This episode received a 6.2/9 in the overnight ratings.

This episode ranked 3rd out of 15 WB shows for that week.

This episode scored a 4.8 in the national ratings.

This episode ranked 79 out of 135 in prime time shows.

Drinking has effects on vampires since Angel is drunk in a bar.

It is revealed that Angel went to Mazola, Montana during "his depression."

With the exception of Angel's, the vamp-faces in this episode look noticeably different. This was due to the production team wanting to try a darker and scarier look. However, this was dropped in subsequent episodes as they were unhappy with the effect, returning them to the style used for the vampires on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This is the first, albeit minor, crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At the end of the episode, Angel calls Buffy, but hangs up when he hears her voice. Buffy receives this phone call in the episode "The Freshman", which originally aired preceded this episode on the same night.

Angel: You want to charge people?
Cordelia: Well not everybody, but sooner or later we are going to have to help some rich people, right?

Oliver: You're an actor.
Angel: No.
Oliver: That wasn't a question. I'm Oliver. Ask anyone about Oliver. They'll tell you I'm a fierce animal. I'm your manager as soon as you call.
Angel: I'm not an actor.
Oliver: Funny. I like the humor. I like the whole thing. Call me. This isn't a come on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.

Doyle: I've been sent. By the Powers That Be.
Angel: Powers that be what?

Angel: Anyone seen my car? It's big and shiny.
Vampire: Piss off, pal.
Angel: (smells the vampire's breath) Ugh. Breath mint?

Cordelia: A cockroach! In the corner! I think it's a bantamweight!

Angel: Why would a woman I never met even talk to me?
Doyle: Have you looked in a mirror lately? No, I guess you really haven't, no.

Russell: Look at me. I pay my taxes, I keep my name out of the paper, and I don't make waves. In return I can do anything I want.
Angel: Really? Can you fly? (throws Russell out of skyscraper)

Angel: (making tea) Do you take milk and sugar?
Tina: Yeah.
Angel: ...because I dont have those things.

Angel: So are you, uh, happy?
Tina: What?
Angel: You look sorta down.
Tina: You've been watching me?
Angel: No, I just, I was uh looking towards there, and you walked...through there.
Tina: You don't hit on girls very often, do you?
Angel: It's been a while.

Russell: (to Angel) You made a big mistake coming here.
Cordelia: You don't know who he is, do you? Oh, boy! You're about to get your ass kicked!

Cordelia: I grew up in a nice house. It wasn't like this, but we did have a room or two that we didn't even know what they were for. Until the IRS got all huffy about my folks not paying taxes for, well, ever. They took it all.

Doyle: Let me tell you a little bedtime story.
Angel: But I'm not sleepy.
Doyle: Once upon a time there was a vampire. And he was the meanest vampire in all the land. All the other vampires were afraid of him, he was such a bastard. Then one day he's cursed by Gypsies. They restore his human soul. And all of a sudden he's mad with guilt. You know, "What have I done?" (mutters) He's freaked.
Angel: Okay, now I'm sleepy.
Doyle: Well, it's a fairly dull tale. It needs a little sex is my feeling. So, sure enough, enter the girl. Pretty little blonde thing, Vampire Slayer by trade, and our vampire falls madly in love with her. Eventually the two of them, well, they get fleshy with one another. And a moment... well, I guess the technical term is "perfect happiness." But when our boy gets there, he goes bad again. He kills again. It's ugly. So when he gets his soul back for a second time, he figures, hey, he can't be anywhere near Miss-Young-Puppy-Eyes without endangering them both. So, what does he do? He takes off. Goes to L.A. to fight evil and atone for his crimes. He's a shadow. A faceless champion of the hapless human race.

Doyle: Wow, you're really going to war here. I guess you, ah - you've seen a few in your time, yeah?
Angel: Fourteen, not including Vietnam. They never declared it.

Angel: Los Angeles. You see it at night and it shines. A beacon. People are drawn to it. People and other things. They come for all sorts of reasons. My reason? No surprise there - it started with a girl.

Cordelia: I finally get invited to a nice place, with no mirrors... and lots of curtains. Hey, you´re a vampire!
Russell: What? No, I'm not.
Cordelia: Are too!
Russell: I don't know what you´re talking about.
Cordelia: I'm from Sunnydale. We had our own Hellmouth! I think I know a vampire when I... am alone with him, in his fortress-like home. And you know, I think I'm just feeling a little light-headed from hunger. I'm just wacky. And kidding! Ha, ha.

Angel: You don't smell human.
Doyle: Well, that's a bit rude. As it happens, I'm very much human. (sneezes, breifly revealing his demonic visage) On my mother's side.

Doyle: You know, there’s a lot of people in this city that need helping.
Angel: So I noticed.
Doyle: You game?
Angel: I’m game.

Angel: (about Cordelia) You think she's a hottie.
Doyle: Ah, yeah, she's a stiffener all right, I can't lie about that.

Cordelia: So are you still..."Grrrr"?
Angel: There's not actually a cure for that.

Doyle: It's not all about fighting and gadgets and such. It's about reaching out to people, showing them that there's love and hope still left in the world....
Homeless Woman: (interrupting) Hey, spare change?
Doyle: Get a job, you lazy sow!

Angel: During the Depression, my depression...uh, I was depressed there.

Angel: Doyle, I don't wanna share my feelings, I don't wanna open up. I wanna find the guy that killed Tina and I wanna look him in the eye.
Doyle: Then what?
Angel: Then I'm gonna share my feelings.

Doyle: It's not all about fighting and gadgets and such. It's about reaching out to people. Showing them that there's love and hope still left in this world.
Streetlady: Er, spare change?
Doyle: Get a job you lazy self!

At the conclusion of the teaser, as well as the opening credit sequence of every episode, Angel walks down the alley where his reflection can be seen in the puddle streams.

Doyle: I like the place just not much with a view. The place has sort of a bat cave feel to it.

Doyle makes reference to Batman.

Cordelia: People will be attracted to my positive energy. I matter.

Cordelia is doing meditation practices which are part of various eastern religious practices for higher level of enlightenment.

"Religious References To Angel"

The references would be penance, redemption, and guilt which describe Angel after he got his soul. Doyle makes reference to these when describing Angel's life after he got his soul back. These references are a constant theme throughout the series of Angel.

"The Powers That Be"

Doyle makes reference to these particular people that are suppose to have assignments for Angel to protect the people in Los Angeles from evil. These powers are likely forces or "God" references of good to help Angel with his guilt by connecting with the people in Los Angeles to rescue them.