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Cordelia has decided college boys are her mission in life, while Buffy has decided her mission is her life, and it sucks. Giles is scolding her constantly, and Angel is upping the angst factor in the way that only he can. Cordelia's plans to snare a rich college boy at a frat party have hit a slight flaw: they want Buffy to tag along. Buffy decides to go with Cordy, since she wants an unundead boyfriend, and just one night of normal juvenile fun. This is fine on paper, except the frat boys kidnap girls on a yearly basis to sacrifice them to a large demonic snake who lives in the basement of their frat house. They drug Buffy and Cordy, who wake up chained to the wall by the snake demon. The rest of the Gang find this out and storm in to the rescue. Buffy decides Angel's not such a bad boyfriend after all.
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| Number: |
Episode 17 |
| Titel: |
Reptile Boy |
| Book: |
David Greenwalt |
| Direction: |
David Greenwalt |
| on TV: |
USA: 13.10.1997 / |
| Guests: |
Tom Warner Todd Babcock
Richard Anderson Greg Vaughan
Callie Anderson Jordana Spiro
Machida Robin Atkin Downes
Jonathan Levinson Danny Strong |
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A rare night off for the Slayer finds her happily goofing off, watching silly Indian movies with Xander and Willow, who seems to be the only one who understands them. But all is, as usual, not well in Sunnydale. A young woman jumps out the second floor window of a house, chased by several men in robes. They catch up to her in the graveyard and re-capture her.
Reality returns for Buffy the next day. Giles chews her out for missing weapons training and hand-to-hand, and orders her to train and patrol that night. Then Cordelia introduces her to a pair of fraternity guys. One, Richard, is pretty obnoxious, but the other, Tom, is actually quite charming. He invites Buffy to a party the fraternity is having the next night, but thoughts of Angel prompt Buffy to decline. On patrol that night, Buffy finds a broken bracelet, and then Angel arrives and says he can smell blood on it. The ensuing discussion, about their relationship, quickly goes south and Buffy changes her mind about going to the party. Meanwhile, the fraternity inducts a new brother, watched by the girl they captured in the graveyard, who is chained to the wall.
Buffy lies to Giles about going to the party, upsetting Willow and prompting Xander to decide to crash the party (or is it the rumors of orgies?). At the party, Tom saves Buffy from having to dance with a boorish lout, Buffy finds some broken glass on the ground, and Xander the crasher is busted. Back at the library, the bracelet leads Willow and Giles to the discovery of a girl, Callie Megan Anderson, missing from Kent Prep School for over a week. Meanwhile, at the party, Buffy's drink is drugged. She collapses on the bed, and Tom says that she and Cordy are there "for the pleasure of the one we serve."
Giles and Willow find that two other girls went missing a year ago, almost to the day. They call Angel, and they figure out that something must be going on at the frat house. Willow then blurts out that Buffy went to the party, and reams Giles and Angel out for driving her to it. Then they set out to help Buffy, who, along with Cordelia and Callie, is chained to a wall in the basement of the frat house. They are, Tom reveals, to be offerings to Machida, a reptilian demon who bursts forth from a well in the basement and views his "offerings."
Willow, Giles, and Angel run into a humiliated Xander at the frat house, and together they rush to the rescue. Buffy is doing okay herself: she's managed to yank her chains out of the wall. She cleans Tom's clock and dispatches Machida. The frat boys go to jail, their parents suffer financial ruination, and Buffy agrees to go out for coffee with Angel... some time.
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Willow's explanation of the Indian movie: "She's sad because her lover gave her twelve gold coins, but then the wizard cut open the bag of salt, and now the dancing minions have no place to put their big maple... fish thing."
Willow on coffee: "It's the non-relationship drink of choice. It's not a date, it's a caffeinated beverage. Okay, sure, it's hot and bitter like a relationship that way, but..."
Willow's first-ever outburst: "(to Angel)Well, why do you think she went to that party? Because you gave her the brush-off! (to Giles) And you never let her do anything except work and patrol! And I know she's the chosen one, but you're killing her with the pressure! I mean, she's sixteen going on forty! (to Angel) And you! I mean, you're gonna live forever! You don't have time for a cup of coffee? Okay, I don't feel better now, and we've gotta help Buffy."
Willow, yet again: "Hey! Buffy! Snake! Basement! Now!"
Buffy: "I told one lie, I had one drink." Giles: "Yes, and you were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture."
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Act of Faith - "Bring Me On" (From Scream, self-released, 1997)
This is the song the frat brothers make Xander dance to as punishment for crashing their party.
Louie Says - "She" (From Gravity, Suffering, Love and Fate, RCA Records, 1997)
This is the slow song which Tom and Buffy dance to after he saves her from the drunken lout. It also plays at the end, when Buffy says she'll go out for coffee with Angel "...some time."
This episode also includes the original songs "If I Can't Have You" (as Richard greets Buffy and Cordelia at the frat party) and "Wolves"(as Buffy watches Cordelia walk off with Richard), both by series composers Shawn K. Clement and Sean Murray
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