Loved the opening sequence. Angel investigations put out fliers to get more business… but Wesley printed the wrong phone number on them. Ha!

So Angel's thing this week, was that he wanted to start taking more clients who could pay, cuz now he needs money to feed Connor and out away for his savings. How sweet! And that Connor kid is ADORABLE! So one of the paying clients were these steel-headed demons who spoke in clicks. The only one who could understand them was Lorne. But even he was a little rusty… (ie, "Either they said they were going to consult with their prince, or they were going to eat a cheese monkey") They were gonna pay $50,000 for Fred to come back to their barge and assemble a puzzle. Sounds like a good deal, right? Guess again. Turns out that if she solved the puzzle, they wanted to cut off her smart head and attach it to the body of their dying prince. Ummm, that's not cool. But Cordy, followed by Wes, Gunn, Angel, came to save the day. So now Angel Investigations will go back to "helping the helpless" for good. And oh yeah, I tried angelinvestigations.com on the internet and it doesn't work. But maybe in the near future…

PS - Gunn and Wes and both crushing on Fred… how cute! If I had to guess, I bet she'd pick Wes. But so far, I think she's oblivious to it all.

OMG, this was an AMAZING ep of Angel! I loved that it started out with Cordy practicing her acceptance speech (complete with tears and all) for the day when she win an academy award. So funny. It was her b-day this week. And the gang got her a rockin' Wonder Woman cake. So appropriate. Well, natch, Cordy gets a vision right away, but this one leaves her body in a a coma, but she's still alive. Kind of like an out-of-body experience. She even tries to astrally project into Angel's body to give the gang clues of her mystical whereabouts, but it doesn't work so well and she gets tossed out. But the part that had me really sad was when the gang found all kinds of headache pills and MRI tests that Cordy's been hiding for a year. It turns out the visions she has a really killing her! Like her brain was dying. It was awful!

But thankfully, a big, ugly, scary demon came to Cordy's rescue. Well, it turns out he wasn't scary or mean at all… in fact, he loves the Matrix, but didn't really enjoy Gladiator. Anyway, he's Cordy's "guide". He takes her to the mall and shows her old show clips, which was fun, but very weird. To make a long story short, he tells her that if she returns to her body right now, she will have another vision and will die!!!! But since she really wasn't ever supposed to have those visions (Dolye gave then to her accidentally before he died), the "Powers that Be" are giving her an option. She can instead live out the life she would have had if she never met Angel in L.A… which means she actually would've become a really famous, wealthy actress! Can you believe it? So here's where the fun begins! She took the option… and thus the tv show "Cordy" was born! It was so funny! But eventually, she still had these weird feelings and intuitions, and she wound up meeting with a 1-armed Wesley and a stir-crazy Angel. Since in that life HE wound up inheriting the visions, it drove him insane. It was so sad to see!

Well, blah, blah, blah, here comes the kicker… Cordy's "guide" reappears and is like 'ok, there is one more option, you can still have the visions and lead your same life and the visions won't kill you… BUT I HAVE TO MAKE YOU PART-DEMON!!!!' And natch, CORDY SAID OK!!!!

So when Cordy returned to her body, she had a vision and it didn't even phase her like usual… except she was levitating! How cool! This is gonna be GOOD!

Ok, how cute was the Angel/Cordy "I Love You" thing? Loved it. Does Angel really have a crush on Cordy? I think that could be kind of cool. They'd make a great-looking couple. But dating in the workplace can be a BAD idea. And then…Welcome back evil Darla! I can't even believe that Darla is carrying Angel's baby. She is the luckiest girl I know. And c'mon, whatever kind of creature it is, it's gotta be cute, right? I mean, hello, she's so pretty, and he's hottie-extraordinaire Angel. But I can't believe how welcoming Cordeila was to her. And everybody else was pretty nice to her too. Angel shouldn't have even let her step 2 feet into the hotel. That was ridiculous. And Cordy… c'mon HELLO, don't you know she's a vampire? And a really bad one at that. She is evil on wheels. But I guess Cordy found that out when Darla BIT HER!!!!! I really never saw that coming. I mean, I sorta did, but I was just as shocked as Cordy. But thanks goodness she didn't really harm her. Actually, I really thought Angel was gonna kill Darla at the video arcade, but OMG… he felt his baby's heatrbeat!!! How cool! His baby is gonna have a soul.

