I fall to pieces

Plot

A young woman named Melissa is being stalked. The stalker is Ronald, her former doctor. He’s an optical surgeon who saved her eyesight. She felt indebted. They went out for a drink. He took this to mean they were engaged. The weird thing about this stalker is he seems to know what Melissa is doing every hour of the day (even in the bathroom). She initially turns down Angel’s offer of assistance. But after an encounter with Ronald, Melissa decides the situation is more than she can handle and enlists Angel’s help. Doyle signs on as her personal bodyguard during the day while Angel is left to ponder the question, how is this guy seeing her? Answer: Somehow, he’s “sending” his eyes to where Melissa is and watching her.Angel is still unsure of what he’s dealing with. He turns to Kate for some information on the not-so-good doctor. Kate assigns a police officer to guard Melissa’s apartment. She advises Angel that he needs to help his client overcome her feeling of being powerless or else even if they stop him, he’ll still win. Angel decides to pay a visit to Ronald’s office and finds a book entitled “Anything’s Possible”. Ronald catches Angel snooping around. Angel pretends that his wife is dying and he needs Ronald’s help to save her. Cordelia is doing some research of her own, interviewing Ronald’s fellow doctors. It turns out that Ronald pioneered work in reattaching body parts and fixing nerve damage. But no one in the medical community seems to know how he accomplished all of the radical surgeries that he claims to have done. Angel gets in contact with the author of “Anything’s Possible”. The author reveals that Ronald has mastered the art of manipulating cells with the power of his mind. He can send his body parts elsewhere and then reattach them to his body. Ronald is spying on Melissa as she sleeps and “sends” his hands to slide into bed with her. She awakes screaming and the police officer guarding her building breaks inside to help her. The disembodied hands attack him, strangling him to death. Angel arrives on the scene and Ronald discovers that Angel isn’t who he claimed to be. Angel and Doyle hypothesize that the only way to stop Ronald is to capture his disembodied parts and lock them away to prevent them from reattaching. They take Melissa back to their building and try to barricade themselves inside. Ronald calls Angel and says he can help his “wife”. When Angel arrives, Ronald reveals that he knows the truth. He shoots Angel with a fatal tranquilizer dose that paralyzes him and should stop his heart shortly. He manages to infiltrate the building and get to Melissa. But Melissa stands up for herself, telling Ronald what a vile, repulsive freak he is. He taunts her with having killed Angel. At which point, Angel arrives, still undead. They battle, Ronald flinging bits of himself at Angel. Angel manages to dismantle him enough to prevent his regeneration. Melissa thanks Angel for his services with more than words. She comes bearing a check. That’s right, a paying customer.