The Best Episodes of Angel Season 4

As Faith and Angelus lay drugged and possibly dying, they flash back to key events in Angel's life... and Willow comes to help the others in the quest to restore Angel's soul.

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: Mere Smith

While Lorne casts a sanctuary spell on the hotel, and Wesley brings in the slayer, Faith, to help get Angelus back... the Doomsday Beast and its boss also try to woo Angelus.

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

Writer: David Fury

Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory backfires and convinces everyone they're high school students who have been gathered to kill a vampire: Angel.

Director: Joss Whedon

Writer: Joss Whedon

Angel agrees to try to bring Angelus back... but after the first attempt fails, he and his friends discover a magic sword that might do a better job of getting rid of the Big Bad beast.

Director: James A. Contner

Writer: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight

After Angelus succeeds in setting Angel's friends against each other, Cordelia makes him a deal: if he tells what he knows about the Big Bad beast, she'll give herself to him.

Director: Sean Astin

Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

After learning the doomsday beast may be working for something bigger and badder than itself, Angel's friends cast a spell to return his soul to Angelus' body.

Director: Bill L. Norton

Writer: Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight, Jeffrey Bell

As Faith and Angel continue their battle, the voice of the Beast's Master invades Angel's mind.

Director: James A. Contner

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

Lilah returns from the dead to offer Angel and his friends full ownership of Wolfram and Hart.

Director: Tim Minear

Writer: Tim Minear

As Fred and Gunn search for Angel, Wesley continues his affair with Lilah and conducts his own, more fruitful, search.

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight

Connor gets locked inside Wolfram and Hart with the Big Bad doomsday beast, who turns the legal firms staff into an army of zombies.

Director: Skip Schoolnik

Writer: Jeffrey Bell

As plagues of various pests descend on Los Angeles, the beast Cordelia saw in her vision returns - and the apocalypse begins.

Director: Vern Gillum

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight

After a group of totems linked to the ancient sun god Ra are killed by the Big Bad beast, Angel and his friends realize he's plotting to turn off the sun.

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: Mere Smith

In his quest to steal an artifact that may help him find Cordelia, Angel finds himself competing with a human thief whose body is electrically charged.

Director: Michael Grossman

Writer: Mere Smith

As Jasmine's influence continues to spread, Fred finally tricks Angel into seeing her true nature.

Director: Jeffrey Bell

Writer: Jeffrey Bell

Angel returns from the monster's dimension and finally defuses Jasmine's all-compassing powers.

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

Writer: David Fury

As Cordelia prepares to give birth, Angel and his friends finally learn that she - or an evil presence controlling her - is the Beast's master.

Director: Steven S. DeKnight

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight

Fred discovers her old physics professor is the one who exiled her to Pylea; Cordelia can't get comfortable with Connor and begins to wonder more about her history with Angel.

Director: Bill L. Norton

Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

Angel and his friends discover that Lorne is being held prisoner in a corrupt Las Vegas casino.

Director: Marita Grabiak

Writer: David Fury

As Angel tries to remember what Lilah's book said about the Master, Lorne plans a cleansing ritual to regain his empathetic powers, and Gunn helps Gwen with some corporate espionage.

Director: Michael Grossman

Writer: Jeffrey Bell, Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

While hiding in a sewer, Angel and his friends battle a nasty monster provides some clues that might help in the larger battle against Jasmine.

Director: David Straiton

Writer: Ben Edlund

After Cordelia returns, she doesn't remember her friends and Lorne senses a major evil brewing. Scared by the world of demons and vampires, Cordelia takes refuge with Connor, who saves her from a demon attack.

Director: Skip Schoolnik

Writer: Jeffrey Bell

While everyone else worships the beautiful woman Cordelia bore, Fred sees another side of her.

Director: Marita Grabiak

Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft