Buffy Season II Episode Guide: Bad Eggs

While on a shopping trip with her mother at the mall, Buffy encounters a new vampire: a cowboy named Lyle Gorch. After a short fight that ends in Lyle's escape, Joyce scolds Buffy for failing to pick up her dress from the store before closing time.

The next day at school, Xander and Cordelia are still retreating to the utility closet at Sunnydale High for quick make-out sessions. In class, teen health teacher Mr. Whitmore assigns eggs to his students for a parenting assignment. Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Buffy each have their own egg to take care of. Giles, meanwhile, finds information on Lyle Gorch and his brother, Tector. At one time before they became vampires, the Gorch brothers massacred a Mexican village. Later that night, Buffy and Angel spend more time kissing than actually hunting. Neither of them is aware of the Gorch brothers, who are spying on them from afar. Tector wants to kill them right away, buy Lyle insists that they wait until the Slayer is alone. After Buffy returns home and goes to sleep, a long tentacle with multiple appendages slithers out of her egg and attaches itself to various parts of Buffy's face. She never wakes up during this whole process.

Buffy and Willow are feeling considerably less than active the next day, while Xander and Cordelia remain normal. Xander reveals that he hard-boiled his egg in order to prevent it from breaking easily. Later that night, after another round of "hunting" with Angel, Buffy crawls through her bedroom window and notices that her egg is shaking. As she leans in for a closer look, a purple creature with several legs bursts out of the egg and lunges at Buffy, who swats it to the ground. After trying to keep track of its whereabouts in the room, Buffy finally drives a pair of scissors into its body, then repeatedly stabs it to death. Without hesitating, Buffy calls Willow's house and orders her to destroy her egg immediately. Willow tells Buffy that her egg is normal and inside the fridge. After Willow hangs up her phone, she stares at the opened egg shell on her nightstand. Joyce catches Buffy in her room, fully dressed and on the phone at 2:45 am. Refusing to believe Buffy's story, Joyce grounds Buffy and demands that she stay in the library after school until she comes to pick her up.

Before class starts the next day, Xander nearly eats his egg before realizing that its appearance is as far away from normal as possible. He brings his dead hatchling to the science lab, where Buffy also brings hers for inspection. Expecting Giles to arrive and take a look at the creatures, Buffy is instead surprisingly attacked and knocked out by Cordelia. Before he can react, Xander is also knocked unconscious by Willow. The two of them are then dragged into a closet and locked inside. A parade of students march into the tool shed and pick up digging tools before entering the basement, where Mr. Whitmore awaits. Back in the library, Joyce comes in looking for Buffy and finds Giles instead. After discussing Buffy's irresponsibility, Giles tricks Joyce into turning around so that he can place a hatchling on her back. The two of them then march down to the basement and join the others in their effort to dig up Mother Bezoar, a pre-prehistoric creature that is responsible for laying the eggs. After Buffy comes to, she and Xander break out of the closet and scope out the situation in the basement. While Buffy leaves to obtain a weapon, Xander enters the work area and follows Cordelia, who is carrying a crate filled with eggs. While searching for a weapon, Buffy is reunited with Lyle, who is accompanied by his brother, Tector. They start a fight which leads them both into the digging site. As the students approach them, Buffy and Lyle momentarily stop their battle and fight off the students. This truce doesn't last long, for as soon as he is clear of the zombie-like students, Lyle turns his attention towards the Slayer again. As they resume their fight, Tector hops in, but he is more interested in Bezoar. As he leans over the creature, a tentacle wraps itself around Tector's neck and pulls him under the floor, where Bezoar feeds on him. Outraged, Lyle slams Buffy to the floor next to the huge opening. Bezoar then wraps a tentacle around Buffy's legs and drags her in, but not before she grabs a pickaxe and takes it with her. Everyone stops their digging and listens to the sounds of Buffy hacking away at Mother Bezoar. It finally dies, and the hatchlings release themselves from the students and die. Frightened by the look in Buffy's eye, Lyle backs off and escapes.

Giles makes up a story involving a gas leak to keep everyone from suspecting anything peculiar. Joyce, however, remains disappointed in her daughter for not being at the library at the appointed time. She orders Buffy to remain in her room at all times. Buffy follows this rule by kissing Angel at her window, while Joyce never suspects a thing.

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