A friend returns, but is she quite all there?
Cordelia returns, but has absolutely no memory of who she is. The gang try to help her, including getting Lorne to read her mind as she sings, but nothing seems to help. Worse, Lorne is so shaken by what he sees from reading her that he refuses to speak about it.
Scared by the goings on at the hotel, Cordelia willingly goes with Connor when he turns up, relieved at his truthfulness. Despite being attacked by Wolfram and Hart employees, he manages to keep her safe, and refuses to return to Angel.
Dismally returning to the hotel, the gang have even worse news. Lorne has been attacked, and the knowledge he read from Cordy's mind pulled from him by a brain-burrowing demon.
- ten quick questions.
Trivia: The title is a quote from the W B Yeats' poem The Second Coming. Other telling lines in the poem include:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood-dimmed tide is loosened.
The poem ends with the lines:
And what rough beast, it's hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
A hint of things to come, perhaps?
Cordelia suggests that Gunn is a Black Russian. As Angel points out, that's actually a drink, made as follows:
Two measures vodka
One measure Kahlua
Ice
And, the Cult team would suggest, a generous slug of coke, if you don't want to have a very bad head in the morning.
