''Angel is back to stop an invincible foe.''

1. Gunn: ''The B word was the love of his life, and he's what, two hundred and fifty? That ain't no short life. This grief-work's gonna take more than a vacation in Sri Lanka.''
   Sri Lanka is an island country in the Indian Ocean off southeast India. Inhabited originally by the Vedda, the island was later invaded by the Singhalese (6th century B.C.) and the Tamil (11th and 12th centuries A.D.). The lucrative spice trade on the island was controlled successively by Arab, Portuguese, Dutch, and British traders from the 12th century. It became a British colony in 1798 and achieved independence in 1948. In 1972 the island was declared a republic, and it adopted the Singhalese name of Sri Lanka.
   
   
2. Gunn: ''Should have got hammered and gone to Vegas like I told him.''
   Las Vegas is a city of southeast Nevada near the California and Arizona borders. It is a major tourist center known for its casinos. Also referenced by Buffy in Surprise.
   
   
3. Wesley: ''He doesn't need a lap dance, he needs some peace and quiet to work through this.''
   A lap dance is an erotic dance that a stripper performs while straddling a customer's lap. Also reference by Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
   
   
4. Wesley: ''Angel, Murshan Dynasty? I've always wanted one of these!''
   The Murshan Dynasty appears to be a creation of the writers.
   
   
5. Cordelia: ''Wilson College. Bonner Hall.''
   Although there are several Wilson Colleges, none are in California. The one is Pennsylvania has a web site at http://www.wilson.edu/.
   
   
6. ''Marseilles - 1767''
   Marseilles is the second largest city of France and one of its most important seaports. An underground canal links it with the Rhône River.
   
   
7. Darla: ''He knows other things. Marvelously vile and ripping things. Didn't we eat a poet in Madrid?''
   Madrid is the capital of Spain and of Madrid prov., central Spain, and the focus of its own autonomous region, on the Manzanares River. The newest of the great Spanish cities, it lacks the traditions of the ancient Castilian and Andalusian towns.
   
   
8. Angel: ''Troubadour.''
   Troubadour is a french word and it means a medieval poet that wrote in the Oc language. The Oc language was a collection of roman dialects spoken in a region in France called the Midi. (Thanks to Verdun from the Watcher's Diary for helping with this.)
   
   
9. Darla: ''You would if you knew him. He's killed scores of us. Hunted Angelus and I across half of Europe. God, if he follows us to Morocco, what then? The New World?''
   Morocco is in northwest Africa. Morocco is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, Western Sahara, and Algeria. Ifni, formerly a Spanish-held enclave on the Atlantic coast, was ceded to Morocco in 1969.
   The New World is a nickname for the Americas.
   
   
10. Darla: ''Of course, when he finally did catch up to me in Vienna I had to pay for my sins. Again and again.''
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria and administrative seat of Lower Austria, northeast Austria, on the Danube River.
    
    
11. Cordelia: ''...and don't say okay. Angel, please, I know you, and ever since you came back from your grief-trip I can tell something's not right, and, and obviously, it's not. Buffy's dead, I don't mean to diminish that. I miss her, too. I just want to say, I know that James, with all his Romeo and Juliet madness, opened up a lot of wounds for you, but you'll be okay.''
    Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespear, where young lovers commit suicide rather then be apart.
    
    
12. Cordelia: ''We killed a bunch of 'em in Hancock Park a couple of months ago.''
    Hancock Park's boundaries are Highland Ave, Melrose Ave, Wilshire Blvd and Larchmont Blvd. Once the most exclusive residential community in the city, this area was developed by Captain G. Allan Hancock circa 1910. His father, Henry Hancock, owned the entire Rancho La Brea area and ran it as a farm until 1905, when Edward Doheny struck oil shoveling into a hillside. The Hancock family then jumped in on the oil craze, which was quickly exhausted, but which also led to the discovery of the La Brea Tar Pits. Besides the Doheny and Hancock families, many other prominent Southland families once owned (or still do) estates here, including the Huntington, Crocker and Van Nuys families. This neighborhood is made up on private homes which are obviously not open to the public; however, the area makes for a great walking or driving tour at your own pace.
    
    
13. ''Puerto Cabazas, Nicaragua''
    The Republic of Nicaragua, Central America, is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean. The capital and largest city is Managua.

1. Angel: ''Previously on Angel.''
   Rm w/a Vu - Cordelia tells Aura on the phone she has a roommate she never sees. Phantom Dennis pokes his face through the wall.
   Over The Rainbow - The crew drive a car through a portal.
   Through The Looking Glass - Cordelia says they made her ruler. Fred is grateful for Angel saving her.
   There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb - Angel fights the Captain of the Imperial Guard.
   Judgement - Darla senses Angel and want to see him.
   Reprise - Angel pushes Darla around, then they have sex. Angel wakes up.
   Epiphany - Angel kicks Darla out and tells her if he ever sees her again he will kill her.
   
   
   
2. Elisabeth: ''I hear he trapped you both in a barn, and you fled leaving him to die.''
   The Trial - Holtz wasn't seen in the flashback, but he was mentioned as Angel and Darla fled.
   
   
3. Cordelia: ''The ring of Amarra, when you had that, you were invincible. Does he have a ring?''
   Angel: ''No!''
   Cordelia: ''Hmmm. Did the Amarra people make cuff links or belt buckles?''
   Angel: ''There was only one.''
   Cordelia: ''...and you had to smash it.''
   In The Dark - Daniel Osborne gave Angel the gem of Amarra, which made vampires unkillable as long as they wore it, but Angel smashed it.

1. When Cordelia puts the necklace on they keep switching the camera from in front and behind her, where her arms are in completely different positions.
   
   
2. When Wesley and Gunn jump out of Angel's car to fight the vampires, Wesley opens then shuts the passenger side car door as he gets out, or does he? During the fight you can see that door appears open and closed again several times. It would seem they shot the fight scene at least twice, once with the door open and again with it closed, then spliced the fight sequence together. The door just keeps popping open and closed by itself!
   
   
3. Reflections of Angel and James abound in the subway scene, even though they are both vampires and should cast no reflection.

The official WB photo gallery for this episode is at http://www.thewb.com/Popups/PhotoGallery/0,8200,18923,00.html.

You can download the official trailer for this episode at http://www.thewb.com/Popups/Trailers/0,8204,18859,00.html.

The host demon sings Tony Bennett's hit I Left My Heart In San Francisco. You can listen to him sing it here. You can download a clip of the real song here.

Amy Acker, who appeared as a reoccurring guest star last season now joins the stars of the show.

We learn Angel speaks Tibetan.

When Angel stakes Elisabeth, it's in front of the Shrine Auditorium. (Thanks to Marsia from the Watcher's Diary for helping with this.)

When Cordelia bends over to get the stake for Angel to stake James you get a glimpse of the tattoo on the small of Charisma's back.

The subway station Cordelia and Angel fled to is the Hollywood Blvd Station. There is a web page with information on it at http://www.mta.net/metro_transit/metro_rail/redline.htm. (Thanks to Marsia from the Watcher's Diary for helping with this.)

It should be noted that the flashbacks in this episode take place after the flashback to 1765 France we saw in The Trial and before the 1800 flashbacks we saw in Somnambulist.

New name for Buffy: The B Word (by Gunn).

Points Of View

Mathew:

I liked seeing Holtz show up finally. James and his girlfriend were interesting. A vampire in love. I like the idea of a vampire hunter who isn't the Slayer. Neat back story, but what the hell is up with DARLA!?!

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