Written by David Fury & Elin Hampton ~ Directed by David Semel
Not one of the better Buffy episodes, this one starts out at the beach where the swim team is celebrating their victory. While many people party and Xander complains about the swim team getting to have a celebration, Buffy sulks on a rock watching the ocean. A guy, named Cameron approaches Buffy and starts sputtering out poetic words. Buffy tries to scare him off, but he says he's only looking to talk and nothing more. All of a sudden, Jonathon (a recurring extra) is dunked into a bucket of ice water. Buffy rescues him and scares off the two dunkers.
The guys walk off and talk about how weird Buffy is. Then, Todd stops and Gaige keeps walking. Gaige smells something weird but keeps going. As he walks by, Todd's skin is found on the ground with nothing left inside. We see a creature walk through the sewer. The next day, Willow is teaching class and when it is over Snyder confronts her and tells her she should probably let Gaige pass. Buffy comes to school with the guy from the beach and he makes a pass at her. She hits his head against the steering wheel and supposedly breaks his nose. Snyder happens to see this and he and the guy blame Buffy for it all.
Later, Buffy starts rambling on to Giles and her friends about this entire incident. Giles informs her that they found the remains of Todd on the beach. Cameron hits the sauna and while he's in there, hears some weird noises. The coach bursts in and tells him he's had enough. While everyone is studying in the library, Xander gets out to go get a drink. On his way to the machine, he bumps into Cameron. They exchange words and Xander laughs at him for trying to get Buffy. Cameron heads off to the cafeteria for a snack while Xander tries to decide between Grape and Orange soda. Cameron screams and Xander rushes to find the cafeteria in shambles and Cameron's skin on the ground. As he turns around, the creature responsible for the mess appears behind him.
In the library, Cordelia tries to draw the monster that Xander saw before running off like a woman. Buffy and Willow return with the info that Cameron and Todd were the two best swimmers on the team and that Gaige is suspected to be next. Buffy is assigned to shadowing Gaige while Willow gets to interrogate Jonathan under a lamp. Jonathon says he wanted revenge but he only peed in the pool and wasn't responsible for the guys deaths. The next day, Buffy follows Gaige around and he grows suspicious of her. At the Bronze that night, Buffy is caught by Gaige and attempts to cover it up but fails. He ends up leaving to encounter Angel in the parking lot. They talk about Buffy and then Angel vamps out and bites him. Seconds later, he stops and starts to spit the blood out. Buffy comes to the rescue and then walks Gaige home. Buffy suspects that Angel spit his blood out because they were steroids in it.
The following day, Buffy, Willow and Cordelia talk about what could be causing the deaths at the swim team practice. Cordelia comments on the cute new addition to the team and then realizes its Xander. He walks over to them and informs them that he made the team. Willow tells Buffy that Jonathon wasn't responsible for the deaths but he got his revenge by peeing in the pool. Then we see Xander jump into the pool. Later, the team goes to soak in the sauna where Xander continues to babble but no one pays attention. The camera pans down to show claws coming up through a grate.
While Buffy waits for Gaige to exit the locker room, she hears him yell. When she gets in she finds Gaige and a giant fish creature. Gaige then cries out in pain and falls to the ground. He rips open his shirt and then his skin revealing that he's also a creature. Buffy tries to fight them off but one grabs her from behind and bites her arm. The coach comes in and saves her and she is sent to the nurse's office. The coach is told that his team is becoming fish creatures. Buffy and Giles go hunting for fish creatures in the sewers while Xander, again hits the sauna to try and find out how he can get some steroids. The guys tell him that it's in the steam from the sauna.
The nurse tries to put an end to the coach's attempts to make his team better by supplying them with steroids in the steam. He throws her to the fish creatures for food. Xander warns everyone that he's had three exposures to the steam and is worried about becoming a fish creature. Buffy tells Giles to get the rest of the team locked up while she goes to talk to the coach. She does and finds out what he was doing. Holding a gun to her, he tells her to get in the hole. He tells her that she's not for food, but for another purpose.
Xander and Cordelia go to help find the swim team members. Xander goes into the locker room to check and see if he's becoming scaly. A creature formerly known as Jason comes out and jumps in the pool. Cordy thinks it's Xander and goes into a huge speech about how much she cares for him. He kneels down by her and tells her that's not him. Back at the library, Xander decides that since Buffy hasn't returned, he should go after her. He meets up with the coach and fights him for the gun. Xander wins and knocks the coach out. Buffy meanwhile is down in water up to her waste while fish creatures surround her and attack. Xander pulls her out and then the coach hits him on the head. Buffy accidentally knocks him into the hole and his swimmers attack him.
The next day, everyone recaps. Then we see the fish creatures swim out to the ocean.
