Vanessa’s sight

In the script for Blind Date, the scenes in which Vanessa ’sees’, are described as:

“Like Kurlian photography. Videolike, brilliant fluorescent-coloured outlines with people more bright and vivid than objects. Angel’s movement sends a tail of light, like a comet.”

Wolfram and Hart HQ

The Los Angeles headquarters of Wolfram & Hart were filmed at the Sony Pictures Plaza, located cross the street from the main gate of Sony Studios, at 10202 W. Washington Blvd., L.A. The building is on the east side of Madison Ave., between Washington Blvd and Culver Blvd in Culver City.

Derek Anthony

Derek Anthony, who played the ‘Imposing Demon’ in the episode Potential, has also been in two episodes of Angel: as a hotel security guard in ‘Dear Boy‘ and “Dying Black Man” in ‘Blind Date‘. He’s also been in Frasier, The Drew Carey Show and The Practice.

Jennifer Badger

Jennifer Badger was the stunt double of both Cordelia and Drusilla. She was in the stunt team of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, which starred Seth Green (Oz). She also did stunts on Scream 2 (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar) and played the blind Vanessa Weeks in the Angel episode ‘Blind Date‘.

Scott Berman

Scott Berman, who played one of Dracula’s movers in Buffy vs Dracula, played ‘Vendor’ in the Angel episode ‘Blind Date‘.

Lindsey McDonald

Lindsey McDonald was an ambitious Wolfram & Hart attorney who had his first brush with Angel when he killed his vampire-client by pushing him out of a high-rise window. Despite the unethical practices Lindsey was involved in, he was appalled when Wolfram & Hart were planning to kill a small group of innocent children. After forming an unlikely allegiance with Angel to save the children, Lindsey was wooed back to W&H with a promotion.

Having helped to resurrect Darla, Lindsay found himself falling in love with her, only to lose his hand in a battle with Angel. Lindsey became disillusioned with his job and left L.A.

Two years later, Lindsey returned as Eve’s partner against the Senior Partners. Strange runic-like tattoos on Lindsey’s body hid him from any surveillance. He offered to help Spike, claiming to be someone called Doyle, who received visions of people in need. When Angel discovered Lindsey was back, the ex-lawyer activated a failsafe system at Wolfram & Hart with the intention to kill the vampire. After a huge fight, in which Lindsay showed off his new strength and skill, a portal opened, which took him away for what appeared to be a punishment from the Senior Partners.

Lindsay was in fact in a suburban hell-dimension, in which he was repeatedly tortured in his basement, when not living seemingly peacefully with his fake wife and child. He was shocked when Angel, Spike and Gunn arrived to save him, in exchange for information on the Senior Partners. Lindsay agreed to help Angel in his final fight against the Partners, and was surprised to find he enjoyed being part of the team. Lindsay was shot and killed by Lorne, on a final mission from Angel, and was told that he wasn’t part of the solution. Lindsey died, disgusted that it was Lorne, and not Angel, who finally defeated him.

Encrypted discs

In the Angel season one episode ‘Blind Date‘, Cordelia calls Willow to get some help decrypting discs that Angel stole from Wolfram & Hart:

This is a reference to the files that Spike stole from the Initiative in The Yoko Factor which Willow was trying to decrypt.

Small crossover

At some point between the episodes The Yoko Factor and Primeval, Cordelia rang Willow up for help cracking into a computer of her own to find files coded by Wolfram and Hart in Angel’s ‘Blind Date‘. In that episode Willow says “hey” to Wesley - a little in joke as the two are together as a couple in real life.

W&H security

We discover from Lindsay more about the elaborate security in the Wolfrasm & Hart offices in Blind Date - they have a Pregotthian demon guarding their vault; red-robed shamans who can tell when a vampire is in the building; and mind readers instead of drug testing.

Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880-1968) was mentioned by Cordelia in Out of Mind, Out of Sight (when her boyfriend gets her eye colour wrong). Helen was born deaf and blind but learned to communicate and later became a writer and scholar. Cordy also mentioned her in the Angel episode Blind Date when she says “What, Hellen Kellerus Homicidalus?”

Superman

Comicbook hero Superman has been epitomised in many comics (by DC Comics), movies (starring the late Christopher Reeve), TV shows (eg. Lois and Clarke, Smallville), cartoons (eg. The Adventures of Superman) and even a musical. He and the world he lives in have been referenced many times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel:

• In Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, Buffy says, “even Clark Kent has a job”, alluding to Superman’s alter-ego.
• In Reptile Boy, Xander’s chances of ever belonging to a fraternity of rich and powerful men are rubbished by Cordy as likely only “in the Bizarro world.” The Bizarro world is a weird, back-to-front version of the real world in Superman.
• In the episode Ted, Cordelia says of Buffy, “But she’s like this Superman.”
• In The Wish, Cordelia says to vamps Willow and Xander, “No. No! No way! I wish us into Bizarro Land, and you guys are still together?! I cannot win!”
• In Helpless, Oz and Xander discuss which colour Kryptonite hurts Superman. Writer David Fury said in his DVD commentary for the episode that he wasn’t sure which Kryptonite was which so wrote this scene as such.
• In The Zeppo, there area few references to Superman: Xander’s line, “But, gee, Mr White, if Clark and Lois get all the good stories I’ll never be a good reporter”, which he acknowledges as a “Jimmy Olsen joke”. He also name-checks the Daily Planet’s editor Perry White, Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent, and his colleague Lois Lane. Cordelia’s jibe “You must feel like Jimmy Olsen” is another reference to the Daily Planet’s youngest photographer.
• In Doomed, Forrest says to Riley, “Granted they’re a little rarer than the one’s you grew up with on that little farm in Smallville.” Smallville, Kansas, was the small town where Clark Kent (Superman) grew up.
• In Superstar, Xander mentions Kryptonite again.
• In Real Me, Xander says, “She can turn this place into the fortress of solitude again”. Superman built the Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole as a place where he could relax and keep his souvenirs.
• In Gone, Andrew mentions Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor. Buffy also mentions Bizarro World again.
• In Two To Go, Andrew says, “Lex Luthor had a false epidermis escape kit in Superman Versus the Amazing Spider-Man Treasury edition”.
• In Bring on the Night, Andrew says, “An evil name should be something like Lex” He’s referring to Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor.
• In the Angel episode Blind Date, Wesley says, “The human eye is only capable of registering a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. But if Brewer were somehow equipped to see outside that range…” to which Cordelia replies, “She’d be Superman.”
• In You’re Welcome, Cordelia ends her seeming obsession with the Bizarro world when she says, “What Bizarro-world did I wake up in?”

Seen at 03.16 minutes:

When Cordelia is looking for information on Vanessa online at the beginning of Blind Date, she has a pink note stuck on her computer. This appears and disappears in different shots.