Amends

Again, a very moving episode, mostly because of the emotional impact it has. It's a christmas episode, but without the usual *everything is fine, everybody love everybody*. Life isn't that way, it's complicated, especially for Angel. He has to deal with his daily inner demons, with the guilt he feels towards Giles, he has to figure out what his place in the group in or whether he has one at all. Quite the deep stuff here.

So he is haunted my memories which aren't good ones. The strongest scene is the dream he shares with Buffy where he bites her. It shows clearly that the demon is within him and lurks at the surface to break free. All the time. Angel knows that pretty well and I guess this adds to his decision to go into the light. Luckily Buffy saves him with her touching speech. I always love to see how these two forgive.