Starring: David Boreanaz as Angel, Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase, Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, and J. August Richards as Charles Gunn

Guest starring: Elisabeth Rohm as Kate Lockley, Julia Lee as Anne, Mushond Lee as Jackson, Jarrod Crawford as Rondell

Original air date: February 13, 2001

Written by: Jim Kouf & Shawn Ryan
Directed by: Scott McGinnis

Angel is alone in the lobby of the Hyperion. Angel looks at the remnants of Wesley’s and Cordelia’s work, left sitting on the front desk after they were fired. In a fit of frustration or anger, Angel shoves some of the work onto the floor.

At the new Angel Investigations office Cordy’s doing her nails, Gunn’s reading the paper, and Wes is bored. While Gunn is glad for a lull in the action, Wes doesn’t think that the new AI team will make a name for themselves if they just sit around the office. Just then a woman and her daughter come into the office. Virginia Bryce (Wes’s girlfriend, see AtS 2.6, “Guise Will Be Guise”) suggested to the woman, Francine Sharp, that the AI team could help her daughter, Stephanie. Cordy invites Francine and Stephanie into the office and asks them to sit, and Cordy tells Francine that the AI team specializes in handling “strange” things. Cordy is a little freaked out by the “strange” thing happening to Stephanie - she has a third eye growing in the back of her head! As Wes and Gunn look at the third eye Francine explains that yesterday something grabbed Stephanie and bit her on the back of the head. When Stephanie woke up this morning the third eye was there. Wes asks Stephanie if she remembers anything about the assault and Francine replies that it was dark and Stephanie has been in a state of shock since it happened. Francine promises to pay them anything to make the eye go away. Wes tells Francine that they are already on the case and that there are a lot of nasty things on the streets these days.

In another part of town two teens are running and hiding from some one. The teens run to the East Hills Teen Center where Anne, the woman who runs the center, is distributing blankets (see AtS, 2.12, “Blood Money”). Anne answers a knock on the door and reminds the freaked out teens that no one is let into the center after 10 p.m. The male teen, Kenny, tells Anne that they •have• to get inside. The teens even tell Anne that they don’t need beds and they’ll sleep on the floor if they have to, but they just can be on the streets tonight. Anne senses how freaked the teens are and reluctantly lets them in the center. The person who was chasing Kenny and his girlfriend walks up to the teen center and, although you never see his face, you can tell it’s a cop.

Merle, Angel’s demon snitch, is in his place packing a suitcase. Merle is a little startled when he turns around and finds Angel standing there. Angel tells Merle that he isn’t going anywhere because Angel needs info on his “friends.” Merle tells Angel that there’s some big meeting tomorrow night with a lot of the W&H big guns, 9:30, at Diaghilev. Merle also tells Angel that this piece of information is a “freebie,” a sort of ‘going out of business clearance’ because Merle is quitting the professional informant biz. Angel asks Merle why he’s in such a rush to get out of town and Merle replies that he’s tired of getting pounded on by every vamp, demon, and evil lawyer in town who thinks that Merle might have some information and then doesn’t fork over some money. Merle respects Wes, though, because Wes respected Merle’s need for money. Merle actually tells Angel that Angel is only concerned with himself. When Angel tries to deny it Merle asks Angel how Wes or Cordy or Gunn are doing since Angel fired them. Angel actually looks a little shamed when he tells Merle that Merle’s information better be accurate.

The next morning Anne is at the teen center and approaches Kenny to find out what happened last night that made Kenny so scared. Kenny tries to lie but Anne sees right through him. Anne just looks at Kenny and that’s enough to get him to talk. Kenny tells Anne that the cops scared him and his girlfriend, Leslie, last night. According to Kenny, he and Leslie were just panhandling on the streets when a cop came out of nowhere and hit Kenny across the jaw and threw Leslie up against a wall so hard her arm is nearly broken. Anne asks Kenny what the two of them were doing that made the cop so angry. Kenny tells Anne that they weren’t doing anything and that the cop wasn’t trying to arrest them. The cop just started swinging. Anne tells Kenny that they have a problem but Kenny doesn’t think this is a problem that can be solved. After all, who can Anne call for help, the police? But Anne knows someone who might help.

