aired on: February 8, 2000

written by: David Greenwalt and Marti Noxon

directed by: David Greenwalt

When Cordelia throws a party at her place, Wesley gets down. Or at least tries to. The next morning at the office, as Angel and Cordelia recap the party, Wesley pops in, hoping for leftovers. Angel can see what he's up to - he's broke. So Angel offers him a job, and Wesley accepts. Apparently he wasn't so attached to the "rogue demon hunter" thing. Just then, Cordelia has a vision. It sends Angel and Wesley to an ice factory downtown, to investigate a corpse that burned a man to death. What Angel finds is a demon named Tei, sent by his people to stop the bringer of chaos. It's more than a mere demon, he explains - it's a vessel of pure rage that has almost destroyed his world, and is now loose on Earth. Angel asks how to stop it, but Tei says it's stronger than one man. If Angel and his people wish to live, they should stay away.

While Cordelia and Wesley do some research, Angel does some snooping of his own, heading to the victim's office. The victim was in private security, and Angel wants to know who hired him. Breaking in, Angel finds a shipping order from the ice factory. And then something finds him. This something starts kicking the crap out of Angel, until she gets a call on her cell phone and takes off. Angel follows. She drives to an art gallery, where she slips into the crowd. Knowing Angel's on her tail, she tells the guard a man in a black coat is stalking her, but Angel's pretty crafty himself - he takes off his coat and acts like a tour guide explaining a painting. Slipping past the guards, he follows her to a back room, and tries to get answers. But she's not talking - she's there to receive another she-demon, who arrives via portal. He asks what they're running from, but she says it's not his concern - he is not one of them. Just then, Tei and a few pals burst in the room. But Angel can see this demon he was chasing needs help, so he takes on the thugs. Though Angel and the she-demon take care of most of them, Tei and the others make off with the new arrival.

Back at Angel's, the she-demon explains things. She is Jira, of Oldun-Tao, where she is daughter to a king. In her land, a person's personality, passions and impulses sit in an area of the body along the upper spine, called Ko. Once females of her people come of age, Ko controls their physical and sexual power. When it's removed, they can be easily controlled. But Jira escaped, with her Ko intact. When she first got to earth, she couldn't control her Ko - she burned with a fever, and needed ice to cool it off. She stayed on ice for months, until the worst of it passed, and she could learn to control her power.

Jira's father promised happiness and a better life for everyone, but that wasn't what the women of her land got. So she denounced him and came to Earth to see his promise come true for all the women of Oldun-Tao. She was the first to escape; now she helps other women escape to Earth as well. When the girls come to Earth, they can't control their Ko either, so she helps them cool off until they can. But Tei and his cronies have been sent to stop her, and to send her and her refugees back home. Angel wants to help, but Jira wants him to stay out of her way.

Wesley and Cordelia, meanwhile, do some snooping of their own, and find Tei and his cohorts preparing to send the new arrival - minus her Ko - back home through the portal. But the one they really want is Jira. Then one of Tei's assistants arrives - he's found an ice plant that's shipping two tons of ice a week to a spa in Palm Springs.

Cordelia and Wesley rush back to tell Angel; this information explains the shipping order he found earlier. They take off for the spa, where Jira has three girls on ice.

They arrive just before Tei and his gang, and warn Jira. As Cordelia and Wesley help get the girls out safely, Angel and Jira do battle with Tei. Jira escapes with the girls, and Angel shows Tei that he's not human - and suggests that he and his boys grab the next portal off Earth.

The next morning, Jira arrives at the office to report that the girls are safe outside the city. She and Angel come to an uneasy agreement - she'll do what she thinks is right to protect her people, and Angel will do the same.