Season: Episode 5 of Season 2
Original Air Date: 10/24/2000
Written by: David Greenwalt
Directed by: David Greenwalt

<b>Notes:</b>

Angel confronts the revivified Darla.

<b>Plot Highlights:</b>

Angel is sleepy, Cordelia has a vision. Angel gets carried away fighting. (Flashback) Darla points Dru out to Angelus. Angel sees Darla, alive. Harold hires AI to tail his wife. Darla chats with Lindsey. Angel sees Darla again, confronts her, but she claims to be DeEtta Kramer. Angel sings for Lorne @ Caritas. Darla & Lindsey stage a scene to frame Angel. Wes & Cordy tell Gunn about Angel's past. (Flashback) Angelus puts the final touches on driving Dru mad. Kate sides with "DeEtta", hassles Wes, Cordy & Gunn. Angel kidnaps Darla. Angel dismisses Wes & Cordy's concerns.

<b>Quotes:</b>

ANGEL: Wolfram and Hart didn't bring you back for fun. The Dreams, the frame job - what's the big plan, huh? Get me so screwed up I go bad again?

DARLA: Kind of trite, I know. What do you expect? They're only human.

ANGEL: You better embrace that mediocrity, honey. You're talking about your own kind now.

DARLA: But I'm still me. (Presses herself up against him) And I remember everything, Angel. Everything we did. Everything we *can* do.

ANGEL: (playing along) Yeah. But the bitch is (pushes her away) you have a soul now. Pretty soon those memories are gonna start eating away at you. No matter how hard you try, you won't be able to escape the truth of what you were. Believe me, I know.

DARLA: (seductive) But you can escape. You can escape it all. Remember what it's like to get lost, huh? Every thought a million miles away, every part of your being *alive*! All you have to do is let me give you one little moment of happiness.

ANGEL: You took me places, showed me things. You blew the top off my head. But you never made me happy.

DARLA: But that - that *cheerleader* did? We were together 150 years! We shared *everything*. You're saying - never?

ANGEL: You couldn't understand.

DARLA: I understand alright. Guy gets taste of something fresh and he thinks he's touching god.

ANGEL: It wasn't about...

DARLA: Oh, you bet your ass it was! There was a time, in the early years, when you would have said I was the *definition* of bliss! Buffy wasn't happiness. She was just new.

ANGEL: (laughing) You know - you're getting awfully bent over this, Darla. I couldn't feel that with *you*, because I didn't have a soul. But then I got a second chance. Just like you have.

DARLA: What a poster child for soulfulness you are. (Walks up and presses herself against him) This is no life, Angel! Before you got neutered you weren't just any vampire, you were a legend! Nobody could keep up with you, not even me. You don't learn that kind of darkness. It's innate. It was in you before we ever met. You said you can smell me? Well, I can smell you, too. And my boy is still in there and he wants out!

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DARLA: (burning him with a cross) See? No matter how good a boy you are, God doesn't want you!

(Angel lets go of her and throws himself back away from her cross)

DARLA: But I still do.