Production Details
This episode was the first time James Marsters met director David Greenwalt, despite working on the second season of Buffy together. "I was just a guest star, and I had no reason to go up to the writers' offices. I didn't go to the gods at that point," says Marsters. He says that Greenwalt is "exceptional" at inspiring actors to perform their best.
Actress Julie Benz says her last appearance as Darla in the flashback scenes of this episode was "a great way for us to... say goodbye to our characters, to be together and to have some fun." She was relieved to shoot such a "playful" scene, "because anything else I think would have been too hard; too difficult; too painful." She adds the sheet she was wrapped in kept snagging on the camera dolly and falling down. "It was a great way to end; flashing everybody!" she says.
Both Buffy Summers and Dawn Summers were intended to appear in this episode, but since neither Sarah Michelle Gellar or Michelle Trachtenberg were available for filming, the role of Buffy was replaced by a decoy that would be revealed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight and the role of Dawn was rewritten for Andrew Wells.
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