Angel (episode)

"Angel" is the thirtieth episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on January 5, 2004.
==Plot==
One morning at Lilo's house, Pleakley is watching TV. He is interrupted by Lilo dumping some slugs from a jar onto the coffee table. When asked why, she explains that she and Stitch are making a slug circus. Pleakley goes back to his show, "America's Gushiest Home Love Stories". He finds the concept of human courtship fascinating. Stitch is disgusted with the idea of romance, but Lilo disagrees, saying, "You gotta believe in love." Pleakley adds that Stitch may fall in love one day. Stitch doubts it, but before they can discuss it further, Lilo brings Stitch outside to get supplies for the slug circus. 
Out in town, the pair does some window shopping, but notices Gantu on the hunt. They figure an experiment is loose, and decide to split up and find it. But, when Lilo runs around the corner, she collides with the experiment; she looks similar to Stitch, but has pink fur and long antennae. The experiment growls at Lilo, then runs off. Lilo yells at her, which alerts Stitch. Stitch grabs a nearby big wheel tricycle and speeds after the experiment. Lilo dumps a display case full of coconuts on the ground, which the pursuing Gantu slips on. He lands on top of a tour bus, and gets taken away...but only just out of Lilo's eyesight. He declares everything is going to plan.
Meanwhile, Stitch catches up with the experiment and corners her in an alley. She flirtatiously greets him, and Stitch gets nervous. Lilo catches up to them, and tells Stitch to grab her. Stitch refuses, calling the pink experiment "boojiboo." She licks his face in response. Lilo is not convinced that the experiment is as sweet as she presents herself, but they bring her home regardless.
Stitch and the experiment, now named "Angel," sit in the hammock in the backyard together. They briefly bond over picking their noses with their tongues. Their moment is interrupted by Pleakley, dressed as a movie director, shoving an old video camera in their faces and giving them stage directions. Lilo walks up and asks what is going on. Pleakley explains that he's filming Stitch and Angel's interactions to send to "America's Gushiest Home Love Stories." Lilo points out that he won't get much footage on his antique, filmless camera. Lilo suggests she and Pleakley talk to Jumba to borrow his camera, as well as find out Angel's primary function.
Jumba offers Pleakley his state of the art digital camera, and Pleakley eagerly heads off to film some more. Lilo searches for Angel on Jumba's computer, and finds her number: 624. Hearing that, Jumba starts to panic. Before he can explain what her function is, Angel enters the room with Stitch. Angel jumps into Jumba's arms, kisses him on the cheek, then sings a song to him in Tantalog. Jumba instantly calms down and says that Angel's function is to pop popcorn for movie night. He decides that Angel's one true place aside from that is to be with Stitch. Stitch runs to Angel to hug her, but Lilo stops him and drags him away, saying she still needs his help with her slug circus. After they leave, Jumba allows Angel to use his computer and search for active, rehabilitated experiments. He reveals Angel's function: to turn experiments (as well as himself) from good to evil.
Later, it's nearly bedtime. Lilo, still not trusting Angel, has set up a place for her to sleep in the laundry room. Angel doesn't mind, because this allows her to sneak out of the house, and make her way to Gantu's ship. 625 flirts with her upon seeing her, but wonders why she is there. Gantu explains that the entire day's events were all a part of his plan. He allowed Angel to be taken by Lilo and Stitch so she could access their experiment files. Angel will then find the good experiments and make them evil again.
The following morning, Stitch wakes Angel up and presents her with flowers. Angel sings to him, but Stitch remains as nice as before, complimenting her voice. Angel is confused that her song didn't work, but smiles at the gesture. Lilo, meanwhile, is working on her slug circus with little success. Angel leaves through the front door, with Stitch following closely behind. Pleakley follows after them both with his camera, wanting to document their "first conflict". Lilo is left alone and sad.
Angel goes to town, and hops up to Slushy's shave ice stand. She sings to him, and he throws his cones away. Stitch and Pleakley arrive, but Slushy causes a small snowdrift on the street, freezing them both. Later, at the beach, Stitch tries making a sand sculpture of Angel. Angel doesn't see it, because she is paying attention to Richter, now causing tremors. Angel leaves, then makes her way to an an outdoor fitness center, where Kixx is. Stitch follows, and sees that other patrons have been beaten up. He notices Angel is feeling Kixx's muscles, and gets angry. He attacks Kixx and sends him flying and landing on top of Pleakley. For the rest of the day, Angel runs around the town, turning experiments evil. Stitch follows, and Pleakley films the whole thing. Eventually, in the early evening, Angel runs up Mount Waialeale. Stitch goes to follow her, but pauses upon hearing Pleakley's "commentary." He roars at him and Pleakley decides to head home. Stitch continues to follow Angel up the mountain.
At the house, Lilo is still depressed and missing Stitch. She heads to the living room, where Pleakley is watching his footage. Lilo takes a look as well, but notices something, then asks Pleakley to rewind and zoom in on Angel. She is wearing a collar with a long phone number on it. Lilo calls the number, but is shocked to hear Hämsterviel's voice on the other line. Lilo hangs up and runs to Jumba's room to tell him, but sees Jumba conducting experiments. Jumba admits that Angel is evil, and has restored his evil genius ways.
