The Shroud of Rahmon

Plot

The show begins in a police interrogation room. Two cops are talking about a guy with mental problems and how he is covering up information. The go into the room with where there is an unknown man sitting with his head against the table. The men question and threaten the man, who raises his head, revealing himself to be Wesley. Wesley begins babbling about warnings and how “he” should have never have been there. Wesley talks about “him” grabbing “her” hard and how “it all went horribly wrong.” In his mind, he sees Angel dropping a woman to the ground with blood on his lips. Wesley begins to tell the story of what happened to the cops. He begins with a flash back to when he first noticed Cordelia’s new haircut. Wesley and Cordelia talk about how all Angel does anymore is brood about Darla. Cordelia explains that Angel has gone with Gunn to try and help out Gunn’s cousin who has gotten into some trouble. Wesley then invites Cordelia to go with him to some kind of celebrity event. Gunn and Angel talk with the cousin, Lester. They find out that a group is planning on robbing a museum of some kind of supernatural artifact. The group is bringing in a vampire from Vegas named J. Don. Gunn promises to get him out of trouble. Angel tells Gunn that he is taking over the case because it is too dangerous. They argue, but Angel is firm about his decision. When Angel returns, he finds Kate in his room. She is looking for Darla in connection with a murder. Angel tells Kate that she doesn’t know what she is getting into and that if she gets between him and Darla, it will be the last thing she ever does. Cordelia and Wesley return from the event because he has spilled cocktail sauce on her. Angel tells him of his plan to replace J. Don and they are excited he is on a case. Wesley points out that J. Don is loud and flashy and both he and Cordelia doubt Angel’s ability to pull it off. Angel meets J. Don at the bus station, acts like a moronic fan, and stakes him. Another demon guy named M. James Menlow shows up looking for J. Don. Angel takes his place and acts loud of flashy. Menlow and Angel meet up with the rest of the crew, which includes a human security guard, Bob, and some ugly demon. Gunn then shows up in his cousin’s place. Menlow explains that they are going to steal the Shroud of Rahmon, an item worth 2 million on the black market and explains the plan. Gunn and Angel argue and Angel tries to get him out of there. Menlow announces that the heist is happening tonight. Wesley and Cordelia discover online where the Shroud of Rahmon is being kept. The crew shows up to the museum in a truck. Bob lets them in and takes them up the elevator. Angel stops the demon guy from killing another security guard. A picture of Angel with Menlow somehow turns up at the police station. A cop shows it to Kate and tips her off to the location. The crew manages to blow open the safe holding the shroud with nitrogen. Wesley finds out in a book that the shroud drives people insane. Wesley and Cordelia decide to go warn Angel at the museum in case the heist was taking place tonight. Angel disarms the heat sensitive alarm inside the vault with the shroud. While in the vault, he starts to lose some control/sanity and starts to get his vampire face. Gunn notices it and is concerned. Wesley and Cordelia show up and start feeling weird as soon as they walk into the museum. They split up after planning not to. All of the thieves argue while they are carrying out the big crate holding the shroud. Gunn challenges Angel and they fight, breaking the crate in the process. This releases some purple kind of gas from the crate. Gunn and Angel fight but have a moment of clarity. Bob gets tied up but begs someone to hit him so it “looks real.” The big demon rips Bob’s head off. Kate runs into Wesley who is acting loony. He tells her about needing to warn Angel but can’t concentrate. Kate starts to feel it too. Cordelia is seen acting goofy and steals some jewelry from a mannequin. While the crew is carrying the crate, Menlow goes crazy about leaving fingerprints and starts trying to wipe them off the walls. Angel and Gunn argue again. Wesley shows up and tries to remember the message to tell Angel. Kate shows up and points a gun at Angel. Angel manages to talk his way close to her. He grabs her, bites her, and then drops her to the floor, apparently leaving her dead. A SWAT team arrives at the scene. They find Wesley kneeling over Kate’s body, begging her to wake up. He is dragged away. The crew makes it back to the hideout with the shroud. They take the shroud out of the crate and start to fight over it. The big demon gets shot in the head and Angel and Gunn fight over the shroud. Angel, in a moment of clarity, convinces Gunn to let him have it. He takes it outside and burns it. Back in the present time, Wesley finishes telling his tale to the police who do not believe him. They start to arrest him when Kate shows up and makes them let him go. Kate is seen looking out of the window with a big bite mark on her neck. She thinks back to when Angel was biting her. It turns out that he had leaned close to her and whispered, “stay down or they’ll kill you.” Wesley and Cordelia are back at the office. They discuss their concerns about the possibility that since Angel drank human blood from a living person that his bloodlust may have been reawakened. The final scene is of Angel sitting in his room. He is thinking about the moment he drank Kate’s blood.