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| Episode 14, Season 1 Title: "IÍve Got You Under My Skin" Written by: David Greenwalt & Jeannine Renshaw Directed by: R.D. Price Original Air Date: 15 February 2000 Teaser: 
AngelÍs apartment. In the kitchen, Wesley is showing Angel an antique dagger bearing the Mark of Keklorum. It is the only way to kill a Kek demon. Angel points out wryly that Kek demons are now extinct, which leaves Wesley decidedly deflated. Wesley sniffs the air, and then checks his shoes as a smell permeates the apartment. Cordelia is baking brownies! The recipe was from her motherÍs housekeeper, but she has added her own special flair to it. Wesley is subject to the first taste, much to his dismay, but is informed by Cordelia that they contain ïnutty goodness, not red blood cells!Í Cordelia applies some elbow grease, trying to cut the brownies, and then sarcastically informs Angel that, ïif he branched into solids he would have a decent knifeÍ. She grabs WesleyÍs precious knife and uses that to cut the brownies. This leads to a major insult rally between Cordelia and Wesley, which ends only when Angel mistakenly calls Wesley ïDoyleÍ.
Angel then says ïWesleyÍ into the stillness and quietly states ïNo more fighting, alright?Í
A neighbourhood house in the suburbs. Inside two children are arguing over toys. Mom and Dad enter the room and send them to bed. After they are tucked in for the night, we see the father padlock the doors shut, to the motherÍs dismay. Act I: 
AngelÍs office. We see Angel reading quietly, as Cordelia enters, and asks what is wrong. Angel stands up, pacing, before he admits that he misses Doyle, and feels guilty over his death. Cordelia assures Angel that, although she also misses Doyle, Angel is not to blame. She tells him that it hurts, followed by a yell of pain as she suffers a vision. Flashes of a child, a house, and a demon!
Angel and Wesley are sitting in the car, in front of the house from CordyÍs vision. We see a boy walk across his lawn and into the street. As a car speeds down the road, Angel rescues the boy, flinging them both onto the sidewalk. The boyÍs mother, and father, Page and Seth race from the house. Page thanks Angel, then noticing his torn shoulder, invites him inside their home. Angel is sitting in the living room, with Page cleaning the shoulder wound. She is worried he may need stitches, but he reassures her that he is not a ïbig bleederÍ. Seth seems edgy as he sits, and we learn from Page that the family are new in town. Wesley is outside, going through the trash. He drops his flashlight, and when he retrieves it, we see a fluorescent substance on the walls. This, we later discover, comes from the bodily excretions of the demon. Back inside the house, Page returns with bandages, but AngelÍs wound is healing. He tells her it was only a scratch. Seth asks for his name, and upon learning it is Angel Jones, Page exclaims it must be a sign. She collects, and believes in angels. She invites Angel to dinner to repay him. He accepts, but only if he can bring something. In the car, Angel informs Wesley that something is wrong in the house. Wesley shows him the vial containing fluorescent placticine, and explains that someone inside is possessed by a demon. The next day, in the office, Cordelia confirms that the family have relocated several times, leaving behind a trail of death and disturbances. The liquid in the vile identifies a mass murdering Ethros demon. They must find a priest capable of performing an exorcism, but first they need to find out who is possessed. Angel thinks it could be the father, as the family seem scared of him. Wesley states that ïa father doesnÍt have to be possessed to terrify his childrenÍ, which leads to an uncomfortable silence. Angel arrives for dinner carrying brownies, which were baked with cylas eucalyptus powder. Upon consumption, these will reveal the demon. When time for dessert arrives, the father beings to choke on his brownie, but when the little girl, Stephanie screams, we see it is the son Ryan, whose face has changed. Act II: 
When Page discovers Angel has doctored the brownies, she accuses him of hurting the child, but the father admits they need help, and have needed it for a long time. Angel calls Cordelia; they need a binding powder to contain the boy until the priest can be located.
