Season 2, Episode 5

Written by David Greenwalt

Directed by David Greenwalt

Original Airdate: 13 October 1997

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."

REGULAR CAST

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers

• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris

• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg

• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase

• David Boreanaz as Angel

• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

GUEST CAST

• Greg Vaughan as Richard Anderson

• Todd Babcock as Tom Warner

• Jordana Spiro as Callie Anderson

CO-STARRING

• Robin Atkins Downes as Machida

• Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson

• Christopher Dahlberg as Tackle

• Jason Posey as Linebacker

• Coby Bell as Young Boy

SYNOPSIS

• Somewhere in Sunnydale, a girl jumps out of a window and is then chased into a cemetery. She is caught and brought back to where she started. Buffy and the gang are unaware of this and are very happy with the little amount of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles keeps ragging on Buffy to become better and work on her training. But Buffy is upset because he is not allowing her to be a teenager.
  
  The next day at school, Cordelia introduces Buffy to her boyfriend Richard and his friend Tom. Buffy is invited to a party but turns them down, claiming she's involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol and meets up with Angel. They find a bracelet on the ground which Angel smells blood on. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she doesn't know what she wants in life. She runs off because she loves him, and even though she can only see him in the dark…she doesn't care.
  
  Now, since Angel has rejected her, she decides to go to the Frat party with Cordelia. Buffy chooses not to tell Giles or Angel about her date. Later that night, Giles and Willow research a bracelet found at the cemetery and find that it is from Kent Prepatory School outside of Sunnydale. Then Angel appears and wants to know what happened to Buffy. Willow tells them that Buffy went to the Fraternity where they suspect the frat guys are taking girls. She yells at Giles for being so hard on Buffy and Angel for being so stupid to turn down Buffy for a cup of coffee, even though he is going to live forever. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.
  
  At the party, Buffy dances with Tom to avoid drunk frat guys. Xander sneaks into the party and tries to disguise himself. He is not so lucky and is caught. Some frat guys dress him up as a girl and make him dance. Meanwhile, Buffy finally decides to accept a drink. The drink is drugged and Buffy stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is on the floor, unconscious. When Cordelia and Buffy wake up, they are chained up in a basement below the frat house as an offering for a reptile god. Cordelia is chosen first and Buffy struggles to break out of her chains.
  
  Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They all sneak into the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy finally breaks free and fights with Tom. She knocks him aside and then uses his sword to cut the demon, Machida, in half. Cordelia is saved and all the frat guys are taken away to be arrested. Afterwards, everyone meets up at the Bronze. Angel appears and says he would like to have coffee with Buffy sometime. She plays it cool and says, "Sometime, I'll let you know."

TRIVIA

• Guest star Greg Vaughan's named is misspelled 'Vaughn' in the guest star credits, and he was also in Malibu Shores with Charisma Carpenter.

• The character of demon Machida was originally supposed to be in at least two episodes, but due to the difficulty in putting on the makeup and some technical problems (through which one of the stuntmen passed out), he was killed off in this episode.

CONTINUITY

• Buffy and Angel agree to maybe meet for coffee. They attempt to do this in Halloween.

• Its seems Cordelia briefly dates Jonathan on the rebound at the end of this episode. Harmony jokingly suggests she do this in The Wish.

GOOFS

• The members of the Zeta Kappa fraternity were tried and sentenced awfully fast. In one day?

• Cordelia tells Buffy specifically not to wear black, but Buffy shows up at the party in a black dress. She may have done this to spite Cordelia.

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