aired on: November 21, 2000

written by: Jim Kouf

directed by: David Grossman

Angel, still brooding about Darla, has gone off to meet with Gunn. His cousin, Lester, has gotten himself involved in something big, and he's called on Angel for help. Lester explains that he took a job driving a truck for a museum heist. He heard the demons are after something supernatural, and that they're bringing in some psycho vampire from Vegas named Jay-Don to help. Angel has heard of Jay-Don, and knows he's big time. He tells Gunn he's taking the case from him.

When Angel returns home, Kate is there waiting for him. She's looking for Darla, and she's giving Angel a lot of attitude. Angel tells Kate he's tired of her taking out her anger over her father's death on him - and that she shouldn't get between him and Darla.

A bit later, Wesley and Cordelia arrive, back from a big Hollywood soiree. Angel tells them about Jay-Don and the heist that's planned, and heads out to intercept him at the bus station. Wesley and Cordelia get to work trying to figure out what these guys are planning to steal.

Angel finds the fast-talking Jay-Don at the bus station, and slays him. Then he steals his sunglasses, and poses as him. A demon comes looking for him, and drives him to an abandoned car lot, where another demon and a human are waiting. The only one missing now is Lester, the driver. But Lester doesn't arrive at the door - Gunn does, posing as Lester.

The lead demon explains that they're going to steal the Shroud of Rahmon, worth about $2 million on the black market, and reviews the plan for the heist.

Back at the office, Wesley and Cordelia research the Museum of Natural History website, and suspect the Shroud of Rahmon is what the thieves are after. Further research reveals that the Shroud absorbed Rahmon's power, and whoever has it has his power. In 1803, the Shroud was removed from its casing, and the entire population of the town went insane. When Cordelia and Wesley realize the thieves may be trying to steal it as they speak, they head to the museum to try to stop them.

At the museum, the heist is underway. But company is on its way, too. A couple police officers have shown Kate some surveillance photos, and Angel, posing as Jay-Don, is in one of them. She heads straight to the museum.

Acting quickly, the thieves have already removed the Shroud from the vault, and are carrying it toward the truck. But the Shroud is starting to have an effect on them. As they lug its heavy case through the hallway, Angel and Gunn begin to bicker. Gunn, angry, drops his corner of the case. The uneven weight causes the whole thing to drop, and the glass covering the Shroud cracks. Even more of the Shroud's power can now creep out, and it's making everyone in the building act differently, including Wesley, Cordelia and Kate, who are all looking for Angel.

Wesley finds Angel first, but Angel, mad from the Shroud's effect, knocks him across the room. Then Kate, gun drawn, finds them. In his delirium, Angel turns vampire. When Kate starts shooting at him, he comes at her, and bites her on the neck.

With Kate down, the thieves take the case back to their lair, where one of the demons punches through the glass, breaking it open. All of them are crazy now, and a battle for the shroud ensues. As Angel and Gunn wrestle over it, Angel has a moment of clarity, and convinces Gunn to let him have it - he says he knows what to do with it. Gunn relents, and Angel takes the Shroud outside, and sets it on fire.

Back at the museum, Wesley attends to Kate, who's still slumped on the floor, when the police arrive. They take him back to the station and begin to question him. Wesley, still delirious from the Shroud's effects, tries to explain, but isn't making much sense. As the officers are about to arrest Wesley, an ashen-looking Kate opens the door to the interrogation room, and tells them to let him go.

She remembers Angel biting her neck, and the gun that one of the demons had pointed at her. "Stay down, or they'll kill you," Angel said to her. Kate played dead, and stayed alive. The next day at the office, Wesley and Cordelia recap the previous night's events. Wesley is concerned that even though Angel didn't kill Kate, he drank some of her blood, the first taste of human blood he's had in some time. He's worried that it may have reawakened Angel's bloodlust.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Angel is remembering his bite of Kate.