Angel brings Ryan to his apartment, with his parents. Angel lies Ryan down gently on his bed, while Cordelia pours a circle of powder around it. The parents are warned not to break the circle, no matter what Ryan tells them, while Angel and Wesley go to fetch the priest. Walking up the aisle of the church, Angel is slightly uncomfortable, and when they reach a nun at prayers, she recognises Angel as a demon. Informing them that the priest they are seeking died 6 months previously, exorcising an Ethros demon, she tells them her prayers are with them. Ethros demons are even more dangerous than Angel is. In the apartment, Ryan is pleading with his parents for help. Wrought with anxiety, they are sitting in the kitchen with Cordelia, who is trying to comfort Page, as she gets more and more upset. Back in the church, Wesley is filling a vial with holy water, and he informs Angel he will perform the exorcism. Angel, bringing up his past mistakes, doubts Wesley can do it. Wesley, miffed, throws a cross at Angel, which burns his hand. Angel then agrees to let Wesley try the exorcism. In the apartment, Page approaches the bed. Cordy tries to make her step back, as the demon comes forth. Ryan convulses and Page runs to him, breaking the circle of power. The door slams as Ryan starts to choke his mother. Meanwhile, as Angel and Wesley enter the office above, they discover from a book that the demon enters the nearest living body on exorcism, and this is how the priest died. Hearing the screams from below they hurry downstairs. Act III: 
Wesley chants, holding a cross to the demon, as Angel rescues Page. The demon retreats deep into Ryan. As Wesley prepares to perform the exorcism, Cordelia informs Angel they need an Ethros box, made by blind Tibetan monks, as only this will hold the demon, and prevent its escape. Angel sends her to RickÍs magic shop to find one.
Inside the bedroom, Wesley is chanting from the book. The demon, skimming his memories, taunts him with his fatherÍs voice. When Angel enters the bedroom, the demon tells him that Wesley wants to kill him. As Wesley gets more annoyed, he rushes the demon, breaking the circle for the second time. The demon attacks, thrusting the cross into WesleyÍs neck. As Wesley falls to the floor, Angel burns his hand pulling the cross out. At RickÍs magic shop, Cordelia cannot obtain an Ethros box, so she substitutes it with a Shorshack box, made by mute Chinese nuns. Back at the apartment, Angel and Wesley are arguing about continuing with the ritual. Suddenly the marbles on the table spell out the words ïSave MeÍ, and we hear DoyleÍs voice coming from the bedroom saying ïThe good fight, yeahÍ. Angel, sick of the taunting, wraps a towel around his hand and grabs the cross, heading for the bedroom as Cordelia appears with the box. Angel thrusts the cross on the boyÍs chest and chants. Suddenly he yells ïNow, get out!Í and morphs into vamp face. The demon bursts from the boy and shatters the box as it escapes. Act IV: 
Wesley, who has located placticine by the elevator, determines the demon has taken corporeal form, meaning they can destroy it before it regenerates.
Angel and Wesley search the sea caves for the demon. Wesley assures Angel that he does not intend to kill him. Angel tells him it is good, that Wesley is willing to kill him, if necessary. Suddenly they come across the demon, who informs them that the child did not have a soul for him to steal. The demon was trapped, and trying to escape from the boy. Inside the family home, the children are having hot chocolate. Ryan complains that Stephanie has more marshmallows than he does. Page tells him it will be his turn tomorrow. Back in the caves, the demon continues that there was no conscience, fear, or humanity in the boy. His mind was the blackest void the demon had ever known. 
We see the children going to bed, with no locks on the doors.
The demon tells Angel he tried to sleep walk the boy into the road, even if it meant destroying them both. Angel then kills the demon. Everyone in the house is asleep, except Ryan, who blocks the door to his parentÍs room, and unhooks the phone. He then pours gasoline around his sisterÍs bed before setting fire to it. Stephanie wakes up and screams. Angel leaps in the window, and rescues her, while Wesley gets the others out. Later, as the fire department are cleaning up, Angel thanks Kate for coming. She informs him Social Services will evaluate Ryan, who is in the back of her car. As she drives away, Seth comes over to Angel to explain that he was ïjust trying to hold his family togetherÍ. Angel replies ïI think you didÍ. Seth then walks over to hug his wife and daughter, as Angel leaves with Cordelia and Wesley.
Summary by CoA Council member, Bookall
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