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Water, perhaps, but ice cubes?? Never helped any scotch I've drank.

OK, I have a completely different take. I think he's just joking about the small amount of blood that's dripped on the blanket, and isn't referring to Connor at all. Wes just jumps to the horrible conclusion because he's primed to by the prophesy and the Loa.

I've mentioned this before in an earlier comment thread, but I think that Wes-the-badass has very strong roots in S3 Buffy, in particular "Choices", when he's the only person willing to say that its OK to leave Willow in danger if it means they can destroy the box of Gavrok. That speaks to the same hard-headedness…

whenever Magnitude's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Magnitude?"

Please don't forgive me
is probably my favourite ever line from Buffy. Unexpected, but makes perfect sense. Inverts a cliche. Heartbreaking.

Greenwalt and Kouf…
didn't write Season 5 of Angel. They wrote S1-3 and about two episodes in the first couple of seasons, respectively.

@Dogstyle: I'm not surprised that the thread went all Buffy - any show which suddenly does an episode about the death of a loved one (a parent especially) has to be placed next to "The Body". It's to the credit of HIMYM that this episode bears comparison to it (it's not as good, of course, but I've never seen a TV…

Surely (n.)?

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And I'm a skinny little sod, but I was 9 pounds+ at birth.

He wasn't then.

*Sepinwall

and that's not what happened to Moonlighting (see Alan Sepinwald for frequent explanations and irritation)

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I didn't see it coming either, in fact I thought they were going to turn the baby - it was Darla's line about Angel dying in an alley that led my thoughts astray. That made the actual self-staking all the more of a twist for me.

@phel: I suspect that would have been a plotline in ~S10