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Plot Synopsis

Angel and co. are without a place to meet and investigate, so they temporarily use Cordelia's place. Angel takes to exploring an old abandoned Hotel, the Hesperion, and asks Cordelia and Wesley to find more information about it. They soon discover that the place seems to be haunted by something since a worker killed himself at the construction site. It also becomes clear that Angel knows more about the place than he's letting them know. All along the episode, past and present alternate to show the story of Angel when he lived in that hotel. The Whedonverse is a name for the fictional universe which includes most of the collected works of Joss Whedon, including: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer Angel: the Series Fray Tales of the Vampires and other comics The Whedonverse is also known as the Buffyverse or the Slayerverse. ... Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ... Angel was the highly successful spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... The cover Fray #1 Fray is an eight-issue comic book miniseries about Meleka Fray, a Slayer in the future, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and drawn by Karl Moline (pencils) and Andy Owens (inks). ...

In the past, the place was evil because some of the hosts could sometimes hear a voice muttering about their innermost fears and make them dangerously paranoid. This ends up being to much for one of them, who kills himself with a shot to the head. Enter a young lovely woman whom a detective is investigating. Angel helps her get rid of him and she tells him that she stole a bank she used to work at. She's got a bag full of money and doesn't know what to do with it. She robbed the money as a revenge because her mother was afroamerican and her employers were racists that fired her because of that. Angel knows how it feels to be different and that's the reason he decides to help her.

But soon the evil presence that makes people paranoid begins to increase its power and before Angel can do anything about it, he's in trouble. The woman he helped out of her problems now turns against him, cornered by the detective, and tells everyone that Angel killed the man who supposedly had committed suicide. In a rapt of collective frenzy, many of the hotel hosts beat Angel unconscious and hang him from a rafter. He makes as if he was dead and when everyone goes away the demon makes his appearance. It's a tall, floating, cowled demon with tentacles. It sees Angel is different and tells him that humans are not worth the effort of trying to save them. Angel is in no mood to argue the matter, so he leaves the hotel and its crazed hosts to the demon and walks away. The demon keeps the woman who betrayed Angel alive to somehow enjoy her tortured mind.

In the present day, though, Angel has already make up his mind to forgive that woman and so he goes back to the abandoned hotel with Cordy, Wes and Gunn to invoke and do away with the beast. After a brief spell and some fighting, the demon is killed. When it's all over, Angel finds the woman, now very old, in a room upstairs. She begs to be forgiven and Angel agrees, so that she can now die in peace. Angel comes downstairs and to everyone's astonishment decides to make the hotel, now clean of its malignant aura, their new residence for Angel Investigations.

Arc Significance

Angel's final actions in the 1950's segments are a prelude to his decision later in the season to allow Darla and Drusilla to slaughter the Wolfram and Hart lawyers.

Both times Angel deems that the humans in jeopardy aren't worth saving.

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