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The Best Episodes of Angel Season 5

Every episode of Angel Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Angel Season 5!

The Best Episodes of Angel Season 5

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...

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  1. 9.5/10(3.8k votes)

    #1 - Not Fade Away

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    S5:E22

    Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.

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  2. 9.4/10(3.0k votes)

    #2 - You're Welcome

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    S5:E12

    When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.

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    Director:David Fury
    Writer:David Fury
  3. 9.3/10(3.0k votes)

    #3 - Smile Time

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    S5:E14

    While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.

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  4. 9.2/10(2.6k votes)

    #4 - A Hole in the World

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    S5:E15

    After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.

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    Director:Joss Whedon
  5. 9.0/10(2.1k votes)

    #5 - Shells

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    S5:E16

    Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.

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  6. 8.8/10(1.9k votes)

    #6 - Power Play

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    S5:E21

    As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.

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  8. 8.7/10(2.0k votes)

    #7 - Destiny

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    S5:E8

    After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.

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  9. 8.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #8 - Origin

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    S5:E18

    When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.

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  10. 8.4/10(1.6k votes)

    #9 - Lineage

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    S5:E7

    When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.

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  11. 8.4/10(2.0k votes)

    #10 - Damage

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    S5:E11

    A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.

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  12. 8.4/10(1.9k votes)

    #11 - Underneath

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    S5:E17

    Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.

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  13. 8.4/10(1.8k votes)

    #12 - Time Bomb

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    S5:E19

    As Angel and Hamilton urge Wesley to get rid of Illyria, she suffers a cataclysmic physical breakdown; and Gunn clashes with Angel over the enforcement of an evil demon contract.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Ben Edlund
  14. 8.3/10(2.0k votes)

    #13 - Hell Bound

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    S5:E4

    After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.

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  15. 8.2/10(2.1k votes)

    #14 - Conviction

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    S5:E1

    Some old acquaintances come back into Angel's life as he and his friends begin running Wolfram and Hart and try to figure out why they've been selected to do so.

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    Director:Joss Whedon
  16. 8.2/10(2.0k votes)

    #15 - Life of the Party

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    S5:E5

    Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.

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    Writer:Ben Edlund
  17. 8.2/10(2.1k votes)

    #16 - Harm's Way

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    S5:E9

    When Harmony wakes up next to a dead man with vampire bites in his neck, she's afraid she lost her head and killed him... but she can't remember doing it.

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  18. 8.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #17 - Just Rewards

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    S5:E2

    Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.

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  19. 7.9/10(2.2k votes)

    #18 - The Girl in Question

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    S5:E20

    While Angel and Spike to go Italy to retrieve the head of a demon mobster (and save Buffy from a new suitor), Fred's parents arrive at Wolfram and Hart, looking for their daughter.

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  20. 7.8/10(1.9k votes)

    #19 - Soul Purpose

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    S5:E10

    When Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve lets loose a soul sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.

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  21. 7.6/10(1.9k votes)

    #20 - Unleashed

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    S5:E3

    Angel tries to help a young woman who has been turned into a werewolf and is being pursued by a group of truly rarified gourmets.

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  22. 7.3/10(1.9k votes)

    #21 - Why We Fight

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    S5:E13

    A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.

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  23. 6.8/10(2.0k votes)

    #22 - The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco

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    S5:E6

    While losing heart for his own career as a hero, Angel befriends a disheartened, elderly hero, and battles an Aztec warrior who literally eats the hearts of heroes.

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    Director:Jeffrey Bell

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Not Fade Away" is the best rated episode of "Angel" season 5. It scored 9.5/10 based on 3830 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Bell and written by Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon, it aired on 5/19/2004. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "You're Welcome".