Bickering

The following scene was cut from The Ring:

Wesley: “All I’m saying is you might have thought of the horsehair sooner, not that being flung across a room isn’t jolly good exercise”.
Cordy: “Speaking of horsehair, where did you find that jacket?”
Guard: “Mr & Mrs Winslow, good to see you again.”
Wesley: “Don’t touch me.”
Guard: “Remind me never to get married.”

Gordon’s Trepkos

Both the Angel episode The Ring and The X-Files episode “Firewalker” featured a character named Daniel Trepkos - both were written by Howard Gordon.

Mark Ginther

Mark Ginther, who played the horned demon in Life Serial, has previously appeared on Angel as “Lasovic” in ‘The Ring‘ and “Head Demon Guy” in the episode ‘The Prodigal‘. He has done stunts for Daredevil, Big Fat Liar, Jurassic Park III, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Wild Wild West, Arlington Road, Addams Family Reunion, BASEketball, George of the Jungle, Batman & Robin and Joe Versus the Volcano. Mark has appeared in The Master of Disguise, Babylon 5, Con Air, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.

Stephanie Romanov

Stephanie Romanov was born on January 24, 1969. She was discovered at age 15 by Elite Modeling agent John Casablancas. Her first professional modeling job was in Europe, shooting for Italian and French Bazaar. She then moved to New York to pursue a professional model career, leaving her family in Las Vegas. She appeared in the magazines ELLE, Vanity Fair and French Vogue. Stephanie is also a trained dancer and speaks many foreign dialects, owing to her Russian heritage.

In 1993, Stephanie decided to try her hand at acting. She landed her first role as Teri Spencer on Aaron Spelling’s Models, Inc. and went on to get guest starring roles in Homicide: Life on the Street, The Sentinel, Just Shoot Me and Burke’s Law. She also appeared in several films, including Spy Hard, Menno’s Mind, Thirteen Days, The Final Cut and Cruel Intentions 3, in which she plays the headmistress.

Stephanie married film producer Nick Wechsler on December 26, 2001 in Cambodia. She gave birth to a baby girl, Lily Andreja Romanov on June 1, 2005.

Lilah Morgan

Unethical and conscious-free Lilah Morgan was a top attorney at Wolfram & Hart when she first met Angel. Intrigued by the idea of a vampire with a soul, she bought him from a demon-fighting ring who had captured him. Angel quickly turned Lilah’s offer of collaboration down, starting a tense relationship based on distrust and dislike. Lilah and Lindsey had a rivalry at W&H, but she always seemed the more calculating of the two, ever ready to sell out anyone available to the W&H management when things got tough.

The two were appointed joint heads of Special Projects after Darla and Drusilla killed many of their colleagues and their rivalry reached an all-time high as the two started a power struggle for vice-presidency of the Special Projects Team - as well as staying alive. Eventually, Lindsey left and Lilah was promoted to vice-president of the Special Projects Team.

Lilah was always happy to make Angel’s life difficult, but always slightly intimidated by the vampire. She and her new boss plotted to try and kidnap Angel’s infant son, Connor. When this failed, she turned her attentions to Angel’s estranged colleague, Wesley. She tried to convince him to join Wolfram & Hart but he continued to refuse those advances. Their relationship began as a series of one night stands, but continued throughout the reign of The Beast, her murder of Linwood Murrow, and the destruction of the Los Angeles branch of W&H. Lilah was the only employee left alive when Wesley helped her to escape.

Lilah was killed shortly after the release of Angelus. Wesley believed that Angelus was responsible and was forced to behead Lilah, as he believed she would rise again as a vampire, not realising that Cordelia had killed her. An employment contract with Wolfram & Hart does not terminate with death, and Lilah returned and offered Angel Investigations a tempting offer: full control of the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart with all the resources (and all the troubles).

Angel took the offer in an attempt to save his son Connor from a life of misery, and Lilah apparently returned to the Hell division of Wolfram and Hart, despite Wesley’s attempts to free her from her contract.

Darla’s return

The first appearance of Darla (Julie Benz) on Angel was in The Prodigal. She was dusted by Angel in the Buffy episode Angel three seasons earlier, and seen briefly in a flashback to Angel’s siring in Becoming (Part 1).

Demons, demons, demons

The website Dawn uses in Same Time, Same Place, called ‘Demons, Demons, Demons’, was first used by Cordelia on Angel in the episode ‘The Ring‘.

Howler demons

Howler demons are slimy, bald, with white skin, and claw-like hands. They give off a sulphuric odour, and emit a high-pitched wail or howl, in preparation to fight or mate. Angel fought a pair of Howler demons when investigating a supposedly missing person in The Ring.

Jerry Springer Show

Cordelia says in The Ring, “You’d think people’d get enough gratuitous violence watching Jerry Springer“. The Jerry Springer Show was famous for it’s fights between guests.

Seen at 35.00 minutes:

When Angel is fighting Trepkos his wounds, including the prominent stab wound in his chest change places, and even vanish throughout the fight.

Seen at 39.42 minutes:

When Angel is leaving the building where the fights took place in The Ring, there is no blood visible under his jacket from where Trepkos stabbed him with the wooden pole.