Enjoy this, all. Tonight I work. If you post a plot summary, please try to avoid spoilers. Grazi.
Oh, mah gawd! Morgan's back! Welcome back, Mark!
Anyway, this was a good episode. Although Cordy mentioned her several times they used Buffy's name only once, towards the end. The first time she talked about Buffy she said, "The B-word", referring to her name, not the one that rhymes with "pitch".
Darla's back, both in flashbacks from 1767 Marseilles and the present, at the ep's end, where you can see one thing coming, but not the other. To respect MarkM's wishes I won't say what it is just yet but everyone who posts here later will most likely have seen it already.
One thing that was totally cool was the new "Lord of the Rings" trailer the WB showed. What I didn't like was that they kept announcing it before they finally showed it, like ET does with sex stories, in order to keep people tuned in. Well, hell, Angel fans are gonna watch the entire episode anyway, as well as LOTR fans, even if the trailer's shown at the first commercial break, so the WB dweebs didn't need to make a big deal out of it.
Plot Summary without Spoilers.
Something happens. 
Yeah, the Lord Of The Rings trailer looked good. (Hopefully they didn't use all the good scenes.)
Was it just me or did Loren sound off when he was singing in this ep?
When James is busting through the wall, why didn't Angel shut & lock the door to slow him down?
At the end when Cordy says to Angel, "You're living, breathing, well living". Ummmm, as a vampire isn't Angel technically Unliving?
James has a reflection in the scene where he is watching the subway speed past. This may not be a nit due to him having had the 'mystical' operation.
Why didn't James use his vamp speed to catch up to Cordelia and Angel in the tunnels. Angel was obviously restricted to normal speed because of Cordelia.
Vampires in the Buffyverse are usually strong, but are they that much more fast than humans? Even their normal strength is often shown to only be a few beats above human-average anyway.
We did come up with a few theories here as to how that revelation at the end could work, but they're probably a bit boring and no doubt they've been proven wrong by now anyway.
Quinn evidenced super speed in Somnambulist.
Keith Szarabajka who plays Holtz also played Mickey Kostmayer on a T.V. show called the Equalizer.
So I'm not an Angel regular, but did I miss something? I thought that Angel was parallel to BTVS, starting at the same time as Buffy's Season 4. This would make Angel's Season 3 parallel with Season 7. Yet Buffy has been dead for three months, which would fit the beginning of season 6.
The episode itself was not bad, but I didn't like the main theme. I really got the impression that they wanted to show Spike and Dru, but couldn't kill Dru, so they had to contend with "James" and "Elizabeth". (From what we saw of this guy, he would have been even more likely to get himself a cool nickname than Spike. Especially in the company of Angelus.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what we've seen in early Buffy eps, I always got the feeling that vampires couldn't love. Angel was an exception because he had a soul, and Spike and Dru were the big exception because they loved each other like crazy. However, now on Angel, it seems as if pretty much all vampires - at least the big bad ones - believed in immortal love. Angel and Darla, James and Elizabeth, Spike and Dru ... I liked it much better when immortal love was something special. And whenever we've seen flashbacks of Spike and Dru, they've been hanging around with Darla and Angel. And James was so like Spike that it bordered on copyright infringement. :-)
Also, this vampire hunter guy - Holtz - and his friends are lousy shots.
Keith Alan Morgan: "Isn't Angel technically unliving?"
I thought about that too - then again, they were asking all the time whether James was still alive.
So I'm not an Angel regular, but did I miss something? I thought that Angel was parallel to BTVS, starting at the same time as Buffy's Season 4. This would make Angel's Season 3 parallel with Season 7. Yet Buffy has been dead for three months, which would fit the beginning of season 6. - netrat
I think you messed up on the math...
Buffy Season 4 = Angel Season 1
Buffy Season 5 = Angel Season 2
Buffy Season 6 = Angel Season 3
Buffy Season 7 = Angel Season 4 (current season)
Uh, okay ... I blame German television. They started Angel Season 3 at the same time as Buffy Season 7 and advertised both of them as "brand-new seasons", so ... well ... it's confusing.
For any Brits who've missed the announcement, Angel is now on channel Five and will start on Monday 2nd June at 8 pm.