Season: Episode 10 of Season 2
Original Air Date: 12/19/2000
Written by: Tim Minear & Shawn Ryan
Directed by: James A. Contner

<b>Notes:</b>

Darla rises and Angel goes dark.

<b>Plot Highlights:</b>

Darla rises revamped; Wolfram & Hart make a big miscalculation; Darla and Dru dine on lawyers; Angel lets them do it, and when the gang objects, Angel fires 'em all.

<b>Quotes:</b>

HOLLAND: Angel, please. People are going to die.

ANGEL: And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care.

(Holland watches wide-eyed as Angel shuts the double doors on them. Darla turns to caress Holland with a big smile on her face.)

HOLLAND: Angel? P-please we can negotiate. We...

DRUSILLA: Daddy.

(ANGEL unhurriedly walks up the steps from the cellar, ignoring the screams and sounds of fighting coming from below.)

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WESLEY: And you - just walked away?

ANGEL: No, I walked to my car and then I drove away.

GUNN: You didn't do *anything*?

WESLEY: You allowed Darla and Drusilla to have free rein.

ANGEL: I didn't bring either one of them into this. They did.

WESLEY: You could have stopped them.

ANGEL: And I will.

CORDELIA: When? After they've finished off all the people you don't like?

WESLEY: Angel, while it's certainly true that these lawyers brought this on themselves - what you did is...

CORDELIA: ...is wrong.

GUNN: You went too far.

WESLEY: (after a moment) We've all been worried about you, and I guess it's fair to say we all share some of the blame. - We should have spoken up sooner.

GUNN: And louder.

CORDELIA: You have to change the way you've been doing things. - Don't you see where this is taking you?

WESLEY: Listen to her! Right now the three of us are all that's standing between you and real darkness.

GUNN: Best believe that, man.

ANGEL: (quietly) I do. - You're all fired.