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.
Forgiving
- Angel stares at Connor’s empty crib.
- Gunn and Fred are at Wesley’s apartment trying to figure out where he could be.
- Fred cannot believe that Wes would do what he did.
- Gunn says when they find him they can ask why he took Connor.
- Because if Angel finds him first, he’ll kill him.
- They decide to head back to the hotel to get a read on Angel while Fred tries Wesley’s cell again.
- It rings… on the ground… across the street from Wes’ apartment… where Wes lays bleeding out.
- Justine returns to Holtz’s lair and kills the two chained vampires because there is no more training.
- She breaks the news that Holtz and the child are gone and that Holtz left instructions to finish the job by killing Angelus.
- Gunn and Fred get the lowdown from Lorne about Connor going through the portal.
- Angel tells Lorne to find out everything he can about Q’ortoth.
- They’ll get there by finding Sahjhan, who’s been behind this whole thing since the beginning.
- Linwood warns Lilah about meeting with Angel and Sahjhan behind his back.
- And he’s not happy about losing Angel’s baby.
- Fred gets ready to call Cordelia, who’s still on vacation in Mexico.
- Angel stops her because Cordelia will come back with presents for Connor and he wants to make sure he’s got Connor back before that happens.
- But then he suddenly changes his mind about finding Connor first and skipping ahead to dealing with those responsible.
- So Gunn and Fred head out after Angel to try and find Wes first.
- Wes is found… by a homeless guy… who takes his cash and hides him behind a bush.
- Lorne returns to find Angel in the lobby… he doesn’t have good news.
- Everyone he talked to is afraid of Q’ortoth.
- Also, there are no portals to Q’ortoth.
- What Sahjhan did was tear a hole in the fabric of reality.
- To do that, Angel would need to tap into the darkest and most powerful magics.
- At this point, Angel reveals that he has abducted Linwood from Wolfram & Hart.
- That might help them find access to Q’ortoth.
- Linwood tries to warn Angel that if the firm finds out what he’s done… but Angel says they’d kill Linwood before they’d kill Angel.
- Angel is more than ready to torture Linwood to get what he wants.
- So Linwood calls Lilah and tells her he’s sending a client and she should give him anything he wants.
- Gunn and Fred visit Justine, but they get nothing from her or her people.
- Justine, it seems, is feeling guilty for slitting Wes’ throat, though.
- Lilah escorts Angel to the White Room at Wolfram & Hart.
- It’s here that Angel encounters a conduit to the Senior Partners.
- This conduit takes the form of a little girl.
- The Senior Partners are the ones responsible for making Sahjhan and his kind non-corporeal.
- The girl reveals that Sahjhan can be trapped in an urn, but that’s not what Angel really wants.
- So she gives him the spell that will turn Sahjhan solid once more.
- Meanwhile, Fred and Gunn manage to find Wesley’s diaries in the trash and discover the false prophecy about Angel killing Connor.
- So now they know why he abducted Connor…
- Doesn’t really change the fact that he did it and Connor is now in Q’ortoth.
- Angel is ready to perform the ritual in the Hyperion lobby and Lorne tries to talk him out of it.
- But Lilah is there helping with every step.
- When the spell calls for human blood, she looks like she’s gonna take it from the still tied up Linwood, but gives her own blood instead.
- Angel tries to summon Sahjhan and there’s a big light show, but then the pentagram is still empty.
- Sahjhan instead appears in the middle of a street and is run down by a big ol’ pick up truck.
- Does nothing to him, though.
- And he seems pleased with this turn of events.
- Lilah gets a call from the firm about a disturbance that, yeah, is Sahjhan.
- Before Angel can go after him, Fred and Gunn arrive to tell him about the fake prophecy.
- Angel is still pissed and is ready to find Sahjhan.
- He doesn’t even leave the hotel property before he’s attacked by Justine and her crew.
- Fred and Gunn see Justine drive off in Wesley’s car.
- Angel talks to the driver of the truck that hit Sahjhan.
- From there, he’s able to track Sahjhan…
- Justine goes back to the underground lair where she first met with Holtz.
- Gunn and Fred track her down and ask again, where’s Wes.
- Justine has come to realize that Holtz isn’t coming back…
- She tells them she slit Wesley’s throat, so he’s probably dead.
- Then Sahjhan walks in… all corporeal and violent.
- He knocks out Justine… and gets ready to take down Fred and Gunn.
- Then Angel walks in… all corporeal and violent.
- Angel demands that Sahjhan take him to Q’ortoth, but Sahjhan claims he could only open that tear one time.
- Sahjhan also takes credit for the fake “father will kill the son” prophecy.
- The reason he did it? Connor.
- The real prophecy was that Connor would grow to manhood and kill Sahjhan.
- Angel attacks, but it’s a losing battle…
- Luckily, Justine gets back just in time with one of those fancy urns that can trap Sahjhan indefinitely.
- She tells them she left Wes in the park, but by the time they get there, he’s gone.
- Angel says, “He can’t be dead…”
- And he seems concerned.
- But it’s because he wants to kill Wesley himself.
- I’m guessing, anyway.
- Lorne tries to make sense of everything… Start to forgive yourself by forgiving Wesley.
- Fred and Gunn managed to track Wesley down to a hospital, calling Angel to come down.
- Angel asks to see him, even though he can’t talk yet.
- He goes in alone…
- He looks down at Wes, telling him that he understands why he did what he did, and how hard it must have been for him.
- He makes it clear that he’s not evil… that he’s not Angelus, he’s Angel.
- Making that distinction clear to Wes, he moves in for the kill in an intense rage.
- Like… in the history of two television series, we’ve never seen Angel this angry before.
- Orderlies manage to pull Angel off of Wes before he can suffocate him.
- Angel is dragged from the room screaming that Wes is a dead man while the latter gasps for air.
- Body count: Vampires – 2
Oh my that end where he’s like I want you to know it’s me Wesley. Such a shocking ending. My heart breaks just thinking about this. Great recap!
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