The Prodigal (Angel episode)
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| “The Prodigal” | |
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| Angel episode | |
 Angel has a flashback to when he was bitten and turned |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 15 |
| Guest stars | Elisabeth Rohm (Kate) John Mahon Mark Ginther |
| Written by | Tim Minear |
| Directed by | Bruce Seth Green |
| Production no. | 1ADH15 |
| Original airdate | February 22, 2000 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "I've Got You Under My Skin" | "The Ring" |
| List of Angel episodes | |
"The Prodigal" is episode 15 of season 1 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list.
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Angel helps a reluctant Kate with a crime and finds her father at one crime scene in which Angel thinks that Trevor Lockley is in league with a group of vampire drug smugglers selling drugs to derelict demons. But when Trevor is betrayed and murdered, an angry and grief stricken Kate takes it out on Angel.
Meanwhile, Angel finds himself haunted by his past when in a flashback to 1753 Galway, Ireland shows him as the drunkard Liam, at odds with his overbearing and domineering father. Which takes a turns when Liam is bitten by the vampire Darla, and returns from the dead as the vampire Angelus, and kills his father and entire family.
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In Galway, Ireland 1753, a human Angel--then named Liam--hits on a servant girl. His father arrives, explaining how ashamed he is of his son and hits him. In present time, Angel fights with and kills a demon. Kate shows up at the scene of a hostage situation in a subway only to find that the suspect is gone and Angel got to him first. Kate's father, Trevor Lockley, arrives at the scene as well after hearing about the incident on a police scanner. Back in Angel's past, Darla watches as a drunk Liam fights with several men.
Wesley looks up information on the demon and believes it to be a Kwaini demon. This demon however, is not a violent demon, and they're not sure why it would have attacked the people on the train. Angel tries to talk to Kate about this, but she wants to forget the whole thing and move on. Wesley and Cordelia locate the demon's body and are going to perform a test on it. Angel follows a deliveryman who was on the train to the apartment of Kate's father. Mr. Lockley gives the man a package.
Angel questions Kate's father and tries to get information from him, but Trevor tells him nothing and shuts the door in Angel's face. Again in Angel's past, Liam says goodbye to his family and fights with his father before walking out of the house forever. After quite a bit of partying, it's again seen how Darla makes Angel a vampire. Kate goes out to lunch with her father and they talk a lot about Angel. Wesley dissects organs from the demon and determines that it is in fact a Kwaini demon. He also finds that the demon was on a special kind of drug and attacked the train because someone one board possibly had more of the drug.
Cordelia returns after following the deliveryman and has pictures of him at a place called Kel's Exotic Auto. Mr. Lockley speaks with a couple of men in suits about the job he has been doing for them. He is paid for his cooperation and silence. A large demon speaks to the men in suits, telling them to kill Angel and Trevor. In a flashback to the 18th century, Liam's family mourns at his funeral. That night, after the burial Angel rises and is greeted by Darla. She watches as he morphs and kills his first human. It's later seen that the new vampire Angel visits his home and kills the members of his family.
In the present, Cordelia and Wesley work on the new security system while Kate arrives with information on the train's passengers for Angel. Hoping he can prevent something bad from happening, Angel leaves to warn Trevor about the danger he's involved in. Cordelia and Wesley are attacked by a couple of Kwaini demons, but Angel returns in time to save them. The security system they recently got turns out to be more annoying and troublesome than helpful. Angel quickly leaves for Trevor Lockley's place in hopes of saving him.
The men in suits visit Trevor Lockley to make sure he hasn't said anything to his daughter. Angel arrives but, before he can convince Mr. Lockley to invite inside, the men in suits reveal themselves as vampires and kill Trevor. Angel kills one of them, while the other escapes. Kate then arrives, finding her father dead and tells Angel to leave. Covering himself with weapons, Angel gets ready to go out and kill all those involved in Mr. Lockley's death.
Arriving at Kel's Exotic Auto, Kate shoots several of the vampires and stakes the one that killed her father. The demon they are all working for shows up and manages to survive several gunshots. Angel shows up and helps her fight and kill the remaining vampires and finally chops off the head of the lead demon. Kate walks away, saying that Angel doesn't know anything about losing a human father. Back in Angel's past, Darla finds that Angel has killed all of his family. She reminds him that even though his father is dead, his memory will always haunt him. Kate visits her father's grave while Angel watches from the safety of the shadows.
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- German title: "Vaterliebe" ("Paternal love")
- Italian title: "L'amore non muore" ("The love doesn't die")
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- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: January 2000 - Spring 2000 (non-canon = italic) |
|---|---|
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.12 A New Man |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.12 Expecting |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel graphic novel: Hunting Ground |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows/Love for sale |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.13 The I in Team |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.13 She |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.14 Goodbye Iowa |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy video game: Wrath of the Darkhul King |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.14 I've Got You Under My Skin |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.15 This Year's Girl |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.15 The Prodigal |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.16 Who Are You |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.16 The Ring |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy comic: Giles |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy comic: Jonathan (by Jane Espenson) |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.17 Superstar |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | Buffy/Angel graphic novel: Past Lives |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy graphic novel: Out of the Woodwork |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy book: These Our Actors |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.17 Eternity |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.18 Where the Wild Things Are |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.18 Five By Five |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.19 New Moon Rising |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.19 Sanctuary |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.20 The Yoko Factor |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.20 War Zone |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B4.21 Primeval |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.21 Blind Date |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | B4.22 Restless |
| L.A., 2000 | A1.22 To Shanshu in L.A. |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel comic: Cordelia special |
| Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | Buffy/Angel books: Unseen [Trilogy] |
