ANGEL


 
Summary

Angel is a 200 year old vampire whose original name is Angelus.  After being sired by Darla, Angelus became one of the worst vampires in history until the family of one of his victim took revenge.  The gypsies cursed him with a soul, forcing him to feel and remember everything he had done.  Angel was living off rats until a demon shows him a purpose.  He follows Buffy Summers to Sunnydale in the hope of protecting her.  He helped her in killing Darla and the Master.  He had also helped Buffy and her friends in combating many other evils including those he had sired such as Drusilia and Spike.  Buffy and Angel had became lovers, but a night together reverted him back to his evil self.  Unknown to Angel, he loses his soul when and if he achieves a moment of happiness.  After a stint as a nemesis for Buffy, he was sent to hell.  Upon his return, Angel and Buffy know their relationship is doomed.  After taking down the mayor, Angel leaves Sunnydale for Los Angeles, where another demon will gives him a purpose.
 
 

Episode Guide

Season One

Episode 1: City Of
In L.A., Angel meets Doyle and sets up a private investigation office.  He also saves Cordelia from a rich vampire who preys on young, lost girls in search of fame.

Episode 2: Lonely Hearts
Angel goes undercover at a club in search for a parasitic creature who travels from body to body.  He also meet Kate, a police officer.

Episode 3: Into the Dark
Oz comes to town, and gives Angel a ring that will makes him unkillable.  Too bad, Spike's in town for the same thing, and he wouldn't mind killing Angel for it.

Episode 4: I Fall To Pieces
Angel must protect a woman from a man who can fall to pieces and reattach himself.

Episode 5: Room W/A VU
Angel deals with some demons who have come gunning for Doyle, while Cordelia discovers her new apartment is haunted by an angry ghost.

Episode 6: Sense and Sensivity
Angel must stop a criminal from succeeding in his revenge on Kate.

Episode 7: The Bachelor Party
Doyle's ex-wife is in town, and she's getting marry again.  He's been invited to a bachelor party where his head will be served as the main course.

Episode 8: I Will Remember You
Buffy comes looking for Angel after she found out that Angel was in Sunnydale without her knowledge.  After a battle with a demon, Angel becomes human and spends time with Buffy.

Episode 9: Hero
A group of demons called "The Scourge," are hunting down half-breeds.  Doyle must make the ultimate sacrifice to stop "The Scourge" and saves his friends.

Episode 10: Parting Gifts
Angel and Cordelia deal with the aftermath of  Doyle's death.  Cordelia receives Doyle's visions, and Wesley joins the cast.

Episode 11: Somnambulist
Wesley suspects Angel to be responsible for recent murders, but upon closer investigation, they discover the true culpit to be the successor of Angelus.  Also, Kate discovers the truth about Angel.

Episode 12: Expecting
Cordelia is pregnant after a night with her date.  Also, Angel dances.

Episode 13: She
Angel helps a princess(Bai Ling) from another dimension to save women from her world.

Episode 14: I've Got You Under My Skin
Angel and Wesley perform an exorcism on a child possessed by a 10,000 year old demon.

Episode 15: The Prodigal
Angel remembers his own relationship with his father and the night he was sired by Darla.

Episode 16: The Ring
Angel is captured and forced in a tournament to fight other demons to the death in order to survive.  Wesley and Cordelia must save Angel before he falls prey to his bloodthirst.

Episode 17: Eternity
A famous actress wants immortality after seeking Angel's protection and discovering his true nature.  However, her effort causes the return of the evil Angelus.

Episode 18: Five By Five
Faith is hired by Wolfram and Hart to kill Angel.  Faith tortures Wesley and gets involved in a big showdown with Angel.

Episode 19: Sanctuary
After the fight in last episode, Angel helps Faith with her redemption.  The people who hired Faith sent an assassin after her, while Wesley is contacted by the Watchers Council to help them capture Faith.  Kate gets a lead on the whereabouts of Faith, and Buffy comes to town seeking revenge.

Episode 20: War Zone
Angel gets caught in a war between human and vampire gangs.

