"Rm w/a Vu" (Room with a View) is episode 5 of season 1 in the television show Angel. The episode was written by Jane Espenson, with a story from Espenson and David Greenwalt, and directed by Scott McGinnis, it was originally broadcast on November 2, 1999 on the WB network. In Rm w/a Vu, Doyle dodges a demon loan shark, and Cordelia is enchanted with her beautiful rent-controlled apartment even though it turns out to be haunted. Unable to dent Cordelia's determination to live there, the team attempts an exorcism, angering the ghost of the original tenant, who suffered a fatal heart attack immediately after bricking her grown son behind a wall. Plot At Angel Investigations, Cordelia is painfully reminded of the unfortunate state of her life. Her acting career is not advancing and she lives in a dank, dirty apartment where the utilities do not work well and cockroaches roam freely. Doyle offers to help Cordelia find a new place, but she is reluctant to accept his help. When she goes home to a floor covered in roaches, she flees and tries to call Doyle, who is visited by a demon who has come to collect Doyle's debt, or to kill him as a message to others if he cannot pay. Doyle manages to escape, unknowingly missing Cordelia's call, so she stops by Angel's apartment to spend the night. Angel is annoyed by Cordelia's messy habits, so agrees to help Doyle deal with his demon trouble if he will help Cordelia find an apartment. Doyle and Cordelia go apartment hunting and eventually find the perfect apartment. Telling Doyle that the unsightly wall that needs removing adds to its perfection, Cordelia immediately closes the deal. In the meantime, Angel waits at Doyle's apartment until the demon, Griff, shows up. Griff explains that his boss no longer cares about the money, but needs to make an example of Doyle by having him killed. Angel placates him and promises Doyle will pay. Meanwhile, Cordelia discovers that the apartment is haunted when the music plays by itself. She pluckily tries to scare the ghost away. Angel and Doyle stop by and upon seeing this, carry Cordelia, struggling, out the door, promising to help her perform an exorcism. Angel does not understand why Cordelia is fighting so hard to keep the apartment. She explains that she feels she is being punished with an awful