Episode 157: Path to Redemption S1E8 Time to Go to Work
April 14th, 2018 by bthomas
In these three episodes, Angel meets a new ally in the fight against demons, Cordy feels the pain of everyone, the Oracles meet their match, and Angel averts the apocalypse once again.
Podcast Length: 49:18
Podcast Format: MP3
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In these three episodes, Angel deals with a fame obsessed actress who wants to remain young forever. Faith decides to come to LA but soon finds herself hired by Wolfram & Hart. Angel still believes he can save her, even when she is trying to kill him… or is she? 
In these three episodes, Angel encounters pure evil in human form as he tries to free a demon from a trouble youth. Also, we learn more about Angels relationship with his family, particularly his father, and see how it parallels the relationship Kate shares with her father. And finally, Angel gets mixed up with a fight ring that is out for blood… demon blood. 
In these three episodes, an old friend of Angel’s is in town causing problems, Cordelia finds herself suddenly 9 months pregnant, and a female warrior is being hunted by her people. 
In these three episodes, Buffy comes to LA and Angel becomes human again due to a run in with some demons, The Scourge arrives in Initiative fashion, and an old familiar friend arrives on the scene. 
The gang prepares for graduation which Willow views with gleeful reminiscent excitement, Xander fears, and Buffy sees as pointless. Meanwhile Mayor Wilkins is preparing for the Ascension and dispatches Faith to kill a local geology professor who we later learn may have discovered the body of a very old, very large demon. Buffy goes to Angel to investigate the dead professor some more but Faith shoots him with a poisoned arrow which slowly begins to kill him. Wesley tells Buffy the Watcher’s Council refuses to help Angel because he is a vampire. Buffy promptly quits the council dismissing Wesley’s authority once and for all. 
Angel, reeling from the Mayor’s talk, decides to do the right thing and breaks up with Buffy knowing he can never give her a real life. Buffy has to put her pain aside when a group of hell hounds trained to attack people wearing formal clothing besiege Sunnydale. 
It’s time to think about the future and Willow has her pick of colleges while Xander decides to take a summer road trip. Buffy, resigned to the fact that Faith’s turn to evil means she must hold the torch in Sunnydale, decides to launch an offensive to shut down the Mayor’s plans for Ascension.
Buffy is stung or something by a demon in a fight and becomes infected with its ability to read minds. She finds this extremely cool at first, but soon no one wants to be around her lest they give up their inner most secrets, and eventually the power is uncontrollable driving Buffy to the brink of insanity. To further complicate matters, she telepathically overhears a voice threatening kill everyone at the school.
A demon makes an offer to Buffy while on patrol – $5000 for the Books of Ascension which The Mayor needs. Before the deal can be made, Faith is sent by The Mayor to retrieve the books which she does after she kills the demon.