Anne goes to the new AI office. Gunn greets his friend Anne with a smile and a big hug. Anne gets introduced to Cordy and Wes and Gunn explains to them that Anne runs a teen shelter near Gunn’s old neighborhood. Anne tells Kenny’s story to Gunn and also tells him that other teens are giving the same story; the police in her neighborhood are terrorizing runaways without provocation. Gunn thinks that it might be renegade cops and Anne remembers that Gunn used to hunt something else. Gunn tells Anne that it’s ok to mention vampires in front of Cordy and Wes because they are completely aware of the demon side of the world. Anne decides to head back to the shelter so that she can keep the chaos somewhat contained and Gunn volunteers to go back with her. Gunn wants to find out why the cops are harassing the kids in Anne’s neighborhood. Cordy asks Gunn if he’d rather stay behind and work on their other case, and Cordy explains Stephanie Sharp’s situation. Cordy and Wes are hitting the books trying to find out what kind of demon bite would cause someone to grow a third eye. As soon as they find out they should be able to remove the eye from Stephanie’s head. Cordy makes a sarcastic comment about the strange cases that “Angel Investigations” takes on. Anne asks who Angel is and Gunn explains that he is their former boss and they’ve kept the name of the agency until the 3 of them can agree on another. Anne asks if this Angel also wears a long black coat and tells Wes, Cordy, and Gunn that Angel tried to help her out a few weeks back. Cordy and Wes look very optimistic, hoping that Angel may have turned a corner until Anne explains that Angel’s “help” was all part of an elaborate plan to get revenge on some lawyers. When Gunn, Cordy and Wes hear that all three look pretty dejected. Cordy and Wes go back to the books and Anne and Gunn leave the office and head down the street. Anne and Gunn don’t realize that they are being watched from the top of a building across the street; it’s Angel.

Angel follows Anne and Gunn back to the teen center, but stays outside. At the teen center Gunn talks with the teens about their encounters with the cops. Gunn asks Anne to leave for a second and, after Anne leaves, Gunn asks the teens if they are trying to pull the wool over Anne’s eyes. The teens are aghast. Gunn thinks Anne has a blind spot when it comes to “her kids” and Gunn’s worried that the teens might be telling Anne a lie. Gunn just needs to know for sure. One of the teens tells Gunn that the police aren’t pulling some street sweep to clean up like they do a couple times a year. This time the police are targeting all the teens and are attacking without reason. Gunn looks like he might have been convinced.

Outside the teen center Angel heads back to his car when he is stopped by a cop. When Angel asks what he did that was wrong the cop pulls out his nightstick and orders Angel to turn around up against the fence. When Angel doesn’t turn around the cop hits Angel, almost hard enough to knock Angel on the ground, and the cop tries to arrest Angel. As the cop mirandizes Angel the cop takes several swings with the nightstick at Angel’s head. During their fight Angel decapitates the cop, but the cop’s head keeps on talking, even though the head is no longer connected to the cop’s body.

Two of Gunn’s friends, Rondell and George, brought a camcorder to the teen center. Gunn has a plan to capture the renegade cops on tape as proof. George asks if this plan has anything to do with the cops in the neighborhood and Gunn is surprised that neither Rondell nor George bothered to tell Gunn what was happening. George and Rondell accuse Gunn of forgetting where he came from now that Gunn is working with his new friends. Gunn tells George and Rondell to leave and that Gunn doesn’t need any favors, but Rondell tells Gunn that the favor that he and George are doing is for Anne’s kids, not for Gunn. Gunn, George and Rondell leave the teen center to catch the renegade cops on tape.

Angel visits Kate Lockley at police headquarters. Kate is less than enthusiastic about Angel’s presence and she barely puts up with it. Angel tells Kate that he just killed a cop and that the cop kept talking after he was decapitated. Angel hands Kate the dead cop’s badge and asks who the badge belonged to. Kate puts the badge number into the police database and discovers that the dead cop, Peter Harkes, died 6 months ago. Kate was at his funeral. Angel asks Kate if she wants to take a ride.

