Lee DeMarco was the owner of The Tropicana casino in Las Vegas. Once a second-rate lounge magician, he got hold of a mystical item which he used to extract futures and destinies from players at his casine, which he then sold on the Black Market. He took Lorne captive and …

Alexa Davalos played Gwen Raiden in the Angel episodes Ground State, A Long Day’s Journey and Players. Of Greek descent, she was born in France on May 28, 1982. She started out as a model, before appearing in the HBO TV film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, with Anthony …

Gwen Raiden as a child had extraordinary electrical powers which made her unable to touch humans without giving them electric shocks. Unable to cope, her parents offered a generous donation to a school to take her to deal with her unusual and dangerous talents. As she grew older, Gwen …

In Deep Down, Angel says, “…three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M. C. Esher perspective - but I did get time to think.” Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 – 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist known for his mathematically inspired, seemingly impossibly constructed works such …

Angel says to Connor in Deep Down, “What you did to me - was unbelievable, Connor. - But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective.” He’s referring to the Buffy …

Illyria was one of the legendary Old Ones - an original pure demon who ruled from her citadel (Vahla ha’nesh) in modern day Los Angeles. She was murdered by rivals and her corpse was placed in stone sarcophagus, with her powers drained and placed in jewels embedded on her coffin. …

Although Wesley appears in the episode Forgiving, he does not speak due to the injuries to his throat in Sleep Tight.

Though she’s credited, Charisma Carpenter does not appear in the episode Loyalty.

Fred and Gunn kiss for the first time in the episode Waiting in the Wings.

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 …

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.

In Birthday, Cordelia checks to see if she has any demon deformities, including horns and a tail. These are also the first things that Buffy checked herself for in the Buffy episode Earshot when she gained an aspect of a demon.

Lilah references Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Dad when she says, “Dusted during childbirth is more like it. According to our sources she staked herself, leaving the baby alive and kicking but never actually born. MacDuff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.”
In Shakespeare’s play the three witches’ prophecy read that “…none …

Lorne moves into the Hyperion hotel in Dad, after the destruction of Caritas in the previous episode Lullaby.

In Dad, written on their list of possible threats to Angel’s baby, Connor, is The Scourge - the Nazi-like pure-blood demons from the first season episode Hero.