Trapped by the power of love.
Fleeing from Jasmine and Connor, Angel and gang end up hiding out in the sewers. There they meet some of Gunn's old crew, who have no idea what's happening on the surface.
Angel and the others try to help them fend off a creature which has been picking them off, but when Angel's vampiric nature is revealed, they turn on him. Wesley, in the meantime, has been captured by a clicking, insectiod demon, which is busy building a spell from flesh
Jasmine continues to search for the gang. Her last obstacle falls when one of the crew from the sewers wanders into the sun and is taken back by Gunn - having somehow experienced Jasmine in the meantime.
Angel tracks down Wesley and rescues him. As Jasmine's followers close in, Wesley tells him what he has learnt. The demon was from another dimension which also knew Jasmine - and the secret name which will end her power. Angel crosses through a portal left by the demon to go in search of the name as the others are taken prisoner by Jasmine.
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Trivia: Jeff Rickets, here pretty unrecognisable under the makeup of the insectoid demon, has previously appeared on Buffy, playing Watchers' Council member Weatherby in season four episode Who Are You? He's also appeared on Joss Whedon's series Firefly, as well as on Enterprise.
The idea that saying someone's name will give you power over it is an old one, and has been used in many fantasy books including Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series. It's central to the Ancient Jewish form of mysticism called Kabbala, in which every letter has a value and a meaning, and their combinations have power. Hence the name of god is never said out loud in Judaism, as it is held to have enormous power.
Commenting on Jasmine's control of LA, Lorne says he feels like, "the last feisty wife in Stepford." He's referring to the 1975 film about a town where all the women are completely submissive, because they've been replaced by robots.
