Calvary

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"Calvary" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Angel and the seventy-eighth episode overall. Written by Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight and Jeffrey Bell and directed by Bill L. Norton, it was originally broadcast on February 12, 2003 on the WB network.

Synopsis

As the gang scrambles to locate Angel's soul, which was stolen from the hotel safe, tempers and suspicions begin flaring among them as to a possible traitor among them. Meanwhile, Lilah emerges from hiding in the sewers beneath the city and tries her hand at persuading the captive Angelus to stop The Beast. Then Cordelia has a vision about restoring Angel's soul using a ritual involving the severed head of a ghostly soul-eater retrieved by Connor and Gunn from a local cemetery. With the sun still blocked out, and more and more vampires and demons decimating the city's population, Fred tries to move on with her personal life by splitting up with Gunn, while Angelus tells the group that the Beast is controlled by a higher being further up. Although the ritual appears successful at first, it is revealed to have been a fake, Cordelia deliberately releasing Angelus and stabbing Lilah Morgan in the neck.Template:Clear

Continuity

• "Cordelia" kills Lilah Morgan, revealing she deliberately let Angelus free.

• Angelus reveals that Angel had suspected that Fred and Gunn killed Professor Oliver Seidel in "Supersymmetry", despite apparently accepting their story that Seidel fell into his own portal. He had been uncertain whether it was Fred or Gunn who actually killed him until now.

• Angelus is released and now stalking Angel Investigations.

• Fred and Gunn end their relationship.

• Angelus chasing Lilah is reminiscent of Jenny Calendar's death. However, instead of Angelus surprising Lilah and killing her, it was Cordelia.

• Lilah's connections and ability to procure extra-dimensional materials--even when destitute and living in a sewer--explains why Jasmine had the Beast wipe out all Wolfram & Hart employees, not just Mesektet or the Los Angeles branch. Their resourcefulness was too much to risk, and indeed just the knowledge that something had wiped out all traces of the Beast in the entire dimension did alert them that they were dealing with something far more powerful than they had heretofore imagined.

Quotes

Gunn: "Now, instead of just worryin' about big bad rock-eater, we got Darth Vampire livin' in the basement."

Cordelia: "Do you know what Angelus would do if we let him out?"

Lilah: "Kill you all in a bloody shower of violence. But, hey, greater good."

Lilah: "It's Thursday, which means everyone who should be in the weekly briefing is, um, dead."

Lilah: "He's gonna kill us!"

Cordelia: "I know." [stabs Lilah in the throat] "Why do you think I let him out, you stupid bitch?"