Season 1, Episode 6
Written by Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkmeyer
Directed by Bruce Seth Green
Original Airdate: 7 April 1997
"You remember, you fail math, you flunk out of
school, you end up being the guy at the pizza place that sweeps the floor
and says, "Hey, kids, where's the cool parties this weekend?" We've been
through this."
Willow Rosenberg
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
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Ken Lerner as
Principal Bob Flutie
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Eion Bailey as
Kyle DuFours
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Michael McRaine as
Rhonda Kelley
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Brian Gross as
Tor Hauer
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Jennifer Sky as
Heidi Barrie
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Jeff Maynard as
Lance Lincoln
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James Stephens as
Dr. Wierick
CO-STARRING
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David Brisbin as
Mr. Anderson
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Barbara K. Whinnery as
Mrs. Anderson
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Gregory White as
Coach Herrold
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Justin Jon Ross as
Joey Anderson
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Jeffrey Steven Smith as
Adam
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Patrese Borem as
Woman
SYNOPSIS
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At the Sunnydale Zoo, Buffy walks sulkingly around
while Xander and Willow amuse themselves by watching the zebras mate.
Four students, Rhonda, Heidi, Kyle and Tor find much pleasure in causing
trouble and picking on other students including Buffy and another
student, Lance. While teasing Lance, Principal Flutie walks up on the
group, threatening them, but Lance sticks up for them and they award him
with the honour of escorting them into the restricted Hyena exhibit.
Xander spots them and offers to go in and save the day. After he leaves,
Buffy and Willow decide that they should follow, just in case. But they
are stopped by a zookeeper who tells them that the area is restricted
because the hyenas just came in from Africa and they are quarantined.
In the Hyena cage, the four bullies push Lance dangerously close to the
hyenas. Xander arrives just in time to stop them and get caught by the
hyena's glares. The eyes of all four bullies, including Xander, glow
brightly and they all start laughing. Later, at the Bronze, Xander
begins to show signs of change when he rudely eats Buffy's food and
then, after the pack of bullies come in and start teasing an overweight
boy, he joins in on it. At school, the change progresses even further
when he drops geometry as well as his friendship with Willow. Buffy
doesn't know what's wrong with him, and worst of all, Giles doesn't want
to believe her.
Xander and the rest of the pack, go on a hunt for food. They find their
meal in Herbert, the school mascot who is a pig. Later, when they find
him eaten, Giles decides that there is something wrong with Xander and
the other four. They all research and find out that with the help of a
specific ceremony, the sprits of the hyenas - a special African breed -
were lifted into the five. Buffy goes out in search for Xander and the
pack, hoping to stop them from hurting anyone else. She starts her
inspection in Herbert's room where she finds the cage, torn to pieces
and Herbert's remains on the floor.
In the room, she encounters Xander whom she later fights with until he
pins her up against the soda machine and attempts sexual assault. Buffy
brings him, unconscious, back to the library after hitting him with a
desk and locks him up. Meanwhile, the rest of the pack are sent to the
Principal's office. After Principal Flutie tries to lecture them, they
attack him and eat him. After Giles returns from a meeting where he is
informed of Principal Flutie's death, he and Buffy take off to get more
information from the zoo keeper while Willow stays with Xander. When he
awakens, he tries to lure the keys away from her, but she's smart enough
not to let him.
At the zoo, they work together to try the transpossesion of the students
in hopes of removing the hyena's sprits and putting them back into the
creatures. When they discover that the pack will come looking for it's
lost member before feeding, Buffy rushes back to the school to save
Willow. However, the pack has already gotten there and breaks Xander out
of the cage while Willow runs away. She is cornered in a classroom by
Xander but Buffy and Giles arrive in time for them to save her.
When the pack goes off looking for another meal, they prey on a family
of three that are getting into their car and leaving somewhere. They
attack the car and Buffy comes to break up their party. In the meantime,
Giles discovers the truth behind what happened. The zookeeper was trying
to transport the hyena sprits into himself, but failed. Giles is knocked
unconscious and dragged into the back room. When Willow hears Buffy
getting closer, she runs in to warn Giles and the zookeeper. Instead,
she is taken hostage and held at knifepoint while the zookeeper
transfers the spirits into his own body.
Just as he's about to bite Willow, Xander jumps at him, knocking Willow
away to a safe distance. Buffy fights the keeper and ends up dropping
him into the hyena cage. The next day, Xander apologizes for anything he
may have done while a hyena and hopes that Buffy will forget about his
attack on her when he pretends to not remember anything. After the girls
leave, Giles tells Xander that he doesn't know of any memory loss being
a factor in an animal possession. Xander asks him to keep that their
little secret.
TRIVIA
CONTINUITY
GOOFS
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In the dodge ball scene, why is Buffy the only
student wearing a strappy top when all the others are wearing t-shirts?
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When the hyena-people eat the pig, they close the
blinds but when they attack Principal Flutie they don't close them. This
could be explained however by the fact that at this point they're so
wild they don't care who sees them.
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Some of the video clips of hyenas that Willow
watches on her computer monitor are actually of African wild dogs.
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