Angel

Season 4

Deep Down

1. Linwood says, "Lilah, this is my corner of the sky. I decide when the sun rises and when it sets..." John Rubinstein was the original actor to play the title role in the Broadway musical "Pippin" whose signature song is "Corner of the Sky".
2. Final appearance of Justine Cooper.
3. Vincent Kartheiser has been added to the opening credits, while Alexis Denisof has been moved to last (and is now credited with 'And').
4. The opening dinner scene is reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Body (2001).
5. Angel says, "I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years" referring to when Buffy sent him to hell in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 2 (1998).
6. Wesley kidnaps Justine and holds her in a small prison-like closet where she is degraded (made to eat meals out of a bowl and her excrement is held in a bucket inside her prison) and presumably tortured physically and psychologically in order to force her to help discover Angel's location on the seabed. This illustrates yet again how thin the line is between "good" and "evil" in the Buffyverse.
7. The Fang Gang at its minimum: just Gunn and Fred. Angel in the deep, Cordy in the sky, Wes at sea, Lorne in Vegas and Connor, though present, not really gang-like.
8. Fred uses Angel's wrist stakes, first seen in Angel: City of... (1999).
9. When Fred calls Lorne in Las Vegas, Lorne says, "Take care of yourself and ah, and make sure fluffy is getting enough love." Fluffy refers to a dog that Fred does not have. Lorne's meaning, which Fred does not understand, is that he is in distress and needs to be rescued. This is explained in Angel: The House Always Wins (2002).
10. Fred's violent and emotional reactions to Connor's betrayal are due to her (possibly over-)identifying with Angel. Both were torn from their lives, subjected to a terrible fate, and without anyone knowing where they were, had no choice but to endure a miserable life completely alone.
11. This is the first time Gunn's hubcap axe is seen since Angel: Disharmony (2001).
12. The Hunga Munga is one of the weapons Gunn, Fred and Connor carry at the beginning of the episode. It is first seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Anne (1998) and appears a second time in Angel: Happy Anniversary (2001).
13. Before Wesley cuts himself to feed Angel, he raises his knife, creating the impression that he wants to cut Justine instead. Lilah performs a similar action towards Linwood Murrow before cutting herself to help Angel in Angel: Forgiving (2002).
14. Andy Hallett is now credited as a "Special Guest Star," a credit he will retain until he is promoted to regular status.
15. This episode is set three months after the season three finale Angel: Tomorrow (2002).
16. Final appearance of Linwood Murrow.
17. Justine warning Wesley that Angel will eventually turn on him and all his friends foreshadows Angel becoming Angelus again in Angel: Awakening (2003).

Ground State

1. Final appearance of Cordy's apartment and Phantom Dennis.
2. When Gwen fuses her client's watch, he cries, "That's a $12,000 watch," to which she coolly replies, "Now it's Surrealism." This is a reference to Salvador Dalí's famed painting "The Persistence of Memory," which depicts melted clocks and watches.
3. When Angel hands Gunn and Fred a drawing of the artifact that they are going after, Fred is surprised by how good the drawing is and of the later picture of Cordy. During Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angelus would leave drawings behind to scare the Scooby gang - several of Buffy, one of Jenny Calendar and in his own series, he drew Darla.
4. Wesley references the Eleusinian Mysteries which is a cult or religious sect of Ancient Greece. Very little is known about the rites and practices of the cult other than the fact that they focused on the goddesses Demeter and her daughter Percephone, the latter of whom was abducted by Hades and made his bride. This is the only real connection with the mysteries and the underworld that were the basis for the Dinza character.
5. Angel forgives Wesley for his earlier kidnapping of Connor.
6. Although he does feature in the episode, Vincent Kartheiser as Connor has no dialogue.
7. Gunn states, "We could have gone to Vegas," a recurring suggestion from him throughout the series, foreshadowing the next episode, Angel: The House Always Wins (2002).
8. Angel reveals in this episode to Lilah that he knows of the relationship between herself and Wesley, having apparently smelled both of them all over each other.
9. This is the first appearance of Gwen Raiden, she also appears in Angel: Long Day's Journey (2003) and Angel: Players (2003).
10. Alexa Davalos says she had "5 minutes of training" from stunt coordinator Mike Massa right before filming the fight scene with Angel.
11. This is the only episode of the fourth season, and the last episode of the series, not to feature Andy Hallett as Lorne. Angel mentions that he has done "a heist like this" twice before. This is possibly referring to Angel: The Shroud of Rahmon (2000), where he and Gunn infiltrated a group to steal the Shroud of Rahmon, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Choices (1999), where he and Buffy broke into the Mayor's office to steal the Box of Gavrok (In Angel's defence, both heists were successful, although the Shroud nearly drove everyone involved in the heist insane due to its nature while the Scooby Gang had to return the Box of Gavrok after the Mayor captured Willow).