At the AI office Cordy is talking to Gunn on the phone. Apparently Gunn has told Cordy his plan and Cordy is worried that Gunn might get hurt, so Cordy is trying to convince Gunn to wait for her and Wes as back up. Doesn’t work. Gunn hangs up on Cordy so Cordy tells Wes Gunn’s plan. Wes can’t believe that Gunn would try a “dumb” plan like trying to get beaten up by the cops until Cordy reminds Wes that Gunn is pretty stubborn. Cordy and Wes decide that they’d better get to the teen center to save Gunn from himself.

In the meantime Angel and Kate are walking through a cemetery and stop in front of Harkes’ grave. Angel can tell that the ground has been disturbed in the past few weeks and asks if a lot of cops are buried in this cemetery. Angel walks a few steps, stops in front of a different headstone and asks Kate if the person buried there was a cop. Kate asks Angel what is going on and Angel tells her that he thinks someone is making dead cops into zombies. The zombies can walk and talk but someone else is controlling them. Suddenly Kate gets a panicked look on her face and starts running. Kate stops in front of her father’s headstone (see AtS 1.x, “xxx”) and asks Angel if the ground there has been disturbed. Kate’s worried that her father may have been zombified. Angel assures Kate that her father is fine and that his grave hasn’t been disturbed. Kate starts crying in relief and wants to know who is responsible.

Cordy and Wes arrive at the teen center looking for Gunn. Anne tells them the general direction that Gunn was headed and Wes goes off looking for him. Cordy stays behind to help Anne at the teen center and reminds Wes to check in with her on Wes’s cell phone. As Anne turns around to shut the door a young man walks up to the door and stops Anne from shutting the door. The young man wants to stay the night at the center but Anne tells him they are out of beds. The man thinks he might be able to find someone to share a bed with. Anne is not happy about having this guy in the center and when she can’t convince him to leave Cordy tries. The man ignores both Anne and Cordy and, when Cordy tries to stop the man, Anne tells Cordy to let him go, that Anne doesn’t want any trouble. Apparently the man, Jackson, is trouble personified.

Gunn, George and Rondell are trying really hard to find a cop and are having no luck. Suddenly a cop approaches the three men with his nightstick already out. The cop tells them to assume the position and Gunn asks the cop why they are being arrested. The cop ignores Gunn’s question and demands that the men stand against the wall to be cuffed. Luckily Rondell has the camcorder running and the cop’s weird behavior is caught on tape. Wes finds them and tells the cop that Gunn is a friend and tries to reassure the cop. The cop, however, has different ideas. He turns around and shoots Wes in the abdomen. Wes collapses to the pavement as Gunn disarms the cop and starts to wrestle with him. George grabs the cop’s gun but doesn’t shoot until George sees that the cop is pulling a second gun. Then George fires and apparently kills the cop. George is seriously freaked about killing a cop. Gunn tells George and Rondell to help him move Wesley to a safe place when suddenly the cop stands up. The four men take off running as the cop radios into headquarters that there are witnesses. Gunn and Rondell bring Wes to an alley where they can lay low for awhile so that Gunn can try to stop the bleeding. Wes gives Gunn his cell phone so that Gunn can call for an ambulance. Rondell reminds Gunn to tell the operator that the ambulance shouldn’t use sirens. George stands out in the street to keep an eye out for the ambulance.

Meanwhile Kate and Angel visit a very quiet precinct office. Kate tells the cop at the front desk that she’s investigating some recent complaints and the cop asks Kate if that isn’t a job for Internal Affairs. Kate tells the cop that she’s taken a personal interest in the situation. The cop tells Angel and Kate that crime is down in the precinct and that the Captain got the ball rolling. Angel asks to see the Captain but is told that he’s not there. The cop suggests that Angel check back later. Kate asks if the Captain is doing things ‘by the book’ and the cop is offended. The cop defends the Captain and tells Kate and Angel that the precinct cops are doing good work.

