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Previously on SDFBTVSAIS[S]...

'As for Connor x Cordy, I won't talk about it if you don't.'

'Why is Felicia Day an extra?'

'Cordelia was whispering into Angelus's head... I figured it out smugly because I'm not Angelus and referring to him in the third person makes it more palatable for viewers to continue to root for me.'

'Angelus > Spike.'

'Firefly ended very badly, so we gave its failed actors some charitable offerings.'

'assimilate assimilate assimilate'

'SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB!'

*runs the opening credits*

ANGEL - Season 4, Episode 19

Running unintentionally note-free on this one, and operating without consulting the transcript. CAN'T BE STOPPED BABY!!!

Recap: Fred is on the run, but Jasmine has some hivemind shit going down. So Fred is forced out of hiding, where she pulls a gambit: shooting Angel through Jasmine. Jasmine's blood allows Angel to see Jasmine's face. He and Fred use Cordelia's blood - as she was the one who gave birth to Jasmine - to raise Wesley and Gunn's awareness. But Connor is unaffected.

An episode that's almost aggressively unspectacular. Plenty of 'don't think too much about it' moments in the main plot - from why Fred would hide in the sewer of all places (the one place where you're least safe from Angel!) to how she managed to arrange for her, Jasmine, and Angel to be perfectly collinear, to having Angel and Fred drop in on Cordy's window almost inexplicably, since the hotel is swarming with Jasmine worshippers.

But anyway, if we don't think about those too hard, it's not bad. Pieces move quite nicely, and Fred-as-protagonist lasts just about the right length with just the right amount of breathing time for those odd, colorful characters - the lowly demon who accidentally blurts out about who left those 'tasty' hands there, the conspiracy theorist bookstore owner who finds incredible satisfaction and even bliss when Jasmine informs him that Oswald was the only JFK shooter.

Connor being a point of conflict is fairly easy to see, but the show takes such obvious relish in extending the reveal (those agonizing closeups as they cut him and press Cordy's blood on him) that it works awesome all the same.

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* Weird tease of Fred kissing Angel. 'Do you think it fooled them?' she asks Angel, who responds that he was fooled. A nice light moment to go with some of the truly awful love triangles this show has recently produced.
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