After Doyle's vision of Buffy, Angel goes off to help her fight, but remains hidden the whole time, before returning to Los Angeles. However, when he gets back, Buffy follows, and confronts Angel in his office. Just as things get complicated, a demon crashes through the window and attacks Angel. Buffy and Angel head off in pursuit of the demon, and track it through the sewers. Shortly after taking seperate paths, Angel encounters the demon, and seems to defeat it, but gets the demon blood mixed in his own, causing an odd transformation.

Heart now beating, Angel has been made human, and returns to Doyle and Cordelia with a many questions. They cannot answer, so Doyle helps Angel contact the Oracles, a conduit to the Powers That Be. Here Angel learns that what happened was meant to be, so he finds Buffy, and the two are reunited as a semi-normal couple once more.

Out of the job, but not without the visions, Doyle finds out that the demon, (a Mohra Demon with regenerative blood according to Angel's books) is still alive, and hiding in a salt factory. He tells Angel, who then goes off in pursuit. However, he is not strong enough, and needs Buffy's help to win. They kill the Mohra by smashing the jewel on its forehead.

After this, Angel realises that as a human he can't help fight evil without putting Buffy at risk, so goes to see the Oracles again. Here he learns that as a human, many will die, including Buffy, well before her time. Angel couldn't be happier with his current human status, but convinces the Oracles to turn him back. His sacrifice he feels is necessary to help save the world.

He sees Buffy again, and tells her what has happened. They have mere moments before time is to be set back 24 hours, with only Angel retaining any memory of the day's events. Then, Angel is back with Buffy in his office, just as things had been before. This time however, he defeats the Mohra demon in seconds (much to Buffy's amazement). The two of them then agree to seperate again, and Buffy leaves.