Angel (TV series)

Angel is an American television series, it is a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffy creator Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt. It aired on The WB from October 5, 1999 to May 19, 2004, consisting of five seasons and 110 episodes.

The series details the ongoing trials of Ángel, a vampire whose human soul was returned to him by gypsies as punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul haunts him with remorse and guilt. Angel moves to Los Angeles, California, after it becomes clear that his relationship with Buffy the Vampire Slayer can no longer continue. For the first four seasons, he works as a private detective in Los Angeles, where he and a variety of associates work to "help the helpless," restoring faith and saving the souls of those who have lost faith. course. Typically, this involves fighting evil demons or humans allied to them, mostly related to Wolfram & Hart, an occult-backed law firm that is an extension of otherworldly demonic forces, which Angel takes over in the final season. He must also fight against his own demonic nature.

Synopsis

Characters

The series centers on Angel (David Boreanaz), an Irish vampire who is over 200 years old. Angel was known as Angelus during his rampages across Europe, but he was cursed with a soul, giving him a conscience and guilt for centuries of murder and torture. He left Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the end of season 3 to move to Los Angeles in search of redemption.

He soon finds himself assisted by Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn), an Irish half-human, half-demon character who, while looking like a con man, has a heroic side. Doyle serves to convey the cryptic visions of The Powers That Be to Angel. They will soon be joined by Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), also a member of the previous Buffy cast. Previously a popular cheerleader, Cordelia begins her tenure on the series as a bland and shallow personality, but becomes a heroine over the course of the series. Cordelia acquires Doyle's visions through a shared kiss before Doyle's death. With Doyle's death in the first episodes of the first season, another Buffy character makes the leap to its spin-off: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof) joins the team under the guise of "rogue demon hunter", acting as comic relief and initially not well accepted. In time, Wesley shows bravery and strength, as well as cold-blooded, murderous cruelty, like his colleague Rupert Giles, and becomes a leader.

In season two, the trio teams up with Charles Gunn (J. August Richards), a young demon hunter who must initially adjust to working with and for a vampire. In the season 2 finale, they travel to the demon world of Pylea, where they save Winifred "Fred" Burkle (Amy Acker), a young physicist from Texas whose social skills have atrophied after five years in captivity; she later improves to be more open. Season 3 saw the introduction of Connor (Vincent Kartheiser), the human "miracle" child of two vampires, Angel and Darla. Kidnapped into a hellish dimension as a baby, he is raised by Angel's enemy Daniel Holtz, and only a few weeks after he leaves him, he returns as a teenager and reluctantly comes to accept his lineage. Although introduced during season 2, Lorne (Andy Hallett) joins the team during season 4. An outgoing peace demon, Lorne's role is predominantly to support the team.

Season 5, the final season of the series, introduces several new cast members, chief among them Spike (James Marsters), a former vampire ally/Angel foe who also starred in Buffy. In this series, Spike reluctantly fights alongside Angel as their rivalry continues – now Spike is also a vampire with a soul, and because of the romantic feelings they both have for Buffy Summers. One of the legendary Old Ones, Illyria (Amy Acker) starts out as an opponent of the team after taking over Fred's body, but comes to join the team as she must learn to deal with the world that has changed and the new emotions she feels as result of taking over a human. Finally, there's Harmony Kendall (Mercedes McNab), another character from Buffy and former friend of Cordelia's who became a vampire. Resembling Cordelia's old self, Harmony is reluctantly accepted by Angel as his secretary when he takes over the Wolfram & Hart in Los Angeles.

Many characters on Angel made recurring appearances. The two longest-running recurring characters are Lilah Morgan (seasons 1–4) and Lindsey McDonald (seasons. 1, 2, and 5), appearing in 36 and 21 episodes, respectively; Lindsey is the only character other than Angel to appear in the first and last episodes of the series. The one who turned Angel into a vampire, Darla (Julie Benz), who first appeared on Buffy, plays a larger role on Angel and appears in 20 episodes in the course of the series. Elisabeth Röhm appears in 15 episodes (seasons 1–2) as LAPD detective Kate Lockley, a woman with an often strained relationship with Ángel.

Throughout the series, there were also guest appearances by Buffy characters, including main cast members Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, and Daniel "Oz" Osbourne. The rogue huntress, Faith played a major role in season 1, 2, and 4 episodes; Anne Steele and Andrew Wells also originated from Buffy and appeared in two or more episodes of Angel. Whedon also used two actors from his canceled TV series Firefly, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin, to play Jasmine and Marcus Hamilton, respectively.

Plot

At the beginning of the series, Angel has just moved to Los Angeles in search of redemption for the acts he committed when he was a soulless being. There he meets Doyle, a half-demon, sent by the "Great Powers" and is reunited with Cordelia. The three together found Angel Investigations.

When Doyle dies, he passes his visions on to Cordelia, and ex-Watchman Wesley Wyndam-Pryce joins the group. Meanwhile, the evil law firm of Wolfram & Hart increases his interest in Angel. To tempt the demonic part of him back into the darkness, they resurrect Darla, Angel's former lover and creator, who was killed by him in the first season of Buffy.

Charles Gunn, a street fighter who runs a gang that kills vampires in the city's slums, initially tries to kill Angel, but gradually ends up joining the gang.

Lindsey McDonald, one of Wolfram & Hart, use Darla as a weapon to bring Angel down. But Darla has been resurrected as a human and being sick with syphilis, the law firm brings in Drusilla to vampirize Darla. Angered by all this, Angel begins to embrace the dark side. He cuts off his relationship with the boys and tries to go after the vamps on his own. Desperate, Angel ends up sleeping with Darla, but the next morning, he has an epiphany that makes him see the error of her path, banishes Darla and tries to reunite with her friends. Lorne, the ostentatious owner of the demonic karaoke bar called Caritas, reluctantly agrees to help the group take it to their home dimension, Pylea, to rescue Cordelia, who has been sucked through a dimensional portal there. The group manages to return with a new partner, Winifred "Fred" Burkle, a Physics student, who had been trapped in Pylea's dimension for five years.

Upon returning, Angel receives the news of the death of his ex-girlfriend, Buffy, and decides to go away for three months to a monastery in Sri Lanka to be alone, but is attacked by demonic monks and returns to L.A. Shortly after, Darla reappears, pregnant with Angel. Everyone is perplexed by what could be the first child born to two vampires. Darla sacrifices herself to save the life of her son, whom Angel will call Connor. The gang is eager to care for the baby, except Wesley discovers a prophecy that suggests the dire possibility that Angel will kill his own child. Feeling estranged from the group, Wesley withholds this information and kidnaps Connor, in an attempt to protect him. His plan backfires when he is attacked and the boy is kidnapped by an old enemy, Daniel Holtz, who lost his family to Angelus and Darla two hundred years before. Holtz flees to a demon dimension taking Connor with him. Wesley manages to survive Holtz's attack, but when Angel finds out that it is his fault that he lost his son, he tries to kill him. The boys manage to stop Angel from killing him, but Wesley is banished from the group. However, weeks later, Connor returns. Interestingly, he is no longer a baby, but instead he comes back as a teenager that Holtz has raised as his own son. When Holtz makes it appear that his own death was at the hands of Angel, Connor encloses his real father in a coffin and sinks it to the bottom of the ocean.

Despite his exile from his former friends and his foray into the dark side, Wesley manages to find Angel and rescues him from his aquatic prison. A short time later, a hellish beast emerges and obstructs the sun over Los Angeles, bringing perpetual night. In a desperate attempt to kill The Beast, the group decides to take Angel's soul, freeing Angelus, then enlisting the help of Willow and Faith to bring Angel back. Her efforts, however, do not foresee the arrival of Jasmine, who was indirectly responsible for the Beast's work (within Cordelia's body, which at the same time forced Cordelia to do things). Jasmine turns out to be one of "The Great Powers" that she plans to solve all the world's problems, giving humanity total happiness in exchange for spiritual slavery. Jasmine, snapping out of it, leaves Cordelia in a coma from which she can never recover (after being born to her).

Accidentally, Fred inoculates himself with the antidote to Jasmine's spell by coming into contact with her blood and frees the rest of the group, though they are hopeless at their vast outnumbering against Jasmine's thousands of followers. By revealing Jasmine's real name, they manage to free everyone from the spell. At the end of the fourth season they meet Lilah, who even after her death continues to work for Wolfram & amp; Hart, and she congratulates them on ending world peace and tells them that as a token of appreciation the Senior Partners are offering them the Los Angeles branch of the firm. In an attempt to save Connor and Cordelia (who is in a coma), Angel ends up agreeing to the deal.

