Trivia / Angel S 03 E 06 Billy

• Creator's Favorite Episode: Stephanie Romanov says the ending to this episode was one of her "favorite Lilah moments. It was the only time Lilah was a hero."
• Milestone Celebration: This is the 50th episode of the show. David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter and Alexis Denisof also appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 50th episode, "Doppelgangland"
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell, the early fight scene between Lilah and Gavin was written to be much more vicious, with lots of punching and blood. The scene was revised to show Gavin throwing her against a shelf and attempting to strangle her, though in a later scene, it is clear that Lilah took some heavy blows to the face.
  • Minear and Bell had originally written the scene in which Wesley menaces Fred, and then slaps her, to come right at the very end of Act 2, and then cut to a break. Joss Whedon re-wrote the scene to have Wesley say, "Lie to me again and we're going to have a problem" at the end of act 2, and then, after the break, menace and slap her - which was actually more scary, and which shows that Wesley is going to become a dark figure, for a while. Both Minear and Bell agreed that this sequence worked better for the thrills and scares.
• Word of God: On the DVD Commentary, the writers explain Billy's backstory: his father raped a "good" demon, and the result was Billy.

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