Lizbet's Synopsis

Angel in brooding in the hotel, less than thrilled with the way things have been turning out. Meanwhile, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn take on a new case... a little girl who was bit by something and grew a third eye... on the back of her head.  They are still arguing over the name of the agency; apparently "Angel Investigations... it's just a name" isn't going to last.

Anne is at the shelter, and two teens have to beg her to let them in after cufew. It seems that the cops are getting crueler on the streets, and Anne is up to her neck trying to keep track of all the new faces that are flooding into the shelter.  To get more info, she goes to someone she knows and trusts -- Gunn. Gunn promises to look into the situation for her.  Anne tells Gunn, Cordelia and Wesley that she met Angel and he tried to help her. As the three of them get their hopes up, Anne continues that Angel was actually only using her to screw some law firm.

Angel is lurking outside of Anne's shelter and is stopped by a cop, who (unreasonably) demands that Angel turn and face the wall.  When Angel tries to get the cop to explain why he's being arrested, the cop mechanically ignores him, and keeps on reciting the Miranda -- even after Angel kicks his head off.  The body quickly shrivels into a desiccated corpse.

Gunn and two old friends have a plan -- they're going to pull a Rodney King, videotape the cops being overly with them, and use the tape as leverage to stop the attacks. Gunn is getting a lot of grief from people he knows at the shelter for being away from their area for so long.

Meanwhile, Kate finds Angel at her desk.  Her manner is cautious, without quite the same edge of biting hostility that she has been showing him. She keeps her cool, even after he tells her he killed a cop -- a demon cop.  They look up the badge and find out that the cop has been dead for six months. Visiting the graveyard, Angel notes that the graves have been disturbed on several cop graves. In a terror, Kate runs to her father's grave, and Angel assures her that his grave has not been disturbed.

Cordelia, on the phone with Gunn, tries to convince him that he needs her help, but he brushes her off. She and Wesley head into South Central to save Gunn from himself.  When they reach the shelter, Wesley goes looking for Gunn while Cordelia stays to help Anne settle in the tons of new visitors. Gunn and his buddies go fishing for a cop, and find one. With the camera rolling, Gunn plays the reasonable 'hood boy to the automaton cop, who starts arresting him. In the middle of this, Wesley shows up, and tries to speak for Gunn to the cop.  Blank-faced, the cop turns, pulls a gun, and shoots Wesley in the abdomen without a word.  In the scuffle, one of Gunn's friends picks up a dropped gun and shoots the cop. He freaks about this until the cop sits up and keeps coming. Carrying Wesley, the four of them flee the scene and use Wesley's cell phone to call an ambulance.

Kate and Angel visit the precinct that works the area where the demon cops are, and find it echoing with lack-of-worry.  The precinct flatters itself that crime has gone way down in the past couple of months since the captain instituted a new policy.  Angel breaks into the captain's office, who after a few moments, pulls his gun and shoots Angel.  When Angel doesn't fall down, he flees the office through a concealed door.

The ambulance finally arrives and picks up Wesley, but the cops in the area block it from being able to get to the hospital.  The ambulance driver is shot and Gunn takes control, driving the ambulance to the shelter, and trying to protect Wesley inside the shelter's iron-barred walls. But when the EMT tells them that Wesley is bleeding internally and there's nothing more they can do for Wesley outside of a hospital, it's too late to go anywhere; the exit to the shelter is blocked with cop cars. A full-scale attack on the shelter puts everyone inside in danger, as Angel follows the captain to his secret voodoo room.  Angel finally breaks a voodoo statue, and the demon cops drop and disintegrate.

Gunn and Cordy get Wesley to the hospital.  Angel tells Kate that he has solved the problem while she goes over reports from the precinct. The crime rates were appalling before the captain brought in the demon cops, and now the area will go back to being terrorized by criminals instead of criminals (and bystanders) being terrorized by cops. Kate also tells Angel that Wesley is in the hospital.

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