Episode Trivia
Blackberry patch
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In the episodes 2.07 Lie To Me and 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two), Drusilla sings the rhyme:
“Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.”
She also sings this in the Angel episode 2.10 Reunion.
Dead and buried?
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In 6.03 After Life, Spike empathises with Buffy as he says he knows how it feels to dig your way out of your own grave. Many people have felt that his comment was made defunct in the episode 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me. In that episode, Spike was sired by Drusilla and returned home to his mother - who did not know he was dead and so therefore had not buried him. This seeming mistake can be explained by the mythology seen in Angel - in the episode 2.10 Reunion, it’s mentioned that Drusilla’s a traditionalist. She takes away the bodies of those she’s sired (such as Spike and Darla) and buries them. Therefore it makes sense that Spike would have dug out of his grave. Drusilla had put him there, not his family. Also, in the Angel episode 5.22 Not Fade Away, Spike says in response to the line, “It’s your funeral” that “It’s okay. I never had a proper one.”
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.”
Holland Manners
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Holland Manners was Vice President of Special Projects at Wolfram and Hart. He coordinated the resurrection and subsequent siring of Darla, and overlooked his proteges Lindsey, Lilah, and Lee. After forgiving Lindsey in his conspiracy with Angel in 1.21 Blind Date, and Lilah’s failed assignment to hire Faith to kill Angel, Manners had Lee killed after discovering he was undertaking secret negotiations with the competition. Manners was killed by Darla at a party in his wine cellar, but his contract at W&H did not end, as we saw when he took Angel on an elevator ride to the ‘home office’. Upon his death, Lilah and Lindsay were giving the joint temporary role of overseeing Special Projects at the law firm.
Lilah’s survival
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Lilah Morgan survives two Wolfram & Hart massacres - when locked in a cellar with Darla and Drusilla and by The Beast in 4.08 Habeas Corpses.
Miss Edith
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Drusilla’s favourite doll is called Miss Edith. In 2.03 School Hard, Miss Edith was punished by Dru who said:
“Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She’s a bad example, and will have no cakes today.”
In 2.06 Halloween, Dru says:
“Miss Edith needs her tea”
In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), she tells Spike:
“I need to change Miss Edith”.
In the Angel episode 2.10 Reunion, Drusilla is seen carrying a doll which could be Miss Edith.
Naming the stars
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In 7.05 Selfless, Spike says that Drusilla liked to look at the stars. We saw her doing this in 2.14 Innocence:
Drusilla: “I’m naming all the stars.”
Spike: “You can’t see the stars, love. That’s the ceiling. Also, it’s day.”
Drusilla: “I can see them. But I’ve named them all the same name. And there’s terrible confusion.”
In 2.10 Reunion, Angel of Drusilla:
“Soil. - Soil near the stars. She said she wanted to be near the stars. She used to - talk to the stars. She spent *hours* in my garden in Sunnydale, communing with the night sky.”
Rice Krispies
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Snap, Crackle and Pop are the names of the three characters associated with Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereals.
Cordy says in 2.10 Reunion:
“Easy, boss. This kid’s ready to snap, crackle and pop. I felt it in my vision”.
In Angel’s season three episode 3.12 Provider, when the three demons talk to Cordelia in their weird language, she comments that it sounds like “Snap, Crackle, Pop” to her, and calls Wesley.
In 4.08 Habeas Corpses:
Fred: “Can you not do that?”
Gunn: “Oh! Sorry, it helps me think.”
Fred: “Didn’t mean to snap.”
Cordelia: “I’m ready to crackle pop myself.”
Sam Anderson
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Sam Anderson played Holland Manners in Angel. Hailing from North Dakota, his numerous television credits include WKRP in Cincinnati, St. Elsewhere, T.J. Hooker, Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Magnum, P.I., The Golden Girls, 21 Jump Street, Growing Pains, Perfect Strangers, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Alien Nation, Picket Fences, Millennium, The X-Files, Friends, Ally McBeal, ER and Lost.
Anderson is married and is the father of twins.
Team betrayal
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In 5.16 Shells, Gunn became the latest team member to betray the gang, when we found out the form he signed to allow a shipment in exchange for his legal upgrade, is what caused Fred’s death.
Other betrayals include:
- Angel betrayed the group whe he fired them in season two.
- Wesley betrayed the group when he kidnapped Connor.
- Connor betrayed the group in season four when he sided with Jasmine.
That was so cool
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From the stage directions for 2.10 Reunion, when Angel locks the wine cellar doors on the lawyers and the vampires
Stunned looks all around. Even from Darla and Dru, but they’re stunned with delight. They share a “that was so cool!” look.