Season 5
🎬 22 Episodes 📅 2003 ⏱ 42 min Canceled ❌
Angel, a cursed vampire seeking redemption, walks the shadowed streets of Los Angeles, drawn toward those touched by darkness. His journey intertwines visceral action with profound emotional depth, as he confronts supernatural evil and his own fractured humanity. Each case becomes a mirror reflecting his quest for absolution, revealing that salvation may be as elusive as the dawn he can never greet. In this 1999 supernatural drama, hope and torment become inseparable companions.
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📊 Season Stats
22
Episodes
2003
Year
42
min / ep
15.4
Watch Hours
5/5
Season No.
⭐ 9.3
Best Episode
Ep. 12 · You're Welcome
Canceled ❌
Status
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🎬 Episodes 22 episodes
1
⭐ 8.0
Conviction
Some old acquaintances come back into Angel's life as he and his friends begin running Wolfram and Hart and try to figure out why they've been selected to do so.
🎬 Joss Whedon ✍️ Joss Whedon
2
⭐ 7.5
Just Rewards
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
🎬 James A. Contner ✍️ Ben Edlund
3
⭐ 5.3
Unleashed
Angel tries to help a young woman who has been turned into a werewolf and is being pursued by a group of truly rarified gourmets.
🎬 Marita Grabiak ✍️ Sarah Fain
4
⭐ 5.5
Hell Bound
After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.
🎬 Steven S. DeKnight ✍️ Steven S. DeKnight
5
⭐ 7.5
Life of the Party
Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.
🎬 Bill L. Norton ✍️ Ben Edlund
6
⭐ 7.2
The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
While losing heart for his own career as a hero, Angel befriends a disheartened, elderly hero, and battles an Aztec warrior who literally eats the hearts of heroes.
🎬 Jeffrey Bell ✍️ Jeffrey Bell
7
⭐ 7.8
Lineage
When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.
🎬 Jefferson Kibbee ✍️ Drew Goddard
8
⭐ 6.5
Destiny
After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.
🎬 Skip Schoolnik ✍️ David Fury
9
⭐ 7.8
Harm's Way
When Harmony wakes up next to a dead man with vampire bites in his neck, she's afraid she lost her head and killed him... but she can't remember doing it.
🎬 Vern Gillum ✍️ Sarah Fain
10
⭐ 7.5
Soul Purpose
When Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve lets loose a soul sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.
🎬 David Boreanaz ✍️ Brent Fletcher
11
⭐ 8.0
Damage
A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.
🎬 Jefferson Kibbee ✍️ Drew Goddard
12
⭐ 9.3
You're Welcome
When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.
🎬 David Fury ✍️ David Fury
13
⭐ 6.3
Why We Fight
A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.
🎬 Terrence O'Hara ✍️ Drew Goddard
14
⭐ 9.0
Smile Time
While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.
🎬 Ben Edlund ✍️ Ben Edlund
15
⭐ 8.6
A Hole in the World
After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.
🎬 Joss Whedon ✍️ Joss Whedon
16
⭐ 8.5
Shells
Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.
🎬 Steven S. DeKnight ✍️ Steven S. DeKnight
17
⭐ 8.3
Underneath
Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.
🎬 Skip Schoolnik ✍️ Sarah Fain
18
⭐ 8.3
Origin
When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.
🎬 Terrence O'Hara ✍️ Drew Goddard
19
⭐ 8.0
Time Bomb
As Angel and Hamilton urge Wesley to get rid of Illyria, she suffers a cataclysmic physical breakdown; and Gunn clashes with Angel over the enforcement of an evil demon contract.
🎬 Vern Gillum ✍️ Ben Edlund
20
⭐ 7.1
The Girl in Question
While Angel and Spike to go Italy to retrieve the head of a demon mobster (and save Buffy from a new suitor), Fred's parents arrive at Wolfram and Hart, looking for their daughter.
🎬 David Greenwalt ✍️ Drew Goddard
21
⭐ 8.6
Power Play
As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.
🎬 James A. Contner ✍️ David Fury
22
⭐ 8.9
Not Fade Away
Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.
🎬 Jeffrey Bell ✍️ Jeffrey Bell