Doyle tries to persuade Angel to have some fun at a sports bar. , but Angel is content with his book. Cordelia is going on a date with an upwardly mobile trader. Her friends are protective and question her date, Pierce, about his prospects and their plans for the night. Cordelia drags Pierce away, saying ‘Don’t wait up. ’ Doyle laments that Cordelia won’t ever fall for someone like him. He picks up Angel’s book and a picture of Buffy falls out. Doyle shows his approval with a wolf whistle, but his appreciation is ended by the vision of a young man being held by vampires. Angel and Doyle find the nest, saving the man’s life in the process. Angel takes the victim home, so Doyle heads back to the office, unaware that a vampire is following him.
At Le Petit Renard, Cordelia is bored by Pierce’s market talk. Afterwards Pierces offers to walk Cordelia to her car but as a vampire attacks, he drives off leaving Cordelia to fend for herself. Doyle bravely fights off the vampire, saving Cordelia, who is impressed by Doyle’s ‘hidden depths’. She realises she ‘wants more to a man than rich and handsome’, she wants ‘brave and interesting’ as well. Deciding that Doyle deserves a reward for saving her, she is about to invite him out for a mochaccino when a woman appears in the doorway. The stranger is introduced to Cordelia as Doyle’s wife, Harry.
Harry apologises to Doyle for the surprise visit. Angel arrives and is introduced to Richard Straley, Harry’s fiancé. Angel takes Cordelia out of the room t give them privacy and Harry suggests that Richard wait for her in the car. Harry hands Doyle divorces papers and asks for his signature saying that she doesn’t want to hurt him. Doyle tells Angel that he and Harry married young and how happy they were until Doyle came into his ‘inheritance’ from his demon father. A surprise to both of them, the marriage fell apart. Doyle bears Harry no ill-will and he admits that maybe Richard will be good for her.
Angel watches as Richard exchanges a package with someone in a car. Angel follows Richard to his family’s restaurant where Richard hides the package in the fridge. Angel sees Richard’s demon face and bursts through a window. Harry stops the struggle, saying she knows Richard is a demon. Doyle is shocked that Harry would marry another demon, but in a moment of clarity he admits that Harry knows her own mind. He signs the divorce papers and gives them to Harry, accepting an invitation to Richard’s bachelor party.
At the Straley house, the family is discussing the agenda for the upcoming festivities, including, but not limited to, the ritual eating of the first husband’s brains. Angel and Doyle arrive at the restaurant for the party. Richard is surprised that Doyle brought Angel. Cordy and Harry go to the wedding shower in the Straley home. Cordelia is shocked to learn that Doyle was a third-grade teacher and a volunteer in a soup kitchen. At the party, Angel becomes suspicious of Richard’s brothers. Everyone is distracted by the arrival of a stripper. Doyle finally gives his blessing on the marriage without understanding the true nature of his consent.
Angel sees Uncle John performing a blood ritual. He calls Cordelia and asks for help from Harry, who is an ethno demonologist, in translating the spell from Aratuscan. She promises to try and find the translation. Angel is discovered by the family and they fight. Overpowered by the demons, Angel is hurled from the window. Richard announces to the rest of his family that Doyle has given his blessing. They imprison Doyle and Uncle John pulls out the ritual knife. Harry and Cordelia discover the meaning of the incantation and the tradition that goes with it. Doyle tries to convince Richard that his brains are not worth eating.
Angel smashes in the door wearing his vampire face and fights the demons as Doyle embraces his demon side and breaks free of his prison. Cordy and Harry arrive at the restaurant and Harry stops the fight. She confronts Richard about the ritual and her fiancé admits that he was going to eat Doyle’s brains. Not wanting to base her marriage on a lie, she gives him back his ring and walks out. Cordelia tries to cheer up Doyle, telling him that ‘nice guys don’t always finish last’. Doyle’s pleasure is brutally cut short by another vision; Buffy Summers is fighting for her life.
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