Angel season 4

Season 4
Episodes	22
Premiere	"Deep Down"
Finale	"Home"
Starring	David Boreanaz as Angel Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce J. August Richards as Charles Gunn Amy Acker as Winifred Burkle Vincent Kartheiser as Connor Andy Hallett as Lorne (from episode 14)

The fourth season of Angel originally aired on The WB from October 6, 2002 to May 7, 2003. It premiered later, but ended earlier, than the seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Synopsis

With both Angel and Cordelia still missing, Fred, Gunn and Connor try to keep Angel Investigations running while they search for their friends. Ironically, the man who everyone believes betrayed Angel is the one who finally comes to Angel's rescue. Then Cordelia mysteriously reappears with no memory of her life or her friends. Confused, she chooses to take refuge with Connor — setting into motion events that will alter their lives forever.

Cast

Main

• David Boreanaz as Angel (22/22)
• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase (22/22)
• Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (22/22)
• J. August Richards as Charles Gunn (22/22)
• Amy Acker as Winifred Burkle (22/22)
• Vincent Kartheiser as Connor (22/22)
• Andy Hallett as Lorne (21/22) (Does not appear in "Ground State")

Recurring

• Stephanie Romanov as Lilah Morgan (10/22)
• Vladimir Kulich as The Beast (8/22)
• Gina Torres as Jasmine (5/22)
• Alexa Davalos as Gwen Raiden (3/22)
• Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane (3/22)
• Daniel Dae Kim as Gavin Park (3/22)
• Roger Yuan as Wo-Pang (2/22)
• Jim Abele as Laurence Reilly (1/22)
• Julie Benz as Darla (1/22)
• David Denman as Skip (1/22)
• Adrienne Brett Evans as Colleen Reilly (1/22)
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg (1/22)
• Laurel Holloman as Justine Cooper (1/22)
• John Rubinstein as Linwood Murrow (1/22)
• Randy Oglesby as Oliver Seidel (1/22)

