Lorne seeks help from a psychic friend in order to find a hot spot, but she won't provide the information until he agrees to go with the others to finish his business in Pylea.
Angel leaves a message on an answering machine with information about saving the hotel in case they don't make it back from Pylea.
As she later mucks out the stables, wondering aloud if she can remove the collar, a runaway slave warns her through a hole in a wall that she shouldn't bother fighting.
Although Gunn had earlier stated that George's death made him realize he's needed in this dimension, Angel's depressing phone message persuades him to join the mission.
Production designer Stuart Blatt says the Angel location department had found a movie ranch with a standing set for a "Tijuana town," which they dressed for the Boxer Rebellion scenes of "Darla" and used again for the village of Pylea.
The set designers added timbers to the existing clay buildings, put thatching on the roofs, and created stalls for merchants and vendors.
Blatt says their animal wranglers brought in "medieval chickens and goats and pigs and yaks" and old chariots were reconstructed to create the vehicles.
"[4] This episode is the first appearance of eventual Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim as Gavin Park, who became a recurring character in the third and fourth seasons.
"[6] However, UGO Networks felt that the episodes were "something of a disappointment" because the "Dungeons & Dragons style world" of Pylea broke the dark tone that had been established.