Writer:	Ben Edlund, David Fury
Director:	James A. Contner
Star:	David Boreanaz (Angel),  James Marsters (Spike),  J. August Richards (Charles Gunn),  Andy Hallett (Lorne),  Amy Acker (Winifred "Fred" Burkle),  Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce)
Recurring Role:	Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall)
Guest Star:	Victor Raider-Wexler (Magnus Hainsley),  Bill Escudier (Hainsley Demon),  William Utay (Manservant),  Joshua Hutchinson (Novac)

This episode reveived a 4.7/7 in the overnight ratings. (edit) With this episode, David Fury becomes the only writer credited with writing at least one episode in all of Angel's five seasons. (Joss did not officially write any season two scripts, but did have two "Story by" credits as well as a directing credit.) (edit) David Boreanaz does the "Previously on Angel" voiceover. (edit) This episode received an average of about 5.2 million viewers. (edit) Ben Edlund, creator of "The Tick," apparently slipped in the spoon-death scene as an in-joke to his own creation - the Tick's battle cry is "Spoon!" (edit)

Spike: I'm slipping.
Fred: What?
Spike: I don't want to go. But it's like... it's like the ground underneath me is splitting open and my legs are straddling both sides of this bloody big chasm. It's getting wider. Pulling me in.
Fred: Is that... is that what's happening when you keep vanishing?
Spike: I know what's down there, where it's trying to take me. And it's not the place heroes go. Not by a bloody long shot. It's the other one. Full of fire and torment. And it's happening. And I'm terrified... Help me? (edit) Angel: I'm meeting with Grox'lars! They eat babies!
Harmony: Just their heads. (edit) Gunn: I fired 40 employees in the past two days.
Angel: How’s that going?
Gunn: As expected. Anger, tears, venomous death threats. (edit) Spike: I’m no bloody ghost.
Harmony: Hey, you’re the one sticking out of a desk, pal. (edit) Spike: What's happened to me?
Harmony: Well, I’m no doctor, but I think you’re a ghost. (edit)

After Spike mentions saving the world, none of the people in the room except Angel know what he's talking about. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale Chosen, Buffy told Angel to make a second front in case the First Evil won in Sunnydale. It would be logical that Angel would have told the rest of his team that they may be called upon to fight an apocalypse. (edit) We find out in this episode that Angel didn't tell his friends that Spike had a soul. (edit) At 11:00 when the Grox'lar beast tosses Angel into the wall. The back protecting pads on the stuntman pop out from under his shirt and are very visible. (edit) Gunn mentions that he's had to fire at least 40 employees in the "last two days." However, Just Rewards picks up immediately after Conviction, on the same day Gunn first shows up in court with his memory upgrade. This appears to be a continuity goof. (edit) Spike hasn't yet learned how to interact with objects, however you can clearly see him sitting in Angel's chair when Angel says "get out of my chair". (edit)

Harmony: Why should now be any dif'? Just 'cause you've gone all "Patrick Swayze"?
This is a reference to the Movie "Ghost", where Patrick Swayze dies and returns to his wife as a ghost. (edit) Angel: To see the wizard.
This is a reference to "The Wizard of Oz." Dorothy and the rest of her friends sing a song called "We're Off to See the Wizard". (edit) Lorne: I see Depp and Bloom. But then, I see them a lot.
Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom starred together in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies as Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, respectively. (edit) Spike: It's good to be the king, isn't it?
This is a quote from the hilarious Mel Brooks movie, "History of the World, Part I". It has been referenced in nearly every Brooks film since then. (edit) Angel: You're not in this world... Casper.
Casper was a both a cartoon and a series of live-action movies in the 90's. Casper was a friendly ghost who, unlike other ghosts, desperately tried to make friends with humans. (edit)