ReVamped: Season 2 - Inca Mummy Girl

16. Inca Mummy Girl

Original Air Date: October 06, 1997
Written by: Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer
Directed by: Ellen Pressman

Guest Cast:
Ara Celi (Ampata)
Jason Hall (Devon)
Henrik Rosvall (Sven)
Joey Crawford (Rodney)
Danny Strong (Jonathan)
Kristen Winnicki (Gwen)
Gil Birmingham (Peru Guy)
Samuel Jacobs (Peruvian boy)

Sunnydale High is boasting a new cultural exchange program --students from other countries being hosted by local families, and a celebration of culture's dance is being plan.
Everything is swell until Xander finds out that Buffy's student is a guy.
At a school museum trip, a 500-year-old mummy, holding a cursed seal which serves as a warning to any who wake her, is on exhibit.
When everyone leaves, dimwitted student Rodney tries to take the seal. It breaks, and the mummy arises, grabs him, kisses him and mummifies him.
                                    When Rodney turns up missing, Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow go to the museum
                                    to look for clues and find him mummified, and a man with a knife jumps out at them.
                                    Giles tries to decipher what's left of the smashed seal, but it is difficult as the writing
                                    is in ancient pictograms.
                                    Buffy's exchange student arrives at the bus station, only to meet the same fate as
                                    Rodney. From this latest kiss, the 500-year-old mummy transforms into Ampata, a
                                    beautiful Peruvian teenage girl who pretends to be the exchange student.
Xander goes gaga over her and Giles asks her to help him decipher the seal. She says the picture of a man with a knife represents a bodyguard.
As Xander hangs out with Ampata, the knife guy shows up again, looking for the rest of the seal.
Ampata, shaken, tells Giles to destroy it, but Giles wants to go back to the museum to find the missing parts. Knife guy returns in the ladies' room, and Ampata finally kisses and mummifies him, too.
Xander takes Ampata to the school dance, and Buffy discovers the real exchange student's mummified corpse in her trunk.
She and Giles realize Ampata's the mummy. It seems she was in a similar situation to Buffy's -- she was chosen to defend her people, and was killed at 16.
Meanwhile, things are getting hot and heavy at the dance with Xander and Ampata, but she is starting to turn back into a mummy. She must kiss someone quickly or it will be too late. She runs away from Xander and goes to the museum to try to break the seal that Giles is just about to restore.
                                          Buffy saves Giles before Ampata kisses him, but gets thrown into the tomb.
                                          When Willow tries to help, Xander intervenes and offers his own life instead.
                                          Buffy escapes from the tomb just in time to pull the now re-mummified Ampata
                                          off of Xander, and the poor guy's dance partner breaks into pieces.

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