The BEST episodes of Angel season 5
Every episode of Angel season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Angel season 5!
Angel, a 240-year old vampire cursed with a conscience, haunts the dark streets of Los Angeles alone. But after he meets a half-demon with mysterious visions, Angel realizes his true purpose: to help those in danger with the hope that he may have a chance to redeem himself and save his own soul. With Cordelia and Doyle at his side, he forms Angel Investigations. He is soon joined by Wesley, Gunn, Lorne and Fred, and he will need all their expertise to fight the growing forces of evil, and the supernatural law firm of Wolfram and Hart.
#1 - Not Fade Away
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2004
Angel and his friend's prepare for their "suicide" attack on the circle of the Black Thorn.
#2 - Shells
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2004
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.
#3 - Smile Time
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2004
While Nina the werewolf shows 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.
#4 - Power Play
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2004
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.
#5 - A Hole in the World
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/25/2004
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.
#6 - Destiny
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003
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.
#7 - Hell Bound
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2003
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.
#8 - You're Welcome
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2004
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.
#9 - Time Bomb
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2004
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.
#10 - Origin
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2004
When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.
#11 - The Girl in Question
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2004
While Angel and Spike go to 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.
#12 - Conviction
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2003
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.
#13 - Just Rewards
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2003
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
#14 - Lineage
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003
When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.
#15 - Damage
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2004
A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.
#16 - Life of the Party
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003
Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.
#17 - Underneath
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/14/2004
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.
#18 - Harm's Way
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2004
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.
#19 - Why We Fight
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/2004
A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.
#20 - Soul Purpose
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2004
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.
#21 - Unleashed
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2003
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.
#22 - The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2003
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.