Quick fanwank poll: "Because I never invited you in"

[beer_good_foamy]

OK, the invitation rule is always fun. If a vampire hasn't been invited into a private residence, there's an invisible barrier keeping him or her out. So in "Epiphany", if you recall, Angel has to save the gang from a bunch of funky demons with eyes in the back of their necks holding them hostage inside a house belonging to the late Sharp family, former non-paying clients of Angel Inc. Angel does this by driving Lindsey's truck straight through the window. One of those hero moments he does.

Now, luckily for him (and less so for the Sharps) everyone who used to live in that house is dead, which means Angel can enter without an invitation. And this is in an episode where the invitation rule is a pretty big theme.

The trouble with that, of course, is that while we know that the Sharps are dead, Angel doesn't. In fact, since the demons want to impregnate humans, it would have made sense for them to NOT kill the people in the house. So say, hypothetically, one or more of the Sharps was still alive. Say the invitation barrier was still up. So a vampire drives a heavy truck at full speed towards a house where he hasn't been invited.

What happens?

[Poll #1487771]

Comments

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

I went so visual on the Angel like toothpaste in a tube. I don't think that is ever going to leave my mind. Now whenever I rewatch it, I'm going to see it.

Just to sort of wank all over here, could it be possible that since Angel could smell that Wesley had sex with a blonde, he could smell the Sharps' death as it were and knew it was safe to just go right through?

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Yay for imprinted visuals!

Just to sort of wank all over here, could it be possible that since Angel could smell that Wesley had sex with a blonde, he could smell the Sharps' death as it were and knew it was safe to just go right through?

Possible, I suppose. Though he was a lot closer to Wesley at the time. And also, not in an old truck (and you know Lindsey kept that truck since he was a teenager, so smelling things in it...)

Now I'm reminded of an old Bill Hicks quote.

"You know, if you quit smoking, you get your sense of smell back." I got news for you. I live in New York City, I don't want my fucking sense of smell back. *sniff sniff* "Is that urine? I think a smell a dead guy. Honey, look, a dead guy! Covered in urine! *sniff* I'm so glad I got my sense of smell back, now I can enjoy the wonders of nature. *sniff* Aaaaaaaaaahhh."