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.

Release

• Wesley gets Faith back to his place to give her a chance to recover.
• She’s badly hurt… still bleeding…
• But she’s a Slayer and will, therefore, heal quickly.
• While she’s in the shower, she freaks out a little and smashes some of the ceramic tile in front of her.
• I don’t think Wes will be getting his security deposit back.
• Back at a demon bar, Angelus is bragging about taking out the Beast.
• A loud mouth demon sitting nearby gives him a hard time about bringing the sun back.
• Angelus isn’t thrilled with being critiqued and just as he’s about to rip out said demon’s windpipe, he hears a voice telling him it’s time they had a talk.
• When he talks back, it’s clear he’s the only one who can hear the voice.
• The voice is angry that Angelus killed the Beast…
• It’s Cordelia talking, but Angelus is hearing someone that sounds a lot like David Ogden Stiers.
• Angelus is less than cooperative and doesn’t really feel like taking orders from a big scary voice in his head.
• Connor interrupts Cordelia’s telepathic call to Angelus, bringing her a blanket.
• Cordelia tells Connor that they need to keep the pregnancy a secret for now because it would probably scare them…
• The baby is growing quickly and she assumes everyone will want to kill it, the way they wanted to kill Connor before he was born.
• This whole thing with the two of them… creeps me out.
• And it’s awkward how Cordelia is always just “resting” up in her room.
• While Fred is alone in the office, Angelus arrives.
• She warns him about the sanctuary spell, but he says he came prepared, swinging around some kind of talisman that should allow him to be as violent as he wants.
• Doesn’t take long before she figures out his talisman’s a fake, so she smashes a pitcher over his head and tries to tranq him.
• He dodges, she accidentally hits Lorne, then he blocks with a book he stole.
• Upstairs, Connor rushes in to attack, but the sanctuary spell stops him, knocking him over the balcony and down to the lobby floor.
• So the no-demon-violence spell keeps Connor from being violent, too?
• Angelus leaves just as Faith and Wes enter the courtyard outside.
• They begin to fight, but Angelus gets his hand around Wes’ throat, threatening to break his neck, taunting Faith into making her move.
• But she hesitates… a little too long, methinks.
• Gunn rushes out and tosses Faith a tranq rifle.
• Angelus tosses Wes at Gunn and Faith fires, missing several times as Angelus escapes.
• Connor rushes upstairs to make sure Cordelia is okay.
• She’s not thrilled that Angelus took everything they had on whoever the Beast was working for.
• Wes and Faith go back out to find Angelus and Wes gives Faith a stern talking to about her hesitation.
• She didn’t want to risk him killing Wes, but he informs her that he’s an animal and she needs to be just as vicious.
• Angelus has set up shop in an occult shop, torturing the shopkeeper to get some insight on the info he stole.
• Suddenly the voice makes itself known again.
• It isn’t happy that Angelus is trying to find out what it is.
• The voice makes it clear that it has Angel’s soul and threatens to restore him if Angelus does not cooperate.
• So he gives in… and refers to the voice as Master…
• The voice is masculine, but I think Mistress would be more fitting.
• Fred and Gunn have a kiss and make up moment… but I think they both realize they’re too far gone.
• Back at that demon bar, Faith tortures the same loud mouth demon from before about Angelus’ location.
• Wes is nearly attacked from behind, but he shoots the demon with his shotgun, knowing that its face will grow back.
• Then he aims the weapon at loud mouth and Faith asks if the same will happen for him.
• He gets really chatty at this point…
• Mostly just tells them that Angelus started talking to himself and wandered into the back rooms.
• They head back there and find humans that have taken drugs and then allowed themselves to be fed on by vampires.
• A vampire doesn’t much care for them being back there, but they dust him pretty easily.
• Cordelia and Connor discuss the whole anti-demon spell working against him thing…
• Every conversation they have is uncomfortable!
• Like… more forced than Anakin and Padme in Episode II uncomfortable.
• Faith questions a drugged out girl about Angelus but she claims to know nothing.
• Then Wes plays bad cop, stabbing the girl in the shoulder and she gives Wes lots of info about Angelus’ side of the conversation.
• Wes turns on Faith at this point…
• He reminds her of the person she used to be… the person who once tortured him for hours for pleasure.
• Faith needs to be a little more like her old self if she’s going to beat Angelus.
• But she can’t be that person anymore…
• Lorne finally regains consciousness and recognizes the fake talisman that Angelus was waving around.
• Said that a guy named Maury sells them out of a shop.
• They call Wes and let him know where to find Maury.
• Wes and Faith come across a dead body (Maury? But not the shopkeeper from earlier? I’m confused).
• Then Angelus emerges fromt he shadows behind them.
• Apparently Cordelia informed him that they’d be there looking for him.
• Another fight breaks out and Angelus is kicking Faith’s butt…
• Then she gets the upper hand…
• Angelus continuously taunts her about the killer she once was, but she tells him she’s different now… she’s not like him.
• Then he jumps at her and tells her she will be, just before he sinks his fangs into her neck.
• Body count: Vampires – 1