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.
Apocalypse Nowish
- Lorne is hounding Angel with questions about why he’s not hounding Cordelia with questions about her time as a higher power.
- Gunn and Fred are heading out on a case where some lady is hearing spooky things in her pipes.
- Cordelia is at Connor’s eating junk food and seems generally depressed.
- Connor tries to get her to rest, but every time she closes her eyes, she sees what’s coming.
- She can see something clawing its way up… taste the blood of all the people it’s going to kill…
- She wants to warn Angel, but the words won’t come out.
- The thing in her dreams is real and it’s almost here.
- Then she hears it say, “I know,” only for her to look up and see the Beast as it grabs her throat.
- And then she wakes up…
- Gotta love those vision-y nightmares.
- Lorne takes a call from a potential client complaining about snakes coming out of the drain… but that’s not something Angel Investigations deals with.
- Fred and Gunn are shown to a client’s bathroom where they’re hearing all the demon-y noises.
- They can’t pinpoint where the sounds are coming from.
- Suddenly there are rats everywhere.
- Literally everywhere.
- They tell the lady to call an exterminator as they run out.
- Wes comes home to find Lilah in his apartment… trying to do her best Fred impersonation…
- Clearly, she’s jealous over Wesley’s crush… but she claims she’s not.
- Fred and Gunn are having some serious issues stemming from the incident with Fred’s professor.
- Lorne is still fielding lots of calls…
- It’s like there’s an apocalypse on the way…
- Connor comes by the hotel and tells Angel he needs to talk to Cordelia.
- He even calls Angel dad.
- Must be serious.
- So Angel goes back with Connor.
- She tells Angel that she loves him, but that when her memory came back, everything came rushing back.
- As a higher being, she saw everything that he ever did when he was Angelus.
- She felt it.
- Not just the fear and pain of his victims, but the joy he felt from making people suffer.
- She says she loves him again, but she can’t be with him…
- Then she has another vision of the Beast.
- “He’s coming now.”
- At the hotel, Lorne and Gunn are still being inundated with calls and are interrupted by hundreds of birds flying into the windows.
- Gunn assumes this is a bad sign.
- Lilah enters her office to find Angel waiting for her.
- Lilah tells him she won’t get anything out of him, but Angel reveals that Gavin was already accommodating.
- Apparently, the psychics that have tried interpreting what they got from Lorne’s head have all died violently.
- Angel offers to pool their resources, seeing as how this is an apocalypse that Wolfram & Hart weren’t planning for.
- Cordelia decides she needs to go for a walk and try to find where the Beast would emerge.
- Connor insists on going with her.
- She’s also questioning why she’s back… was she kicked out by the Powers That Be?
- Does she have some role to play in stopping this apocalypse?
- And there really is too much flirting happening between Connor and Cordy.
- Ugh… I really don’t like this season.
- They wind up in the alley behind what was once Caritas.
- The spot where Darla staked herself so Connor could be born.
- And that is where the Beast emerges from beneath them.
- Connor attacks, but it’s like fighting a living piece of granite.
- The Beast grabs Cordelia by the neck and looks like he’s going to suck out her soul or something, but then he drops her when Connor attacks again.
- He swats the kid away like a gnat and approaches Cordelia again.
- The Beast gives her a strange look, laughs a little, then leaps into the air.
- Back at the hotel, both Wes and Angel arrive intent on trying to stop the end of the world.
- Angel has all the info that Lilah was able to give him from the psychics.
- He tells Lorne to plot on a map where all the calls are coming from to see if there’s any kind of concentration in a certain area.
- Gunn figures out that the gibberish on the Wolfram & Hart pages are like pieces in a huge puzzle.
- They put it all together and it makes a symbol that Wes recognizes as an ancient alchemical symbol for fire.
- Fred, meanwhile, is hiding out in the diner that she and Gunn usually share together.
- The waitress is trying to cheer her up when an earthquake hits.
- Cordelia is treating Connor’s wounds back at his place.
- Using the places that Lorne plotted out on the map, they’re able to pinpoint where something bad is gonna go down.
- It’s at a club on top of a building.
- Angel, Wes, Lorne, and Gunn head off to fight the Beast.
- When they encounter him, he’s already killed everyone in the club and arranged their bodies in the Eye of Fire symbol that keeps occurring.
- The good guys attack in slow motion… which is pointless and leads to them all getting their butts handed to them.
- Again… like fighting a living piece of granite.
- Wes even shoots the Beast in the face with a shotgun and he just smiles back at him.
- Angel goes in for one last attack and winds up having his own stake jabbed into his throat.
- The Beast looks down at Angel and says, “Do you really think she’s safe with him?” before throwing him off the roof.
- Then the Beast lights all those dead bodies on fire, sending a column of flame into the sky.
- Wes helps Gunn get off the roof and Lorne is thrown down through a skylight to the floor below.
- Angel watches from the ground and pulls the stake out of his neck.
- After the column of fire finishes its thing, the sky begins to rain fire and brimstone.
- Connor and Cordelia watch from the window.
- He can’t help but wonder if this thing is here because of him.
- Arriving in the place where he was born.
- And he knows he’s someone that shouldn’t even exist… the child of two vampires.
- Cordelia tries to comfort him… kisses him… then she sleeps with him.
- Ugh… I really don’t like this season.
- I mean, I know that she’s only about 21 and he’s technically 18 thanks to being aged up in a hell dimension.
- But she was like a mother to him when he was an infant.
- It’s gross.
- And after hearing the Beast’s question about Cordelia’s safety, Angel goes to check on her…
- And watches her and Connor from afar.
- Ugh… I really don’t like this season.
- Body count: Humans – Lots