Angel: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Angel Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Deep Down
Oct 6, 2002
As Fred and Gunn search for Angel, Wesley continues his affair with Lilah and conducts his own, more fruitful, search.
Ground State
Oct 13, 2002
In his quest to steal an artifact that may help him find Cordelia, Angel finds himself competing with a human thief whose body is electrically charged.
The House Always Wins
Oct 20, 2002
Angel and his friends discover that Lorne is being held prisoner in a corrupt Las Vegas casino.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Oct 27, 2002
After Cordelia returns, she doesn't remember her friends and Lorne senses a major evil brewing. Scared by the world of demons and vampires, Cordelia takes refuge with Connor, who s
Supersymmetry
Nov 3, 2002
Fred discovers her old physics professor is the one who exiled her to Pylea; Cordelia can't get comfortable with Connor and begins to wonder more about her history with Angel.
Spin the Bottle
Nov 10, 2002
Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory backfires and convinces everyone they're high school students who have been gathered to kill a vampire: Angel.
Apocalypse, Nowish
Nov 17, 2002
As plagues of various pests descend on Los Angeles, the beast Cordelia saw in her vision returns - and the apocalypse begins.
Habeas Corpses
Jan 15, 2003
Connor gets locked inside Wolfram and Hart with the Big Bad doomsday beast, who turns the legal firms staff into an army of zombies.
Long Day's Journey
Jan 22, 2003
After a group of totems linked to the ancient sun god Ra are killed by the Big Bad beast, Angel and his friends realize he's plotting to turn off the sun.
Awakening
Jan 29, 2003
Angel agrees to try to bring Angelus back... but after the first attempt fails, he and his friends discover a magic sword that might do a better job of getting rid of the Big Bad b
Soulless
Feb 5, 2003
After Angelus succeeds in setting Angel's friends against each other, Cordelia makes him a deal: if he tells what he knows about the Big Bad beast, she'll give herself to him.
Calvary
Feb 12, 2003
After learning the doomsday beast may be working for something bigger and badder than itself, Angel's friends cast a spell to return his soul to Angelus' body.
Salvage
Mar 5, 2003
While Lorne casts a sanctuary spell on the hotel, and Wesley brings in the slayer, Faith, to help get Angelus back... the Doomsday Beast and its boss also try to woo Angelus.
Release
Mar 12, 2003
As Faith and Angel continue their battle, the voice of the Beast's Master invades Angel's mind.
Orpheus
Mar 19, 2003
As Faith and Angelus lay drugged and possibly dying, they flash back to key events in Angel's life... and Willow comes to help the others in the quest to restore Angel's soul.
Players
Mar 26, 2003
As Angel tries to remember what Lilah's book said about the Master, Lorne plans a cleansing ritual to regain his empathetic powers, and Gunn helps Gwen with some corporate espionag
Inside Out
Apr 2, 2003
As Cordelia prepares to give birth, Angel and his friends finally learn that she - or an evil presence controlling her - is the Beast's master.
Shiny Happy People
Apr 9, 2003
While everyone else worships the beautiful woman Cordelia bore, Fred sees another side of her.
The Magic Bullet
Apr 16, 2003
As Jasmine's influence continues to spread, Fred finally tricks Angel into seeing her true nature.
Sacrifice
Apr 23, 2003
While hiding in a sewer, Angel and his friends battle a nasty monster provides some clues that might help in the larger battle against Jasmine.
Peace Out
Apr 30, 2003
Angel returns from the monster's dimension and finally defuses Jasmine's all-compassing powers.
Home
May 7, 2003
Lilah returns from the dead to offer Angel and his friends full ownership of Wolfram and Hart.