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The Best Episodes of Angel Season 5

Every episode of Angel Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Angel Season 5!

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The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Angel Season 5 Episode 22 - Not Fade Away
    9.5/10(4365 votes)

    S5:E22

    Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.

    Director:Jeffrey Bell
    Writers:Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon

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  2. Angel Season 5 Episode 12 - You're Welcome
    9.4/10(3437 votes)

    S5:E12

    When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.

    Director:David Fury
    Writer:David Fury

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  3. Angel Season 5 Episode 14 - Smile Time
    9.3/10(3192 votes)

    S5:E14

    While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.

    Director:Ben Edlund
    Writers:Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund

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  4. Angel Season 5 Episode 15 - A Hole in the World
    9.3/10(2704 votes)

    S5:E15

    After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.

    Director:Joss Whedon
    Writer:Joss Whedon

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  5. Angel Season 5 Episode 16 - Shells
    9.0/10(2214 votes)

    S5:E16

    Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.

    Director:Steven S. DeKnight
    Writer:Steven S. DeKnight

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  6. Angel Season 5 Episode 21 - Power Play
    8.8/10(1996 votes)

    S5:E21

    As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.

    Director:James A. Contner
    Writer:David Fury

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  7. Angel Season 5 Episode 8 - Destiny
    8.7/10(2135 votes)

    S5:E8

    After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.

    Director:Skip Schoolnik
    Writers:David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight

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  8. Angel Season 5 Episode 18 - Origin
    8.5/10(1553 votes)

    S5:E18

    When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writer:Drew Goddard

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  9. Angel Season 5 Episode 7 - Lineage
    8.4/10(1689 votes)

    S5:E7

    When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.

    Director:Jefferson Kibbee
    Writer:Drew Goddard

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  10. Angel Season 5 Episode 11 - Damage
    8.4/10(2154 votes)

    S5:E11

    A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.

    Director:Jefferson Kibbee
    Writers:Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard

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  11. Angel Season 5 Episode 17 - Underneath
    8.4/10(2054 votes)

    S5:E17

    Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.

    Director:Skip Schoolnik
    Writers:Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

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  12. Angel Season 5 Episode 19 - Time Bomb
    8.4/10(1935 votes)

    S5:E19

    As Angel and Hamilton urge Wesley to get rid of Illyria, she suffers a cataclysmic physical breakdown; and Gunn clashes with Angel over the enforcement of an evil demon contract.

    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Ben Edlund

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  13. Angel Season 5 Episode 4 - Hell Bound
    8.3/10(2109 votes)

    S5:E4

    After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.

    Director:Steven S. DeKnight
    Writer:Steven S. DeKnight

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  14. Angel Season 5 Episode 1 - Conviction
    8.2/10(2180 votes)

    S5:E1

    Some old acquaintances come back into Angel's life as he and his friends begin running Wolfram and Hart and try to figure out why they've been selected to do so.

    Director:Joss Whedon
    Writer:Joss Whedon

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  15. Angel Season 5 Episode 5 - Life of the Party
    8.2/10(2145 votes)

    S5:E5

    Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.

    Director:Bill L. Norton
    Writer:Ben Edlund

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  16. Angel Season 5 Episode 9 - Harm's Way
    8.2/10(2198 votes)

    S5:E9

    When Harmony wakes up next to a dead man with vampire bites in his neck, she's afraid she lost her head and killed him... but she can't remember doing it.

    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writers:Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

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  17. Angel Season 5 Episode 2 - Just Rewards
    8.1/10(2108 votes)

    S5:E2

    Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.

    Director:James A. Contner
    Writers:David Fury, Ben Edlund

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  18. Angel Season 5 Episode 20 - The Girl in Question
    7.9/10(2274 votes)

    S5:E20

    While Angel and Spike to go Italy to retrieve the head of a demon mobster (and save Buffy from a new suitor), Fred's parents arrive at Wolfram and Hart, looking for their daughter.

    Director:David Greenwalt
    Writers:Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard

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  19. Angel Season 5 Episode 10 - Soul Purpose
    7.8/10(2007 votes)

    S5:E10

    When Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve lets loose a soul sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.

    Director:David Boreanaz
    Writer:Brent Fletcher

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  20. Angel Season 5 Episode 3 - Unleashed
    7.6/10(2006 votes)

    S5:E3

    Angel tries to help a young woman who has been turned into a werewolf and is being pursued by a group of truly rarified gourmets.

    Director:Marita Grabiak
    Writers:Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

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  21. Angel Season 5 Episode 13 - Why We Fight
    7.3/10(2054 votes)

    S5:E13

    A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writers:Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard

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  22. Angel Season 5 Episode 6 - The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
    6.8/10(2130 votes)

    S5:E6

    While losing heart for his own career as a hero, Angel befriends a disheartened, elderly hero, and battles an Aztec warrior who literally eats the hearts of heroes.

    Director:Jeffrey Bell
    Writer:Jeffrey Bell

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Not Fade Away" is the best rated episode of "Angel" season 5. It scored 9.5/10 based on 4365 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Bell and written by Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon, it aired on 5/19/2004. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "You're Welcome".