Angel Episode Guide Season 2

October 3, 2000: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: The dark, stylish series gives a nod to its film-noir roots, as Angel relives a time from his past that his conscience can't ignore. The vampire P.I. gets on his own case and revisits the hotel he called home in 1952 — a place possessing a dubious past, mysterious tenants and a demonic presence feeding on their fears of being exposed. To take care of unfinished business and evict the building's resident evil, Angel goes back — way back. The action seamlessly shifts between past and present, as liberal doses of McCarthy-era paranoia are mixed with murder-mystery sensibilities and style to freshen up that old Amityville-Shining haunted-house theme.

October 10, 2000: First Impressions: Gunn requests Angel's help in finding a killer demon named Deevak (Alan Shaw), but a violent vision moves Cordelia to rush to Gunn's rescue — much to his dismay. Meanwhile, Angel does his own subconscious "bonding" with Darla (Julie Benz), who repeatedly appears in his dreams.

October 17, 2000: Untouched: Unaware of Lilah's plans to cultivate her as an assassin, femme fatale-magnet Angel offers to help a runaway (Daisy McCrackin) who possesses uncontrollable telekinetic powers. Also unbeknownst to the vampire, Darla continues to visit him while he sleeps.

October 24, 2000: Dear Boy: After Angel finally meets Darla outside of his dreams, she kicks her mind games into high gear, causing Wesley and Cordelia to fear for Angel's sanity. As they prepare for an evil Angel, his obsession with finding Darla again leads him right into her trap.

November 7, 2000: Guise will be Guise: With Angel out of town reflecting on his self-image, a shrewd and powerful businessman strong-arms Wesley (who's posing as Angel) into guarding his daughter. Always the unlikely hero, the foppish Wesley gets an opportunity to show his true character.

November 14, 2000: Darla: As Darla struggles to sort out her identity, Angel feels it is becoming increasingly important to find where Wolfram & Hart are hiding her. A series of flashbacks reveal Darla and Spike's rebirths as vampires and Angelus's early defiance of The Master (Mark Metcalf).

November 21, 2000: Shroud of Rahmon: Angel and Gunn go undercover to foil the theft of a demonic burial shroud, unaware that the evil garment makes people near it psychotic. Cordy and Wesley rush to get to them before the violent effects of the artifact take hold.

November 28, 2000: The Trial: After Darla discovers she is terminally ill, Angel enters into a series of mysterious trials in an attempt to save her life. Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Wolfram & Hart have other plans for Angel's sire.

December 19, 2000: Reunion: As if L.A. didn't have enough problems, Drusilla's in town and Darla's about to cut a new set of teeth. In a last-ditch effort to save her beleaguered soul, Angel hastens to find the soon-to-be reborn Darla before she awakens as a vampire. He hits pay dirt (so to speak) at a greenhouse, but is foiled at the last minute by Drusilla's intervention. She and Darla make clean but separate getaways, leaving a defeated Angel with no choice but to head home, regroup and hunt them down. Meanwhile, Drusilla makes her presence felt at Wolfram & Hart, where a confused, fuming and extremely violent Darla has a bone to pick with her new mum.

January 16, 2001: Redefinition: As Wes, Cordy and Gunn reel from the shock of being fired, their deadly serious ex-boss intently reinvents himself as a coldhearted, one-man weapon of mass destruction. Darla and Drusilla keep busy by recruiting baddies for their new gang. Lindsay and Lilah ponder their Wolfram & Hart futures (or possible lack thereof) with the firm.

January 23, 2001: Blood Money: Angel digs up dirt on Wolfram & Hart's connection to a shelter for runaways and Anne(Julia Lee) who manages it. Meanwhile, an old enemy (Mark Rolston) goes to the law firm for help in settling his grudge against the detective; and Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn resolve to continue fighting evil, sans vampire.

February 6, 2001: Happy Anniversary: Angel and the Host search for a physicist (Matt Champagne) they fear will cause the end of the world — and who unknowingly has help from two apocalypse-lovin' Lubber demons. Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn settle into their new digs, where Virginia brings them their first official case.

