Who is Cordelia?
According to the demon Skip, Cordelia’s body has been taken over by a powerful being with no name. The real Cordelia is there as well, but the nameless “Master” is in control. From Skip’s story and their own speculation, Angel and the others decide that Cordelia was manipulated by Skip into becoming part-demon. He also convinced her to rise to the higher dimension. Wesley hypothesizes that the nameless entity came “along for the ride” when Cordelia was returned to Earth. Her amnesia was a side effect of the disorienting descent to the “lower” Earthly realm. When Lorne read Cordelia, he didn’t sense her future, he saw the entity within. Then Angel recalls that Cordelia’s behavior really only became puzzling after her memory was returned. Lorne’s spell, they decide, awakened the entity. By controlling Cordelia, it controlled Angel Investigations from the inside out. The miracle “child”: The entity inside Cordelia wants to walk the Earth on its own. To do so, it needed to create a physica
