(episode
written by David Greenwalt, directed by Bruce
Seth Green)
Buffy
is fighting a vampire at the bronze, in a silky
red dress. She is outmatched, and is pinned
against the pool table. Xander intervenes and
knocks the vampire to the ground. Buffy is
gratefull, she looks up into his eyes, then
notices his hand is hurt. The vampire gets up,
and Xander promptly 'dusts' him. He goes up onto
the stage and picks up a guitar, and starts to
strum. Buffy looks up at him longingly from the
front of the crowd. Then she tells him he's
dribbling.....
...
Buffy nudges Xander, who has drifted off into
dreamland, and points out he's dribbling. They
are in their science lesson. Dr Gregory is
teaching them about insects. He notices Buffy
talk to Xander and goes over to her. He points
out that if she's done her homework she should be
able to answer his next question. He has his back
to Xander and Willow. He asks Buffy how 'ants'
communicate. Willow starts to touch Xanders back,
stroke it. Buffy says 'Touch?', but there is
another. Willow starts to 'sniff' Xanders back.
Buffy is confused, she answers 'meuw?'. The class
laugh... Dr Gregory asks Buffy to remain behind
at the end of the lesson. Instead of the 'lost
cause' lecture that she is expecting, Dr Gregory
tells her that she is obviously intelligent, and
definately a quick thinker, if she actually made
the effort to apply herself she could do
extremely well in science. He expects nothing
less. Buffy is pleased that a teacher is seeing
something positive in her, and promises to work
harder. She leaves. Dr Gregory changes his
glasses and goes over to a 'negatives table' to
look at some slides. A claw reaches around his
neck and his glasses fall to the ground...
Xander
is prowling at the Bronze, but without much luck.
He heads over to the bar, where a couple of other
High School students are sat. They are discussing
their 'scores'. Xander is brought into the
conversation, and he says 'this week or this
month?'. They don't believe him, but Buffy and
Willow walk in just at that moment. Xander makes
a comment to the guys and heads over to the girls
and puts his arms around them. He tells them his
manliness is being questioned so Willow gives him
a big hug. Buffy notices someone across the
Bronze, it's Angel. She ignores Xander and heads
over to him. Xander is not happy, this Angel guy
is 'buff', Buffy never said he was 'buff'. Angel
thinks Buffy looks cold so gives her his leather
jacket. She notices an injury to his arm. He
warns her about a vampire who is in town, he
calls him 'fork guy'. He's dangerous, Buffy
should be carefull. He leaves.
At
school the following day they discover that Dr
Gregory is missing. They are sitting outside,
near the front entrance. The substitute teacher
catches Xanders attention very quickly. She is a
'hottie', and all the boys seem very drawn to
her. She asks Xander where the science labs are,
but in his distracted state he can't remember.
One of the boys who had been questioning Xanders
manliness at the Bronze comes over and offers to
show Miss French to the labs. Blayne points out
that he's played varsity football, and Miss
French goes off with him into the school. In the
science lesson Miss French starts to teach the
class about the Praying Mantis. Buffy says they
are 'bug ugly', but Miss French doesn't agree.
She thinks they are wonderful fascinating
creatures. She asks for volunteers to help make
some papier mache 'egg sacks' as a project, and
all of the boys immediately volunteer. Blayne
gets the number one slot, and Xander is to be
second.
They
are discussing Miss French in the queue at lunch.
Blayne tries to rub it in that he is first, but
Xander turns it around to say that Blayne is the
practice run. Cordelia comes passed and goes over
to the fridge. She tells one of the kitchen
ladies that a special meal should have been
delivered, from her dietician, and promptly opens
the large fridge door. She screams. Buffy, Willow
and Xander instinctively go over to see what's
there. It's Dr Gregory, minus his head...
...
Giles gives Buffy a glass of water as she sits on
the library stairs. Dr Gregory was her favourite
teacher, he was a nice teacher, who could do
this? They discuss some possibilities, and Giles
does some more research on the 'fork guy'. They
conclude that the beheading is not the 'fork
guys' m.o. so guess that another evil must be at
work. In the meantime, Giles suggests that Buffy
is carefull out on patrol, and stays away from
the park where a 'shredded' homeless guy was
found.
