This episode is #78 on the TV Guide list of TV's Top 100 Episodes of all time. Still, for a long time he believed himself a lost cause. [34] William went so far as to consider the elder vampire his sire and "Yoda. Angel returns to The Oracles, who agree to turn back time so that Angel, accepting the entire cost of the bargain, can kill the Mohra before its blood makes him human. [citationneeded] Jasmine once commented that Angelus was dangerous because he "[lied] with the truth," providing enough information to turn his enemies against each other while withholding crucial details. Angelus is cursed with the restoration of his soul. [24], With Giles and Faith having departed London, Angel initially did what he could to maintain control of the rising magical disturbances, with only the occasional aid from Sophia and Lavinia. He realized that, whatever the Beastmaster was, they were using Cordelia's body to carry out its plans, and they had seduced Angel's son Connor over to their side, warping the youth further and increasing the gap between Angel and his son. Unidentified fatherUnidentified motherKathy (sister)Connor (son)Twilight ("child")Jasmine (granddaughter) On the day she was to take her holy orders, Angelus massacred the convent. Following Abrams's decree, however, many of the show's cast fell in line with the idea that Buffy-Spike may have been endgame. Buffy concludes at the end of the issue that she can't have a baby. After an intense duel in which the Slayer seemed to have the upper hand, Faith broke down and pleaded with Angel to kill her. [4][153] Despite this, he nonetheless displayed a tendency to throw taunts and insults to his enemies or just those he intensely disliked. Consequently, this plan tied heavily into the new world revolutionized by Whistler. Its blood, eventually found to be the Blood of Eternity, merges with his own, and he becomes human. They followed a lead to Mother Superior's church, only to find both the Lorophage demon and a completely sane Drusilla.[127]. Before Cordelia took her leave, she and Angel finally revealed their feelings for each other, culminating in a kiss. [14] Ironically, Angelus' protg Spike would betray him and foil his own plan to destroy the world over two centuries later for similar reasons. However, Doyle shares the news that the Mohra demon is alive: the demon's rejuvenating blood also worked on itself. And this plot is the beginning of the end. [citationneeded] Additionally, Angel beat Spike on numerous occasions,[citationneeded] only losing to his protg once in their century plus association. [184], Other abilities: Angel had a photographic memory. Under Twilight's influence, Angel murders Rupert Giles. Though the duo succeeded in wounding it, the Mohra escaped, and Buffy and Angel immediately tracked it down in the sewers. However, given Angel's currently tense relationship with Spike, as well as the Scoobies' current hostility towards him, Buffy asked Angel to help protect the Slayers from the currently-attacking demons while she went with Spike to investigate his claims.[121]. With his loved ones, Angel was especially driven by a desire to make things better for them, even if the latter disagreed with what he wanted them to have. Angel has appeared in the most episodes in the Buffyverse, for a total of 168 episodes; Buffy and Willow are next, with 150 and 147 episodes respectively. Because time flowed differently in other dimensions, he had experienced a century of torment while only a few months had passed on Earth. With rabid fury, they ambushed Angel, beat him, and then hanged him. [140] As Angel suffered from his bout of insanity, he muttered about the death of Jenny Calendar from Giles' perspective. Upon digging up his coffin, they were shocked to find his body missing; upon returning to their apartment, they realized that the body had been taken before it was ever buried, as the ground had been untouched. [19] Although Buffy was able to keep Angel occupied long enough to destroy the Seed of Wonder, Angel killed Giles before he was returned to normal. After finding a young woman named Judy Kovacs hiding in his room, Angel tried to preserve his isolation, first by disarming and removing the man chasing her, then by ejecting Judy. Affiliation He refused, and along with Faith, left the church. Drusilla joined Angelus and Darla, as the duo became a trio. She expressed to Angel that she was aware of his plan to bring Giles back to life, and ordered him to resurrect the young woman, Marianne, who had been murdered by his "child," Drusilla. [99] Then both possessed souls, and both were still in love with Buffy; they had evolved into very different heroes in the war against evil. Accepting this, Angel returned to Los Angeles to prepare the second front, hoping he would not have to use it, and told Buffy, "I ain't getting any older. [97] He helped Buffy in her fight against Caleb, but she insisted that she finish it on her own. He also revealed to her mother that Buffy had sex with him, pretending to be an obsessed, love-struck boyfriend. His supposed goal was to bring about the end of magic and eliminate all Slayers. [92] Faith (who had almost died in her quest to capture him) and Willow helped to accomplish Angel's restoration via a brief but violent internal mental duel between his soulless and ensouled states. She came close to doing so at his request, but was stopped by both Willow and Connor. After hearing this concerns as well from Mayor Wilkins and Joyce, Angel decided to leave Buffy and Sunnydale. He jokingly expressed that if he had set anyone up but Harmony, he would have felt sleazy, and then left to get breakfast with Faith. "[71] Despite his efforts, Angel did not always believe it was possible for him to gain redemption for his evil actions, once telling Spike that he believed his escape from Acathla's dimension was not an escape, but only a "short reprieve," and that he still believed he would go to hell when he die. In the wake