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In season three (1998–1999), episode three, "Faith, Hope & Trick", Angel is inexplicably returned from hell by an unknown party and is soon found by Buffy.
"Awakening" is the tenth episode of the fourth season of Angel and the seventy-sixth episode in the series. Written by David Fury with Steven S. DeKnight and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on January 29, 2003 on The WB network.
Buffy wakes to find Angel gone. Outside, Angel reverts to his vampire form, Angelus, after the curse restoring his soul is lifted, and he immediately kills a woman. Angelus joins Spike and Drusilla and plots Buffy's death. Willow comes across Xander and Cordelia kissing, and she leaves angrily.
Angel/Angelus
Angel lost his soul twice: first, when he slept with Buffy Summers, and again, due to a spell. On both occasions, he reverted to his identity as the murderous and twisted Angelus, and sought to sadistically punish the people around him until his soul was restored again.
Kakistos leads an attack on the pair. Mr. Trick leaves the fight halfway through, while Faith and Buffy kill Kakistos. In the library later, Buffy reveals to Willow and Giles that Angel's soul was restored just before she had to kill him. Faith stays in Sunnydale.
A Hole In The World
Upon discovering that releasing the spirit would kill thousands, they had no choice than to allow Fred to die. Her heroic sacrifice remains the show's most heartbreak moment and one of its saddest episodes. Fred's death hit Wesley the hardest, as they had just become a couple.
Synopsis. REBORN — Angel goes on a frantic search after Drusilla turns Darla back into a vampire, and he must catch them before she rises again and the two go back to their old ways and paint the town red.
The Ritual of Restoration was a curse to restore a vampire's soul. It was used on Angelus by the Kalderash people after the notorious vampire murdered their most beloved daughter. When Angel's curse was broken in 1998, Willow Rosenberg performed the spell a second time to restore his soul.
Later, in Angel's perfect-day dream sequence, Angel and Cordelia consummated their relationship, but Angel called out "Buffy!" as he lost his soul, just as he did in Sunnydale years earlier.
Plot twist: Angelus never lost his soul. He and Buffy worked together to deceive Faith and get the information. Faith runs away from Buffy.
Angel's ratings in season 5 were actually up on season 4, making the lack of renewal even more of a shock, although the common reason given behind the move is that Whedon pressed John Levin, WB's Head of Entertainment, for an early decision on the show rather than the typical mid-May renewal.
Willow visits, restores Angel's soul, and takes Faith back with her to Sunnydale. Meanwhile, the team figures out that Cordelia is the one behind the apocalyptic events.
At the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season, Buffy's vampire-with-a-soul boyfriend, Angel, left for L.A.—and his own spin-off show.
Season two, episode 14 – Innocence
After Buffy and Angel sleep together, Angel loses his soul, reverting to his supremely evil Angelus persona and teaming up with Drusilla and then villainous Spike.
As Angel mourns Buffy's death, he battles a lovelorn vampire seeking revenge for the death of his beloved, who was killed by Angel. Lilah coerces Angel to help her secure the release of a prisoner the Powers That Be have locked in a fiery prison.
Angel showed up in Sunnydale in season 4, episode 20, “The Yoko Factor”.
Darla attempted to turn Angel against the Slayer, and to bring him back to their side, but she failed, and Angel killed her.
Unknown to Buffy, Angel is released from his curse and turned back into the infamous Angelus. The gang eventually find out that there was a second aspect to the gypsy curse; if Angel ever were to experience a moment of true happiness, he would lose his soul and revert to his former evil self.
Why Angel Ended After Season 5. David Fury, one of the show's producers, spoke on the real reason behind Angel's cancellation in 2004: Joss Whedon pushed the network for an early renewal, and they didn't go for it.
Angel kills the demon. Its blood, eventually found to be the Blood of Eternity, merges with his own, and he becomes human. Realizing what this means for their relationship, Angel spends the night with Buffy.
Although more crossovers happen with other characters and Angel would return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) never makes an appearance in Angel again.
In a fit of frustration, she turned on Angel. Faith bluntly and harshly blamed him for all of this, reminding him forcefully that she had done everything she could to help him when no one else would. She then went on to tell him that after his plan with Giles, she was done.