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Things have gotten quieter at Wolfram & Hart, but everyone is still crazy busy. Lorne goes off to schmooze at some Hollywood thing, while the others drift away to various work activities. Eve has apparently vanished, and nobody's heard or seen anything of Lindsey since the incident with the hell vortex. Also, Gunn is having trouble remembering some of his lawyer stuff, but cites exhaustion as the reason (that's never the reason on this show, so I expect to see ramifications later).

While Angel sits alone in his office, he gets a visitor from his past. It's a young man named Lawson, who just happened to be a young man 60 years ago, too. If you guessed vampire, you get the Turtle Wax. Seems he and Angel knew each other back in the day.

Uh-oh. I feel a flashback coming on.

New York City, 1943. Angel is listening to the radio in his apartment when the Men in Black bust down the door. They're part of a new government agency, the Demon Research Initiative (hmm...). The U.S. has captured a prototype German submarine, but the crew that took it over just issued a mysterious distress call. The government boys think they know what's down there, but it's too deep for a human to get to it. Since they know what Angel is, and that he has a soul, they've decided that he's going to help them.

Whether he wants to or not.

So, Angel gets weighted down and dropped on top of the sub. The surviving crew members (including Lawson) are a tad surprised that anyone could get that far down without any diving gear, but they surmise that he must be some kind of super-soldier. He knows all the secret passwords, and seems to know what killed most of the crew, so they decide to trust him.

Angel discovers that the sub is infested with vampires, including a dark-haired Spike, who is wearing an SS jacket (he's not a Nazi - he just ate one). Two other vamps are also there. They were all captured by the Germans, who planned to experiment on them and use them to create an army. The U.S. agency seems to have a similar agenda, but Angel has already decided not to cooperate with that part (he can go underground pretty easily, after all).

They have to get the sub to the surface, so Angel insists on letting the remaining crewmen live long enough to get moving. Spike thinks Angel is still soulless, so Angel has to play tough by killing the other two vampires and talking a good game, while keeping Spike from having a snack. It's not easy, but Angel manages to get things in order again.

With one major hitch. A captured German officer stabs Lawson, who is the only person capable of performing a task that will save the submarine. Realizing that Lawson is about to die, Angel vamps him so he can continue the work.

After they get everything fixed, Angel lets Lawson and Spike go (it won't hurt them to swim 20 miles - or walk on the bottom of the ocean, for that matter).

Lawson is far from grateful, however. He went out and tried to be evil, and even kept tabs on Angel. It never quite felt right though, and Lawson wonders if he got a little piece of Angel's soul that prevented him from enjoying the carnage.

This seems unlikely, as Lawson has captured Fred, Gunn, and Wesley and is threatening to kill them quite brutally. He wants an explanation, some reason for what he and Angel are and what they do. Angel doesn't have those answers. He does have a pretty good right hook, however, and he succeeds in beating up and staking Lawson.

Later, Spike visits Angel, having heard about Lawson's visit. He figures Lawson just wanted revenge, but Angel doesn't think so. What he really wanted was a reason.

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