I am – Hercules!!

With “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” in repeats, we grow antsy for news of the Buffyverse. But these spoilers are fairly huge, so ready yourself for inviso-text.

Angel

“Angel” 4.8 won’t air till next year, yet details about 4.13 have already emerged:

* Angelus will search for The Beast, but he’ll also snack on bystanders along the way.

* Charles Gunn and Krevlornswath of the Deathwok clan will agree that Connor is out to kill Angelus.

* Evil Wolfram & Hart attorney Lilah Morgan will be really quite completely dead by 4.13 (a victim of Angelus perhaps?). When Wesley visits her corpse in the basement of the Hyperion, we’ll see that he’s taking her demise pretty hard.

* Faith, still in stir, will be reintroduced early in 4.13. A fellow inmate will try to impale the slayer with a dagger that will “seem familiar to viewers of a certain other Mutant Enemy show,” according the ths script. (Faith joins “Angel” for three episodes this season, reportedly to help take down an escaped Angelus. She’s then slated to turn up on five episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” this season, starting with 7.18). Speaking of which …

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

* Word is that explosion at the Watcher’s HQ in London left no survivors. With Quentin Travers and so much of the watchers council wiped out (and assuming Giles isn’t really dead) will Buffy’s former mentor be sought to rejoin the council as new head watcher?

* Dawn will soon discover that she too is a slayer candidate. (Was Giles unaware of this during all those years he served as Buffy’s watcher?)

* Willow is expected to update us on Miss Kitty Fantastico sometime in the next episode or two.

* Xander and Anya will not permanently reconcile.

* It now seems a virtual certainty that Faith will not survive the “Buffy” series finale.

I am – Hercules!!

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