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.

Calvary

• Connor, Wes, and Cordelia confront the shaman about Angel’s missing soul.
• He doesn’t have it… has no need for it…
• But he does tell them that the soul is still in the containment jar.
• At the hotel, Fred and Gunn watch Angelus on the monitor.
• With his super hearing, he can still basically have a twisted conversation.
• But Gunn turns off the monitor and Fred reminds him that it’s just words.
• That’s the only way he can hurt them because he knows he’s never getting out of that cage.
• Cut to the basement… enter Lilah…
• With a crowbar?
• She wants Angelus to stop the Beast.
• He thinks that maybe they can come to an arrangement.
• Upstairs, Fred and Gunn are talking things out… pretty sure they’re breaking up.
• This has been a long time coming, let’s be honest.
• When Connor, Wes, and Cordy get back, they finally notice that Lilah’s downstairs.
• Angelus nearly grabs her but Gunn tranqs him and she takes off for the sewer.
• Wes goes after her.
• He asks how she knew about Angelus.
• She said she wasn’t really going to release him.
• She just wanted Angelus to believe it.
• In her secret lair, Lilah has a copy of a book that Wes also has…
• Except the version she has a passage about the Beast.
• She got this book from another dimension.
• This leads to the question, what if, at some point in time, there was information about the Beast out there, but it all vanished from this dimension.
• Back in the cage, Angelus wakes up and informs the gang that the Beast has a boss.
• Angelus explains the Beast is good with the smash and slaughter, but not with big picture stuff.
• Someone has to be pulling the strings for the Beast to be able to do all it takes to cause a rain of fire and blot out the sun.
• Wes brings Lilah back to the hotel.
• She insists she doesn’t have Angel’s soul.
• Wes explains the deal with everything about the Beast being deleted from this dimension, which also explains why Angel’s memory of the Beast didn’t exist.
• Gunn decides to go down and guard Angelus with his flamethrower.
• Angelus reveals that Angel figured out what happened to the professor…
• But it’s Gunn that reveals that Fred didn’t kill him, he did.
• Upstairs, Fred tells Wes that she and Gunn are through.
• Before anything else can happen, Cordelia and Lilah come in and he decides to relieve Gunn in the basement.
• Lorne returns with no good news about Angel’s soul.
• Cordelia gets into an argument with Lilah, who’s lost all hope.
• Then she has a vision and claims she knows how to return Angel’s soul.
• When Fred goes down to tell Wes about Cordelia’s vision, Angelus lets it slip that Wes and Lilah have been sleeping together for months.
• It clearly affects Fred, but she says it’s none of her business.
• Gunn and Connor go to exhume a grave to retrieve the skull of some kind of demon that seems to be able to phase in and out of reality.
• It puts up a weird fight, but Gunn is able to behead it.
• Elsewhere, the Beast presents his boss with a weapon, forged from his own bones.
• Back in the basement, the gang sets up Cordelia’s apparent spell.
• Angelus can’t believe they’re trying to restore his soul using black magic.
• Lilah’s certain they’re going to suck the hotel into a hell dimension.
• Angelus is right about one thing… the good guys can’t save the world because they’re too busy at each others’ throats.
• The spell seems to do something…
• Cordelia asks if it’s Angel.
• He tells them he’s so sorry…
• They get him to sing for Lorne to read him.
• Lorne confirms it’s Angel.
• They’re about to let him out, but Angel insists on staying in the cage, just in case Cordelia’s spell is temporary.
• He tells the team to stop fighting each other and focus on taking down the Beast and the Beastmaster.
• Angel gives everyone their assignments.
• Cordelia refuses to take orders from Angel if he’s too scared to get out of the cage.
• She tells him the Powers That Be need a champion… she even quotes Star Wars saying, he might be their only hope, Obi-Wan.
• That can’t be right… Cordelia quoting Star Wars?
• So she lets him out of the cage.
• And he’s still Angelus.
• Cordelia gets away from Angelus, but he manages to knock her out and leave her in the cage.
• Then he heads upstairs.
• Instead of attacking everyone, he takes off, claiming he has to save the world.
• Then they notice Cordelia unconscious on the monitor.
• Everyone but Lilah and Cordelia head after Angelus.
• Angelus, meanwhile, is roaming around LA and can’t stand the fact that there are no fresh victims around.
• All these demons from out of town have come in to terrorize the joint.
• Angelus doubles back and chases Lilah through the hotel, leaving Cordy hurt on the lobby floor.
• Cordelia finds Lilah in an upstairs hallway.
• Lilah warns her that Angelus is going to kill them.
• “I know…”
• Then she stabs Lilah in the neck with the dagger made from the bones of the Beast.
• “Why do you think I let him out?”
• And Cordelia is the big bad. Awesome.
• Have I said I don’t really like this season?
• ‘Cause I don’t.
• Body count: Demons – 1; Humans – 1