Episode Trivia
1880 crossover
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The Buffy episode 5.07 Fool For Love and the Angel episode 2.07 Darla aired in the same week in US. Both shows covered the 1880 turning of William to Spike, and how it affected Angelus.
In the Buffy episode, William is seen walking down the street with his poetry pages, where he bumps into some passerbys on the street. Those people are Angelus, Darla and Drusilla. William then continues down the alley where he is approached by Dru, and is sired.
In the Angel episode, we see the same scene in the street only from the perspective of Darla, Angelus and Dru. William bumps into them says, “Watch where you’re going!” Dru then sees William for the first time, and follows Angelus’ advice to “make herself a playmate”.
Darla’s siring
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We find out in the episode 2.07 Darla that it was The Master who sired Darla, in a Virginia colony in 1609. Darla lay dying of syphilis at the time and was not afraid of the Master, who first enters her room dressed as a priest:
Darla: “My soul is well past saving. Let the devil take me if he’ll have me. Either way - I die.”
Priest: “No (The priest steps closer and pulls his hood back to reveal he’s the Master) you will not die. (Darla looks up at his inhuman face without flinching) You will be reborn.”
Darla: “I know you.”
Master: “I came to you last night. I sang to you from that window.”
Darla: “Hmm, I remember now. You’re death?”
Master: “No.”
Darla: “What then?”
Master: “I’m you’re saviour. God never did anything for you - but I will.”
Foreshadow to Drusilla siring Darla
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In a flashback to London (1880) in 2.07 Darla, we hear the following exchange:
Drusilla: “No. His head’s too full of you, grandmother.”
Darla: “Stop calling me that.”
Drusilla: “Don’t be cross. I could be your mummy.”
Dru’s statement could be a foreshadow to upcoming events. At the end of 2.09 The Trial, we see Drusilla sire Darla. In 2.10 Reunion, she prepares the ritual for Darla’s rebirth:
Drusilla to Lindsey: “Oh, yeah. Grandmother is very pleased with it - I can tell. - Aren’t you, Grandmother? My daughter.”
And later…
Holland: “Drusilla, you are positively glowing.”
Drusilla: “I’m going to be a mummy.”
Julie Benz
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Julie Benz’s first speaking movie part was in 1990 in a small role in the Dario Argento/George Romero co-directed horror movie, Due occhi diabolici playing alongside Harvey Kietel. Julie had a role playing a receptionist in the movie As Good As It Gets. She auditioned for a role in Eyes Wide Shut but decided against it when she was going to have to do the scene topless. Julie also played Kate Topolsky in Roswell. Julie auditioned for the role of Kendall Hart on All My Children, and for the role of Buffy. Both roles were taken by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Julie can also be seen in Steven Spielberg’s Taken, and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth - alongside Danny Strong, who played Jonathan. Julie Benz and Ethan Erickson who played Percy West in Buffy both starred in the movie Jawbreaker.
Julie’s mother was an ice skater. Julie started ice skating when she was three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with her partner David Schilling, and came 13th. Her older brother and sister, Jeffrey and Jennifer, were the 1987 U.S. Junior Champions in ice dancing and competed internationally. When Julie was 14, she had a bad stress fracture and had to take time off.
Just the one hand
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When Wesley finds Angel drawing multiple sketches of Darla in the episode 2.07 Darla, in the original script he spotted a nude drawing and this exchange ensued:
Angel: “I’ve been …thinking. That’s all.”
Wesley: “Thinking?”
Angel: “Yes. It helps me sometimes to think with my hands.”
Wesley: “And occasionally….just the one hand.”
Kimono
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In the episode 1.07 Angel, Angel says to Darla,
“What’s with the Catholic schoolgirl look? Last time I saw you it was kimonos.”
This line was followed up four years later in the Angel episode 2.07 Darla. In a flashback to the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, Darla wears a kimono.
Mark Metcalf
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Mark Metcalf, who played the Master, was born in Findlay, Ohio, in 1946. He has had numerous roles in TV and film, most notably in National Lampoon’s Animal House as Niedermayer and as The Maestro in Seinfeld. Mark has also been in Teen Angel, Ally McBeal, Star Trek: Voyager, Melrose Place, Party of Five and Hill Street Blues. He played the father in Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” video.
Master
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The Master was an ancient vampire, who celebrated the Old Ones, a race of demons who walked the earth before humanity. These Old Ones were under the Hellmouth and it was the Master’s wish to free them and let them roam the Earth again. The Master sired Darla in the Virginia colony in 1609 and she joined his Order of Aurelius before leaving with Angel. The Master tried to open the Hellmouth in 1937, but a huge earthquake rocked the area, trapping most of the town, and the Master himself. He tried to get free several times and it wasn’t until Giles found a prophecy saying that Buffy would face the Master and die that he managed to free himself. Buffy confronted the Master, who drank her blood and threw her in a pool of water, killing her. The power the Master got from Buffy’s blood freed him and some tentacled monsters, and he headed into fresh air to cause some trouble. Luckily Buffy was given CPR by Xander and she managed to kill the Master by throwing him on some broken wood, staking him.
Zitto Kazann
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Zitto Kazann, who played the Gypsy man who told Angel about his curse in 2.21 Becoming (Part One), played the same part in the Angel episode 2.07 Darla. He was in Waterworld, a movie which was script-doctored by Joss Whedon.