i getcha, i agree and disagree though...while i do agree, he probably wouldve went after vicious anyway, as soon as julia was killed, he proceeded to hunt down vicious...spike was truly pissed off (first time he was really that mad...mad enough to take revenge that i recall)...he killed vicious in the name of julia, the whole reason julia even came to spike was to warn him, even though she was supposed to kill him...without her, spike had no more existing reason to meet up with vicious...