Original Air Date: January 25, 2000

Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by David Semel

Summary

Cordelia's at the office preparing to go out at nigh when her friends Serena and Emily walk in. Suddenly Cordelia collapses behind her desk, Angel and Wesley keep her friends occupied while she has a vision. Once it's over, Cordelia hands Angel a piece of paper with an address on it. She and her friends then leave and Angel and Wesley head to the address and slay the disgusting demon while it's laying it's eggs. At the club, Cordelia is talking Wilson Christopher, her date, and they're really interested in each other and sparks fly. He drives her home and walks her to her door, kisses her and the she invites him in. They get romantic pretty quickly and end up sleeping together. The next morning, Cordelia wakes up late to find Wilson gone and herself with a huge pregnant stomach. She can't believe what's happened. Angel and Wesley show up at her door, since she's late for work they're looking for her. They enter her apartment and find her in the bedroom crying. Angel and Wesley can't believe their eyes when they see her stomach. Angel asks her what happened and she tells him about her night. Yhey try to call Wilson but his number has been disconnected. Angel tries to comfort her and says he'll handle it. Wesley and Angel leave and phantom Dennis tries his best to her comfort her be pulling up her bed covers and handing her a Kleenex. Angel and Wesley figure that Wilson was a demon that continues to survive by implanting it's seed in women, they're afraid that Cordelia will give birth at any moment so Wesley plans to take Cordelia to the doctor while Angel tries to locate Wilson. Angel heads to the club Cordelia went to and finds out from the bartender that Wilson hangs out with a group and Serena hooks them up with girls.

Meanwhile Cordelia and Wesley go to the doctor's who says she's 8 1/2 months pregnant. They do a prenatal exam on her and to their utter shock they find 7 heartbeats. The babies come up on the screen and Wesley and the doctor get a look at what's in Cordelia. The doctor is concerned and removes some amniotic fluid from her stomach with a large needle. The fluid disintegrates the needle and whatever it touches. Angel goes to Serena's partment and finds her largely pregnant as well. Serena says she knew something was wrong with the guys but she didn't know what. Wesley takes Cordelia back to the office. Cordelia suddenly realizes that Wesley is scared of what's insider her. She can hear the babies in her talking to her and she realizes that they're not human. Cordelia then goes to sleep and Wesley meets Angel in the office. Wesley tells Angel about the 7 inhuman heart beats. Angel then remembers something Serena said about Wilson and his group hanging out at a gun club. Angel locates the gun club and finds Wilson inside. Angel realizes that Wilson is human and tries to get him to talk by beating him up. He stops when Wilson's three friends walk in. Wesley is looking up demons and has found the one that he saw in Cordelia. Cordelia gets out of bed and takes a look at the picutre of the demon insider her. Wesley tells her not to lose hope. She then knocks him unconscious with the heavy book, telling him that she won't allow him to hurt her babies.

Back at the club, Angel figures out that a master demon is giving the club members money in return for Wilson and his friends to implant women with the demon's seed to produce offspring. Wilson refuses to tell him where the master demon is found, pulls out a gun and shoots Angel three times. Angel vamps out and knocks them all unconscious, except for Wilson. In a warehouse somewhere, Cordelia as well as Serena, Emily and others have gathered. They're all extremely pregnant mothers. Angel calls Wesley and wakes him from his unconsciousness and tells Wesley that Cordelia's at Industrial Park, he got the info from Wilson. Angel then says there's a telepathetic link between the mother, the babies and the master demon and if they kill the master demon the link will dies as well as the babies. The only problem is the master demon is huge and almost nothing will kill it. Back at the warehouse, Cordelia and the other women are sitting is large pool of water. Wesley arrives and tries to get Cordelia out but she refuses. The huge master demon the appeares and Wesley challenges him. Angel then arrives carrying a tank of liquid nitrogen. He throws it and the demon catches it. Wesley then shoots the tank and the liquid nitrogen spills out, frezing the demon and killing it. The would-be mothers scream as their babies die inside them. Cordelia gets out of the pool of water and sends a pulley on a rope flying towards the frozen demon, smashing it to pieces.

The next day, Cordelia shows up at work and thanks Angel and Wesley from the bottom of her heart for saving her life and she knows that she can trust them implicitly.

Summary written by Nika

Quote of the Week

Angel: And we fight termites, wherever they may roam.

Rating

4/5

Nika Summers' Comments

I liked that they centered around Cordelia and how she feels that she's being punished for having sex. Even though she wasn't being punished by higher powers and it was just a bad mistake. Charisma Carpenter did a wonder job acting as a psychotic caring mother at the end as well as showing us just how much it hurt for her emotionally at the beginning when she first realizes she's pregnant. It was also nice to see that Angel was treating Cordelia as if she were his little sister. It was really sweet and touching to see how much Angel and Wesley cared for her. The demon at the end I found was too easy, he seemed to look like he came from some ancient Godzilla movie where the effects weren't too great. Oh well, I still liked the storyline and the acting was well done as well.

Niki Bartl's Comments

Wow, I was totally blown away by this episode. It perfectly described the way that mothers are totally protective of their children or, in this case, children to be. I wasn't happy to see that Cordy is dating so soon after Doyle left, it just seemed like she wasn't really all that interested in him. The writing was on the cheese side, I totally predicted Angel saying that he hates when people shoot him. Wesley isn't getting on my nerves as much as I thought he would, but I do miss Doyle. With Wesley, it seems that he's just taking orders from Angel, doing everything he says meekly and carefully. The ending was super awesome, with the special effects done with the monster (question: why are buffy monster's so good but Xena's so cheesy? Wow, my word of the day is cheesy.....) and Cordy's life lessons learned. All together now....... awwwwwwww, how cute.

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