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Angel is happy in his newfound relationship with his son, but Connor is secretly waiting for revenge, mistakenly believing Angel killed Holtz - just as Holtz had planned as his final revenge on Angel. The pair fight off an armed hit group sent by Linwood and Gavin at Wolfram & Hart to abduct Connor. Meanwhile, Lilah continues to try to recruit Wesley by manipulation and seduction, and shows him that he is now very much like her: a human without a soul. Lorne confides in Angel that Cordelia really loves him before leaving town for a new job in Las Vegas. The Groosalugg leaves too, after confronting Cordelia about her feelings for Angel. With the Groosalugg gone, Cordelia and Angel agree to meet. But before either can confess their feelings for the other, Cordelia is confronted by the demon guide, Skip, who tells her that as a higher being, it's now time for her to leave Earth's plane of existence and move on to another. As she ascends, Angel is waylaid by a vengeful Connor and Justine who seal him in a metal coffin and throw it off a boat to sink down to the ocean floor.
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!!Tropes
* AllPartOfTheShow: Connor flinches when a jet fighter roars across the movie screen.
-->'''Angel:''' "Sorry. It's just make believe."
-->''[A Wolfram & Hart Spec Ops helicopter comes flying over the top of the screen, searchlight probing the carpark for them.]''
-->'''Connor:''' "How'd they do that?"
* AndIMustScream: Connor, believing Angel killed Holtz, decides that death is too good for him. So he seals Angel in a metal box and drops him in the ocean, knowing that hunger won't kill him, but it will torment him endlessly.
* AnswerCut
-->'''Groo:''' I'm not the one you love; he is.
-->'''Cordy:''' Who 'he'? ''(Cut to Angel talking to Lorne)''
* AnywhereButTheirLips: Connor kisses Holtz on his forehead before disposing of his corpse in the manner he'd been taught.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Skip tells Cordelia she's needed to fight against evil on "other planes and dimensions".
* BadassAdorable: Angel tells Fred to pretend to be a vampire for Connor's sparring session. Fred raises her hands like claws and lets out a fierce growl. Angel is not impressed.
-->'''Angel:''' "You're a vampire. You're not starring in ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''."
-->'''Fred:''' (pulling her hands in) [-"Grrr?"-]
* BedmateReveal: Wesley sleeps with Lilah.
* BreakingTheFellowship: The gang is completely broken up by the end of the episode, with Angel trapped at the bottom of the sea, Cordelia [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane of existence]], Wesley exiled from the team and no longer welcome, Lorne gone to pursue a singing carreer in Las Vegas, and GuestStarPartyMember Groo gone after realizing Cordelia didn't love him. The only remaining members are Fred and Gunn, and, in a loose sense of "member", the WildCard Connor.
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Angel fumbles his cellphone off the cliff moments before Connor turns up to attack him.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Angel is put in a box and sunk to the bottom of the ocean and Cordelia becomes a higher being and disappears.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Groo suggests relieving Cordy's tension by "gently then more rapidly rubbing your Schlug-Tee" -- it turns out he's referring to a neck massage rather than an indecent act. That doesn't stop Angel from kidding Cordy about it later when suggesting she could give Connor TheTalk.
-->'''Angel:''' "You could help fill in the blanks. He's gonna have questions. Like, what do you do with a woman's Schlug-Tee again?"
* ContinuityNod: Gunn and Fred notice that Angel is humming away happily. Fred says, "Not ''perfectly'' happy, I hope!" and starts poking Angel with a stake to restore some angst to his life.
* CurseCutShort: When Cordy realises that time has stopped.
* DeceptiveDisciple: Connor plays along with Angel's desire to connect with him only long enough to lead him to his doom.
* DoomedAppointment: Angel is supposed to meet Cordelia to discuss their relationship. Neither of them make the appointment.
* DriveInTheater: Angel takes Connor to see an action movie. He loves it.
* DueToTheDead: Justine takes Holtz to be buried in a green field like his native England, only to watch horrified as Connor [[OffWithHisHead cuts off his head]] with an axe and [[FireKeepsItDead burns the body]], because Justine has lied that Holtz was killed in a vampire attack.
* EtherealWhiteDress: Cordelia just happens to change into a white dress and sandals before ascending to heaven.
* FastRoping: When you're a Wolfram & Hart Spec Ops team in a helicopter, it's what you do.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: Lampshaded in Lilah and Wesley's post-coital conversation.
-->'''Wes:''' You know that sinking feeling you sometimes get the morning after? It arrived early.
-->'''Lilah:''' ''(stretching)'' It's like a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort little death]]. Several, in fact.
-->'''Wes:''' GetOut.
-->'''Lilah:''' What? No sweet kiss? No 'When can I see you again?' ''(Wes gives her a look)'' Watch the dirty looks. [[BelligerentSexualTension That's what got me going in the first place.]] ''(Lilah begins to pull on her clothes)'' I'll give you this -- you sure know how to channel your rage, frustration, and hate. Always a bigger turn on than love.
