Angel Timeline: Season 1

The dates listed below are more or less the dates of the events in the Los Angeles of “Jossverse,” NOT in what most of us think of as “the real world.”

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Color key - Audience first sees a character, Angel (et al.) first meet a character, Character death, Character leaves show, Romance, Breakup, Character returns

Episode 1 (1st in the series)
City of
(Angel meets a new friend and an old friend in LA)
Late September, 1999

• We discover that Angel has taken up residence in LA.
• Angel meets Doyle, a half-demon sent by the Powers That Be to assist him in helping people (via head-splitting visions)
• We see Angel’s apartment.
• Angel runs into Cordelia Chase.
• Angel first meets Lindsey McDonald, a lawyer for Wolfram & Hart (a law firm that has taken on at least one vampire as a client)
• Cordy adds herself to the team and “Angel Investigations” is born.

Episode 2 (2nd in the series)
Lonely Heart
(Burrower demon makes dating in LA deadly)
Late September, 1999

• We get to see the first of Doyle’s many visions.
• Angel meets Kate Lockley of the LAPD. (Los Angeles Police Department)
• Angel tells Kate he’s a private investigator (no mention of vampire)
• Angel and Doyle visit Cordy’s rather unsavory apartment.

Episode 3 (3rd in the series)
In the Dark
(Spike and Oz come to town)
Mid-October, 1999

• Oz brings “The Gem of Amara” to Angel in Los Angeles; Spike follows. (See “Buffy” season 4, episode 3 “The Harsh Light of Day.”)
• We see Doyle’s apartment.
• Spike hints to Angel that Buffy has moved on. (to Parker; See “Buffy” season 4, episode 3 “The Harsh Light of Day.”)
• Using the Gem of Amara, Angel walks in the sunlight.
• Oz and Spike (separately) return to Sunnydale.
• Angel destroys the Gem.

Episode 4 (4th in the series)
I Fall to Pieces
(The case with the detachable stalker)
Late October, 1999

• We see Angel wear something other than black. (cream sweater, dark blue shirt)
• Angel visits Kate at work for the first time.
• We find out via Kate that Wolfram & Hart are a VERY unethical law firm (meaning, evil)
• Angel Investigations (AI) gets its first paying client (Melissa Burns)

Episode 5 (5th in the series)
Rm w/a Vu
(Cordelia moves into a new apartment and gets a “roommate.”)
Early November, 1999

• We discover that Doyle has some massive gambling debts.
• Cordy briefly moves in with Angel.
• Doyle helps Cordy find a nice, new, haunted apartment.
• Cordy stand up to the ghost of Maude Pearson.
• Doyle exorcises Maude; the ghost of her son Dennis hangs around.

Episode 6 (6th in the series)
Sense and Sensitivity
(LA’s finest get sensitive.)
The days around November 9, 1999

• Kate hires AI
• We meet Kate’s father, retired cop Trevor Lockley.
• Wolfram & Hart begin to focus in on Angel.

Episode 7 (7th in the series)
The Bachelor Party
(Doyle goes to his ex-wife’s fiancé’s bachelor party.)
Late November, 1999 (just before Thanksgiving)

• We discover A LOT about Doyle

• Allen Francis Doyle, divorced, ex-third grade teacher.

• We see hints that Cordelia may be falling for Doyle.
• Doyle has a vision of Buffy in trouble in Sunnydale and Angel leaves to help her. (see Buffy Season 4, Ep ?? “Pangs”)

Episode 8 (8th in the series)
I Will Remember You
(Buffy and Angel share a day that never was.)
The two days after Thanksgiving, 1999 (November 26 & 27)

• Buffy comes to LA to confront Angel about his actions in Sunnydale (see Buffy Season 4, Ep ?? “Pangs”)
• Angel becomes human! (His blood mixes with that of a Mohra demon.)
• We meet the Oracles - brother and sister “beings” that are channels for the PTB.
• Angel and Buffy spend a day together; lots of romantic stuff and sex.
• Angel discovers that being human tips the cosmic scales and has the Oracles “rewind the clock” and repeat the day; he alone remembers everything.
• Buffy confronts Angel about interfering in her life and leaves LA.

Episode 9 (9th in the series)
Hero
(Doyle proves his worth to himself.)
Late November, 1999 (just after “I Will Remember You”)

• Angel tells Doyle about the “lost day”; Doyle tells Cordelia
• Cordelia finds out that Doyle is half Brachen demon.
• Doyle kisses Cordelia. (complete with glowy light thing)
• Doyle dies. (Incinerated while sacrificing himself to disable “the Beacon” to save everyone.)

Episode 10 (10th in the series)
Parting Gifts
(Cordelia is left with Doyle’s gift.)
December, 1999 (just after “Hero”)

• Cordelia discovers that during their kiss, she inherited Doyle’s visions.
• Wesley Wyndam-Price shows up in LA as a “rogue demon hunter” (the Watcher’s Council fired him)
• Wesley seems to be poor, hungry, and staying in LA.

Episode 11 (11th in the series)
Somnambulist
(There’s a vampire serial killer terrorizing LA)
December, 1999

• Wesley is poking around AI.
• We meet Penn, a vampire Angel sired over 200 years ago.
• Kate discovers Angel is a vampire and loses all trust she had in him.
• Penn dies. (Kate staked him through Angel’s midsection.)
• Cordelia promises Angel she’ll kill him if he ever turns into Angelus again.

Episode 12 (12th in the series)
Expecting
(Cordelia is pregnant with… septuplets?)
January, 2000

• Cordelia hooks up with and has sex with Wilson Christopher (first time we’ve confirmed that Cordy has had sex)
• Angel refers to Cordelia as family.
• Cordelia drinks blood.

