Edited sentence: Angel despairs too soon when Dru sires Darla.As for Connor himself, though, the "life" he gets is so far from ideal that he never has a single chance, let alone a second.Because she directly experiences Angel's compassion and integrity during these trials, Darla realizes that her second chance is not about living, but about dying with grace.Contact with her unborn son's soul allows her to once again feel love and to remember Angel's unwavering strength of purpose.Darla is not mundanely fated to passively waste away as a human, but is miraculously given the chance as a vampire to actively choose to do good.For murdering psycho narcissist Jasmine, of course, the important thing about Connor's life is that it ultimately allows Jasmine herself to be born.For the principles, however, her advent is an unparalleled catastrophe.He is wrong to believe his fragile gift is obviated by the loss of Darla's soul, because the "second chance" he inadvertently teaches her to value (a chance which they both had to learn--from the Valet, no less--began the moment Darla was summoned back) is merely deferred for several months.In the final episode of season four, "Home," Angel, by now intimately familiar with the cosmic life-for-a-life drill, makes an even more heartwrenching sacrifice to win his son his own second chance.In the third season episode "Lullaby," Darla finds the redemption Angel so desperately seeks for her.Perhaps the spark of Connor's life is the prize Angel wins for Darla.Still, Jasmine may be right for the wrong reason