Angel learns of the impending visit of one of Wolfram & Hart’s demonic “Senior Partners,” and he plans to use the visit to launch a kamikaze mission to the beast’s home dimension to take on evil at its very source.
Airdate: | February 20, 2001 |
Writer: | Tim Minear |
Director: | Marti Noxon |
Angel: Yeah, you took all the books.
Cordelia: Yeah, well you got the waffle iron.
Behind the Scenes Trivia
Angel the attorney
The following line was deleted from Reprise:
Holland: “For a man who’s turned his back on his mission, you’re awfully scrappy. I do so admire that. No messy moral philosophy no guiding principles to muddle things. Just that pure, unpolluted human drive to win. You would have made an excellent attorney”.
British driver
The description of the first visit to the Sharp’s house was cut from Reprise:
Cordelia: “Um, will you give me the address again? The British guy drove last time and there were a lot of ‘Right side, Right side’ going on, so I don’t…”
Cast and Crew Trivia
David Fury
David Fury started out as an actor on stage and film, and then became a stand up comedian. He started writing for television with his then girlfriend Elin Hampton. The two wrote a couple of specs (sample scripts for TV shows which are then sent to executives as proof of writing skill) and from they got jobs on The Jackie Thomas Show and Pinky and the Brain. David and Elin were then offered work on two shows: Buffy and Life’s Work. David actually turned down Buffy, even though he thought it was a better show, as Life’s Work had the potential to be bigger. It was cancelled and he ended up meeting Joss again and writing the episode Go Fish. His partner Elin took a job at Mad About You, and David got the job at Buffy. David rose from Producer to Co-Executive Producer in just three years, and was a Consulting Producer of Angel. Fury wrote a story called ‘Glittering World’ (a OMWF reference?) in the graphic novel, Tales of the Slayers. He was also the voice of Jock, in Raider’s of the Lost Ark. The clearest example of his work are the prop plane pilot’s words to Indiana Jones, “That’s just my pet snake, Reggie! Show a little backbone, will ya?”
David played Gregor Framkin in the Angel episode ‘Smile Time‘, and appeared in the Angel season two episode ‘Reprise‘ as one of the people sacrificing the goat.
Kevin Fry
Kevin Fry played a Skilosh demon in the Angel episodes Reprise and Epiphany. He has also been in Lime Salted Love, Wanted, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, JAG, 24, ER, Strong Medicine, The Division, The West Wing, Early Edition, Walker, Texas Ranger, Beverly Hills, 90210, Nash Bridges, Eraser and Babylon 5.
Character Trivia
Continuity
Music Trivia
Mythology Trivia
Skilosh demon
Skilosh demons are extremely violent, are skeletal, have ears with four ridges on them, and a third eye in the back of their head. They asexually reproduce by injecting their demon spawn into the skull of a human host. As a result, a third eye forms on the back of the host’s head. A new Skilosh will erupt, fully-grown from skull of its human host. If caught in time, a “deoculation” spell cures victims of the third eye and vanquishes the demon offspring within them.
References
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lorne says in Reprise, “Most anything that can manifest in order to move in this dimension can be killed. Kinda the downside to being here. Well, that and the so-called musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber.”
Song of the South
Cordelia says in Reprise, “Jeez, Wes, zip-a-dee-doo-dah, all right?” She’s referring to the Brer Rabbit tales which were worked into the 1946 Walt Disney musical Song of the South. the musical had the famous phrase, “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” to express optimism.
Goofs
Seen at 41.17 minutes:
We see Darla run Angel through with a sword in Reprise, but in the scenes where he and Darla make love there is no evidence of this wound.
Quotes
Angel: You know. I... well... I really couldn't help but notice all the goats. Yeah, that's a lot of goats. Goats... Many.
Cordelia: Scam?! The back of your kid's head was blinking!
Kate: What I can't figure out though is why Forensics is telling me now how it looks like the suspect or suspects didn't break in, they had to break out. The victims were locked in that wine cellar with their attackers, and I think I am done helping you now!
Angel: I'm not here to sing.
The Host: Oh, is that what we're calling it now?
Angel: Yeah, you took all the books.
Cordelia: Yeah, well you got the waffle iron.
Cordelia: I don't even know what you are anymore.
Angel: I'm a vampire. Look it up.
Dalton: To kill the Klaynak and get the ring, you need the glove.
Angel: OK, now you're making this up.
Darla: Don't play games with me.
Angel: I'm not playing. I just want to feel something besides the cold.