In season five, the group tries to adjust to their new position at the firm. Gunn undergoes a procedure where all human and demonic laws are inserted into his brain, transforming him into a brilliant lawyer. Angel receives an envelope with an amulet that resurrects a companion from his past, Spike, the other vampire with a soul, who had died in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season seven finale to save the world. Cordelia returns but only to say goodbye to Ángel, since she is dead. Fred finally declares his love for her to Wesley, but soon after she dies and is possessed by a powerful demon, of the Ancient race, named Illyria. Wesley, devastated and touched by the loss of Fred, tries to help Illyria adjust to her new form and the new world that she doesn't know. Angel manages to get into The Circle of Black Thorn, a secret society responsible for planning the Apocalypse, and thus, the team plans to kill everyone simultaneously. This is probably a suicide mission and so everyone decides to spend the day before as if it were their last. That night the team launches its attack on the Circle, dividing the targets. When Wesley is fatally stabbed, Illyria, concerned for his safety, comes to her side having finished off her targets, but she is unable to do anything for him and cries for him helplessly.

With the Circle dismantled, Angel, Spike, Illyria, and Gunn, who is mortally wounded, gather in an alley behind the Hyperion Hotel. They await the arrival of the army of Senior Partners, made up of all manner of demons. The series ends with Angel and his team preparing for battle, saying, "I don't know, but I personally want to kill the dragon." Get to work".

Angel Investigations

Angel

He's a vampire over two hundred years old. Previously he was a cruel and bloody vampire, known as Angelus during his careers in Europe. He was cursed by gypsies with a soul after killing the daughter of the head of the tribe, to give him a conscience that caused him remorse for all years of murder and torture.

Angel, tormented by the actions he committed while he had no soul and after receiving the visit of a spiritual guide, tries to amend the crimes he committed, helping Buffy, a young slayer, to fight against the forces of evil.

Developing her spy and ally role begins to enter the hunter's world and becomes both protective and protected. It does not take long to fall in love with the freshness of a hunter different from all previous ones, but this love will not be easy and will have terrible consequences. Finally Angel makes love with Buffy, but it is revealed that part of the curse was to lose the soul by obtaining a perfect moment of happiness. After this he would be reborn as Angelus and Buffy would be forced to kill him, but the powers would resurrect him with a soul.

In the end, Angel realizes that he and Buffy will never be able to be together. Concerned about the future of Buffy with him, not being able to give him a normal life or a family, Angel makes the difficult decision to leave Sunnydale, after the day of Graduation, leaving him Buffy.

He moves to Los Angeles, and after a few months alone, he receives the necessary help to redeem himself, helping others. Doyle, a half-demon with visions, is sent by the Great Powers. Shortly afterwards, Angel meets Cordelia Chase, a former Buffy classmate who has moved to L.A. to fulfill her dream of being an actress. The three of us together founded the detective agency, specialized in paranormal cases, Angel Investigations.

Cordelia Chase

He is an original character of the Buffy TV series, the vampire hunter, played by Charisma Carpenter.

It's the typical pretty, rich girl that after a misfortune of her father stays without money. After finishing high school, she moves to Los Angeles where she tries to be an actress, though without much success. After coinciding with Angel at a party, he starts working for him. Cordelia's character is enriched over time. The shallow rich girl ends up becoming Angel's bond with the Great Powers and, far from resisting, ends up understanding that she is the only hope to appease the suffering of many beings around her. He sacrifices himself for Angel and is converted into half a demon to be able to endure the hardness of the visions that possess it. It's not until the third season she realizes she's in love with Angel.

In the first season, Angel does not know very well how to frame this character who says what he feels, not what he thinks, because he is not able to reason. In the second season he begins to be aware of his mission of intermediary. In the third, it is already a superior, balanced and powerful being. In the fourth season, when returning from a higher plane, it is an active part of a new apocalypse. His last appearance, in a chapter of the fifth season, will be one of the most remembered by the "angeladicts".

Doyle

Interpreted by Glenn Quinn, it is a human mestizo benevolent demon that serves as a link between the "Great Powers" and Angel, since it has visions in which the situation appears that they must resolve. Originally, he was a primary schoolteacher but lost interest in his life after discovering his demonic ancestry and would only feel seized after beginning to cooperate with Angel. He feels a great attraction for Cordelia although he despises him for his lack of money and an unattractive aspect and that is why he hides his demonic nature; however as Cordelia changes, he learns to appreciate the nobility that he sometimes proves.

After his death (at the hands of "The Azote", saving a group of demons), his visions are transferred to Cordelia, who will assume without much enthusiasm, the work of his late friend.

Connor

Interpreted by Vincent Kartheiser, he is the son that Angel has with Darla, who is kidnapped by Holtz and raised in an infernal dimension. When he returns from it, time has gone a lot faster for him, and we find an 18-year-old immature, tormented; with enormous strength and skill for the struggle, Holzt has raised him as his son, instilling his own hatred against Angelus, without telling him that his true father now has a soul.

Holtz's vengeance is effective when Connor despises his true father and tries to kill him repeatedly. It appears in the fourth season being one of the most important characters, and during the fifth making small appearances. It is a key piece to carry out the Jasmine plan, since it uses it to fecund Cordelia and be born of it in the fourth season. In the fifth only appears in two episodes.

Wesley

He is a character of the Buffy TV series, the hunter, played by Alexis Denisof, perhaps the character with the greatest evolution throughout the series. Wesley appears in Buffy After Rupert Giles was dismissed from his position as Buffy Watcher, to take over Buffy and Faith, a hunter who enjoys both killing and any villain, who appears after Kendra's death, another slayer. During his stay in Buffy, the hunter and in Angel's first season, Wesley's character is portrayed as a buphon, incompetent in terms of the struggle but very intelligent.

While here he is a character who tries to attract the audience Buffy, just evolve and become a magnificent ally of Angel. Just, slightly stretched, falls in love with one of her companions without too successful, also during the third season BuffyHe and Cordelia had a slight flirt left in nothing. But Wesley progresses from an almost comical character to becoming a mature, capable and intelligent one, leading Angel Research for a while. Throughout the seasons we will see how much of Wesley's insecurities reside in the scary figure of an almost perfect and too demanding father.

From the third season and due to various tragedies and difficult decisions, Wesley develops the darkest part of his character, becoming a lonely, serious and gloomy man his friends have abandoned. It's in this period when you start a relationship with Lilah Morgan. However, he continues to fight against evil on his own and despite all assistance to Angel and others on several occasions until the appearance of The Beast, when he officially returns to the group.

When the gang takes the reins of Wolfram & Hart, he takes over the section of ancient texts. He is a charismatic character, perhaps the most reflective of the series. Know the magic, history and ancient languages, it is a mix between a tormented and pathetic being. As Angel says, he has to make the toughest decisions and he has to make them alone. A great character with a sad but emotional end.

Fred

Decreasing Winifred Burkle, interpreted by Amy Acker, is a science student, intellectually superseded who lived for 5 years in the Pylea dimension. When Angel finds her, the trauma of having to survive in an infernal dimension without understanding what happens has made her mentally unstable. But in the following seasons, the character evolves into one of the most intriguing, learns to fight and his knowledge of physics is useful to the gang.

She's really a genius, and when the gang takes over the Wolfram & Hart company, she's in charge of the science section. A great character with a sad ending. In the fifth and last season AngelFred is murdered and then his body is possessed by the Illyria devil.

Charles Gunn

Interpreted by J. August Richards, is Angel's right hand in what he refers to, a street boy who organized the people of his neighborhood to fight the vampires and who ended up forming part of the gang most of the series, after his younger sister and motive for hunting vampires, became and should murder her.

For some time he has a sentimental relationship with Fred, who ends in the fourth season when he murders Fred's dimensional exile officer to prevent her from handing over, which shatters her relationship. In the last season it ceases to be simply the thug of the group when Wolfram & Hart offers you to enter into the brain information regarding laws, demonic languages and some other information. In Wolfram & Hart he is in charge of legal advice.

Spike

Original character of the series Buffy, the slayer.played by James Marsters. This modern vampire, with an evil air but that in the background is sentimental, will appear in a chapter of the first season to remove Amara's ring to "Angel", which would make it invincible. Therefore, he kidnaps Angel and, through another vampire, tries to get him where he is, and by not getting him, he returns to Sunnydale.

