Finding the source

Angel originally took longer to discover the power source in The Thin Dead Line:

Angel: “How are you controlling them? Is it the entrails? I don’t think so. Could you be controlling them with a sacred Manari candle? Nah. Red Herring. I know, maybe it’s the idol of Granath, the zombie God?”

Jarrod Crawford

Jarrod Crawford played Gunn’s friend Rondell in The Thin Dead Line, Belonging and That Old Gang of Mine. He has also been in Navy NCIS, ER, The Enforcers, Belong and Felicity.

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.

Death to the cast

Many of the main Angel cast have been killed or near death. Angel was killed and vamped in 1753; Doyle was killed in Hero; Gunn was electrocuted by Gwen and revived in Ground State; Wesley’s throat was slashed in Sleep Tight, he was shot in The Thin Dead Line and finally killed in Not Fade Away; Cordelia was comatose for most of season five before dying in You’re Welcome; and Fred was killed when Illyria took over her body in A Hole in the World.

Rodney King

In The Thin Dead Line, Rondell says, “All right, look, all I’m saying is, you gotta let me get set up so they don’t see me with this [camcorder]. Cops see me with this and there’s no way we’re gonna Rodney King them.” He’s referring to a shocking incident in 1991 in which an amateur cameraman video-taped four Los Angeles police officers arresting and beating an African-American named Rodney King. When they were exonerated, L. A. erupted in riots.

Steven Segal

In The Thin Dead Line, Cordelia says, “Maybe we could buy one of those star maps, find out where Steven Segal lives?” referring to the action movie star, who has starred in films including Today You Die, Belly of the Beast, The Foreigner, The Patriot, Under Siege, Hard to Kill and Above the Law.
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