The House Always Wins

1. When Fred questions Angel about a spiritual retreat, Gunn responds "Like the Tibetan Retreat?" and Angel says Yea. The next scene is them driving to Las Vegas. Gunn had advised Angel to go to Las Vegas instead of the monastery when he was mourning Buffy's death. After Angel kills the demons at the monastery he states he should have gone to Vegas.
2. This episode was filmed on location in Las Vegas. "We shot from six at night to six in the morning for five nights," recalls David Fury. "It was like a movie shoot, we were real stars."
3. Andy Hallett said this episode was his "favorite-favorite-favorite!" because the cast and crew got to go on location to Las Vegas. He said, "I've always wanted to have like a Vegas show, so it's like a real Vegas show...except that all the people sitting in the audience were getting paid to be there."
4. From this episode onwards, Andy Hallett appears in every episode.
5. David Fury explains on the DVD commentary that early on, this episode emotionally establishes the characters, reminding viewers that Connor - although not integral to the story - is indeed "Angel Jr."
6. The Tropicana Casino at which Lorne headlines is an actual casino on the Strip, although creative license was taken with its location and history. For example, as the group flees the guards, they exit the casino onto Fremont Street (nicknamed Glitter Gulch), which is miles from the actual location of the Tropicana. In addition, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley had their wedding reception at the Aladdin Casino, not the Tropicana as Angel claimed.
7. The scene in which Wesley has phone sex with Lilah was written by Joss Whedon when the episode came in short. Alexis Denisof explains that throughout this season his character is "flirting with and investigating the dark side of himself. He's looking at his relationships with all the people and with Angel, and he's definitely looking at his whole purpose and trying to figure out how he wants to be. There are going to be some things that really surprise the audience, that they'd never expect of Wesley."
8. Amy Acker had to dress as a Lornette for the scene in which she helps Lorne escape; Andy Hallett says Acker kept joking, "Andy, I have to overact and act bad - can you give me any tips?"
9. One of the scrolling banners in the soul-trading room reads DEAL WITH DISNEY TO RUN NEW ABC SERIES, referring to co-creator David Greenwalt, who left the show earlier that year to produce Miracles (2003).
10. Ironically one of the major cast members who doesn't go to Las Vegas (the other being Alexis Denisof) is Charisma Carpenter who is actually from there.
11. Despite being credited for this episode, Vincent Kartheiser only features in the teaser.
12. While filming this episode, members of the crew took the opportunity to gamble; camera assistant Adam Ward won $10,000 in a Super Bowl bet.
13. In the scene where Fred, Gunn and Lorne flee through the streets from the security guards numerous onlookers can be glimpsed in the background held back by barriers. News of the series filming in on location had leaked and hundreds of fans had turned out to watch.
14. David Fury, Kelly A. Manners: In the front row of Lorne's Las Vegas concert.
15. This is the last episode where Cordelia is fully alive and herself, not impaired or changed in some way, although she is a being in the sky.

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

1. Cordelia sings "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston, a song she chose to sing for the talent show in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Puppet Show (1997). Her performance this time around is equally terrible.
2. The title and Lorne's comment about "slouching towards Bethlehem" come from the W.B. Yeats poem The Second Coming: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
3. When Cordelia read her yearbook, it contained references to the school "burning down," the "giant snake," and "flaming arrows." These events all occurred when the Sunnydale High student body fought The Mayor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999). Both Angel and Wesley were present for these events.
4. The vampire-run towing company at the beginning of the episode is an example of the "Modern Vampire" as put forth by Mr. Trick in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith, Hope & Trick (1998). When called, the vampires can either take advantage of the callers' distress and feed on them, or tow the vehicle to make a legitimate profit, all at their own discretion.
5. Gunn is seriously dismayed when Cordelia threatens to turn him into a rat. It's because he has musophobia.
6. Angel tells Cordelia about their night at the ballet in Angel: Waiting in the Wings (2002).
7. Cordelia mentions having been a princess, referring to her visit to Pylea from Angel: Over the Rainbow (2001) to Angel: There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb (2001).
8. After looking through some past photos, Cordelia said "yikes" when looking at a photo of her hair when it was first cut short in Angel: The Shroud of Rahmon (2000). This is an inside joke as Charisma Carpenter disliked this specific haircut, as stated in the Season 2 DVD featurette.
9. Gunn asks if Cordelia wants to know "why we call him Lorne," referencing Lorne's disdain for the nickname, given his skin color ("Lorne Greene"), which he first mentioned in Angel: Belonging (2001).

Supersymmetry

1. Angel and Gunn question a man in a comic book store. When they throw him against a stand of comics he says that they're "crushing the Dark Horses," referencing Dark Horse Comics, the company that publishes the "Buffy" and "Angel" comics. Before leaving the store, Angel is also seen reading a comic book with the Dark Horse logo visible on the cover.
2. The orange graphic novel that is shown on the comic book store rack is Hellboy, who is a well-meaning half-demon who is a paranormal investigator, like Angel.
3. When Fred sees the Symposium's "Featured Speakers," she exclaims, 'Oh, God! I'm between Ed Witten and Brian Greene!' These refer to Edward Witten and Brian Greene, two important physicists. This shows how important the speech will be that Fred gives.
4. Almost all of the references to string theory, P vs NP and other physical concepts in this episode are real scientific terms and are used in the correct context-contrary to many other TV shows and movies.
5. Angel demonstrates that he has photographic memory when he re-creates the auditorium environment with chairs and is able to recall exactly where every lecture attendee was seated and how each one responded to the portal.
6. One of the pictures Cordelia Chase puts up in Connor's loft is of her parents. This is the only time they are shown in the Buffyverse.
7. Despite the story originally suggesting it was simply a coincidence that Fred came upon the book, it's revealed that Fred's college professor Seidel was responsible for her being sent to Pylea, as well as several other students. A later episode, Angel: Inside Out (2003), implies Seidel himself was manipulated by the demon Skip as part of a long-term plan to assemble the members of Angel Investigations.
8. It is later revealed in Angel: Calvary (2003) that Angel was fully aware that Seidel was killed by his friends, although he went along with their story nonetheless.
9. Angel's actions are the stuff of legends among certain people and, contrary to his beliefs, there are many people who know of his deeds, albeit most think that they are just urban legends. The #1 place that stories of his deeds are told are on online chatrooms, as that is where Jared learned about Angel Investigations.
10. Fred complains that people want her to be "all sweetness and light". This is an allusion to P.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred's stories.
11. Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain originally had Fred kill her professor in the script. Tim Minear later changed it to Gunn killing the professor.
12. This episode and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Selfless (2002) are both the fifth in the season and both relate to a secondary female character's vengeance or intent to carry out vengeance and the reactions of others and consequences of that choice.
13. This episode begins the breakup of Fred and Gunn's relationship, and indicates Connor's growing affection for Cordelia as the two share a kiss. In addition, Wesley and Lilah's complicated relationship is further developed, as she brings him a gift and realizes that he is still attracted to Fred.