Meanwhile, Stitch gets to the top of the mountain. He does not see Angel, but hears her singing again. He follows the song into a burrow, which leads to a room within a spaceship. Inside the room are glass pods, where previously good experiments are being held. 625 is also there, and tells Stitch he made a bad decision coming to the location. Angel presses a button on the wall, closing the door to the outside. Gantu then enters, and tells Stitch that their "host" will explain what is going on. A monitor drops from the ceiling, and Hämsterviel appears onscreen. He gloats over his successful plan of converting the experiments to evil, and thanks Angel for her help. He adds that they will all wreak havoc on the Galactic Empire. Stitch is horrified to hear this.
At home, Lilo asks Jumba if there is a way to reverse the effects of Angel's song. Jumba says that since he is evil, he isn't telling. Lilo then notices he left his computer unattended and makes a grab for it. Jumba tries grabbing Lilo, but manages to jump out of the room entirely. Lilo shuts and locks the door, and searches for the antidote. Jumba starts pounding on the door, threatening to destroy her and the rest of the ohana. Lilo discovers the remedy: Angel must sing her song backwards. Lilo plays a recording of Angel's song backwards at the door, and Jumba stops. Lilo opens the door and Jumba greets her pleasantly; he is back to normal. 
A few minutes later, Lilo, Jumba, and Pleakley all drive to Mount Waialeale. Lilo asks if Angel's song will turn Stitch evil. Jumba explains that both 625 and Stitch are immune to her powers since they were created after her. Inside the ship, 625 and Stitch are moping while Angel is looking proud of herself. 625 points out that even though Angel's song didn't affect them, they still fell for her charm. Angel sees Stitch's depressed face, then hears the ship starting its launch countdown. She stops smiling, and looks a little sad.
At the peak of the mountain, Lilo and the others arrive. The rock underneath them starts to shake and crumble. The spaceship emerges from the mountain and its rockets warm up. Lilo sees Stitch looking out one of the ships windows. Lilo runs up to the ship, but the countdown ends, and the ship starts to lift into the air. Inside, a navigation device comes out of the floor. Stitch runs over to destroy it, but an electrified glass shield is placed over it, causing him to get zapped. Gantu then presses a button on a remote, and releases the other experiments from their glass containers. He orders them all to pummel Stitch. The experiments all grab hold of him, and Kixx steps forward, ready to attack. Stitch locks eyes with Angel, and says goodbye to her. Angel is horrified, and yells for Kixx to stop. She then starts singing her song backwards, despite Gantu's protests. The experiments all turn good again, and let Stitch go. They then surround Gantu, ready to attack him. Before they do, Stitch tells Sparky to short out the electrical shield on the navigation device, then tells Richter to cause a tremor that splits the dome in half. Stitch is able to get inside, then rips the device out of its base. The navigation system fails, causing the spaceship to start falling from the sky. 
Lilo, Jumba, and Pleakley quickly drive away from the crashing ship as it tears up the ground upon re-entry. Once the ship slows to a stop, Lilo jumps out and calls for Stitch. Stitch escapes from the wreck, followed by the other experiments, who cheer for their cousin. Lilo and Stitch reunite, and Lilo asks what happened to Angel. Stitch tells her that Angel was the one who saved him, as she comes out of the ship and holds Stitch's hand. Lilo is stunned, but happy that Angel is now good. Stitch repeats what Lilo told him earlier, "You gotta believe in love." Pleakley, who was filming the whole time, declares that this is the finale to his masterpiece. 
However, Gantu comes out of the wreck, and runs towards the group, bumping Pleakley and making him drop his camera. Gantu crushes it under his foot, and aims his net gun at Stitch. He fires, and traps Stitch in the net, then traps Angel in a glass container. He runs off with her, followed by 625, who taunts them. Pleakley is upset that his documentary is ruined, and Stitch is sad that Angel is gone again. Lilo hugs Stitch, and tells him that they will get Angel back someday.
==Goofs==
*Jumba states in this episode that Reuben and Stitch are unaffected by Angel's song due to the fact they were built after her, seemingly implying that higher experiments are immune to the powers of earlier ones. Yet throughout the series, Stitch surprisingly becomes affected by about 15 experiments he was built after. This goof also occurs in Leroy & Stitch when several of the Leroy clones get affected by some of the other experiments, despite being built after them.
*When Stitch gets blasted into a net, his feet are exposed, even though he should have easily fit inside the net. Also, the net would have likely captured both Angel and Stitch in it.
==Trivia==
*Moral: You've got to believe in love.
*Pleakley is revealed to be fascinated by romances between two individuals.
*Like Stitch, Reuben has a similar crush on Angel, yet she neither shares the same feelings nor even likes him. 
*After Angel turned Jumba evil again, when Lilo asked Jumba what 624's primary function was, he falsely claimed that Angel was a "harmless early experiment designed to pop popcorn for Jumba's movie night," which is actually Experiment 014 (Kernel).
*Hämsterviel's phone number is revealed on Angel's pet tag, which she only wore in one scene: when she was running up Waialeale Peak with Stitch following her (although the collar was seen on Pleakley's video camera, Angel's tag was never shown before or after running up Waialeale Peak).
*After Angel turns the evil experiments back to good and Stitch orders his cousins to get Gantu, Reuben breaks the fourth wall by saying, "Uh-oh, plot twist!"
===Experiments mentioned===
*Experiment 014: Kernel
*Experiment 221: Sparky
*Experiment 501: Yin
*Experiment 502: Yang
*Experiment 513: Richter
*Experiment 520: Cannonball
*Experiment 523: Slushy
*Experiment 601: Kixx
*Experiment 624: Angel
*Experiment 625: Reuben
Category:Lilo & Stitch episodes