Cyborg assassins attack the offices of Wolfram and Hart for a magical device that will give them control of Angel. Wesley is surprised by the arrival of his estranged father, who has come to evaluate Wesley for possible reacceptance to the Watcher’s Council.
Spike: Daddy, eh? I always thought Wesley was grown in some sort of greenhouse for dandies.
Behind the Scenes Trivia
Cast and Crew Trivia
Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice, who played Roger Wyndham-Pryce in Lineage, was born in Guernsey. When the Germans occupied the island in 1940, Roy, his mother and brother escaped to England. In 1942, aged 16, Roy joined the Royal Air Force and was trained as a wireless operator and air gunner. He was soon flying missions, bombing enemy territory until his plane was shot down. Captured and taken prisoner, Roy spent the rest of the war as a P.O.W., where he performed concerts to raise the spirits of his fellow inmates.
At the end of the war, Roy pursued an acting career. He met and married actress Kay Newman, and for the next three and half years, they acted in repertory with Charles Denville and the Denville Players. During this time, Roy also produced and directed some three hundred plays, with a new one being performed each week.
In 1957, Roy joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, England, (later to become the Royal Shakespeare Company), and for the next nine years performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays while working with the world’s greatest actors and directors including Paul Robeson, Sam Wanamaker, Laurence Olivier, Peter O’Toole, Charles Laughton and Albert Finney.
The training he received was to lead him into radio, film, television, and a multitude of theatre productions staged throughout the world. Roy has appeared in ten Broadway productions and received a Tony nomination for his work in A Life, and on June 4, 2000 received a Tony award for his outstanding performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Roy and Kay have been married for 53 years and have three daughters, all whom have become actresses.
Character Trivia
Roger Wyndam-Pryce
After the destruction of the Watcher’s Council, Wesley’s father, Roger Wyndam-Pryce, came to L.A. to evaluate his son for the role as Watcher in the new Council. Roger was always cold, formal and distant towards his son, and now had additional concerns about Wesley working for a vampire at Wolfram & Hart.
After making Wesley feel inferior about his skills Roger voices his concerns for the safety of such powerful scrolls and artefacts held at W&H. After a security alert Wesley and his father moved the more dangerous textbooks to a hidden vault, where Roger attacked his son and stole a powerful wooden staff. Roger’s plan was to steal Angel’s will power, rendering him a slave to another source and securing control of W&H to an undisclosed foe. After Roger threatened Fred’s life,Wesley killed his father - only to find out that Roger was a robot and not his real father at all.
Continuity
Angel the puppet
In Lineage, Wesley’s father says of Angel, “He’s a puppet. He always has been. To the Powers That Be, to Wolfram & Hart. Now he’s ours.” In Smile Time, Angel literally becomes a puppet.
Boffed a robot
In the Angel episode Lineage, Spike says, “So you’re not ruling out that a human being could’ve boffed a robot. Sex with robots is more common than most people think”. This is an obvious reference to Spike’s Buffybot from Intervention.
Head boy
In Spin the Bottle, a regressed Wesley prodly tells the others, “I am from the Watcher’s Academy in southern Hampshire. In fact, I happen to be head boy.” In Lineage, Wesley’s father says of his son, “Oh, the academy didn’t make him head boy for nothing. Mind you, as I recall, the pickings were a bit slim that year.” The name gives Spike a real kick.
Never take me to hell
When the lights suddenly go out in Lineage, Spike shouts, “You’ll never take me to Hell, Pavayne!” This is a reference to the episode Hell Bound, in which the ghost of Pavayne was trying to send Spike into Hell. Spike is clearly still frightened by the experience.
Music Trivia
Mythology Trivia
References
Goofs
Quotes
Spike: Daddy, eh? I always thought Wesley was grown in some sort of greenhouse for dandies.
Fred: It's like an M.C. Escher picture, but with wires and flesh instead of geese.
Eve: (When the power goes out) That's odd.
Spike: I know what this is. You'll never take me to hell, Pavayne!(Emergency power comes on)Spike: Oh. Well, that's just something I say...when, uh...it gets dark.
Fred: Part of you knew. Even if you can't admit it to yourself, part of you knew it wasn't him. Wesley: No. I was sure it was him. You were there. I killed my father.
Angel: You know... I killed my actual Dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire.
Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation.
Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
Roger: You've failed me enough for one lifetime.
Spike: Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike: I don't know if you know this, but, uh... I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me so I had to
Wesley: Thank you. I'm... very comforted. Right.
Roger: There are some who believe that your tenure as Watcher ranks as our most embarrassing failure.
Wesley: Really? I beat out everybody dying in an explosion as most embarrassing failure.
Spike: I can explain. Apparently, when Percy here was younger, he used to be known as "head boy."
Angel: Yeah, I already knew that.
Spike: Right. I have nothing else to report.
Roger Wyndham-Price: No. We've met. 1963. My colleagues and I fell upon you slaughtering an orphanage in Vienna. Killed two of my men before you escaped.
Spike: Oh... How've you been?