Episode 13 (13th in the series)
She
(Angel and Wesley show off their “dancing” skills… and some other dimensional people show up.)
January, 2000

• Angel offers Wesley a job (and a paycheck)
• We hear our first mention of portals to other dimensions.

Episode 14 (14th in the series)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
(AI investigates a possession.)
Late January, 2000

• We see the first concrete hints that Wesley’s childhood was not a happy one.
• Wesley tries, and Angel finally succeeds in performing an exorcism.

Episode 15 (15th in the series)
The Prodigal
(Parents and children - it never changes.)
February, 2000

• Kate tells Angel to back off, that they could never work out.
• We find out that Trevor Lockley is involved in trafficking of illegal car parts.
• We discover that Liam was born in 1727, sired by Darla in 1753, killed his family, and was given his angelic name by his younger sister Kathy.
• Trevor Lockley dies (drained by vampires involved in the trafficking)
• Kate blames Angel for her father’s death (he was there, but too late)
• Kate dusts her first vampire (one of the ones who killed her father)

Episode 16 (16th in the series)
The Ring
(Demonic Professional Wrestling)
February, 2000

• Angel first meets Wolfram & Hart attorney Lilah Morgan.
• Lilah (and Wolfram & Hart) knows about Angel’s soul.
• Angel is captured and forced to fight in a demonic gladiator ring
• Wesley shows some talent with guns and a crossbow.

Episode 17 (17th in the series)
Eternity
(Actress wants to be young forever)
Late February, 2000

• We see Cordelia acting in a play (she’s really bad)
• We hear, again, a rehash of Angel’s curse (inc. a comment by Wesley that true happiness is a rarity)
• Actress Rebecca Lowell drugs Angel, causing false and temporary happiness, bring out Angelus.
• Wesley and Cordelia “contain” Angelus until the drug leaves his system and Angel returns.

Episode 18 (18th in the series)
Five by Five
(Faith comes to LA hunting Angel)
March, 2000

• Faith comes to LA (see Buffy season 4, Episodes 15 & 16 “This Year’s Girl” and “Who Are You?”)
• Lindsey and Lilah (who know all about Faith being a slayer) recruit Faith to kill Angel
• Angel, Wesley, and Cordelia discover Faith is in town.
• Faith kidnaps and tortures Wesley.
• Angel rescues Wesley and fights Faith.
• Faith breaks down, wanting Angel to kill her. (Which he obviously doesn’t.)

Episode 19 (19th in the series)
Sanctuary
(Buffy comes to LA after Faith)
March, 2000 (right after “Five by Five”)

• Wolfram & Hart discover that Faith is being protected by Angel.
• Faith asks Angel to help her change.
• Thugs from the Watchers’ Council offer Wesley reinstatement if he helps capture Faith.
• Angel finds out Buffy is dating Riley (via Faith)
• Buffy shows up in LA looking for Faith.
• Wesley pretends to help the Watchers’ Council, and turns on them to protect Faith and Angel.
• Faith turns herself into the LAPD.
• Angel tells off Buffy and send her back to Sunnydale.
• After the episode, Angel goes to Sunnydale to apologize (see Buffy season 4, Episode 20 “The Yoko Factor”)

Episode 20 (20th in the series)
War Zone
(Street kids v. Vamps)
April, 2000

• Angel et al. meet billionaire software nerd David Nabbit.
• Angel meets Charles Gunn, leader of a gang of street kids who fight vampires, and his sister Alonna.
• Alonna dies. (sired by a neighborhood vampire and staked by Gunn)
• Gunn knows that Angel is a vampire and that they are more or less on the same side.

Episode 21 (21st in the series)
Blind Date
(Lindsey has a crisis of conscience.)
The days leading up to April 28, 2000

• We first meet Holland Manners, a “higher up” at Wolfram & Hart.
• Lindsey decides he wants out of Wolfram & Hart and goes to Angel Investigations for help.
• Angel recruits Gunn to help. (distraction)
• Angel steals a scroll that contain the Prophecies of Aberjian, which include a passage about “a vampire with a soul”
• Lindsey helps Angel save three children from Wolfram & Hart assassin Vanessa Brewer.
• Holland offers Lindsey a promotion at Wolfram & Hart; Lindsey accepts.

Episode 22 (22nd in the series)
To Shanshu in L.A.
(Wolfram & Hart go on the offensive against Angel)
Early May, 2000

• Lindsey is now a Junior Partner at Wolfram & Hart.
• Wolfram & Hart summon the demon Vocah to cut Angel off from the Powers That Be
• The Oracles die. (Hacked to death by Vocah)
• Vocah causes Cordelia to have non-stop visions.
• Vocah steals the Prophecies of Aberjian and firebombs Angel’s building, hurting Wesley.
• Angel again recruits Gunn to help. (protection at the hospital)
• Vocah dies. (Axe to the head by Angel)
• Angel cuts off Lindsey’s right hand.
• Angel retrieves the Prophecies of Aberjian and Wes uses them to release Cordelia from the visions.
• Cordelia is now thoroughly committed to helping people.
• Wesley translates part of the Prophecies of Aberjian as saying that “the vampire with a soul will shanshu, “ meaning become human, once his destiny is fulfilled.
• Wolfram & Hart summon Darla back into existence. (see Buffy season 1, Episode 7 “Angel”)

I’ve left out characters that made minor, one time only appearances. If you think I’ve missed something that is important to the canon of the show, drop me a private message on the posting board or email me at and let me know.
- fiatlux