When Faith and Angel are fighting in the apartment you can see the "brick" wall shake when one of them gets thrown against it.
When Wesley tips his chair backwards to get away from Faith, he lands on his back. In the next visible shot of the chair, Wesley is on his left side. The next immediate shot has him on his back again, in a position to see the knife. Then on his left side again, his back to the knife.
When Angel goes to Wolfram & Hart to investigate Lindsay's office, we see a shot of Lindsay's name plaque and a head approaching the door. This is presumably Lilah's head, as the hair is long, brown, and bouncy, but in the next shot we see Angel entering Lindsay's office, and he definitely does not have long hair.
As Angel and Faith fell from the window, they landed on the trash bins below the window, which is impossible. Considering their angle of descent after they went flying out the window, the two of them should have landed in the middle of the alley.
Angel casts a visible reflection at least three times in this episode. Once on his desk while talking to Cordelia and Wesley after getting off the phone with Giles, again later on Lindsey's office desk, and finally, you can see a faint reflection of him in the windows while he and Faith are fighting just after Faith says "You can't take me - no one can take me" and
When Faith is sitting at the window and looks at the piece of broken glass she used to torture Wesley, it has a different shape than the one she first takes to torture Wesley. When she drops it out the window it has its original shape again.
The title of this episode is a phrase that Faith says frequently in season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Five by Five."
How does Angel get into Faith's apartment? The guy who actually owns it is still living, although probably injured, and Angel definitely was not invited in.
How did Faith get into Cordelia's apartment without Phantom Dennis trying to stop her in any way?
When Faith is fighting Angel in the alley, a shot reveals a stream of water that appears to be a bit too big given no more than 5 seconds of rain.
In the kitchen of the apartment Faith is in, the canister of knives on the counter and the clutter to the left of the coffee maker move around or appear/disappear in different shots.
In the episode "Room w/a Vu," Cordelia's apartment number was 212 and she had no neighboring doors. In this episode she is now in apartment #6 and there are neighboring doors to left and right.
Wesley: It's not too late. Faith: For cappuccino? 'Cuz, just keeps me up.
Cordelia: I'm gonna pack a bag. Wesley: Cordelia, please. Just a few things. We're not going on safari.
Wesley: This isn't right. Cordelia: When a whacked out Slayer tries to kill your boss, it's very wrong.
Cordelia: Oh, and we should pick up the tab for lunch. Nothing says success less than splitting the bill. Angel: I didn't bring any money with me. Cordelia: Okay, Elvis, when you're a big star, you can get away without carrying cash.
Lindsey: To make a long story less long, I think for services rendered, we can get you off. Faith: You don't know how many men have promised me that.
Lilah: I'll make the contact. Lee: I don't think so. It's my deal; I'll make the contact. Lilah: Let me think about it... No. Lee: Why not? Lilah: It's your people skills. You don't have any. Lee: You bitch. Lilah: See.
Cordelia: (about Marquez) I knew it when you brought him in last night. Someone with that much body art is gonna have a different definition of civic duty. Wesley: After we saved his life? Cordelia: When was the last time you wrote a thank you card?
Angelus: Can I take off this blindfold yet? Darla: No. Angelus: Can I take off something else?
Faith: (torturing Wesley) I wanna hear you scream. Wesley: You never will.
Cordelia: Phantom Dennis, let us in. It's alright. It's only Wesley. Wesley: Dennis your ghost, I presume? Cordelia: Yes. He's jealous. (to Dennis) Don't worry, hell will freeze over before I have sex with him. Wesley: Thank goodness for small favors.
Faith: (throws herself against Angel screaming) I'm evil! I'm bad! I'm evil! Do you hear me? I'm bad! Angel, I'm bad! I'm bad. Do you hear me? I'm bad! I'm bad! I'm bad. Please. Angel, please, just do it. Angel please, just do it. Just do it. Just kill me. Just kill me.
Faith: All these little cuts and bruises just bring out the mother in me. (to fainting Wes) Come on. Now, now, don't poop out on me, dammit! Otherwise this is all just gonna be over too fast. You'll be dead, and I'll be... bored. (slight British accent) Come on, Wesley! Where's that stiff upper lip? (back to normal accent) Now, we've only done one of the five basic torture groups. We've done blunt - but that still leaves sharp, cold, hot and loud. Have a preference? Well, that's great! It's always better with audience participation. (takes a gag out of his mouth) May I take your order please? Wesley: I was your Watcher, Faith - I know the real you. And even if you kill me, there is just one thing I want you to remember. Faith: What's that, love? Wesley: You are a piece of shi- Faith: (shoves the gag back in his mouth) You should talk, huh? I guess I'll just have to try a little harder. We'll switch to sharp for a while.
Wesley: She's not a demon, Angel. She's a sick, sick girl. If there's even a chance she can be reasoned with - Angel: There was. Last year, I had a shot at saving her. I was pulling her back from the brink when some British guy kidnapped her and made damn sure she'd never trust another living soul. Cordelia: Angel, it's not Wesley's fault that some British guy ruined your - Oh, wait. (to Wesley) That was you. (to Angel) Go on.
(talking about Angel) Cordy: So, are you happy with the way things turned out? You can always tell when he's happy. His scowl is slightly less scowly.
Faith: (to Wesley) Did you ever wonder if things would've been different, if we'd never met. What if you had Buffy - and Giles had been my Watcher? Think we'd still be here right now? Or would Giles be sittin' in that chair? Or is it just like fate. You know, there is no choice. You were gonna be here no matter what. You think about that stuff? Fate and destiny? I don't. Not that any of this is your own fault. Since this may be the last chance we have to unload on each other, I feel it's kind of my duty to tell you that if you'd been a better Watcher, I might've been a more positive role model! Face it, Wesley, you really were a jerk. Always walking around like you had some great big stake rammed up your English Channel.
Lindsey: I hate failure when there's no one else to blame it on.
Wesley: Seems you're taking this personally. Angel: Well, she tried to shoot my own personal back, so yeah.
This episode scored a rating of 4.9/8 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking 3rd out of 16 WB shows airing for that week.
David Boreanaz does the "Previously on Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" voiceover.
Lee Mercer refers to Faith as being a "busy little beaver." In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Who Are You?" (4x16) Faith-in-Buffy refers to herself as being a "busy little beaver."
Music: As Faith is dancing/fighting -- "Living Dead Girl (Subliminal Seduction Mix)" by Rob Zombie
This is the first episode of Angel to ever feature Faith.
This is the only episode to date, that is rated 18. All the others have been a 15.
This is the third time Faith is bent on killing Angel. The first time was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3, "Revelations" when she tried to kill him because she believed he posed a threat to them all. The second time is in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Graduation Day Part 1" (again, season 3) when Faith shoots him with a poisoned arrow just to mess with Buffy. Now she is enlisted by Wolfram & Hart. It's less personal this time around.
Lilah: To deal with our friendly neighborhood vampire. This is a reference to the Marvel comics superhero Spider-Man. He would often call himself to people as their "friendly neighborhood Spider-Man".
Faith: A Stake right up your English Channel. The English Channel is a body of water that separates England from France.
Title "Five By Five" is a radio operators' term used to denote the signal strength and clarity of incoming communications. "One by one" is the weakest and hardest to hear, while "five by five" is the strongest and clearest. Over time the phrase came to mean "everything is alright" in a more general sense. Especially popular within the military, the phrase is now anachronistic and rarely used.
Cordelia: He's like the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetian Buddhist monks. He personifies inner peace and spiritual enlightenment.
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