Angel Logo 'War Zone'
Story Code '1ADH20'

by Gary Campbell
Angel Cast

Millionaire computer nerd David Navid hires the Angel Investigations team to track down the person responsible for blackmailing him. Angel follows the trail to a hood named Lenny Edwards, but then finds himself caught in the middle of a gang war between a group of street-smart homeless kids and the local vampire population. Angel tries to convince the leader of the vampire hunters, Charles Gunn, that they are both fighting on the same side, but Gunn merely responds by warning Angel not to come back. Angel sends Wesley to talk to the gang, while he looks for the head vampire and his nest of followers. Elsewhere, the vampires stage an attack on their hunters; in the ambush Gunn’s sister, Elana, is bitten by one of the undead creatures. Angel offers to help Gunn bring down the vampire nest, but Gunn turns him down and locks the vampire in a meat locker. Having arrived at the building where the vampires’ nest is situated, Gunn leaves his team and enters the premises alone; inside, he comes face-to-face with Elana, who has now become a vampire. Cordelia and Wesley free Angel, and together they head for the vampire nest; Gunn wrestles with his feelings for his sister, and eventually manages to destroy the monster she has become. The vampires burst in and attack, just as Angel and his friends arrive. An all-out war is about to start, until Angel intervenes: he offers the vampire leader the opportunity to leave, as long he and his followers stay out of L.A., which is now off limits. Angel then offers the vampire hunters a choice: a truce or they will die. The kids agree, and everyone walks away.

David Boreanaz (Angel), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Price), Michele Kelly (Alonna), Maurice Compte (Chain), Mick Murray (Knox), Joe Basile (Lenny Edwards), David Herman (David Nabbit), J. August Richards (Charles Gunn), Sean Parhm (Bobby), Sven Holmberg (Ty), Rebecca Klinger (Madam Dorion), Kimberly James (Lila), Ricky Luna (James)
Directed by David Straiton

TX (US): 9th May 2000

Notes:
*Featuring Angel, Cordelia and Wesley, and introducing Charles Gunn