Hmmm. This isn’t turning out to be a ‘happy’ season of Angel, is it? Last week, we had a rain of fire and the complete defeat of our heroes. This week we had the mass slaughter of folks who, while not innocent, were almost certainly not evil enough to deserve what they got. Although Gavin did, for his heinous crimes against believable acting in the past.

Tensions in Angel Investigations are still running high, and this is generally entertaining. Though Wesley and Fred’s willingness to leave Gunn to fight off a dozen zombies was puzzling. As was his subsequent, miraculous survival. Angel’s tantrum over Connor and Cordy’s horizontal mambo was fun too.

As for plot this week… well, there wasn’t really much of one. Big Monster go Wolfram and Hart, kill many and strange girl. But this was nevertheless well presented and occasionally scary — especially with Lilah, one of the few ‘expendable’ characters, running from the Beast. There were still problems — despite Angel (and Wesley, one assumes) knowing to decapitate zombies to kill them, the gang seemed remarkably keen to hit them repeatedly with the blunt ends of their weapons, as well as fists and feet.

Regardless of the odd logical miss, the episode advanced the main plot nicely, if not actually doing very much itself. And we’re still left with a very evil nasty wandering around.

Things to ponder: How did the Beast know Connor’s name? Did he raise the corpses, or was it a Wolfram and Hart safety measure? Is this truly the end for Wolfram and Hart? And what does the girl mean when she says "The answer is among you…"?

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