Played by Julie Benz (Roswell, Jawbreaker) "See, Lindsey, during my stint as  Wolfram and Hart's puppet, something  occurred to me.  I loathe being used.  If I recall I sent you a fifteen- body- memo to that effect." (Redefinition).	BTVS: Welcome to the Hellmouth BTVS: The Harvest BTVS: Angel BTVS: Becoming, Part 1 The Prodigal Five by Five To Shanshu in LA Judgment First Impressions Untouched Dear Boy BTVS: Fool for Love Darla The Trial Reunion Redefinition Reprise Epiphany Heartthrob That Vision Thing Offspring Quickening Lullaby Trivia and Appearances Julie Benz/Darla Links Write to How Bad is Darla
Welcome to the Hellmouth	We are first introduced to Darla as she posed as a high school student in order to lure men to drink their blood. She lured Xander's friend Jesse to the Master's Lair. Darla meets another follower Thomas at the Master's Lair.  Thomas has lured Willow there.  Buffy follows them and she and Darla fight.  Darla is unaware of who Buffy is.  Eventually Darla and Luke corner Buffy, Jesse, Willow and Xander.
The Harvest	It is revealed that Darla nabbed Jesse and ran off.  Darla offers Jesse as an offering to the Master, but the Master decides he's better at bait.   Darla explains that there was trouble with the slayer. Darla turns Jesse. Darla joins Luke and Jesse as they take over the Bronze in order to feed for the Master.  When Buffy, Giles, Willow and Xander tried to stop what is happening Darla goes after Willow and Giles.  Darla escapes when Luke is staked and returns to the Master.
Angel	Darla requests the Master let her kill Buffy for him after a strong vampire is killed by Buffy. Darla kills the Three after they fail to kill Buffy.  Darla meets up with Angel at his apartment.  She tells him that it has been a long time. The talk about old times.  Darla chastises him for trying to act human when he isn't.  Darla again plead to the Master to let her kill Buffy.  Darla purposes to the Master that they set up Angel to kill Buffy.  Darla listens in on a conversation Buffy and Willow are having about Angel.  She is pleased to hear that Buffy feels she has to stake Angel because it is her duty.  Darla goes to Buffy's house and tricks her mother into thinking she is a classmate of Buffy's.  Joyce invites Darla in and she attacks her.  Angel catches her in the act and drives Darla away.  Darla goes to Angel's apartment and tells him that Buffy is going to kill him, so he might as well kill her before that happens. She tries to convince him to stop denying who he is.  Angel agrees and they head out to kill Buffy.  When Angel refuses to kill Buffy, Darla decided to do it. She tells Buffy that she is Angel's sire and they spent a long time together.  Darla shoots Angel with a gun to get him out of the way while she takes on Buffy. While she had Buffy in her sights, Angel staked her.
Becoming Part 1	Darla was sired 400 years ago.  150 years after she was sired, she met a rich man's son named Liam. She turned him into a vampire who called himself Angelus.
The Prodigal	A flashback shows when Darla first saw Liam.  She decided that he was magnificent. Liam see Darla and walks over to them when someone smashes a bottle over his head. Later Darla turns him.  Liam is now Angelus.   After Liam's funeral, Darla digs Angelus out of the grave. She explains that turning will hurt for a while, but that it eventually goes away.  The two of them go off and wreak havoc. After Angelus kills his family, Darla finds him and they talk.  She wants to know if he felt like he won. He doesn't know.  She explains that his father will never understand him.  Angelus does not seem to understand what she is saying.
Five by Five	Darla surprises Angelus for his birthday with a bound and gagged gypsy.  Angelus is happy to receive the gift.  Darla asks if she can watch Angelus kills the girl.  Darla comes back to find Angel huddled in a corner, he is explaining  about how some people scream when he attacked them. Darla at first doesn't understand.  She thinks Angel has found someone else.  Angel explains that the gypsies put a spell on him.  Darla realizes that the gypsies gave him a soul.  Darla gets angry and throws Angel out.
To Shanshu in LA	Darla was resurrected by Wolfram and Hart in To Shanshu in LA.
Judgment	In Judgment, Darla is slowly adjusting to being back on earth.  She seems to be wanting to get even with Angel for killing her.
First Impressions Bad Girl Rating: ***	Angel dreams that he is in Cartias.  He sees Darla waiting for him.  Darla asks Angel if he told the others about their 'dates' Angel tells her he hasn't.   That he wants her all to himself.  They kiss.  Angel later dreams that Darla and he are at the beach "moonbathing". Angel remarks that he hears ringing, Darla tells him to ignore it. They kiss again. Angel remarks that she seems sad.  She explains that she's in danger and he can't protect her.  Angel dreams that he sees Darla in the hotel.  She asks if he's saved some lives.  He says yes.  She asks if any of his friends said thank you.  She tells him that no one takes care of him, but she will.
