A couple of times they implied that Angel's past was a flashback of Angel's, but why? It was a rather weak link for him to go off into this reverie just because of Kate's dad.

Okay, this whole becoming a vampire thing. Here Angel has to drink the blood of the vampire who bit him to become a vamp. However, it seems to me that in other episodes, especially Buffy episodes, just the bite can do it.

If Angelus & Darla(?) are dead, then why can we see their breath after Angel comes out of the grave?

So why didn't Angel chase after the vamp when Kate came in?

Why didn't Kate call the cops?

Oooh, Kate, the Vampire Slayer. ;-)

Have they ever explained why in this show (or Buffy) why a stake through the heart will kill a vamp, but a bullet won't?

So how did these peaceful balance demons get hooked on drugs anyway?

So why didn't Wesley or Cordy help Angel at the end?

Why did Darla give Angelus that little moral lesson there at the end. Isn't it more like a vampire to enjoy the carnage & evil, rather than contemplating whether or not they'll ever get their father's approval?

Forgot one. Why did Kate go after the suspect alone? Shouldn't she have had a partner backing her up?

This whole thing with Angel daydreaming and flashing back to his past life. Can anyone say,"Forever Knight"?

Forever Knight


I had thought the same thing about the episode. I hope it does not become a trend. Not that i dont like Forever Knight but Angel is fine the way it is.

Mark: I didn't say Liam wasn't bitten by the female vamp. However, I believe in Dracula, which was based on earlier vampire myths & legends, vampirism involved a two-way drinking of blood. I assumed that the way they filmed it here, that Liam became a vamp because he had drunk the blood of a vamp, whereas his family was truly dead because they didn't drink vamp blood.

What is female vamp's name? I think the TV listing said it was Darla, but I don't remember it being given in the show.

Sorta off-topic. Why did the commercials for Earshot & Hero make such a big deal of using the episodes' titles? You never see the darn things in the show?!?

KAM: good insight. Assuming Angel follows the rules for the rest of the Buffyverse, the vampire can choose whether to kill you or turn you when it bites you. In "The Initiative," Spike mocked Willow with whether he was going to kill her or turn her. Then he learned about this implant in his head. . . .

As time goes by, I find that the parallel story in Ireland didn't add much to this episode. Angel is tortured. Ho hum. Tell me something I didn't know.

I think Giles once mentioned that a vampire must mingle his blood with that of the victim to make a new vampire.

The bit with the blood was, um, intimate activity, if you catch my drift.
Yes, it's a common theme in vampire lore, especially those which were written during the sexually repressive Victorian era, when sexual activity had to be cleverly hidden from the censors of the day. That didn't, of course, stop it from being strongly implied, but censors are often blind to such things. A vampire, usually male, hypnotizing a beautful young maiden and then biting her is a common metaphor for sex. But it's not all male vampires seducing human females. There's at least one Victorian-era novella, Camilla, about a lesbian vampire, which also had some implied sexuality. There's a 1970 film of it called The Vampire Lovers, and is one of the few good early 1970's horror films.

Darla the female Vampire is the one who originally turned Angel, and she was a recurring character in Buffy's first season.

On the subject of turning, I'm not sure where I heard it from, but it's common knowledge among the more die-hard fans, that becoming a vampire involves being bitten and having your blood sucked, then drinking the blood of the one who turned you.

I believe Angel said something about in in Graduation day Part 2, when Xander thought Angel feeding off of buffy had turned her. He says something like "she didn't feed off me".

It was clearly stated in the first episode of Buffy that being turned involved drinking the vamps blood after they'd drained yours. 'They drink your blood, you drink theirs, basically it's a whole big sucking thing.'

Some of the flashbacks from this episode of Angel being turned were already shown in 'Becoming' the second last episode of S2 of Buffy.

It was clearly stated in the first episode of Buffy... I admit you have me at a disadvantage here. We just got the WB last summer, so I've only seen some of last season (in reruns), and this season.

If they have to drink the vampire's blood, how did that guy in the Buffy episode where she lost her powers, turn into a vampire? I don't remember him drinking any blood.

It wasn't shown on screen and admittedly it's hard to imagine how he was forced to drink it seeing as the vampire had only one hand free from the straight-jacket. It's a definite rule, though.

I've always wondered, given that (sometime) rule in the Buffyverse about drinking the vampire after they drink you...
So, why do so many people decide to drink vampire blood?

Scared of death perhaps, or else to weak to resist the blood being poured down their throat.

i{Have they ever explained why in this show (or Buffy) why a stake through the heart will kill a vamp, but a bullet won't? }

There never has been an explanation, and there really isn't one. The "wooden stake through the heart kills them" part of vampire mythology is arbitrary, just like the "no reflection in a mirror" part, the "holy water" part, etc.