Spin the Bottle

1. Alexis Denisof and David Boreanaz began getting the giggles as the program progressed. It got to the point that when Angel runs back into the Hyperion Hotel to report that there are hundreds of demons outside (he means the cars on the freeway), the two could not look at each other without dissolving into laughter. Take after take was wasting the time of the crew and other actors. They decided they would simply, then, not look at each other. But between 32 and 33 minutes into the program, they had quick glances, and the viewer can watch them trying to hold in the laughter.
2. In television business jargon, an episode shot entirely on already-existing sets with a minimum of expensive extras like guest stars or extensive special effects (to keep the budget down) is called a "bottle show" or "bottle episode." The title of this episode, in addition to being a reference to its subject matter, is also a nod to the fact that the episode was deliberately conceived as a "bottle episode" to cut some of the price tag of season four.
3. When Wesley is telling Gunn a bunch of lies about knowing what kind of demon Lorne is ("this breed is nocturnal and feeds on roots or possibly human effluvia..."), which leads them into a fight match, in the foreground, Fred approaches the tied-up, knocked-out Lorne and begins to pat at his forehead and hair, generally examining him. Amy Acker and Andy Hallett kept breaking into laughter, which meant that Alexis Denisof and J. August Richards had to keep filming their background fight again and again, take after take.
4. It was Amy Acker's idea that Wesley should duct-tape Lorne to the pouffe, or hassock, in the middle of the room. Joss Whedon knew that he wanted Lorne to be in the middle of things, and Lorne had to be able to talk and interact, but he should not be able to move around or influence people except by reasoning with them. Whedon says in the Commentary that he had been baffled what to do with Lorne, until Acker had her suggestion.
5. When the spell is cast the first thing Cordelia says when she sees Angel is "Hello salty goodness!" Which is also the first thing she said the first time she ever saw him in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date (1997).
6. Alexis Denisof says in the DVD Commentary how much he had enjoyed doing this episode: "I remember feeling a genuine, profound sadness that the [memory-reducing] spell was over. I think this week of just frivolity and all us having the fun; going back... and it really was just like 'Awww.' ...It was magic."
7. During the DVD Commentary, Alexis Denisof says of the kitchen scene in which Angel and Connor fight, "This was a great old restaurant in L.A., actually, a classic kind of Rat Pack place on Wilshire." The "classic" decor is upstairs, which is not shown in this program.
8. Between the shooting of Angel: Supersymmetry (2002) and "Spin the Bottle," Charisma Carpenter had asked whether she could get a hair cut. Joss Whedon explained that 'Spin the Bottle' would start just moments after 'Supersymmetry' ended, so she should please not do so. But David Boreanaz didn't get the message, and he did go get a trim.
9. This episode follows a similar plot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tabula Rasa (2001) (erased memories) as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Band Candy (1998) (reversion to teenage personalities). Like Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween (1997), Angel mistakes cars for demons. Oddly in "Tabula Rasa", soulless Spike continues on a path of righteousness after discovering he is a vampire, while Angel reverts to being evil, despite having a soul (Although the fact that everyone was trying to attack 'Liam' may account for his decision to resort to violence out of a lack of anything else to do).
10. Joss Whedon says on the Commentary that the main theme of 'Spin the Bottle' is: "the metaphor of 'I'm different from the rest!' A gay metaphor, or just a metaphor for being adolescent. Which sort of ends up connecting him [Angel] to his son, but: 'I'm different from everybody else, because I'm ... THIS'."
11. This episode marks the first appearance of the being later known as Jasmine, while possessing Cordelia. Jasmine is released from the safeguard, set in place by The Powers That Be to hold her at bay, which is broken by the spell the group performs. As such, this is Cordelia's last proper appearance in the fourth season.
12. This episode picks up right from the moment the last episode ended, yet Angel's cuts and bruises from fighting the demon with nine lives are gone
13. Cordelia says Connor is 18 years old, the first time he is given a concrete age after returning from Quor'toth in the third season.
14. The age the characters regress to is unclear; Fred states "not one of y'all look 17", implying that would be the age they think they are-although she may have simply been "rounding up"-but Cordelia has no recollection of Slayers or vampires nor does she recognize Angel, despite meeting him when she was 16. Cordelia initially believes herself to be the victim of a "sophomore hazing" prank, indicating she's regressed to sophomore year. She didn't meet Angel until towards the end of her sophomore year, and wasn't aware of the supernatural world until the very end of her sophomore year.
15. The frame narrative established by Lorne in the night club was done to highlight the postmodern aspects of the episode, explains Joss Whedon. The artificiality of the night club, and Lorne's breaking of the fourth wall when he comments on the commercials that played during the act break, provides a foreground for the alternate reality caused by the spell.
16. When Wesley says, "there are stories at the Watcher's Academy of a test. A secret gauntlet which only the most cunning can survive. You're locked in a house with a vicious, deadly vampire, and you have to kill him before he kills you. It's been done in the past with Slayers," he is speaking of the Cruciamentum that Buffy had to undertake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Helpless (1999). Notably, Wesley remarks that the Watcher's Academy is in southern Hampshire, meaning that it may survive Caleb's attack on the organization's London headquarters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Never Leave Me (2002).
17. This episode is reminiscent of Joss Whedon's future project The Cabin in the Woods (2011), Fred recalling stories of young people kidnapped by the government, trapped in a specific location and experimented on. The AI crew even resemble the stereotypes required (Wesley the scholar, Gunn the athlete, etc.). Amy Acker was also in the film.
18. Fred makes two references to wanting weed, hinting that she may have been a bit less tightly wound when she was younger.
19. It has been suggested that Lorne's narration takes place after the end of the fourth season, as he makes references to future events that had yet to happen (such as the release of Jasmine). One possible issue with this is Connor's appearance in the episode which Lorne would not have remembered by the end on the season, unless the version of events he told was different from the version we saw. An alternative interpretation is that he may not have actually told the story at all, just imagined himself doing so sometime when things looked their bleakest towards the end of the season and he wished he could be somewhere telling this all as a story.
20. Fred asks if anyone else took a personality test recently, with questions "about politics and your bowel movements and if you want to be a florist..." This would seem to be the same florist question test that was mentioned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999).
21. Joss Whedon says this episode grew out of his desire to see Wesley returned to the "bumbling moron" of the past. "We were reminiscing about the days when he was a complete idiot, and so we thought we wanted to see old-school Wesley but also cool, new-school Wesley," Whedon explains. Although the regression to a comedic figure contrasts his new, darker persona, Wesley still exhibits heroism during this episode, which is in line with the growth his character experienced over the last four years
22. Joss Whedon notes that while writing this episode, he already knew that Connor and Cordelia were going to have sex, but the story had to move faster than he had originally planned because Charisma Carpenter became pregnant.
23. Fred confuses a Slayer with the thrash band of the same name. This is the second time in the Buffyverse that Slayer has been mentioned in association with Buffy's title. The first was by Forrest in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doomed (2000).
24. The song "The Way We Were" that Lorne sang in the opening, was also sung in Angel: Disharmony (2001) at Caritas by Harmony.
25. While Lorne is unconscious, Gunn suggests cutting off his head. Angel: There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb (2001) showed that this would not have actually killed him.
26. This is the third time a character in the Buffyverse breaks the fourth wall; the first two done by Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad (1997) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling (2001).
27. This episode establishes what happened to the Irish accent both Angelus and Angel shared during the late 1700s and 1800s. He did not adopt his typical American accent in order to go unnoticed in the country, but rather it was a natural progression from living among Americans for roughly a hundred years. This is referenced humorously when Liam, Angel's teenage self, is unable to resume his proper Irish accent, as Angel had been speaking with an American one for so long.
28. Despite being amnesiac, when it came time to gear up, Gunn still picked his own axe from among the other weapons.
29. After losing her memory, Cordelia is extremely upset at the thought of missing her senior prom, which was depicted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Prom (1999). Though none of them were aware of it at the time that she made the comment, both Angel and Wesley were in attendance. The latter, who was then harbouring feelings for Cordelia, asked her to dance.
30. At the end of the program, we get the first glimpse of the centuries-old, murderous Beast (Vladimir Kulich), who will plague the Angel (1999) team for many further programs.

