Blondie Oz

In Enemies we see that Oz has dyed his hair blonde since the previous episode (Doppelgängland). This is possibly something to do with the fact that Seth Green had just finished filming Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, in which he played a blonde Scott Evil.

Books on tape

In Enemies, Cordelia asks Wesley if he ever thought of doing “books on tape”. In real life, Charisma Carpenter did the voices for the Buffy audio book Immortal.

Bring on the visuals

This conversation between Buffy and Willow was deleted from the episode Enemies:

Eliza’s stunts

Eliza Dushku said about stunts in a chat session with The Globe in March 1999:

“Day one I did about 2 punches and I’ve learned as I go on, from the “Enemies” episode with Angel, we did most of our own stunts, me and David have a sick love for fighting. We don’t mind coming home with bruises. I love me personally watching the show and my friends knowing it is me. I always want to do my own stunts.”

Jeff Pruitt, the show’s stunt coordinator, says lots of the fighting we see on Buffy has to be done by pros.

“But we let Eliza do some blocking and hitting, because she’s so enthusiastic. Before she started the show, I had her watch Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and some old samurai movies to see their expressions when they slam some guy against the wall. Then we practiced in front of a mirror, with some ducking and yelling. Now she gets a big kick out of it.”

Eliza also says:

“After days of taping, I have black-and-blue marks all over me. Now they can film me more, because I can add together a kick and a duck and a spin and a punch more realistically.”

Lacked Faith

A line of Wesley’s in Enemies, cut for length was, “You failed in last night’s mission because you lacked faith. If you had simply…’Lacked Faith.’ A pun. From me! Bet you never thought I had the funny in me, eh?”

Gary Bullock

Gary Bullock, who played the shrouded demon who pretended to remove Angel’s soul in Enemies, has been in Holes, The Kiss, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Robocop 2, Robocop 3, The Handmaid’s Tale, Enterprise, The X Files and Species.

Michael Manasseri

Michael Manasseri played the horned demon who tried to sell the Books of Ascension to the Slayers in Enemies. He appeared in the TV version of Weird Science. He also appeared in Psycho Beach Party, which featured Nicholas Brendon.

Horned demon

In Enemies a horned demon tried to sell Buffy and Faith the Books of Ascension. Faith later stabbed him to death to collect the books for the Mayor.

By the Sun Cinema

As Buffy and Angel walk through the snowy street in Amends, the shot starts with a close up on the inside of the U on the Sun Cinema sign. This is where Faith stands when she shoots Angel in Graduation Day (Part 1). In Enemies, Buffy and Angel stand outside the cinema again, when they’re joined by Faith.

Cute asleep

In Enemies, Angel says Buffy “looks so cute when she’s sleeping”, which is possibly a reference to Passion, when he sketched her whilst she slept.

Faith’s mother

We discover in Enemies that Faith’s mother was a drunk who wouldn’t let her daughter have a puppy.

Le Banquet d’Amelia

In Enemies, Angel and Buffy went on a date to the cinema where they saw Le Banquet d’Amelia in Enemies. This is not a real film, and was not what they were expecting:

Manacle sharing

The manacles at Angel’s mansion were used on Angel in Beauty and the Beasts, Faith in Consequences, and on Buffy in Enemies.

Miniature Golf

Ted takes Joyce and the Scoobies for a game of miniature golf. Willow said in When She Was Bad that there no mini-golf courses In Sunnydale, but I guess it’s possible that Ted drove them somewhere else for their game. Mini-golf was also the favoured pastime of season three’s Mayor Richard Wilkins III (he suggested a game in Enemies). Clearly, miniature golf is the game of choice for evil patriarchs.

Slayer kisses

In Enemies, Angel kisses Buffy on her forehead in her bedroom and Faith kisses Buffy in the same place before running away after they fight. Buffy returns Faith’s forehead kiss in Graduation Day (Part 2), after putting the Slayer in a coma.

Taciturn Man

Angel and Oz are both referred to as ‘taciturn men’ in Buffy and Angel. Tactiturn means “1. inclined to silence; reserved in speech 2. dour, stern and silent in expression and manner” per the Random House College Dictionary.
In the Buffy episode Enemies, Buffy is wondering how Angel felt about kissing Faith. Willow offers the following advice: “Buffy, I, too, know the love of a taciturn man, and you have to look at their actions.” Here, Willow is referring to both Oz and Angel as taciturn men.
In Angel season one, ‘Sanctuary‘, Angel yells at Buffy for getting angry that he helped Faith. After she leaves, Angel says, “For a taciturn, shadowy guy - I’ve got a big mouth.”

The Mayor’s story

We find out much more about the Mayor in Enemies. He is over 100 years old, invincible, not human, and apparently he intentionally “built Sunnydale for demons to feed on.”

Books of Ascension

A demon named Skyler tries to sell the Books of Ascension to Buffy and Faith in Enemies. He says they are, “very powerful works and I’m not talking about the prose. They deal with some dark stuff. And the Mayor would hate for somebody to get ahold before he… well you know.” Faith later kills Skyler and steals the books for her boss, the Mayor. Willow sees the books in Choices and manages to steal a few pages for Giles to try and find out more about the Ascension.

Marenschadt Text

Giles kept the book The Marenschadt Text hidden on the top shelf of his filing cabinet. In Enemies, Willow said it contained a section on genocide that dealt with Ascension. It also had a reference to the last entry of the journal of Desmond Kane, pastor of Sharpsville. The town was destroyed by an Ascension on May 27, 1723.

Kibbles ‘n Bits

In Enemies, Faith says that after the Ascension, all of Buffy’s friends are going to be “Kibbles ‘n Bits”. This is a type of U.S. dog food.

Superfriends

In Enemies, Faith says, “It’s just a matter of time before this demon guy is gonna spill. Then Buffy and the Superfriends are gonna…” Superfriends was a TV cartoon consisting of various superheroes including Superman, Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman and more.

Waiting for Godot

In Enemies, Buffy says about Faith, “The girl makes Godot look punctual”. This is a reference to a famous play by Irish author Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, published in 1952.
During Primeval, Giles, Buffy, Willow and Xander meet at a crossroads after their falling out (in The Yoko Factor). They learn that Spike played them, and try to accept this as the reason for the words that were spoken. They all talk quickly about moving on, and then the camera pans out to show the four of them standing stock still. They do not move. In Waiting for Godot, Estragon and Vladimir repeatedly agree to leave, yet, so says the famous stage direction, “They do not move”. This stasis is directly referenced by this shot of the four protagonists unable to move.

Seen at 08.32 minutes:

When Cordy walks into the library to ask Wesley to dinner, the sound her shoes are making doesn’t match the pace she is walking at.

Seen at 21.35 minutes:

Just before Angel ‘loses’ his soul, we see Faith walk into Angel’s mansion. She clearly has nothing in her hands but later throws a bottle of blood on Angel in order to start the soul-stripping ritual. Where did she hide the blood?

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In the Mayor’s office, the reflection of Angel’s hand can be seen in a Mayor’s name plate.

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In Enemies, just before we see Giles in conversation with the shrouded demon, there is a shot of the school from the outside where it is visibly night-time. However, in the very next scene the window to the right of Giles clearly shows that it is day-time.