February 13, 2001: The Thin Dead Line: Unbeknownst to Gunn, Cordy and Wesley, Angel investigates a squad of zombie police officers who assault everyone in their path — a case also brought to the trio by Anne. What Angel realizes and the others don't is that the attackers are actually reanimated cops who had been killed in the line of duty.

February 20, 2001: Reprise: Angel's investigation of the city's latest rash of dark rituals garners him a unique opportunity to take Wolfram & Hart out at its source — Hell. As Lilah and Lindsey prepare for the law firm's impending 75-year review, Angel learns that the historically deadly event involves bringing in one of the senior partners (i.e., a big, bad Kleynach demon). The good news is that this demon wears a ring with the power to take Angel straight to W & H's hot Home Office. The bad news is that Angel needs a one-of-a-kind magic glove in order to touch the Kleynach without being incinerated. No, scratch that. The bad news is that Darla has the glove.

February 27, 2001: Epiphany: After spending an evening with Darla, Angel realizes that being evil is not all it's cracked up to be. Now he needs to regain the trust of Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn. It turns out to be a good time to do so, as all three are in danger of being killed by vengeful three-eyed Skilosh demons.

April 17, 2001: Disharmony: Angel Investigations may be together again (under new management), but that doesn't mean the family is ready to add a new sister. While the crew tracks down a cult of vampires led by a former motivational speaker (Pat Healy) with a wicked pyramid scheme, Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) gets a surprise visit from her old high-school buddy Harmony (Mercedes McNab). Unaware her flaky pal's a bloodsucker, Cordy mistakes Harm's strange behavior for lesbianism — until the truth comes out (so to speak) in a call to Willow (Alyson Hannigan). Much to the dismay of her co-workers, the ever loyal Cordelia resolves to give her undead friend a chance at fighting for the good guys.

April 24, 2001: Dead End: The search for a man Cordelia saw in a vision stabbing his own eye leads the gang's path to cross with Lindsey's — whose new right hand seems to have a life of its own. Back at Wolfram & Hart, Lilah fumes and frets over the extra attention that her partner's receiving.

May 1, 2001: Belonging: Shaken up when a mystic portal deposits a rather violent Drokken demon at his club, the Host takes news of the unexpected man-eating guest to Angel and company. Their only clue to finding it is Cordelia's vision, which leads them to a library with a missing librarian. Meanwhile, Gunn heads to his old neighborhood to help with a vampire problem, and Cordy's spirits take a hit when her acting gig doesn't go so well.

May 8, 2001: Over the Rainbow: After being inadvertently sucked into a dimensional portal, Cordelia finds herself stuck in the Host's home world, Pylea, a place where human beings aren't exactly treated as such. While Cordy struggles to endure the hardships of otherworldly existence — which include being treated as a slave and referred to as "cow" — Angel, Wesley, the Host and Gunn work on how to get her back. They decide that the only acceptable (but nonetheless risky) plan is to go to Pylea themselves. Of course, the only way to get there is to first locate another functional portal. And the Host (Andy Hallett) is none too excited about the idea of a homecoming.

May 15, 2001: Through the Looking Glass: Angel and friends work overtime to survive in a foreign dimension. Cordelia discovers her dirty duty as Princess of Pylea is to mate with a creature called the Groosalugg (Mark Lutz). She's unable to escape the palace with Wesley and Gunn, and the priests keeping watch over her also prove to be less than trustworthy. Meanwhile, Angel gets himself into trouble with the Host's family when he refuses to kill a human woman, Fred (Amy Acker), who went missing from L.A. years before.

May 22, 2001: There's No Place like Plrtz Glrb: Figurehead princess Cordy is trapped in the palace by the ill-intentioned priest Silas, who is also responsible for the Host's recent beheading. Luckily, Lorne's bizarre physiology allows his ever talkative head to survive, provided his body isn't mutilated. While Cordy helps the disembodied noggin complete himself, a lost-in-the-woods Angel bonds with fellow refugee Fred; and Gunn and Wesley get caught up with a band of rebels.