Summary: Hoping to find information on the Senior Partners plans, Angel and co. bring Eve to Wolfram and Hart, hoping to protect her and learn a few things. Finding out that they need Lindsay, Angel, Gunn, and Spike head out to a hellish Wolfram and Hart holding dimension to bring him back.
Meanwhile, a mysterious, powerful, and very well dressed stranger breaks into Wolfram and Hart, seemingly after Eve.

Good episode. Looks like we're kicking it into gear. Sprinting to the end of the series.

I found Angel's speech to Gunn to be very interesting. I guess he's learned some things since Wesley's good intentioned betrayal a few years ago.

Poor Gunn. Stuck in some "penalty box". They'd better go back and get him.

The new liason seems interesting. Too bad we won't have much time to learn about him.

So, if the series had gone on, would Illyria have stuck around forever? I mean, is Fred gone for good? 'Cause that sucks.

I loved the Lorne/Harmony/Eve in unison scream. And Angel's expression as he contemplated "Angel's Avengers".

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Wesley calling Illyria a Smurf was classic.
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Spike showing up for the meeting with a briefcase.
When the new liason showed up, I intially thought it was the actor who played the alien bounty hunter on X-Files. Chris Carter could almost have sued for plagarism.

Not sure why Fred -> Illyria happened. Was is Amy Acker's choice to do something different, or was it something that would have continued in Season 6, had it not been cancelled? I'd grown to like Fred, but she was really annoying when she first became a regular at the start of season 3.

Lorne's comments at the end seem to start sowing the seeds of doubt in Angel for the end of the year.

And which two soldiers did Lyndsey mean? Fred and Gunn? What about Cordelia, Connor (I know hes back in the next episode, but he's not that Connor anymore) and even people like Kate and Doyle?

Illyria was going to have continued on into the hypothetical season 6. It wasn't Amy Acker's idea, but she totally threw herself into it.

The new liason was the actor who played the alien bounty hunter on The X-Files.

He was also on Firefly. And then, shockingly, he showed up on Angel. So, yeah.

And Lindsey, I think, meant Fred and Gunn. Because they were with Angel for a long time and suddenly gone, whereas the others weren't sudden.

Doug B: The new liason was the actor who played the alien bounty hunter on The X-Files
Actually, he played one of the super soldiers from later in the show. The bounty hunter was played by Brian Thomspon. Hamilton is Adam Baldwin.

I'm assuming that "two soldiers down" (since Angel took over as CEO) meant Cordy and Fred. Gunn's not exactly "down" and all the other losses were too long ago, given the context.

That wasn't a bad talk Angel gave to Gunn - so why doesn't he give one to Wes? Wes has lost the most of all of them, and yet they seem too happy having him stuck babysitting the thing that murdered his girlfriend. You'd think that Angel, having lost Cordy, could sympathize.