With Angel and Cordelia still missing and the traitorous Wesley banished from the Angel Investigations team, Fred, Gunn and Connor struggle to keep the business afloat. Yet ironically, it is Wesley who finally finds Angel. Angel's own search for Cordelia ends when she suddenly shows up with no memory of her friends or who she is. Lorne becomes even more concerned when she sings for him, for in her aura he sees the coming of pure evil. Overwhelmed and frightened, Cordelia takes refuge with Connor, setting the stage for the birth of an entity with the power to control the world and everyone in it.