Returns in the fifth season, as one of the main characters, after becoming a vampire with soul and dying to save the world in the last season Buffy, the slayer.. We'll find out where that hatred between the two vampires comes from, but also loyalty... and they'll fight to see who the vampire of prophecy is... It is part of the gang although keeping distances, the typical "bad boy" of the good.

Lorne

Interpreted by Andy Hallet, it is an empathic demon coming from another dimension, fond of singing and drinking alcohol. He has the power to read the "destiny" of people when he hears them sing, but he does not stand out for his ability in the struggle, although he has shown to possess a style of self-fighting since it is part of a warrior lineage in his dimension, but he does not feel comfortable with this facet so he does not use it very often. That is why he is part of the group in the social, but at the time of the fights he stays away. He is a charismatic character who maintains complicity relations with almost all components of Public Relations.

Illyria

Old reincarnated demon in Fred's body, played by Amy Acker. She killed many people in ancient times, possesses great physical strength and even had the power to slow down time, although then lost this gift.

Gwen Raiden

In the sixth season, Gwen provides good humans and demons, a sanctuary with the help of Nina Ash and Connor after in Los Angeles, he was sent to hell by the Founding Partners. She joins Angel in his battle for the control of all Los Angeles. Gwen and Connor are romantically involved, although the fall of Los Angeles returned their ineffective control device. This lack of control had led him to accidentally kill a boyfriend while they were on the beach. Soon, Gwen betrays Angel's crew with his enemies and, after a brief struggle with Angel's dragon, he sacrifices himself to destroy some of the legions of dragons sent by the Founding Partners, only to be revived when the Founding Partners rewind time. At present, he is a full-time member of Angel Research, who was joined in an attempt to regain Connor's confidence. Later, Gwen captures the cat man Desdemona, believing that she can turn humans into animals. However, the discovery that Dez was actually reversing the involuntary transformation of animals to humans, as well as the inhumane treatment of Gwen towards it, only increases Connor's hostility with her. She's one of the people on Eddie Hope's blacklist.

Kate Lockley

She's a police detective who meets Angel in the first season, second episode. It acts like a contact with the police. There are initial signs of an affair between the two, which disappear when Kate finds out about Angel's situation as a vampire. Soon, she obsessessed with the hidden, falling into a negative spiral, only improved by her distrust of Angel and the death of her father, the man with one hand who had, raised her and who was also a police officer, retired but respected. Their obsessions grow to become a general hatred of vampires, including Angel, and Wolfram & Hart's law firm. Angel, in a similar way obsessed with the signature, ignores Kate, and therefore almost too late when she tries to commit suicide. Able to save her, both reconcile, but Kate decides to leave Los Angeles. She was fired from the police, and she doesn't show up again. Before leaving, it strengthens Angel's faith in the higher powers, mentioning that he was able to enter his apartment even though she never invited him in, leaving the audience to speculate if Angel really came in time to save her. Kate shows up again in the sixth season and joins Angel's team to fight evil.

Betta George

It is a giant telepathic fish, a Splenden Beast, which appears only in comic angel. Created by Brian Lynch, appears for the first time in Spike: Asylum and on the back Spike: Shadow Puppets. Joss Whedon likes Betta George and decided that the character should appear in the sixth season, joining Angel's team. In the series, it is described as a Splenden Beast, a breed of fish demons as possessor of extremes powerful telepathic powers, to the extent that they can even read the mind of vampires, which are often immune to telepathy. George is going unwilling to work for Kr'ph, Westwood's demon lord at the Hellbound Los Angeles. Kr'ph is killed by vampire Charles Gunn, who kidnap Betta George. Gunn uses George's skills to allow himself to train against Slayers captives. When George, released, meets with Spike and presents himself to Angel, it is his way of informing the team of motives and plan for the destruction of an enraged Illyria. Angel instructs George to fill Illyria's mind with Wesley and the memories of Fred's Spike, Illyria stunned is defeated by the Founding Partners.

Desdemona or Dez

It's a cat woman who shows up in the sixth season. Dez was once a puppy jaguar, who was captured by Mayan priests and transformed into a human being along with his sister Penelope (Pen, to abbreviate). The two were raised to be priests "Jaguar warriors", to fight on their side during a prophesied Apocalypse (presumably Shanshu Prophecy). They were subjected to monthly rituals to retain their human form, but were also held prisoner and beaten. Over time, more and more tired of being treated as common animals, Dez and Pen escaped and traveled to Los Angeles, as did the Founding Partners, transported in Hell. Dez found work as a murderer for the Lord of Sherman Oaks' Demons, but Pen began to reverse his form of feline; Dez tried to perform the ritual, but failed when senior partners returned to Earth and Pen subsequently disappeared. Soon after, the animals through LA are becoming human beings, and Dez, realizing that they did not want to be, strives to change them again. In doing so, he was ordered to kill Angel to pay his debt to his Lord, but she refused and joined Angel Investigations, who, after some difficulties for her reasons, helped her return to transfigured animals to normal. Some time later, the mystical side effect of the Illyria heat period causes Dez to participate in a three-way with Angel and Kate Lockley. Shortly afterwards, however, Liss Hubble, a demon sucking soul, sent by James to destroy Angel and Spike, attacks Angel Investigations and consumes Dez's soul before being killed by Angel, who promises Illyria how he would cry for his fallen companion.

Laura Kay Weathermill

He is an ex-member of the Vigilantes Council that appears in the sixth season. Despite his youthful appearance, he is forty-seven and a few years old, having been working for the Council for forty-seven years. After the Council was destroyed by First Mal agents and later rebuilt in better pretexts by Buffy Summers and his allies, Laura abandoned the good battle and instead focused on making money. At one point, she was hired by Innovation Labs, whose attempts to double Angel's state as a vampire with a soul had failed, but she simply bet all of her vampire clients flat. At an Angel and Illyria meeting in the process of her Innovation Labs destroying, she later joined Angel Research as her new research and intelligence specialist. In interviewing the team members, he discovered the true demonic nature of Santiago and was subsequently beaten to become unconscious and left with a broken leg. After regaining knowledge, she was confronted by Spike, who asked her about the precise nature of the prophecies and whether they were always explicit about anything (curious about whether the Shanshu Prophecy was truly for Angel), only for the two to have sex because of the mystical side effects of Illyria in the heat period. Later, when Liss attacks AI under James's orders and states that Spike is currently soulless, Laura tries to weaken it by mixing Illyria's blood with a potion in a bath, although the attempt fails and Liss kills Dez before being murdered by Angel, in turn. Laura subsequently discovered that Liss could not detect Spike's soul because he had been infected with a rare spiritual parasite, when he was revived as a ghost in Wolfram & Hart, and committed to trying a ritual to remove him from the Spike organism.

Polyphemus

It is a Monastery Magnaserm, a creature like a rock that functions as a living library to obtain information about supernatural beings, introduced in Angel: The Prince of the Crown Syndrome. He partnered with Laura Weathermill, and joined Angel Investigations when he did. Through him, James' true nature is revealed. Furthermore, when Angel revealed to have the power to regenerate lost limbs, Polifemo reveals that this is due to a mystical disorder that is changing the world naturally and supernaturally.

Villains

Wolfram & Hart is an international and interdimensional law firm, whose history stems from an ancient demonic organization. At the start of the series, the firm is relatively weak, but as the seasons go by its power increases, revealing that the firm is run by beings called the Senior Partners who exert their will on Earth through various powerful organizations, including Wolfram & Hart. The firm has offices all over the world, in order to promote violence, conflicts and hatred, while waiting for the great Apocalypse. He is the number one enemy of the entire Angel series, since he is the protagonist in all seasons and thanks to this enemy, other enemies like Darla appear in the series.

'Senior Partners are the movers and shakers of Wolfram & Hart. They talk about them throughout almost the entire series, but there is only one appearance of one of them, in the Repetition chapter of the second season. They are a demonic organization that inhabits a different plane from the time when demons roamed the Earth, whose goal is to bring the Apocalypse to Earth and perhaps to other dimensions.

Lilah Morgan, played by Stephanie Romanov. She first appears in the first season episode Deathmatch and appears regularly until the end of the fourth season. Lilah is an unscrupulous lawyer at Wolfram & Hart. In her first appearance, she tries to convince Angel to work for them. After the vampire refuses, she and Lindsey McDonald try to take down Angel by hiring Faith Lehane, the renegade Vampire Slayer.

