As he takes to the skies, he looks down on Los Angeles, three months on from the battle in the alley way. It’s burning, with demons everywhere: Wolfram & Hart have literally sent Los Angeles to Hell. The sun and the moon hang in the blood-red sky and the demons have taken over, separating the city into domains to lord over.

He lands the dragon at his base of operations: the wrecked out and dilapidated Wolfram & Hart offices. He’s not alone, as a demon named Burge and his son attack him immediately, out of vengeance for other demon deaths. They’re interrupted by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, dressed as a Watcher. He tells the demons that as the last representative of Wolfram & Hart, he has jurisdiction over Angel and his actions. Burge tells Wesley that he agrees – for now. If Angel kills anymore of Burge’s men – or even leaves the building – he’ll want Angel’s head, as well as his office desk. Burge’s son attacks and his hand goes straight through a non-corporeal Wesley. As the demons leave, Wesley asks a wounded Angel if his mission was a success.

Angel’s mission is what it’s always been: to help the helpless. The group of looters follow an address on the paper Angel gave them. It leads to an abandoned hotel where they are greeted by a large group of human survivors. They’re being brought together and saved from Hell by a team, made up of Gwen Raiden and Nina Ash. Due to the sun and moon being in the sky at the same time, Nina struggles to control her wolf side and Gwen’s device that controls her electricity has also been destroyed, leaving her unable to touch other people again. Their leader, surprisingly, is Connor, Angel’s son, who now seemingly has all of his memories intact.

At Wolfram & Hart, a mystical leech takes care of Angel’s wounds. It turns out that Wesley was never released from his contract and is doomed to serve the Senior Partners as their liaison in Hell. They’re working hard in an effort to somehow restore things to as they were.

West of Beverly Hills, Kr’Ph, the so-called demon Lord of Westwood, orders a group of former cops to fight as his warriors in an arena. He has a powerful Cat’s Eye orb in his chest and has a prisoner, Betta George, a demonic-looking telepathic fish. He instructs a not-so-willing George to enter their minds and coerce them into fighting for him. Betta George alerts Kr’Ph that his warriors are scared, and the dread lord watches in surprise as a group of men in hoodies attacks his. The group is led by Gunn who kills Kr’Ph and takes the magical orb, declaring that one of the Lords of Los Angeles has fallen. They take a group of women who had been enslaved and Betta George with them as they leave.

Standing over Burge’s son from his vantage point at Wolfram & Hart, Angel watches as the demons prepare to kill six humans in revenge for Angel’s murder of his men. Wesley silently stands in the White Room, waiting for instructions. Angel may have been ordered not to leave the building, but he sends his office desk tumbling from his floor where it hits the demons on the street below. As Burge’s son growls towards him, Angel throws a stake without leaving his spot, which pierces the demon through the eye, killing him. The other demons announce that Angel has just declared war and flee. Angel will gladly wait for them to return.

Elsewhere, some of the women Gunn and his team rescued are being massacred, fed on by a particularly blood-thirsty vampire.

As the harsh moon-light shines on his fanged visage, Charles Gunn continues to feed…