Season 2, Episode 4
Written by Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkmeyer
Directed by Ellen S. Pressman
Original Airdate: 6 October 1997
Ampata "You are strange."
Xander "Girls always tell me that. Right before they run away."
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Jason Hall as
Devon MacLeish
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Henrik Rosvall as Sven
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Joey Crawford as Rodney Munson
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Danny Strong as
Jonathan Levinson
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Kristen Winnicki as Gwen Ditchik
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Gil Birmingham as Peru Guy
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Samuel Jacobs as Peruvian Boy
SYNOPSIS
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When Sunnydale High starts it's cultural exchange
program, Buffy is stuck with an exchange student that her mom signs her
up with. When Xander discovers that Buffy's exchange student is a guy,
he freaks. During a museum trip, a 500-year-old mummy girl, with a
cursed seal, is on display. After everyone leaves, a mischievous Rodney
tries to take the seal but breaks it. The mummy girl wakes up now the
curse is broken. She pulls Rodney into her tomb and mummifies him. When
Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles finally put together the pieces of the
missing boy, freaky mummy girl, and Sunnydale, they rush to the museum
to try to save the day. However, they encounter the mummy's guard and
discover that Rodney has now been mummified.
Buffy's exchange student arrives at the Bus Station, and the mummy girl
sucks the life out of him too. Then after those two wonderful meals this
500-year-old looks 16. Xander falls in love at first sight. Giles asks
this girl, Ampata, to decipher the seal but she warns him to destroy it
since she knows that its destruction will free her from the curse
permanently. The guard that is supposed to protect the mummy keeps
trying to find the rest of the seal and keep the mummy dead. But
unknowingly Buffy and the gang are getting in the way. This bodyguard
keeps popping up trying to get the girl back into the box. In the
ladies' room Ampata encounters this knife guard, and then sucks the life
out of him too.
Ampata is supposedly shaken by the weirdness of this knife guy, then
Xander asks her to the dance to try to relieve her, as well as get a
date with his dream girl. She accepts and they go. However, Xander's
feelings for Ampata alienate Willow. Meanwhile, at the dance, a
guitarist, Oz, shows an interest in Willow, but has no clue who she is.
Buffy and Giles stay in on Dance night to figure out this mystery. They
discover that Ampata is the Mummy Girl. Giles tries to put together the
pieces of the seal while Buffy tries to save Xander from Ampata's deadly
kiss. But there's no need: Ampata feels too much for Xander and she
can't kill him. So, back at the museum, Ampata tries to stop Giles from
putting the seal back together. Buffy saves Giles...then Ampata starts
to deteriorate as she tries to feed off Willow. Xander puts his life on
the line to save Willow, but Ampata dies before she can kill him.
They all go home, as their wacky love lives take yet another turn,
leaving Oz wondering who Willow was.
TRIVIA
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This episode sees the first appearance of
many new characters. The key one is Seth Green, who makes his first
appearance as Oz in this episode. He appears in ten episodes of the
second season, and becomes a series regular for season three. The other
characters are Danny Strong's Jonathan, who becomes critical later in
season six, and Devon MacLeish, played by Jason Hall, who appears until
season four.
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Oz's band, Dingoes Ate My Baby, are shown
playing at the Cultural Dance. Their name comes from a famous Australian
outback incident, in which Lindy Chamberlain was accused of killing her
baby, which had actually been taken by dingoes. The band was first
mentioned in the unaired Buffy pilot, where Xander says, "They
don't know any chords yet, but they have really big amps". The Dingoes'
music was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary, with whom James
Marsters has occasionally performed. Four Star Mary themselves appeared
in the fourth season finale Restless.
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For the first and last time, David Boreanaz
is absent from an episode where he credited as a series regular. In
another note, this is the first time he's been absent since season one's
Nightmares.
CONTINUITY
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Oz wonders who that girl is in this
episode. He's referring to Willow, and refers to her the same way in Halloween.
He finally meets her in
What's My Line? (Part 1).
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Xander asks Ampata if she's a
Preying-Mantis, referring to Natalie French from
Teacher's Pet.
GOOFS
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In Oz's close-up during the song 'Shadows',
just before Xander and Ampata walk in, Oz's fret-hand is obviously not
doing what the guitar in the song is doing.
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Giles is just about ready to add the final
piece to the seal. Then Ampata attacks him and picks up the seal, which
is entirely whole although we never saw Giles finish assembling it.
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When the bodyguard attacks Ampata as she is
sitting with Xander, a bag gets knocked off the seat and onto a
footrest. But when Xander gets up to chase the bodyguard, the bag is
back on the seat.
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The corpse in Ampata's trunk shifts sides
in between Buffy's first and second attempts to lift the lid on the
trunk.
When She Was
Bad |
Some Assembly Required |
School Hard |
Inca Mummy Girl |
Reptile Boy
Halloween |
Lie to Me |
The Dark Age |
What's My Line? (Part 1) |
What's My Line? (Part 2) |
Ted
Bad Eggs |
Surprise |
Innocence |
Phases |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
Passion
Killed by
Death |
I Only Have Eyes for You |
Go Fish |
Becoming (Part 1) |
Becoming (Part 2)
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