* GetOut: Played straight the morning after, but put more poetically the night before.
-->'''Lilah:''' Mind if I join you?
-->'''Wes:''' On many levels and with great intensity.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Point Dume = Point Doom.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In his final moments, Holtz openly acknowledges that he's most likely going to go to Hell for everything he's done... but makes it clear that as long as he finally gets his revenge against Angel/Angelus, he doesn't care.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Angel and Cordelia set up a meeting with the intention of acknowledging their love for each other. Connor and the demon Skip have their own plans.
* IronicEcho: The things said by Phantom Cordelia in her apartment (which Cordelia assumes is a confirmation of her LoveEpiphany) turn out to be a vision of her impending conversation with Skip.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Groo leaves because he realises that Cordelia loves Angel, not him.
* LoveEpiphany: It's mutual.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Lilah asks if Connor's existence is a portent for good or evil.
-->'''Lilah:''' "The impossible (a human child of two vampires) is here. But, what does it mean? Is it the herald of a new age, better things to come, or the mass destruction of everything we hold dear?"
-->'''Wes:''' "Yes."
* MundaneUtility: Cordelia using her [[BuffySpeak glowy thing]] as a nightlight.
* OnlyICanKillHim: The reason why Connor fights so hard to protect Angel from the Spec Ops team.
-->'''Angel:''' "That's why you wouldn't let them kill me at the drive-in. So you could."
-->'''Connor:''' "Killing is too good for you. You don't get to die. [[FateWorseThanDeath You get to live...forever.]]"
* PunBasedTitle: Lorne's CD of love songs.
-->'''Angel:''' "''Songs for the love - Lorne''. Oh, I get it. Lovelorn, because your name is Lorne."\\
'''Lorne:''' "Yeah, my publicist's idea. Her name is mud now but the tunes are good."
* RuleOfSymbolism: Cordy is raised up to heaven while Angel sinks down to the depths.
* SayMyName: Subverted when 'Steven' says his name is Connor. It's actually one more deception by Connor.
* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Angel gets sealed into a metal coffin and dumped into the Pacific Ocean. The following season opens with him going mad from blood-thirst and isolation.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Skip says the Powers were testing Cordelia to see if her newfound power went to her head. When Cordelia refuses to go without first telling Angel that she loves him, she realises that's the final test.
-->'''Skip:''' "What you're being called to do, transcends love."
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wes and Lilah make it clear that just because they've boned each other doesn't mean they still can't be mortal enemies.
-->'''Lilah:''' "Don't go making more of this than it is. I'm not one of the doe-y eyed girls of Angel Investigations. Don't be thinking about me when I'm gone."\\
'''Wes:''' "I wasn't thinking about you when you were here."\\
'''Lilah:''' "So your former boss has a soul and you're losing yours. Why, you're just new all over, aren't ya?"
* SpiesInAVan: Linwood watches Wolfram & Hart's Spec Ops team attack Angel from a surveillance van parked in the drive-in theatre. Big mistake.
* StableTimeLoop: Cordelia gets a vision of herself confessing her love for Angel, which inspires her to hop on the road and go meet Angel, which is when she gets stopped by Skip and performs the love confession that she saw in her vision.
* TheTalk: Angel and Cordy arguing over who gives this to Connor pretty much puts the seal on whether they're meant to be together.
* TaserTagWeakness: Connor takes down Angel with one -- presumably supplied by Justine.
* TeachMeHowToFight: Connor asks this of Angel to make him lower his guard, and learn about his fighting style.
* TemptingFate: Lorne tells Angel that sometimes things do work out. Really? In a Creator/JossWhedon show?
-->'''Cordelia:''' I know somehow it's all going to be all right.
* ThatCameOutWrong
-->'''Groo:''' "Cordelia and Angel are upstairs trying out bedrooms. ''(Gunn and Fred stare, then look at each other)'' For Angel's son."
* TimeStandsStill: In the middle of a [=SoCal=] highway no less - talk about awful LA traffic where nothing moves...
* TooHappyToLive: Angel with Connor.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Lilah after getting out of Wesley's bed.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Lorne talking to Angel cuts back and forth to Groo talking to Cordy.
-->'''Cordy:''' "I love Angel? What are you talking about? I - love... you know... us."\\
'''Lorne:''' "You two are so obviously connected."\\
'''Groo:''' "You finish each other's...\\
'''Lorne:''' "...sentences. You laugh at the same..."\\
'''Groo:''' "...jests. When he grieves, when he is hurting..."\\
'''Lorne:''' "...her heart breaks for you."
* VillainBall: Gavin didn't think Connor would fight so hard on Angel's behalf. Really? All they know is that he's Angel son and has already fought well at his father's side. And duh -- they're both being attacked by masked commandos!
* YouKilledMyFather: Angel naturally responds with "[[LukeIAmYourFather I am your father.]]"
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