Apocalypse, Nowish

1. [linknm0215299] says on the DVD commentary that the Beast wasn't going to appear so early on, but the network told them that this episode would be the last one of the year, so they have to introduce the character.
2. Lilah's attempt to please Wesley by dressing up as Fred mirrors Harmony's attempts to appease Spike by dressing up as Buffy.
3. For the first time we see that Wes now habitually carries a pair of Colt 45 automatic pistols and a pump action shotgun. This is a radical departure for the Buffyverse which had always frowned upon the use of firearms. Later, Wesley is shown to be an extremely skilled shooter.
4. Many people were disturbed that Cordelia slept with Connor, and Charisma Carpenter agrees: "I hear a lot of "ewwww," and I agree. It is ewwwy. Only something deplorable and devilish and truly evil could do something so horrid."
5. In the final fight scene, which took two full days to film, Charisma Carpenter had to be careful doing her stunts, as she was pregnant.
6. Gunn's fear of rats (first mentioned in Angel: Heartthrob (2001)) is seen here.
7. [linknm0215299] says, "One of the biggest things this year has been the reaction to "Apocalypse, Nowish." Everybody loved the show, basically giving it five stars then taking three away because of the very end." When fans speculated why Cordelia would sleep with Angel's son, DeKnight cautions, "There is a bigger reason for it that will become apparent as well... You have to remember it's a long story arc."
8. Angel's response to Lorne's question about a client's snake issue may be a call back to Mayor Richard Wilkins' ascension to the demon Olvikan, a giant snake-like demon, at the 1999 Sunnydale High graduation ceremony.
9. In Angel: Tomorrow (2002), Angel suggests that Cordelia help him 'fill in the blanks' when eventually telling Connor about sex. In this episode, the possessed Cordelia will graphically do that and more.
10. Two of the three prophecies given to Wesley by the Loa in the previous season are fulfilled at the end of the episode. The earth shakes and the air rains fire. The sky turning to blood is fulfilled a few episodes later when the Beast blots out the sun.
11. Vladimir Kulich went through an eight-hour make-up process to transform him into the character of the Beast, including prosthetics and fiberglass body suit, but "The worst part was the contact lenses...[that] cover the entire eyeball," the actor said. However, the isolating nature of the 50 lb costume meant that "I was able to search a little deeper for material while I was in the character because I was cocooned off...It was liberating."
12. [linknm0215299] says all the full-suit shots of the Beast feature stunt double Scott Workman. They cut to Kulich only for the close-ups.
13. Fred previously went to the diner in Angel: Couplet (2002) and Angel: Loyalty (2002), (both times she was with Gunn).
14. According to Vern Gillum, "J. August Richards is terrified by rats, just like his character. This is the nicest guy in the world and it was just torment for him beyond anything you could imagine."
15. Gunn's home-made axe (made from a vehicle hubcap) is crushed by the Beast in the ensuing fight. The axe was first seen in Angel: Dear Boy (2000) and made numerous appearances over the next two seasons.
16. Executive producer Jeffrey Bell employed the effects shop Almost Human to design Vladimir Kulich's costuming and make-up. Almost Human makeup designer Christopher Burdett says it took 2-3 days for four people to sculpt the costume and another 7 hours to fill and shape the huge fiberglass mold; a life cast was made of Kulich so that the suit would fit him exactly. The night before shooting was to begin, the crew finally established the costume's paint scheme.
17. Connor calls Angel "dad" for the second time, showing his growing affection for Angel (the first was his initial appearance from Quor-Toth, when he said "hi, dad")
18. Cordelia dreams about The Beast attacking her, even though she is actually possessed by Jasmine.
19. Cordelia (Jasmine) and Connor have sex. This initiates the process of Jasmine giving birth to herself, something she keeps secret from Angel Investigations until "Orpheus".
20. Upon rising, the Beast reacts to Cordelia, foreshadowing her future role in the season.
21. Cordelia is watching an old horror film about 'Pod People' (a reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) with humans controlled by an alien entity). Unbeknownst to her she essentially is one herself (and had been before in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Eggs (1998)).

