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.

Reprise

• Angel is skulking through an all but abandoned building.
• He’s following the sound of goats bleating and finds a room full of them.
• Turns out the building is own by Wolfram & Hart (shocker!) and they’ve got a couple of lackeys being paid to sacrifice a herd to something that’s gonna be pissed if it’s not done by midnight.
• So Angel smashes all the ceremonial stuff and sends the two guys packing.
• Team Angel successfully removed the third eye from the back of that girl’s head (see episode 36).
• The family refuses to pay for the removal of the eye.
• Lilah and Lindsey are concerned about an upcoming 75-year review with the Senior Partners.
• Lilah is still worried about the fact that Darla and Drusilla haven’t been heard from in a while.
• Angel knows that something big is going down, so he goes to Kate for help.
• But she’s facing a formal hearing from internal affairs because of the incident where Angel beat up a precinct captain who was raising zombie cops.
• Kate also came to the realization that someone must have locked Darla and Dru in with all the lawyers that they slaughtered. So she’s done helping Angel.
• Darla is hiding out at Lindsey’s place. He’s nursing her back to health.
• Since Kate won’t help, Angel turns to the Host.
• Caritas is super busy. There are a lot of Wolfram & Hart attorneys there looking to have their futures read.
• The Host can’t reveal anything about his readings, but he can reveal what he overheard in the men’s room.
• It’s the 75-year review. Apparently a Senior Partner will be arriving in LA to do the review personally.
• Angel heads back to the Hyperion to do some research, but he doesn’t have what he needs.
• So he pops into his old employees’ new joint and steals the book he needs.
• At Kate’s hearing, she’s kind of being railroaded by IA.
• She never took time off after her father’s death, so they think that has taken its toll on her job performance.
• They ask for her gun and badge.
• And then one of the guys on the review board gets one last dig in by saying he’s glad her dad isn’t around to see this.
• Who says things like that?! Especially after blaming her lack of a grieving process for what she’s been doing on the job for the last few months.
• Angel still needs help. So he turns to the same bookstore owner that he visited back in the 50s, the first time he lived at the Hyperion.
• As bookstore guy is about to hand over a glove that Angel needs to kill a demon that’s part of Wolfram & Hart’s 75-year review, Darla runs him through with a sword and takes the glove herself.
• Meanwhile, Kate gets home after clearing out her desk. She’s spiraling. Hard.
• Cordelia, alone in the office, gets a call from Mrs. Sharp, the mom who refused to pay for the gang removing the eye from her daughter’s head.
• She tells Cordelia she’s willing to pay now if she’ll come out to the house to pick up a check.
• As soon as Mrs. Sharp hangs up the phone, the demon responsible for her daughter’s third eye snaps her neck.
• Angel gets into the Wolfram & Hart party and exposes Darla, taking the glove back from her just as the demon is summoned.
• Angel is able to kill the demon and gets the ring he needs to visit the Home Office.
• When he puts on the ring, an elevator appears outside and opens to reveal Holland Manners.
• Holland explains that his contract with Wolfram & Hart extends well beyond his death.
• Angel steps into the elevator and Holland tells him it’s a one way trip.
• After a long conversation about why Wolfram & Hart exists, they arrive right back where they started.
• The “Home Office” is right here on earth. And Holland explains that it’s because evil exists inside every single person that Angel is out there trying to save.
• Kind of a bleak outlook on the world. But he’s not wrong, theologically speaking.
• Angel gloomily walks through the lobby of the Hyperion and hears Kate leaving a message on his machine.
• She’s calling from the floor of her living room surrounded by pill bottles and booze.
• Angel ignores the call, and goes to his room.
• Darla shows up. And they have sex.
• Because… reasons.
• In the middle of the night, Angel wakes up in pain…
• Body count: Humans – 2; Demons – 1