Buffy Betraying Angel

[DrusillaRox]

they're not together anymore, the girl needed help and personally I think the only person that could truley help her is Faith. not a betryal, it was about the girl

 

[Lily]

I can still remember feeling like it was a punch in a the gut when I heard that dialogue the first time, I just thought it was stomping on all the Buffy/Angel respect the mission stuff that had been built up over the years...
but then I thought more about it and realised that Andrew is often (usually) wrong or at the least, misinformed and he may have only been under the impression that all his orders came from Buffy via Giles and not that Giles or anyone else directing him, could be acting on their own steam, and if I believe that scenario i can happily continue to live in my happy Bangel bubble, so that is what I believe.

 

[Buffyverse Fan]

This reminds me of the topic about why Spike didn't contact Buffy. It all comes down to the same thing: say there was a man. Let's call him Giles.

Yeah, though it was never said, I tend to believe that the primary one to not trust Angel would be Giles rather than Buffy. Giles has shown time and again that he trusted neither Angel nor Spike. At the time of "Damaged," Andrew was working for him, not Buffy, and Andrew almost certainly told Giles about Spike being back as soon as he saw him. He was just too much of a "Star Wars" freak to contain the fact that Spike had pulled a Han Solo and returned from the grave, so to speak. It was Andrew who put on that little performance in Rome to convince Spike and Angel that Buffy was not only there, but "moving on," with the Immortal. There was no reason whatsoever for him to hide the truth of where Buffy actually was from them.

I think Giles trusted Angel in S2, but after he lost Jenny I don't think Angel ever regained his trust.

I agree, Buffy may have known, but Giles was most certainly behind it. I mean outside of Lindsey & Wes, Giles probably knows more about Angel(us) & Spike than anyone, he knows he lost his girlfriend the last time the two worked together and the time before that the were the #1 & 2 most infamous vamps (seemingly even above the Master & Dracula), so I'm sure Giles trusted them even less together than apart.