Buffy's Mom-sponsored shopping trip to the mall is interrupted by Lyle Gorch, one of two vampire brothers from the Wild Wild West. The next day in school, Xander and Cordelia continue to keep their relationship secret, and the class are given raw eggs to look after as an exercise in responsibility. The eggs are not chickenspawn, but contain mind-possessing facehugger creatures which are taking over the school. Xander avoids being taken, by the simple expedient of boiling his egg to make it easier to look after. Buffy stabs her facehugger with a pair of scissors. The rest of the gang are taken, and knock the two of them out. There is a giant Bezoar demon under the school, which is laying the eggs. Buffy and Xander fight their way into the chamber where the Bezoar lives, but the Gorch brothers arrive as well, and fight some of the possessed as well. Tector Gorch is eaten by the Bezoar, Buffy kills it and Lyle wisely bugs out
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A fight with a cowboy vampire who introduces himself as Lyle Gorch distracts Buffy from picking up a dress for her mother and thus lands her in the doghouse. "A little responsibility is all I ask," Joyce says, and that's exactly what Buffy gets: Mr. Whitmore, the Teen Health teacher, gives the class eggs to watch over as though they were babies, as a lesson in the consequences of sex. That night, Buffy enlists Angel's aid in hunting for Lyle Gorch and his brother Tector, but instead the young lovers wind up smooching as the Gorch brothers watch from afar. When Buffy goes to bed that night, a tentacle emerges from her egg and rests on her face.
The next day, Buffy and Willow are both unusually sluggish, and Willow reports that Mr. Whitmore didn't show up for school. Xander reveals that he hard-boiled his egg. That night it's more kissing instead of slaying for Buffy and Angel, and the mention of her egg project leads Angel to ask Buffy what she sees in her future. "When I look into the future," she replies, "all I see is you. All I want is you." Meanwhile a security guard discovers the door to Sunnydale High's basement open. Going down to investigate he discovers a huge hole in the wall. Mr. Whitmore comes up behind the guard and pushes him into the hole.
When Buffy returns home, she sees her egg twitching. Suddenly it breaks open, and a small, multi-legged creature springs out and attacks her. She manages to kill it and calls Willow to see if the same thing happened. Willow says her egg is normal, and Buffy hangs up, but then we see that Willow's egg has indeed hatched. Willow doesn't look quite herself. All the noise awakens Buffy's mother, who sees Buffy dressed at that late hour and draws the only obvious conclusion — Buffy gets grounded for the rest of her life.
Cordelia also claims ignorance, but when Xander almost eats his hard-boiled slimy thing they have a specimen to dissect. "It's possible Mr. Whitmore wasn't harmed," says Willow. "Maybe the offspring just used him to return to the mother bezoar." Before they can wonder how she knows that, or what a bezoar is, Willow and Cordy knock Buffy and Xander out and deposit them in a closet. Then, joining a parade of other possessed students, they grab shovels and picks and file down to the basement and through the hole. Meanwhile, Joyce arrives at the library to pick up Buffy, but only finds Giles, who makes small talk but then places a hatchling on her neck.
After coming to, Buffy and Xander find Giles' research: the bezoar is a pre-prehistoric parasite who takes control of its victims' motor functions. They trail the possessed students to the basement and find them all digging up the mother bezoar. Then the Gorch brothers show up — bad timing. Buffy and Lyle duke it out, then Tector gets himself eaten by the mother. Lyle blames Buffy and throws her to the ground, leaving her dazed long enough to be dragged down by the mother. A few audible kicks and punches later, the mother's eye closes for the last time, and Buffy emerges, covered in black ichor. Lyle runs away, everyone's possession is broken, and Giles tells everyone it was a gas leak. Joyce confines Buffy to her room, but that doesn't stop her from making out with Angel — with the help of a ladder.
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Mr. Whitmore: "...it's often difficult to remember that there are negative consequences to having sex. Would anyone care to offer one such consequence?"
Cordelia: "Well, that depends. Are you talking about sex in the car or out of the car? Because I have a friend, not me, that was in a Miata parked at the top of the hill, and then she kicked the gearshift, and, and..."
Xander: "Apparently Buffy has decided the problem with the English language is all those pesky words. You... Angel... big... smoochies?"
Xander: "Which is another secret to conscientious egg care. A pot of scalding water and about eight minutes."
Willow: "You boiled your young?"
Giles: "I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression."
Xander: "I resent that! Or possibly thank you."
Cordelia: "It's an egg, Buffy, it doesn't emote."
Xander: "Can I just say... gyuhhhh?"
Buffy: "I see your gyuhhhh and raise you a ngyahhh!"
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