Episodes

No.	Image	Title	Air date
01		"Deep Down"	October 6, 2002
		Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Terrence O'Hara
		With Angel trapped on the ocean floor and Cordelia stuck on a mystical plane, Fred and Gunn are frustrated at the lack of clues regarding their friends' whereabouts, especially after the only eyewitness to Angel's disappearance is murdered. After Angel is rescued by the most unlikely person, the shocking reasons behind the mysterious disappearances become clear.
02		"Ground State"	October 13, 2002
		Writer: Mere Smith	Director: Michael Grossman
		When Wesley advises Angel to visit Dinza, a dark "goddess of the lost" who has valuable information on how to find Cordelia, he learns that a certain mystical antiquity can locate souls across dimensions. Angel, Fred and Gunn break into an auction house to retrieve the object only to discover that an electrifying cat burglar has the same intentions.
03		"The House Always Wins"	October 20, 2002
		Writer: David Fury	Director: Marita Grabiak
		Tired of dealing with Connor and looking for Cordelia, Angel decides to take Gunn and Fred on a road trip to Vegas to visit Lorne who is performing in a showcase at one of the casinos. They discover that Lorne is being coerced by the casino owner into stealing the "significant destinies" of audience members to sell on the black market. When the casino owner learns that Angel is destined to play a major role in the apocalypse, Cordelia must come to his aid from a distance to prevent his future from being stolen.
04		"Slouching Toward Bethlehem"	October 27, 2002
		Writer: Jeffrey Bell	Director: Skip Schoolnik
		Cordelia returns, but since she has no memory of who she is or that Angel is a vampire, everyone tries to keep their demon-hunting business a secret. After rescuing Cordelia from a demon, Connor takes on the role of her protector and Lorne reads Cordelia's future to help restore her memory but sees an approaching apocalypse involving Angel.
05		"Supersymmetry"	November 3, 2002
		Writers: Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain	Director: Bill L. Norton
		After Fred's physics article is published; she's invited to speak at a symposium where a portal opens, bringing her face to face with a demon and a dark secret about her old professor. Meanwhile, Angel tries to solve the mystery of the portal and why someone would want Fred out of the way.
06		"Spin the Bottle"	November 10, 2002
		Writer: Joss Whedon	Director: Joss Whedon
		When Lorne performs a spell on Cordelia to restore her memory, it inadvertently causes the gang to revert back to their high school personas and leaves them with no memories of each other. Eventually, they discover that the only way to reverse the spell is to kill a vampire, just as Angel realizes that he is one.
07		"Apocalypse, Nowish"	November 17, 2002
		Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Vern Gillum
		When Cordelia's apocalyptic nightmares become a reality, Angel, Wesley, Gunn and Lorne find themselves powerless against The Beast who has risen from the center of the Earth, bringing earthquakes and a rain of fire to Los Angeles. Bloodied and beaten, Angel and his friends realize that they may not be able to stop the impending doom.
08		"Habeas Corpses"	January 15, 2003
		Writer: Jeffrey Bell	Director: Skip Schoolnik
		When Angel realizes that there may be some connection between Connor and the Beast, he learns that Connor is trapped within Wolfram & Hart where the building is under lock-down and the Beast is on a brutal killing spree. Angel, Wesley, Gunn and Fred must figure out how to spring Connor before he is killed as well.
09		"Long Day's Journey"	January 22, 2003
		Writer: Mere Smith	Director: Terrence O'Hara
		When the gang learns that the answer to stopping the Beast is among them, everyone suspects Connor, until Cordelia begins to receive visions from the Powers That Be. Meanwhile, Angel and Gwen discover that the Beast is preparing a device that will blot out the sun permanently and turn the world into a demon playground.
10		"Awakening"	January 29, 2003
		Writers: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight	Director: James A. Contner
		After Cordelia's revelation that Angelus and The Beast made a pact, the gang determines that they must turn Angel into Angelus to end the eternal darkness. For that transformation to take place, Angel must lose his soul by experiencing a moment of pure happiness.
11		"Soulless"	February 5, 2003
		Writers: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft	Director: Sean Astin
		With Angelus now confined to a cage, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred and Connor take turns interrogating him hoping to find out how to kill the beast. Unable to learn anything, the gang decides to turn Angelus back into Angel, but learn that Angel's soul has been stolen.
12		"Calvary"	February 12, 2003
		Writers: Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight, Jeffrey Bell	Director: Bill L. Norton
		When the gang receives the disturbing news that The Beast is working for a much more powerful entity, they realize they must restore Angel's soul to revert the evil Angelus back to Angel.
13		"Salvage"	March 5, 2003
		Writer: David Fury	Director: Jefferson Kibbee
		When Angelus meets up with The Beast, he learns that the rain of fire, blacking out the sun and stealing Angel's soul was all part of The Beast's mysterious master plan to bring Angelus back. Meanwhile, Wesley releases vampire slayer Faith from prison to help capture Angelus.
14		"Release"	March 12, 2003
		Writers: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft, Steven S. DeKnight	Director: James A. Contner
		Angelus continues his search for The Beast's mysterious master, never suspecting that it could be someone close to him. Meanwhile, Faith and Angelus do battle while Cordelia convinces Connor to keep their baby a secret.
15		"Orpheus"	March 19, 2003
		Writer: Mere Smith	Director: Terrence O'Hara
		While in their drug-induced comas, Angelus and Faith experience flashbacks of Angel’s good deeds over the centuries; Fred calls in Willow, the only person ever able to restore Angel’s soul and asks her to help them do it again.
16		"Players"	March 26, 2003
		Writers: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft, Jeffrey Bell	Director: Michael Grossman
		Angel and the gang set out to find out as much as they can about Cordelia's pregnancy and the identity of The Beast's master while Gwen Raiden enlists Gunn's help to crash a black-tie affair and rescue a kidnapped girl.
17		"Inside Out"	April 2, 2003
		Writer: Steven S. DeKnight	Director: Steven S. DeKnight
		Desperate to find out why Cordelia has turned to the dark side, Angel goes to demon Skip for answers. Forcing the truth out of him, Angel learns that all that's transpired, Connor's birth, Cordelia's ascension to the higher plane, Angel turning into Angelus and Cordelia's pregnancy, were all a part of a higher being's plan to create something even more powerful than itself.
18		"Shiny Happy People"	April 9, 2003
		Writers: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft	Director: Marita Grabiak
		The Woman A.K.A. Jasmine, who was born to Cordelia, has the amazing ability to turn everyone she meets, including Angel and the gang, into loyal disciples dedicated to carrying out her every command. Only Fred is able to see that Jasmine's radiant beauty hides a sinister and powerful secret the others refuse to believe.
19		"The Magic Bullet"	April 16, 2003
		Writer: Jeffrey Bell	Director: Jeffrey Bell
		With Angel and the others under Jasmine's extraordinarily divine power, Fred's life is in danger and she goes on the run. After discovering the secret to breaking Jasmine's spell over the nation's citizens, Fred must find a way to save the others before she's captured and killed.
20		"Sacrifice"	April 23, 2003
		Writer: Ben Edlund	Director: David Straiton
		Free from Jasmine's spell, Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Fred and Lorne escape into the sewers for protection until an evil, tentacled monster that has information about Jasmine captures Wes. Meanwhile, Connor, still in the clutches of Jasmine, discovers that Cordelia has vanished.
21		"Peace Out"	April 30, 2003
		Writer: David Fury	Director: Jefferson Kibbee
		Angel goes on a mission to find proof that his son Connor wasn't simply a vessel designed to bring the evil Jasmine, who is hell-bent on destroying everyone, into the world. Meanwhile, Connor goes in search of the missing Cordelia.
22		"Home"	May 7, 2003
		Writer: Tim Minear	Director: Tim Minear
		Angel and the gang are made an offer they can't refuse when they are given the opportunity to take over Wolfram & Hart and obtain all of the firm's secret and powerful information. Meanwhile, Angel has a chance to change the future for his son Connor, who is physically and emotionally lost and wandering through the city.

Behind the scenes

• This is the first season in which Wolfram & Hart is not among the main antagonists.
• The main antagonists of this season are the Beast and Jasmine.