5x10 Soul Purpose

Episode Quotes

Trivia

• David Boreanaz had just had knee surgery when shooting began. As a consequence Angel spends most of the episode sitting or lying down.
• In the first moments of the show, we know that Angel is dreaming, because previously, in "Destiny," Spike was as badly beaten as Angel, but here he has not a scratch on him.
• During Angel's hallucination, Fred tells him that "you're empty. There's nothing left. Just a shell." Later, as Illyria, she often refers to human bodies as "shells," with nothing spiritual important inside them.
• Christian Kane, who was uncredited, says on the Commentary that, in the strip club scene, a few of the extras were big "Angel" fans and had begun to leak Kane's appearance onto the Internet. Joss Whedon had decreed that Lindsey would use the name Sean, so no one knew that Kane would be showing up as "Doyle" - which was clever of Whedon, to fool the fans who would want to mob the sets, but which was a cruel trick to play on Angel, as it turns out later.
• On the Commentary, David Boreanaz says of directing the scene between James Marsters and Christian Kane, "What's great about working with actors that are so passionate about what they do, is that you really get raw power out of them. In this scene, I really wanted to capture the rawness of these two characters. And James and Christian really brought that to the table. I let them do their thing. They know what they're doing, basically; and as long as their energy's up, and they're real internal with their passion, it really shows at the end, here. I think that if I can get under their veins and really pump what I want to get out of them, that I've achieved something, as far as the story's concerned. They definitely did their job in this scene."