Allen Francis Doyle

**Allen Francis Doyle** or simply **Doyle** was the tritagonist in the first half in season one of the supernatural crime drama *Angel*, a spinoff to *Buffy The Vampire Slayer*.

He was a half-human half-Brachen demon (on his mother's side) and one of the three founding members of Angel Investigations and was immensely close with his colleagues Angel and Cordelia Chase. He was also a contact of The Powers That Be who would assist Angel in the team's cases by acting as an advisor on who they should help or any threats that needed dealt with thanks to visions of the future he was granted.

Although a completely heroic character in the final product and being killed after sacrificing himself to save a clan of demons very early-on in the show there were talks of bringing him back as the main antagonist in either season 3 or 4.

He was portrayed by the late Glenn Quinn.

## Biography

### Planned Return

As previously mentioned Doyle was intended to come back in the form of a "big bad" during either the show's third or fourth season, unfortunately however this couldn't happen due to the untimely death of his actor Glenn Quinn. Due to Glenn being a well-loved member of the crew especially amongst his co-stars and close friends David Boreanaz and Charisma Carpenter (who played Angel and Cordelia respectively) recasting the role was never considered and thus plans for Doyle's return were abandoned, although he is still frequently mentioned throughout the show. The roles of big bad in seasons three and four ended up going to Daniel Holtz as well as both Angelus and Jasmine respectively.

### Lindsey's Season Five Story Arc

Although Doyle never returned officially a subplot in season five involving Lindsey McDonald stealing his identity gave viewers an idea of what could have been should he have actually gotten a chance to come back, with some of these ideas being originally related to the original Doyle who had somehow come back to life:

During the season Lindsey and Eve the current liaison to the Senior Partners during Angel's tenure as CEO of Wolfram & Hart. The two try to manipulate events to get Angel out of his position of CEO by attempting to convince the Senior Partners that the Shanshu Prophecy foretelling an ensouled vampire who would play a crucial role in the Apocalypse was instead referring to a newly ensouled at the time Spike instead of Angel, hoping to get him out of Wolfram & Hart and secure the job as CEO for himself.

He poses as Doyle and appears to Spike regularly, telling him that he receives visions from the Powers That Be and wanted to help him in his quest to help the helpless, calling back to the early days of Angel Investigations. After getting word that Cordelia Chase has awoken from her coma he sends Spike to attack her, manipulating him into thinking she was still possessed by a being known as Jasmine who had latched herself onto Cordelia in the previous season. Eventually he's caught and his plan is foiled by Angel and the rest of the team before being trapped in a Hell Dimension by the Senior Partners.

Lindsey is later freed from his imprisonment and becomes an ally to Angel Investigations although is later betrayed and killed by a reluctant Lorne under orders from Angel much to Lindsey's disgust.

## Trivia

* Aside from Lindsey's subplot in season five very little is known about what would have happened had Doyle returned in the show as according to producer David Fury the idea to bring him back happened around production of season three and was intended to occur during four, during which time Glenn Quinn was struggling with substance abuse issues, likely delaying plans which altogether stopped midway through season four due to his death happening halfway through the airing.
* As Doyle was initially created as a substitute for the character Whistler another agent of The Powers That Be and the one who introduced Angel to Buffy in the first place, his eventual re-appearance as the big bad of the *Angel & Faith* comic series could be a reference to Doyle's planned return in the show, with Whistler likely being brought back instead of Doyle getting resurrected as planned out of respect for Glenn Quinn.