Regular Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), James Marsters (Spike), J August Richards (Gunn), Amy Acker (Fred/Illyria), Andy Hallett (Lorne), Mercedes McNab (Harmony), Alexis Denisof (Wesley).

 

Recurring Guest Stars: Sarah Thompson (Eve), Jonathan M Woodward (Knox), Adam Baldwin (Marcus Hamilton).

5.1: Conviction (Original airdate 1st October 2003)

Writer: Joss Whedon

Director: Joss Whedon

 

As the Angel Investigations team moves into the LA law offices of Wolfram and Hart, two old friends from Sunnydale come back into their lives: Harmony and Spike.

Teleplay: David Fury & Ben Edlund

Story: David Fury

Director: James A Contner

 

Spike struggles with the fact that he has returned as a ghost and finds himself tempted by a promise made by a necromancer that he and Angel have gone to confront.

Writers: Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft

Director: Marita Grabiak

 

As Angel tries to help a young woman bitten by a werewolf, Fred tries to help Spike who has begun to fade in and out of existence for longer and longer periods of time.

Writer: Steve S DeKnight

Director: Steve S DeKnight

 

Fred tries to build a transformation device that will turn Spike back into a corporeal being and prevent a ghost called "The Reaper" from dragging him into Hell.

Writer: Ben Edlund

Director: Bill Norton

 

When Lorne foregoes sleep in order to prepare for the firms' big Halloween party, the dark side of his subconscious begins to manifest itself, and affect the gang in strange ways.

Writer: Jeffrey Bell

Director: Jeffrey Bell

 

Feeling discontented from his real mission to be a hero for the people, Angel befriends an elderly mail clerk at the firm who was once a hero too and who feels the same way.

Writer: Drew Goddard

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

 

While the gang does battle against a troop of Ninja-like cyborgs, Wesley finds himself battling with the sudden appearance of his father, who is a member of the Watchers' Council.

Writers: David Fury & Steven S DeKnight

Director: Skip Schoolnik

 

Spike opens a package that makes him corporeal again, turns the firm's employees into bloody-eyed monsters, and pits him against Angel in a race to drink out of the Cup of Perpetual Torment.

Writers: Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain

Director: Vern Gillum

 

Harmony finds herself in over her head and desperate to keep her job after she wakes up in her bed next to a dead man with vampire bites on his neck.

Writer: Brent Fletcher

Director: David Boreanaz

 

While Spike assumes the role of vampire-killing vigilante, Angel begins suffering from horrific dreams that seem to center around his inner fears and insecurities.

Writers: Steven S DeKnight & Drew Goddard

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

 

When Angel and Spike try to help a young woman who escaped from an asylum, they discover she's actually a potential slayer empowered by the spell Willow cast back at the Hellmouth in Sunnydale.

Writer: David Fury

Director: David Fury

 

Cordelia returns to help her friends one last time after an old nemesis shows up determined to defeat Angel by overriding a secret failsafe created by the Powers That Be.

Writers: Drew Goddard & Steven S DeKnight

Director: Terrence O'Hara

 

A World War II sailor - who Angel turned into a vampire in order to save the crew of a German submarine - returns to make Angel pay for all his years of pain.

Teleplay: Ben Edlund

Story: Joss Whedon & Ben Edlund

Director: Ben Edlund

 

While Wesley and Fred's relationship heats up, Gunn makes a deal to ensure his mental powers are made permanent, and Angel gets turned into a little felt-covered puppet.

Writer: Joss Whedon

Director: Joss Whedon

 

After breathing in the air from an ancient sarcophagus, Fred falls deathly ill and the rest of the gang races to find a cure before it's too late.

Writer: Steven S DeKnight

Director: Steven S DeKnight

 

As Illyria, the ancient god now occupying Fred's body, gets used to her new world, Wesley uncovers Gunn's part in approving the customs document for the sarcophagus.

Writers: Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft

Director: Skip Schoolnik

 

Angel takes Gunn and Spike with him on a mission to rescue Lindsey from the hell dimension created by the Senior Partners, totally unaware that Gunn has his own hidden agenda.

Writer: Drew Goddard

Director: Terrence O'Hara

 

When Connor and his new parents show up at Wolfram and Hart asking for help, Angel refuses, leading Wesley to uncover how Angel had everyone's memory altered.

Writer: Ben Edlund

Director: Vern Gillum

 

Although Illyria rescues Gunn, Angel realises she must be killed after her body begins a deadly physical breakdown which could unleash enough power to destroy the world.

Writers: Steven S DeKnight

Director: David Greenwalt

 

As Fred's parents arrive to visit their daughter, Angel and Spike fly to Rome to save Buffy from her new lover who they're convinced has her under his evil spell.

Writer: David Fury

Director: James A Contner

 

Angel's strange behaviour convinces the gang that he's joined an elite group of evildoers called the Circle of the Black Thorn - a group he could only have joined by killing one of his own.

Writers: Jaffrey Bell & Joss Whedon

Director: Jeffrey Bell

 

The gang prepares to attack the true powers of evil by attempting to take down the Circle of the Black Thorn - a battle none of them expect to survive.