Season 1 Summery
Angel arrives in Los Angeles and meets a half human, half brachen demon called Doyle. Doyle receives visions from The Powers that Be and passes them onto Angel. Also he meets fellow Sunnydaler Cordelia Chase and after a chance meeting and a time where she was saved by him all three of them band together to form Angel Investigations. Angel spends time in LA to help the helpless and also try and get over the first love of his life, Buffy Summers. But it doesn't work quite so easily when Doyle gets a vision of her, Angel goes to help her in Sunnydale but doesn't say hello to her. Buffy heads to LA looking for an apology but instead they find a demon whose blood makes Angel human. But it can not be and time gets set back and Angel reverts to being a vampire. Soon after Doyle sacrifices his own life, after telling Cordelia that he loves her, to help save some more half demon, half humans like himself from The Scourge. The Scourge were a pure demon blood army who were only there to extinguish half breeds. Cordelia gets the visions passed onto her after a kiss that Doyle and her exchanged before he jumped to his death. The ex-watcher, Wesley Wyndam Pryce arrives in LA looking for a demon, but it turns out he's completely mixed up, but joins up with Angel and Cordelia to help the helpless. The rogue slayer, Faith, awakens from her coma in Sunnydale and heads to LA when things get rough for her there. She gets hired by Wolfram & Hart and tortures and attempts to kill Wesley, Angel saves the day. Really all Faith wanted was someone to kill her. Buffy arrives in LA when she knows of Faith's arrival and of Angel looking after her. The cops are after Faith for her murders in Sunnydale and a couple in LA, Angel is eventually taken to the police station where they find Faith admitting to everything. Buffy and Angel part on bad terms so Angel heads to Sunnydale to make things up, which they do. Angel and the gang get their hands on the scroll of Oberjian, which prophesize that the vampire with a soul with shanshu, become human again. The previous owners of the scroll don't want that to happen and so send Vocah a powerful demon to torment Cordelia's mind with too many visions for her to cope with mentally. Vocah blows up Angel Investigations while retrieving the scrolls, sending Wesley to hospital. Angel sets out to find Vocah and kill him. He finds Vocah and Wolfram & Hart performing a ritual with the scrolls. Angel kills Vocah and forces Lindsey McDonald to carry on the ritual. Something appears in a box after the ritual which is taken away, Lindsey and Angel have a little showdown where Lindsey loses his hand and Angel regains the scrolls. In the scrolls are Cordelia's cure, which Wesley chants at her side. At Wolfram & Hart they have the box from the ritual, in it they have brought back Darla.