So, any word on when anyone wants Alfred to step in? And any thoughts how? (Since V and Cordelia are going to be bugging Giles at breakfast, it doesn't make an awful lot of sense for him to be just hanging around.)

He knows that Angel is sick now, because he listens to the radio, but he doesn't know A. How sick and B. That it's poison, so he has no particular reason to try and get involved.

He would only try to help if he thought there was actually something he could do (He learned that the problem was poison.)