Angel's character has been through so many phases. Where is he at now?

To answer that question, you have to look a little bit where he�s come from. I�m fond of saying - although the network doesn�t like it - that he�s the oldest twenty-something ever on television.

Because he�s a vampire, he�s been around for 251 years and he�s done every horrible thing you can imagine, and then was cursed with a soul a little over a hundred years ago. It�s a metaphor for being cursed with a conscience, for being cursed with "Oh my god I remember all the terrible things I�ve ever done".

So he�s on a road to redemption, he really wants to make up for his horrible past. He�d have to live 500 years to really do it so it�s a one day at a time thing.

He came to Los Angeles in the first year of our show and hung out a shingle, basically saying "I�m here to do good, hopefully the universe will tell me what I�m supposed to do". He originally had a sidekick named Doyle who got these terrible visions of people in trouble and then Angel would go and help these people. Eventually Doyle sacrificed himself in a very heroic episode and these visions were passed on to Cordelia.