why we fight

Season 5 Episode 13

Episode aired february 11, 2004

Plot

angel's past comes to haunt him. an ally from world war ii takes fred, gunn, and wes hostage while seeking angel. this is the only vampire angel sired after he got his soul back. angel relives the past and must determine his future.

Behind the Scenes

during the episode, angel says, 'i'm not getting trapped at the bottom of the sea,' and spike says, 'i'm not getting experimented on by his (the american) government.' in the initiative (1999), the initiative places an anti-human aggression chip in spike's brain, and in tomorrow (2002), connor traps angel in a box and sinks him in the pacific ocean.

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