Angel's Claddagh Ring is a Symbol of Buffy and Angel 's love in Buffy Episode 37

Buffy episode 37 "Faith, Hope and Trick "

This Buffy episode contains numerous references and instances of the Irish Claddagh ring.  Angel's Claddagh ring is a symbol throughout seasons two and three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer of Buffy and Angel 's love.  In this episode, Buffy dreams that she is dancing with Angel and during their dancing, the Claddagh ring that she is wearing slides off of her finger to the floor.  Angel proceeds to pick up the Claddagh ring and clenches it tightly until blood begins to profusely flow from his hand.  Blood then begins to appear from Angel's chest where Buffy had stabbed him with a sword.

Buffy is also being romantically pursued in this episode by Scott Hope, who eventually talks Buffy into a date.  On the date Scott presents Buffy a box, saying he is giving it to her as a sign of their friendship.  In the box is a Claddagh ring, exactly like the ring that Angel gave Buffy that night.  She is of coursed shocked, and drops the ring, where it falls to the ground as it did in her dream.  Buffy and Scott's date is soon over.

Buffy, after much vampire slaying, returns to the mansion that Spike and Angel once inhabited and where Buffy and Angel kissed for the last time.  She lays the Claddagh Ring on the floor of the mansion, and says her final goodbye to Angel.  Just then Angel falls out of a bright light onto the floor of the mansion, having returned from hell.  Angel is naked to the delight of his legion of female fans.  The Irish Claddagh ring is a constant reminder of Buffy and Angel 's love throughout many episodes, and a relic from Angel's vampire beginnings in Ireland.