David Boreanaz |
Angel |
Alexis Denisof |
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce |
Amy Acker |
Winifred "Fred" Burkle |
Charisma Carpenter |
Cordelia Chase |
J. August Richards |
Charles Gunn |
Kate Norby |
Elisabeth |
Guest Star |
Ron Melendez |
James |
Guest Star |
Koji Kataoka |
Pilgrim |
Guest Star |
Andy Hallett |
Lorne |
Recurring Role |
Keith Szarabajka |
Holtz |
Recurring Role |
Matthew James |
Merl |
Recurring Role |
When James enters the hotel to go after Angel, he has on a brown coat. But when he tosses Angel to the side his coat is suddenly gone, yet it is back when the shot changes again.
When chasing Angel and Cordelia in the subway, James casts a reflection on the train as it goes past.
When Angel and Cordelia are on the run from James, Angel casts a reflection on the side of the subway.
When James pushes the flannel clad vampire into the sun, he bursts into flame immediately. The time it takes a vampire to immolate on this series and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer seems to be very inconsistant. Both Angel and Spike have been able to scramble out of the sun with only a bit of smoke, Russell Winters in "City Of" (1x01) takes at least a few seconds to burst into flames. There does not seem to be any clear reason for this other than what is convenient to the plot.
When Dennis is washing Cordy's back, the loofa is not wet, so it would probably not feel good, but in fact scratch.
Holtz is supposed to be English, yet his accent is clearly American and his clothes are also American Colonial rather that Georgian English.
Cordy was wearing the necklace that Angel bought her when she had her vision, but when she arrives home and undresses in the bathroom it's missing.
The bloodstains on Angel's white shirt during the monastery fight change position a couple of times throughout it.
The episode indicated that Angel was in a monastery in Sri Lanka. The "demon" monks he was fighting were Chinese and were wearing the wrong color/type of robes for Theravadin monks that reside in Sri Lanka.
At the end of Season 2, when the team returns from Lorne's dimension, they drive Angel's car through the portal and into Caritas. But Caritas appears to be in a basement (the characters have to walk downstairs to get into Caritas). So how did they get Angel's car out? Even if they completely disassembled it, the frame would still be too large to fit up the stairs. But during the 1st episode of Season 3, Angel is driving his car out on the street as if nothing ever happened to it.
In the scene when Angel, Wes, and Gunn are fighting the vampires, the vamps that Gunn and Wes fight don't go poof when they are staked. They just roll to the side.
Angel tells Fred he can't enter her room in the hotel until she invites him in. In Buffy episode 3-15, Angel enters Faith's hotel room without an invitation. However, this situation is different. It is not public accommodation, since Angel owns the hotel, and this is Fred's personal room on a permanent, not a temporary basis.
In L.A. it would be impossible for someone to drive down 6th St. heading east and pass Felix Chevrolet as we see the vampires do. They'd have to be heading south.
When Cordy puts on Angel's gift of a necklace, there is an awkward edit: she lifts up her arms, makes her comment about her breasts, brings her arms down, then the editor cuts to the next shot and her arms are up again.
Angel brings Wesley a 16th century Chinese dagger which Wes says is from the "Murshan dynasty." There is no "Murshan" dynasty, and the better known "Ming dynasty" covered the entire 16th century (and some or all of the 14th, 15th, and 17th century as well).
Angel: "Listen. Listen." What are you listening for?
Fred: The click. When it all comes together and makes sense, there's like a click in your brain and you understand things again.
Angel: Well, what happens if you run out of wall space before you get the click?
Fred: I don't know.
Angel: Fred. You know, you spend...five years in a place where humans could only be slaves or fugitives. I know that wasn't a picnic for you, but you're home now. You're safe. You can come out of your room.
Angel: This your idea of love, James? It's not real unless it kills you?
James: Yeah, what's yours? "It's fun as long as it doesn't cost me anything?" You don't know what love is. You think you won because you're still alive? I lived; you just existed.
Wesley: I realize we sacrifice a great deal of our social lives, but we have to. Work demands it.
Gunn: True. I mean who's got time for love when you're out there doing it with the demons? Didn't that come out sad and wrong?
Cordelia: Yeah.
Gunn: I need to get out more.
Darla: (on abandoning Angelus) Of course, when he finally did catch up with me in Vienna, I had to pay for my sins, again and again.
Angelus: Can you even begin to fathom the things we did? (disgustedly) Of course not, you're in love.
Angelus: Why are people always riding off and leaving me? Am I a bad bloke…?
Angel: I'm okay.
Cordy: Then - what's the problem?
Angel: That I'm okay. That losing Buffy didn't kill me. That I could deal with it. In all those years, no one ever mattered. Not like she did. And now she's gone... forever.
