Season Four Reviews

TITLE RATING PLOT/MINI-REVIEW
Deep Down
W: Stephen DeKnight
D:  Terrance O'Hara
 		7.0 The fourth season opener picks up three months after "Tomorrow" with Gunn, Fred and Connor attempting to keep Angel Investigations afloat while trying to find a scrap of evidence that might indicate what happened to both Angel and Cordelia. But Gunn and Fred don't realize that Connor is sabotaging their attempts to his father, who is still trapped at the bottom of the ocean and slowly going mad with hunger. Wes institutes a search of his own, using Justine to help him trace the whereabouts of his former boss. Meanwhile, Lillah feels pressures from within Wolfram and Hart on a variety of fronts...
Ground State
W: Mere Smith
D: Michael Grossman
 		6.0 Angel's search for Cordelia leads him to Wesley, who gives him the name of a demon who might be able to help him. There Angel learns he needs the mystical antiquity that can locate souls across dimensions. But in order to get it, Angel and company must break-in through an elaborate security system. Also standing in their way is a mysterious cat burglar name Gwen who has the power to control electricity.
The House Always Wins
W: David Fury
D:  Marita Grabiak
5.0 Angel decides to give what's left of Angel Investigation's gang a break by treating them to a road-trip to Las Vegas to check-in with Lorne. Once there, they discover Lorne is being held against his will and forced to read the fortunes of people in the audience so a casino owner can steal their destinies.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
W: Jeffrey Bell
D:  Skip Schoolnik
6.0 Cordelia returns but her memory is gone. The Angel Investigations gang tries to ease her back into their life by hiding certain facts from her--a plan which backfires on them big time. Angel has Lorne read Cordy's fate but the vision of her future terrifies the singing demon. Meanwhile, Wolfram and Hart learn of Cordy's return and her brush with the higher powers and set a plan in motion to capture her--a plan that involved Lillah manipulating her relationship with Wesley.
Supersymmatry
W: Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain
D:  Bill Norton
4.5 After her article is published in a prestigious physics journal, Fred is invited to speak at a seminar where she runs into an old professor she greatly admired. During her presentation, Fred is attacked by a being from another dimension and soon figures out that her old professor hides a dark secret--one that explains how Fred got trapped in Pylea. Meanwhile, Connor and Cordy continue to grow closer....
Spin the Bottle
W: Joss Whedon
D: Joss Whedon
9.0 In an attempt to help Cordelia regain her memory, Lorne uses a spell given to him by a friend. However, the spell backfires and everyone's memory is erased to when they were in high school...
Apocolypse Nowish
W: Stephen DeKnight
D:
9.0 With her earthly memory restored, Cordelia struggles to figure out why she was returned and to piece together bits of visions about the impending doom she senses coming. Signs in L.A. point toward an upcoming apocalypse--but not the one initiated by Wolfram and Hart so many years ago. Meanwhile, Gunn and Fred's relationship continues to struggle.
Habeas Corpses
W: Jeffrey Bell
D: Skip Schoolnik
 		7.0 After their battle with the Destroyer, Angel and company return to the hotel to try and find a way to combat the evil. Meanwhile, Cordelia's reaction to her night with Connor sends Connor looking for a link between himself and the Destroyer--a search that leads him right to Wolfram and Hart. But before he can find the link, the Destroyer shows up on a murderous rampage, trapping Connor within the Wolfram and Hart building and leaving Angel to somehow try and find way to rescue him...
Long Day's Journey
W: Mere Smith
D: Terrance O'Hara
 		5.0 When the gang learns that the answer to stopping the Beast (guest star Vladimir Kulich) is among them, everyone suspects Connor (Vincent Kartheister), until Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) begins to receive visions from the Powers That Be. Meanwhile, Angel (David Boreanaz) and Gwen (guest star Alexa Davalos) discover that the Beast is preparing a device that will blot out the sun permanently and turn the world into a demon playground.
Awakening
W: David Fury & Stephen S. DeKnight
D: James A. Contner
 		2.5 Because of Angel's lack of memory about Angelus's pact with the Beast, the gang sets about finding away to remove Angel's soul and restore Angelus. Wes's solution is to find a shaman who can remove souls. Angel has the group build a cage and then begins the procedure, only to find out that shaman may not be telling whose side he's really on...
Soulless
W: Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft
D: Sean Austin
 		8.0 With the return of Angelus, the gang tries different tactics to get information on the Beast from him. However, Angelus's knowledge is limited and may not be helpful to stopping the Beast, leading the gang to try and put Angel's soul back into him for the coming battle. When the vampire's soul disappears, the group must find a new way to restore the vampire to his former self. Meanwhile, Angelus stirs up things among the members of Angel Investigations, leading to revelations, fights and a break-up.
Calvary
W: Jeff Bell, Stephen DeKnight and Mere Smith
D: Bill Norton
 		9.5 With the return of Angelus, the gang tries different tactics to get information on the Beast from him. However, Angelus's knowledge is limited and may not be helpful to stopping the Beast, leading the gang to try and put Angel's soul back into him for the coming battle. When the vampire's soul disappears, the group must find a new way to restore the vampire to his former self. Meanwhile, Angelus stirs up things among the members of Angel Investigations, leading to revelations, fights and a break-up.