This episode received a 4.1/6 in the overnight ratings.

This episode ranked 8 out of 18 WB shows for the week.

This episode received a 2.6 in the national ratings.

This episode ranked 95 out of 130 in prime time shows.

Wesley: Fred, I tried to kill you.
Fred: That wasn't you.
Wesley: How can you know that? Something inside me was forced to the surface. Something primal, something...
Fred: Do you wanna kill me?
Wesley: Oh, God, no.
Fred: It wasn't something in you, Wesley. It was something that was done to you.
Wesley: I don't know what kind of man I am anymore.
Fred: Well, I do. You're a good man.

Cordelia: Its not the pain. It's the helplessness, the certainty that there is nothing you can do to stop it, that your life can be thrown away in an instant by someone else. He doesn't care. He'll beat you down till you stay down 'cause he doesn't even think of you as alive. No woman should ever have to go through that. Also no woman strong enough to wear the mantle of " vicious bitch" would *ever* put up with it.

(Regarding Video Game)
Gunn: Dead! So dead! So very, very dead. Just how dead are you, huh?
Angel: I'm tired of being the dead one

Wesley: This goes all the way back to Eve. You and the serpent working together. "Here honey it's just an apple."

References Genesis 3 and the serpent tempting Eve, then Eve giving the fruit to Adam.