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[apocalypsos]

Quick, someone spoil me rotten on what happened with Connor tonight. Give me the Cliff Notes version -- I'm writing fic and with all the updates on ye olde friends list, I got a plotbunny.

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[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Conner happy at Stanford with loving parents. Still likes the older women. "They were supposed to take that out".

Kills Sanjean. Gets old memories back.

Chooses the fake life over Angel.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *wanders off to write threeway-slash porn ... er, I meant wholesome happy futurefic with Connor and babies and butterflies and puppies and ... oh, sod it*

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Conner can't be happy. Conner should also never have babies.

How about hot Conner going and starting a series of Fight Clubs? I could really go for that.

Um. a vote for the three way porn.

Connor

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Connors parents bring him to W&H because he was hit by a car and lived. Angel finds out it was the wizard who cast the spell on the memories is sending demons after Connor.

Connor goes to kill Sanjan who cracks about giving Connor three wishes. Then beats the crap out of him. Wes restores the old memories over Angel's requests. Connor promptly fubars Sanjan.

Connor seems to be using the NEW memories as a base, and is stable. He is aware of the old memories, but not dependant on them. He will stay with his new family. Because 'That is what my father [meaning Angel] taught me'.

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[chang-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, yours, thank you, is a pretty good summary of the episode. I thought it was cool that Connor stayed sane & chose the normal life even after getting the memories back -- it was not a rejection of Angel, but a rejection of the kind of life Angel has to lead. It seems to me that in the line you quoted, Connor is saying that he knows his real father did what he did to protect him, and now he (Connor) is going to protect/honor the new family he has been given.
I figured that maybe they had Sanjan(or however the hell you spell it) beat the crap out of Connor to satisfy the fans who just love to hate him so much. I didn't really start to hate him until he slept with Cordy. That was too icky. Anyway, it was good that they showed they are trying to tie up some loose ends before the series concludes.
Adam Baldwin had a couple of good lines. We saw more of what's going on with Gunn.
Overall, it was a pretty good episode, I thought.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

OK. This comment is basically spoilers for every part of the episode which didn't exclusively involve Gunn, Spike, or Lorne.

At the top of the episode, Connor's new family (the Reillys) has brought him in to W&H, concerned that someone deliberately crashed a van into him the other day -- and it had no noticable effect on the kid. Angel initially tells the family that he can't help them, but ends up taking the case anyway when he helps Connor save his parents from a demon attack. (Connor still thinks he's a normal Stanford student -- he's not sure why he's super strong and fast.)

Being careful to avoid tipping Connor or Wesley off to the mindwipe, Angel starts the investigation. Hamilton tells him that the Senior Partners are standing by their deal, and that someone else is responsible. Wesley finds out that some decrepit old sorcerer whose name I didn't catch sent the demons, and Angel stalks off to negotiate with the guy. Wesley, suspicious, continues investigating.

Angel finds out that this sorcerer was the one responsible for the great mindwipe spell at the end of last season, and he's threatening to undo it unless Angel can arrange for their mutual enemy, the demon Sahjan (last seen stuck in an urn) to be killed. Ironically, the prophecies say that Connor's the only one who can kill Sahjan. So, Angel explains the problem to Connor (leaving out the part about Connor's true identity), who agrees to fight Sahjan in order to protect his family.

So, they go to the sorcerer's place, where Connor is locked in a room with a few axes and Sahjan's urn. Angel expected he was going to be able to help (the prophecy didn't say anything about someone else holding Sahjan down while Connor killed him), but the sorceror won't let him, threatening to undo the spell by breaking this magic box. He does, however, allow Angel to see through the wall as Connor opens the urn and starts fighting Sahjan.

Meanwhile, Wesley has discovered that the sorcerer did a job for W+H on the same day Angel took over -- and Illyria (who's been hanging out at W+H all episode) reveals that Fred's memories had been tampered with. Wesley and Illyria head over to the sorcerer's place, where Illyria stops time and Wesley confronts Angel. During all this, Connor is fighting Sahjan, and not doing particularly well.

Eventually, Wesley, thinking the memory-wiping spell Angel bought might have something to do with causing Fred's death, breaks the box, even though Angel tells him that that had nothing to do with it. The box explodes, Wesley's memories come back to him in a flash, time goes back to normal, and the sorcerer apparently disappears. Back in the other room, Connor gets this angry look in his eyes and beheads Sahjan. But when Angel gets in to talk to Connor, Connor shows no signs that his memories have changed back.

Back at W&H, Connor still seems to be the well-adjusted university student he was at the beginning of the episode. He thanks Angel for his help, but tells him that demon fighting isn't really for him. However, at the very end of his conversation, he says something like, "You have to do everything you can to protect your family. My father taught me that." Which could mean that he has both sets of memories now, and has decided to live as though the set with the normal human parents are the real ones. Or he could be referring to Mr. Reilly.

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

Here's the three second version- Connor is surprisingly well-adjusted, even with the memories.

Really, I was surprised. Also, he's hot.

[storm_dancer]

Crap in a hat. I had no idea Connor was coming back.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Connor kicked his way through a twelfth floor window, tore off Lorne's arms, broke Harmony's legs, punched Wesley out and tried to stake Angel with a two by four. Then he and Spike had sloppy sex in the elevator.

Ok no, but that's what SHOULD have happened.