Angel’s up and about again, and after having dealt with his mischievous son he turns to the issue he spent second most time hallucinating about when he was submerged in the salty waves: Cordelia. We get to see another awesome Wesley scene, where he shows that he can run a tighter ship than Angel, and that he can handle himself in a fight. He’s come a long way since his appearance in BS3 and in “Parting Gifts”, one might say.

Angel also runs into Gwen — one of my favourite minor protagonists. She kinda reminds me of Rogue from X-Men, seeing as they both have problems with normal human interaction, as well as some common features in how they look. Also, I seem to remember Rogue going on a small crime spree with Gambit in “Ultimate X-Men Vol. 5″ or some such, so they could possibly have some professional stuff in common, too. Anyway, like I said, Gwen is one of my favourites. She’s witty, she’s independent, and she has just the right amout of grey in her moral compass (wow, look at me go, mixing metaphors like that, making them into the kind of sense that’s not) to make her interesting.

Apart from that, it’s fun to observe that Lilah’s bold statements in “Deep Down”, about fear not being one of her failures, is falsified. I mean, I remember her being afraid like a chicken who’s sharing its poultry yard with a fox back in the day, when it was time for the bicentennial review or something at W&F, so I was already aware that she, ehem, strained the truth quite a bit. But seeing her disprove her statements so early wasstill quite fun.

Finally, Cordelia has only three sentences in this episode, and all of them are uttered in an outburst she makes following Angel’s statement about her being at home, where ever she is: “What are you, deficient?! Get me out of here!” Ye Gods, it is good to see that someone keeps that old Sunnydale spirit alive and kicking in LA. :D