Writer:	James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee
Director:	David Nutter
Star:	J.C. MacKenzie (Reagan 'Normal' Ronald),  John Savage (Colonel Donald Michael Lydecker (Season 1)),  Valarie Rae Miller (Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin (Season 1-2)),  Richard Gunn (Calvin 'Sketchy' Theodore),  Jennifer Blanc (Kendra Maibaum (Season 1)),  Alimi Ballard (Herbal Thought (Season 1)),  Michael Weatherly (Logan Cale/Eyes Only),  Jessica Alba (Max Guevara "X5-452")
Recurring Role:	Ron Blecker (Drill Instructor),  Alessandro Juliani (Druid),  Rob Freeman (Lietuenant),  Fulvio Cecere (Sandoval),  Chris Lazar (Young Zack),  Geneva Locke (Young Max),  Stephen Lee (Dan Vogelsang)
Guest Star:	Laura Silverman (Liz),  Dylan Pearson (Blonde Boy),  Peter Kent (Security Guard Lt. Walter Peter),  Eileen Pedde (Hannah),  Dee Jay Jackson (Lamar the Bartender),  Storma T. McDonald (Ultra Cool Secretary),  Brad Loree (Young Soldier),  Marcus Moldowan (Omar),  Hiro Kanagawa (Theo),  Bob Wilde (Silhoutted Figure),  Emy Aneke (Watch Captain),  Garry Chalk (Eastep),  Jim Dunn (Intruder),  Taylor-Anne Reid (Sophy Braganza),  Suleka Mathew (News Reporter),  Scott Heindl (Thug #2),  Steve Makaj (Lead Thug),  Sylvesta Stuart (TAC Leader),  Natassia Malthe (Redhead at Party),  Kate Luyben (Blonde at Party),  Alexander Pervakov (Steroid Case Guard),  Ty Olsson (Driver),  Robert Lewis (Dochnovich),  Catherine Lough Haggquist (News Anchor),  Jenna Marie Gooch (Young Eva),  Kent O'Connnor (Struggling Child),  Kyley Statham (Young Jondy),  Lauren Lee Smith (Natalie),  Sarah-Jane Redmond (Lauren Braganza),  Douglas O'Keeffe (Bruno Anselmo),  Kim Hawthorne (Jacinda),  Paul Popowich (Darren McKennon),  Kristin Bauer (Lydia Meyerson),  Stanley Kamel (Edgar Sonrisa),  Tyler Labine (Messenger #2)

This episode won the 2001 Monitor Award for "Film Originated Television Series - Best Visual Effects" and was nominated for the 2001 Golden Reel Award for "Best Sound Editing - Television Movies and Specials - Dialogue & ADR".
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Max: Take a header into the deep end when the pool is empty and you go splat. The law of gravity and even Jesus Christ himself had to obey the law of gravity. For a while anyway. (edit) Max: Let me get my coat.
Logan: The one you're wearing? (edit) Logan: I'm looking for a young lady who works here.
Normal: Ladies would be elsewhere. (edit) Max: Oh,here it comes. The part where the guy turns everything around, right?
Sketchy: I am a victim here!
Max (sarcastically): Really? (edit) Max: Do guys actually believe these lame self-serving excuses?
Sketchy: Max!
Max: Or do they think that we're just so grateful to have one of you idiots, we'll look the other way which is condescending and arrogant?
Sketchy: Lame. Self-serving. Condescending. Guilty as charged.
Max: You forgot arrogant. (edit)

Right before Max breaks into Logan's apartment for the first time, we see on the right corner of the scene the Vancouver Convention Centre. Dark Angel was set in Seattle, WA though filmed in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. (edit) When Max is holding the woman that Sketchy is having an affair with, in the window, by her feet, it's visible a mechanism that is holding her, just next to her boot. (edit) In the bar where Max and Logan talk after Max broke into his place, Original Cindy looks at her watch and says "Xena's On." Only, her mouth doesn't move. (edit)

Original Cindy: Friends don't help other friends cheat.

This is a play on the popular slogan "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." (edit) Logan: Then I watch you dive headfirst out a window like you're Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

This is a reference to the cartoon "Rocky and Friends" from the 1950's, where one of the characters was a flying squirrel named Rocky. He and his friend Bullwinkle the Moose tried to foil the plans of Pottsylvanian spies Boris and Natasha. Also part of the show were segments like Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr Know-It-All, and Aesop and Son. (edit) When Logan comes into the Crash and wants to talk to Max. Original Cindy takes the hint - Cindy: Woop, Xena's on. (she exits)

This is a reference to the show "Xena: Warrior Princess". In the 20th century, Xena was popular with lesbians. (edit)