In the alley Wes is losing a great deal of blood and Gunn can’t seem to slow the blood loss down. Gunn tries to reassure Wes that Wes will be alright but the way Gunn looks at Rondell shows how worried Gunn really is. George runs into the alley and announces that the ambulance has arrived. Rondell and Gunn carry Wes to the ambulance and the EMTs get Wes ready to transport. Gunn jumps in the back of the ambulance to ride with Wes while Rondell and George head out to the teen shelter. Gunn reminds them to watch their backs. The ambulance starts to move down the alley but their way is blocked by several cop cars. The driver gets out of the ambulance to get the cops to move their cars. Gunn tries to stop him but is too late. The cops open fire and kill the driver. Gunn jumps in the driver’s seat and backs the ambulance up and heads off a different direction crashing through a fence. The whole time several cops are firing at the ambulance trying to stop Gunn, Wes, and the EMT. Gunn drives the ambulance to the teen center and he and the EMT get Wes inside the center because Gunn thinks it will be safer in there. Inside Gunn gives Anne the short version of what happened as a cop car pulls up outside the teen center. The cop driving the car radios the Captain that everyone is inside. The captain tells the cop to ‘clean house.’

Inside the EMT is trying to take care of Wes with Cordelia’s help. Gunn tells all the teens to lock and barricade the windows. Gunn and Jackson have a shouting match. Gunn tells Jackson that he’s bringing down the neighborhood and Jackson doesn’t much care if some white guy dies. Gunn slams Jackson up against a wall but Anne stops them before a fight breaks out. Suddenly the EMT shouts that Wes is bleeding internally and needs to get to a hospital fast. Gunn thinks it’s too dangerous outside but Cordy doesn’t care. Cordy tells Gunn they are taking Wes to a hospital now. Gunn tells Cordy to get the door while he and the EMT help Wes to the ambulance. At the door Cordy sees several cop cars pull up and she tells Wes and Gunn that the cops are there. The cops surround the teen center.

At the precinct Angel sneaks his way into the Captain’s office. The Captain tries to get Angel to leave but Angel insists upon asking the Captain a couple questions about his more dead cops. The Captain draws his gun and shoots Angel which, of course, does no good. Angel vamps out and demands to know how to stop the zombied cops.

In the teen center the zombie cops try to get inside anyway they can - breaking down doors, breaking in windows. Meanwhile Angel is fighting the Captain trying to find out how to stop the zombies. The Captain tells Angel that they are good cops and he won’t betray them. The Captain breaks Angel’s stranglehold and ducks through a small hidden door. Everyone at the teen center has grabbed something to use as a weapon to stop the zombie cops. Jackson decides he’s better off by himself so he unlocks and exit to leave. Unfortunately Jackson is knocked unconscious by a zombie cop and lets the zombie cop inside the teen center. Gunn uses a baseball bat to knock the zombie back outside and shuts and locks the door. Meanwhile Cordy and Anne are trying to stop a bunch of cops from breaking down the front door. Gunn and Jackson both try to help.

At the precinct the Captain is in a room full of small shrines to the zombied cops. Angel asks the Captain how he’s controlling the zombied cops. At the teen center the cops have broken down doors and windows and are starting to spill into the teen center. Cordy, Gunn, Anne, and Jackson are attacked by zombie cops coming through the front door. In the Captain’s shrine room Angel finds the idol of the zombie god, Granath. As Angel grabs the idol the Captain rushes at Angel to stop him, but Angel smashes the idol on the Captain’s head destroying it and the zombies. At the teen center all of the zombied cops fall to the ground and are no longer zombies. Cordy and Gunn rush to help Wesley who’s still clinging to life. They get Wes out to the ambulance.

At Kate’s office Angel tells Kate that she took care of the problem with the zombie cops. Kate shows Angel crime reports from that precinct and tells him that crime was down, even if the cops enforcing the law were brutal zombies. Kate isn’t sure that returning the community to what it was before the zombies came along was such a good idea. Someone drops off a report for Kate. It’s about Wes.

At the hospital Wes is unconscious and hooked up to several tubes with Gunn sitting watch at his bedside. When Wes wakes up he sees a very relieved Gunn asks Wes how he’s doing. Wes tells Gunn the morphine they’ve given him is ‘bloody lovely.’ Angel is outside Wes’s hospital room watching through a window. Cordelia asks Angel what he’s doing there and Angel answers that he’d heard about Wes’s injury. Cordelia is really pissed and tells Angel that none of them need Angel right now. Cordy tells Angel to stay away from all three of them and walks into Wes’s room. Angel watches Gunn, Wes, and Cordy for a moment before he walks out of the hospital alone.

Summary by Kirsten.