This episode scored a 3.7/5 in the overnight ratings.

This episode ranked 6 out of 14 WB shows on the week.

This episode received a 2.7 in the national ratings.

This episode ranked 91 out of 125 in prime time shows.

Groo: "Pomegranate Mist" is the wrong color for this room.
Angel: What?
Groo: "Sunburst splendor" is a hue more worthy of a champion. Or perhaps this unique one called... "Purr-Pleh."
Angel: Purple. And yet you had no problem pronouncing "Pomegranate."
Groo: It was my mother's name.

Angel: But at least we have one advantage.
Cordelia: What, they glow in the dark? How's that supposed to help us, unless we shut off all the lights in the -- holy crap you're not serious.

Wesley: I was dying. I knew it laying in that dirty field, life pouring out of my throat. Do you know why I fought to stay alive?
Gunn: Wes, I don't have time--!
Wesley: I needed to live to see my friends again. To explain to the people I trusted... and loved... my side of what happened.
Gunn: We know what--
Wesley: You don't know anything. I'll help because it's Fred. But just so we understand each other... Don't ever come here again. None of you are welcome here.

(To Gavin)
Lilah: Don't you remember what happened a year ago? Wine cellar and slaughter?