Angel's still very disturbed by his dream, the visit from Joyce, and what the Mayor said to him and Buffy during their last encounter and tells Buffy they need to talk.

In Angel's dream, he relives the moment in which Spike drinks from the cup that signifies he is the champion referred to by the Shanshu Prophecy.

* Much like when Numero Cinco stopped being a hero, in Angel's dream world he becomes the new Wolfram and Hart mailman

Angel's dream in which he sees Spike making love to Buffy was " so fake it's embarrassing they even tried it ," an Angel guidebook complains ; the obvious stunt double and use of overdubbing emphasizes rather than masks Sarah Michelle Gellar's absence from the show.

Roger Wyndam-Pryce ( Roy Dotrice ) is revealed to have sinister intentions when he tries to steal Angel's free will and threatens to murder Fred ; Wesley responds by shooting him dead, only to discover he was not actually his father, but a cyborg copy.

In Angel: After the Fall # 3, Spike also refers to Illyria as Fred Sonja while she was battling Angel's dragon.

It is notable that when Angel's demon came fully to the fore, it attacked just about everyone but Fred – including Gunn and Wesley.

However, everything changes for Fred when she and the rest of Angel's crew join Wolfram & Hart.

Fred is a normal human woman with no supernatural abilities ; however, her brilliant mathematical mind, immense knowledge of quantum physics and science, and a natural ability in designing inventions make her an important asset of Angel's team ; Wesley once says, while addressing most of Angel's crew, " She's smarter than all of us put together ".

The AI team is able to shake off her control after being exposed to her and Cordelia's blood, starting with Fred ( who scrubs a damaged blouse so hard her fingers literally bleed ), and progressing to Angel ( who is hit with a bullet Fred shot through Jasmine's shoulder, effectively covering it with her blood, and into Angel's shoulder as he was standing behind her ).

* Jaws: In a nightmare scene, Fred extracts a license plate from Angel's chest, a reference to this film.

* Wish You Were Here ( Pink Floyd song ): In the same nightmare scene, Fred extracts Angel's soul represented as a dead goldfish in a fishbowl.

* A diary entry depicts a girl connected to Angel's past from 1775, when the entry also says Angel was an 18 year old human.

" This episode, in which Angel relinquishes the chance to have a normal, happy life with Buffy in order to " fulfill his penance ," perfectly typifies Angel's character and fate, says Beagle.

" Part of Angel's story, Fury says, is that " everybody that he's ever been close to dies ... he will always outlive the people he cares about.

Responding to the statement that Angel's decision to destroy the ring is reminiscent of Gloria Stuart throwing the priceless diamond into the ocean at the end of Titanic, producer Tim Minear says the difference is that " she throws it in the water as if that means something about Jack it was the other guy ’ s diamond, and I have no idea why she ’ s throwing it in the water.

Boreanaz says, " It's pretty introspective of what's going on in Angel's mind ... It's more of his perspective of what's going on, we don't know what's real and what's not real.

The character was given the Irish name Connor, meaning ‘ counselor ’ or ' helping warrior ', to match Angel's Irish ancestry.

" Kartheiser was excited after learning that his real role was ' Angel's son, a demon killer from Quor ' toth .’ He was confused about his portrayal, thinking that the character was to have a " living-in-the-brush kind of ‘ failed being ’ attitude.

But not everything is pink for the young couple and they have to survive, among other things, opposition by Miguel Angel's parents, Horacio ( Humberto Garcia ) and Rebecca ( Chony Fuentes ); Horacio < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous, the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa ( Miguel Angel's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta ) feels for Miguel Angel, a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him ' when he finds out they are using him, the revelation that Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s father and the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.

Faith is then able to return the favor in Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s fourth season, when she is the only one determined to defeat Angel's soulless alter ego Angelus without killing him in the process.

Intending to take him to safety, Wesley betrays his friends and kidnaps Connor, and delivers the baby to Angel's sworn enemy, Holtz, a decision which has disastrous consequences when he has his throat slit and the baby is kidnapped into a hell dimension by Angel's enemies.

Two of Angel's enemies, Eve and Lindsey McDonald, take advantage of the situation ; Eve convinces Angel and Spike that the existence of two ensouled vampire Champions is interfering with the Shanshu Prophecy and tearing the bonds of reality.

The Mayor therefore hires a mysterious cloaked sorcerer to take Angel's soul in the " most painful way imaginable.

While Tara and Anya sneak into the bathroom and hide, Buffy goes off on Xander for telling Riley details about her and Angel's relationship and argues that she is going to take on Adam alone.

The vampire prosthetics ( excepting Angel's ) were a newly-created prototype design for this episode, as the production team wanted to try a darker, scarier look.

The second album Angel's Egg ( 1973 ) begins with Zero falling to sleep under the influences of the potion and finding himself floating through space.

In " Destiny ," Spike clarifies that, although it was Drusilla who made him a vampire, it was under Angel's tutelage that he became a monster, making him Spike's " sire " in the capacity of a mentor role.

Cordelia immediately begins to pass around Angel's business cards until Doyle stops her, cautioning her to stay " under the radar ".

To Spike's intense dismay, he finds that Angel was right — under cover of Angel's rescue, Marcus has pinched the Gem of Amarra for himself and run off.

She blames Alec for causing her to lose Angel's love a second time, accusing Alec of having lied when he said that Angel would never return to her.

She reappears in the episode " The Harsh Light of Day " as a vampire, having retained her characteristic pettiness, susceptibility to stronger-willed people, and an affection for unicorn figurines ( which, in Angel's fifth season, is undiminished ).

She is unaware that Connor is Angel's son.

She then catches the scent of Elixir and Angel's blood respectively, and runs off to help them.

She joins Angel's team in Issue # 5 of Angel: After the Fall.

She joins Angel's team for a short period of time during Angel: After the Fall.

She erased the Love Angel's and Limone's memory in the last episode in the second season.

She succeeds in restoring Angel's soul just as Buffy was about to kill Angelus.

She discovers the spot on the floor where she left his ring ; it was scorched by Angel's body on his return.

She realizes that she won't be able to stay young forever, but Angel's immortality suddenly gives her another option.

In the two-part Season 2 finale " Becoming ", Angelus's ultimate plan comes into view: by removing the sword from the Acathla statue, a portal to Hell will open up, sucking the world into it ; only with Angel's blood can it be closed.