Season: Episode 15 of Season 2
Original Air Date: 02/20/2001
Written by: Tim Minear
Directed by: James Whitmore, Jr.

<b>Notes:</b>

Angel fails against Wolfram & Hart, sleeps with Darla.

<b>Plot Highlights:</b>

Wolfram & Hart prepares for a review by the Senior Partners; Angel looks for a magical way to crash the party and attack the Partners themselves at their source; meanwhile Darla hides with Lindsey, Wesley's girlfriend leaves him, Kate is suspended and contemplates suicide, and Cordelia is lured into an ambush. Angel attacks Wolfram & Hart, but is told that the Earth itself is part of Hell and he can't win against them, since they are part of the world. In despair, he meets Darla and sleeps with her - risking the loss of his soul.

<b>Quotes:</b>

HOLLAND: Well, this is exciting, isn't it? Going straight to the source. So, what's the big plan, Angel? Destroy the Senior Partners, smash Wolfram and Hart once and for all?

ANGEL: Something like that.

HOLLAND: Hm-mm, now tell me just what do you imagine that would accomplish? In the end, I mean.

ANGEL: It'll be - the end.

HOLLAND: Well, the end of you, certainly. But I meant in the larger sense.

ANGEL: In the larger sense I really don't give a crap.

HOLLAND: Now I don't think that's true. Be honest. You got the tiniest bit of 'give a crap' left. Otherwise you wouldn't be going on this Kamikaze mission. Now let me see, there was something - in a sacred prophecy, some oblique reference to you. Something you're supposed to prevent. Now what was that?

ANGEL: The apocalypse.

HOLLAND: Yes, the apocalypse, of course. - Another one of those. Well, it's true. We do have one scheduled. And I imagine if you were to prevent it you would save a great many people. Well, you should do that then. Absolutely. I wasn't thinking. Of course all those people you save from that apocalypse would then have the next one to look forward to, but, hey, it's always something, isn't it?

ANGEL: You're not gonna win.

HOLLAND: Well - *no*. Of course we aren't. We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as 'winning.'

ANGEL: Then why?

HOLLAND: Hmm? I'm sorry? Why what?

ANGEL: Why fight?

HOLLAND: That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We - go on - no matter what. Our firm has always been here. In one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And *that* - friend - is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.