The Beast comes to town.

As reports of strange incidents flood into the hotel, Connor arrives to ask Angel to speak to Cordelia. He does so, but their talk is interrupted when Cordelia has a vision, and tells Angel that something is coming.

Investigating, Angel manages to extract some information from Lilah. In the meantime, a huge, horned demon, the Beast, bursts from the earth at exactly the spot where Connor was born.

Both Connor and Angel attack the Beast, but both are easily beaten by it. As Angel lies injured, fire begins to rain from the sky. Elsewhere, Cordelia and Connor share a passionate night in the face of armageddon.

Quiz - ten quick questions.

Trivia: Vincent Kartheiser found filming his sex scene with Cordelia a little tricky, due to the fact that Charisma Carpenter was four months pregnant at the time. In an interview, he told us, "I was hovering about two and a half feet over Charisma throughout the sex scene, just to make double sure that I wouldn't harm her or her child."

You can see the whole interview here.

This episode title nods to Francis Ford Coppola's infamous film about the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, which is almost as famous for the disasters that beset the production as for the movie itself - it went 100 percent over budget, leading actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack, and the filming took place in the middle of a civil war.