a pyschotic vampire slayer...i'm still trying to get my head round it...

...which suggests Spike never got the full story on Faith.

Was anyone surprised at the revelation the crazy in Damage was a Slayer? It's one of those things which I suspect everyone wondered back when Chosen aired. The whole Faith story arc suggests that the Council had procedures for dealing with rogue Slayers, so we all knew Faith wasn't a one-off. It had to occur to people that Buffy's method of creating a Slayer army would cause a lot of unstable young girls to get an awful lot of physical power. Thank god, Angel is around to pick up the strands: dark Slayers always work better in the gritty urbanity of the LA series.

Despite the suspect effects (Xander's blinding was a believable mutilation so late in a series, Spike's injuries...less so...) and some bad bad stuff from Andrew, I really like this episode. It's partially the recursion: Andrew taking away Dana in a way Wesley never managed way back in Consequences. The moment when he reveals that Buffy no longer trusts Angel makes all the "vampyre" stuff worth it. The final conversation with Angel and Spike really works, reminds us both of their similarities and differences. The final lines, for some reason, brought a tear to my eye.

I'm just an undead gal trying to make it in the big city...

Harm's Way makes me think of Miss Match for some reason. I suspect it's Mercedes McNab's pastishe of Alicia Silverstone.