He started to believe that everyone was connected on a near-spiritual level due to molecules and began to stalk a woman named Melissa, who he had performed surgery on to save her sight and shared a single drink with. Angel began to realise that Meltzer's obsession with Melissa was down to the surgeon's total inability to form geniune relationships and fear of being alone, yet in order to stop the madman Angel had to go to extreme lengths - dividing his still living body parts into twelve separate boxes and dumping them into a nearby subway.