Anne and Angel

Writer Mere Smith had the following to say about the Anne and Angel debate in Blood Money:

“That was actually a big debate. Does Anne recognise Angel? Does Angel recognise Anne? Because they had a brief exchange in Lie to Me, second season. And so we had this, does he recognise her, does he not recognise her. And we were like, okay, it was three years ago, they said two sentences to each other, he’s totally not gonna recognise her. So we went with that angle. I was sort of on the fence. I was like, you can’t neglect the mythology. And Joss was like, ‘Do you remember everybody you met three years ago, and shared three sentences with?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, fine, use logic.’ I was kind of excited to get to take a Buffy character.”

Julia Lee

Julia played the character Chantarelle in Lie to Me, who later appeared as Lily in Anne. Lily took Buffy’s middle name, Anne, and moved to L.A, where she appeared in the Angel episodes: Blood Money, The Thin Dead Line and Not Fade Away. Julia has also been in Charmed, Ophelia Learns to Swim and A Man Apart.

Chantarelle/Lily/Anne

Chantarelle was a member of Ford’s vampire wannabe group in Lie to Me. She later turned up again in L.A., this time calling herself Lily (Anne). There she met Buffy who politely informed her that Chantarelle was actually a mushroom. Later still, and using the name Anne (which she ‘borrowed’ from Buffy), she appeared in Angel, where she had become more confident and was running a shelter for the homeless.

Risk

Gunn and Wesley play the game of world domination - ‘Risk’ - at the start of the episode Blood Money.