Episode Recap:
Yell at Grant? Yell at Grant will you?! Grant delivers a salient, and pointed lecture about how if Xander doesn’t want everyone to hate him he’s got to treat people better than he does. Xander keeps the threatening dialed up to eleven. Not an argument Grant is going to win. So why does Grant bother? Grant even thinks Xander might wake up one day and decide to kill him. Even Swordfish is derisive. Xander…returns to the solace of the bottle as Grant launches into another tirade and starts flag-waving. Xander makes some half-hearted sallies, but Grant rapidly gets to the heart of things, this is all because Xander’s got a birthday coming up. He’s getting old. He’s having a midlife crisis. Xander meanwhile tells us that he’s set everything in motion in classical style, and he wants to be the good guy for once. Kore, which is another name for the goddess Persephone, will be the princess to save. Shane will be the Macguffin. Xander is usually the villain, but he wants to be the hero this time. Grant curiously has not been given a role, I’ll leave you to figure out where he belongs in all this. At the end of Grant’s philippic, Xander invites him to come along to the laboratory and see how Kore’s coming along. And of course this is phrased in a way that doesn’t leave Grant a choice. Xander’s got some work to do on his people skills, but ya can’t say they aren’t effective.
"We're Americans, you can't treat people like this." General, please do insert this complimentary Yugoslavian flag with its pole where the sun don't shine. You, sir Guillet, just had my pressure skyrocket. Take it as a compliment, I am known for a low blood pressure. So Eugene sold the general (Rhelan, right?) this idea that he wanted some company. Come on, general. You never bought the spiel. I love how you portray hypocrisy and double standards in your work. Again, it is not obvious, not bite-you-in-the-a*s, but it is there. And Eugene, calls the general out on it. The truth is, though the general might have had a chance to remove both Shane and Kore from Eugene's sphere of influence. He didn't do so. He IS the f*cking FBI. But he wanted to see what Eugene would do with them and whether it could be useful where American interests are concerned. Where were their cheap speeches when MKUltra became a thing, huh?! He knew Eugene was not to be trusted. Eugene told him he was not to be trusted. Who's the real culprit here? I am finding excuses for Eugene?! No. I am just stating that he isn't the guiltiest in the affair. Mind you, I might be overdoing the goody-two shoes act. I want to see what happened to Kore too!
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