Season 5
5.01 - Conviction
Written By: Joss Whedon
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Original Airdate: October 1, 2003
Description: As the Angel Investigations team moves into the L.A. law offices of Wolfram and Hart, two old friends from Sunnydale come back into their lives: Harmony and Spike.
5.02 - Just Rewards
Written By: David Fury, Ben Edlund
Directed By: James A. Contner
Original Airdate: October 8, 2003
Description: Spike struggles with the fact that he has returned as a ghost and finds himself tempted by a promise made by a necromancer that he and Angel have gone to confront.
5.03 - Unleashed
Written By: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
Directed By: Marita Grabiak
Original Airdate: October 15, 2003
Description: As Angel tries to help a young woman bitten by a werewolf, Fred tries to help Spike, who has begun to fade in and out of existence for longer and longer periods of time.
5.04 - Hellbound
Written By: Steven S. DeKnight
Directed By: Steven S. DeKnight
Original Airdate: October 22, 2003
Description: Fred tries to build a transformation device that will turn Spike back into a corporeal being and prevent a ghost called "The Reaper" from dragging him into Hell.
5.05 - Life of the Party
Written By: Ben Edlund
Directed By: Bill Norton
Original Airdate: October 29, 2003
Description: When Lorne foregoes sleep in order to prepare for the firm's big Halloween party, the dark side of his subconscious begins to manifest itself, and affect the gang in strange ways.
5.06 - The Cautionary Tale Of Numero Cinco
Written By: Jeffrey Bell
Directed By: Jeffrey Bell
Original Airdate: November 5, 2003
Description: Feeling disconnected from his real mission to be a hero for the people, Angel befriends an elderly mail clerk at the firm who was once a hero too and who feels the same way.
5.07 - Lineage
Written By: Drew Goddard
Directed By: Jefferson Kibbee
Original Airdate: November 12, 2003
Description: While the gang does battle against a troop of Ninja-like cyborgs, Wesley finds himself battling with the sudden appearance of his father, who is a member of the Watchers' Council.
5.08 - Destiny
Written By: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight
Directed By: Skip Schoolnik
Original Airdate: November 19, 2003
Description: Spike opens a package that makes him corporeal again, turns the firm's employees into bloody-eyed monsters, and pits him against Angel in a race to drink out of the Cup of Perpetual Torment.
5.09 - Harm's Way
Written By: Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain
Directed By: Vern Gillum
Original Airdate: January 14, 2004
Description: Harmony finds herself in over her head and desperate to keep her job after she wakes up in her bed next to a dead man with vampire bites on his neck.
5.10 - Soul Purpose
Written By: Brent Fletcher
Directed By: David Boreanaz
Original Airdate: January 21, 2004
Description: While Spike assumes the role of vampire-killing vigilante, Angel begins suffering from horrific dreams that seem to center around his inner fears and insecurities.
5.11 - Damage
Written By: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard
Directed By: Jefferson Kibbee
Original Airdate: January 28, 2004
Description: When Angel and Spike try to help a young woman who escaped from an asylum, they discover she's actually a potential slayer empowered by the spell Willow cast back at the Hellmouth in Sunnydale.
5.12 - You're Welcome
Written By: David Fury
Directed By: David Fury
Original Airdate: February 4, 2004
Description: Cordelia returns to help her friends one last time after an old nemesis shows up determined to defeat Angel by overriding a secret failsafe created by the Powers That Be.
5.13 - Why We Fight
Written By: Drew Goddard, Steven S. DeKnight
Directed By: Terrence O'Hara
Original Airdate: February 11, 2004
Description: A World War II sailor - whom Angel turned into a vampire in order to save the crew of a German submarine - returns to make Angel pay for all his years of pain.
5.14 - Smile Time
Written By: Ben Edlund, Joss Whedon
Directed By: Ben Edlund
Original Airdate: February 18, 2004
Description: While Wesley and Fred's relationship heats up, Gunn makes a deal to ensure his mental powers are made permanent, and Angel gets turned into a little felt-covered puppet.
5.15 - A Hole in the World
Written By: Joss Whedon
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Original Airdate: February 24, 2004
Description: After breathing in the air from an ancient sarcophagus, Fred falls deathly ill and the rest of the gang races to find a cure before it's too late.
5.16 - Shells
Written By: Steven S. DeKnight
Directed By: Steven S. DeKnight
Original Airdate: March 3, 2004
Description: As Illyria, the ancient god now occupying Fred's body, gets used to her new world, Wesley uncovers Gunn's part in approving the customs document for the sarcophagus.
5.17 - Underneath
Written By: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
Directed By: Skip Schoolnik
Original Airdate: April 14, 2004
Description: Angel takes Gunn and Spike with him on a mission to rescure Lindsey from the hell dimension created by the Senior Partners, totally unaware that Gunn has his own hidden agenda.
5.18 - Origin
Written By: Drew Goddard
Directed By: Terrence O'Hara
Original Airdate: April 21, 2004
Description: When Connor and his new parents show up at Wolfram and Hart asking for help, Angel refuses, leading Wesley to uncover how Angel had everyone's memory altered.
5.19 - Time Bomb
Written By: Ben Edlund
Directed By: Vern Gillum
Original Airdate: April 28, 2004
Description: Although Illyria rescues Gunn, Angel realizes she must be killed after her body begins a deadly physical breakdown which could unleash enough power to destroy the world.
5.20 - The Girl In Question
Written By: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard
Directed By: David Greenwalt
Original Airdate: May 5, 2004
Description: As Fred's parents arrive to visit their daughter, Angel and Spike fly to Rome to save Buffy from her new evil lover who they're convinced has her under his equally evil spell.
5.21 - Power Play
Written By: David Fury
Directed By: James A. Contner
Original Airdate: May 12, 2004
Description: Angel's strange behaviour convinces the gang that he's joined an elite group of evildoers called the Circle of the Black Thorn - a group he could only have joined by killing one of his own.
5.22 - Not Fade Away
Written By: Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon
Directed By: Jeffrey Bell
Original Airdate: May 19, 2004
Description: The gang prepares to attack the true powers of evil by attempting to take down the Circle of the Black Thorn - a battle none of them expects to survive.