of the fight, Angel continued to shift between the three presences, much to Spike and Faith's concern. [89] After Cordelia had a vision of soulless Angel facing the Beast in the past which Angel did not recall, Angel's worst fears were realized when he had to strip himself of his soul and revert to his evil self in order to defeat it. She dropped a mountain on Quor'toth, and preached her desire to rule over the entire dimension. His pre-existing abilities, such as his strength, speed, agility, reflexes, and senses, were also greatly enhanced. [143], After ordering Faith to retrieve the pure magic orb, Angel resumed his face-off against Whistler. Gunn manages to make it to the meeting point, the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel, where he, Angel, Spike, and Illyria engaged in battle with the dark armies that the Senior Partners had sent against them. Angel was supposed to be a one-time character until David Boreanaz was found. He also told Angel about his parents, a pureblood demon and an agent of the Powers That Be, who had been eliminated as a result of their forbidden relationship. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who had briefly served as Watcher to both Buffy and Faith in Sunnydale, arrived in Los Angeles around that time, claiming to be a "rogue demon hunter," a "lone wolf sort" who only worked solo. Not to live as human. While investigating recent murders with Sophia and Lavinia's aid, Angel witnessed a newly-turned vampire walking in sunlight and displaying a greater resistance to the usual anti-vampire weapons, confirming that the restoration of magic had changed the rules for new vampires. To save herself, Angel's new friend pointed the mob in his direction, saying he had been found with blood. Angel managed to get it and punctured it on one of Whistler's horns, trying to release the pressure to stop the explosion. [36] However, Spike's victory and subsequent role as a champion[101] was later revealed to be part of Lindsey's plans to undermine Angel's confidence and new position, allowing Angel to regain his focus and faith in himself after a final meeting with Cordelia. Angel stays on Faith's side in her path for redemption. [citationneeded], Despite being over two-centuries old, Angel was not the most mature individual. [citationneeded], Leadership and tactical skills: Angel possessed strong leadership skills and had a flair for strategies and tactical planning. [14][175][80][43][104], In 2003, when all reference to the Beast was erased from Earth, Angel was also affected, but his soulless past was not, for this identity technically did not exist anymore when the spell was cast. [22], One night, Angel saved Nadira's life from a vampire, but fled in order to avoid being seen by Faith's Slayers (most of whom wanted him dead for his actions as Twilight). First, he eliminated an enemy and destroyed her work just as she had managed to successfully decipher the lost curse which could be used to restore his soul. On the way back to their apartment, Angel told Faith that Giles' writings about the girl had "opened his eyes" and then sent her on her way, informing her that he could go home alone and wait for her, as she had other things to do. [18] When Angel came to his senses and rebelled against the real Twilight, it possessed him[19] and fought Buffy in the ruins of Sunnydale, where she stopped Twilight by destroying the Seed of Wonder, causing the end of magic. Angel acted against all of his instincts and made a deal with his sworn enemy in exchange for them erasing Connor's memories and giving him a normal life, and trying to find a way to cure Cordelia who had gone into a coma. [citationneeded], The other demons at the auction ran for a chance to get it while Angel and Faith went to examine the basement of the establishment. Angel fought against Whistler, only for him to transform into a blue-horned demon with very strong melting abilities. I was only in it for the evil. While searching for her, Archaeus and Drusilla confronted him and temporarily reverted him back to Angelus,[148] before he managed to collect himself. [citationneeded], Angel's love life had never been very active, originally because he held a reluctance to get close to someone and possibly lose his soul. [128], When he arrived at the apartment again, he and Faith confronted her father, who revealed that he had come to ask his Slayer daughter to kill a mobster for him. Because I knew it was the right thing to do. Darla noticed this, angry at his deception and inability to kill innocent humans while Spike had recently killed a Slayer. 10. [citationneeded] After having been possessed by Twilight he came to believe that redemption would be impossible because of all the damage he had caused with a soul and without. He also showed immunity to sunlight and all vampire weaknesses, and his new abilities also seemed to have altered the conditions of his curse, as he had sex with Buffy without losing his soul. [50] After Buffy destroyed the Judge, Angel lurked in the shadows, preyed on Buffy's classmates,[51] sent her gruesome messages,[50] and left drawings in her bedroom of her sleeping. "[2] After his first meeting with Buffy, which left her with a bad impression, she still described him as "gorgeous,"[47] calling him a "honey," claiming most girls would find him attractive "if they [had] eyes," describing him as a "hunk," and saying that his eyes were "penetrating. Together, they went to retrieve the Essuary, a magical item within which Giles' soul could be stored, from a den of soul-consuming demons called Enders. He helped out with the people, but rejected Alasdair's implication of him becoming the next balance demon. They kissed in the girl's bedroom, which caused Angel to unintentionally reveal his vampire face. Debut Angel was also established as detached from reality, and didn't find many things in his life he could look forward to. 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