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Note: This article is about the Wolfram & Hart employee. For other uses, see Eve.

Eve was the liaison to the Senior Partners at Wolfram & Hart after the Angel Investigations staff took over the Los Angeles branch.[1]

Initially serving the Senior Partners, her creators, Eve fell in love with Lindsey McDonald and joined his plot against Angel.[2] After being exposed,[3] she went into hiding to escape the Senior Partners' wrath[4] until Marcus Hamilton, a fellow child of the Senior Partners, tracked her down and forced her to sign away her position and immortality.[5]

After becoming mortal, Eve remained at Lindsey's side, though she feared for his safety when he joined Angel's plot to eliminate the Circle of the Black Thorn. Her fears proved true when Angel told her Lindsey would not be coming for her, understanding that Angel had turned on her lover. Alone, Eve remained in W&H while the building began to crumble.[6]

Biography[]

Origin[]

Though she appeared human, Eve was a child of the Senior Partners, a being given human form and created to do their bidding.[5] According to her, she attended the University of California in Santa Cruz.[7]

Eve was the liaison to the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart when Angel and his crew took over the Los Angeles branch of the firm.[1] Never trusted, she came and went at her leisure, usually stirring up trouble.[2][8]

Against Angel[]

At some point, Eve met and fell in love with Lindsey McDonald. The two hatched a scheme to slowly but surely demoralize Angel through a variety of means. Eve and Lindsey used a spell to make Angel and his team believe that the existence of two vampires with a soul endangered the existence of the universe, then manipulated Spike into becoming a vigilante and reminder of the work Angel used to do. Eve frequently mentioned Spike's new status as Champion when he became corporeal again,[2] and she put Selminth parasites on Angel that kept him in illusions where he had become a loser and Spike the Champion.[8]

The plan all along was for Spike to save Angel from the agent, but, unfortunately for Eve, Angel recognized Eve in a moment of cognizance as she unleashed the parasite. Though she tried to talk her way out of it, Angel and his friends trusted her even less by then.[8] The revelation that she had been working with Lindsey against Angel put her on the run. Eve hid in Lindsey's apartment, using the runes covering it to remain beyond the Senior Partners' radar.[3][4]

Eve's position with the firm ended when she was confronted by the new liaison, Marcus Hamilton, and forced to sign away her immortality and other privileges. She came under the legal protection of Angel, as Angel believed she could be useful against the Senior Partners. Lindsey eventually returned from his prison in the Holding Dimension, thanks to Angel,[5] and the two were able to spend some more time together before Angel approached Lindsey for a final mission against the Circle of the Black Thorn, and Lindsey agreed to join in the battle.[6]

Fate[]

Eve was skeptical of Lindsey's chances of survival during the last battle; indeed, he was ultimately assassinated by Lorne. At a previous meeting, Lorne prophesied that Eve had a terrible future ahead of her. When the Wolfram & Hart offices were being destroyed in an earthquake, Angel told her that Lindsey wasn't coming for her, it was time for her to go. Still in the office, Eve asked: "Go where?"[6]

During the Fall of Los Angeles, the Senior Partners discussed with Wesley the possibility of replacing him with a "zombified McDonald" or Eve herself — implying that, dead or alive, she was back under their control. Wesley, unhappy with being forced to serve the Partners, shot those possibilities down, saying the presence of either alongside Angel would not help the Senior Partners get what they wanted, as the vampire would at worst ignore them and kill them at best.[9]

Relationships[]

  • Angel — Eve and Angel had a one-time encounter at Wolfram & Hart's Halloween party, where Lorne's empathic powers went out of control, so he began to unintentionally write destinies instead of reading them. He told Angel and Eve to "get a room" because of their "sexual tension." When Angel suggested they should talk about it, Eve remarked: "It's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence."[7] Angel never fully trusted her due to the fact she was directly involved with the Senior Partners. After this, however, their professional relationship became increasingly hostile due to Eve's relationship with Angel's old foe Lindsey,[3] particularly following her attempt to infect Angel with a Selminth parasite.[8]
  • Lindsey McDonald — Eve appeared to genuinely care for Lindsey, even going as far as incapacitating Angel with a parasite and keep his team from discovering Lindsey's plans.[8] After the Senior Partners abducted Lindsey, Spike commented that Eve's only reason for existing was to see Lindsey again.[5] After Angel told his friends and Lindsey to spend the day as if it was their last, Lindsey chose to spend it with Eve. After learning of Lindsey's death, Eve's suggested that she had nowhere to go.[6]

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Behind the scenes[]

  • She was portrayed by Sarah Thompson.
  • Eve was originally going to appear in a "First Night" story in the After the Fall series, in which Lindsey would kill her to prove himself to the Senior Partners. The story was discarded because it was seen as out-of-character for Lindsey to kill Eve, and it gave the impression that he was going to be more important than he became.[10]
  • About Eve's portrayal and the fan's dislike for the character, Thompson has stated: "I'd worked a lot but I hadn't worked on something with that kind of fanbase where it was fans that were so passionate. It was really hard and I would go online and I would read things and it really hurt my feelings and I became super-insecure about that work. [...] It's tough. And I think on Angel it was especially tough because the fans were so passionate but if they don't like you, they really don't like you. They want you off. It's not just, 'Well, I don't really like her.' It's like, 'I HATE HER!' But on the flip side I did a lot of conventions for Angel and met a lot of people that were really positive and were really supportive and encouraging. So I had that experience also but I try to just push it out of my mind because otherwise I'd just be depressed."[11]

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