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Angel is completely and utterly fed up with being played by the Senior Partners, so he decides to try and find Lindsay, who probably knows more about the Partners than anyone (at least anyone who might cooperate). It turns out that Eve is more than willing to help track her old boyfriend down....in exchange for protection from some big dude Wolfram & Hart has sent after her. He's sort of a cross between Agent Smith and The Terminator, well-dressed and unstoppable.

Angel convinces Gunn to crawl out of his hospital bed and offer his expertise on the matter. Eve can be protected from the Big Dude thanks to an obscure loophole in the W&H regulations, but only if Angel assumes custody of her. So he leaves her in the care of Lorne and Harmony, assuming that the firm will follow its own rules.

Meanwhile, Angel, Gunn, and Spike find Lindsey in a sort of purgatorial "holding dimension," where the Senior Partners put employees they haven't decided what to do with. It's a horrible place, with drab, identical houses crammed up against each other and guys who walk outside each morning to get their papers at exactly the same time.

That's right. The suburbs.

AIEEEEEEEEE!!!

Like all suburbanites, Lindsey has been completely brainwashed into thinking he's happy in this hell-de-sac. At least he has the excuse of being under the spell of a mystical amulet, which Angel destroys. At that moment, Lindsey remembers everything - including the terror that awaits him in the house's basement. See, every day, Lindsey's "wife" asks him to get her a light bulb from the basement. Every day he goes, and is tortured to death by a monstrous demon. Then he wakes up again and does it all over.

Naturally, this is where the only portal back into our dimension is located. The guys go downstairs (after being shot at by the fake wife and son), but no one is able to get past the demon.

Gunn has a solution though, and he's had it all along. It's why he went on this mission in the first place.

Lindsey can leave if someone else remains as a substitute. Gunn puts on the amulet and slowly begins to forget who and where he is. He refuses to leave, and insists that if the others don't escape now, they'll never have a chance. Relucantly, Angel and Spike grab Lindsey and get him through the portal.

Back at the ranch, Big Dude is apparently not interested in legal restrictions on his movements. He's still coming after Eve, killing a security guard and knocking Harmony out as he does so. He chases Eve and Lorne into the parking garage, where they are abruptly reunited with Angel, Spike, and Lindsey, who fall right onto the hood of the car upon their return.

Big Dude strides up to them purposefully, looking like he's about to open up a whole barrel of whoopass on Eve.

But all he does is pull a pen and some papers out of his jacket pocket. Eve pouts and signs the documents. She's actually an immortal "child" of the Senior Partners, created to act as their liaison. They've decided they no longer need her services (she gets distracted too easily), so she signs away her job and her immortality. Big Dude is her replacement, a surpisingly cheerful fellow named Marcus. His assignment finished, he walks away, expressing how much he's looking forward to working with Angel, and welcoming Spike to the team.

And where has Wesley been all this time, you ask? Sitting in the dark, drinking heavily and calling Illyria a Smurf. Also talking a lot about how trapped and helpless Illyria feels and how difficult life in this dimension is. The usual.

Anyway, the currently useful members of the gang goes back to Angel's office, where Lindsey explains that he doesn't really have any new information on the Senior Partners or their plans. What he does know is this - while Angel sits at his comfy desk, getting used to all the moral compromises he has to make, the real, honest-to-goodness, no-fooling Apocalypse has already begun. The Senior Partners have been keeping Angel so busy with the little things, they've distracted him from the big picture. The world is sliding toward oblivion, and as the heroes, Angel and his ever-dwindling team aren't doing much to stop it.

As Angel contemplates this, Gunn sits in his beautiful house with his beautiful wife. She asks him to get a light bulb from the basement....

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