Standard perpetuity clause in her contract grants her immortality through un-death, which can only be rescinded by the Senior Partners themselves.
ABOUT ME (by Lilah Morgan)
I'm Wolfram and Hart's Executive Vice President for Special Projects. And you? Remember the scene with the woodchipper in Fargo? All that blood and fleshy chunks? That's you. Ha! You think I'm joking, don't you? I'm not, kiddo. Lilah's always dead serious. Well, mostly. Ok, so you want to know more about me? Not much to tell, really. My childhood sucked - abusive father, drunken mother. But I got a scholarship to Harvard and finished my law degree there. Graduated in the top 5% of my class. Passed the California bar with flying colors, then couldn't find a job. One thing led to another, you know? A girl has to survive. I found defending demons to be lucrative, and I was good at it. My work caught the attention of one Holland Manners at Wolfram and Hart. He called me out of the blue, and as they say, the rest is history. So you still want to know more? Well then, I'm wicked smart, confident, cocky, sometimes arrogant, and I know how to play the game. All the games, in fact. But I'm sexy too, and I know it. I've got the best legs at Wolfram and Hart, and I know how to use them. Just ask Wesley Wyndam-Price.
Lilah is a lawyer working for the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart. When she first meets Angel, she tries (and fails) to persuade him to work for her employers by buying his contract when he is captured by a demon fight ring. She offers him his freedom if he agrees to look the other way and 'pick the battles [he] could win'. Angel informs her that there are far too many reasons they couldn't work together, and he prefers to return to the ring than gain his freedom that way. He is returned to the ring, and she then works to kill Angel; she is co-architect of a plan to hire renegade Slayer Faith in order to do just that. Over time, Lilah and another lawyer, Lindsey McDonald, compete against each other for the favor of their bosses.
PROMOTION
When the vampire Darla is resurrected as a human by Wolfram & Hart and ultimately turned back into a vampire by Drusilla, Darla and Drusilla massacre a group of Wolfram & Hart lawyers in Holland Manners' wine cellar. Only Lilah and Lindsey are spared, and with only the two of them left on Wolfram & Hart's Special Projects Team, their rivalry reaches an all-time high as they start a power struggle for the vice-presidency of the team, as well as for survival. Eventually, Lindsey is offered the promotion, but he elects to leave the firm, disillusioned by the extent of its evil. He tosses his promotion to Lilah, effectively saving her life.
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
Lilah ups the ante in her vendetta with Angel, and blackmails him into freeing a mysterious young man, Billy Blim, from a Hell dimension by torturing Cordelia Chase. However the effects of these actions come back to haunt Lilah. As it turns out, Billy is a half-demon misogynist, and has the ability to bring out primordial violence in men simply by touching them. He touches Lilah's newest rival, Gavin Park, causing Gavin to beat her severely. Lilah hides herself and her bruises in her apartment for a time, and refuses to assist Angel when he comes to her for help in sending Billy back to Hell. Later on, Cordelia also comes to ask for aid in ending the evil Lilah helped begin, and Lilah again refuses. "I am not Lindsey McDonald. I don't switch [sides] whenever it gets tough." In response, Cordelia calls her a "vicious bitch." Lilah shrugs. "So you know me." Cordelia responds that no one deserving of the title of "vicious bitch" would allow Billy to get away with what he did, and Lilah eventually gives in and reveals Billy's whereabouts. The confrontation among Billy, Cordelia, and Angel takes place on the runway of a private airport, and Lilah arrives at the eleventh hour to fire the fatal shot, killing Billy and regaining her own sense of self-worth. It is around that time that she also receives a new boss, Linwood Murrow, who desires to kidnap Angel's newborn son, Connor.
Lilah herself investigates the return of Daniel Holtz, an old enemy of Angel's. Holtz has broken away from his partnership with the demon Sahjhan, who wishes to eliminate Angel for his own reasons, and he seeks out Wolfram & Hart. He brokers a deal with Lilah, a deal that ultimately results in Connor and Holtz being lost into the Quor-Toth dimension.
Lilah then begins sleeping with Wesley Wyndam-Pryce after his betrayal of Angel and ejection from Angel Investigations. She tries to convince him to join Wolfram & Hart, but he refuses her advances.
THE SMALL PRINT
Lilah's relationship with Wesley, which begins as a series of one-night stands, continues through the emergence of The Beast and the destruction of the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart that results in the death of all employees present except for Lilah, who is able to escape with Wesley's help. Shortly before that time, she kills Linwood during a board meeting, thereby assuming his position.
Lilah is killed shortly after the re-emergence of Angelus, stabbed to death by Cordelia (who is under the possession of the being later known as Jasmine) and left for Angelus to drink from. Wesley is forced to behead Lilah, as he believes she could rise again as a vampire. When Wesley prepares to decapitate her body, a haunting vision of Lilah appears. Wesley laments that he was unable to save Lilah from herself. Lilah suggests that she loved Wesley, but Wesley refuses to believe it, and with the decapitating swing of his axe, the vision is gone.
However, an employment contract with Wolfram & Hart does not terminate with death, and Lilah returns wearing a scarf around her neck to hide the scar from Wesley's axe. She presents Angel with a tempting offer: full control of the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart with all its resources. During a tour of the facilities intended to seduce Angel Investigations into accepting the offer, Wesley attempts to burn Lilah's contract in order to give her peace. Though the contract cannot be destroyed, Lilah is touched by the act.
Angel takes Lilah's offer in an attempt to save his son Connor from a life of misery, and Lilah apparently returns to the Hell division of Wolfram & Hart. In the fifth season, Eve takes over as liaison for the Senior Partners, Cordelia referring to Eve during her brief return as 'Lilah Junior'. During a later encounter between Angel and the Conduit to the Senior Partners, it manifested as Lilah, Angel commenting that he missed Lilah because he had always known exactly where he stood with her.
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