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.

Supersymmetry

• Fred is excited about an article she’s written on physics.
• Gunn insists he’ll read it, but he’s not really understanding it…
• So they make out instead.
• Lorne is still recovering from when Wolfram & Hart drilled a hole in his head to extract what he saw when he read Cordelia.
• Angel finds Connor rummaging around in Cordelia’s room.
• He’s getting some of her things to take back to her… since she’s still staying with him.
• Ugh… I really don’t like this season.
• The next day, Fred is more excited about being asked to speak at a conference.
• Lilah stops by Wesley’s with a gift, hoping to make up for using him to get to Lorne.
• They start kissing, so it seems to have worked, but Wes says he needs to leave.
• Once he walks out, she notices that he was reading Fred’s article.
• Cordelia makes Connor’s hovel seem more like home with the things he brought her from the Hyperion.
• She notices, however, that there are no pictures of Angel in the things he brought.
• He claims he couldn’t find any.
• Right…
• At the physics conference, Fred is excited to see her old mentor, Professor Seidel.
• Angel notices that Wes is there for Fred’s speech… then he notices Lilah is there, too.
• While Fred is speaking, a dimensional portal opens above her, releasing some kind of huge tentacle monster.
• Angel and Gunn save Fred and the monster retreats before the portal closes.
• Angel goes to Lilah first, assuming she had something to do with it.
• But she was only there because she was jealous of what Wes was up to.
• Before she drives away, Angel warns her that they will have a conversation about what her people did to Lorne.
• That night, Fred is reverting back to her cave girl days, writing on the walls and mumbling physics to herself.
• Fred is afraid she’s going to wind up back in Pylea… or worse.
• But Gunn insists that that’s never going to happen.
• Gunn and Angel track down a sketchy kid who was taking pictures while Fred was being attacked on stage.
• His story is that he was there because he wanted to see if she was one of the girls who disappeared.
• Fred goes to visit her old mentor, who says he wants to see her as a student again, that she has a gift that shouldn’t be wasted.
• She seems flattered, but she has another life now.
• Seidel tells her she’s a very talented young woman who deserves to live in the world she was meant for.
• The comic geek tell Angel and Gunn that there are rumors about three girls who vanished before Fred and one other since.
• Fred is left alone in Seidel’s office and discovers that he is the one responsible for the portal that opened during her speech…
• And for sending her to Pylea all those years ago.
• Fred gets back to the hotel just as Angel and Gunn discover the same thing about the good professor.
• Fred’s pissed and says that Seidel is gonna die.
• She wants some pretty serious revenge.
• Gunn is able to talk her down and she says she’ll go up and lie down for a few days…
• Instead, she goes to Wesley.
• He warns her, too, that vengeance has a price, but he’s still willing to help her if that’s what she’s made up her mind to do.
• While she and Wes look at some books, she gets a text message that contains some really strange symbols.
• A portal opens right in front of them, nearly sucking them in.
• Meanwhile, Connor is re-teaching Cordelia how to take down vampires.
• She slays one and, in her excitement, begins kissing Connor.
• Ugh… I really don’t like this season.
• Wes and Fred drive toward the professor’s office and Wesley mentions his surprise that Gunn isn’t helping her.
• She tells him that Gunn doesn’t have it in him to kill, that’s part of why she loves him.
• Angel gets to Seidel first, but as he confronts the professor, a portal opens releasing a demon.
• Seidel runs out, but Fred is there to knock him out.
• Back at Connor’s, he’s getting a little too touchy-feely while she’s putting clothes away.
• Cordelia tells him they shouldn’t have kissed and she needs to go back to the hotel so she can think clearly.
• Angel fights the demon, discovering that even beheading it won’t kill it, because it grows a new head.
• Fred holds Seidel at the end of a crossbow and opens her own portal, intending to throw him in.
• Gunn rushes in and stops Fred from throwing him in the portal, afraid that if she takes a life, he’ll lose her.
• She tries to stop him from saving Seidel, but instead, he goes over and snaps his neck before throwing him in the portal.
• This is the beginning of the end for Fred and Gunn.
• Angel comes out of the office, having slain the demon, and is told that he got sucked into his own portal.
• Cordelia shows up and wants to talk with Angel.
• She understands now why Angel lied to her before, to protect her.
• She tells him that she also knows herself well enough now to know that the person she used to be didn’t need protection… so no more lies.
• Then she asks him the big question: “Were we in love?”
• Body count: Vampires – 1; Demons – 1; Humans – 1