I agree Angel is more bewildered than lying. But that bewilderment is part of the story about him not being Angelus, and both he and Buffy are complicit in letting that distinction stand. And that's what does happen here. The mechanism isn't precisely the same, but the effect is identical.
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Date: 2010-09-11 05:18 am (UTC)