Cordy: And you're still here.
Angel: Yeah. I just feel like I'm betraying her somehow.
Cordy: No! If you were a loser, if you were some sick obsessed vampire, you'd go to a Snod demon, or whatever, and get your heart cut out. But you're not! You're a living, breathing... Well, living, anyway - good guy, who's still fighting and trying to help people, and that's not betraying her, that's honoring her.
Angel: You think?
Cordy: I'm Cordelia. I don't think. I know. Okay?
(Angel comes out of a room that is strewn with demon bodies)
Monk: What happened?
Angel: (in Tibetan) Demon Monks. Shoulda gone to Vegas.
Cordelia: I understand people who drink. I understand people who leave a note on the parking meter that says it's broken when it's not. I don't understand people who worship demons.
Gunn: Especially a Lurite demon. The stink on that thing, you wanna be prince of the underworld, take a Jacuzzi once in a while.
Fred: I came out of my room. Small steps, just like you said.
Angel: Go to your room and stay there!
Fred: Okay.
Gunn: Hmm. Angel and a bunch of monks in the middle of nowhere. There's a party! He should have got hammered and went to Vegas just like I told him.
Wes: Gunn and I'll hit the streets; see what our sources can tell us.
Cordy: Uh-huh. See? We have sources now.
Angel: Oh, you're almost like real detectives now.
Cordy: (putting the necklace Angel gave her around her neck) And look how it brings out my breasts! You know you were all thinking it!
Cordelia: (about Buffy) Angel, she was the love of your life and she died, and you weren't there when that happened, you couldn't help her fight, you couldn't save her, you couldn't die with her.
Gunn: (about Angel)The "B" word was the love of his life, and he's what? 250? That isn't a short life. That grief work is gonna take more than a vacation in Sri Lanka.
Cordy: The Ring of Amarra, when you had that, you were invincible. Does he have a ring?
Angel: No.
Cordy: Did the Amarra people make cuff links or belt buckles?
Wesley: It's sad. The only way some people can find a purpose in life is by becoming obsessed with demons. By the way, Gunn... technically, that wasn't a Lurite demon, it was a Murite, a subspecies of the Lurite. The male sports a small telltale fin just behind the third shoulder.
Gunn: So glad to know we're not the sad people obsessed with demons.
Elizabeth: You know neither poetry, nor love, Angelus.
Darla: He knows other things - marvelously vile and ripping things.
This episode scored a rating of 4.2/6 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking 2nd out of 12 WB shows for that week.
Music:
Lorne sings this at Caritas -- "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" by Douglas Cross and George Cory
Plays at Caritas -- "Blackjack" by Morphic Field
In the vampires' car -- "The Winner" by Crystal Method
These lines were cut from the episode due to length. Cordy explains the significance of the necklace worn by Elisabeth.
Cordelia: You see me wearing Curt Eisenthorpe's football ring or Xander's meet medallion? (All three men look at her. Gunn turns to the guys.) Gunn: I'd like to take this one. (To Cordy) So...what kind of meat did he have that earned him a medallion? Cordelia: Not that kind of meat - swim meet, he was on the swim team. Get your mind out of the gutter. All of you!
David Greenwalt, the co-creator of the show along with Whedon, wrote and directed the episode. His assistant on the show is Elisabeth James, obviously the two vampires from Angel's past (Elisabeth and James) were named for her.
David Boreanaz does the "Previously on Angel" voiceover.
Fred mentions that she's waiting for a 'click' in her head, where everything will suddenly make sense; the same thing is said in the Tennesse Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Brick.
Cordy references the first Buffy/Angel crossover ("The Harsh Light of Day"/"In The Dark") from season one when asking Angel if "the Amarra people [made] cufflinks or belt buckles" in addition to the Gem of Amarra (a ring) that made vampires invincible. Angel destroyed the ring at the end of "In the Dark."
According to Tim Minear's DVD commentary, the reason they went wide-screen was to show the separation between both series and both networks.
Julie Benz is now credited as a Special Guest Star.
First onscreen appearance of Holtz who has been mentioned and had some influence in various flashbacks between Angelus and Darla on season 2.
Most likely as a nod to the fact its sister show moved to UPN while Angel remained on WB, the characters are written so as to go to great lengths to awkwardly not mention "Buffy" by name, until the very end.
Amy Acker joins the regular cast and is now credited in the opening.
Starting with this episode, Angel now airs in a widescreen format.
Cordelia: ...with his Romeo and Juliet madness...
"Romeo and Juliet" is the famous play by William Shakespeare. Two teenagers from warring families fall in love and risk everything to be together. The story ends tragically when things go wrong and both characters end up committing suicide in order to be together in the afterlife.
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Aired 4/28/04 (42:15)
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