Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-26601629-20150715192253/@comment-7603754-20150718205059

He couldn't have killed her. He had the chip at the time. And he didn't watch passions because of her. He was watching it anyway and she just happened to also like it. He protected dawn because of his promise to Buffy, because he's THAT whipped. And he liked Joyce because she hit him with a fire extinguisher from behind. Angel(us) would never forget that he can hear heartbeats and wouldn't have been sucker punched like Spike was.