Season 2 Summery
The Angel Investigations team are joined by Charles Gunn, a young vampire hunter who they had helped out previously and their new home is the Hyperion Hotel, which was once haunted by a demonic entity, but the team got rid of that. Angel is also introduced by Wesley to a demon karaoke bar called Caritas, where The Host, a green skinned, red horned demon, reads people's/demon's futures when they come and sing. Angel is plagued by Darla in his dreams, while not knowing that she's actually back from the dead. Eventually he finds out and sees her in the streets of LA. Darla is being used by Wolfram & Hart so that they can have Angel how they want him, dark. Eventually the team find out that Darla is back from the dead and human, not a vampire. When Darla can't stand having a soul anymore she goes to Angel to ask him to change her back to what she was, he refuses saying that beating in her chest is a gift. Soon it becomes apparent that the disease Darla was dying of when she was a human many hundreds of years ago is back. Angel wants to help her, so they go through a trial where Angel does so many tasks to give Darla a second chance. But this was denied as she was living her second chance. Darla says that she's prepared to die, when Wolfram & Hart bring in Drusilla and forcefully take Darla and turn her again. Angel vows to kill Darla before she awakens as a vampire but doesn't do it in time. Darla and Drusilla team up and kill a room full of lawyers from Wolfram & Hart leaving only Lilah Morgan and Lindsey McDonald alive. They take charge of these two vampires while Angel turns to the darker side of himself, fires Cordelia, Gunn and Wesley from the Investigations and goes it alone. Wesley, Gunn and Cordy open up their own investigations office, however things don't start off so well with them, they eventually pick up. Angel is still on the war path searching for Darla to kill her. One night Angel finds out from a former partner at Wolfram & Hart, Holland Manners, where the source of evil is, which is what Angel was searching for to put Wolfram & Hart in the ground. The source is here, everywhere, not hell, Earth. Angel, completely mortified, finds consolation in a night of passion with Darla. And instead of losing his soul he has an epiphany and retains his soul. He goes to seek advice from Lorne about what to do with Gunn, Cordy and Wesley. After saving their lives from a group of demons Angel gets most of the trust back from Gunn and Wesley but it's a bit harder to get it back from Cordy. He eventually gets her back, with the help of some new clothes, but as soon as that's done he loses her again to Pylea. One night a portal opened in Caritas releasing a huge demon and that night Cordy has a vision about a girl in a library being sucked into a portal. When they investigate they find out that the girl disappeared five years ago, her name was Winnifred "Fred" Burkle. Cordy begins to read from a book which she remember the girl was reading and another portal opens, it's The Host's cousin, Landok from Pylea, The Host's aka Lorne's home world. They all go out to kill the Drokken, the demon which has been released in LA, and they succeed. Then they try and send Landok back, which they do, but also Cordelia gets sucked into Lorne's dimension. They devise a plan and Angel, Gunn, Wesley and Lorne all go to Pylea to find Cordy. In Pylea humans are seen as slaves and that's what Cordy is used as. She finds Fred, but she seems a little crazier than normal people. After Cordy has one vision her status changes from slave to princess by the priests there. When Angel, Gunn, Lorne and Wesley arrive Angel finds out he can safely stand in sunlight. They eventually find Cordy sitting on a thrown, which they find shocking. While trying to find a way back home Wesley finds a link to the priests of Pylea to Wolfram & Hart, and suggests not trusting them. Angel saves Fred from a beheading only to turn into a different kind of beast when he vamps out while trying to save Fred from local knights. Angel finds out he can't easily convert from that beast to human in Pylea. Wesley and Gunn find themselves escaping from the palace and run into rebels, outlawed human slaves. They bad together to take over the palace and get Cordy back. Plans go well, and the priests are defeated and Wesley figures a way home. On arrival Angel finds Willow sitting in the hotel lobby, it's Buffy.