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Angel Season Four (2002-2003)


Season 4 Plot Summary

At the start of Season 4, we learn that Wesley has captured Justine and used her to find and recover Angel. Wesley, exiled from the group, has also been having a love affair with Lilah, an old colleague and rival of Lindsey's at Wolfram & Hart. Cordelia also returns, under mysterious circumstances.

A hellish Beast appears on earth, blocks out the sun, and rains fire from the skies and incidentally, wipes out the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart, leaving Lilah as the sole survivor. Cordelia, feeling that this may be her last night alive, sleeps with Connor. They turn out to live another day, but the absence of sunlight makes LA a party town for vampires. Cordelia receives visions which convince the group that Angelus is the only one who knows how to stop the beast, so they extract Angel's soul.

But then we find that Cordelia is actually evil, and secretly controlling the Beast. While the gang isn't looking, she releases the evil Angelus, kills Lilah, and frames Angelus. Then Cordelia reveals to Connor that she is pregnant with his child. Short on powerful fighters, the gang springs vampire Slayer Faith from prison. But Faith turns out to be no match for Angelus, who feeds on her. But unknown to him, Faith had previously taken a powerful psychoactive drug, which neutralizes them both. Willow (from Buffy) visits, restores Angel's soul, and takes Faith back with her to Sunnydale.

Meanwhile, the gang figures out that Cordelia is the one behind the season's events. But before they can capture her, Connor, deluded into thinking that the gang must be somehow evil, grabs Cordelia and takes her into hiding. Angel eventually tracks them down and is about to kill Cordelia when she gives birth to an adult Black woman named Jasmine, and then slips into a coma.

Jasmine, it turns out, was one of the Powers That Be, a force for good. She is a renegade who has decided to leave the sidelines and take an active part in fighting evil, hence her manipulation of the events leading up to her birth. Jasmine's winning smile makes all who see it fall under her spell of total happiness. But her and Cordelia's blood breaks the spell and lets people see her for who she truly is. Inoculated, Angel and the gang kill destroy her hold on the population (by revealing her true name, which Angel learned by visiting a demon dimension she had previously conquered) just as she is about to take over the world. A despondent Connor (who had known Jasmine's true nature the entire time) then kills her.

In the final episode of the season, they are met by a resurrected Lilah, who congratulates them on preventing world peace, and says that as a token of their appreciation, Wolfram & Hart would like to give them the LA branch. Skeptical at first, the gang is eventually won over, and takes the offer. Meanwhile, however, Connor has gone crazy at the loss of Cordelia and Jasmine, and has tied himself and the unconscious Cordelia up to several large bombs. To save both their lives, Angel allows Wolfram & Hart to give Connor a life as a normal child and erase him from everyone's memory, except his own.

Episodes
  1. Deep Down
  2. Ground State
  3. The House Always Wins
  4. Slouching Toward Bethlehem
  5. Supersymmetry
  6. Spin The Bottle
  7. Apocalypse Nowish
  8. Habeas Corpses
  9. Long Days Journey
  10. Awakening
  11. Soulless
  12. Calvary
  13. Salvage
  14. Release
  15. Orpheus
  16. Players
  17. Inside Out
  18. Shiny Happy People
  19. The Magic Bullet
  20. Sacrifice
  21. Peace Out
  22. Home

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