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.

Peace Out

• In the sewer, our heroes kind of get their butts handed to them by Connor and the national guard.
• Connor asks Wes about Angel…
• Who is in another dimension, surrounded by some pretty scary monster types.
• He waves the portal key in the air, which somehow scares them all away.
• Connor seems ready to execute everyone, but Jasmine asks him to wait.
• She wants him to bring them to her.
• Maybe she wants to eat them.
• Angel climbs a steep rock face, trying to reach a temple at the top.
• The good guys arrive in Jasmine’s room.
• She tells them she wishes it was in her power to bring them back into her fold.
• Jasmine then tells them about the sewer creature’s world, how it was a trial run for what she has planned for earth.
• She is ready to address the world via satellite.
• The others plead with Connor… that Cordelia’s blood was supposed to break her spell and allow him to see the monster she really is.
• Connor sees the truth… probably always has.
• But he still serves Jasmine.
• Angel reaches the temple and encounters the high priest.
• The priest knows that Angel is there for Jasmine’s true name.
• Connor locks up the team in the basement and reveals that he’s always seen Jasmine’s true appearance.
• Wes asks Connor what Jasmine eats… since the creature in the sewer called her the Devourer.
• The priest tells Angel that the Keeper is the only one who knows the name.
• The Keeper is a more imposing figure.
• The priest tells Angel that the Keeper will only say the true name with its last breath.
• Before Jasmine’s broadcast, he asks her about Cordelia, thinking she may have eaten her.
• Jasmine tells him that she’s where she needs her to be, that Jasmine has not eaten her.
• She’s been moved to a secure location and is under constant guard.
• Jasmine reminds Connor that their “guests” in the basement should be under constant guard, too.
• He leaves her to feed on dozens of people as she prepares for her broadcast.
• At the hotel, Connor is able to track down the guys who moved Cordelia.
• He beats them into telling him where she is.
• In the other dimension, the priest taunts Angel while he fights the Keeper.
• The priest is accidentally killed, which Angel’s okay with since it shut him up.
• In the cage, Wes talks things over and the gang figures out that Jasmine is powerless to kill Cordelia…
• Maybe hurting Cordelia hurts Jasmine as well.
• Connor goes into a church where he finds Cordelia inside a sanctuary that’s about to be walled up.
• He’s stopped by a couple of police officers under Jasmine’s thrall.
• But they’re powerless to stop Connor from entering the sanctuary, where he sees Cordy lying on the altar up front.
• Sure enough, Jasmine devoured those dozens of people to give her enough power to enthrall the world on live TV.
• Connor talks things over with the comatose Cordelia.
• He’s still under the impression that Cordelia wanted to be with Connor, to have a family with him and to bring forth Jasmine.
• Does he not understand that Jasmine was driving Cordelia’s body that whole time?
• At the heart of it, Connor reveals that he just wants to rest… but he can’t.
• He’s frustrated because Jasmine is able to purge everyone’s hate and anger, but not his.
• He knows she’s a lie, but his whole life has been built on lies, so he was hoping this one was better than the others.
• The man that Connor attacked tells Jasmine that he was forced to reveal Cordelia’s location.
• Jasmine walks out to the hotel lobby to address the world.
• She’s ushering in utopia.
• The press conference is interrupted when Angel jumps through a portal with the Keeper’s head.
• He opens its mouth and it speaks Jasmine’s true name, revealing the truth of what she is to the world.
• Everyone runs… terrified of what they’ve seen.
• Gunn manages to break the gang out of the cage and they leave the basement.
• Out in the streets, people have completely lost it.
• Jasmine reaches out to Connor telepathically.
• Angel confronts Jasmine outside.
• She’s still claiming she could have ended all war, poverty, disease, hunger…
• She killed a few thousand to save billions.
• But Angel comes back with, “Our fate has to be our own or we’re nothing.”
• He tells her she could still help them make the world a better place, even if she has lost her powers.
• Quietly, she tells him she hasn’t lost all her powers, then punches him hard enough to throw him off a bridge.
• Then she throws a car on him.
• But he rolls out of the way just in time.
• She leaps down to face him again and they have a pretty decent fight before Connor arrives.
• The rest of the team come up to the lobby to determine what happened.
• They find the Keeper’s head and figure out that Angel must have succeeded.
• They get ready to leave the hotel but are stopped suddenly when they open the door.
• Jasmine confirms that Connor still loves her, and he says yes…
• Then he punches through her torso, killing her.
• Angel tries to talk to him, but he runs off.
• Angel returns to the hotel to find the others…
• And Lilah.
• You know, dead Lilah… of Wolfram & Hart fame.
• Body count: Humans – Not sure how many Jasmine ate…; Demons – 2; Former Powers That Be – 1