Angel - S1E12

Expecting
First Aired: Tuesday January 25, 2000

When Cordelia goes out on the town with her friends, an unexpected surprise awaits her in the morning.

In the evening time, Wesley stops by to see if there is anything that he could help with. Angel tells him that things are slow and that Cordelia is going out with her friends. When her friends show up, Cordelia has a vision that she sends Angel and Wesley on while she still goes out. The guys destroy the creature that was hatched before it gets unleashed on the city. Elsewhere, Cordelia is having a deep conversation with her new boyfriend. At the end of the night, she asks him to stay the night, though Dennis the ghost protests at first. In the morning, Cordelia wakes to find her stomach has swollen to pregnancy proportions. Angel and Wesley coming calling when she has failed to show up for work and find her still in her bedroom. Angel starts to track down the guy while Wesley takes Cordelia to the doctors. From the ultrasound, they find out that there are seven heartbeats in Cordelia's womb and the two go back to Angel's place so Wesley can investigate. Shortly, Angel finds another of Cordelia's friends and sees she is pregnant as well. Tracking the group of guys to a gun club, he finds out that they are human and are working for a very large demon. Wesley, after being knocked out by Cordelia, says that he will meet Angel at the warehouse where the demon resides. They get there and see all of the women are in a bath awaiting birth. Angel ends up through a cryogenic canister, which the creature catches and Wesley shoots. With the demon frozen, Cordelia and the others revert back to normal.

This was a very good episode, especially the touching mini-speech at the end where Cordelia says she trusts Angel and Wesley completely. Being an episode I never remember watching, it was intriguing to find out exactly what was going on. It is a fun little precursor to the season 4 story arc where Cordelia becomes pregnant with Jasmine. I really like the way Angel and Wesley play off of each other and the way that Wesley continues to try sneaking into Angel Investigations.

Score: 8.5 / 10