THE PRODIGAL

Galway, 1753.   From the shadows of the doorway, Angel calls out to a serving girl, Anna, attempting to entice her inside.   She asks ‘Master Liam’ why he stays in the shadows.   He complains that the sun hurts his eyes, as someone angrily throws him into the light.   Liam’s father accuses him of trying to corrupt the girl, calls him a layabout and a scoundrel and declares that he’s shamed to claim him as his son.

Los Angeles, present day.   Angel battles a demon in an underground railway tunnel.   Kate arrives as Angel kills the demon.   She is still wary of Angel and is angry that witnesses’ descriptions of the demon are vague. Angel notices Kate’s father and asks her why he’s there.   She rationalises that he must have heard the call on the police scanner and came to check up on her.   Kate tells Angel that she wants their relationship to be strictly business.

Wesley discovers that the dead demon is a Kwaini, a peaceful, non-violent race.   Angel speculates that someone must have caused it to become violent.   Kate tells Angel that she doesn’t like discussing demons and asks that he refer to them as ‘evil things’.   Angel tries to explain that this particular evil thing wasn’t evil, Angel trails a deliveryman who leads him to an apartment building where he is handed a package by Trevor Lockley.   Angel asks Trevor what is in the package, but the old man says that he doesn’t know what Angel is talking about.

Liam leaves home, his father telling him that he’s a disappointment.   He goes to tavern where me meets the alluring Darla.   She makes him a vampire.   Kate meets her father, Trevor, for lunch.   He asks her about Angel, and whether she’s seeing him.   Kate tells him that Angel isn’t her type.   She also reveals that Angel is a private investigator.   Wesley runs tests on the Kwaini demon and discovers a drug in the demon’s system.   Wesley and Angel decide the demon was after someone on the train who had the drug.   Cordy arrives having tailed the deliveryman to Kel’s Exotic Auto Shop.   Trevor arrives at the shop to warn the drug distributors that Angel is investigating their operating.   After he leaves, a demon orders his men to kill both Angel and Trevor.

Liam’s family and friends gather at his graveside.   That night, Darla comes to the grave and watches as Angelus claws his way out of the ground, welcoming him to her world.   She tells him he can have anyone he wants and he tells her that he’ll start with the village.   Angel and Wesley argue about whether to warn Trevor about the demons he’s dealing with when two Kwaini demons attack them.   Angel calls Kate to warn her that Trevor is in danger.   Trevor answers a knock at his door finding two men from the auto shop.

Liam’s father is nailing the windows shut in the house, unaware that his son stands in the doorway.   The father says that a demon cannot enter unless it’s been invited but Angelus says that he was invited, pointing to his dead sister who though he was an angel.   Angelus taunts his father, then kills him.   The men ask Trevor if he’s told Kate about their business dealings.   Angel arrives and asks Trevor to invite him in, but Trevor refuses as he’s attacked by the two men, who reveal themselves as vampires.   Angel helplessly watches as they kill Trevor. Once dead, Angel enters and kills one of the vampires.   The other escapes as Kate finds her father.

Angel prepares to do battle as Wesley asks him what happened to his cautious plan.   Angel curtly replies that he’s moved to plan B.   Kate walks into the auto shop, shooting anyone who stands in her way but is surrounded by the demon and several henchmen.   Angel steps from the shadows and a battle begins, which ends with Angel and Kate killing the demons.   Angel tries to talk to Kate but she tells him that her father was human and he knows nothing about being human.

Darla looks at the bodies of Angelus’ parents and sister.   He tells her that he’s won, proving to his father who was the more powerful.   Darla tells Angelus that now his father is dead, he can never approve of him. Angel watches from a crypt as Kate visits her father’s grave.

 

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