"Redefinition" is episode 11 of season 2 in the television show Angel

Angel (TV series)

Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...

. Written by Mere Smith

Mere Smith

Mere Smith is a American television script-writer who wrote a number of episodes of the series Angel. She was also the executive story editor and script coordinator for 66 episodes from 1999 to 2003....

 and directed by Michael Grossman

Michael Grossman

Michael V. Grossman is an American television director.He has directed a number of episodes from dozens of different television series, perhaps most notably his work on Grey's Anatomy and the backdoor pilot of its spin-off, Private Practice...

, it was originally broadcast on January 16, 2001 on the WB network

Television network

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. As Wesley

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel...

, Cordelia

Cordelia Chase

Cordelia Chase is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; she also appeared on Buffy's spin-off series Angel...

, and Gunn

Charles Gunn

Charles Gunn is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series, Angel. The character is portrayed by J. August Richards, and was named by Whedon after filmmaker James Gunn and actor Sean Gunn, both of whom had worked with Whedon...

 reel from the shock after Angel fires them, they end up at the Caritas

Caritas (Buffyverse)

Caritas is a fictional demon-friendly karaoke bar in the U.S. television series Angel. Caritas makes its first appearance in season two's "Judgment" episode, and its final appearance in season three's "Lullaby".-History:...

 demon karaoke bar. They talk to the Host about their uncertainty until a vision of Cordelia's leads them to a woman who has been abducted by a demon. Meanwhile, Angel reinvents himself as a cold-hearted, one-man weapon of mass destruction to find and take out Darla and Drusilla, who are recruiting demons for a rampage through the city. Meanwhile, Lindsey

Lindsey McDonald

Lindsey McDonald is a fictional character from the television series Angel. He first appeared in the series' first episode, "City of," and featured prominently in the story arcs of seasons one, two, and five. Lindsey is the only character besides Angel himself to appear in both the first and last...

 and Lilah

Lilah Morgan

Lilah Morgan is a fictional character from the television series Angel, played by Stephanie Romanov. She is first introduced in the episode "The Ring," and appears in the show's first and second seasons. After Lindsey McDonald leaves Los Angeles, Lilah becomes the primary face of Wolfram & Hart,...

, the only survivors of the office-party massacre, fear for their lives when the unseen Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart

Wolfram & Hart

Wolfram & Hart − Attorneys at Law is a fictional international, and interdimensional law firm featured in the television series Angel, as well as other extended materials in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse.-Fictional history:...

 want to meet with them to replace Holland as chief of the Special Projects division.

Plot

Just fired, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn remove their gear and discuss their future as Angel prepares for further actions. They visit the Host in hopes of learning clues to their future. Lindsey and Lilah are the only survivors of Wolfram & Hart slaughter; Darla and Drusilla have spared them to be their new connections with the law firm.

Angel strongarms a demon to get information about Darla and Drusilla. He spies on them at a demon club while they recruit new associates, but concludes that he's still too attached to Darla to defeat her. The Host can offer little help to Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn, who then must act on one of Cordelia's visions.

Darla and Drusilla are unable to agree on a course of action. Angel slaughters their new gang of demons before they arrive at their planned meeting, then ambushes them and sets them afire, although they narrowly survive and realize that Angel's personality has changed radically. Lilah and Lindsey are forced to compete for Holland's position. Wesley defiantly informs Angel that he and the others will continue to "fight the good fight" even if he won't. "Someone has to fight the war," Angel replies to himself.

Production

To get the effect of Darla and Drusilla being lit on fire, Makeup Artist Dayne Johnson says he put full-face burn makeup on Julie Benz and Juliet Landau. "We were like, 'Well, okay they just got torched and they both have perfect hair, Johnson says. Can we put a wig on, a ratty wig? Can we do something else?' They were like, 'No' – oh great, alright. TV land, okay, don’t do everything completely realistic." Johnson explains that because the scene was shot on a cold night, the water to douse the flames was warmed before it was pumped from the water-truck to avoid freezing the actresses.

Continuity

• This is Drusilla's final present day episode on Angel. Directly following this episode she returns to Sunnydale in "Crush"
  Crush (Buffy episode)
  "Crush" is the 14th episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Dawn has a crush on Spike, who reveals his crush on Buffy when he takes her on a stakeout date. When his advances are turned down, Spike kidnaps Buffy and Drusilla, who has returned to Sunnydale. He tries to...
  
  in hopes of bringing Spike back to LA to continue on the path to reuniting her family of Darla, Spike, and Angelus (though Spike rejects her). Drusilla only later appears in flashbacks in the Season 5 episodes "Destiny" and "The Girl In Question".
• Lindsey and Lilah have both survived the massacre of the Wolfram & Hart employees and are named the successors to Holland Manners by the senior partners, making them Acting Co-Vice-Presidents of Special Projects.

Trivia

• This is the only episode in which Angel never speaks onscreen. He only narrates over the episode.

Writing

Crossover with Buffy: After this episode, Drusilla visits Sunnydale in "Crush

Crush (Buffy episode)

"Crush" is the 14th episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Dawn has a crush on Spike, who reveals his crush on Buffy when he takes her on a stakeout date. When his advances are turned down, Spike kidnaps Buffy and Drusilla, who has returned to Sunnydale. He tries to...

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