Angleman and Polgara

Season four’s Dr. Angleman and the Polgara demon were named by David Fury after regulars at the official Buffy site’s posting board (Angle_man and Polgara).

Blank mind

The following is a deleted scene from The I in Team, while Riley is showing off the Initiative to Buffy:

Buffy to Walsh

Buffy’s speech to Professor Walsh after she was set up in The I in Team was amended. Here’s the original:

UC Santa Cruz

Buffy writer Marti Noxon attended UC Santa Cruz. Three colleges from Santa Cruz are named in season four of Buffy: Stevenson, Kresge and Porter. In Living Conditions, Buffy tells Parker her dorm is in Stevenson Hall (number 214). There’s a party at Porter in Doomed and in The I in Team, Buffy mentions Kresge Hall.
In Life of the Party, Eve says, “Angel, it’s not like this is the first time I’ve had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.”

George Hertzberg

George Hertzberg played the human/demon hybrid Adam in season four. He has also appeared in Providence, Any Day Now, 18 Wheels of Justice, Home Improvement (in an episode called ‘Desperately Seeking Willow’) and 3rd Rock from the Sun. He appeared without his Adam make-up in the episode Restless, in a scene with Riley.

Jack Stehlin

Jack Stehlin, who played the Initiative’s Dr. Angleman in season four, has also been in Purpose, Blackout Effect, JAG, ER, NYPD Blue and L.A.Law. He played Davis Reese in General Hospital.

Neil Daly

Neil Daly played Mason in The I in Team and Where the Wild Things Are. He has also been in Brink and Flashpoint.

Adam

Adam was a secret experiment (human/demon/machine hybrid) made by Professor Maggie Walsh of the Initiative. He killed his maker then embarked on a mission to discover what he really was (The I in Team). Adam masterminded a giant battle between demons and the Initiative soldiers with massive casualties on both sides which caused the Initiative to shut down (Primeval).

Dr. Angleman

Dr Angleman was a doctor in the Initiative. He was the head of the Xenomorphic Behaviour Modification field at the Initiative, and helped Professor Walsh to create Adam. Angleman was killed by Adam in Goodbye, Iowa.

Professor Maggie Walsh

Maggie Walsh was a bossy psychology Professor at UC Sunnydale. Walsh was also joint head of the secret government organization the Initiative, which trapped and tested demons. Riley worked for Maggie at the Initiative, and posed as her TA. She designed, and was in charge of secret Project 314 - a hybrid monster called Adam. Walsh invited Buffy to join the Initiative, but tried to have her killed when she felt the Slayer was a liability to her secret project. Maggie was skewered through the heart by Adam in The I in Team, who later reanimated her body to work in his secret laboratory, seen in Primeval.

A man you can trust

Buffy says in The I in Team that Ethan Rayne “worships chaos and tries to kill you”. Rayne attempted to kill her and Giles in The Dark Age using the demon Eyghon. He was shown worshipping chaos in Halloween. In A New Man, Ethan turned Giles into a Fyarl demon, whom Buffy almost slayed.

Buffy’s blaster

In The I in Team, Buffy is in the sewers on her mission for Professor Walsh. She sees the demons and then has a flashback to seeing them in the Initiative. Just before the flashback, we see a very quick shot of Buffy standing in the sewer, looking down at her malfunctioning blaster (before it malfunctions). This was first offered to me as a goof, but after close examination, I think the shot might represent Buffy’s realisation (and Slayer intuition) that she’s been set up and what will probably happen to her gun when she attempts to fire it.

Evilness of my heart

In The I in Team, Giles pays Spike the $300 that he promised him in A New Man (after Spike helped him when Giles was turned into a Fyarl demon). He gets the money back before the end of the episode by removing the Initiative’s tracer from Spike, aided by Cognac, some tweezers and an ionising spell.

Liked you before I did

In The I in Team, Riley tells Buffy that Professor Walsh liked Buffy before he did, referring to the conversation he had with Maggie in The Initiative.

Slayerettes

In The Witch, Willow called herself, Xander and Giles the ‘Slayerettes’. This term wasn’t used again until the episode The I in Team.

Soldier Boy

A large part of the episodes Innocence and Graduation Day (Part 2) rely on Xander’s recollection of the events of Halloween, when he became a soldier for a short time. In Innocence he says he still has all his memories of being a soldier, including “procedure, ordnance, access codes, everything.” Xander’s military knowledge was a great plot device help to Buffy writers when they needed lots of gun power easily. We discover in the episode The Harsh Light of Day that Xander has lost his power when he has a girly scrap with Harmony, though in The I in Team, he says “My pseudo-soldier memory bank tells me that’s a tracer.” In Goodbye, Iowa, Anya says, “It’s not like he was in the ‘Nam. He was G.I. Joe for one night.”
In Never Leave Me, Xander realises that Spike has a “trigger”, to which Willow replies, “Is this left over from your days in the Army?” He admits that knowledge comes from Army movies. In Potential, Dawn says to Xander, “Well, you had that sexy Army training for a while.”

Spike’s new place

We see in The I in Team that Spike has moved into a new crypt. He was moving his stuff out of Xander’s in A New Man.

