More mystical pregnancy trouble for Angel.
Angel confronts Cordelia, but before he can interrogate her, she escapes with Connor's help. Hiding in an abandoned building, she tells him that he must help her with a ritual to let their baby be born now, before the others find them.
Angel seeks out Skip in his search for answers. It soon becomes clear that the big demon is not so friendly after all and in fact arranged for Cordelia's ascension to a higher plane in order that she could bring back something - the pregnancy - on her return.
At Cordelia's bidding, Connor captures a virgin and sacrifices her, despite the urgings of the ghost of his mother, Darla. As Cordelia's labour begins, Angel bursts in. He is fighting his way past Connor to kill Cordelia when a light envelops them both.
Looking up to strike, Angel sees a beautiful, naked woman. Both he and Connor kneel in awe.
- ten quick questions.
Trivia: Darla was last seen at the end of Lullaby, staking herself so that Connor could be born. And this is how he repays her!
Darla actress Julie Benz has a long cult TV pedigree - as well as the blonde vamp, she's also played Katherine Topolski in teen alien series Roswell and Kate Keys in Spielberg's abduction drama Taken.
Wesley makes a comparison between Cordelia and Lizzie Borden, the suspect in a famous case of axe murder in 1892. So notorious was the case that it became a playground rhyme:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
"Nobody comes back from paradise. Well a Slayer once, but..." says Skip. Now, who could that have been?
