Angel Investigations

Angel Investigations is a team led by the titualr ensouled vampire in the TV series Angel which is formed in the first season when the half demon Doyle convinces him to work together to make up for his actions as Angelus when he had no soul. They were also joined by Angel's associate Cordelia Chase from his time in Sunnydale.
== History ==
The team saw it's first major change when Doyle sacrificed himself to save the lister clan which devastated Angel and Cordelia. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce came to LA and was hired by Angel with them becoming close friends and both being immensely protective of Cordelia. The three of them caused alot of problems for the corrupt law firm Wolfram and Hart who retaliated by hiring Faith to kill Angel. Angel empathized with Faith after seeing her desire to change and Wes cemented his loyalty to Angel when he turned on the Watcher's Council to help protect Faith.
Charles Gunn initially distrusted Angel but got respect for him after he saved his sister and became an occasional ally to the team. When Angel teamed up with Lindsey McDonald and thwarted Wolfram and Hart's plan to kill some children he discovered the Shanshu Prophecy which stated Angel would be rewarded with humanity after stopping an apocalypse.
Soon after this the team met a demon who ran a karaoke bar named Lorne who would would help them and give them missions. Around the time Wolfram and Hart brought Angel's sire Darla back to drive him insane. This had a bad affect on Angel's psyche and it concerned his friends. Ultimately Angel got revenge on the law firm by letting several of their lawyers be killed by Darla and Drusilla. When his team showed disgust about this Angel fired them all. It was around this time that Gunn became a more Permanent ally to the team and bonded more with Wes and Cordelia.
Angel became more callous but did some good such as when he and Lorne thwarted a plan by demons to freeze the world in time. After Angel knowingly risked losing his soul he had an epiphany and returned to his team to earn their forgiveness.
When Cordelia got trapped in Lorne's dimension Pylea the team went there to save her. They succeeded and took Fred Burkle back with them who's life Angel saved which gained him her undying loyalty.
When Darla who had slept with Angel became pregnant she staked herself to allow her son Connor to be born. The team all gathered round to look after the baby. Unfortunately Daniel Holtz who wanted revenge on Angel for murdering his family while he was Angelus manipulated Wesley into kidnapping Connor who resulted in the baby getting trapped in a Hell Dimension. Angel was furious with Wes for the betrayal and attempted to kill him for it which resulted in Wes adopting a darker attitude to his mission. When Connor returned as an eighteen year old he seemed on the verge of making up with Angel but Holtz killed himself to incriminate him which resulted in Connor drowning Angel to the bottom of the ocean.
Wes took Holtz' accomplice Justine prisoner and rescued Angel though things remained strained between them. When Angel returned he revealed the truth and kicked Connor out. There began to be alot of animosity between Wes and Gunn due to their mutual feelings for Fred. When Fred discovered a Professor had deliberately sent her to Pylea Gunn and Angel tried to talk her out of taking revenge while Wes agreed to help her. Ultimately Gunn killed the professor to stop Fred from becoming a murderer which ruined their relationship.
Connor's relationship with Angel got even worse when he began sleeping with Cordelia who his father had fallen in love with though Cordelia was actually being possessed by a god named Jasmine despite nobody knowing about it,.
In order to further her plans Jasmine unleashed the Beast who was an incredibly dangerous threat on the world. Ultimately the team decided that the only way to beat him was to bring Angelus out. Angelus killed the beast and brought back the sun but he proved to be an incredible threat with the team having to bring in Faith to stop him and ultimately Willow Rosenberg restoring his soul.
Jasmine manipulated Connor into allowing her to be born by getting him to murder a virgin which she led him to think would save their unborn baby. Jasmine then made the world a peaceful place but at the cost of everyone being brainwashed drones who were fanatically loyal to her. Upon being freed by Fred from Jasmine's control Angel stopped her, saving free will but at the cost of world peace.
Wolfram and Hart were pleased with them and offered him a job as CEO of their LA Branch as a reward. Angel refused in disgust but when Connor took several innocent people hostage with the intent to kill them and himself Angel was forced to agree to save his son, as well as having Connor and his team's memories changed.
Despite Angel and his friends genuinely wanting to do right their association with Wolfram and Hart resulted in them doing things that were unethical such as Fred and Wes selling weapons to arms dealers. Around this time Angel's old enemy Spike came back as a ghost and ultimately ended up joining the team despite Angel and Spike continuing their feud and jealousy towards each other because of their mutual love for Buffy Summers.
Wolfram and Hart employee Knox orchestrated Fred's death so the demon god Illyria could be reincarnated. Illyria tried to bring about the end of humankind by opening a portal to where her army was waiting. Angel, Spike and Wesley failed to stop her but it didn't matter as her army was long gone and she agreed to being taught how to do good by Wes.
Angel came up with a plan to fool the Circle of The Black Thorn who were the driving forces behind Wolfram and Hart's apocalyptic plans by signing away the Shanshu as they wouldn't expect them to do good when it wasn't for a reward though the plan involved doing morally objectionable things such as consenting to altering a senator's memories to make him think he was a pedophile and killing his own ally Drogyn. Angel's team all went into battle against the black thorn except for Lorne who was sent to kill Lindsey since Angel felt he gave him enough chances. Wolfram and Hart sent LA to Hell in retribution but were later tricked into reversing it by Angel.
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