Episode 2:Radio Killed the Video Star

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The episode opens in the hotel with Charlie panicking about having only half the time that they thought they had to save Sinners. Vaggie and Odin manage to calm her down, saying that they'll be able to handle it. Angel Dust says that they have even less of a chance than they did before while reading his texts from Valentino. Vaggie realises that sinners, being desperate to escape the Extermination, may come to the Hotel for a chance at surviving.Suddenly, Sir Pentious arrives at the hotel in his ship, blowing up a hole on a wall of the hotel in the process, announcing that he is there to fight Alastor. Alastor asks who Pentious is, and Pentious introduces himself as "inventor, architect of destruction, villain extraordinaire", hoping to be acknowledged by the "Vees". Niffty wonders who they are, and Alastor claims them to be nobodies.Meanwhile, Vox, in V Tower observing, gets called by Velvette, who tells him that Valentino is having a tantrum and that he is destroying her department and killing some of her staff. Vox, going up the lift, meets with some reporters, who ask him about his opinion on the new deadline for the Extermination. Vox says that VoxTek was planning a new branch, VoxTek Angelic Security. He then hypnotizes the reporters and leaves. Then, Vox meets Valentino in his room, who tells him that the reason he is angry is because Angel Dust moved to the Hazbin Hotel without asking him first. Valentino wants to go and shoot everyone at the hotel, but Vox manages to dissuade him, saying that it will be bad for the Vees' image if he goes "chasing whores around town". After being calmed down, Valentino reveals to Vox that Alastor is also staying at the hotel and shows him some drone footage from the Hazbin Hotel.At the hotel, Alastor easily defeats Sir Pentious, but Pentious manages to rip off a piece of Alastor's coat. Alastor sends him flying away with an explosion, before announcing to the rest of the hotel's residents that he is going to the tailor to get his coat fixed. However, he leaves some of his shadow creatures to fix the wall while he's gone. Vox, angry that Alastor is back, begins a television broadcast where he denounces Alastor and mocks him for his irrelevance, saying that he should've stayed away. Alastor, coming out of the tailor, notices Vox doing this and hijacks Vox's broadcast (and song) with his first radio broadcast since his disappearance. Alastor mocks Vox, saying that he has to constantly update and keep changing to stay relevant, and pointing out that he was only powerful as long as he had the other two Vees backing him up. Vox, getting angry, glitches out and causes the entirety of Pentagram City to have a blackout. Alastor, going into his full demon form, tells Vox that he is "gonna make him wish that he'd stayed gone," before cutting the signal, much to Vox's dismay.Later, when the Vees have a meeting where they discuss Alastor, Vox addresses that their primary concern now is that Alastor and Charlie never made a deal, so they need to make sure that never happens. The three of them together come up with the idea to employ Sir Pentious to act as their spy in the hotel.Back in the hotel, Charlie, Odin, and Vaggie return from trying to find new hotel guests, having recruited nobody. Angel points out that people would rather spend their last days having as much fun as possible than staying at the hotel. Just then, there is a knock on the door. Vaggie and Odin answer it to Sir Pentious, who says that he wants to stay at the hotel. Angel attempts to stop Charlie, Odin, and Vaggie from letting him stay, pointing out that he had tried to kill them "six hours ago", but Charlie says that Pentious deserves a second chance and lets him in. She shows him around the hotel, saying that she is excited to have their first 'real guest'. When Angel questions what he is, Vaggie says that he "constantly makes them look bad, sexually harasses the staff, and has literally never once tried to improve", causing Angel to look slightly guilty. Charlie then reintroduces Sir Pentious to Alastor, Alastor saying that he definitely remembers Pentious now that he ruined his coat. Charlie gets Pentious to apologise to Alastor, the former also returning the piece of fabric that he took off of Alastor's coat. Alastor says that "not many people have managed to take even this much off of him" and that it must have meant a lot to Pentious, before burning it in front of him.Later, Charlie, Vaggie, Odin, Blitzo, Angel and Sir Pentious are sitting in the parlor together, and Charlie is getting them to play a rhyming game as an icebreaker. Charlie and Sir Pentious each take turns, but Angel refuses, calling it stupid. Vaggie tells him that he better get used to it, because it was going to be his whole day. After this, Angel and Sir Pentious perform a skit while Charlie, Vaggie, Alastor, Husk,Blitzo, Moxxie, Millie, Loona, and Niffty watch them. Angel Dust performs in complete deadpan, not liking the script, while Sir Pentious puts more effort into his acting. Charlie congratulates Pentious, saying that he would soon be redeemed if he kept going at the rate he was. Angel, looking sad, announces that he's going to bed. Going to his room, he sits on his bed and listens to his voicemails from Valentino, which alternate between him being nice and him being threatening, until Valentino's voice echoes through the room, saying that Angel can't change and that "addict trash" like him can't be redeemed. Angel, saddened by this, goes downstairs to get a drink. While he's there, he notices Pentious and follows him into another room, where he sees him putting a Voxtek camera on a shelf. Angel confronts him and accuses him of working for the Vees. When Pentious denies this and insults him, Angel attacks him, but Sir Pentious gets him off using hypnosis to stun him. Angel quickly shakes it off, though. When Charlie, Odin, and Vaggie come into the room, Angel tells them that Pentious was a spy for the Vees and shows them the camera as proof. Pentious, panicking, attempts to contact Vox through a watch that the Vees gave him. Vox laughs at him, before saying that if the hotel's residents didn't kill him, he should just do it himself. Sir Pentious asks for them to just "make it quick", even though he doesn't deserve it. Vaggie, Odin, and Angel want to kill him, but Charlie stops them and sings Pentious a song about apologizing.After this, Charlie, Vaggie, Odin, Angel Dust, and Sir Pentious go to bed. Alastor appears out of the shadows and turns on Vox's watch, telling him that he was going to have to try harder if he wanted to get to him before crushing the watch, leaving Vox in anger.

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