aired on: May 8, 2001

written by: Mere Smith

directed by: Fred Keller

Lorne, Angel and Wesley search for Cordelia at The Caritas, but she’s gone, she’s been sucked into Lorne’s dimension.

In that dimension, Cordelia stands in a forest clearing and calls out for her friends, but they’re not there. Clicking her heels doesn’t work, either. Then a beast appears. When she tries to run away, it gives chase, but when it tracks her down, it only wants to lick her. Its owner, on the other hand, calls her a cow, and says she’ll fetch a nice price at the market.

Back at the bar, Angel wants to follow Cordelia through the portal he’s not just going to leave her there. But when he reads the incantation, it doesn’t work. Lorne suggests maybe it’s better that they can’t get in, they don’t want to go jumping into his world looking like a human.

Angel, Wesley and Lorne head to the Hyperion to research how to conjure the portal. Lorne explains that he came to Earth from Pylea, his home dimension, through a portal, but he doesn’t know how. He was walking in the woods, and just noticed something; when he went to take a closer look, it sucked him in, and brought him to L.A. He’s not particularly interested in going back, either, he says Pylea is a very bad place.

Wesley then tells them about psychic hot spots. The one at The Caritas was cold, creating a portal depletes a hot spot of its psychic energy. There’s also another problem, separate entities that go through a portal arrive separately, which means Landok and Cordelia didn’t arrive together.

Then Gunn comes in, and says he can’t go on the trip, he’s already lost one of his crew, and on his way in, he overheard Wesley say the trip was one way. Lorne says he isn’t going either, he never, ever wants to go back. But he does have a tip on a hot spot.

At Pylea, Cordelia is sold at market, and affixed with a collar that zaps her when she doesn’t obey. She’s put to work shoveling demon horse dung. Through the stable wall, another human talks to her, and explains that on Pylea, humans are used as slaves until they give out and die. Suddenly, guards find the fugitive girl, and take her away.

In L.A., Lorne visits a psychic friend for help. But she’s getting lots of ugly conflict vibes in his aura, all pointing at that portal. She says she’ll help him find the hot spot, but he has to take the trip back with them, or they’ll never find the girl, or resolve all his issues back home.

As Angel and Wesley figure out how to make the leap without getting separated, two Wolfram & Hart lawyers stop by the Hyperion. They want to appraise it, because when Angel’s lease is up in six months, they want to buy it. Angel kicks them out.

Finally, Wesley figures out how to get them through together, going in Angel’s car, and Lorne leads them to the portal. As they prepare to go through, Gunn jumps in the back seat. Angel had left him a message giving him the details of their trip, in case they didn’t come back. He decided to join them instead. Wesley begins the reading, and the portal appears; they belt themselves in, and drive through the portal. But the book gets left behind.

While Cordelia is in town with her owner, she has a vision. The villagers think she’s cursed, and commence with tests, to see if it’s true. The tests completed, they determine that she is afflicted, she carries the curse of the sight.

Not far from town, Angel, Wesley, Gunn and Lorne arrive, unharmed and together. And though they’re in bright sunlight, Angel isn’t on fire. He likes this new dimension. Quickly, they cover up the car, and head to town. Then they realize they left the book. Wesley thinks it may only work in their dimension, though, not Pylea, and that they’ll need something else to get back.

In town, Lorne goes to see an old childhood friend, but he isn’t a friend anymore. The four of them are chased through town, and surrounded. Though they fight, they find themselves defeated and bound, and sent to a cell, where they’re detained.

While they’re locked up, Angel overhears two men talking about a girl with visions, Cordelia. Then he hears that they’re about to be taken to a castle, and sentenced.

They’re brought together in the castle for their judgment, but Angel comes up with a plan. When the doors open for them to meet the judge, they begin to fight. Then they look up to see Cordelia, decked out in a silver bikini, sitting in the judge’s chair.