain tells McQueen to make peace with his Maker, and gets a blistering response from McQueen.
McQueen finds, engages and kills Chiggy von Richtofen while the 58th attend Winslow's funeral. After returning to the SARATOGA McQueen nurses a bottle of scotch alone in the Tun Tavern, as he contemplates his defining moment.
Cast & Characters[]
Main Cast[]
- Morgan Weisser as 1LT Nathan West
- Kristen Cloke as 1LT Shane Vansen
- Rodney Rowland as 1LT Cooper Hawkes
- Joel de la Fuente as 1LT Paul Wang
- Lanei Chapman as 1LT Vanessa Damphousse
- James Morrison as LTC Tyrus Cassius "T.C." McQueen
Recurring Cast[]
- Tasia Valenza as 1LT Kelly Anne Winslow
- Michael Mantell as Howard Sewell
- Tucker Smallwood as Commodore Ross
- David St. James as Admiral Broden
- Edmund L. Shaff as Chaplain
- David Jean Thomas as General Alcott
- Rob Elk as Mr. Saber
- Robert Crow as Controller
- Randy Stone as Spud
- John L. Bennett as Guard
- William Bradberry Jr. as Gunnery Sgt.
- Doug Hutchison as Elroy EL
Additional Cast[]
- Charmin Lee as Colonel Schrader
- David Ramsey as Supervisor
- James Black as Security Operator
- Gunther Jenson as Engineer
Crew[]
Director[]
Writers[]
Executive Producers[]
- Glen Morgan (executive producer)
- James Wong (executive producer)
- Stephen Zito (co-executive producer)
Producers[]
- Tim McHugh (producer)
- D. Howard Grigsby (producer)
- Herb Adelman (co-producer)
- Ken Dennis (associate producer)
Music[]
- Shirley Walker