Habeas Corpses

1. This episode marks the last appearance of Gavin and the second and last appearance of the Girl.
2. Wesley breaks up with Lilah after several episodes of an ongoing complicated relationship. Lilah hides her pain with callousness, and expresses her belief that he is joining Angel Investigations again because of Fred.
3. The teaser to this episode is the shortest in the series, coming in at a whopping 14 seconds.
4. It is never established exactly why the Wolfram & Hart employees are re-animated as zombies. It is suggested that the Beast (or, by extension, anyone associated with it) was responsible, or alternatively that it is a mystical failsafe which is automatically activated at Wolfram & Hart during emergencies. However, in Angel: Home (2003) it is revealed that Lilah Morgan remains in the employ of Wolfram & Hart, even after her death. Lilah describes this as a "standard immortality clause", suggesting that all employees have such a contract.
5. The Beast kills Mesektet, the little girl who is the conduit to the senior partners.
6. Angel demonstrates his photographic memory, previously seen in Angel: Supersymmetry (2002).
7. This episode also hints that the evil is among them-the group mistakenly believes soon after this that the little girl from Wolfram and Hart meant Angelus, but it appears she was actually referring to Cordelia/Jasmine's role in everything taking place.
8. The White Room was last seen in Angel: Forgiving (2002) and is not seen again until Angel: Home (2003).
9. Lorne mentioned to Angel about if he was a cool teacher. This referenced how he killed Jenny Calendar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Passion (1998).
10. The inside of Wolfram & Hart, Los Angeles, is destroyed. Every employee (except Lilah Morgan) is killed, including Gavin Park. It will be shown remodeled and running again in Angel: Home (2003).

Long Day's Journey

1. This episode is dedicated to Glenn Quinn, who played Doyle in the first season. Quinn died on December 3, 2002.
2. The title is presumably intended to evoke the play Long Day's Journey into Night. It features a family in turmoil (like Angel Investigations), one of whom is addicted to opiates (like Glenn Quinn).
3. In Angel: Offspring (2001), the Nyazian prophecies foretell that Connor's creation will lead mankind 'into darkness'. Here it does exactly that.
4. When the totums are put together they look like the Chrysler logo.
5. It is revealed that the Girl at Wolfram & Hart is actually a totem of the god Ra, one of the five Ra-Tet.
6. Connor's super-hearing ability, which he mentions in this episode, was first seen in Angel: Benediction (2002).
7. The character that is played by Alexa Davalo is named Gwen Raiden, and she so happens to have powers of electricity. Just like the Mortal Combat character Raiden, who also has powers of electricity.
8. Lorne says to a sulking Angel "When all's said and done, Connor will still be your son", referencing Connor's future transition into a new family with new parents at the end of the season.

Awakening

1. In his perfect-dream experience, Angel calls Buffy's name rather than Cordy's as he loses his soul. This call-back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Surprise (1998) shows how deep his feelings for Buffy still run - even though he's now in love with Cordelia, the prospect of not caring for Buffy is incredibly painful.
2. The cage constructed in this episode continues to be used throughout the rest of the season on various occasions.
3. Angel says that Wesley has only read about Angelus, that he "never had the pleasure of his company". Although in Angel: Eternity (2000), Rebecca Lowell drugs Angel and makes him act like Angelus for a time, it wasn't the real thing.
4. This is a rare episode of either series in which no-one dies (with the only two fatalities, Wo-Pang and the Beast, occuring as part of the vision).Subsequent traps are also very reminiscent of the various traps in the opening scenes from Indiana Jones, including lettered stones that must be pressed in a particular order and pressure activated stones in the floor that trigger darts that shoot from the walls.
5. This episode marks the second time a mystic is called upon to remove Angel's restored soul, the first (unsuccessful) attempt being Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Enemies (1999). In both episodes the two mystics are dressed in similar robes.
6. Angel's speech before he leaves to kill the Beast mirrors Buffy's rousing speech in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bring on the Night (2002).
7. Angel tells Connor to "get over it" - the same thing Cordelia told himself in the previous episode.
8. This is the first true present-day appearance of Angelus since Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 2 (1998). Angel had temporarily taken on the behavior of Angelus briefly during Angel: Eternity (2000), due to a drug-enhanced delusion of happiness, and had played the part of Angelus convincingly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Enemies (1999) in an orchestrated attempt to convince Faith that Angel had turned on Buffy. Other than Cordelia (and Wesley, if the incident from "Eternity" is considered), this is the first encounter any of the gang has had with Angelus' former self.
9. In the scene where "Cordelia" sees the sword in the basement, she nearly mimics how Willow went through her laptop to look at a diamond Warren Mears stole in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Smashed (2001).

