We can’t swing a Fantastico up here on Mt. Olympus without hitting gigantic “Angel” spoilers!
IMPORTANT WARNING! These are episode-ruining spoilers. Stuff you don’t really want to know. Seriously, we’ve dipped them in inviso-text for a very good reason. We implore you: If you love “Angel,” do not cut away the inviso-text!
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* Wolfram and Hart will be "neutralized" by the Beast, who
will kill the conduit between the regular W&H gang and
the senior partners.
* Cordy finds out that Angel saw her boning Connor. What Angel doesn’t know is it was a one-time deal.
* Someone tells the gang that the Beast is linked to Team Angel.
* Lightning lass Gwen Raiden seeks Angel’s help after the Beast kills one of her clients right in front of her.
* The Beast keeps popping up around Connor, so everyone suspects a connection.
* Cordy tells Connor Angel saw them boning.
* Cordy starts having visions of the Beast, on a
battlefield. They get more and more detailed as the ep
goes on. Finally, she realizes what is
happening - she's reliving one of ANGELUS' memories
that she got from the time she was a Higher Being.
Yep, Angelus met with the Beast back in the 1700s and
they forged a pact.
* Team Angel realizes that in order to figure out how to stop
the Beast, they have to talk to Angelus and get info.
* Wes and Fred are working well together,
and Gunn is jealous.
* Angel is all bad-moody around
Cordy, and Cordy is trying to get him to talk to her
about how mad he is.
* Cordy’s also jealous of Gwen
because she saw (with Higher-Plane-O-Vision) "supertramp" restarting Angel’s heart.
* It’s learned from Gwen that the Beast is collecting five totems located inside five people. When he collects all five, the sun goes away for good.
* Team Angel befriends someone with a totem inside, a nebbishy fellow named Manny.
* Manny is secreted to Gwen’s well-hidden and swanky
apartment. Angel/Cordy and Gwen/Gunn pair up to take
turns standing watch over Manny. When Angel and Cordy are drugged into unconsciousness, Manny meets a grisly fate.
* The sun goes away for good.
* Turns out the sun is only blotted out in Los Angeles. It even makes the news! There’s also a risk that the sun-block could soon spread everywhere.
* Team Angel is depressed. Gwen took off when the
going got rough, and Wes is missing.
* Wes has actually gone
to Wo-Pang, the shaman, because he hears he extracts
souls.
* Krevlornswath tries to read Angel to get Angelus'
memories of the Beast, but no go.
* Connor is all broody because everyone thought it
was he who was tied to the Beast, when it actually turns out to be Angelus.
* Wes brings Wo-Pang. Angel says no way will he let them
resurrect Angelus. But after he and Cordy talk (Cordy
is against bringing back Angelus) he decides to do it. Wacky!
* They get a cage for Angelus. Angel lets them
know that Angelus is bad, he's their enemy. He tells
Connor he's going to have to kill Angelus if something
goes wrong. Connor says yes a little too eagerly. ;)
* Wo-Pang does the ritual and at the end goes to cut off
Angel's head because Wo turns out to be a follower of the Beast.
Angel fights him. Wo-Pang kills himself.
* Wes apologizes for accidentally consorting with a Beast minion. He and Angel have a moment of reconciliation.
* They realize that
Wo-Pang has stuff written all over him. They figure
out from reading the stuff written on him that
they need a special sword to kill the Beast.
* Cordy has a vision of the sword’s location.
* Cordy, Angel, Connor
and Wes go looking for the sword. There is much traversing of
danger-filled underground tunnels. They split up, Angel with Cordy, Connor with Wes (much to Connor's dismay). A/C find the
sword. But there's trouble (fireballs and such) and
Angel has to save Cordy, which he does, and they
kiss passionately.
* Connor sees them kissing. Whines. Runs away. Angel runs after him.
They have a confrontation. “My life sucks because of you, Dad.”
Cordy intercedes and says she was never Connor's.
Connor runs off.
* The other three go back to the hotel.
They have the sword. Angel has to go fight the
Beast. He gives them a rah-rah speech first. And then
the Beast shows up there at the hotel.
* Angel fights the Beast. The Beast almost gets
the best of him, but Connor shows up and helps. The
father and son beat the Beast together.
* Light returns
to Los Angeles. Angel is glad Connor came back. Connor says
"Couldn't let you save the world all by yourself." He
and Angel make up.
* Later, Angel and Cordy reunite and
make passionate love. It's a perfect moment.
Angel and Cordy have
the Big O, and all of a sudden Angel sits up and does
the post-orgasmic convulsion and spasms. He's losing
his soul …
* And we flash back to the end of Act 1. Angel is on the
table, Wo-pang finishes his ritual, and Angel wakes up
as Angelus. Looks like everything after Wo Pang’s first-act spell didn’t really happen; it was all as part of Wopang's spell to desoul Angel!
* That’s right. There really was no reconciliation with Wes. No reconciliation with Connor. No defeat of the Beast. No return of daylight to L.A. No Angel-Cordy bone.
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