Writer:	Jeffrey Bell
Director:	Skip Schoolnik
Star:	David Boreanaz (Angel),  J. August Richards (Charles Gunn),  Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce),  Amy Acker (Winifred "Fred" Burkle),  Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase)
Recurring Role:	Keith Szarabajka (Holtz),  Jack Conley (Sahjhan),  Julie Benz (Darla),  John Rubinstein (Linwood),  Stephanie Romanov (Lilah Morgan),  Daniel Dae Kim (Gavin Park)
Guest Star:	Matt Casper (Cyril),  Michael Robert Brandon (Psychic),  William Ostrander (Commander),  Kasha Kropinski (Sarah),  John Durbin (Dr Petraovich),  Angelo Surmelis (Tech Guy),  Bronwen Bonner-Davies (Caroline),  Jose Yenque (Vampire Leader)

This episode won the 2002 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for "Best Period Hair Styling - Television (For a Single Episode of a Regular Series - Sitcom, Drama or Daytime)". (edit) This episode scored a rating of 4.5/6 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking 4th out of 17 WB shows for that week. (edit) The episode title refers to the sensation that a pregnant woman feels the first time that the baby moves inside her; it's often called "the quickening." (edit) In this episode, we see for a first time that lawyers in W&H must sign on the documents with their blood. (edit) David Boreanaz (Angel) does the previously on Angel. (edit)

(Looking at Darla's baby on the ultrasound screen)
Cordelia: I see it.
Darla: My little parasite. (edit) Wesley: Angel's right, clearly something wants this thing to come to term... We'll wait for it to be born, then we'll chop its head off.
Fred: What if it doesn't have a head?
Cordy: We're gonna need a really big mallet.
Gunn: If it skitters, maybe we should have a net or something... maybe a flamethrower.
Angel: Flamethrower!? No, there'll be no throwing of flames! (edit) Angel: Darla, you might wanna join the fight.
Darla: Sorry, darling. I'm gonna have to be Switzerland and sit this one out. (To vampires) Now, you did say you were just gonna kill the humans, right?
Vampire: Yes, just the humans. Then we will nourish you, slice you open, wear your entrails as a belt and consume your eyeballs before we worship the miracle child.
(Darla jumps off the table and goes to stand beside Angel)
Darla: Okay. I'm in. (edit) Darla: (going into labor) Something's wrong...the pain!
Angel: You like pain.
Darla: This is different! (edit) Holtz: What of England? Has it survived the years and destruction?
Sahjhan: Yes. It went through a rough patch about sixty years ago, but it's mostly unchanged; warm beer, boiled meat, bad teeth. That's why I moved to LA. Have you followed this part of history, American Revolution, Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion, Beach Boys? (edit)

When Sahjhan is ready to take Holtz out of the cavelike-shrine, he throws a cloak at Holtz and tells him to put it on. An incorperal being shouldn't be able to lift or throw corperal objects, such as the cloak. (edit) It's unclear how Sahjhan could knock on the door where the demons are training if he's incorporeal. (edit) During the flashback to York, England in 1764, no one has any kind of English accent. (edit) In 1773, Holtz's memories of his family's deaths are conveniently exactly the same as what actually happened, even though he wasn't there to witness the killings. (edit)

Cordelia: Nothing a couple of Band-Aids and a pint of Heath Bar Crunch can't fix.

Cordelia refers to the popular brand of bandages and one of the many flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. (edit)

Angel: I agree, we need to get out of Dodge.
Angel mentions the famous Western town of Dodge City, Kansas.The setting of many Western movies and a major cattle town in the 19th century. (edit) Sahjhan: Did you follow this part of the history? - American Revolution, Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion, the Beach Boys.
Sahjhan lists some of the more important events in history that Holtz has missed. One of which (for him) is the music group The Beach Boys which had a surfer motif. (edit) Darla: I'm gonna have to be Switzerland and sit this one out.
Switzerland is notoriously neutral in the arena of intercountry alliances. (edit)