Buffy Season II Episode Guide #14: Some Assembly Required

While on a routine vampire hunt, Buffy discovers an open grave in the cemetery. Judging by the nearby tracks and a dirty shoe lying on the ground, Buffy believes a grave robbery has just taken place.

Giles is working on a date proposal to Ms. Calendar when Buffy and Xander enter the library. After giving him a few tips on pick-up lines, Buffy tells Giles of the robbery in the cemetery. Giles theorizes that somebody may be trying to raise an army of zombies. Using the name on the tombstone, Meredith Todd, as a lead, Buffy leaves to find Willow and ask her to run a computer search. Willow is signing up participants for the upcoming school science fair. She's working with Chris, another smart student that has always placed first in previous science fairs. Also on the scene is Chris' friend, Eric, who is taking pictures of random girls passing by. Cordelia stops by to sign up for the fair since student participation is mandatory. Just then, Buffy arrives and calls Willow back to the library. They leave, followed by Cordelia. In the library, Willow finds an article that states that Meredith Todd died in a car accident along with two other girls. They go to the cemetery later that night to see if the other victims have been removed from their graves. There, they discover that both graves are empty, just like the first. Cordelia, on the other hand, goes to cheerleader practice. Afterwards, she finds herself being followed by some stranger, so she hides in the dumpster before realizing that it is Angel. As she tries to get out, she discovers a disembodied hand in the trash, along with several other parts.

Cordelia's and Angel's discovery eliminates Giles' zombie theory, but Angel believes that not all the parts of the three girls were thrown away. Since the cuts were professionally done, they look up the locker numbers and combinations of the smartest students in the science club. In Chris' locker, they discover morbid textbooks, as well as the same article that Willow found concerning the death of Meredith Todd and her friends. In Eric's locker, Buffy discovers a mock design of his and Chris' master plan: the construction of the perfect girl with the use of parts from various other girls. Meanwhile, in a secret lab, Chris and Eric are nearly finished with their creation. All they need is a head, and Eric has three nominees lined up: Buffy, Willow, and Cordelia.

The next day, Giles decides to make his move on Ms. Calendar, who insists that he calls her Jenny. Things don't turn out as planned, and Ms. Calendar ends up asking Giles to the football game. Chris and Eric realize that time is running out before the body becomes useless, so they need a head soon. Eric suggests that they can't wait for another convenient death; they need to kill someone. Chris can't do it, and he pleads to a figure in the dark not to make him go through with it. That figure turns out to be Chris' dead brother, Sunnydale High football star Daryl Epps. Daryl begs Chris to do it, and Chris eventually agrees. At the football game, Eric attempts to abduct Cordelia, but Buffy shows up just in time to scare him away. She unties Cordelia, who prompty hurries out onto the field to join the rest of the cheerleading squad. Nobody notices Daryl sneaking around underneath the bleachers, solemnly watching the game that he was so famous for. When Cordelia stands near the bleachers to get herself a drink, Daryl grabs her and heads off to the lab, which turns out to be an abandoned science lab near Sunnydale. Buffy and Chris arrive too late, and Buffy forces Chris to tell her where they took Cordy. Chris finally relents against his brother's wishes and tells Buffy their whereabouts. She bursts into the lab mere seconds before Chris decapitates Cordelia. After Chris is knocked unconscious by a rampaging Daryl, Buffy engages in a fight with the resurrected football star. In the ensuing fight, a fire starts in the lab, but Buffy and Daryl pay no attention to it. Xander arrives, and he rushes to get Cordelia away from the fire. Giles and Willow pull Eric out of the lab. With one massive body slam, Daryl dazes Buffy and prepares to smash a desk into her when Chris screams out. Daryl puts down the chair, then sees his supposed bride-to-be in the middle of the fire. Daryl walks into the flames to join the unfinished creation, and Chris watches in horror as he loses brother for a second time.

After the police and fire fighters arrive on the scene, Ms. Calendar hints at the possibility of a second date with Giles. Cordelia tries to express her gratitude to Xander for saving her life, but he ignorantly brushes her off. At the cemetery, Buffy and Angel come to terms with their relationship and walk off to his home, hand in hand.

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