Reptile Boy
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"Reptile Boy" | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 |
Directed by | David Greenwalt |
Written by | David Greenwalt |
Production code | 5V05 |
Original air date | October 13, 1997 |
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"Reptile Boy" is episode five of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written and directed by co-executive producer David Greenwalt. The narrative follows Buffy Summers, the Slayer, who is tired of being responsible and goes to a frat party where she's nearly devoured by a giant snake named Machida, whom the fraternity worship.
Plot
A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and flees into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, The Scooby Gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles presses Buffy to train harder, but she just wants to be a teenager. The next day at school, Cordelia introduces her to two college guys, one of whom invites Buffy to a party. She turns him down, claiming she is involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol at the cemetery and meets Angel, who smells blood on a bracelet on the ground. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she does not know what she wants in life. She runs off, upset.
Buffy decides to go to the frat party with Cordelia without telling Giles or Angel. Later that night, Giles and Willow discover that the bracelet is from Kent Preparatory School, just outside Sunnydale and where Buffy is partying. Angel appears and asks about Buffy. Willow tells the two men why Buffy lied to them. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.
At the party, Buffy tries to avoid drunken frat guys. Xander sneaks in to protect Buffy, but other drunken party-goers recognize him as a crasher and dress him up like a girl. After she relents and accepts a drink. a drugged Buffy stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is lying unconscious. When they wake up, they find themselves chained in a basement with the girl caught in the beginning as an offering for a reptile demon named Machida, whom the fraternity – calling themselves the Delta-Zeta-Kappas – worship. Cordelia is chosen as the first victim, but Buffy distracts the demon and breaks out of her chains.
Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They enter the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy kills the demon, the frat guys are arrested, and Giles promises to stop pushing Buffy so hard. Afterwards, everyone gathers at The Bronze. Xander reads from a newspaper that the frat guys were given life sentences and their family's businesses – and others set up by previous Delta-Zeta-Kappas – are experiencing falling profits, IRS investigations and "suicides in the boardroom" due to the demon's death. Angel appears and asks Buffy out on a coffee date, which she accepts.
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