History Recap / AngelS02E16Epiphany

* FireForgedFriends: Averted; Wesley starts to smile after Angel fights the Skilosh demons alongside him, then remembers he's supposed to be angry and scowls at him instead. Lampshaded however with Wesley and Gunn who pointedly show off their friendship with an [[HandshakeSubstitute elaborate handshake ritual]].

* WhatTheHellHero/ CharacterDevelopment: Angel is skeptical that Cordy is out working on a Friday night. Wesley takes the opportunity to make a few cutting remarks.

* WhatTheHellHero: Angel is skeptical that Cordy is out working on a Friday night. Wesley takes the opportunity to make a few cutting remarks.
-->'''Wesley:''' "You don't know her at all. For months now you haven't cared to. Otherwise you might have realized that our Cordelia has become a very solitary girl. She's not the vain, carefree creature she once was... Well, [[VerbalBackspace certainly not carefree]]."

* ASharedSuffering: Angel tries to bond with Wes over their gut wounds. Wes is unimpressed.

* BaitAndSwitch: Angel appears to have lost his soul again, but his RestrainingBolt is still intact, as sleeping with Darla was a [[DespairEventHorizon act of despair]], not happiness.

* EvilMakeover / HellBentForLeather: Lampshaded by the Host when he says that he'd prefer Angel went evil than [[BadassAngster broody]] again -- at least he'd be wearing leather pants.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wesley suggests "[[MundaneSolution hack it to pieces]]" is a good way to kill a Skilosh demon. Angel takes this to heart.

* CarFu / DropTheHammer

* HumiliationConga: Lindsey finds out that Darla slept with Angel, gets his ass kicked by Angel, gets his fake hand smashed and his truck stolen by Angel, gets same truck returned in a smashed-up condition and then finds Darla has run out on him. Also Darla -- her years of professional experience aren't enough to give Angel his moment of perfect happiness, and the Ring doesn't even work because Wolfram & Hart have done a disenchanting spell.

* HandshakeSubstitute: Wesley and Gunn do an elaborate handshake ritual to show off their FireForgedFriendship to Angel.

-->'''Gunn:''' "So, you had an ''epiphany'', did you? So, what you just wake up and bang?"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Well of course, in the episode where Angel gets laid for the first time in three years.

** Cordelia mentions she's been impregnated with demon spawn before.

'''Angel:''' "Why?"

* FireForgedFriendship: Averted; Wesley starts to smile after Angel fights the Skilosh demons alongside him, then remembers he's supposed to be angry and scowls at him instead. Lampshaded however with Wesley and Gunn who pointedly show off their friendship with an [[HandshakeSubstitute elaborate handshake ritual]].

'''Wesley:''' "Ah, [[ItWasNothing it was nothing!]]"

* FacefulOfAlienWingWong

* EyesInTheWrongPlaces

* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Averted by Angel Investigations until Angel tells them he doesn't want to come back as their boss, but to work for them.
* AnAxeToGrind

* BaitAndSwitch
* CallBack
** To BTVS "Innocence"
** Cordelia says she's been impregnated with demon spawn before.
* CaptainObvious: Even the Powers That Be aren't immune to this trope. When Cordelia drives over to a client's home to collect a fee, she is hit with a vision of herself being surrounded by cyclopean demons — at the precise moment when she's surrounded by cyclopean demons.

* CarMeetsHouse

* DoubleEntendre: Someone is ringing the doorbell.
-->'''Host:''' "I'm not deaf, you know? Jeez, keep your pants on!" (Angel enters -- after sleeping with Darla) "Well, I see we're a little late with ''that'' advice."
** And this beauty.
-->'''Gunn:''' "So, you had an *epiphany*, did you? So, what you just wake up and bang?"
-->'''Angel:''' "Well, it was sort of the other way around."

* EvilSoundsDeep

* FriendshipMoment: Averted by the Fang Gang.
* GetOut: Angel to Darla, then Kate to Angel.
-->'''Kate:''' Thank you. Now get out.
* GreenEyedMonster / KubrickStare: Lindsey is furious that Angel slept with Darla.
* GrudgingThankYou
* HandshakeSubstitute
* HellBentForLeather / EvilMakeover
* IdiotBall / MoneyFetish
-->'''Angel:''' "Guys - guys, d-does it make sense that sh-she would go there in the middle of the night without calling either one of you?"\\
'''Gunn / Wesley:''' "They owe us money."\\
'''Angel:''' "Lets go."
* LookBehindYou

* MeaningfulEcho: "Was it not good?" and "You made me believe".
* MundaneSolution: Angel suggests rubbing the notepad Cordy left behind to get an impression of what she last rote. Wes replies that they can just look at the carbon paper underneath as well.
* OhCrap
-->'''Cordy:''' "Oh god. You're still here. You're not leaving, are you? And no one's coming for me. No one's expecting me any place. No-no one's gonna miss me! - And how come I can see you? (Reaches her hands to the back of her head) Oh. Oh, no! Oh..."

* {{Telepathy}}
* TwistedEchoCut: Angel being run over by a pickup to Gunn saying (while looking at the eye in Cordy's head) "Man, that's gotta hurt."
* VampireInvitation: Angel has to get Wesley to invite him in before fighting the demons, yet charges into Kate's place even though she'd pointedly refused to invite him in.
* VerbalBackspace
-->'''Wesley:''' You don't know her at all. For months now you haven't cared to. Otherwise you might have realized that our Cordelia has become a very solitary girl. She's not the vain, carefree creature she once was... Well, certainly not carefree.
* WhatTheHellHero: Wesley to Angel.
* YourHeadAsplode: What happens when a demon spawns from the back of your head.

* AllIsWellThatEndsWell

* {{Revenge}}

* YourHeadAsplode

* GreenEyedMonster / KubrickStare: Lindsey is jealous that Angel slept with Darla.

* VampireInvitation: Angel has to get Wesley to invite him in before fighting the demons; something of a FridgeLogic moment with Kate, unless she was clinically dead at that point.

* DoubleEntendre

* DrivenToSuicide