The rivalry between Lilah and Lindsey reaches its peak after Darla and Drusilla take down dozens of the firm's lawyers, leaving only the two of them alive, to compete for the vice presidency of Special Projects at Wolfram & Hart.

After Lindsey's departure, Lilah gives in to her personal vendetta against Angel, attacking first Cordelia and then a newborn Connor. Lilah contacts Daniel Holtz and they reach a deal to kidnap the vampire's son, who ends up in another dimension. At the end of the third season, following Wesley's betrayal of Angel and being kicked out of Angel Investigations, Lilah and the ex-Watchman begin sleeping together. Their relationship continues until the middle of season four, after the Beast destroys the Wolfram & Hart and Lilah are killed by Cordelia. Although dead, Lilah continues to work for the firm, which is why she reappears at the end of the season with a tempting offer to make to Angel and his friends.

Lindsey MacDonald, played by Christian Kane, is the first lawyer we meet for Wolfram and Hart during the first season and more specifically in the first episode. He is a character that is repeated during the five seasons experiencing a maturation that goes through all imaginable phases. After some remorse for the work of Wolfram and Hart, he decides to ask Ángel for help for an activity that he considers unorthodox, although he does not learn: he decides to return to the law firm with a six-figure salary and his own office. Later, when all of Wolfram and Hart's facilities in Los Angeles are at the disposal of Angel and his team, Lindsey, who seemed to disappear for good and dedicate herself to the bohemian life, returns to Los Angeles to wrest the address of Wolfram and Hart from Angel, a dream that he has had all his life and for which he is capable of doing anything.

Holland Manners, played by Sam Anderson. Lawyer, partner and "vice president" by Wolfram & Hart, but the most important thing is that he is in command of the "special operations". He doesn't seem to care in the slightest that people might die in his "operations", not even sending an assassin to kill some children. His master plan was to bring Darla back from Hell to distract Angel; He is sorry that Darla came back as a human, has a soul and is sick, but Holland had an alternative plan: Drusilla, the one who gets Darla back to being a vampire and Holland asks both of them to cause a big massacre to distract Angel...

Holland probably should have made this more specific, because Darla and Drusilla do go on a massacre: They kill the entire Wolfram & Hart (minus Lindsey and Lilah). Holland, in particular, is killed by Darla with one bite without Ángel (who is in front) doing anything to stop him.

Nathan Reed After the death of "special operations" Holland Manners, Nathan goes to Los Angeles to take over the office. He substitutes Lilah Morgan and Lindsey McDonald, on trial until he decides which of the two is the most capable. Nathan forbids Angel from being killed, because the Senior Partners need him for the Apocalypse. In the end, he decides to have Lindsey in command of "special operations"; and she rewards him by giving him a hand to replace the one that Ángel amputated; the result will be that Lindsay will shoot him (although she misses and Nathan is unfazed), resign all his posts, and leave.

After Lindsey's departure, Nathan leaves Los Angeles, leaving Linwood Murrow in charge of Wolfram & Hart and Lilah Morgan at the helm of "special operations."

Linwood Murrow, played by John Rubistein, assumes the presidency of the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart as of the third season. Linwood is in charge of overseeing "special operations", now led by Lilah Morgan and Gavin Parks. He is arrogant and does not stop messing with Lilah, an attitude in which will culminate in her terrible end: he makes the mistake of mocking Lilah's relationship with Wesley and she, in response, cuts off his head. After this, he is replaced by Lilah herself.

Gavin Parks is a snooty lawyer in Wolfram & Hart, played by actor Daniel Dae Kim. He first appears trying to evict Angel from the Hyperion Hotel. Gavin initially attacks Lilah whenever she confronts him, but when Lilah assumes the Firm's presidency, Gavin has to endure all of Lilah's humiliation.
When The Beast Attacks Wolfram & Hart, Gavin tries to run away, but is caught by the demon, which snaps his neck, killing him.

Lee Marcer appears in the first season as a lawyer for the "special ops" from Wolfram & Hart. In his first appearance in the series, he is the lawyer for a dangerous gangster named Little Tony, whom he helps to break out of jail. Lee is the architect of the signing of Faith as an assassin to kill Angel, but he will end up being beaten by her.

His life ends when Holland discovers he was planning to switch firms (to Clane & Gabler) and take some clients with him. Holland gestures to a security guard who shoots Lee's head off, in front of all the other lawyers.

Russell Winter has the dubious honor of being the first villain defeated by Angel in the series. He's a big businessman from Los Angeles, but he's also a vampire client of Wolfram & Hart, who covers up all of his crimes. Russell is supposed to "help out" and counseling wayward girls, but he seems to kill them too, or at least that's what he does with Dennis and Tina; The latter is supposed to have been protected by Ángel, but she could not prevent his death. Angel did manage to stop Russell from killing Cordelia, his next victim. His lawyer, Lindsey McDonald, sees to it that Russell is not officially charged with his murders...

In view of the fact that the courts do not get anything to stop him, Ángel ends up with this vampire in a very peculiar way: he grabs Russell and throws him out the window, where in contact with sunlight, Russell soon disintegrates...

Eve, played by Sarah Tompsom, appears in season five as the contact between the Senior Partners and Angel. Although she possesses a human appearance, Eve is actually one of the Senior Partners' Kindred, created solely to broadcast their offers.

Even though she ends up sleeping with Angel during the Halloween party, under a spell, Eva is in a relationship with Lindsey MacDonald. The two develop a plan to slowly demoralize Angel. Between the two they manage to create a spell to make the group believe that the existence of two vampires with souls unbalances the fate of the universe, thus managing to face Angel and Spike over the ShanShu. Lindsey then begins to manipulate Spike, trying to make him into the champion figure Angel was before he accepted the presidency of Wolfram & Hart. They even manage to implant Angel with a demonic parasite that will cause him vivid hallucinations in which Spike has become the champion of The Powers and Angel a loser.

However, this maneuver will eventually reveal part of Eve's plans, who escapes to hide in Lindsey's apartment under a concealment spell so that The Senior Partners cannot find her.

Towards the end of the season, she becomes a dark and malevolent character who is only guided by her own interests, but at the same time weak and without the strength to fight on her own. When Lindsay is sent to hell by The Senior Partners, Eve is hunted down by Wolfram & Hart, Marcus Hamilton, which makes her sign a contract, where she renounces immortality and eternal youth.

Following Lorne's ominous prediction of her near future, Eve realizes that she is nobody anymore and wonders where to go and what to do. When the building is about to collapse, Eve stands still.

Marcus Hamilton, played by Adam Baldwin, appears in the fifth season. He is the new contact with the Partners, after Eva's betrayal, much more severe than her, and barely leaves Ángel's team room for maneuver.

Marcus ends up clashing with Angel after the vampire reveals his betrayal to the Senior Partners. Angel, with the help of Connor, manages to defeat him, after Marcus himself reveals his Achilles heel by revealing that he carries the power of the partners in his blood, which the vampire takes advantage of for his own benefit, by draining his blood and take his power.

With the death of Marcus, the plan to assassinate all the Senior Partners agents is completed, leading to the series finale, where Angel reunites with the surviving team, ready to face the battle against the demons that the Partners have released as punishment for their betrayal.

Doctor Sparrow, played by Marc Vann, appears in three episodes of the fifth season of Angel: "Conviction", "Smile Time" and "shells". Sparrow is a surgeon who performs contracts for Wolfram and Hart. In 'Conviction', at the orders of the Founding Partners, Sparrow implants Gunn with complete knowledge of all human and demonic laws, demonic tongues, golf techniques, and Gilbert & Sullivan, he the head of Wolfram & Hart Law Office doing so. The next one appears in "The Time of the Smile", when Gunn discovers that he is losing his mental updates; not wanting to go back to being just "the muscle" of Angel's crew, Gunn makes a deal with Sparrow: in exchange for getting a sarcophagus out of Customs, the upgrade is upgraded and permanent. In 'Shells', Sparrow is revealed to be a worshiper of Illyria, conspiring with Knox to resurrect her using Fred's body. Upon discovering this, Gunn assaults Sparrow, demanding the knowledge of how to bring Fred back and expel Illyria from his body, but Sparrow calmly informs him that Fred's soul was completely destroyed when Illyria was resurrected, so Fred is in fact gone. gone forever. After telling Gunn that he now has to live with the consequences of his business, he is recoiled by Wesley and subsequently tortured by Pico, ultimately revealing Illyria's plans. Sparrow returns in the post-Not Fade Away comic Angel: Old Friends, in which he creates evil clones of the Angel Investigations team as he last saw them and sends them to destroy the originals. Angel, Spike, Gunn and Illyria easily take care of the assorted doppelgangers and track Sparrow down. Ultimately, Angel's clone (the last one left alive) betrays Sparrow and destroys his handiwork before dying himself.

