Episode Trivia
Benefits of a Sunnydale education
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In the Angel season two episode 2.04 Untouched, Bethany, the telekenetic girl, stabs Angel through the torso with a bar. When he gets back to the hotel the following lines are said.
Angel: “You know how hard it is to think straight with a re-bar through your torso?”
Cordelia: “Actually, I do. Benefits of a Sunnydale education.”
This is a reference to the Buffy episode 3.08 Lover’s Walk, when Cordelia fell and was impaled on a metal bar after finding Xander and Willow kissing.
Bethany Chaulk
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Bethany Chaulk was a young telekinetic girl who was recruited by Wolfram & Hart as a potential assassin. She met Angel after Cordelia had a vision of her injuring two potential rapists. After Cordelia mentioned a strange sexual vibe coming from Bethany, Wesley realised that her father had abused her, and Angel began to help her to control her power. After a showdown with her father, a stronger Bethany turned her back on Lilah Morgan and began to live her own life.
Cops
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Angel says to the bystanders in 2.04 Untouched,
“Hey, you wanna get back behind the tape? You gotta gawk, go home and watch a high-speed chase on Fox”.
He’s referring to Cops, a reality show shown on the Fox network.
Cordelia’s clothes
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The following is from 2.04 Untouched:
Cordelia: “Top of the middle of the day to you, too. And no, no leads worth mentioning. Of course we lost a little time during my 45 minutes of sleep. Good thing I left some clothes here, or you would be smelling me even now.”
Some of these clothes are lent to Bethany later in the episode.
In 2.12 Blood Money, Angel donates some of Cordelia’s clothes to Anne at the East Hills Teen Center. Cordy notices one of her shirts being worn in 2.14 The Thin Dead Line:
Cordy: “Hey! That’s my… Sorry. - I have a shirt just like that. (To Anne) The crook at the store said it was one of a kind! Big fibber!”
Cordelia was seen wearing this shirt in 2.10 Reunion. She confronts Angel about the donation in 2.17 Disharmony:
Cordy: “*And* you know, you didn’t just betray me, Angel. You didn’t just hurt me. You gave away my clothes.”
Angel: “To the needy.”
Cordy: “I am the needy!”
Daisy McCrackin
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Daisy McCrackin, who played Bethany In 2.04 Untouched, has also appeared in The Unseen, Love & Suicide, Cold Case, Peak Experience, Halloween: Resurrection, Special Unit 2, The Huntress, 3000 Miles to Graceland and A Crack in the Floor.
Heath Castor
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Heath Castor played various characters in the episodes 3.02 Dead Man’s Party, 2.19 I Only Have Eyes For You, 4.01 The Freshman, 4.02 Living Conditions and 4.05 Beer Bad. He was in the Angel episode 2.04 Untouched.
Mere Smith
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Mere Smith was a writer, executive story editor and script coordinator for Angel. She has also written for the HBO series Rome. Mere wrote and directed her first film entitled The Enforcers which features Buffy and Angel actors Andy Hallett, Amber Benson, Jarrod Crawford (Rondell) and James Marsters.
Mr. Bill
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The following dialogue is from 2.04 Untouched:
Angel: “You seen a girl tonight? - Maybe a little scared - beat-up?”
Officer: “Huh-uh. Nobody but our Mr. Bills. (Angel looks at him) You know (high pitched voice) ‘Oh no, Mr. Bill’ - krech!”
Angel turns away: “Right.”
This is a reference to the Saturday Night Live shorts, “The Mr. Bill Show”.
Telekinesis
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Bethany Chaulk in 2.04 Untouched had telekinetic (also known as Psychokinesis) powers - the ability to influence the behaviour of matter by mental intention, or put more simply, the ability to move objects with her mind. Telekinesis was made famous by Stephen King’s novel Carrie, and the 1976 movie portrayal of the horror novel of the same name, starring Sissy Spacek.
Under the covers
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The script for 2.04 Untouched, in the scene when Bethany comes into Angel’s room while he’s dreaming about Darla says: “She slips her hand under the covers and runs it up his thigh”. In the aired version, her hand remains outside the covers.
Vampire invitation rule
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In vampire mythology (and the Whedonverse), a vampire cannot enter a person’s home unless it has been invited. This is first seen in the Buffy episode 1.07 Angel:
Angel: “It’s all right. A vampire can’t come in unless it’s invited.”
There has been some debate as to whether Buffy actually invited Angel into her home in that episode, but she does quickly say to him, “Get in! C’mon!” as they’re being chased by vampires. When Angel first became a vampire he returned home to kill his family. From 1.15 The Prodigal:
Father: “Be gone, unclean thing! A demon can not enter a home where it’s not welcome. He must be invited!”
