Habeas Corpses

Plot

The episode starts where Apocalypse, Nowish ended, with Angel watching Cordelia and Connor in bed. He walks away, smashing things and shouting.

Fred is manning the phones at the office, clearly worried about the others. Gunn, Lorne, and Wesley arrive. She rushes to Gunn and hugs him. Wesley walks past her, saying nothing. She asks after Angel and they say he is alright but they were separated. They start planning and Gunn and Wesley snap at each other. Angel arrives, he's not talking. He says they can wait until morning. Fred asks about Cordelia and Connor and Angel says they are alright but doesn't say anything more.

Cordelia and Connor awake and she starts giving him the talk, about how they can't do this again. He thinks she believes he is responsible for the demon and angrily leaves. Wesley is at home. Lilah arrives, relieved to find him alive. He breaks up with her. She doesn't believe him. He tells her it's over. He tells her he thinks the day of reckoning is at hand and he's choosing a side. He admits he's made mistakes before and she says he's making one now. She thinks it's about Fred, but he says no. She offers to dress up as Fred again. He tells her not to embarrass herself. He says there's a line between black and white, good and evil. Lilah says when you mix black and white you get gray. And that no amount of white added can change it from gray. She says she thinks Fred prefers black and leaves.

Fred is unable to find any information about the demon. Cordelia shows up and goes to Angel saying she wants to talk about Connor. He says he already knows. She's surprised and when he says he doesn't want to talk about it she says they have to, that the beast coming out of the ground at the spot his son was born is important. He's surprised at this revelation, but pretends he did know and says it might just be a coincidence.She says she doesn't believe there is a connection between Connor and the demon, but Connor does.

Lilah is in her office with obsequious Gavin and trying to get her staff to capture the demon. Gavin says their intelligence confirms it caused the fires the night before, but they don't know why. Lilah doesn't think it has an agenda and reveals the senior partners want her to cut a deal with it. Gavin leaves, but is walked back in by Connor. He wants to know what he is. Lilah secretly calls security and when they arrive says she'll be glad to have Connor analysed, including slicing and dicing him. He knocks out the guards, grabs her by the throat, and says he thinks he might be connected to the demon and wants to know. She tells Gavin to get Connor his report on the demon. The lights flicker, the building shakes, and Connor says it's here. Lilah thinks it's just an aftershock and tries the phone, it's out. She tells Gavin to try a walkie. All they get is frantic screaming. She sends Gavin down to check things out. He's more afraid of her than the demon and he goes. She asks Connor what the demon wants and he says everybody dead. She pulls a gun out of her desk. Downstairs, the demon is slaughtering the staff. Lilah and Connor are walking through the halls surrounded by panicked staff attempting to flee. Connor says he thinks the demon is following him around. Lilah realizes Connor is looking for the demon to fight him and leaves. The demon continues killing staff. It comes across Gavin in a storeroom and kills him.

Connor is searching for the demon. It finds Lilah and Connor hears her shooting at him. But the bullets don't bother it. She tries to bargain with it, but it just stabs her in the abdomen with its claws. It then knocks her flying. Connor attacks and the demon calls him by name. It knocks him into a wall so hard the wall breaks and debris covers him. Lilah is trying to escape, staggering through the halls. The demon is following. Wesley grabs her, pulls her into a room and closes the door. He says he has a man on the inside. The building shuts down, Lilah reveals it is a security measure. Nobody can get in or out now. The demon breaks in and Wesley grabs her and heads out. He's sure there must be some emergency exit for people like her. She directs him to a supply closet (the one Gavin was in). He tosses a grenade at the demon and hopes it will slow him down. They make it into the emergency exit just before the demon breaks in. They drop into the sewer. Wesley tells Lilah to go underground, to change her name and disappear. That the demon intends to kill everyone at Wolfram & Hart and she shouldn't make it easy for it. She tells him about Connor.

At the hotel, the gang are futilely researching and getting frustrated. Wesley walks in and Gunn refers to him as bad news. Fred says he should try to get along, that Wesley was his friend. Gunn says 'heavy on the was'. Wesley tells them what is happening at Wolfram & Hart and that Connor is there. We see Connor, apparently ok, walking quietly through the halls. He passes a body which suddenly opens its eyes.

The gang are arming themselves for an attack on the demon at Wolfram & Hart. Fred tries to talk to Wesley. but he's not very talkative. Cordelia tries to reassure Angel that Connor will be fine. He doesn't seem to take it well. He says someone has to stay to mind the place. Lorne volunteers. Gunn asks what their plan is, given that they've not been able to defeat the demon before. Angel says they aren't going for the demon but for Connor. He says if they see it, they run. He then tells Cordelia to stay at the hotel claiming it is too dangerous. Then he calls Fred to come with them.

In the sewer, Gunn and Wesley argue and Angel shuts them up. Angel leaps up the hole to the entrance into Wolfram & Hart. As the gang walk through the hallways, we see another dead person open her eyes. Wesley notices Gavin's body is missing. They find the room where Connor was attacked, but he's not there. Angel can smell that he was there. He says to split up, sweep each floor, and meet on top.

Angel senses something moving. He's attacked and it's Connor. He hugs the boy and says he's glad to find him. Connor says they have to stay and kill the demon, that he is responsible. Angel says he's not and they can't because they don't know how to kill it. Angel is attacked by Gavin. He realizes Gavin is dead, or undead. He's a zombie. Connor doesn't see the difference between this and Angel. All the dead seem turned into zombies. Zombies attack the others, who hide in a room. Gunn is bitten. He makes Wesley promise to kill him if he turns into a zombie and promises to do the same for Wesley (a bit too quickly). Fred and Wesley go into another room and Gunn remains behind to fight off the zombies. Wesley believes the zombies may be part of building security. Fred and Wesley are trapped in the room by the zombies, but Gunn comes from one door and Angel and Connor from the other. They have Connor and now need to get out. There are too many zombies to fight their way through downstairs, so Angel suggests they try to get to the white room and see if the being in there will help them out.

They fight their way to the elevator which Fred tries to restart. She succeeds and Angel tries to remember the code. Gunn spots Gavin and cuts off his head, destroying the zombie. Angel gets the code and they go to the white room only to find the demon there and the little girl almost dead at its hands. The little girl says 'The answer is among you'. The demon turns its attention to the gang who prepare to fight. With her last strength, the little girl transports the gang back to the hotel and safety. Cordelia hugs Connor. Lorne asks what happened and Gunn explains wondering how they can defeat something which could just walk in and destroy a power like the little girl. Wesley says it will take something greater and more powerful than them to do it.

Angel has gone into his office and Cordelia follows. She tells him she was worried and the others are discouraged. He tells her to take her new boyfriend and get out. He leaves, she whispers 'Oh, God'.