Soulless

1. When Connor is confronting Angelus, Angelus mocks him by saying "Doin' your mom and trying to kill your dad--there should be a play." This is a sarcastic allusion to Oedipus Rex, the ancient Greek play wherein the hero is, by prophecy, condemned to kill his father and sleep with his mother. The plot of this play also inspired Sigmund Freud's concept of the "Oedipus complex" in his semi-extreme psychoanalytic theories.
2. After Sean Astin told writer/director and close friend Douglas Petrie about his "fervent desire to be directing episodic television," he shadowed producers David Greenwalt and Tim Minear for several weeks to get a feel for the series before he was given this episode to direct. "Television sort of mandates that you keep moving," Astin says, "but you don't want to stop. Angelus [has] so many layers and so many different shades and qualities, you want to keep exploring them and mining them and pulling them out. It's such a rich, meaty character for him to do. He's good at evil. It's a little creepy."
3. Angelus's reference to the "foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart" comes from the William Butler Yeats poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion", and that animalistic element is also present in his choice of music in his cage at the beginning, "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", a song which, later in the lyric, promises good things to the good, but also speaks of watching them (the bears) and "catch them unawares".
4. Angelus refers to Fred and Gunn as Othello and Desdemona, and the line "Bodies, bodies everywhere, and not a drop to drink," is a reference to a similar line in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Calvary

1. We are told that the Soul Eater was buried by the Chumash, a real life Native American tribe who also featured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Pangs (1999).
2. The title "Calvary" references the site outside of Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was allegedly crucified. Another name for the place Calvary is Golgotha, which means the place of a skull. Among other possible reasons for the writers to choose this title, Charles Gunn and Connor have to go to a site where a Soul Eater has been buried, chop off its head, and prepare its skull for a re-ensouling ritual - hence making that scene a Golgotha, a place of a skull.
3. The Beast gives a possessed Cordelia a dagger made of his own bones which proves important in Angel: Calvary (2003) where Angelus uses it to kill him.
4. When Fred and Wesley are researching methods to restore Angel's soul, she references The orb of Thesulah. The orb of Thesulah was first introduced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Passion (1998). It is seen again in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 2 (1998) when Willow successfully restores Angel's soul. It is seen later in this season.
5. Angelus reveals that Angel had suspected that Fred and Gunn killed Professor Oliver Seidel in Angel: Supersymmetry (2002), despite apparently accepting their story that Seidel fell into his own portal. He had been uncertain whether it was Fred or Gunn who actually killed him until now.
6. Lilah's connections and ability to procure extra-dimensional materials-even when destitute and living in a sewer-explains why Jasmine had the Beast wipe out all Wolfram & Hart employees, not just Mesektet or the Los Angeles branch. Their resourcefulness was too much to risk, and indeed just the knowledge that something had wiped out all traces of the Beast in the entire dimension did alert them that they were dealing with something far more powerful than they had heretofore imagined.
7. Angelus echoes Faith's words when she is posing as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You? (2000) when he says "being evil is wrong."
8. Fred's reaction to Angelus' revelation of Wesley and Lilah's relationship is similar to the way she reacts to hearing (also from Angelus) about Cordy and Connor in Angel: Soulless (2003) .
9. This episode signals the end of Gunn and Fred's relationship.
10. An extra scene where Angelus kills Lilah was filmed, in order to avoid word leaking out that Cordelia was the season's main villain.
11. This is the episode in which we learn that Cordelia is the real power behind The Beast.
12. Angelus chasing Lilah is reminiscent of Jenny Calendar's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Passion (1998). However, instead of Angelus surprising Lilah and killing her, it was "Cordelia".

Salvage

1. The knife used by the assassin trying to kill Faith in prison is identical to the one used by the First Evil's Bringers in Buffy, suggesting that it is behind the attempt to kill her
2. Faith asks Wes if he is okay. He responds by saying, "Five by five." This is Faith's catchphrase that means she is okay.
3. Deb, the prisoner that tries to kill Faith, is also the assassin that tries to kill Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What's My Line?: Part 2 (1997) by posing as a police officer at the career fair. Though this isn't explicitly stated, it's evidenced by the fact that Spice Williams-Crosby plays them both.
4. Angelus' line 'The question is, what do you do hotshot? What do you do?' is an homage to the film Speed (1994). Joss Whedon wrote a draft of the screenplay for that film.
5. The notoriety of the Slayer within the demon world is further established. When the vampires learn that the Slayer was in Los Angeles, they spread the alarm throughout the city within hours.The Beast is outraged when Angelus brought Faith to his lair, indicating he was well aware of a Slayer's potential for meddling. The fact that their fight disappointed him also proved that he hadn't dared to underestimate her, either.Jasmine also recognizes the threat a Slayer posed. Faith's arrival was the first time she showed fear and doubt in her ability to control the situation. Connor's incidental infatuation with the Slayer also put her on edge, as his blind love and devotion were crucial to her own plans.Connor tells Faith he was told about Slayers, indicating that Holtz had educated him on their existence while living in Quor'Toth.
6. Faith's ease in escaping (with Wesley as extra baggage, no less) proved that she was serving her sentence because she wanted to, showing that she really had reformed.
7. Faith hunting Angelus and him speaking to her from an unknown location is similar to when Buffy confronted the Master in his lair.
8. Angelus puts in a call to Dawn to see if Buffy has come to Los Angeles. This is the only time (shown on-screen) that Angel has ever interacted with Dawn in either series, although he does so in the form of Angelus and Dawn does not actually appear on screen.
9. Connor asks Faith why Slayers are always girls, to which she answers that she just guesses girls are better at it. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Potential (2003), Andrew asks the same question, and Dawn gives the same answer. We discover the real reason in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Get It Done (2003).
10. This episode also reconciles Wesley and Faith for the first time to finally work together as Watcher and Slayer. In Season Three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) Wesley had been sent to Sunnydale to officially replace Rupert Giles as both Buffy and Faith's watcher, which never worked out as Faith never worked with him or Giles since she had her own agenda set up as a rogue Slayer, which later turned her into a rogue criminal for hire. Their other brief encounter since Sunnydale had seen Wesley abducted and brutally tortured by Faith when she was hired to kill Angel by Wolfram & Hart, and her departure in the next episode by voluntarily turning herself to the authorities in search of redemption.
11. Jasmine framing Angelus for Lilah's murder was reminiscent of Justine framing Angel for Holtz's.
12. David Fury was pleased to write for Faith's character again: "I love her voice. And for whatever reason, her voice just comes to me," he says. "She has an attitude that is fun to write, saying things that are provocative or dirty or slightly off-color... That's the stuff that's most comfortable for me to do." However, he found writing the scene between Lilah and Wesley challenging because he'd never written for Lilah before, although it "turned out better than I imagined," Fury says.
13. Faith breaks out of jail, but does not return to finish her sentence.
14. In this episode, Faith meets Fred, Gunn, Connor and Lorne for the first time.
15. The writers wrote Charisma Carpenter's real-life pregnancy into this episode.
16. Joel David Moore, who plays one of Angelus's lackie/groupie vampires, would later go on to star with David Boreanaz again in Bones (2005).

