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.

Untouched

• Lilah snoops around in Lindsey’s office.
• Darla catches her.
• Darla reveals she’s been using some kind of powder to keep Angel asleep when she visits him in his “dreams.”
• Meanwhile, Team Angel discusses/argues whether or not they should pay Gunn.
• Cordelia has a vision of a girl in an alley who is being attacked.
• Angel takes off to find her, but Cordelia is afraid he’s gonna be too late.
• But not too late to save the girl… to save the two guys assaulting her.
• She pulls a Carrie and slams a dumpster into them, flattening the two guys against a building.
• Literally flattening. They’re way dead.
• Angel doesn’t get there until the police have already started cleaning up the scene and pretends to be a detective.
• No sign of the girl, just the two guys they had to scrape off the wall.
• Angel tracks her down and she accidentally runs him through with a steel rod, telekinetically.
• But he’s all right. He’s not like most people.
• She can’t control her powers under duress. Angel offers to help her if she ever decides she wants the help.
• The girl, Bethany, heads home and it turns out she lives with Lilah.
• That can’t be a good life choice.
• Angel sends Gunn to find out all he can about the would-be rapists that Bethany squished against the wall.
• In the middle of the night, Bethany had a nightmare about a father figure who was clearly abusing and/or molesting her as a child.
• As she startled herself awake, she mentally threw a lamp at Lilah.
• Then she ran away, arriving on Angel’s doorstep.
• Lilah meets with Holland, who threatens her in an oh-so-subtle way.
• Bethany calls Lilah and reveals that she’s at the Hyperion.
• She reveals to Angel that she doesn’t want to learn to control her power. She wants to get rid of it.
• Wesley comes out and tells Angel they should turn her away because she clearly doesn’t want their help.
• Then he mentions her father and she throws both of them away from her.
• Note: father is a trigger.
• Wes was able to deduce that this girl’s psychic power was likely triggered by past abuse and that her father was the most likely source of that abuse.
• Angel sends Wes and Cordelia home for their safety.
• As Angel sleeps, he dreams about Darla again and a time when they fed on an innocent victim.
• Bethany walks in and offers to “have some fun” with him.
• Clearly, we’re dealing with some deep issues.
• When Bethany leaves, she walks past Darla standing in the shadows.
• While Angel is helping Bethany control her power, Gunn calls and asks him to meet him at one of the squished guy’s apartment.
• Angel discovers the last number dialed on his phone was to Wolfram & Hart.
• The bad lawyers hired them to go after Bethany, probably to see a little bit of what she’s capable of.
• Cordelia takes Bethany out shopping and has a heart to heart with her.
• She seems to be getting through to her, then some W&F thugs show up, drugging and abducting Bethany.
• Angel manages to save her and take her back to the Hyperion. He tells her the truth about who Lilah is.
• Lilah is on the phone with someone, pissed that Bethany got away again. She tells the person on the other end of the line to pull the trigger.
• That’s when Bethany’s father shows up at the door to her hotel room.
• That’s when all the windows on the top floor blow out.
• She’s losing what little control she had. But then she suddenly has full control.
• She stops accidentally holding back Angel and Cordelia, then she focuses her power on her father.
• Bethany throws her father out the window, then stops him just before he hits the sidewalk, saving him.
• Back at Lilah’s, Bethany packs up and leaves. Lilah tries to talk her out of going, but she’s clearly lost this asset.
• Body count: Humans – 2