Jonathan M. Woodward (Knox) also played the vampire Holden Webster in Conversations with Dead People (2002). On Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Charisma Carpenter's last episode as a regular, though she would appear in the next season's 100th episode. Carpenter revealed in 2021 that Joss Whedon "unceremoniously" fired her from the series after she gave birth, accusing her of "sabotaging" the show by getting pregnant and calling her "fat" to her colleagues. She said that came after years of constant "harassment" and "serialized abuses of power" that triggered a chronic physical condition from which she still suffers.
This is the last episode with Stephanie Romanov, though her character, Lilah, does make appearances in the Spike graphic novels. This episode also contains the last scenes set at the Hyperion Hotel, and is the last we see of Angel's convertible.
Tim Minear explains that he decided to open this episode with the assumption that Lilah's offer of taking over Wolfram & Hart happened off-screen during the commercial break. "I watched the clock for 40 or 50 seconds and have each actor just shift uncomfortably for about a minute. It got pretty hilarious after a while but I got all the pieces. And Stephanie just kicked it out. So once my name is clear of the screen," Tim laughs, "someone will speak."
The "White Room" scene was accomplished via greenscreen and split screen. The endless room in the background was computer generated, with an actual leopard on the same stage as J. August Richards. While filming, the big cat "kind of got out of its chain," says Tim Minear. "J. thankfully didn't tell me until the shot was done and they had it back in its chain because I would have run screaming from the room like a girl."