Episode Summary
Angel wants to brood alone in the dark, but Doyle wants to go out and have some fun. He asks Angel to talk him up to Cordelia, who arrives with their new business cards that are adorned with an angel... not that the guys can recognize it as such. Then Doyle gets a sudden vision of danger at a night club. Looks like they're going out after all.
At D'oblique, a slick, handsome guy named Kevin chats up a shy wallflower named Sharon. The gang arrives and splits up to look for the unidentified danger. Cordelia happily starts handing out business cards, but Doyle suggests a little more discretion. She insists that as an actress she can tell enough about people without having to sit and talk with them and points out Sharon and Kevin leaving together, saying that "Sarah, plain and tall" obviously has money if she's leaving with such a studly guy.
Angel isn't having any more luck, until he meets a woman named Kate. Despite a couple of rough starts, they seem to get along pretty well. Meanwhile, a guy approaches Cordelia with one of the business cards and starts to hit on her. He barrels straight through 'rude' to 'completely offensive', asking Cordelia how much she charges and calling Doyle her pimp. Cordelia is furious, but Doyle tries to play peacemaker... by head-butting the guy in the face.
Festive violence ensues, and Angel comes over to help out. The troublemakers are thrown out, and a woman, impressed by Angel's moves, starts to hit on him. Knowing he's there to find out if anyone needs his help, he talks to her for a few minutes. Kate sees him talking to this new girl and leaves, looking disappointed. At closing time, the A.I. threesome is still sitting in the club lamenting that if there was anything dangerous going on, they didn't see it - and we see Kevin and Sharon from earlier. She's looking suddenly glamorous and confident, post-nookie, and Kevin's looking, well, dead.
Angel, Doyle, and Cordelia uncover a string of murders connected to the club, so Angel goes back the next night while the other two start on the demon research. Angel runs into Kate again outside and apologizes for bailing on her before. She says he can buy her a drink to make it up to her, but when he tells her she shouldn't go into the club (and won't tell her why), she goes in without him. Inside, newly-glam Sharon is chatting up a nervous former-geek, and a friend of Kevin's tells the bartender that Kevin hasn't been seen since he left with Sharon the night before. Angel overhears this and goes to look her up in the phone book, not noticing that Kate is watching him.
Angel arrives at Sharon's too late; the killer is a burrower demon that has already left Sharon's body for her date's. It and Angel fight, Angel pretty much getting stomped until the demon goes out the window. Which is when Kate enters, gun and badge drawn, to see Angel standing there with Sharon's dead body. She tries to arrest him, but he dives out the open window.
Doyle and Cordelia arrive at her apartment, where Angel joins them. He tells them about what happened and gets them to start researching burrower demons while he goes back out. Cue cool musical montage. Former-geek-now-current-demon is chatting up someone new. Angel searches the club. Kate searches Angel's office and apartment, noting the weapons adoring the walls and the empty (phew!) refrigerator. The demon continues to move on to new hosts.
Angel returns to Cordy's to find her and Doyle slumped on the sofa together, asleep. When he wakes them up they tell him they found the demon, and fire is pretty much its only weakness. Given its strength and the trouble he's having finding it again, he decides to call Kate for help. He asks her to meet him that evening at the club, and it's obvious she's convinced that Angel is the killer. She goes anyway, though, asking the bartender to let her know when Angel shows up. He comes back and says he saw the guy she's looking for, leading her through to the back of the bar. Then he smashes her in the head with a champagne bottle, knocking her out. No time for the sex part, he just rips open the back of her shirt. The demon starts to emerge from the dead bartender's chest but has to retreat when Angel attacks.
The demon locks Angel and Kate in the storage room and sets off, desperate to find a new conquest. It'll be hard, though, with his skin starting to fall off and the gishy blood stain all down his chest. Kate shoots the door open, and Angel takes off down the street after the demon. The two of them fight, Angel getting the worse of it until he tosses the "bartender" against a barrel that someone has lit a fire in to keep warm. Engulfed in flames, the demon lunges for Angel, just as Kate rounds the corner and shoots. The demon falls, dead.
Believing the bartender himself was the killer, since he was connected to all the victims from the bar, Kate talks to the arriving police and other emergency crews. When Angel approaches, she admits to searching his place illegally, wanting to start fresh. He gives her one of his cards, encouraging her to call if she ever needs him, but when she asks if the picture is a lobster he takes it back, simply telling her he'll be around. Another officer calls to Kate, and Angel slips away while her back is turned. Because he's cool and Batman like that.
Back at Angel Investigations, Angel awkwardly offers to take Doyle and Cordelia out to thank them for their hard work, but they're both bushed and suggest that instead, they go home and let Angel just sit there alone in the dark. Angel's response? "God, yes. Thank you."
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