Episode Recap:

Xander is eating soup during a lightning storm. I’m betting minestrone. Down the hallway comes General Grant, who snatches up a handy flowerpot, which he chucks at Xander and smashes some stuff on the table. That’s an ice sculpture swan btw. Grant is upset because he’s seen the lights of a floundering ship out on the coast, and he wants Xander to save them. Xander isn’t particularly in a hurry and wishes to finish his martini, in which he’s built a stick-olive man. Grant pulls out his gun and forces Xander to go along. Xander swipes a dinner roll on his way out, giving Grant an unsettling grin.