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.

Belonging

• Team Angel are out to dinner, celebrating Cordelia landing a part in a national commercial.
• The next day, Wes is on the phone with his father. Serious daddy issues here…
• Warrented, though. Guy’s a jerk.
• Angel pays a visit to Cordelia on the set of her commercial.
• It’s a beach scene and she’s in a bikini. And the director treats her like a piece of meat.
• Angel stands up for her, but she’s not appreciative because standing up to the misogynist director could get Cordelia fired.
• His real reason for going by there is to get more info from her last vision.
• While Gunn and Wes are waiting for Angel to come back with intel on where to find the Haklar demon from Cordy’s vision, a couple of Gunn’s crew come by to ask to borrow his truck.
• He wants to go with them, but then Angel shows up and they have to head to the Haklar.
• Cut to Caritas where the Host is singing some classic Stevie Wonder when suddenly a portal opens up on stage and out pops a new kind of demon.
• It kind of tears up the club and finds the exit.
• Wes and Angel get back from the Haklar killing. Wes was attacked by a power walker because she felt that killing the demon disrespected its culture.
• The Host arrives at the hotel to warn the team about the demon, called a Drokken, that escaped from the portal and that it’s probably getting hungry.
• Then we see the Drokken attack and kill someone.
• As Angel and Wes get ready to head out after the Drokken, Cordelia has a vision about a girl in a library who gets pulled into a portal.
• Connection!
• Gunn goes to help his old crew with the vampire problem they’re currently having.
• But they ended up going without him and one of them wound up dead. With the possibility of turning into a vampire.
• Team Angel, minus Gunn, plus the Host, go to the library to find the girl and save her from the portal.
• But it turns out this girl, Fred (Winifred), has been missing for five years.
• Talk about your delayed visions.
• Cordelia finds the book that Fred was cataloging when the portal opened.
• It’s in a weird language with no vowels. And the Host is getting kinda squirrely about it when Cordy begins reading it aloud.
• In a world where magic exists, do you really think you should randomly read strange languages from really old books?
• Anyway, whatever Cordelia reads opens another portal.
• And out pops another demon. But this one looks a lot like a barbarian version of the Host.
• The Host recognizes the new demon, who identifies the Host as Krevlornswath of the Deathwok clan.
• But Krevlornswath prefers to go by Lorne.
• The guy from the portal is named Landok.
• When Landok offers to help Lorne get back to their dimension, Lorne makes it clear he doesn’t want to go back.
• Landok makes it clear that Lorne is an embarrassment to his people.
• When the gang mentions the Drokken, Landok offers to help them slay the beast.
• Gunn won’t answer his pages. He’s mad that his crew didn’t wait for him. “We’ve been waiting on you for months, bro.” Ouch.
• Landok leads them to where the Drokken is hiding out, then he and Angel charge in after it.
• The Drokken bites Landok, poisoning him. The only antidote available is back in his home dimension.
• Wes and Angel split up so Wes can find the girl that the Drokken had abducted and get her to safety.
• But just as Wes finds the girl, the Drokken finds him.
• Angel swoops in and kills the Drokken just in time.
• Cordelia figures out how to get Landok back to his dimension.
• They get back to Caritas and Landok reads from the book.
• Landok is sent back to his home dimension.
• But Cordelia is missing…
• She wakes up on the ground in a strange wooded area.
• That’s a heck of a cliffhanger for ya.
• Body count: Humans – 1; Demons – 1