Eddie Hope Eddie Hope is an ice-manipulating devil who appears in the IDW ongoing series. After the Founding Partners took the fall again, Eddie embarked on a campaign to destroy people known to have committed atrocities in Los Angeles times in Hell. It has recently been shown that he comes after Gunn due to his actions in Hell as a vampire.

Jamaerah Jamaerah, or James, is introduced as a member of the Potentates, a warrior of the Angel race in service to the Powers That Be, appearing in the post-Angel: After the comic fall. He was created by fantasy writer Kelley Armstrong. At some point in his backstory, James disobeyed the orders of the Powers and was sentenced to live on Earth for a century as punishment. While Los Angeles was in hell, an army of Potentates fought against the forces of the Founding Partners. When time was reversed, they were all captured, and James was sent to the hospital, where he was rescued by Angel, who helped him track down the other potentates. However, Angel turned against the potentates when he discovered that they were hunting and killing humans for crimes they have yet to commit, and James sided with him. As his mission was not to kill Angel, the potentates withdrew, and James joined Angel Investigations. However, when former Watcher Laura Kay Weathermill joined the team, James' true purpose was revealed in Bill Willingham's story arc 'Immortality For Dummies'. He wasn't actually an angel, but an as-yet-unidentified higher-powered demon that he had supposedly 'bought' from. his sister's Land and had been "examination of his property." The exposed deception of him, he escaped, but not before knocking Laura unconscious and swindling Angel's hands and feet with his bare hands, subsequently summoning a soul-sucking demon to kill Angel and Spike while he carries them. out your plans. It has recently been revealed that James intends to transform the Earth into a demonic hatchery using humans as incubators, starting these plans by donating food tied up to people in Anne Steele's homeless shelter.

Liss Hubble Liss Hubble is a Soul Eater who appears in the "Connorland" IDW. Shortly after James is outcast like a demon by Laura Weathermill, she lifts Liss from the body of a murdered apartment tenant and sends her after Angel and Spike. The location of Bradley Hubble, a client of Angel Research, Liss uses to break into the Hyperion and uses her account without paying as an excuse to meet Angel and Spike. In doing so, she injures both vampires and then declares that Spike is apparently soulless. Despite this clash, Spike and Illyria successfully subdue Liss, and she is kept underwater in a bathtub filled with a mixture of a potion and Illyria's blood for five hours. Eventually, the starving Liss escapes and devours Desdemona's soul before being decapitated and stabbed in the lower spine by Angel.

Sahjhan is portrayed by actor Jack Conley. Sahjhan is one of a race of demons known as the Granok who thrive on chaos and violence. The Granok are pale and disfigured, their faces covered in scars and marks. Sahjhan and the rest of his species were rendered immaterial by Wolfram and Hart. Mesekhtet (the girl in the White Hall) claims that this was because she liked trouble, but she hated the chaos the Granok brought. Once an immaterial being, however, she became Sahjhan capable of teleporting across time and dimensions, earning her the nickname Timeshifter. Sahjhan claims to have invented savings time, even though he has a penchant for sarcasm and dry wit. Sahjhan is responsible for bringing vampire hunter Daniel Holtz to the present. Sahjhan claims to have a grudge against Angel, however his plan is, in fact, to use Holtz to kill Angel's son Connor due to prophecies in the Nyazian scrolls that predict Connor killing him. In order to confuse Angel and his friends, Sahjhan actually alters the passage of his death prophecy, the passage now reads "The Father will kill the Son", leading to the conclusion Wesley's Angel will kill Connor. However, Sahjhan grows impatient with Holtz, who, instead of killing Connor, sets up and executes an elaborate plan to kidnap Angel's son. Sahjhan seeks the help of Wolfram & Hart's Lilah Morgan, thus setting up a chain of events that ends with Holtz disappearing into a hell dimension known as Quor-Toth, taking Connor with him. Some time later, Angel uses a spell to recorporealize Sahjhan, determined to kill him in revenge for Connor's disappearance, only to end up nearly killing himself. Later, Justine imprisons Sahjhan in the Holtz Resikhian Urn as revenge for Holtz's disappearance, which she attributes to Sahjhan. However, Angel still wants revenge and wait for the right opportunity. Two years later, Sahjhan is released under the watchful eye of his enemy Cyvus Vail, whom Sahjhan had attempted to kill on a number of occasions. Despite wanting to kill Sahjhan himself, Angel reluctantly agrees to let Connor face the demon. Minutes later, after Sahjhan reveals that he is directly responsible for sending Connor to Quor-Toth, he is killed by Connor, and thus the prophecy of the Nyazian Scrolls is finally fulfilled, after all his efforts to prevent it. Sahjhan's actions, which under a paradoxical predestination of both the Nyazian Scrolls and his own time travels, led to a series of events that caused his own death: sending Connor to Quor-Toth, inadvertently providing Connor with the reason and it made him a very skilled combatant.

Senator Helen Brucker, played by Stacey Travis is not a real human being, but a demon "installed" in a woman's body, the circumstances behind this are unknown, but the process apparently alters her body chemistry to the extent that her host's blood was green. Her ambition is to become President of the United States in 2008 thanks to financial aid from hostile countries and the great influence she possesses as a member of the Black Thorn Circle. She also tends to surround herself with vampires, who work as both her bodyguard and her campaign staff. She is also a client of Wolfram & Hart, at least since the days of Dutch manners. Senator Brucker visits Wolfram & Hart to enlist the company's help in defeating his rival Mike Conley, also a Senate candidate. She plans to have Conley brainwashed into becoming a pedophile so Brucker can win the 'chick vote'. As part of the act he stages to make the Black Thorn believe that he has been corrupted by power, Angel agrees to help Senator Bruckner and have Conley brainwashed in the following days. Brucker is present at Angel's initiation into the Circle of the Blackthorn, participating in Drogyn's torture. Before revealing herself to Angel, she stated that she was wearing a bronze-colored Tre Facce mask. When Angel and his team agree to wipe out all members of the Black Thorn, Gunn is sent to kill Senator Brucker at her campaign headquarters, a mission in which he succeeds. He kills her by throwing an ax at her head.

Beast. He is a demon, played by Vladimir Kulich. He is very strong, able to defeat the entire team plus the Angel Investigations faith with relative ease, and possesses rock-like skin, making him highly resistant to physical damage. He first appears in the fourth season episode & # 34; Apocalypse, Nowish & # 34;, when he rips his way out of the earth from the hell dimension to which he was previously banished. The first to find the Beast are Cordelia Caza and Connor, who find the Beast arriving on Earth at the exact spot where Connor was born. A fight ensues, in which both Connor and Cordelia are injured. Believing it has something to do with the apocalypse, Connor distances himself from his teammates, who don't trust him. Angel, Gunn and Lorne decide to take on the beast. Wesley rejoins them to help in the battle, but they fail, however, and are all badly injured. The Beast then evokes a rain of fire over Los Angeles, awakening Cordelia's inner Jasmine, and causing Cordelia's possession by Jasmine.

Skip (played by David Denman) is a formidable and powerful demon whose body is clad in armor. He appears in four episodes of the series. The demon sports a confident and often charismatic personality makes humorous references to human and spin-of-the-phrase popular culture, claiming to have seen and loved The Matrix, but not loved Gladiator.The history and nature of the vat is largely unknown as much of what he says Skip is later revealed to be a lie, Skip is revealed to be a servant of Jasmine who is used to trick Cordelia out of Chase into becoming a vessel for Jasmine's possession and birth.

