"Oh, but it was. You forgot the good captain existed the moment Blondie Bear rolled into town." Nevermind that that was Harmony's nickname for him. "Why couldn't it have been, huh? Because you're too good to do something so irredeemable? Because you're the good slayer, the one who's supposed to be without such a glaring fuck up on their slayer record? Sorry honey, that's not how life works. Everyone's got bad in them. You think Angel was a patron saint of goodness before he got turned?"

He laughs and echos Darla in saying: "What we were informs what we become. You've always had the bad in you, Buff. Spike just brought it out. Suppose I should applaud him next time I see him."