diff --git a/lib/change_detection/watch_group.dart b/lib/change_detection/watch_group.dart
index b3085562a..65866e497 100644
--- a/lib/change_detection/watch_group.dart
+++ b/lib/change_detection/watch_group.dart
@@ -291,8 +291,7 @@ class WatchGroup implements _EvalWatchList, _WatchGroupList {
 
     // Unlink the _watchRecord
     _EvalWatchRecord firstEvalWatch = _evalWatchHead;
-    _EvalWatchRecord lastEvalWatch =
-        (_watchGroupTail == null ? this : _watchGroupTail)._evalWatchTail;
+    _EvalWatchRecord lastEvalWatch = _childWatchGroupTail._evalWatchTail;
     _EvalWatchRecord previous = firstEvalWatch._prevEvalWatch;
     _EvalWatchRecord next = lastEvalWatch._nextEvalWatch;
     if (previous != null) previous._nextEvalWatch = next;
diff --git a/lib/core/scope.dart b/lib/core/scope.dart
index 707d59568..050a9a514 100644
--- a/lib/core/scope.dart
+++ b/lib/core/scope.dart
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ class ScopeLocals implements Map {
  * for change detection, change processing and memory management.
  */
 class Scope {
+  final String id;
+  int _childScopeNextId = 0;
 
   /**
    * The default execution context for [watch]es [observe]ers, and [eval]uation.
@@ -182,7 +184,7 @@ class Scope {
   bool get hasOwnStreams => _streams != null  && _streams._scope == this;
 
   Scope(Object this.context, this.rootScope, this._parentScope,
-        this._readWriteGroup, this._readOnlyGroup);
+        this._readWriteGroup, this._readOnlyGroup, this.id);
 
   /**
    * A [watch] sets up a watch in the [digest] phase of the [apply] cycle.
@@ -271,7 +273,8 @@ class Scope {
     assert(isAttached);
     var child = new Scope(childContext, rootScope, this,
                           _readWriteGroup.newGroup(childContext),
-                          _readOnlyGroup.newGroup(childContext));
+                          _readOnlyGroup.newGroup(childContext),
+                         '$id:${_childScopeNextId++}');
 
     var prev = _childTail;
     child._prev = prev;
@@ -301,6 +304,26 @@ class Scope {
     _readWriteGroup.remove();
     _readOnlyGroup.remove();
     _parentScope = null;
+
+    assert((() {
+      var scopes = [this];
+      while(scopes.isNotEmpty) {
+        Scope scope = scopes.removeAt(0);
+        Scope childScope = scope._childHead;
+        while(childScope != null) {
+          scopes.add(childScope);
+          childScope = childScope._next;
+        }
+
+        scope._next = scope._prev = null;
+        scope._childHead = scope._childTail = null;
+        if (scope._streams != null) scope._streams._release();
+        scope._streams = null;
+      }
+
+      return true;
+    })());
+
   }
 
   _assertInternalStateConsistency() {
@@ -422,7 +445,8 @@ class RootScope extends Scope {
             this._scopeStats)
       : super(context, null, null,
             new RootWatchGroup(new DirtyCheckingChangeDetector(cacheGetter), context),
-            new RootWatchGroup(new DirtyCheckingChangeDetector(cacheGetter), context))
+            new RootWatchGroup(new DirtyCheckingChangeDetector(cacheGetter), context),
+            '')
   {
     _zone.onTurnDone = apply;
     _zone.onError = (e, s, ls) => _exceptionHandler(e, s);
@@ -595,7 +619,7 @@ class RootScope extends Scope {
 class _Streams {
   final ExceptionHandler _exceptionHandler;
   /// Scope we belong to.
-  final Scope _scope;
+  /*final*/ Scope _scope;
   /// [Stream]s for [_scope] only
   final _streams = new Map<String, ScopeStream>();
   /// Child [Scope] event counts.
@@ -729,6 +753,11 @@ class _Streams {
       scope = scope._parentScope;
     }
   }
+
+  void _release() {
+    _scope = null;
+    _streams.clear();
+  }
 }
 
 class ScopeStream extends async.Stream<ScopeEvent> {
diff --git a/test/change_detection/watch_group_spec.dart b/test/change_detection/watch_group_spec.dart
index b18aaa2d7..84d9503ac 100644
--- a/test/change_detection/watch_group_spec.dart
+++ b/test/change_detection/watch_group_spec.dart
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ void main() {
         expect(watchGrp.totalFieldCost).toEqual(2);
       });
 
-      it('should remove all method watches in group and group\'s children', () {
+      iit('should remove all method watches in group and group\'s children', () {
         context['my'] = new MyClass(logger);
         AST countMethod = new MethodAST(parse('my'), 'count', []);
         watchGrp.watch(countMethod, (v, p) => logger('0a'));
@@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ void main() {
         var child1a = watchGrp.newGroup(new PrototypeMap(context));
         var child1b = watchGrp.newGroup(new PrototypeMap(context));
         var child2 = child1a.newGroup(new PrototypeMap(context));
+        var child3 = child2.newGroup(new PrototypeMap(context));
         child1a.watch(countMethod, (v, p) => logger('1a'));
         expectOrder(['0a', '1a']);
         child1b.watch(countMethod, (v, p) => logger('1b'));
@@ -612,12 +613,14 @@ void main() {
         expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1a', '1A', '1b']);
         child2.watch(countMethod, (v, p) => logger('2A'));
         expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1a', '1A', '2A', '1b']);
+        child3.watch(countMethod, (v, p) => logger('3'));
+        expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1a', '1A', '2A', '3', '1b']);
 
         // flush initial reaction functions
-        expect(watchGrp.detectChanges()).toEqual(6);
-        expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1a', '1A', '2A', '1b']);
+        expect(watchGrp.detectChanges()).toEqual(7);
+        expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1a', '1A', '2A', '3', '1b']);
 
-        child1a.remove(); // should also remove child2
+        child1a.remove(); // should also remove child2 and child 3
         expect(watchGrp.detectChanges()).toEqual(3);
         expectOrder(['0a', '0A', '1b']);
       });
diff --git a/test/core/scope_spec.dart b/test/core/scope_spec.dart
index c2d2259bb..6d1cc484f 100644
--- a/test/core/scope_spec.dart
+++ b/test/core/scope_spec.dart
@@ -224,11 +224,13 @@ void main() {
       describe('parent', () {
         it('should not have parent', inject((RootScope rootScope) {
           expect(rootScope.parentScope).toEqual(null);
+          expect(rootScope.id).toEqual('');
         }));
 
 
         it('should point to parent', inject((RootScope rootScope) {
           var child = rootScope.createChild(new PrototypeMap(rootScope.context));
+          expect(child.id).toEqual(':0');
           expect(rootScope.parentScope).toEqual(null);
           expect(child.parentScope).toEqual(rootScope);
           expect(child.createChild(new PrototypeMap(rootScope.context)).parentScope).toEqual(child);