Untouched	Darla catches Lilah sneaking around Lindsey's office.  It is revealed that Darla is giving Angel a powder to keep him sleeping.  Darla continues to appear in Angel's dreams. He dreams that they are together in the past.  This episode reveal that she not only was in dreams, but she was in the hotel and in Angel's bedroom.
Dear Boy	In Dear Boy, Darla moves from the dreamworld to real life.  She keeps appearing in in Angel's life and when Angel finally catches up to her, she claims she is a woman named Dietta Kramer and she's married.  It is also revealed that Darla was brought back as a human when she runs away from Angel into the sunlight.  Darla and Lindsey plot to turn Angel dark. The two seem to have a chemistry together.  They frame Angel by killing "Dietta's" husband who is really an actor and making it look like it was Angel who did it.  Angel kidnaps Darla who reveals her identity and Wolfram and Hart's plans.  She is thwarted by Angel who tells her that she never made him happy.  He also warns Darla that because she now has a soul, eventually the guilt will hit her.  Darla escapes during the day, but still seems determined to get her Angelus back.
Fool for Love (Flashback)	Darla tells Spike that he nearly got an angry mob to kill them.  She seems unfazed that Angelus is trying to kill Spike.  She seemed amused when they start fighting.  While in China during the boxer rebellion, Drusilla and Spike meet up with Angel and Darla. Dru tells Darla that Spike has killed a Slayer.
Darla Bad Girl rating-  Flashbacks **** Modern Day, *	In Darla, Darla seems to be on the verge of cracking up and Lindsey tries to help her.  She attempts to call Angel but when Lindsey tries to stop her, she hits him in the head with the phone and thinks she "accidentally" killed a guard during the struggle.  Lindsey helps her escape, though later she is picked up by Wolfram and Hart and supposedly taken to be killed.  Angel rescues her and takes her back to the hotel and assures her he will help with her pain.  Darla surprises him by telling him she wants him to make her a vampire. Angel refuses and Darla runs off.
The Trial Bad Girl rating: *	In The Trial, Darla is now living near skid row.  Lindsey finds her and informs her that she's dying. Darla goes to a bar and tries to get revamped but Angel saves her. Angel learns she is dying.  He takes her to the karaoke bar where the Host tells Angel that if he takes a series of trials he can save Darla.  Angel passes the trials, but Darla is refused a second chance, because she has already had one. Devastated, Darla accepts her fate and her death and falls into remorse.  This is short lived when Lindsey breaks in with Drusilla and gets Darla revamped.
Reunion Bad Girl rating: ****	In Reunion, Darla is dead and awakens before Angel can stake her.  Angel is attacked by Drusilla and Darla and both of them escape independently.       Drusilla is back at Lindsey's office when Darla shows up at his door.  She embraces him, sniffs at this neck, then knocks him away.  She grabs Drusilla and leaves.       Out in the street Darla and Drusilla fight.  At first Darla is upset over being turned but when Drusilla starts to cry, Darla realizes who she is again.  She attacks and drains a man.       Darla and Drusilla decide to go shopping.  They are trying on clothes when the cell phone Lindsey gave Dru rings. Darla picks up the phone, it's Holland.  He tells the girls to have a good time and keep Angel busy. We see that Darla and Dru have killed two people in the store.      Darla and Drusilla show up to Holland's wine tasting.  Darla talks about a massacre.  Holland is nervous.  She complains to him that they brought her back as a miserable human.  She says she senses fear from the room-- except from Lindsey.  She moves to Lindsey and threatens him, but Lindsey tells her he does not mind if she kills him.      Angel shows up and tells Darla essentially he will kill her, but not now.  He leaves despite the pleas from Holland and Lilah.  In the last scene, Darla is biting Holland's neck.
