Would you believe the answer to that is... "dramatic effect?"

[He has an idea why he didn't check it beforehand. But. It was pretty stupid to do it that way, yeah, even he can admit that.]

Honestly, though, I think as much as it pissed people off, it probably did switch a few votes away from me. Silver linings, considering I'm almost certainly dead once I get that chip back in my head.

[Spike, do not joke(?) about this. He pulls out a selection of different colours of nail polish and gestures to a couple of chairs on the balcony.]