Episode 21: Blind Date
Lindsey seeks Angel's help in obtaining secret files to take down Wolfram and Hart in order to save children from a blind demonic assassin.

Episode 22: To Shanshu in LA
A demon seeks to separate Angel from "the higher powers" by incapitating Cordelia and Wesley, in addition to killing the Oracles.  Meanwhile, the Wolfram and Hart firm schemes to rid of Angel by bringing back someone from his past.
 

Season Two

Episode 23: Judgment
In Cordelia's vision, she sees a demon following a pregnant woman.  Ever since learning he can be human when he finish his destined task, Angel has become cocky.  Once Angel kills the demon, he learns it was the woman's protector.  Feeling guilty, he takes the protector's job.  He fights the tribunal's champion for the asylum of the woman and her unborn child.  Plus, Angel does karoake at the Host's bar.

Episode 24: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been
When Angel asks Wesley and Cordelia to research on deaths at a hotel, they discover Angel may have been involved in a murder in the 1950s.

Episode 25: First Impressions
When Cordelia sees visions of Gunn's death at a demon's hands, she proclaims herself as his protector and tries her best to save him.  Meanwhile, Angel is losing his edge due to Darla's constant temptations in his dreams.

Episode 26: Untouched
Angel tries to protect Bethany, a girl with telekinesis powers.  Unfortunately, Wolfram and Hart wants Layla to program Bethany into an assassin.

Episode 27: Dear Boy
Darla plays a game of cat and mouse with Angel, resulting in murder and an arrest warrant for Angel.  She's pitting Kate against Angel just as he learns Darla is now human.

Episode 28: Guise Will Be Guise
With Angel away at a swami, Wesley pretends to be Angel when clients come to seek his help.  He is paid to protect a rich man's daughter, Jenny, from assassins.

Episode 29: Darla
Angel's life with Darla, as well as Spike and Drusilia, is revealed.

Episode 30: The Shroud of Amon
To help Gunn's cousin, Angel and Gunn joins a group of demons in stealing the Shroud of Amon.  Unfortunately, they do not know the shroud has the power to make men kill each other.  As tensions increase among the men, things go from bad to worse with the arrival of Kate, forcing Angel to bite her.

Episode 31: The Trial
Having learn that Darla is going to die from a disease, Angel risks his life in a very tough physical trial in order to obtain a miracle cure for her.

Episode 32: Reunion
Knowing the only way to save Darla is by turning her into a vampire, Lindsey brought in Drusilia for help.  Angel tries to destroy Darla before she rises from the dead, but fails.  Distraught, he let Darla and Drusilia feed on a group of helpless and trapped Wolfram and Hart lawyers.

Episode 33: Redefinition
The failure to stop Darla and Drusilia has turned Angel into something neither Angelus nor Angel.  First, he set fire to Darla and Drusilia.  Then, he fired Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn.

Episode 34: Blood Money
Angel learns Wolfram and Hart has been using a girl and her social work as a front for one of their schemes.  Whether or not she's innocent, Angel is going to use her to get back at Wolfram and Hart.

Episode 35: Happy Anniversary
A scientist tries to freeze time in his track before his girlfriend dumps him on their anniversary.   The Host warns Angel that the world is ending unless he can stop it.

Episode 36: The Thin Dead Line
People are being murdered by a group of zombie cops, and Kate must seek Angel's help in stopping it.

Episode 37: Reprise
Angel battles Darla for a gauntlet that will let its user access to the inner sanctum of Wolfram and Hart.  Meanwhile, Kate is fired from the police force.

Episode 38: Epipany
After sleeping with Darla, Angel discovers that he didn't turn into Angelus.  Looking to fix his relationship with Gunn, Wesley and Cordelia, Angel offers his help.  Gunn and Wesley relucantly agree, because a demon seed has been planted inside Cordelia by the three eyed demons.  They must rescue her before it's too late.  In the end, Angel joins Wesley's new agency.

