Season Two
Epiphany
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Angel practically falls out of bed and pulls on some clothes before struggling to the balcony. He falls to his knees in pain as Darla watches on impassively, leanign against the doorframe, waiting for him to become Angelus.Angel becomes himself again, the pain subsiding and apologises to darla for not being able to save her, revealing that he never lost his soul. Darla is eager to get rid of his soul, but the sex has reawakened the good in Angel, making him realizes the mistakes he's made recently. (it's almost as if it gave his soul back to him, rathe rthan taking it away) Angel advises Darla to leave and not come near him again before rushing over to Kate's place and reviving her of her drug and alcohol induced unconsciousness. Lindsey returns to his apartment to find Darla waiting for him. she tells him of her night with Angel. Angel shows up at the Caritas after hours and wakes the Host for advice. He's confused about his future and the Host warns him that his friends may not be around for much longer as their lives are all in danger. Cordelia arrives at the Sharp home, finding all of the family dead. She receives a vision about a demon attacking her, only to have it actually occur moments later. Cordelia tells off the Powers That Be when she comes around again. She realizes that the demons have an eye on the back of their heads and they want her and her friends destroyed in retaliation for destroying their spawn in Stephanie Sharp's head. Wesley, trundling around his house in his wheelchair hears noises and just before one of the Skilosh demons attacks, Angel arrives. After some promting Wesley invites him inside and the two manage to destroy the demons. He tries to hide his excitement to see Angel and Angel tries to explain his return to helping his friends. Wesley tells everything he knows about the demons, their reproduction through human hosts, and the destruction of the demon in Stephanie. The Skilosh demons are upset about loosing two more of their kind so they use Cordelia as a host to bring forth more.Naturally Cordelia is not pleased about this/ Even less so when she realises that she literally has eyes in the abck of her head. Wesley lectures Angel about how little he knows about his friends or about helping people. Gunn shows up at the office and after some detective work, the three head for the Sharp's to save Cordelia. After being attacked while driving, Angel leaves the car for Gunn and Wesley and volunteers to take care of the demons. As Angel's about to start fighting with the demons, Lindsey (in red-neck combo) drives a pickup truck full-speed down the street, repeatedly running Angel over. Then he gets out of the truck and pulls a sledghammer out of the truck bed, goes over to Angel and repeatedly beats him with it. As he does it Lindsay demands to know what Angel did to Darla. Angel turns the tables on Lindsey, smashing his prosthetic hand and stealing his truck to rescue Cordelia and the others, leaving the lawyer lying in the middle of the street. Gunn and Wesley try to sneak into the Sharp home, but are caught. Angel crashes Lindsey's truck through the Sharp house, rescuing his friends but he's hurt emotionally when they aren't willing to accept his returned presence. After finding his damaged truck returned by Angel, (complete with a thank you note) Lindsey finds that Darla has moved out of his apartment. Angel talks with Kate about his new look on life and Kate mentions how a higher power must be watching over them because she never invited him into her home when she was unconscious, (no she didn't do it last season either - I checked). Angel appears at the new Angel Investigations office and apologises to his friends. He offers to work for them earn their trust back. A vision from Cordelia (complete with a hand catch from Angel) puts their doubts on the back burner and sends them all out to help someone.
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