Redefinition Bad Girl rating: ***	Lilah and Lindsey enter his office to find Darla waiting. Darla tells Lindsey she missed him.  When Lilah and Lindsey don't move, Darla tells them if she wanted them dead, she would have killed them in the wine cellar. Lindsey asks her why she spared him.  Darla replies it was because she loves him, then she laughs in his face.  Lindsey explains that the firm will be looking for a scapegoat for the massacre.  Darla replies that they would spare one of them. Darla explains she wants power, but when Lindsey brings up destroying Angel, Darla gets angry.  Later, Darla and Drusilla find a group of demons fighting ala "Fight Club". Darla announces that she is recruiting, but when Dru says that Angel is watching, Darla becomes nervous and unhinged.  She quickly leaves but not before leaving the address. Darla and Dru are coming out of a bar.  They get to talking about Angel. Dru tells her that Angel will just keep on coming.  This gets Darla even more upset. She reminisces about the good old times where she and Angelus would reek havoc.  When they reach the place they are recruiting, Darla remarks they are broke but Lindsey could help them out. They enter the building to find all their recruits dead.  Darla spots Angel standing by a car smoking. Darla calls out to him, first as Angel, than as Angelus, but neither time he responses.  Angel throws the cigarette on the ground.  It ignites some gas and Darla and Drusilla catch fire.  They run out of the room where Darla breaks open a hydrate and puts the flames out.  Darla comforts Darla and asked "Who was that?"
Reprise Bad Girl Rating: ****	Lindsey returns to work and finds Darla on the couch.  She looks and acts weak and out of it.  She asks how she got here and he tells him Drusilla came to him.  Darla tells him that Drusilla is gone and that he is the only one who has not abandoned her. Lindsey assures her he never will.  He gets up to shower.  When he's gone, Darla rolls her eyes then gets off the couch.  She walks over to look at some files Lindsey brought home.  Angel visits Denver (The Bookstore owner from Are You Now Or Have you Ever Been?) who gives him the glove he needs to get a ring which to get W&H "Home Office".  Darla kills Denver and steals the glove. Later at the review, after Lindsey spots Angel.  Angel sees a woman in a black wig.  He rushes over to her and throws holy water in her face.  The woman is Darla and she has the glove.  Angel and Darla wrestle over the glove with Angel winning.  Lindsey saves Darla from being staked. Darla appears at the Hyperian to steal the ring but instead finds a distraught Angel.  Angel kisses her and takes her to bed.
Epiphany Bad Girl Rating: **	Darla wakes up and sees Angel out on the balcony.  She goes to him and tells him it will only hurt for a moment.  Angel regains himself and apologizes to Darla.  Darla then realizes he still has his soul.  She tries to stake him, but Angel stops her.  He tells her that she 'saved' him so he's going to return the favor, but he promises he will stake her the next time they meet. Lindsey arrives home and find Darla sitting by the window and despondent. When he sees she has the ring, he demands to know where she got it.  She says it was her payment.  Lindsey seems to realize what she means and demands he tell her what happened. Later it is obvious Darla has told him what happened. They are sitting on opposite ends of the couch. She seems unfazed when he gets up grabs a set of keys and heads to the closet.  Later when Lindsey returns home, Darla and all of her things are gone.
Heartthrob	In the past, Holtz is searching for Darla.  Angel and James had sent her and Elisabeth away to meet up later.  In the present, Darla meets up with an information broker who she kills.  When she moves away from the kill, she is very pregnant.
That Vision Thing	Darla visited a Shaman only to be told that there is nothing he can tell her or do. She tells him she plans on visiting the daddy.
Offspring	Darla arrives at the Hyperion.  Angel is stunned, but Cordelia is sympathetic to Darla's condition.  Despite that Darla attacks her and runs off. Angel finds trying to kill a child.  They fight, but Angel feels the baby's heartbeat.
Quickening	Darla learns that many people are interested in her baby. Darla begins labor at the end of the episode.
Lullaby	Angel learns that Darla actually cares about her baby and is afraid she won't love him after he is born. Angel assures her she will.  Her labor stops and Darla realizes her body can't deliver the baby, so while on the run from Holtz, Darla stakes herself so the baby can be born.
Trivia and Appearances	Trivia: Darla was the very first vampire we got to see on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.  Darla has appeared in 5 episodes of Buffy and 17 episodes of Angel.
Julie Benz/ Darla Links	Julie Benz Links Julie Benz Julie Benz as Good as it Gets Darla The Blond Vampiress Amazing Julie Benz Official Site
Write to	Julie Benz   c/o Angel 4000 Warner Blvd.  Burbank, CA 91522  [email protected] (Only for fashion questions)
How Bad is Darla	What's the worst thing she has done: Massacred a group of Wolfram and Hart Lawyers and a busload of people, helped murder Holtz's family.  What's the best thing she has done: Short live attempt at redemption before she was revamped, died to give her child life. What else has she done: Helped the Master try to reopen the hell mouth, tried to kill Angel, Buffy and Joyce Summers.

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