Writer:	Jane Espenson, David Greenwalt, Jane Espenson
Director:	Scott McGinnis
Star:	David Boreanaz (Angel),  Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase),  Glenn Quinn (Alan Francis Doyle)
Recurring Role:	Elisabeth Rohm (Detective Kate Lockley)
Guest Star:	Beth Grant (Maude Pearson),  Lara McGrath (Manager),  Corey Klemow (Young Man),  Greg Collins (Keith),  Denney Pierce (Vic),  Marcus Redmond (Griff),  B.J. Porter (Dennis Pearson)

The scene near the end of the episode where Dennis is being bricked up into the wall is shown in the opening credits of each episode. (edit) In this episode we learn two new things about vampires: first, an invitation can be given out before the vampire gets to the door, and second, the invitation can work without even describing a specific place.
That is why Angel can just walk in Cordelia's new apartment. (edit) Steve Paymer (who is said to live in Cordelia's apartment building) in actuality does live in the same apartment building as episode writer Jane Espenson. (edit) Music:
As Angel listens to music in his apartment -- "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven

When Cordelia's radio turns on by itself -- "You Always Hurt the Ones You Love" by The Mills Brothers (edit) This episode scored a rating of 5.2/8 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking 4th out of 15 WB shows airing for that week. (edit)

Cordelia: (referring to her new apartment) Yes! And part of it being perfect is there being one tiny flaw for me to fix.
Doyle: Ah, must be why you find me so fascinating. (edit) Cordelia: Get this, I tried to call Doyle -- I sunk that low -- and there was no answer. So, here I am. Not that you were a last resort, just that I had nowhere else to go. (edit) Cordelia: My apartment. It's like the barrio or the projects or whatever. And I live there! I am a girl from the projects! (edit) Angel: Sooner or later I'm gonna need to hear it.
Doyle: What?
Angel: The story of your life.
Doyle: Ah, and quite a tale it is, too. Full of ribald adventures and beautiful damsels with loose morals. (edit) Cordelia: It's her. I know it. The place has that weird little old lady smell like... violets and aspercreme.
Doyle: Well, they didn't find her body for three weeks so it wasn't violets there at the end, I'm thinking. (edit)

Timecode 35:28. As Cordelia is standing up, facing away from the camera, Charisma's tattoo can be seen. (edit) In this episode, the entrance to Cordelia's apartment is an exterior door. In all future episodes it's an interior hallway. (edit) After Cordelia showers in Angel's apartment, she is combing through her hair with her fingers and looking in a coffee pot (because Angel doesn't have any mirrors). She sets the pot back down on the table and Angel walks past, you can see his reflection on the coffee pot.
(edit) One of the Kaliff demons shoots a tile on the edge of the fireplace, but in subsequent shots, both during the fight and later, once Cordelia is settling into her apartment, it is intact again. (edit) The noose used to hang Cordy changes appearance from shot to shot, sometimes appearing as a straight cord with a loop at the end, other times appearing as a large loop twisted around itself. (edit)

Cordelia: Hey, hey Phantom Dennis, put that back.
A play on words of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a movie by George Lucas. (edit) Cordelia: Celebrities are practically on top of me. Oh, Steve Paymer, that's Dave Paymer's brother, lives right down the hall. Oh, you'd know him if you saw him.
Steve Paymer is an actor, and as Cordelia states, the brother of better know David Paymer. He has appeared on the television shows Will and Grace and Mad About You.
David Paymer is an actor whose works run back to the 1979 film The In-Laws. He was nominated for an Oscar for his 1992 film Mr. Saturday Night. He was also in the film Amistad with Harry Groener, who played Mayor Richard Wilkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (edit) Cordelia: Well, get ready to haul your wrinkly translucent ass out of this place, because lady, the bitch is back.
"The Bitch is Back" is the title of a 1974 song by Elton John. (edit) Cordelia: Back off Poli-Grip!
Poli-Grip is a well-known brand of denture adhesive and, in this case, is intended as an attack on the ghost's age. (edit) Kate: Well, you see the thing about detectives is that they have resumes and business licenses and last names. Pop stars and popes, those are the one-name guys.
One named pop stars include Cher, Madonna, Prince, Sting and others. The pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic church. (edit)