Content note up top: Jarrod opens with a real one, flagging that this episode's domestic-violence material can hit hard for anyone who's lived near it. Then he and Alan get into "Beauty and the Beasts," the Monster-of-the-Week hour that lines up three beasts at once — Oz on his werewolf nights, Pete roiding out into a jealous monster, and a chained, feral Angel back from a hell dimension and cowering in the corner like a beaten dog. Their central gripe: the thesis (everyone has a demon inside) gets stated by Faith, then Mr. Platt, then Giles, then Buffy, then Oz, then Scott, until the metaphor is doing laps. Along the way they clock Willow going full CSI: Sunnydale with a Scooby-Doo lunchbox (which sends Alan down the Velma-Daphne-Fred-Scooby casting of the whole gang), the on-a-budget morph-cut werewolf transformation lifted straight from Michael Jackson's "Black or White," and Buffy accidentally tranquilizing Giles in the backside. The bigger conversation runs on two tracks: the genuinely uncomfortable portrait of an abuser and the partner who comforts him, and a long, good-faith tangent on Jekyll and Hyde as a story about technology outpacing our natural rhythms, whether Hyde was ever really separate from Jekyll, and which modern tale tells it best (Hulk, Venom, Moon Knight, that 2007 BBC Jekyll, and the winner: Fight Club). They land where they started, freed a little by Jack London bookends and the sad, milquetoast presence of Scott Hope, before Homecoming waits next week.

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