Release

1. After just over 40 guest appearances Andy Hallett (Lorne) joins the regular cast in this episode and is featured in the opening credits. After 44 appearances as a guest star,Andy Hallett was finally added to the opening credits. For the first time in the series, there are now more main characters that are exclusive to Angel than there are characters that originated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) (which will last until Angel: Underneath (2004) with Harmony's promotion to the main cast).
2. When Cordelia is invading Angelus' mind, she says, "...but the Whirlwind doesn't always revolve around you...". The 'Whirlwind' was was a "family" of four vampires (Angelus, Darla, Drusilla, and Spike) that caused destruction, suffering, and death. The group originally consisted of Angelus and his sire Darla, two vampire lovers who had caused mayhem throughout Europe beginning in the mid 1700s. In 1860, Drusilla joined them after being sired by Angelus. In 1880, Spike joined the three after being sired by Drusilla and the foursome was complete. In 1900, the group disbanded after Angelus gained his soul.
3. Faith becomes the latest member of the Scooby Gang to be bitten by a vampire, leaving only Xander and Tara to never have experienced it.
4. The description of Angelus talking to himself is similar to the method of the First, yet no one suggested the First could be behind the apocalyptic events. This suggests Buffy and the Scoobies had not attempted to contact Angel about their battle with the First. One would think after learning that Los Angeles was blacked out that some effort would be made to contact Angel on the assumption it was an act on behalf of the First. It was not as if Buffy had not considered bringing Angel into her war against the First, since she asked him to open a second front later. There also doesn't seem to be much sharing of notes later when Willow arrived.
5. This is one of the longest cold openings, at 5:27. This record is later beaten by Angel: The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco (2003) with a length of 6 minutes and 18 seconds. The longest is Angel: Harm's Way (2004), with a length of 6 minutes and 49 seconds.
6. When Fred nearly shoots Connor with the tranquilizer gun, he remarks, "Thought you were more of a taser girl." This is a reference to Angel: Deep Down (2002), wherein she used a taser to render him unconscious (and later to torture him), after she and Gunn found out that he had imprisoned Angel at the bottom of the sea.
7. Faith and Wesley's view on ethics have inverted since the last time they met. While Wesley attempted her to convince her to do the very things she was trying to atone for, she tried desperately to cling to her newly-adopted ethical beliefs-the same beliefs that Wesley himself possessed as a Watcher.
8. Angelus calls Fred "a Brainiac like you" - referring to the character Brainiac in the Superman series. This creates a couple of connections. James Marsters, who played Spike on the Buffy and Angel series, also played Professor Milton Fine/Brainiac on Smallville (2001).
9. When Wesley and Faith are looking for Angelus, they discover that people are getting high from vampire bites, similar to Riley Finn's experience.
10. When provoking Faith, Wesley makes reference to her torturing him in Angel: Five by Five (2000), and the Watchers Council's attempt to kill/capture her in Angel: Sanctuary (2000).
11. While Angelus has Wesley hostage to protect himself from Faith he tells her it's all about choices and consequences. This is a reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Choices (1999) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Consequences (1999) where Faith first killed a human and set her on a darker path.

Orpheus

1. Alyson Hannigan had to shoot all her scenes in two days because she wasn't only working on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the same, but also on American Wedding (2003)
2. Willow's guest appearance here makes her the 2nd most prolific character in the Buffyverse, giving her 147 appearances (144 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and 3 on Angel (1999)). Angel is the most (110 appearances on his own show and 57 on Buffy) and Buffy the third (144 on her own show and 2 guest slots on Angel).
3. Angel: Parting Gifts (1999) saw Angel Investigations in its smallest form with only Angel and Cordelia left and Wes not yet formally part of the team. 'Orpheus' sees it at its maximum strength with Angel, Cordelia, Wes, Fred, Gunn, Lorne and Connor with Faith and Willow as temporary members.
4. In the scene where the robber shoots the clerk, Angelus says to Faith, "Choices, little girl." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Choices (1999) is the name of the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) in which Faith must choose whether to be good or evil.
5. In Angelus' dream, he puts Barry Manilow's "Mandy" on the jukebox. This is the same song Angel sings the first time Lorne reads him in Caritas.
6. The flashback scenes take place in New York City in 1902, Chicago in the early 1920s and New York City in 1975 and 1995.
7. Nate Dushku: brother of Eliza Dushku (Faith Lehane) appears as an armed robber.
8. Adrienne Wilkinson: voice-actress/model, best known for roles in Star Wars Video Games, appears as a flapper.
9. When Wesley says to Willow, "You seem exactly the same as when I left. No other major changes I'm not up on", She responds with "Just little things". Since Wesley had left, Willow had come out as gay after her breakup with Oz in season four of Buffy. The reason Willow went evil in season 6 of Buffy, was because her girlfriend had been killed and Willow couldn't bring her back like she did Buffy, causing her to viciously hunt down the men responsible. Willow turned good again because Xander managed to save her, willing to die to stop her from unleashing the end of the world.

