The Shroud of Rahmon (Angel episode)
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| Angel episode | |
| "The Shroud of Rahmon" | |
 The gang plans the museum heist  Angel is briefly turned violent by the evil shroud |
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| Episode № | Season 2 Episode 8 |
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| Guest star(s) | Elisabeth Rohm Danny Ricardo Tony Todd |
| Writer(s) | Jim Kouf |
| Director | David Grossman |
| Production № | 2ADH08 |
| Airdate | November 21, 2000 |
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| Previous episode | Darla |
| Next episode | The Trial |
"The Shroud of Rahmon" is episode 8 of season 2 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel (series) episodes for a complete list.
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Angel and Gunn go undercover to foil the theft of a demonic burial shroud at the Los Angeles natural history museum, unaware that the evil garment makes people psychotic. Angel temporarily turns violent and attacks Kate, who tries to stop him, and Wesley and Cordelia also go crazy when they enter the museum to look for Angel and Gunn; Wesley ends up getting blamed for the attempted murder of Kate and the killing of a security guard.
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Two detectives talk to a man in an interrogation room about a murder an attempted murder. The man turns out to be Wesley, and he tells them it shouldn't have happened, but everything just went very, very wrong. Without revealing the vampire's name, Wesley explains that Angel wasn't supposed to be there, but since he's so stubborn, he was there anyway. Before this, Wesley stopped by the hotel and talked with Cordelia. She's cut her hair and he's noticing it for the first time. Since Angel is on a case with Gunn, Cordelia and Wesley go to a movie premiere.
Angel and Gunn meet with Gunn's cousin, Lester, and he asks for their help. Lester is supposed to be a driver for a demonic robbery but he wants nothing to do with it. A vampire Angel knows by reputation, Jay-Don, is being brought in to help. Much to Gunn's dismay, Angel takes charge of the case. Angel returns to the hotel and finds Kate in his room. She wants information on Darla and despite the cross she carries, Angel is not threatened and warns her to back off before she is killed.
Wesley and Cordelia are overly happy that Angel is back into the game and not so worried about Darla. Angel meets Jay-Don at the bus station and kills him, taking over the un-life of the very exuberant vampire. A demon named Menlow meets with the vampire he thinks is Jay-Don and takes him to the others. Another demon, Vyasa, a human security guard, Bob, and Gunn pretending to be his cousin complete the team. Cordelia researches museums to find which one may be the location of the robbery. They find information about the Shroud of Rahmon, that they believe to be the target.
Wesley and Cordelia continue their research on the shroud and find that it causes people around it to act differently, and possibly violently insane. After blowing through the lock on the vault, the only one who can pass the thermal scan, Angel, breaks inside and finds the shroud within a tomb that belongs to a demon, Rahmon. Being near the shroud causes Angel to lose control and shift to his yellow eyes and vampire visage. Wesley and Cordelia enter the building and are immediately hit by an invisible wave that alters their behavior. The demons, humans and vampires slowly carry the tomb on a path out of the building.
The shroud begins to affect them all, causing Gunn and Angel to attack each other. Vyasa kills Bob by ripping off his head. Cordelia talks to a mannequin and takes the jewelry decorating the plastic human. Wesley encounters Kate at the building and has trouble keeping focused on his mission to help Angel. Wesley confronts Angel and tries to warn him about the shroud.
Kate finds Angel and the others and pulls a gun on them. Angel confronts her, knocking her gun out of the way and biting her. A police team arrives and finds Wesley leaning over Kate's body. The tomb is carried to another building and shroud's effect on the demons, Angel and Gunn leads them all to fight over it. Gunn and Angel play tug of war with the shroud until Angel convinces Gunn to let go. After dousing the shroud in alcohol, Angel sets it aflame.
Again in the interrogation room, the detectives are convinced that Wesley is the killer. Just as they're about to arrest him, Kate shows up and tells them to let him go. She remembers that Angel did bite her briefly, but told her to stay down or be killed. Wesley and Cordelia think about what happened, and Wesley worries that Angel's bloodlust has been reawakened by the taste of human blood. They seem to be right as Angel sits in his room, his thoughts focused on biting Kate.
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This episode starts Angels fall from good to despair which will be explored in later episodes.
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- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 2000 - December 2000 (non-canon = italic) |
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| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.01 Buffy vs. Dracula |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.01 Judgment |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy graphic novel: Haunted (by Jane Espenson) |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.02 Real Me |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.02 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel book: Image |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel book: Stranger to the Sun |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.03 The Replacement |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy graphic novel: False Memories |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy Graphic novel story: Willow & Tara: Wannablessedbe |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.03 First Impressions |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel graphic novel: Long Night's Journey |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.04 Out of My Mind |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.04 Untouched |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.05 No Place Like Home |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.05 Dear Boy |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.06 Family |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | Buffy graphic novel: Autumnal |
| L.A., 2000 | Angel graphic novel: Autumnal |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.06 Guise Will Be Guise |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.07 Fool for Love |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.07 Darla |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.08 Shadow |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.08 The Shroud of Rahmon |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.09 Listening to Fear |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.09 The Trial |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.10 Into the Woods |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.10 Reunion |
| Sunnydale, 2000 | B5.11 Triangle |
| L.A., 2000 | A2.11 Redefinition |
