So, they don’t want the Devourer on Earth because she can’t control them and will therefore want to annihilate them. Easy enough to understand why they would bring Darla back–they worked like crazy trying to figure out Lorne’s vision from Jasmine/Cordy and never did, so they couldn’t have had the whole story.

But they also used Cordy and her visions to get Angel to rescue Skip’s prisoner, the wealthy chauvenist demon in the fire cage (remind anyone of Caleb? Coincidence? And is it just me or does Jasmine represent everything bastards like Caleb fear in women? In either case, neither is a good representative of his or her gender).

Perhaps we’re seeing inklings of a larger epic battle between ancient rival evils? Such a story could easily unfold if the series continues.

W&H wanted to make Angel into Angelus, but so did the Devourer. She put up quite a fight when Willow re-ensouled him, and even tried to get Connor to kill him at that point. And it seemed like we didn’t get the whole conversation when Angel expressed his concerns about losing his soul again if he became too happy. Jasmine said something to the effect that she had a plan to deal with that, but we never heard it. Further, he’s been especially cold lately, and although we can easily attribute that to the circumstances, there might be more to it.

Maybe she can’t devour vampires (they lacking souls?) and they’re in competition for food. Or perhaps she has some other connection with their kind. Connor is a demon with a connection to vamps. Vamps feed on blood and are sired via blood. Jasmine’s blood is problematic and her former followers practice thaumaturgy. . .

Back to Wolfram and Hart. They seem to have quite an influence in Pylea and their agents were the ones advocating the comshack which would transfer Cordy’s visions to the Grusilag. Would this have merely prevented the Devourer’s arrival, or perhaps more?

And certainly Pylea has some significance for vampires, given that it brings out that scaly blue look for them. Was that just a rough draft of the Tulakhan that Joss scrapped, or something more. And speaking of the Tulakhan, we’re back to the First.

So where am I going with this? Just that I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Wolfram and Hart.