Angelus reappears as a villain for six episodes of season four. When the group realizes that Angelus knows the Beast, but Angel doesn't remember him, they decide that the only way to find out how they can stop the Beast is to free Angelus. So Angel has to face one of his biggest fears, lose his soul and become his evil alter ego in order to defeat her. With the help of a dark mystic, they strip Angel of his soul and lock it in a bottle, which they keep in the Hyperion's safe. However, Angelus is more interested in getting all the dirt he knows out of his teammates to harm them than helping them destroy The Beast. Finally Cordelia reaches an agreement with him and Angelus tells them everything he knows about the Beast, but when the boys return to look for his soul to return it to him, it has disappeared. Even so, the group uses black magic, at the expense of a supposed vision of Cordy to pay her back. Angelus makes them believe that he is Angel again and manages to escape from the hotel. Unable to capture Angelus by his own means, Wesley helps Faith escape from jail. She is she manages to capture him although she almost dies in the attempt. Willow arrives in the city in the chapter "Orpheus" to help restore the soul of Angelus, who along with Faith is in a deep sleep on the brink of death, wandering through Angel's memories.

Jasmine appears in the fourth season as a goddess who tries to convince humanity to live in peace and harmony and happiness, so that they worship her using her powers of conviction. Wonderful and terrifying character. She made people believe that they lived in peace and love, people gathered at Angel's hotel and devoured them, she had them in a kind of brain control, only Fred realized Jasmine's true face and tried to convince to the other classmates, and thanks to a bullet that goes through Jasmine's shoulder and hits Angel with her blood Angel I can see the truth. In the end she is killed by Connor.

'Nash & Pearl' were powerful half-demons who were in the service of Twilight. They called the force of primal emotions and could generate energy weapons as well as blast green beams from their eyes. Her mother was a human who intentionally bred with a demon, in the belief that her children represent the "next stage of evolution." Trying to impress their master, the two of them slaughtered an entire Slayer squad with the exception of Nadira. After twilight fell, Pearl and Nash were recruited by Whistler to get revenge on Angel and somehow "save the world" and birth the next step of evolution.

'Whistler' was the alias taken by a demon in human form who, despite his origins, serves the Great Powers. He was the one who recruited Buffy and Angel to the side of good.

Seasons

First season

In LA, Angel spends a few months alone, patrolling dark alleys, fighting vampires who hunt there. Soon, he is aided in his attempts to redeem himself in service to others. First, Doyle, a half-demon is sent by The Powers. Almost immediately afterward, Angel saves Cordelia Chase, a classmate of Buffy's who also moved to LA to seek money and fame. The trio forms Angel Investigations, whose mission is to "Help Those in Need." Doyle, Angel's friend and the only connection to The Powers, sacrifices himself in the episode 'Hero'; to save others, causing Angel to become even more protective of those he admires. Wesley Wyndam-Price, who was briefly Buffy and Faith's Watcher in Sunnydale, arrives in LA saying that he is a demon hunter, and that he works alone. After his first case, however, he is eager to stay with them and help Angel and Cordelia on their missions. A few months later, they are joined by a demon fighter, Charles Gunn. During that time, three young associates of Wolfram and Hart, Lindsey McDonald, Lee Mercer, and Lilah Morgan, attempt to have Angel killed by a Slayer, Faith. Under Angel's influence, Faith begins her path to redemption, even turning herself in to the police as a first step.

Second season

As Angel continues to help those in need in Los Angeles, his good deeds begin to disrupt the plans of the demonic law firm, Wolfram & Hart. In an attempt to control him, the firm resurrects the person who turned him and his former love, Darla, who is brought back to life more as a human than a vampire. Wolfram and Hart then summon Drusilla, who turns Darla back into a vampire. Angel turns bad, firing his team and embarking on a fight against the law firm and again teaming up with Darla and Dru, though he later helps Lorne prevent the End of the World when an attempt to stop time goes awry.. A moment of clarity follows a desperate act, and Angel realizes that his purpose is still to do all the good he can, even if he can't do all the good he wants, because, in a world where there is no great Bottom line, a single act of kindness can make a world of difference. Hoping to get her boy Angelus back from her, Darla is horrified and furious at Angel's epiphany, and leaves Los Angeles. After a difficult reconciliation that resulted in Wesley no longer being the leader of the new group, the Angel Investigations team find themselves being transported to a demon dimension. After Angel defeats the previously undefeated Champion of Pylea, the Groosalugg, they return with a new member, Winifred Burkle, on her own, bringing the news that the love of Angel's life, Buffy, has died. During this time, the Angel Investigations team also enlists the help of a demon who owns a bar, Lorne.

Third season

Despite Buffy's miraculous resurrection a few months later, Angel finds that his former fondness for Cordelia has grown into something more. Before he gets a chance to confess his feelings to her, however, Darla returns, pregnant with her son, who is named Connor. False prophecies, time travel and a battle lead Angel to lose his son to an old enemy, Holtz, who kidnaps his son Connor shortly after his birth, taking him to a hellish dimension (Quor-Toth) where the time passes in a different way. When Connor returns days later, he is already a teenager who has been raised by Holtz, making him believe that Angel is still a soulless monster. Holtz leads his own life in a way that makes Connor think he was killed by Angel, and promises to make Angel pay for all the damage he has done to Holtz. That same night, Connor plunges his father into the depths of the ocean in an iron coffin and Cordelia ascends to a higher plane, the feelings shared between her and Angel still unspoken.

Season Four

Rescued by Weasley from his prison three months later, Angel's relationship with Connor is strained. It is further complicated by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia, who prefers to stay with Connor because she told him the truth while the others lied to her (though they did so thinking she was for her own good). When a very powerful demon known only as the Beast arrives and begins trying to create the apocalypse, Angel's worst fears are manifested when he has to rid himself of his soul and become evil again in order to defeat him. Angelus manages to defeat the Beast, and is skilled enough to realize that the Beast is simply someone serving a higher demon. The Beast he knew was interested simply in having fun and killing, and it was unlikely the Beast would get any smarter since Angelus had fought him. Though momentarily free to wreak whatever havoc he wants, Angelus is once again captured and given his soul back, with the help of Faith (who nearly died in her quest to capture Angelus), and Willow, culminating in a brief but violent confrontation. battle between Angel and Angelus. After his soul is restored, Angelus discovers that the enemy he's been fighting is closer to them than he thought, realizing that whoever was "boss" 3. 4; of the Beast, he is using Cordelia's body to carry out his plans. After fighting and defeating the divine entity known as Jasmine, Angel is offered the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart under the ground. Angel acts against all of his instincts and makes a deal with his enemy, in exchange for Wolfram & Hart erases all of Connor's memories so he can have a normal life, and try to find a way to cure Cordelia, who fell into a coma after Jasmine was born.

Season 5

The lines between good and evil are blurred as Angel moves in with Wolfram and Hart, and they question their perceptions of Angel and his destiny. Things get even more complicated when Spike appears as a ghost, emerging from a family amulet sent to Angel in the mail. Sharing a complicated history of murder and mayhem, they have spent more than a century as rivals in everything. Now both having one soul, and both still loving Buffy, they have become two very different heroes in the war against evil. Forced to put up with each other, they engage in a long and insidious battle of wits, ending when they finally come to understand and accept their brotherhood on their way to redemption. In the episode "Destiny" as they prepare to fight, Spike says to Angel something like: 'You have a soul forced into you. Like a curse. It makes you suffer for all the horrible things you've done. I, I fought for my soul, through demonic trials, at least a dozen times, but I kept fighting. Because I knew it was the right thing to do. It is my destiny". Although the Cup turns out to be a fake, Angel's defeat at the hands of Spike is the source of confusion in the following episodes, when he leaves wondering if he is still the champion vampire of the prophecy. Some of these events turn out to be Lindsey McDonald's machinations, and after being defeated, Angel becomes more confident. This defeat coincides with one last visit from Cordelia, who passes a simple vision to Angel. Now finally understanding that he can never completely stop the forces of evil, Angel decides enough is enough. Along with his comrades, Angel suicidally prepares to provoke apocalyptic wrath as a way to achieve glory. They murder the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the instruments on Earth to move all political and economic chains. In this encounter, Gunn is badly injured, and Weasley Wyndam-Pryce is killed. Lorne is instructed to assassinate Lindsey, temporarily an ally, and after they complete his mission, and he finally does what he has to do, leaving Angel and his team behind. Gunn makes it to the rendezvous point, the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel, where he, Angel, Spike, and Illyria are engaged in a battle with the dark armies that have been sent against them. The last words spoken on the screen are: "the fun has arrived".

Sixth Season (Comics)

After the Fall of Los Angeles the Founding Partners turn Angel into a human, leaving him vulnerable to fatal injury. Season Six opens with a total loss for Team Angel after the battle. In retaliation for Angel's stance, Wolfram & Hart has moved the city of Los Angeles to a hellish dimension, turning it into a post-apocalyptic territory full of demons. In an attempt to strip him of his strength and immortality when he needed it most, the Founding Partners have also turned Angel into a human, forcing Angel and Wesley (who is now a ghost) to rely on mystical incantations to provide Angel with a part. of his old skills.

