Welcome to Rewatching Angel, the part of the blog where I rewatch the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off: Angel. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love these shows so many years ago.

Blind Date

• We open on a blind girl walking down a crowded street at night.
• But then we abruptly cut to Angel fighting and dusting a couple of vampires.
• After his fight is over, he hears someone struggling. Angel comes across a dead body and is then attacked.
• By the blind girl…
• It’s like she’s a female Daredevil.
• Her shades fly off her face during her fight with Angel and we see that her eyes are pure white.
• She handily tosses Angel through a wall. He recovers pretty quickly, but she’s gone.
• The next day, Cordelia is able to find the blind girl through the LAPD database. She’s something of a career criminal.
• Vanessa Brewer is currently on trial for murder and she’s represented by Wolfram & Hart. Pro bono. Which means she’s probably working for them.
• Angel arrives in her courtroom and throws her sunglasses to her, which she easily catches.
• Lindsey, Ms. Brewer’s attorney, manages to get her cleared of all charges.
• The Senior Partners still seem unimpressed with his performance. He’s made some mistakes throughout the past year.
• In a meeting with Holland Manners, one of his superiors, Lindsey seems to have a crisis of conscience when it’s implied that Vanessa may need a defense in the slaying of some children in the near future.
• Angel is pretty much enraged when he finds out Vanessa was acquitted.
• He can’t wrap his head around the fact that no matter what he does, Wolfram & Hart will always be there to knock him back, because Angel can’t play on their level, by their rules.
• And then Lindsey shows up. He wants Angel’s help. Because he wants out of Wolfram & Hart.
• He tells Angel about the contract and the kids that Vanessa is supposed to kill.
• Lindsey says he can’t go back to Wolfram & Hart because they’ll kill him.
• Some companies have random drug testing, W&H has mind readers.
• Lindsey needs Angel to break into the W&H vault where the contract is kept. But the lawyers have shamans that can detect when a vampire is on the property.
• So Angel convinces his new friend, Gunn, to get his hands on a vampire that he can deliver to the Wolfram & Hart lobby. That should throw the shamans off the scent.
• It all seems to be going according to plan. But the guards easily stake the vampire that Gunn delivered.
• While Angel’s in the vault getting the discs he needs, he gets curious about a scroll.
• That wasn’t part of the deal. When he takes it, it’s like the Cave of Wonders shutting down on Aladdin.
• Angel manages to escape, but Lindsey gets held up by a random mind reading.
• The mind readers move down a line of lawyers. They get past Lindsey and don’t seem to indicate that anything’s wrong.
• They have a little chat with Holland, who then gives the group of attorneys a speech about how much it hurts him, personally, to find out that one of their own has been disloyal.
• He gives a nod to a security guard and then confronts Lee, the attorney standing next to Lindsey.
• Apparently Lee has been approached by another firm. And he was planning to take clients with him when he left.
• Wolfram & Hart clearly has a zero tolerance policy for disloyalty. So Lee is shot in the head.
• But Lindsey isn’t completely in the clear. Holland asks him to stay back for another talk.
• Cordelia begins going through the discs that Angel stole from the vault, but they’re encrypted. Wesley gets to work translating the scroll that nearly got Angel trapped in the vault.
• Holland knows all about Lindsey’s alliance with Angel and what they stole from the vault.
• He understands that Lindsey is having a crisis of faith and that he just needs a few days off to figure out his place in the scheme of things.
• Cordelia gives Willow a call and she’s able to help with the encrypted files. Funny, since she’d been spending so much time trying to decrypt those files that Spike gave her.
• Turns out, the kids that Vanessa is supposed to kill are three powerful seers who only become more powerful as they mature. And they’re blind, too.
• Vanessa kills their caretaker and smiles menacingly at the three blind children.
• Angel and Lindsey show up in time to stop Vanessa.
• As Angel fights her, he’s able to take away her sightless advantage by staying completely still. Since he makes no noise by breathing, she can’t sense where he is.
• So he kills her. And the children are safe.
• Wesley figured out that the scroll that Angel stole contains the prophecies of Aberjian. It talks about the children that Angel saved.
• Also, there’s a prophecy about a vampire with a soul. Which is probably why Angel was inexplicably drawn to it.
• Lindsey returns the stolen discs to Holland, indicating that he made enough copies of files to keep himself safe.
• But Holland knows Lindsey came back because he’s strong enough to stay with Wolfram & Hart.
• Holland isn’t offering him his old job back. He’s offering him his job. Holland’s moving upstairs.
• Lindsey accepts his promotion.
• Guess he’s over his little crisis of faith.
• Body count: Vampires – 2; Humans – 4