I think the end was meant to say that Cordy never had doubts, she just knew that Angel had doubts and that the best way to cure them was to get him back to his roots, the stuff he likes and understands, which is to say kicking the shit out of somebody he knows is evil. And now that he's centered in his sense of efficacy he can go out and kick the butt of everything else.
Lindsay got his hand back on the show. (I just had to look this up for my Book of Days fic, which incidentally is Jossed to hell and gone.) In a episode called, I believe, Dead End, in season 2. It turned out to have been a transplant from some poor guy who worked in the mailroom and had it cut off in the W&H evil parts harvesting lab. He and Angel reluctantly worked together to shut it down, and that's why Lindsay quit and went off to find himself, with Angel's blessing. It was a last straw kind of thing, at the time.
And he stopped being able to fight well as soon as Cordy yanked the piece out. So that might have been releasing the Thing, but it also seemed to have been powering Lindsay. But I agree completely about the neck snipping. Unless the neck guy *was* the thing that lived in the basement, but then I'm back to what was all the gadgetry for? Was he going to snip his own neck?
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Date: 2004-02-05 04:38 am (UTC)Lindsay got his hand back on the show. (I just had to look this up for my Book of Days fic, which incidentally is Jossed to hell and gone.) In a episode called, I believe, Dead End, in season 2. It turned out to have been a transplant from some poor guy who worked in the mailroom and had it cut off in the W&H evil parts harvesting lab. He and Angel reluctantly worked together to shut it down, and that's why Lindsay quit and went off to find himself, with Angel's blessing. It was a last straw kind of thing, at the time.
And he stopped being able to fight well as soon as Cordy yanked the piece out. So that might have been releasing the Thing, but it also seemed to have been powering Lindsay. But I agree completely about the neck snipping. Unless the neck guy *was* the thing that lived in the basement, but then I'm back to what was all the gadgetry for? Was he going to snip his own neck?