Angel: “That’s true. - But I was invited.”
Angel looks to the doorway. His father turns and sees Angel’s sister slumped against the wall.
Dad: “Och!”
Angel: “She thought I returned to her – an angel.”
A vampire can enter a public place such as a school or hospital (this is seen in 2.17 Passion and 2.18 Killed By Death). In 2.17 Passion Angel says the sign outside the school says ‘Romatia transicara edicatorum’ which translates to ‘Enter all ye who seek knowledge’. Vampires can also enter hotel rooms, which are considered public. In 2.09 The Trial, Angel says to Gunn after he has entered a motel room:
Angel: “Oh, Motel, public accommodation. She didn’t live here.”
Another vampire invitation rule is clarified in 5.02 Real Me: only someone who lives in a residence can invite a vampire in:
Xander: “Yeah, actually, she– Harmony– kind of happened to sort of get an invite.”
Buffy: “You guys can’t invite her in. I mean, only someone who lives here can…
If the owner of a house is dead, a vampire can enter. This is seen in 3.21 Graduation Day (Part One) when Angel enters the home of the dead Professor. It is also seen explicitly in 1.15 The Prodigal (Angel can only enter the home of Kate’s father after he has been killed) and in 2.04 Untouched (Angel enters when a victim on life support dies). In the latter example we see a visible barrier ripple when Angel tries to enter.
When a vampire is invited into a home once, it can enter again at any point, unless a reversal spell is done. The spell was first seen in 2.17 Passion, after Angel lost his soul and started stalking Buffy. The last words of the incantation (read by Willow at Buffy’s house) are “Hicce verbis consensus rescissus est,” which translates into English roughly as “By these words permission is rescinded.” Buffy uninvited Spike from her home in 5.14 Crush, Harmony was uninvited in 5.02 Real Me, and Dracula was uninvited in 5.01 Buffy Vs Dracula.
There have been several goofs/continuity errors concerning vampires and invitations in the Whedonverse:
- When Angel and Buffy are running from the Three in 1.07 Angel, they take refuge in Buffy’s house. As they close the door, one of the Three gets his arm through the door before Buffy forces him back out. But he was a vampire and also uninvited, so how did he get his arm in?
- A similar event occurs in 2.16 Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - when Drusilla pushes Buffy’s door down, her hands go into the house - but Drusilla was never invited in.
- Angel says that he needs an invitation to enter Buffy’s dorm room in 4.20 The Yoko Factor, but Sunday and her gang didn’t need one in 4.01 The Freshman. This doesn’t count only for Buffy - the vamps are able to access Eddie’s room as well, and presumably they can get into the rooms of the other students they killed. How do they do that?
- In 1.17 Eternity, how can Angel jump through the window into Rebecca’s apartment to save her from the intruder? He was never invited in, and Rebecca only said to him to “Stop by”. Is this enough of an invitation?
- In 1.18 Five By Five, Faith is torturing Wesley in the apartment of the man she injured previously in the episode. When Angel finds them, he walks straight into the apartment… no invite needed. If Faith had killed the man, Angel would not have required an invitation. However, in 1.19 Sanctuary, the following dialogue is heard between Kate and a fellow officer:
Kate: “So do we think she is the one who threw the party here?”
Kendrick: “The guy who lives here identifies her as the woman who mugged him. Put him in the hospital, stole his keys, his wallet. We’re lifting prints now. My bet is - we get a match.”It’s apparent he is alive, therefore Angel should not have been able to enter his apartment. (It’s possible that Angel called the victim to ask permission to enter but this would be a very strange conversation indeed!)
- There is some confusion over who invited Spike back into the home he shared with his mother in 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me, but this could have been a servant who lived there.
- In 5.15 A Hole In The World, Angel and Spike enter Lindsey and Eve’s residence without an invitation.
You’re a sheep
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In the Buffy episode 2.16 Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered, Cordelia calls Harmony a sheep to which Harmony replies “I’m not a sheep”.
In the Angel episode 2.04 Untouched, Cordy and Wesley have a similar conversation.
Cordelia: “At least I’m not a sheep!”
Wesley: “I am not a sheep”
Cordelia: “You’re such a sheep! You’ve never had an opinion that you didn’t read in a book.”
[Goof] Angel’s position
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When Bethany’s father is talking to her at the end of 2.04 Untouched, you can see Angel standing leaning against the wall behind him, but we don’t see Angel stand up and get forced against the wall by Bethany until later (39:34).