Players

1. The name of the character Takeshi Morimoto was derived from Takeshi Kaga and Masaharu Morimoto from 'Iron Chef (TV Series 1993-1999)'.
2. Cordelia says, "Everything's been Clash of the Titans around here." Coincidentally, Alexa Davalos, who guest stars in this episode as Gwen Raiden, would later go on to play Andromeda in the Clash of the Titans (2010) remake in 2010.
3. This is the last appearance of Alexa Davalos on Angel. Her character, Gwen Raiden, will go on to play a major role in the Angel comic series.

Inside Out

1. When Angel asks Skip about Cordelia's return to Earth after her time as a Higher Being, Skip says, Nobody comes back from Paradise. Okay, a Slayer once..." He is, of course, referring to Buffy Summers.
2. Gina Torres is introduced. She is one of four of Serenity's crew members (Joss Whedon's Firefly) to appear in the Buffyverse. Summer Glau as a ballerina in Angel season 3 "Waiting in the Wings"; Adam Baldwin as Marcus Hamilton in Angel season 5; and Nathan Fillion as Caleb in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7.

Shiny Happy People

1. As a sign of how shiny and happy he is, Angel appears not in his usual dark shirt, but, very unusually, in a buttoned shirt with white and yellow stripes.
2. The title is a reference to the 1991 song "Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M..
3. Sam witwer makes an appearance in this episode. He would later star in the American version of the series Being Human as a vampire.

The Magic Bullet

1. The acoustic guitarist playing back-up when Connor and Angel sing "Jasmine" (to the tune of Barry Manilow's "Mandy," which previous episodes had already established as one of Angel's favorite songs) was Zakk Wylde. Wylde (né Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt) was Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist for many years and has also played with his own heavy metal band, Black Label Society, and performed briefly with Guns n' Roses. In 2006, Wylde received a place on the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame,
2. Jeffrey Bell that directed & co-wrote the episode said in the episode commentary that although it was not ultimately visible in the scene, the book that the book store owner set on fire was "10 steps to free will". This is symbolic that the presence of Jasmine in the world has eradicated everyone's free will & they are all under her spell.
3. Lorne tells Jasmine that her TV interview about her life story is the greatest story ever told. "The Greatest Story Ever Told" is a film about the life of Jesus Christ so he is basically calling her a messiah.
4. The episode title "The Magic Bullet" has three references. First, in medical parlance, the term "magic bullet" refers to a treatment (as in a medicine or other therapy) that cures a disease in a targeted way, with no or few deleterious side effects. The most famous user of the term in medical history was the German physician and scientist Paul Ehrlich, who applied it to his development of the first effective treatment for syphilis; the 1940 biopic of Dr. Ehrlich was titled Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet. So the primary reference in the episode's title is to the "treatment" that Fred devises to "cure" Angel of his thrall to Jasmine. The second reference is to the literal bullet that Fred uses to effect that cure. Third, the episode also manages to make reference to the term's most familiar non-medical connotation as well: when Jasmine informs the bookstore owner that John F. Kennedy really was killed by only one assassin, it recalls the fact that Kennedy Conspiracy theorists mockingly dubbed the idea that only one bullet caused all of JFK's wounds the "Magic Bullet Theory."

Sacrifice

1. Jeff Ricketts, who plays the spider demon, also played English watcher Weatherby who appeared in Angel: Sanctuary (2000) He also appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: This Year's Girl (2000) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You? (2000)
2. When Angel and the gang are in the car in the alley, and Jasmine (and her acolytes) appears they back up, and perform a 'j-turn' - also commonly referred to as a 'Rockford turn', named for Jim Rockford (James Garner)Whilst this manoeuvre had been done before, the series The Rockford Files (1974) popularised its use.

Peace Out

1. The local reporter, Tracey, states that she is from station KTLA and cuts to "Hal" in the studio. KTLA is the Los Angeles affiliate of The WB, the American television network which ran "Angel," and Hal Fishman has been their evening news anchor for decades.
2. According to Tim Minear, they were originally going to have Cordelia wake up and kill Jasmine. However, Charisma Carpenter had just given birth in real life, so her doctors had not yet released her to do any physically. The ending was then changed to Connor killing Jasmine.
3. Last appearance of Jasmine.

Home

1. Jonathan M. Woodward (Knox) also played the vampire Holden Webster in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People (2002).
2. This episode marks the last appearance of Stephanie Romanov (Lilah) in Angel.
3. Crossover episode with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's penultimate episode, "End of Days."
4. Last time Vincent is a main cast member. He returns as connor as a guest a couple times in the last season.
5. The speech that Connor gives with his new family is the same that he does at the season premiere, on Angel's fantasy.
6. This is the last time we see Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase as a regular cast member. She returns for only one episode in season 5.
7. Knox remarks to Fred that he has played "D & D, Dungeons and... We actually have a dungeon. I can show it to you later." That dungeon will be where Spike finds himself, early in Season 5. The second D means "dragons" and a dragon does appears in show's last episode.