Angel (Season 2) - 2000(Complete)

Angel Investigations, now in their new headquarters – the Hyperion Hotel – are trying to decipher what Wolfram & Hart raised at the end of season one with the Scrolls of Aberjan. It turns out that it was Darla – human, ailing and mentally unstable – who is being used by Wolfram & Hart to unhinge Angel by mystically invading his dreams. It turns out that Darla is infected with a syphilitic heart condition brought over from her original human life as a prostitute which is rapidly killing her. She begs Angel to turn her into a vampire so as to save her life. He refuses and instead takes part in a dangerous trial to attempt to buy her a second chance. He succeeds. Unfortunately, she doesn't, having already been rescued from life once before. However, his sacrifice proves to her that humanity has strength within it after all and that maybe living the remainder of her days out as a human woman won't be as bad as she thinks. Wolfram & Hart do not share her view however and bring forth Drusilla to sire the uncooperative Darla (having hoped that Angel would do so, further darkening his path). With both powerful vampires now together and loose on the streets of Los Angeles, Angel has no choice but to sink to their level in order to defeat them. He fires his crew (Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn) and purposefully allows Darla and Drusilla to slaughter the Special Projects division of Wolfram & Hart including Holland Manners. During the massacre the vampires intentionally leave Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan alive to act as their liaisons to Wolfram & Hart. The two lawyers end up in competition with each other for the remainder of the season as they fight for the position of head of Special Projects before the firm decides to "trim the fat". Meanwhile, Angel trains himself to take on Darla and Drusilla. He finds and destroys their potential demon army they planned to use to destroy Los Angeles, and then violently set both of them on fire (although this does not kill them).