aired on: February 22, 2000

written by: Tim Minear

directed by: Bruce Seth Green

Galway, Ireland, 1753: Angel, then named Liam, is caught by his father as he tries to seduce their servant. His father berates him for his debauchery, and for trying to corrupt the girl. When Liam talks back, his father slaps him across the face, saying he's ashamed to call him his son.

Angel remembers this scene as he fights a demon in a subway tunnel. As Angel finishes it off, Kate arrives on the scene. Outside the tunnel, police are taking statements from witnesses; Kate spots her father there. He says he heard there was a situation, and thought he'd stop by. Kate thinks he's checking up on her.

Flash back to Ireland. Angel's remembering a bar fight, and two lovely lasses watching him and smiling. He's remembering smiling back at one when Cordelia snaps him back to the present. Wesley has checked the books, and found the demon in the tunnel, but he's curious - all the books say it should have been a peaceful, balancing demon. What would make a peaceful demon attack a subway train full of commuters? Angel visits Kate to see what she knows. Since the demon's dead, though, she'd rather just forget about it.

While Cordelia and Wesley find the demon's body and take a piece to run tests, Angel follows a suspicious-looking delivery guy who was on that train. While he's tracking him, the guy receives a phone call and drives off. Angel follows him to an apartment building, where he picks up a package - from Kate's father.

After the delivery guy is gone, Angel knocks on Mr. Lockley's door, and accuses him of removing something from the crime scene that somebody didn't want the police to find. He denies it, but Angel warns him - he will find out what's going on. When Mr. Lockley slams his door, Angel has another flashback - his father is kicking him out of the house. Later, when he walks into the arms of Darla, one of the girls who watched the bar fight, she takes a bite from his neck - she's a vampire. Slumped to his knees at her feet, Liam's face falls into her chest, where she's spread some of his blood. And he tastes it.

Back at Angel's, Wesley is dissecting the piece of demon, and confirms the species. He also finds a substance in its system, a drug, that would explain why it attacked the subway train - it was jonesing for more. Then Cordelia, who's been tracking and videotaping the delivery guy, pops in. She has a tape of him at Kel's Exotic Auto, which Angel thinks is the drug source.

Meanwhile, at Kel's, Kate's father arrives. He's been smuggling for the people there, but he thought it was just auto parts - he doesn't know what's in the other packages. And he tells them Angel's been looking into their operation. After Mr. Lockley leaves, the boss appears. He's a bit demon, and he wants Angel and Mr. Lockley both killed.

Flash back to old tyme Ireland: Liam's family weeps at a funeral - Liam's funeral. But when Darla visits his grave later that night, he emerges a vampire. When he then goes to visit his father, he's out for blood.

Flash forward to L.A.: Angel's headed out to investigate Kel's, but he doesn't get far - two of the "peaceful" demons break into the office. Angel returns, with a vial of the drug, which he uses as bait. He tosses one demon out the window, and pumps the other for information.

Things look bad for Mr. Lockley. Angel calls Kate, telling her to go to her father's place and get him out of there; he's on his way. At Mr. Lockley's apartment, the two fellows from Kel's have already arrived. Then Angel knocks, and asks Mr. Lockley to invite him in; he tells Angel to leave. That's when the two guys turn vampire. Since Angel wasn't invited in, he can't enter until Mr. Lockley is dead; soon enough, he is. Angel leaps in, fashions a stake from a chair leg and slays one of the vampires, but the other gets away, just as Kate arrives to find her father dead. In the wreckage of her father's apartment, she finds a business card from Kel's. Angry, she heads straight there, and begins shooting. Then she pulls out a stake, and begins slaying. Soon the demon boss appears. But so does Angel, armed for battle. Together, he and Kate slay the crowd, but Kate, still upset, isn't very appreciative.

Flashing back to the past, Angel reviews the carnage of his own family, which he has created. He feels quite powerful, but Darla reminds him that while his victory over his father took but moments, his father's disapproval will haunt him for lifetimes.