Angel: Season 5

2003 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.7

What Season 5 of Angel

Angel and his team, operating as Angel Investigations, receive control of the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart from the Senior Partners. Angel, Fred, Gunn and Wesley settle into the firm with resources they never had before, although they suspect a trap. Their first case involves an evil man who threatens to cause a catastrophe if the firm doesn't defend him properly at trial. Meanwhile, Spike reappears without explanation, now a ghost, and Angel must confront whoever controls the dead. The group tries to help the helpless while struggling against their own demonic nature.

22episodes

Oct 1, 2003aired

May 19, 2004latest episode

15.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Conviction
Oct 1, 2003 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Some old acquaintances come back into Angel's life as he and his friends begin running Wolfram and Hart and try to figure out why they've been selected to do so.
Directing: Joss Whedon · Writing: Joss Whedon · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Rodney Rowland, Sarah Thompson, Jonathan M. Woodward
5x02 Just Rewards
Oct 8, 2003 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: David Fury, Ben Edlund · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Victor Raider-Wexler, William Utay, Bill Escudier
5x03 Unleashed
Oct 15, 2003 · 41 min · ★ 5.3
Angel tries to help a young woman who has been turned into a werewolf and is being pursued by a group of truly rarified gourmets.
Directing: Marita Grabiak · Writing: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft · Starring: John Billingsley, Jenny Mollen, Heidi Dippold, Sascha Shapiro
5x04 Hell Bound
Oct 22, 2003 · 43 min · ★ 5.6
After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.
Directing: Steven S. DeKnight · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Simon Templeman, Sarah Thompson, Willow Geer, Dorie Barton
5x05 Life of the Party
Oct 29, 2003 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.
Directing: Bill L. Norton · Writing: Ben Edlund · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Sarah Thompson, Jonathan M. Woodward, Michael Maize
5x06 The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
Nov 5, 2003 · 42 min · ★ 7.2
While losing heart for his own career as a hero, Angel befriends a disheartened, elderly hero, and battles an Aztec warrior who literally eats the hearts of heroes.
Directing: Jeffrey Bell · Writing: Jeffrey Bell · Starring: Bruno Gunn, Danny Mora, Robert Alonzo
5x07 Lineage
Nov 12, 2003 · 41 min · ★ 7.8
When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.
Directing: Jefferson Kibbee · Writing: Drew Goddard · Starring: Roy Dotrice, Sarah Thompson, Treva Etienne, Jonathan M. Woodward
5x08 Destiny
Nov 19, 2003 · 41 min · ★ 6.6
After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.
Directing: Skip Schoolnik · Writing: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Christian Kane, Sarah Thompson, Juliet Landau
5x09 Harm's Way
Jan 14, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
When Harmony wakes up next to a dead man with vampire bites in his neck, she's afraid she lost her head and killed him... but she can't remember doing it.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writing: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Danielle Nicolet, Brendan Hines, Jennifer Haworth
5x10 Soul Purpose
Jan 21, 2004 · 41 min · ★ 7.6
When Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve lets loose a soul sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.
Directing: David Boreanaz · Writing: Brent Fletcher · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Christian Kane, Sarah Thompson, Ciara Hughes
5x11 Damage
Jan 28, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.
Directing: Jefferson Kibbee · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Navi Rawat, Tom Lenk, Michael Krawic
5x12 You're Welcome
Feb 4, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 9.3
When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.
Directing: David Fury · Writing: David Fury · Starring: Charisma Carpenter, Mercedes McNab, Christian Kane, Sarah Thompson
5x13 Why We Fight
Feb 11, 2004 · 41 min · ★ 5.6
A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard · Starring: Scott Klace, Eyal Podell, Nick Spano, Mikey Day
5x14 Smile Time
Feb 18, 2004 · 41 min · ★ 9.0
While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.
Directing: Ben Edlund · Writing: Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Jenny Mollen, Jonathan M. Woodward, Abigail Mavity
5x15 A Hole in the World
Feb 25, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.6
After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.
Directing: Joss Whedon · Writing: Joss Whedon · Starring: Sarah Thompson, Alec Newman, Jonathan M. Woodward, Jeremy Glazer
5x16 Shells
Mar 3, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.6
Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.
Directing: Steven S. DeKnight · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Jonathan M. Woodward, Marc Vann, Gary Grubbs
5x17 Underneath
Apr 14, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.
Directing: Skip Schoolnik · Writing: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Adam Baldwin, Christian Kane, Sarah Thompson
5x18 Origin
Apr 21, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Drew Goddard · Starring: Vincent Kartheiser, Mercedes McNab, Dennis Christopher, Adam Baldwin
5x19 Time Bomb
Apr 28, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
As Angel and Hamilton urge Wesley to get rid of Illyria, she suffers a cataclysmic physical breakdown; and Gunn clashes with Angel over the enforcement of an evil demon contract.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writing: Ben Edlund · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Jeff Yagher, Adam Baldwin, Jaime Bergman
5x20 The Girl in Question
May 5, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 7.1
While Angel and Spike to go Italy to retrieve the head of a demon mobster (and save Buffy from a new suitor), Fred's parents arrive at Wolfram and Hart, looking for their daughter.
Directing: David Greenwalt · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard · Starring: Julie Benz, Tom Lenk, Juliet Landau, Carole Davis
5x21 Power Play
May 12, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.6
As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: David Fury · Starring: Mercedes McNab, Dennis Christopher, Jenny Mollen, Adam Baldwin
5x22 Not Fade Away Season Finale
May 19, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.9
Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.
Directing: Jeffrey Bell · Writing: Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon · Starring: Vincent Kartheiser, Mercedes McNab, Dennis Christopher, Julia Lee