With Darla’s contractions getting closer together, the Angel Investigations gang is surprised when she flies into a frenzy and runs away from them. Now Angel must track her down in time to safely deliver their baby. However, their old nemesis — the vampire hunter, Holtz — is now in present day L.A., and after hundreds of years he is finally closing in on his quarry.
| Airdate: | 19 November 2001 |
| Writer: | Tim Minear |
| Director: | Tim Minear |
Darla: This child, Angel, is the one good thing we ever did together. The only good thing. You make sure to tell him that. [Darla stakes herself, leaving the crying newborn alive on the alley ground]
Behind the Scenes Trivia
Julie on playing pregnant Darla
Julie Benz (Darla) said the following of playing a heavilt pregnant vampire:
“I had to wear a leotard that was stuffed with a pillow and it was pretty uncomfortable, but I think the biggest challenge during all those pregnant scenes was being on camera without any make-up on. That’s pretty much a challenge when you’re an actress, just to go on camera completely raw.
Yeah, I really felt at that point she was pretty strung out. Her whole world was rocked. She never thought she could get pregnant and then all of a sudden she’s carrying this child and she’s experiencing this soul for the first time in four hundred years. [There’s] the realisation that as soon as the baby’s born the soul’s going to go away, and it’s the first time she really experienced true love, so she was going through a lot emotionally.
I just didn’t think that she would have time to really think about how she looked. I don’t think it was a priority, and so for me as an actor it was important that I reveal that. Not get caught up in my own vanity as an actress, and portray the character as where she really was.”
Cast and Crew Trivia
Character Trivia
Daniel Holtz
Holtz was a notorious vampire hunter in the mid-1700s. Darla and Angelus killed his entire family and turned his daughter into a vampire in 1764, so he sought revenge for their actions. A time-shifting demon named Sahjhan offered to help him to travel in time to find Angel and Darla. In present day L.A., Holtz organised a band of others like him - those who had lost a loved one to vampires. The group included Justine, whose life had been dulled by the loss of her twin sister.
Holtz saw his chance for revenge when Angel and Darla’s son Connor was born. He stole Conner away from Angel to a hell dimension where he raised him as Stephen. Conner returned, now a teenager, and Holtz followed him. Now an old man, Holtz asked Justine to kill him and make it look like a vampire bite for the ultimate revenge - to turn Angel’s son against his real father.
Continuity
Music Trivia
Mythology Trivia
References
Harvey Keitel
In Lullaby, Lilah says, “Harvey? It’s Lilah. I got a job for you… Angel Investigations. Yeah, full cleaner service.” This could be a reference to two ‘cleaner’ characters played by Harvey Keitel in the movies Pulp Fiction and Point of No Return.
Goofs
Quotes
Cordelia: Please! Women have been giving birth without ancient prophecies for years.
Gunn: If you ask me, what we could really use right about now, is some vaseline and a catcher's mitt.
Linwood: I'll expect a full report at Thursday's staff meeting. And be advised, when I hear about all this for the very first time, I will be both shocked and appalled. Good night.
Gavin: He's going to crucify us.
Lilah: They don't crucify here. It's too Christian.
Fred: It's not that we don't trust you. I mean, we don't trust you, but the fact of the matter is your water broke all over the back seat.
Fred: That's the tragic beauty of a cosmic convergence. I mean, he just plays his own small part. He comes here looking for Angel and Darla, and in the process ends up finding Angel's unborn child, who, it turns out, wasn't evil at all like we feared, but was actually meant to be some Messianic figure. But Holtz kills it before it's even born, and his vengeance somehow triggers the end of the world. (pauses to see everyone staring) Or not. It could go either way. Have you thought of a name yet?
Darla: My boy. My darling boy. I told you I had nothing to offer this kid. Some mother, I can't even offer it life.
Fred: This isn't going to end well, is it?
Lorne: Okay, everybody's drinking. I m buying.
Darla: This child, Angel, is the one good thing we ever did together. The only good thing. You make sure to tell him that. [Darla stakes herself, leaving the crying newborn alive on the alley ground]