Angel is still based in the demolished Wolfram & Hart and is under the surveillance of the Founding Partners' new contact, Wesley. Angel, however, is planning to defy the Founding Partners and liberate Los Angeles, first by killing all of Los Angeles' Demon Lords. As he prepares for war, he rescues citizens in danger and sends them, anonymously, to his son Connor, who has created a "safe house" for him. or "safe house" with Nina and Gwen. However, Angel is not alone. Next to him is his newest friend and companion, the dragon that appeared in the last scene of the Angel series finale. After befriending the dragon in the alley, the two had joined forces to make a powerful team. Knowing the truth about Spike, Angel declares war on all the Demon Lords of Los Angeles and tells them that he will free all their human slaves, and that they will have a battle in two days, and that he will restore Los Angeles to Earth.

Having used his rituals to heal his wounds, Angel contacts Lorne, now the Lord of Silver Lake, to confirm his old friends' neutral status in the upcoming fight against the Demon Lords, and reunites with him. Groosalugg, who offers his services to Angel in the next battle just before Gunn, who is now a vampire, destroys the Wolfram & Hart as part of his revenge on Angel. When Angel goes against the Demon Lord Champions, he is at first alone in his fight. Unbeknownst to him, Lorne had visited all of his old friends, and convinced them to join his fight. After the fighting is over, and the Demon Lords have been defeated, Angel and the team head back to their old base: the Hyperion Hotel. Later, shortly after killing a vampire nest, Illyria reveals to the group that Angel is no longer a vampire. Connor gets mad at Angel for lying to him and leaves. If that wasn't enough, Angel and company meet up with Gunn, who is now a vampire.

Seeing what Gunn has become, Angel apologizes to him. Gunn remarks that he knew Angel would say that, and proceeds to show him around his base of operations (Angel goes even knowing it's a dangerous situation). Gunn even asks Angel for help to save Los Angeles (Clearly, Gunn has lost his mind). Angel lies, saying that he will help him even though he is pulling a stake out from behind his coat. He thinks Angelus would be proud of his disappointment, but he hates himself even more for it. Gunn is able to knock him out in the fight, and proceeds to use a mystical item to remove all magic that keeps Angel alive, leaving him to die. Despite the encouragement of Cordelia's spirit, a vision Angel receives almost causes him to resign himself to death because the vision has shown him that he will become Angelus again, but Connor's encouragement urges him to continue fighting as he recognizes that he he will never allow himself to become what he has seen in the vision.

Angel recovers, and after discovering that Illyria has reverted to her original form, she devises a plan to stop her. However, Gunn doesn't plan on letting them do it, and kills Connor. However, Betta George manages to push Fred's memories back into Illyria's mind and reassure her that she won't destroy everything.

After Connor dies, Angel begins killing Wolfram & Hart without any retaliation. Angel then realizes, after a debriefing of the W&H army by Wesley, that if he were to die, they would have to take Angel to another timeline to replace him. Armed with this knowledge, Angel begins to verbally attack Gunn, and in a fit of rage, Gunn grabs a sword and decapitates Angel. This forces the Founding Partners to reverse time to just before Angel became human: the final battle in the alley. After winning the battle thanks to a resurrected Cordelia (the Dragon), Angel, remembering everything that happened in Hell, and what happened to Gunn, rescues him from being turned into a vampire by his would-be sire. Later, Angel goes to the Wolfram & Hart, only to find out that he is missing, so he takes Gunn to a hospital. There, people seem to have all the memories about what happened in Hell, and praise Angel as a hero. Angel also finds Connor (who is alive, like everyone else who died in Hell), which makes Angel very happy.

Angel begins to rebuild her life in Los Angeles with more publicity than before and with perks such as a library dedicated to Fred and Wesley, though she still tries to work with privacy; the Groosalugg has even taken Cordelia (dragon) into his care to increase Angel's opportunity to maintain privacy from him. After an encounter with Spike and Illyria, Angel visits Gunn in the hospital and comforts him, telling him that it wasn't the real Gunn who attacked him in Hell. With that, Angel gives him an Angel Investigations card and leaves into the night, continuing his mission to help the homeless.

While all of her friends part ways, Angel reunites with Kate Lockley for the first time in over three years. Kate had changed radically since they last met, and she invites herself to join the new Angel Investigations, along with Connor. Angel's newfound fame makes it difficult for the agency to work, and many people call them posing as victims just to meet Angel. Angel also has to endure constant assassination attempts from the Demon Lords, who had been resurrected in the restoration of Los Angeles. One of these assassins, the feline shapeshifter Dez, quickly becomes an ally to the team. Angel also befriends James, a Potentate who abandoned his fellow warrior angels when they started killing humans. One of Angel's missions takes him to the San Diego Sci-Fi Festival, a comic book convention where he sees a preview of "The Last Angel in Hell," a Hollywood adaptation of Fall of Los Angeles. Angels. Angel is disappointed by the inaccuracy of the film, in which his character, Angel Cartwright, is played by Nicholas Cage.

When approached by a company about the possibility of turning their clients into vampires to grant them immortality, Angel was kidnapped and held prisoner after refusing their offer, saying his 'condition'; it wasn't something that could be passed down, the organization studies it to try to develop a way to duplicate her status as an immortal, with a soul. However, Illyria was able to find Angel after the lab prematurely revealed that it had been unable to establish that the alma returned to his clients despite his best efforts, informing him that he had decided to continue fighting for humanity if he could help serve as his moral compass, due to the similarity between the two demons as "afflicted"; with a human consciousness - all the while asking for her permission to mate with Connor as she neared a once-in-a-millennium breeding stage and seeking Connor to father her potential offspring.

After his escape and the Illyria, the gang ran into a new problem when new member of Laura's team Kay Weathermill who would replace Wesley in the area of magic and translation of ancient texts, revealed that James he was not an angel, but was actually an unidentified demonic higher power investigating Earth in preparation for his conquest of it. Before his departure from the Hyperion, James left Laura in a coma and ripped off Angel's hands and feet, only for the amputated limbs to start growing again. Wondering at this sudden change in vampire powers, the team discovered it was an indication that some powerful supernatural disorder was about to take place. This attack was heralded by James attempting to eliminate Angel and Spike by summoning a soul-eating demon known as Liss, but this attempt was interrupted when Liss revealed that Spike does not actually have a soul. Despite this clash, Angel and the group managed to defeat Liss, Angel agreeing with the other group's comments that Spike has recently changed, expressing disinterest in having Spike go back to his basement-dwelling madness himself, despite Concluding that Spike could stay there for a while as he keeps an eye on him, Spike reaffirmed that he was still on his side. After a run-in with a demonic brotherhood seeking Connor's blood, for unspecified reasons, Angel has decided to take a temporary leave from the agency in order to give Connor a chance to figure out who he is on his own without going through the motions. his father's.

Just as he is leaving Los Angeles, Angel is "called" in the future by Darrow, an agent of the Founding Partners, who shows the world that James has created, only to take an angel leap from the building into the city instead of staying and are forced to help the senior partners of new. While exploring the city, Angel discovered that his original offices have been converted into a museum dedicated to his memory, including a statue of him, which allows him to arm himself again before he is forced to leave. retreat to the sewers with Darrow to escape James. Before he can learn Darrow's plan, however, Darrow is found unconscious, only to learn from Angel that Darrow's attacker is actually Illyria. Having convinced Illyria that she is only there to help take down James, regardless of what Wolfram & Hart has it for him, Angel, Illyria and Darrow to sneak into James's main office, only to discover that James has been decapitated by his "sister". As Illyria fights with James's sister, Darrow, fatally wounded in the fight, admits to Angel that he has a role in the past that will see him act in ways he never imagined, but dies before he can explain this observation. Although Sister James offers Earth Angel a check, granting him the freedom to execute him however he wishes as long as he continues to lead his armies, Angel declines the offer due to his experience dealing with Wolfram. & Hart like that, asking Illyria to send him back in time so he can face James. Returning to his turn, Angel was able to use a jewel that he had acquired from Darrow to interrupt James before he injured Connor, with new powers from Connor-James banished from this dimension. Returning to Angel Investigations, while expressing his confidence that the Illyria of the past will meet again, Angel confronted the conduit in the White Room one last time, informing him that either he or Connor would always be there to stop W's plans. & h.

