Unprepared for the flood of business brought in by advertising, the Angel Investigations crew splits up to cover more ground — and ends up being spread too thin for its own good. Fred is offered big bucks to solve a demonic puzzle; Angel takes a job from a high-paying businessman; and Gunn and Wesley protect a woman whose zombie ex-boyfriend is stalking her.
| Airdate: | 21 January 2002 |
| Writer: | Scott Murphy |
| Director: | Bill Norton |
Wesley: (watching Fred with Connor) Adorable.
Gunn: So sweet.
Wesley: I meant the baby.
Gunn: I meant the hot mama.
Behind the Scenes Trivia
Cast and Crew Trivia
Alan Henry Brown
Alan Henry Brown, who played the funeral director in Forever, also played the demon bartender who talked to Warren in Villains, and ‘Lead Nahdrah’ in the Angel episode ‘Provider‘. He has also appeared in The X Files.
Character Trivia
Allie
Allie hired Wesley and Gunn to get rid of her ex-boyfriend Brian who was stalking her in Provider. They eventually found out that she had actually poisoned and killed Brian, and despite his being a zombie, the couple reconciled their differences and agreed to give the relationship another try.
Continuity
Music Trivia
Mythology Trivia
References
I’ll never know the love of a woman
In the episode Provider, Lorne makes a joke about being able to download Wesley’s web articles about DNA fusion comparisons from “illneverknowtheloveofawoman.com“. This is an actual site. You will not find any of Wesley’s articles there, but you will find “resources and information on Love and Dating services”.
Julies Verne
Lorne says of the Nahdrah’s ship in Provider, “Jules Verne meets Leona Helmsley.” Author Jules Verne (1828-1905) is best known for his novels relating to travel, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Leona Helmsley
In Provider, Lorne says of the Nahdrah’s ship, “Jules Verne meets Leona Helmsley.” Billionaire Leona Helmsley married a real estate tycoon who, under her influence, began a program of conversion of apartment buildings to condominiums. In the 1980s she became infamous for two things – being a tyrannical “boss from hell” (her employees gave her the title “The Queen of Mean”), and for being prosecuted, and eventually convicted and sentenced to prison, for income tax evasion.
In Power Play, Lorne references Helmsley again when he says, “It’s like Angel suddenly started channeling Leona Helmsley.”
Goofs
Quotes
Wesley: (watching Fred with Connor) Adorable.
Gunn: So sweet.
Wesley: I meant the baby.
Gunn: I meant the hot mama.
Lorne: If this is about the baby formula I snagged from the fridge last night, sorry. I was feeling a little peckish, and it was that or a glass of pig's blood. And by the way, baby formula and kahlua, not as bad as it sounds.
Angel: Finding him is our number one priority.
Gunn: I thought you said...
Angel: Finding Holtz and making money are our two number one priorities.
Cordelia: (clears throat)
Angel: Helping the helpless, finding Holtz, and making money are our three number one priorities.
Wesley: (about his web articles on DNA Fusion Comparisons and Tri-ped Demon Populations) It's an exciting arena.
Lorne: But one I'm sure we can all download at: I'll-never-know-the-love-of-a-woman-dot-com.
Fred: Did you notice the designs on their tunics? Geometric shapes, each a prime number if you count the edges. Arranged in ascending order of exponential accumulation.
Wesley: Yes, I did... not notice that at all.
Lorne: They either have to consult with the Prince or go eat a cheese monkey. Did I mention rusty with the lingo?
Angel: (to Connor) Hey, how's my little Magna Cum Laude, Notre Dame class of 2020?
Lorne: I was feeling seasick when we were still on dry land. Do I look greener than usual?
Fred: (about the puzzle) Are we talking a closed curve of finite length in a simply connected domain of zero? That would be too easy, wouldn't it?
Lorne: Oh! Hors d'oevres. Oh, really, I couldn't. I had eyeballs and insects for breakfast.
Fred: I think I'm onto something here.
Lorne: Yeah, me too. Unfortunately it requires a vomitorium.