So what's with the hairy biker-looking dude at the end? The tricosan? (or something like that) Well whatever he is, he can't be good.

PS - Did Cordy just cut too-short bangs or is it me?

PPS - Funny moment of the night… at Keritas karaoke bar… the "mmm Angel" girls are swooning over their love Angel… Cordy says "I hope you girls are on the pill."

So the hottie from hell is back. And no I'm not talking about Angel for once. It's this guy Billy Blim (I think that's his last name), the dude who Angel saved from hell in trade for Wolfram & Hart to stop torturing Cordy. Anyway, the dude was crazy tonight. Apparently his thing is that he's partly demonic and he has a beef with women. Basically, when he touches a man (just in a normal, non-sexual way people) he passes on this "power" for a man to feel his primal misogyny. Which means that the man starts to hate women, eventually beating the woman he is with to death. Nice guy. Other important things to know about this ep… Wesley is totally crushing on Fred (adorable!) and Angel is training Cordy to sword fight (cool!) and everybody blames this whole Billy-thing on Lila from Wolfram & Hart. His dad is a big congressman, so it was Lila trying to please her client, Billy's dad, that brought him out his private suite in hell.

Ok, so with that said, Wes comes in contact with Billy's blood while examining it with Fred. So natch, it doesn't' take but like 5 minutes before Wes is chasing poor Fred around the hotel with a big friggin' ax! I'm talking HUGE! And he's like unstoppable. He chopped down doors, locks, whatever, and she even stabbed him, but he wouldn't give up. It actually kind of scared me a little. And then, just when we thought Gunn found Fred running and was gonna save her, he started to get "infected", so he gave Fred a wooden chair leg and told her to knock him out with it. What a sweetheart! If I was Fred I totally would've freaked and jumped out the window or something.

On the flipside, Cordy was on a mission to kill Billy cuz she feels guilty that the only reason he is here is b/c Angel chose to save her and pull him out of hell. So, duh, yeah she's gonna feel bad. She eve went over to Lila's house to try to get her to help, but no luck there. Lila's face looked like it got ran over by a truck b/c Gavin, the new dude at Wolfram & Hart, beat her to a pulp, courtesy of Billy's touch. So the big showdown took place on a air strip, and had Cordy pointing a crossbow at Billy's throat, until Angel came over and was like 'I wanna kill him' and then Billy touched Angel. So when Angel started yelling at Cordy to run away, natch I thought Angel was totally infected and gonna rip Cordy apart. But being the fab actor he is, Angel was faking the effect and instead punched Billy in the face. Yeah baby! That's my man/vampire! Note: While the 2 of them fought for a good minute, Cordy just kind of stood there, holding a big bag of weapons and just watching. What's up with that, huh? But then, bang bang, 2 gunshots and Billy's dead. Courtesy of Lila. Way to go girlfriend. She just shot him, and walked off. You go girl.

Next week our fave pregnant vampire, Darla returns. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

First off… Cordelia… what are you wearing girlfriend? I thin Cordy usually has some of the best clothes on tv, but the fishnets and uber mini-skirt? Kind of tacky. Very Old Navy looking too. That is soooo un-Cordelia. Anyway, loved the impromptu performance of "The Story of Buffy and Angel" starring Cordelia and Wesley. See, now I hope that all of you who were egging on this crossover mentioning of Buffy and Angel feel totally dissatisfied with the outcome. I knew it was gonna be something lame. I mean, Angel goes to see the back-from-the-dead love of his life, and all we get out of it is a mention that he saw her. That sucked big time. Totally a tease and unneccessary. But whatever.

OK, so Fred's parents came looking for her. After she'd been missing for 5 years.
So did anybody else think Fred's parents were gonna turn out to be evil? I swear I did. I really thought they were gonna be some crazy demons or employees of Wolfram and Hart, but hey, I was wrong. For now. And I mean, hello, who else's parents would be THAT cool when they found out about all this other dimension stuff and demon killings… not normal ones, that's for sure.

