"I was going to not mention it" he told her calmly "Mostly for this exact reason, you like your neutrality way too much and helping me would have put you square in his sights, which at that point was not a place you needed to be"
He'd thought it all through, including keeping her out of it, besides she might not have agreed with the lengths he had been willing to go to, messing with Spike how he had been, calling himself Doyle and claiming to want to set the peroxide blonde vamp up as Champion.
And she hadn't needed to know about the failsafe.
"Of course theres a failsafe. It was Wolfram and Hart, you think they didn't have every contingancy planned for, including Angel stepping out of line, no babe they were ready, Eve clued me in on the whole thing and how best to use it, so, I tried to use it. Didnt work" he shrugged "Obviously"