After just over 40 guest appearances Andy Hallett (Lorne) joins the regular cast in this episode and is featured in the opening credits.
After 44 appearances as a guest star,Andy Hallett was finally added to the opening credits. For the first time in the series, there are now more main characters that are exclusive to Angel than there are characters that originated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) (which will last until Underneath (2004) with Harmony's promotion to the main cast).
When Fred nearly shoots Connor with the tranquilizer gun, he remarks, "Thought you were more of a taser girl." This is a reference to Deep Down (2002), wherein she used a taser to render him unconscious (and later to torture him), after she and Gunn found out that he had imprisoned Angel at the bottom of the sea.
Faith and Wesley's view on ethics have inverted since the last time they met. While Wesley attempted her to convince her to do the very things she was trying to atone for, she tried desperately to cling to her newly-adopted ethical beliefs-the same beliefs that Wesley himself possessed as a Watcher.
When provoking Faith, Wesley makes reference to her torturing him in Five by Five (2000), and the Watchers Council's attempt to kill/capture her in Sanctuary (2000).
This is one of the longest cold openings, at 5:27. This record is later beaten by The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco (2003) with a length of 6 minutes and 18 seconds. The longest is Harm's Way (2004), with a length of 6 minutes and 49 seconds.