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Lindsey and Eve are putting their diabolical plots into action, using Spike as their all-too-willing puppet. Lindsey approaches him, claiming to be someone named "Doyle" who has visions of people in trouble. It's Spike's destiny to go out and help the helpless - not Angel's - and Spike starts digging this idea very quickly. He even adopts Angel's old stakes-up-the-coat-sleeves maneuver, and moves into an apartment furnished by "Doyle." His antics draw the attention of Wesley and Gunn, who visit with an offer to make him a player at Wolfram & Hart. Spike reminds them that they're working for the wrong side, despite their protests that things are changing, and basically tells them to bugger off.

Meanwhile, Angel is having a supremely bad day. He's feeling out of sorts, frustrated because of the moral compromises he has to make at Wolfram & Hart. There's also the matter of losing consciousness and having weird, disturbing dreams. He goes up to his penthouse and tries to nap, but all he gets are visions of his friends and associates telling him how empty, irrevelant, and generally worthless he is.

Eventually, he discovers that there's a slimy little critter attaching itself to his stomach. He kills it, but Eve shows up in his room with a box, claiming to be another hallucination. She puts an even bigger little critter on him.

Lindsey passes this along to Spike (in the form of a fake vision), and Spike rescues Angel from his icky attacker. Later, the others arrive to check on Angel, and discover that this was some parasite that gives its victims trippy fever dreams. Angel remembers that Eve appeared to him, and accuses her of being involved. He seems to figure out that she's playing her own game, but she deflects it by telling him that he's just projecting his own unhappiness onto her. The real problem is inside his group, not outside. With her usual smug smile, she leaves.

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