Reprise

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Angel
Season 2, Episode 15

Air date	February 20, 2001
Written by	Tim Minear
Directed by	James Whitmore Jr.
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While Lilah, Lindsey and the other lawyers of Wolfram & Hart prepare ritualistic gatherings for the demonic firm's impending 75th year review, Angel learns from various sources, including the Host, that the historically deadly event involves a visit from one of the Senior Partners (who is a big, bad Kleynach demon). The good news for Angel is that this demon wears a ring with the power to take Angel straight to the firm's home office in Hell so he can kill all the Senior Partners. But the bad news is that Angel needs a one-of-a-kind magic glove in order to touch the Kleynach demon without being incinerated. Things get more complicated when a revenge-seeking Darla shows up and gains possession of the glove. Meanwhile, Kate's life begins to fall apart when she is forced to resign from the police force due to her mental instability. Also, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn's new agency's business slows down which leads them wanting to get away from each other.

Synopsis

Angel prevents a sacrificial ritual from being performed by two Wolfram & Hart employees, who are nervous about something called "the Review". He asks Kate for information about the Review, but Kate - under investigation due to her involvement with odd cases - bitterly refuses, showing him crime scene photos from Holland Manners' wine cellar illustrating his involvement in the slaughter. Angel turns to Lorne, who tells Angel that a Wolfram & Hart Senior Partner is coming to earth for the historically deadly Review.

Lindsey finds Darla waiting for him at home. He gives her a container of human blood; she stops feigning weakness and searches his briefcase while he is in the shower. Angel shows up at the office of his former employees, needing a book, but when Cordelia refuses to let him take it Angel grows cold and deadly. Wesley rises from his wheelchair and tells Cordy to let Angel have the book so he can remove himself from the premises. Cordelia vents about Angel until Wesley catches her attention: stitches from his healing gunshot wound have torn in the confrontation.

Angel returns to the bookstore he visited fifty years ago in search of information on the Senior Partner. A decades-older Denver tells Angel that it wears a ring that allows passage to Hell. To take the ring, Angel needs a one-of-a-kind magic glove that would allow him to strangle the demon without being incinerated. Denver gets the glove from the back room, but before he can give it to Angel, Darla stabs him with a sword and takes the glove.

Facing a review board during an Internal Affairs investigation, Kate is unceremoniously fired. She self-destructively deals with her dismissal by drinking and knocking her accolades to the floor, pausing to cry at a picture of her father. Virginia talks with Wesley about how much danger he's always in. With heartbreaking insight, Wesley acknowledges how difficult it must for her - to break up with him. Wesley and Cordelia talk on the phone, both depressed about their lives and lack of work. Cordelia gets a call from Mrs. Sharp, who had earlier refused to pay Angel Investigations for removing the third eye from the back of her daughter's head. Mrs. Sharp offers to pay; what Cordelia doesn't know is that Mrs. Sharp was threatened into calling by a demon that kills her after she tells him Cordelia is on her way.

Angel arrives at the Review, and when he spots Darla in the crowd the two fight while the Senior Partner materializes. Security guards attack Darla after Angel exposes her as a vampire by dousing her with holy water. In the confusion, Angel gets the glove away from Darla, dons it and flies at the demon's throat. The Senior Partner implodes, but the force of Angel's leap carries him crashing out the window. When he hits the ground, Angel puts on the ring, causing elevator doors to open in the foundation of the Wolfram & Hart building. A dead Holland (whose contract extends well beyond death) offers Angel a one-way trip down to the "Home Office," which Angel assumes is hell. After passing through nether realms of darkness and fire, the elevator comes to a stop and its doors open - right back where they started. The "Home Office" is Earth.

Angel walks away, witnessing the despair around him. Returning to the hotel, he hangs up on a message from Kate, who is drunk and overdosing on pills. Angel finds Darla waiting for him and, realizing that he wants to feel something, anything, Angel kisses her. At first, she pushes him away, but he takes her roughly and soon the two are lost in each other. Later, as a storm crashes outside, Angel wakes with a gasp.

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