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This was the best show in an outstanding but short-lived series. In reply to another review - of course Joan's friends & family didn't know Ryan was the devil. According to the Judeo-Christian mythology, that's the was Lucifer works. His battles against a 17-year-old girl who wanted to do the right thing would have been a great season three. This episode was intended to be a harbinger of shows to come, not a series finale. The show was unexpectedly cancelled. The song that ended it was not the Stones. It was "Trapped" by Bruce Springsteen. In a way, cancellation was a break for many of the main characters. There would have been extreme angst for Joan, Helen, Lilly, Adam, and Grace. The complexities of character and relationships could have been deeply explored. It's like the fourth season of the original Star Trek - a great season that never was.

In this episode, this series jumped the shark, by having the devil appear, complete with the appropriate Rolling Stones song to play out the end of the episode, and the last show of the series. A disappointing ending to a great television show. I guess we have to realize that the show was written be people, not by God, and sometimes people just run out of ideas.

When the devil appears to fight a potentially apocalyptic battle with a 16 year old girl, and no one realizes its the devil, including characters who had previously displayed a good deal of perception and complexity, other than the fact that they don't realize that the 16 year old girl in their midst speaks directly with God-well, it just strains the suspension of disbelief.

That being said, I still miss this show. It was so good, it left me wanting more.