Redefinition
| Angel (season 2) | |
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Region 1 Season 2 DVD cover
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original network | The WB |
| Original release | September 26, 2000 – May 22, 2001 |
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The second season of the television series Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, premiered on September 26, 2000 on The WB and concluded its 22-episode season on May 22, 2001. It maintained its previous timeslot, airing Tuesdays at 9:00 pm ET, following Buffy.
The Angel Investigations team, now in their new headquarters at the Hyperion Hotel, are trying to decipher what Wolfram & Hart raised at the end of season one with the Scrolls of Aberjan. It turns out that it was Darla – now human, ailing and mentally unstable – who is being used by Wolfram & Hart to unhinge Angel by mystically invading his dreams. Darla has been returned as the human she was before being turned into a vampire, which means that she has a soul but is now dying from the same case of syphilis that she originally had. She begs Angel to turn her into a vampire to save her life. He refuses and instead takes part in a dangerous trial, attempting to buy her a second chance. He succeeds. Unfortunately it can't help Darla, since she had already been rescued from death once before. However, his sacrifice proves to her that humanity has strength within it after all, and she begins to make peace with the idea of dying. However, Wolfram & Hart do not share her view and bring forth Drusilla to sire the uncooperative Darla (their original plan having been that Angel would do so, further darkening his path). With Drusilla and an again-soulless Darla now together and loose on the streets of Los Angeles, Angel decides he has no choice but to sink to their level in order to defeat them. He fires his crew (Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn) and purposefully allows Darla and Drusilla to slaughter the Special Projects division of Wolfram & Hart including Holland Manners. During the massacre the vampires intentionally leave Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan alive to act as their liaisons to Wolfram & Hart. The two lawyers begin competing for the position of head of Special Projects, in fear of losing their jobs as the firm decides to "trim the fat." Meanwhile, Angel trains himself to take on Darla and Drusilla. He finds and eliminates the potential demon army they planned to use to destroy Los Angeles, and then violently sets both of them on fire (although not killing them).
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