through the looking glass
Season 2 Episode 21
Episode aired may 15, 2001
Plot
cordelia meets the groosalugg while wesley, gunn and angel get a good look at the beast that lives within angel.
Behind the Scenes
as was pointed out as recently as disharmony (2001), soulless vampires are not truly humans who have been transformed into vampires, but demons who inhabit the bodies of dead humans to become vampires, their personas shaped by the humans' memories. prior to regaining his soul, angel, originally named liam, was such a being, a demon who, in combination with angel's original personality, became angel's evil persona angelus; only the restoration of angel's human soul (e.g. the original liam whom the demon supplanted) suppressed the demon/angelus. angel's demonic form in this episode, which he inadvertently assumes when displaying his vampiric nature, is thus presumably the demon who originally possessed liam's dead body, looking as it would without the human influence that originally caused it to become angelus.
