Synopsis of The Shroud Of Rahmon
Written by AnGeL X from An Angel's Soul. My summary will be up soon.
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 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 looses 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 of 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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