In "Release", after killing the Beast, Angelus begins to hear the big bad's voice in his head. He learns that this entity has his soul. Faith recovers from the previous battle. Cordy and Connor decide to hide her pregnancy from the group. Angelus steals all the info the group has on the big bad. Wes and Faith leave to hunt him down. Gunn and Fred deal with their romantic entanglement. In the end, they find him but Angelus bites Faith as the episode ends.
The tone and decisions of some of these characters is a bit bizarre and inconsistent. Wes is unhinged one minute and then cold and calculated the next. His feelings for Fred seem to have taken an immediate backseat with the return of Faith for some reason. His torturing of the junkie felt uncharacteristic and more like something we'd see from Faith. Angelus trying to psychoanalysis Faith is another odd inclusion. I enjoyed the episode but it feels like different writers have different ideas on what direction we're heading.
The tone and decisions of some of these characters is a bit bizarre and inconsistent. Wes is unhinged one minute and then cold and calculated the next. His feelings for Fred seem to have taken an immediate backseat with the return of Faith for some reason. His torturing of the junkie felt uncharacteristic and more like something we'd see from Faith. Angelus trying to psychoanalysis Faith is another odd inclusion. I enjoyed the episode but it feels like different writers have different ideas on what direction we're heading.