Love that Fred went to see The Host, (Lorne) when she needed help and advice about her parents. And loved it even more that he was watching Judge Judy when she arrived. But see, he seemed to think that she should have been running from her parents… he said she hadn't run far enough away. And that things were gonna get messy. So I still think in the back of my head, that Fred's parents aren't as nice as they seem. But anyway… I never knew the Host's heart was in his left butt-cheek. Cool factoid.

Oh yeah, so the whole action-plot was about this huge cockroah-type bug with super-duper strength and it was looking for it's nest of little cockroach eggs implanted in the severed head of a demon Angel killed. Get that all? Ok, good. Now, back to Fred.

I actually got a little teary-eyed when Fred was saying her goodbyes to the gang. I have grown to really like her. And I really liked her description of how the gang worked together… that Angel was the champion, Wesley the brains, Gunn the muscle, and Cordy the heart. How sweet. But I was really happy to see Fred return to Angel investigations (and just in time to help with the big cockroach) to stay for good. And the whole painting over the knight in shining armor on her wall???? Awwwww. Welcome home Fred.

Oh for the love of *NSYNC… if there is one man I have been waiting to see all summer long, it's hunk-a-licious Angel. And he was worth the wait. Lookin' FINE as ever. (Sorry, I'll try to move on now.) Angel took the summer off to go vacay (or so he thought) in Sri Lanka until he had to battle evil demon monks. But that's not really important. While he was gone, Fred (the new chick that Angel and Co. brought back from the other dimension last season) has been shut up in her room writing all over the walls and basically just waiting for Angel to return home (I know how that feels sweetie). Upon arrival home, Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn are hoping for some tokens from his trip, to which Angel responds "Did I go to Vegas or Sri Lanka?" (Hee Hee) Cordy gets the line of the week as she puts her souvenir necklace and notes "This necklace really brings out my breasts… I know that's what you guys were thinking". I love this girl. Ok, well, the big shocker didn't come until the last like 3 minutes when we saw Darla in Nicaragua (I think it was Nicaragua… but somebody correct me on the boards if I'm wrong). She was in some skanky dive bar and then she turns around in her stool and guess what…. SHE'S PREGGERS!! OK, didn't think camps could get preggers. Now, I immediately think it's Angel's baby. But my friend Antonia reminded me that it could be Linsdey's kid (he's the dude who got his hand chopped off by Angel last season). Hmmm. I'll tell ya one thing, it's damn exciting!!!!

As Queen Cordelia sits on the throne in this other dimension, in front of her sits The Hosts severed head on a platter, a la Alice In Wonderland. But just when I was getting ready to complain that all my favorite characters are being killed off these days… whaddya know… he speaks! Aparrently, he can still live with a severed head as long as his body isn't mutilated… who could've guessed. So Cordy's mission is to recover The Host's body from the mutilation chambers and attach it to his head… no biggie.

The big search and destroy mission for the night involved chasing this nasty, huge creature called "the Might Drokken". As Angel searched for him in the dark of night, he kept calling for the gigantic gross thing by saying "Here Kitty Kitty". Needless to say, he found it.
But what's cool is that while sending a friendly warrior back to his world via a portal in the karaoke bar, Cordelia got sucked into his world. Hello, you get sucked into another dimension and wind up plopped down in the middle of a medieval-looking forest all alone… what do you think your reaction would be? Mine would involve fear and crying and screaming for bloody murder. But Cordy? No, her final words… "Oh crap". Well, it looks like her friends will be joining her next week, so sit tight girlfriend.

Harmony "This blood tastes funky"
Angel "It's pigs blood"
Harmony "Oh great, pig's blood, that's gonna go straight to my hips"

Harmony to Cordelia "So now we're finally living the lives we wanted to… you're an office manager and I'm… dead"

Cordelia at the karaoke lounge "Are you gonna be fine here by yourself?"
Harmony "Are you kidding? Free blood and potato skins!"

Ok, I know there are many more funny lines, but honestly, I was so busy laughing I forgot to write them down… sorry. And for any of your wondering what the karaoke host meant when he called Harmony a 'cacophony', it means… "disharmony or dischord" (whatever, admit it, you didn't know what it meant either) How ironic.. DISHARMONY was the name of the episode…. HMMMMM. Oh, and a special funny seal of approval goes to the "Doug Sanders Selective Slaughter pyramid scheme" - you had to see it to even believe it. Their motto - "Turn 2, the rest is food."