Angel - S1E13

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First Aired: February 8, 2000

When confronted with a mysterious extra-dimensional woman, he gets pulled into helping oppressed women from her world.

After an intro of Cordelia's house warming and of a man opening a burning box, this episode begins with Angel formally asking Wesley to join him and Cordelia. Cordelia ends up having a vision shortly thereafter. Angel investigates the warehouse where the man was burning alive and Angel is confronted with the demon Tae. Shortly, he meets Jheira, a woman from the Odin Tal dimension. Women in that dimension are "nurtured" by the men to make them subservient, but Jheira has found a way to bring them over to this world.

This was a somewhat interesting story that I feel I missed the first time around (as has been the case with most of the first season of Angel). The best part, I believe, was at the beginning where Angel pictures himself dancing and then near the end when Angel tries to crush the coffee beans. It was a nice, little one-off story, but I was expecting to see something from Wolfram and Hart having dealings with the men. The action sequences were the other high point.

Score: 7.8 / 10