Hoping that Lindsay (guest star Christian Kane) has information on the Senior Partners’ ultimate plans, Angel (David Boreanaz), Spike (James Marsters) and Gunn (J. August Richards) track him down in a bizarre and terrifying suburban hell. Meanwhile, a nearly invincible stranger (guest star Adam Baldwin, “Firefly”) sent by the Senior Partners infiltrates Wolfram & Hart looking for Eve (Sarah Thompson).
Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker and Andy Hallett also star. Skip Schoolnik directed the episode written by Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft.
Is anybody else a little excited about Adam Baldwin in a recurring role? Damn that show has some hot guys on it.
Ok heres my kinda-sucky quick summary, and I apologize as I cant get the spoiler boxes to work and its late so WARNING SPOILERS
Angel and Spike visit Eve who is still hiding, in order to get info, while talking with her all the wards go off and the ground starts shaking. Eve panics and says that she’ll die and needs help so Angel and Spike take her to Wolfram and Hart. Angel visits Gunn in the hospital and asks if there is anything he can do to protect Eve, Gunn is at first reluctant but after Angel gives him a speech on atonement, says that Angel can protect Eve. After talking with Eve they realize they need to find Lindsey in order to get the information they need. Gunn has been doing some looking in his mind and has discovered Lindseys in a holding dimension right now, and that they can get to him. At some point (I forget when exactly) it shows Lindsey in bed with a woman (his wife) and later at breakfast quizzing his son about the Earth’s core. His wife tells him they need oven lights from the basement, Lindsey is very reluctant to go but eventually does, reluctantly and obviously scared of something. When Spike Angel and Gunn get to the dimension they are surprised that it appears to be suburbia, and even more shocked to be greeted cordially but Lindseys wife, and later an amnesiac Lindsey. Eventually Angel pulls a necklace off Lindsey, and he regains his memory. Unfortunatly this sets off Lindseys wife, son, and neighbors, all of whom are armed with automatic riflees. They escape down into the cellar, though Lindsey says that they willl die down there. They realize it is a torture chamer and they soon meet the torturer, a nigh invincible demon. Eventually Gunn reveals someone has to take Wesleys place and puts on the necklace, allowing the others to escape. Meanwhile on Earth Harmony, Lorne, and Eve have been running away from another fairly invincible Baldwin. Angel and co get back just as they are cornered, where it is revealed that Eve has to merley has to sign her papers, giving her duties as a liason, and her immortality, to him (Baldwin) Finally it ends with Gunn going through Lindseys morning in the same house, and eventually going down into the cellar.
There also was some stuff with Wes and Illeriya(sp?) but nothing ground breaking, though it was revealed there is a world of nothing but shrimp
Yay, Jayne! I knew Adam would be showing up, but I kept myself unspoiled as to what part he’d be playing. Replacing Eve? Ruttin’ brilliant.
As soon as everyone started talking about alternate worlds (not just Wes and Ilyria, but Spike, too) I was just waiting for someone to make a reference to the world with only shrimp. Sigh, made me think of Anya.
Oddly, now that the show is ending, I find myself liking pretty much everyone; even Spike, which is sort of scary.
So overall, liked this ep a lot. Loved Lorne, Harmony, and Eve screaming after Jayne (yeah, I know) killed the guy, I was once again reminded that Dave Boreanaz is the hottest man alive, and I think my favorite line of the ep was Harmony’s
Tallayan, the world of shrimp was most likely a callback to the Season Five episode of Buffy, “Triangle,” where we were told by Anya that there’s a world completely without shrimp.
With Baldwin more or less mimicking the invulnerability and single-minded determination of his super-soldier from “X-Files,” I half-expected Scully and Doggett to show up and neutralize him with some iron ore.
Ah, no wonder I thought he looked like something out of the X-Files - he is! I kind of recognized him, but since I’ve almost succeeded in convincing myself the last two seasons of the X-Files never happened, I couldn’t place him.
Did anybody else break into a chorus of “The Hero of Canton” while watching the episode?
Gods, I missed this show. I had forgotten how much fun my Wednesday nights used to be. I’m very sad we’re at the end.
Oh, and more spoilers for Archergal:
Lindsay revealed to Angel that the apocalypse is already here, more or less, and Angel has, indeed been working for the bad guys. The whole idea of the Senior Partners was to distract Angel with petty stuff so he wasn’t paying attention to what was really going on in the world.
And all that Wes and Illyria crap did nothing but make me bored. Either make it interesting, or skip it. I’d rather watch Angel and Spike annoy the hell out of each other.
Yeah. My reaction upon seeing him:
Ah, man. It’s a generic Terminator-in-a-suit guy. Isn’ taht the same guy from X-Files? How lame! Wait, that’s Jayne! Jayne! Awesome.
Our love for the man is hard to explain
The hero of Canton
The man they call Jaaaaaaaayne!
Both are correct. Anya hypothesized the existence of an alternate reality without shrimp in “Superstar,” and Willow referred to a world without shrimp in “Triangle.”
Anya’s was more of a general reference, like “you could have a world without shrimp,” whereas Willow referred more specifically to “the world without shrimp.”
As to the episode, it was kind of meh. Filler, really, probably retooled at the last second when they realized they had to start setting up the season ending arc. Amy Acker’s performance was very reminiscent of stage acting, all solliloquies. Wesley was kind of off doing the Watcher-whisky tango, which must be something they teach at the Watcher’s Academy. And Lorne was kind of standing around on the sidelines too. So we didn’t see involvement from our full cast of characters, which kind of took the episode down a notch.
All part of my plan to make myself the Ultimate Angel Taper.