Buffy
goes to the park to find the 'fork guy'. She
needs to take her 'grief' out on someone, so it
might aswell be him. She eventually finds his
lair and he comes out at her. She fends him off,
and they fight. Before one can get the upper hand
on the other the police arrive, just out of
sight. The 'fork guy' runs for it, and so does
Buffy. He jumps over the fence that surrounds the
park and approaches a woman carrying some
shopping, it's Miss French. Buffy gets to the
fence to see Miss French turn around to face the
vampire, he hisses and runs for the nearest drain
cover and disappears underground.
Buffy
reports in to Giles the following morning. He is
not happy about her going to the park, but they
have more important things to deal with. Whatever
could Miss French be that an evil vampire was
actually scared of her. Buffy is late for class,
so they leave it at that for now. On her way to
the labs she crosses paths with Principle Flutie.
Everyone who witnessed the body in the fridge has
to have counselling, no exeptions. By the time
Buffy gets to class they are all well into a
test. As Buffy looks through the glass in the
door Miss French turns her head 180 degrees to
look at her.... Buffy heads back to the library
and starts some research. What can turn it's head
180 degrees. She starts with insects. After she
has head into the stacks she comes out again and
asks Giles where that section is... They discover
that Blayne has been reported missing by his
parents, that he never came home last night after
his extra curricular project work with Miss
French. Buffy discovers one creature that can
turn it's head around 180 degress, the Praying
Mantis. When Buffy declares Miss French to be a
giant Praying Mantis it trigures off a memory of
Giles, back when he was at college. One of his
friends had studied Entomology (insects) and
fairy tales. Giles makes some phone calls and
manages to get in touch with his old friend, who
is now in a mental home. He had discovered a
creature that could make you see what you wanted
to see, like a person, when in fact they weren't.
The creature he had hunted was a large Praying
Mantis... Buffy tries to warn Xander about
staying away from Miss French, but he won't
listen.
Xander
goes over to Miss French's house to work on the
project. When he gets there she is wearing a
little black dress and gives him a martini. He
starts to lose consciousness.... When he wakes up
he is in a cage in her basement, with a very
frightened Blayne in the next cage. He has seen
what is destined to happen to them if they can't
escape. Xander manages to free one of the bars
between the two cages. Blayne is pleased at
first, then realises neither can escape. Xander
points out that the bar will make a usefull
weapon. Blayne climbs through into Xanders cage,
and they both sit at the back awaiting their
fate.
When
the gang check on Xander, they are told he has
gone to his teachers house to study, but his
parents don't know the address. Willow looks up
the files on the computer and gets the address
for Miss French. Giles is sent out to the video
archives to get a tape recording of bat sonar,
while Buffy gets tooled up. With everything
gathered together the posse head out to rescue
their friend.
Miss
French starts to 'eeny meeny miny moe', to pick
her next mate. She picks Xander. He reluctantly
leaves the cage, then attacks her with the bar
and dashes for the stairs. She catches his leg
and pulls him back...
When
the gang get to Miss French's house all they find
is an old lady. It's the wrong house, sort of. It
is Miss French, but not their Miss French, she
has stolen her identity. Buffy comes up with an
idea to help find out which house she's living
in, it's got to be that neighbourhood because
that's where she saw her with her shopping. Buffy
manages to find the 'fork handed' vampire and
ties him up. She forces him to head along the
road with them and he suddenly becomes agitated.
Thats the house. The vampire gets free form the
ropes and attacks Buffy. After a brief scuffle
she manages to slay him.
Xander
is tied up and Miss French is getting closer.
Buffy and the others come in through the side
window and Buffy sprays insect repellant at Miss
French. She backs away. Xander is freed and Buffy
asks Giles to play the bat sonar. When he
switches it on, the tape is on the wrong side.
There is a scuffle and Giles drops the tape
machine. He eventually recovers it and switches
on the bat sonar. Miss french is disorientated
and Buffy goes to work discecting her with a
machette. When Buffy is finished Xander takes the
machette from Buffy and starts to attack the egg
sacks...
...inside
the science lab cupboard is a sack of eggs.......
Narration written by Lizzie Lake.
This episode narration is purely my own
interpretation of the episode. I am in no way
connected with the show or it's creators or
owners. All Buffy copyrights etc are owned by
20th Century Fox / Warner Brothers / Joss Whedon
etc.
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