As the members of Angel Investigations reassemble at the hotel offices after their fight with The Beast, Angel tries to contain his rage after seeing Cordelia and Connor make love, while Fred and Gunn reconcile, and Wesley finally decides to break off his passionate, but loveless fling with Lilah. But events change when Connor pays a visit to Wolfram & Hart where the indestructible Beast from Hell also visits and attacks, killing most of the staff including Gavin. Lilah manages to escape with a little of Wesley's help while he leads Angel, Gunn, and Fred into the locked-down offices to find Connor which gets worse when all the victims of the Beast become reanimated zombies out to kill.
The Fang Gang discusses the ways to escape the Wolfram & Hart building. Angel tells them about the White Room and has Fred over ride the automatic shutdown of the elevators. After a couple of failed attempts, Angel manages to remember the code and they are all transported to the White Room only to find they are too late. The Beast is already there draining energy from little girl conduit.
Angel asks how to get out. She is able to tell them that the answer is among them. As The Beast leaves her and starts to advance on the AI team, the little girl transports them all back to the hotel before she dies. In Angel's office, as Cordelia tells him of her relief that everyone is okay, Angel reveals he knows she and Connor slept together and orders her to take her new boyfriend and leave.
Tropes
- Aborted Declaration of Love: Well, Lilah meant to tell Wesley something when they parted in the sewer...
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Lilah's first instinct after the world doesn't end is to rush to Wesley's flat, and she's visibly relieved to find him alive. Subverted when Wes still breaks up with her.
- Bad Vibrations: The Beast's big stomping feet.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Wes agrees to kill Gunn if he becomes a Zombie Infectee and asks Gunn to do vice versa. Gunn's agreement is a bit too fervent for his liking.
- Big Blackout: Wolfram & Hart when the Beast arrives on the scene.
- Bloody Handprint: Plenty of these.
- Bridal Carry: Wes carrying an injured Lilah.
- Butt-Monkey: Gavin is working in the You, Get Me Coffee role for Lilah Morgan. Then he gets necksnapped, zombified, and his head cut off by Gunn who finally takes pity on him.
- Captain ObviousGunn: What the hell was that?Wes: Zombies.Gunn: Yeah, thanks for the newsflash, Captain Obvious.
- So why the heck did Gunn ask that in the first place?
- Deus ex machina: The Conduit teleports everyone out of the White Void Room as the Beast stomps up to them, presumably as Angel's death is not in the Senior Partners' interest.
- Did the Earth Move for You, Too?: The morning after sleeping together while the sky rained fire, Connor asks Cordy "Did the world end?"
- Disconnected by Death: Gavin calls the front desk on a security mook's radio. They tell him they're a bit busy right now, then start screaming as the Beast kills them.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: The people killed inside Wolfram & Hart come to life as zombies, apparently as a last-ditch supernatural defense by the Senior Partners.
- Eviler than Thou: The Beast marches into Wolfram & Hart and slaughters everyone inside including the Conduit, nicely establishing the pecking order for the villains.
- Executive Suite Fight
- Eye Awaken: Gavin and all the other Not Quite Dead people.
- Gag Echo:Lilah: (on the phone) Find that Beast, or I swear to God, I will...Gavin: (whispers to Lilah) Boil you alive.Lilah: (whispers to Gavin) Shut up! (to phone, slowly) Boil you alive.
- Get Out!: Angel's last words to Cordy are to "take your boyfriend and get the hell out." Like the earlier "get the hell out of my house."
- Glasses Are Sexy:Lilah: I could wear the glasses again...
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Lilah's famous Shut Up, Kirk! speech.Wesley: There is a line, Lilah; black and white, good and evil.Lilah: Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
- Hassle-Free Hotwire: Fred hotwires the elevator. It's not clear where she got the skills to do this, though experimental physicists often have to build their own experimental equipment (a physics lab often looks like the cross between a car guy's garage and a Mad Scientist's laundry room).
- Killed Off for Real: Gavin Park, and the Conduit to the Senior Partners.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: The Fang Gang do this while searching for Connor. Angel finds him on his own, while Wesley, Gunn and Fred are attacked by zombies.
- Lock Down:Lilah: The building automatically shuts down under full scale attack.Wes: When you say "shuts down..."[Through the office's windows, metal shutters can be seen closing over the outside of the building.]Lilah: Windows, doors, air vents. Nobody gets in or out.
- Loved I Not Honor More: Wesley uses this excuse to break up with Lilah, saying that he's got to choose a side. Lilah points out that Fred just happens to be on the side he chose.
- Make Way for the New Villains: The Beast kills off the competition by wiping out the L.A branch of Wolfram & Hart.
- Mercy Kill: Gunn decapitates the zombie Gavin because he can't bear to see someone he knows in that state, even if it's someone he knows he hates.
- More Dakka: Wes uses a grenade to slow down the Beast.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Post-Coitus!Cordy.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Cordy's reaction after sleeping with Connor.
- Neck Lift / Neck Snap: Gavin's death.
- No More for Me: Lorne's reaction when the Gang suddenly teleport back into the Hyperion subverts this: he stares at his drink as if wondering what was in it, but the idea of not drinking any more almost certainly didn't cross his mind.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Played for LaughsConnor: What's a zombie?Angel: It's an undead thing.Connor: Like you?Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh.Connor: (smirking) Like you.Angel: No! It's different. Trust me...
- Our Zombies Are Different: They seemingly exist as a security system for Wolfram & Hart. Standard Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain applies to kill them, but being bitten by one doesn't turn you into a zombie. It's unclear if anyone who dies in the building will become a zombie or if only Wolfram & Hart employees will, as the latter are the only ones who do die.
- Pet the Dog: Lilah alerts Wesley to the fact that Connor's in danger, thus allowing the team to save him.
- Percussive Therapy: After seeing Connor with Cordelia, Angel punches the door to the stairwell off its hinges and walks out, then we hear him doing the same to every other door he comes across.
- Photographic Memory: How Angel remembers the lift button combination to get to the White Void Room.
- Red Herring: The term Big Bad is used several times to refer to the Beast. It's revealed in later episodes that there's a Greater-Scope Villain out there.
- Secret Underground Passage: Lilah and Wes escape through a secret passage reserved for the top members of Wolfram and Hart.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Everyone in Wolfram & Hart — Lilah is the only one to make it.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Connor knocks out two Wolfram & Hart goons with one punch.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Wesley/Gunn (mostly on the latter's side), and Angel with Cordelia.
- They Would Cut You Up: Lilah cheerfully states she's going to do this to Connor...until he knocks out her mooks and throws her against the wall.
- Villainous Demotivator:Lilah: Go downstairs, and check it out. [Gavin hesitates] Gavin, ask yourself this question — what are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon... or me?
- Villain's Dying Grace: The Conduit teleports the Fang Gang to safety right before it dies.
- Visual Pun: Gavin searching frantically through a shelf of toilet rolls for the escape exit. He still hasn't found it when the Beast opens the door.
- Wall Crawl: Gunn wonders how they're going to climb up the escape chute into Wolfram & Hart. Angel leaps into the air and clambers up the shaft, then chucks down a rope.Gunn: Show off.
- We Can Rule Together: The Senior Partners want to make a deal with the Beast, who unfortunately for them isn't interested.
- White Shirt of Death:
- In this case the white sheet of death! All the dead Wolfram & Hart employees are clutching bloody paperwork.
- Averted by Lilah, who wears a white cardigan and survives. Barely.
- You, Get Me Coffee: With Lilah having taken over at Wolfram & Hart, Gavin has been reduced to this role.