Episode 39: DisHarmony
Having left Spike and Sunnydale behind, Harmony hooks up with her best friend, Cordelia.  Seeking a direction in life, she follows Cordelia around.  When Harmony is sent on a undercover mission at a vampire self help seminar, she finds a new purpose, one which can results in the death of Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and Angel.

Episode 40: Dead End
Lindsey undergoes surgery and gets himself a new hand courtesy of Wolfram and Hart.  Unfortunately for him, his new hand belongs to a killer.  He and Angel must discover where Wolfram and Hart gets the spare body parts and stop it before it's too late.

Episode 41: Belongings
Demons are popping out of portals and killing people in sight.  One of these is the Host's cousin.  From him, Angel and the others learn the Host's name is Lourde.  With the cousin's help, Angel hopes to stop a man-eating demon from roaming around free.

Episode 42: Over the Rainbow
When Cordelia is thrown into the Host's dimension, she learns humans there are treated like cattle.  Meanwhile at home, Angel and Wesley enlists the Host's help in finding a portal in hope of rescuing Cordelia.

Episode 43: Through the Looking Glass
Cordelia is now ruler of the world, but unknown to her, the demon monks have plans for her.  Ones which may result in her death after she mates.  Meanwhile, Gunn and Wesley get captured by some rebels.  When Angel arrives in this dimension, it was a paradise for him.  He has a reflection and the sun didn't burn him.  Now he learns the price he has to pay for this freedom.  Here, his demon side is so much more ruthless and powerful, he can't control it.  Also, the Host loses his head.

Episode 44: There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb
After Fred has helped Angel calm his demon side, they seek to reunite with the others.  With some unforseen help, Cordelia sent the Host's head away to be reunited with his body.  Meanwhile, Wesley and Gunn lead a human rebellion against their demon masters, unfortunately they doesn't know that the demon monks have a doomsday device that can kill all the humans at once.
 

Season Three

Episode 45: Hearthrob
While dealing with Buffy's death, Angel accidentally killed an old friend, the true love of a vampire protege of his.  Now his student come seeking revenge after discovering a way to become immune to death.  He wishes to kill Angel and all he cares for.

Episode 46: That Vision Thing
Lately, the pain from the visions has been growing too intense for Cordelia.  Now, her powers are threatening to kill her.  The only way for Angel to save Cordelia is to work for Wolfram and Hart.

Episode 47: That Old Gang of Mine
Gunn's old gang attacks the Host's bar after murdering a series of demons.  The only way for Angel to save the hostages is to give himself up.  Unfortunately for Angel, the Host's bar is surrounded by a spell which forbids demons from using any form of violence, but that's not true for the bloodthirsty humans.

Episode 48: Carpe Noctum
An old man conjures a spell which allows him to switch bodies with Angel.  Trapped as an old man, Angel seeks to escape from the old folks' home before the new possessor of his body discovers his vampiric powers.  Plus, Angel learns about Buffy's resurrection.

Episode 50: Billy
Angel and Cordelia feel guilty when they discover the creature, Angel previously rescued for Wolfram and Hart in order to save Cordelia, has been killing people.  The creature can make man kill woman.  Angel has been teaching Cordelia self defense, but what can she do when the attacker is a manipulated Angel.

Episode 51: Offspring
The gang learns of a prophecy in which a great evil will be born, just as Darla returns and pregnant with Angel's child.  Will Angel kill Darla and sacrifice his unborn child to save the world?

Episode 52: Quickening
Fred discovers that Angel's baby is not the threat the prophecy speaks of.  The gang decides to help Angel protect Darla until she gives birth.  Meanwhile, a vampire hunter from Angel's past returns for vengeance, because Angel and Darla had previously killed the man's family.

Episode 53: Lullaby
Angel fights off various evil, seeking Darla and his unborn baby just in time for a confrontation with Hotz .  The Host's bar is destroyed again when Hotz seeks Darla, just as she is ready to give birth.

Episode 54: Dad
After Darla's death, Angel feels personally responsible for his son's safety, shutting out the rest of the gang in the process, just as various clans of humans and demons plan to kidnap his child.
 



 
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