"I reached for the telephone and then the corpse, sat up, stared at me and said, 'You're a vampire. You're not welcome in my home.' And then I was being pushed out of the apartment by…something, and when I tried to get back in I couldn't." Angel explained to Cordelia and Doyle from his seat on the edge of Doyle's double bed.
"What do you mean, you couldn't?" Doyle asked Angel.
"It was like it usually is, there was a barrier there, something pushing me back. And the harder I tried to get in there, the stronger it got."
"Gee does this sound familiar!" Cordelia asked sarcastically. "Vampires feeding on people, said people coming back to life. This girl's a vamp!"
"No, I honestly don't think she was." Said Angel, getting up and starting to pace. "She didn't feel like a vampire."
"You touched her?" Cordelia demanded, outraged.
Doyle's eyes widened. "Which part?" He asked eagerly. Cordelia hit him.
"No, I didn't touch her Doyle." Angel stressed. "Vampires, and other things, well, we can tell that say, Cordelia, is a human, without even knowing that. It's something about the sound and smell of a person and the taste of the air around them."
"Are you saying I smell?" Cordelia asked, murder glinting in her eyes.
"No." Angel appealed to Doyle for help.
"What I think Angel's trying to say is that Darcy Regan is not a vampire, because she doesn't smell, sound or act like a vampire. Or a demon, or a werewolf or a witch, none of those things."
Angel looked pensive as he tried to recall just what she had felt like. He got up and began to pace the room.
"Well what is she if she isn't any of those things?" Asked Cordy. "And why are we supposed to help her?"
"That's what I want to know." Angel said grimly.
Cordelia sat on the edge of Doyle's bed. Doyle looked at her as she lay back on the bed, his bed, and said…
"What, is there something wrong with my hair?"
He shook his head and looked away from her. Man, these fantasies were ruining what little concentration he had!
"What? I have to know!" She persisted.
"Nothing." He said, "I was just thinking."