Episode
Angel: Shells
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Angel
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2004-03-03
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Shells is Episode 16 in Season 5 of Angel. It aired on 2004-03-03. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 15: A Hole in the World
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.
Episode 17: Underneath
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.
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Episode 14: Smile Time
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.
Episode 18: Origin
When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.
Episode 13: Why We Fight
A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.
Episode 19: Time Bomb
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.
Episode 12: You're Welcome
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.
Episode 20: The Girl in Question
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.
Episode 11: Damage
A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.
Episode 21: Power Play
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.
Episode 10: Soul Purpose
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.
Episode 22: Not Fade Away
Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.