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Angel Investigations is the name of a detective agency run by the title character Angel on the WB television series Angel
(a spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
). It is sometimes abbreviated as AI. The agency allows Angel to openly advertise his willingness to assist people in trouble without specifying the agency's specialization in supernatural cases; their slogan We Help the Helpless is especially appealing to people who are unfamiliar with the supernatural world and therefore are afraid to ask for help, fearing they will be considered crazy, but who are nontheless in desperate need of aid.

Throughout most of the series' run, the agency has employed most of the characters, and provided the series with a steady income of storylines. Because of this, AI is somewhat synonymous to the group of main characters.

Story of the Agency

The agency was founded by Angel, in one of the first episodes. Angel makes friends with Doyle, a demon, who's been given visions by higher beings, of people in need of Angel's help. After they successfully save old Sunnydale pal Cordelia Chase, she joins them; they decide to front their operations with a detective agency. She is also the one who comes up with their slogan, "We help the helpless".

Half-way through the first season, Doyle dies and Cordelia gets his visions, while another old Sunnydale friend, self-titled "rogue demon hunter", and former Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce also joins Angel Investigations. At the end of the season, street tough vampire-hunter Charles Gunn also joins, to add more muscle to their group. All this time, AI has been operating from a small apartment, which also housed Angel. But at the end of the first season, the evil law-firm Wolfram and Hart has it blown up.

Subsequently, in the second season, AI moves to a new location, the Hyperion Hotel, an empty hotel which Angel had stayed in during an earlier visit to Los Angeles in the 40s. Half-way through the season, Angel fires his three colleagues after escalating disagreements about his growing moral corruption. Instead, while Angel deals with his private issues, Gunn, Cordelia, and Wesley continue running AI without him in a rented office. Eventually, Angel rejoins them and their base of operations returns to the Hyperion Hotel. During a story-arc in the demon-dimension Pylea, home to friend Lorne, they rescue Winifred Burkle, a brilliant former physics student, who joins the agency at the start of season 3.

At the end of season 4, the agency is dissolved when Angel assumes control over the L.A. branch of their former enemy Wolfram & Hart.

Aforementioned karaoke-demon Lorne, and Angel's son Connor, are also affiliated with the agency, although it is unclear whether they were actually employees.

Members

Angel
Cordelia Chase
Allan Francis Doyle
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Charles Gunn
Winifred Burkle
Lorne
Connor

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