Lindsey McDonald - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

His long career in Wolfram & Hart gained him a great deal of legal knowledge, and until the removal of his strumming hand he was also a competent guitarist. Although rarely called upon to use magic, he was quite knowledgeable about the supernatural and dealt with unexpected situations with exceptional aplomb; at the end of Season One, he took over a complicated mystic ritual at a moment's notice.

Thanks to an unrevealed mystical process, Lindsey became gifted with superhuman physical attributes before his appearance in the fifth season, allowing him to go toe-to-toe with Angel in single combat, as well as runic tattoos meant to hide him from all known surveillance methods other than the naked eye. He was also capable of transmuting a small knife into a sword and was an adept swordsman, as well as some telekinetic abilities. Lorne remarks that, with or without his mystical strength, he is still a "master swordsman," after he had dispatched the Sahrvin clan alone and without much apparent effort.