Writer:	Drew Z. Greenberg
Director:	Turi Meyer
Star:	Emma Caulfield (Anya),  James Marsters (Spike),  Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Anne Summers),  Nicholas Brendon (Alexander 'Xander' Harris),  Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg),  Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn Summers)
Recurring Role:	Amber Benson (Tara),  Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison),  Tom Lenk (Andrew),  Danny Strong (Jonathan),  Adam Busch (Warren)
Guest Star:	Patrice Walters (Woman),  John Patrick Clerkin (Man),  Janck Jozefson (Rusty),  Rick Garcia (Reporter),  Kelly Smith (Innocent Girl),  Jordan Belfi (Ryan),  Adam Weiner (Simon),  Melanie Sirmons (Brie),  Lauren Nissi (Girlfriend)

In the original pitch for the script, Drew Z. Greenberg had the two guys in the Bronze magically kiss each other after they gay bash Willow. Joss Whedon changed this because he didn't like the idea of homosexuality being used as punishment, as something bad. (edit) On the commentary it is said that the most controversial part of this episode wasn't the sex scene but rather Spike seeking out someone to kill immediately after thinking that his chip didn't work. The writer says that it was written with Spike being forced to talk himself into the killing to explain his conflicting character. (edit) The band Virgil performs "Vermilllion Borders" and "Here" at the Bronze, later Halo Friendlies perform "Run Away" at the Bronze as well. (edit) This particular episode was the focus of a FCC investigation, for indecency, by a watchdog group. Fortunately, the FCC deemed the episode as not being indecent at all. (edit) LOOK HARD: Just before Amy turns off the TV to tell Buffy about people being frozen (the security guard at the museum), you can hear a commercial she was watching, for the Doublemeat Palace, which we find out about 3 episodes later. (edit)

Xander: (about Spike) So what did Captain Peroxide want? (edit) Xander: Tara thinks Willow is doing too much magic. And she's not the only one.
Buffy: I know. But I think she'll be fine. You know, it's Willow, she of the level head.
Anya: Well, those are the ones you have to watch out for the most. Responsible types.
Buffy: Right. She might go crazy and start alphabetizing everything. (edit) Warren (referring to the frozen museum guard): He'll be fine. Yeah, he'll defrost in a couple of days. No harm, no foul.
Andrew: Won't he tell on us?
Warren: And say what? "Two guys and a mime took me out with their freeze ray"? (edit) Spike: (after he hit Buffy) Guess what I just found out. Looks like I'm not as toothless as you thought, sweetheart.
Buffy: How?
Spike: Don't you get it? Don't you see? You came back wrong. (edit) Xander: Aha! I got it! Here's our villain, right here! (points to a book) What?
Anya: That's a D&D manual, sweetie.
Xander: No, but it could- (looks at the book cover) Oh.
Anya: Let's face it, we're not gonna find this thing because it doesn't exist. There's no such thing as a frost monster who eats diamonds.
Buffy: Well, maybe he doesn't eat them. You know, maybe he just ... thinks they're pretty. (edit)

In the scene where Anya informs Xander that he's reading a D&D manual, Xander checks the so-called manual revealing that it is in fact a standard hard-cover book with a jacket around it. The glitch here will be obvious to anyone who has played the game: no hardcover D&D manuals through the various editions have ever had a jacket, and they were much thinner, and a little wider and taller the book Xander was reading. (edit) While Buffy and Amy are watching the news report about the museum robbery, behind the reporter you can see someone wheel out an ambulance gurney, presumably holding the injured guard. However, when Buffy goes to the museum, she arrives in time to see the man removed from the building. (edit) In the fight scene between Buffy and Spike, right before they start fighting in the old house, you can see that Buffy punches the left side of Spike's face with her right hand, but then the scene cuts to show Spike flying up in the air as if she had used an uppercut punch. (edit) When Xander is reading the newspaper in the Magic Box around the line 'It said they used hairdryers.', when the camera pans on the newspaper, it looks like it comes straight from a SAT reading section guide. Or like it is a story you have to read and answer questions to on a test. It also repeats itself. (edit) The concept of the chip recognizing Buffy as not human is a big stretch. It's one thing to have a chip controlling Spike according to Spike's belief that a creature is human or demon, but altogether much more implausible that the chip actually detects on its own whether a creature Spike is about to harm is human or demon. Of course this should also apply at the very start of the episode when he attacks the muggers believing them to be demons. (edit)

Spike: You can play holodeck later.

This is a reference to Star Trek. The holodeck was introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation as recreation for the crew and as an occasional plot device. The holodeck would create realistic and dynamic holographic environments. (edit) Spike: Examine my chip or else Mr Fett here is the first to die.

Boba Fett is a bounty hunter from the Star Wars film series. (edit) Spike: Help me out here Spock. I don't speak loser.

Yet another reference to Star Trek, this time to the Vulcan, Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series. (edit) Anya: Thats a D&D manual sweetie.

Anya notices Xander is trying to find the diamond thieves by researching a manual from the game Dungeons and Dragons. (edit) Visual: The part of this episode revolving around the freezing of a guard and the stealing of a diamond, though probably unintentional, bears a slight resemblance to the movie "Batman and Robin," in which Mr. Freeze steals diamonds to power his freeze rays. (edit)