8.2/102,026 votes#1 - Conviction
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2003
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.
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
8.1/101,963 votes#2 - Just Rewards
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2003
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: David Fury, Ben Edlund
7.6/101,852 votes#3 - Unleashed
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2003
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.
Director: Marita Grabiak
Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
8.3/101,954 votes#4 - Hell Bound
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2003
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.
Director: Steven S. DeKnight
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
8.2/101,993 votes#5 - Life of the Party
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003
Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Ben Edlund
6.8/101,967 votes#6 - The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2003
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.
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
8.4/101,542 votes#7 - Lineage
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003
When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Drew Goddard
8.8/101,992 votes#8 - Destiny
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003
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.
Director: Skip Schoolnik
Writer: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight
8.2/102,037 votes#9 - Harm's Way
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2004
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.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
7.8/101,865 votes#10 - Soul Purpose
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2004
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.
Director: David Boreanaz
Writer: Brent Fletcher
8.5/101,997 votes#11 - Damage
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2004
A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard
9.4/102,967 votes#12 - You're Welcome
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2004
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.
Director: David Fury
Writer: David Fury
7.3/101,896 votes#13 - Why We Fight
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/2004
A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard
9.3/102,974 votes#14 - Smile Time
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2004
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.
Director: Ben Edlund
Writer: Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund
9.3/102,517 votes#15 - A Hole in the World
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/25/2004
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.
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
9.0/102,031 votes#16 - Shells
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2004
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.
Director: Steven S. DeKnight
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
8.4/101,911 votes#17 - Underneath
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 4/14/2004
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.
Director: Skip Schoolnik
Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
8.5/101,416 votes#18 - Origin
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2004
When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Drew Goddard
8.4/101,792 votes#19 - Time Bomb
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2004
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.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: Ben Edlund
7.9/102,127 votes#20 - The Girl in Question
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2004
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.
Director: David Greenwalt
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard
8.8/101,864 votes#21 - Power Play
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2004
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.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: David Fury
9.5/103,755 votes#22 - Not Fade Away
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2004
Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Writer: Joss Whedon, Jeffrey Bell
The Best Episodes of Angel Season 5
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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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:The WB
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Conviction" is the best rated episode of "Angel" season 5. It scored 8.2/10 based on 2026 votes. Directed by Joss Whedon and written by Joss Whedon, it aired on 10/1/2003. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Just Rewards".