The Best Episodes of Angel Season 4
Every episode of Angel Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Angel Season 4!
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Angel" season 4 is "Deep Down", rated 8.4/10 from 1787 user votes. It was directed by Terrence O'Hara and written by Steven S. DeKnight. "Deep Down" aired on 10/6/2002 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Ground State".
8.4/10 1,787 votes#1 - Deep Down
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2002
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
7.8/10 1,512 votes#2 - Ground State
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2002
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
7.4/10 1,488 votes#3 - The House Always Wins
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2002
Angel and his friends discover that Lorne is being held prisoner in a corrupt Las Vegas casino.
Director: Marita Grabiak
Writer: David Fury
7.3/10 1,432 votes#4 - Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2002
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
7.5/10 1,438 votes#5 - Supersymmetry
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2002
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
8.9/10 2,115 votes#6 - Spin the Bottle
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2002
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
8.0/10 1,693 votes#7 - Apocalypse, Nowish
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2002
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
8.2/10 1,540 votes#8 - Habeas Corpses
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/15/2003
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
7.9/10 1,489 votes#9 - Long Day's Journey
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/22/2003
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
8.7/10 1,814 votes#10 - Awakening
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2003
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: Steven S. DeKnight, David Fury
8.7/10 1,821 votes#11 - Soulless
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2003
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
8.7/10 1,703 votes#12 - Calvary
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2003
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: Jeffrey Bell, Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight
8.9/10 1,989 votes#13 - Salvage
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/5/2003
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
8.5/10 1,729 votes#14 - Release
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/12/2003
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
9.0/10 2,170 votes#15 - Orpheus
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/2003
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
7.4/10 1,442 votes#16 - Players
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/2003
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
7.6/10 1,454 votes#17 - Inside Out
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/2003
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
7.2/10 1,528 votes#18 - Shiny Happy People
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/2003
While everyone else worships the beautiful woman Cordelia bore, Fred sees another side of her.
Director: Marita Grabiak
Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
7.8/10 1,589 votes#19 - The Magic Bullet
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/16/2003
As Jasmine's influence continues to spread, Fred finally tricks Angel into seeing her true nature.
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
7.4/10 1,472 votes#20 - Sacrifice
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/23/2003
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
7.8/10 1,472 votes#21 - Peace Out
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/2003
Angel returns from the monster's dimension and finally defuses Jasmine's all-compassing powers.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: David Fury
8.4/10 1,734 votes#22 - Home
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/2003
Lilah returns from the dead to offer Angel and his friends full ownership of Wolfram and Hart.
Director: Tim Minear
Writer: Tim Minear