All alone, sad and alienated from everyone in Los Angeles, can Fred rise to the challenge and free the minds of her friends? Well, of course she can, but how will she do it? Especially if she’s being pursued by her very happy but ever so slightly murderous ex-colleagues at Angel Investigations…

And so, for the most part, we’re treated again to most of our favourite characters acting not only unlike themselves, but also in extremely boring ways — with the exception of Connor and Angel’s rendition of ‘Jasmine’ to the tune of ‘Mandy’. In fairness, Amy Acker is able to hold the episode herself, doing a fairly good ‘desperate’, and in general proving herself to be almost as endearing when in danger as Alyson Hannigan.

Meanwhile, in the plot, it turns out once again that it doesn’t take much in this fantasy world for people’s blood to be equivalent. It was a decent revelation though, that was subtly signposted and made sense. Followed of course by a nifty slow motion gunshot.

Ultimately this wasn’t a bad episode as such, just another boring one, with a few pointless moments slipped in to fill it out. I’m not sure what the point of Cordy’s hand moving was, other than to provide a silly cliffhanger over the ad-break. But I hope things pick up soon. And with everyone back to normal, I have some hope that this will in fact happen.

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