If you want to see more Frank Black and treat it as sort of a whack AU, that might work.

Is it anything like the storyline the show would have followed if the second season hadn't been given to Morgan and Wong (since I see that the third season reverted to Carter), or is it yet another direction again?

Lucy Butler appears again in the most disappointing way. That was it for me.

Bah. Her two or three appearances thus far have been very effective.