Sub-T 67119

Walsh tells the Initiative boys in The I in Team that the Polgara demon is “Sub-T 67119″. Their numbering system must be all over the place as Spike was called “Hostile 17″ when he was captured by them.

Delerium

The music playing whilst Buffy and Riley fight demons/make love in The I in Team is ‘Window to Your Soul’ by Delerium.

314

In A New Man, Ethan Rayne tells Giles about a new threat in Sunnydale - 314 (pronounced “three-fourteen”). He says to Giles:

At the end of the episode, we see Maggie Walsh enter a door with the number 314 on it, and we discover her secret project, Adam, was created in that room.

Com Cam

The Initiative had a two-way communication device called a com cam. It is worn on the head and enables images, sound, location, and the wearer’s heart rate to be transmitted back to base. Buffy wore one in The I in Team when she was sent on a mission by Walsh, who intended to have some demons kill her. Buffy communicated back via the com cam that it’d take a lot more than that to kill the Slayer.

Doll’s eye crystal

Doll’s eye crystals are extremely rare and used for magical purposes. Tara inherited one from her grandmother. She tried to give it to Willow in The I in Team, but Willow felt uncomfortable accepting a family heirloom as a gift. Later in that episode, though, we see her with the crystal in her dorm room.

Neisa

Willow implores to Neisa, the goddess of chance and fortune, to help her win a poker game in The I in Team: “I implore you, Neisa, blessed Goddess of Chance and Fortune, heed my call. Send to me the heart I desire”.

Polgara demon

Polgara demons are strong and green and, when threatened, can extend sharp bone skewers from their forearms. Polgara demons have good eyesight but are not very intelligent. They need to eat every two hours. Adam’s right arm was that of a Polgara demon. Buffy was attacked by the demons in The I in Team.

Tracer

A tracer is an electronic tagging device used by The Initiative. One was used on Spike in The I in Team, but was removed by the Scoobies and flushed down the toilet.

Boost Bars

In one of his many attempts at employment, Xander sells Boost Bars in The I in Team. They are a real American ‘health’ snack. Xander tries to sell three flavours - cherry berry, maple walnut and liquorice. Giles buys a maple walnut flavour bar and immediately says in disgust, “Please leave my home now.”

Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel is referenced a few times in the show. Anya mentions she wants to see a programme about monkeys on the Discovery channel in Bargaining (Part 1). Buffy says she saw a behaviour modification chip on the Discovery Channel in The I in Team. Spike name checks the channel in Fool For Love.

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, was first published in 1818, but the story of Frankenstein’s monster has been retold numerous times. In Buffy, there are a couple of examples of similar monsters to those in Shelly’s novel. In Some Assembly Required, Daryl Epps is brought back to life by his brother, who then sets about making a ‘girlfriend’ for him using the body parts of various dead girls. The villain of season four, Adam, was clearly based on Frankenstein’s monster. Professor Walsh created him to be a super-monster, made of different demons and humans.

No I in Team

The title of the episode The I in Team comes from the expression “There’s no I in team” meaning that a team consists of a group who work together rather than an individual who does everything by themselves.

Polgara the Sorceress

Polgara (the demon seen in The I in Team) is a character in the novel series by David Eddings: Polgara the Sorceress. She was an immortal sorceress with black hair, besides one single white lock. She could perform powers by “will”, just by just thinking about it.

Private Benjamin

In The I in Team, Buffy says, “Oh, you mean the camo and stuff? I thought about it but, I mean, it’s going to look all Private Benjamin.” Goldie Hawn played the title character in the 1980 movie Private Benjamin about a girly girl who joins the army.

Rock the Casbah

In The I in Team, Spike says, “I don’t care if it’s playing Rock the Casbah on the bloody Jew’s harp…” Rock the Casbah is a famous song by The Clash. A Jew’s Harp is a small musical instrument which is held against the teeth or lips, and plucked with the fingers.

Wal-Mart

The American discount store Wal-Mart is mentioned a few times in Buffy: in The I in Team, Willow says to Buffy, “I mean, okay, yeah, they neuter vampires and demons. But then what? Are they gonna reintegrate them into society? Get them jobs as bagboys at Wal-Mart?” In The Harsh Light of Day, Anya tells Xander she’s been having naked dreams of him, to which Xander replies, “You know, if I’m in the checkout line at the Wal-Mart, I’ve had the same one.”
In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Cordelia says to Xander, “You can’t be sniffing around for more jewelry to melt because all you ever gave me was that Smallmart-looking thing.”

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Buffy holds Walsh’s papers at different heights in different shots when she first goes to the Initiative.

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Buffy tells Maggie that she was thinking about getting a pager but she had one in season one’s Never Kill a Boy on the First Date.

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in the episode The I in Team, Walsh goes into room 314, and the door shuts behind her. In the next shot, we see Walsh entering the room and the door shuts again.

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When Buffy and Riley have sex, the pillowcases change from being striped green and white to dark red.

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Spike has a hole in his t.shirt from where he was shot by the Initiative, but his coat has no hole in it.

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When Buffy is crouched over the map of the sewer system, her arms are crossed with her hands near her elbows. In the next shot, her hands are clasped together. In the next shot they are crossed again.

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When the demon in the sewer knocks Buffy down, she falls in front of the gun, with her head to it. In the next shot, she’s shown to the right of it, with the gun near her left arm.