Lilah Morgan
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Lilah Morgan is a fictional character on the television show Angel, and is played by Stephanie Romanov.
She was a lawyer for the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart, and first appeared in the first-season episode "The Ring," where she first attempted to make a deal with Angel.
Lilah appears to be cold-hearted, ruthless, self-serving, and deceitful. Cordelia once called her a "vicious bitch," a title she liked. This is unusual, given the overall themes of feminism and woman power in Joss Whedon's universe. However as the show goes on we learn more about Lilah, the logic behind the choices she's made, and the circumstances of her life. Some have speculated that Lilah's evil tendencies are simply the result of being an ambitious female in a world where rules are made by men and for men. In a way, she is representative of the dark side of feminism.
She was a semi-regular throughout the second and third seasons, becoming co-head of the Special Projects division, and when Lindsey McDonald left, she had more power in the law firm. At the end of third season, she began sleeping with Wesley Wyndam-Pryce after his betrayal of Angel and ejection from the core group. The relationship with him, which seemed to begin as a series of one night stands, continued throughout fourth season, through emergence of The Beast and the destruction of the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart.
Lilah was killed shortly after the release of Angelus. Wesley believed that Angelus was responsible and was forced to behead Lilah, as he believed she would rise again as a vampire (erroneously, though, as it was revealed to the audience that Cordelia Chase was no longer the force for good that she had once been, and that she had killed Lilah, leaving the body for Angelus to drink from).
As shown before in the show with Holland Manners, an employment contract with Wolfram & Hart does not terminate with death, and Lilah returned at the end of fourth season, wearing a scarf around her neck to hide the scar from Wesley's axe (an allusion to folklore) and offering Angel a tempting offer — full control of the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart, with all the resources (and all the troubles).
Angel took the offer in an attempt to save his son Connor a life of misery, and Lilah apparently returned to the Hell division of Wolfram & Hart, to be replaced as liaison by Eve in the fifth season.
External links
- Notorious: A Lilah Morgan Resource (http://notorious.imjustsayin.net/)