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On a routine patrol, Angel stakes a female vampire he recognizes from his past, but a moment too late. Her grief-stricken lover, Angels old fighting buddy, is out for revenge for the present killing and a betrayal Angelus committed over 200 years ago.
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Director:
David Greenwalt
Writer:
David Greenwalt
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Broadcast: 2001-09-24
Production No.: 3ADH01
Episode Overall No.: 45
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Tony Bennett [I Left My Heart in San Francisco] - I Left My Heart in San Francisco |  |
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Morphic Field - Blackjack | |
Other Music:
"The Winner" by Crystal Method (In the vampires' car) |
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Episode Notes -  |
Darla appears to be pregnant at the end of this episode. Keep in mind that vampires are supposed to be sterile.
This episode scored a rating of 4.2/6 in the overnight Nielsen ratings, ranking 2nd out of 12 WB shows for that week.
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 dvd commentary, the reasons why they went widescreen was the 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.
Quotes:
(Angel comes out of a room that is strewn with demon bodies. A monk looks at Angel inquisitively)
Angel:(in Tibetan)Demon monks. I should've 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.
Trivia:
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. First, 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.
Doesn't anybody else notice that 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.
If Angel owned the ENTIRE hotel, why would he need to ask permission to enter one of its rooms? (Angel had to ask Fred's permission to enter her room.)
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.
Cordy was wearing a necklace when she had her vision, but it is absent in the next scene when she returns to her apartment and undresses.
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). |
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