7:15 : Angel’s tattoo is seen for the first time. The image is of an winged lion – which looks like the form Twilight will take to ensnare Angel in Season Eight.

8:52 : Buffy lies and tells Joyce that Angel is tutoring her in history. It was the first class she had in Sunnydale, and she appears to be failing.

10:26 : Angel gives Buffy a hint about his past, telling her that his family was killed by vampires. This is a lie of omission however, since he was the vampire in question, as seen in The Prodigal.

16:33 : Buffy is sixteen here. Angel was turned when he was 26, so even if he were human, that’s still a hefty age gap.

16:50 : The kiss that starts it all! Buffy and Angel kiss for the first time. And it’s quite a sizzler.

17:07 : The big reveal! If you hadn’t been paying attention, or if you missed the little hints, this is the big surprise of the season, the moment the entire story flips. We discover that Angel is a vampire, and see his vampire face for the first time.

19:04 : This is the first time we see Angel’s tiny underground apartment. It’s dark and dingy, with not much in it. He’ll make it more homely in Season 2, before moving to a mansion on Crawford Street, which is vastly more decorated.

19:25 : Darla says it’s been a while since she and Angel last saw each other. It’s been 97 years…

19:35 : …as established with the next line. Darla was indeed wearing a kimono when he last saw her in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, as seen in Darla.

21:16 : The curse is mentioned for the first time, although no more details are mentioned yet.

22:00 : Giles reveals some information about Angel’s past here, including that he’s from Ireland, as seen in Becoming. He mentions ‘Angelus’ for the first time, which is Latin for “the demon with the angelic face”. He says it’s been 80 years since Angelus was recorded feeding and that he hasn’t fed on humans since coming to America. Angelus’s reign of terror stretched from 1753-1898.

23:16 : Giles says that Angel without his soul would be the same as all the other vampires. He will later find that even amongst vampires, Angelus had a reputation for being vicious.

23:47 : As if to hammer home that point, the Master here refers to Angelus as ‘the most vicious creature’ he’s ever encountered, which says quite a bit. However, in Darla, the Master, upon first meeting Angelus in 1860, is not impressed.

24:35 : Willow is now legitimately tutoring Buffy in History. In Nightmares, one of Buffy’s nightmares will be that she is late and fails a history test. She also doesn’t seem to know where class is – and judging by this episode, that bit’s slightly real…

28:58 : The front windows of 1630 Revello Drive are smashed when Buffy throws Angel through them. Joyce must have excellent insurance considering how many times this happens.

30:05 : This is the first meeting between Giles and Joyce, strange considering he’s already been to the Summers house in Never Kill A Boy on the First Date.

31:46 : “What did you think would happen? That she would look at your face, you’re true face, and give you a kiss?” Darla taunts Angel with this line, but later in What’s My Line?, Buffy will indeed kiss Angel in vamp face.

32:21 : As much as the chemistry between Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz sizzles, the tension between Julie Benz and David Boreanaz is something else in this scene and will be used to great effect later on Angel.

33:30 : Giles doesn’t immediately recognise Darla’s name. Are you saying that in all of Giles’ research into the Master, the Order of Aurelius, Angel and the Harvest, that Darla, the Master’s most loyal and devoted subject, wasn’t mentioned? Does that seem right?

34:30 : It’s on! This is the first physical fight between Angel and Buffy. Neither wins, since the battle is ended when Buffy puts her weapon down. The next battle will be rather more unpleasant…

35:37 : Angel reveals to Buffy that he killed his family, his friends and his entire village all with a ‘song in his heart.’ Darla will say the same thing in Judgement.

36:02 : Angel mentions the details of the curse, but not what breaks it. This is the first indirect mention of the Kalderash Romany Gypsies and his feeding on the favourite of their clan. This is fleshed out in Becoming and Five by Five.

36:34 : Angel says he hasn’t fed from a human being since the Romany girl. He’s leaving out the cashier from Orpheus, which, to be fair, was fairly traumatic for him. That, and it’ll be five years before that episode is even written…

37:07 : Buffy offers her neck to Angel. He doesn’t take her up on it, at least not yet…

37:42 : Darla confirms that she and Angelus were together for ‘several generations’.

37:59 : And then more back story which will be fleshed out later, in particular on Angel; Darla is Angel’s sire, although she says she ‘made him’ in this episode rather than use that term.

38:34 : Darla pulls two pistols and begins to fire. Guns aren’t seen often on Buffy, but when they do feature, they’re deadly. Buffy herself claims in Life Serial that “guns never work.” Darla is also, remarkably, a really bad shot.

39:10 : Buffy misses Darla’s heart with her arrow, which is nothing to be ashamed of. She missed the heart her first time out too, as seen in Becoming.

40:04 : Angel however doesn’t miss the heart, using Buffy’s arrow to stake his sire. This may seem permanent, but we’ll soon learn that recurring characters can sometimes appear more after the characters are killed, which is certainly the case with Darla.

40:16 : Darla dusts, but she’ll be seen in flashback next season, in Becoming.

40:45 : The Master feels Darla’s death, which hints at him being her sire, which we’ll discover in Darla.