New Series (ANGEL & FAITH)

First season

In Angel & Faith, the main characters reside in the former London home of Rupert Giles, Buffy's former mentor, who passed to Slayer Faith in her will after her death in the season eight finale. Faith tries to rehabilitate Angel after his actions as Twilight in season eight, while he is on the hunt for the scattered pieces of Giles' soul in order to resurrect him. Former allies from his rule as Twilight Whistler, and the half-demons Pearl and Nash are seeking revenge on Angel for aborting their original plans, as is a British contingent of Slayers led by the Slayer Nadira who cannot forgive. Angel for the many atrocities he has caused as much as Twilight and earlier in his career. Whistler plans to use the residual magic contained in artifacts scattered throughout the world to unleash a plague that will mutate humanity into a magical species, creating a new world order at the cost of many human lives. Angel and Faith go on various missions and acquire numerous fragments of Giles' soul with the mystical tooth of Ammuk, and Angel's personality becomes increasingly influenced by Giles' growing presence. soul within him. Angel and Faith are joined by and supported by Giles' great aunts Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather, two witches without more magic who used their magic to stay young and beautiful, and by Alasdair Coames, an archmage without more magic and a collector of magical artifacts who he is an old friend of Giles's. Willow visits Angel and Faith's apartment on her mission to restore magic, and as the Scythe contains a piece of Giles' soul, she is able to enlist her help. Taking the gang to Los Angeles, they reunite with Angel's friend Gunn and his son Connor (from the Angel series). Connor was raised in the hell dimension Quor'toth, and through him Willow is able to transport there using residual magic in the Scythe. Once there, she regains her powers and begins an inter-dimensional journey, and Angel receives the penultimate piece of Giles's soul. Later, Angel and Faith retrieve a mystical item that is key to restoring Giles' corpse to full health so they can revive him. However, they discover that he is not buried in his grave. They learn that Giles' body has been possessed by the demon Eyghon (From the Buffy episode & # 34; The Dark Age & # 34;), to whom he sold his soul in his youth. Angel reveals that he has known of Eyghon's survival, as well as his association with Whistler, Pearl and Nash. Because vampires are immune to Eyghon's ability to possess the dead and unconscious, with whom he plans to build an army of assassins, Angel recruits Spike to help him on a mission to kill the demon. The trio, supported by a band of assassins, manage to kill Eyghon using an enchanted sword. Traumatized by this battle and recent losses, the hunters who worked alongside Nadira gave up on leading a normal life. With Eyghon's death, Giles' full soul is restored, and subsequently transferred from Angel's body into a mystical vessel. Spike quickly departs after learning Buffy calls Faith for Dawn's help, but Angel and Faith have no idea who Dawn is supposed to be. The remaining group then go through with the plan to bring Giles to life, using the Coames' collection of artifacts to provide the magic needed for the spell. Ritual manipulation with Whistler, Pearl and Nash arrive to steal Coames' magical artifacts. The trio make off with it all after a brief and brutal skirmish. The group is shocked when Giles is successfully brought back to life, but as a 12-year-old boy, with his memories of him intact, due to his aunts focusing on their memories of him as a child. Giles thanks them for saving him from Eyghon but is furious at the age of his body and that they have been wasting time trying to bring him back and not saving the world from Whistler's plan. The group forms a fight plan that includes a way to ward off the plague, and accept that they could all die. The group, followed by Nadira, confront Whistler, Pearl and Nash on a rooftop in Hackney, as they prepare to unleash their magical plague by releasing an orb of pure magic into the upper atmosphere. Angel and Faith are easily outmatched, and Nadira is severely injured by Nash. Giles is able to use ambient magic to attack Nash with a fireball, causing him to drop the magical orb, albeit from a height sufficient to mutate the local residents into all sorts of magical creatures. Though burned to within an inch of life from her, Nadira is able to help Faith kill Nash. Upon Nash's death, her power is absorbed by Pearl, who islayer of the scene in tears at the loss of his brother. Angel takes Whistler head-on, damaging the orb, forcing Whistler to absorb some of the magic from him, which clears the unbalanced mind. Whistler realizes the error in his path, destroys the orb himself, and dies. In the season finale, the Hand of the Pearl is shown ominously emerging from a river. Even though it's medically impossible, Nadira is still alive, but somehow she's mutating. Coames worries that with Whistler's death the universe will no longer have someone working toward balance; Angel says that people will have to do it themselves. Lavinia and Sophronia take credit in front of the media for stopping the crisis. Faith and Giles decide to return to America, Faith thinking that he can work with Kennedy's Slayer bodyguard corporation and Giles with the goal of reuniting with Buffy. Angel parties on good terms with them, deciding to stay in the newly christened London suburb 'Magic Town', where it is expected that much conflict is yet to arise. He dedicates himself once again to helping the homeless.

Filming location and location

Much of the filming for Angel was done in Los Angeles, California. The series takes place in the city of Los Angeles. "Los Angeles" are the first words spoken in the first episode, and the cityscape is the first image seen in the opening credits. Joss Whedon said, "It's set in Los Angeles because there are a lot of demons in Los Angeles and a lot of stories to tell." Producer Marti Noxon has expanded on this explanation: "Los Angeles was Joss Whedon's chosen location for very specific reasons. There are many preconceived ideas about the place, but there are many truths. It is quite a competitive and intense city, where many lonely, isolated and desperate people end up. It's a good place for monsters." Many episodes feature references to the town, and the season two opening episode shows Lorne offering this observation of the town:

In this city, you better learn to get along. Because in L.A. it has everything: glamour and dust, great rests and anguish, sweet young lovers and nasty, ugly, hairy demons that suck your brain from your face. It's all part of the big variety show we call Los Angeles.

In the essay, "Los Angeles: The City of Angel" (from the essay collection, Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul), Benjamin Jacob explores why Los Angeles, in particular, should be important to the series. Jacob suggests several explanations: first, the connection name ('City of Angels'); second, the double-faced nature, "the other side of the stereotypical city of the sun, Beach Boys and Walt Disney", "the place of pain, anonymity, alienation and broken dreams"; third, the American noir was originally a "Los Angeles genre". Angel was originally conceived as a supernatural noir. Noir had continued the investigation of the "dark city, a place of regression and darkness as a counterpoint to the city's promise of progress and civilization" that had begun with William Blake and Charles Dickens.

During the first season, Angel Investigations is headquartered in Angel's apartment. Actor Alexis Denisof, who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, said, "Angel had this dark, foreboding, columned basement apartment, with antique furniture everywhere, and this little office upstairs." These offices were blown up at the climax of the first season, and Angel Investigations found new ground in the episode: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been."

Production designer Stuart Blatt sketched out the new base: "An old hotel, something [the writers] could use to evoke L.A.'s past and part of Angel's history, something creepy and creepy but not too dark." Because they didn't want something depressing, it's called the Hyperion Hotel. It is based on many hotels in Los Angeles... Angel lived in a larger suite in the hotel, like a honeymoon suite, the producers wanted Angel to have enough space to relax and get away from her. everyone, reflect a little, reflect a little and do a little research. Every once in a while, someone comes over for a little chat." In the final season, the team transfers to the evil law firm, Wolfram & Hart.

Format

Like Buffy, Angel is told in a serialized format, with each episode involving a stand-alone story while contributing to a larger story. Unlike Buffy, however, the narratives of the entire season are not marked by the rise and defeat of a powerful antagonist, commonly known as the "Big Bad." Instead, the overarching storyline of the series' five seasons pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the "good guys" and the "good" guys. Powers That Be and the "evil" law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse. It mixes the complex plot of the series along with more independent villain-of-the-week episodes. The show mixes different genres, including horror, fantasy, supernatural, and a mix of comedic and dramatic content.

Cancellation of the series

On February 14, 2004, the WB Television Network announced that Angel would not be returning for the sixth season. The news was confirmed the day after a website published the rumor. Joss Whedon posted a message on a popular fan website, The Bronze: Beta, expressing his dismay and surprise. Fans organized various petition drives by mail and online, and tried to pressure other companies, in specifically UPN, which had previously picked up the Buffy series after its fifth season.

The final episode of Angel, "Don't Fade Out," aired on the WB on May 19, 2004. The ambiguous series finale left a loophole in the hope of the fans who expect the continuation of Angel in the future.