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The episode opens with the school on a field trip at the history museum.  The gang is discussing the upcoming foreign exchange program, which has marshalled a swedish hunk to Cordelia, and "a guy" to Buffy.  While at the museum, we meet Rodney...who is a semi-violent ne'er do well.  Willow, we find out, is tutoring him, and he appears to actually be nice to her, if not anyone else.  The class moves into the Inca Mummy exhibit, where we learn that five hundred years ago the Inca's chose a teenage girl to sacrifice to the gods.  Since then, she has been protected in her mummification by a seal placed in the coffin with her.  Later, Rodney sneaks in and tries to steal the seal, accidentally breaking it.  The mummy awakens. At school the next day, Buffy is trying to convince Giles to let her attend the dance at the Bronze.  She punctuates her arguments with punches and kicks (they're training).  At her relentless pounding, he finally allows it.  Afterward, Xander is overjoyed.  Now he, Buffy, and Willow can all go to the dance together, and avoid the date-likeness it would have felt like with just him and Willow.  Buffy presses him about any potential feelings for Willow, but Xander says he's never felt that way about her.  Willow overhears, but doesn't mention it.  She tells the gang that Rodney has disappeared...they joke for a minute that maybe the mummy got him, then realize that this is Sunnydale and that may very well BE what happened.  The gang heads back to the museum, and finds Rodney mummified  in the Inca Princess's place.  They also find the broken seal, and while they are examining it, a man with a machete attacks the group.  When he sees Rodney in the crypt, however, he flees.  Back at school, Giles starts trying to translate the seal, and Buffy remembers she's supposed to be picking Impata up from the bus station.  Cut to the station where a lively looking mummy is kissing Impata to death...draining his life through the kiss.  The gang shows up, and a beautiful foreign girl shows up claiming to be Impata.  Xander is immediately smitten.  That night, Impata tells Buffy that she hates where she came from, and wants to fit into life at Sunnydale.  Outside, the man with the machete watches the house. At school the next day Cordelia is telling Devon, her current boy toy, that she'll see him at the dance that night, but he shouldn't expect her to act like one of his "groupies".  We find out he's in a band (called Dingos ate my Baby), and his lead guitarist is Oz (Seth Green).  Oz laments that Devon is so shallow he'd be attracted to Cordelia for looks alone.  Giles asks Impata to translate the broken seal...she is reluctant, but tells him part of it; that there is  bodyguard who watches over the mummy, to see that no one disturbs her.  She then advises him to hide it away.  Xander and Impata go off to spend the day together, and Willow is depressed at how Xander seems to constantly fall for every girl who's not HER.  Giles translates part of the seal to mean that the mummy killed Rodney, and has escaped.  Xander and Impata are attacked by Machete man, who recognizes Impata.  Back in the library, she tells Giles to destroy the seal, after Xander almost tells her the truth about why they have part of the seal.  Impata is upset that they seem to be figuring out the curse of the Mummy, but passes it off that she's afraid of their lives, which seems to include maniacs running around with big knives and such.  Xander tries to comfort her and prove there's more to their lives, and Willow suggests he take her to the dance at the Bronze alone that night.  In the bathroom, Impata sees Machete Man in the mirror, and begs for her life.  He tells her that she is the Chosen One, has no choice, and is already dead.  She protests that she was innocent, and didn't deserve to have this fate, and he reminds her that the people she kills now to sustain her life are also innocent.  She overpowers him and drains his life with a kiss.  Later, Xander shows up at Buffy's house to take Impata to the dance, which Buffy won't be going to because of the missing mummy thing.  Right before Impata leaves, she has a conversation with Buffy about the Inca Princess, who had to sacrifice everything for her people, at only sixteen.  Buffy draws comparisons from the story to that of her own, when she had to fulfill the prophecy in which she died, to prevent the Master from taking over the world.  At the dance, Devon and Oz are playing on stage, and Xander and Impata show up.  Xander's dressed up like Clint Eastwood, Impata's dressed as (surprise surprise) an Inca Princess, and Willow has shown up in an Eskimo costume.  At Buffy's place, Giles shows up with the full translation...that the man Impata referred to wasn't a bodyguard to keep everyone else from disturbing the mummy...but to keep the mummy from rising.  He also tells her that the bodyguard was found mummified in the bathroom at school.  Buffy reflects that Impata translated the seal incorrectly, and that she was, in fact, weird about translating it in the first place.  They decide to search her trunks, which have arrived from the bus station.  In them, they find all boys clothing, and also the real Impata's mummified corpse.  They rush to drop Buffy off at the Bronze, and Giles heads to the museum to try to put the seal back together, hoping that it will contain the mummy once again. At the dance, Oz sees Willow from on stage and asks Devon who she is.  He is enchanted from afar.  Impata is dancing with Xander, but freaks out when she starts to lose her youthful appearance.  She runs from Xander, and picks up a guy to kiss backstage (Jonathan...see below).  Xander interrupts before she can kiss Jonathan, and tells Impata that he loves her.  They kiss, but Impata throws him down before she takes his life.  She then senses that Giles is trying to put the seal back together, and heads for the museum.  Buffy shows up at the Bronze, and tells Willow that Impata is the mummy.  They go off to find Xander, just as Oz has come up to talk to Willow.  He misses her by a hair.  They find Xander lying on the floor backstage, still recovering from the kiss with Impata.  They collect him and head after Impata.  The Princess has by this time arrived at the museum...she destroys the seal and throws Giles into the mummy case.  Buffy runs in, and they confront each other about what each has been hiding from the other.  They struggle, and Buffy gets thrown in the mummy case, with the stone lid shut on top of them.  Willow runs in and Impata is about to kiss her/kill her when Xander comes in.  He grabs Willow away from the Princess, and tells Impata that if she's gonna take life, it's going to have to be his.  She is about to take it, but Buffy breaks free and pulls her off of him.  Impata then shrivels up and falls apart.  At school the next day, Xander commiserates with Buffy about his awful taste in women, "present company excluded".   Buffy tries to soften Impata's betrayal...she remembers that when SHE heard about the Prophecy that she was going to die, she "wasn't exactly obsessed with doing the right thing".  Xander says "But you did...you gave up your life."  Buffy replies "I had you to bring me back"   Flaws:   More of a continuity problem, actually.  At Buffy's house, Buffy and Giles figure out that Impata is the mummy.  They get in Giles's car to get to the Bronze to warn Xander.  On the way over, Giles gets the idea about putting the seal back together.  He says that he'll drop Buffy off at the Bronze, and get to the museum.  Then we cut back to the Bronze, where Impata is kissing Xander.  She throws him to the floor, and apologizes for what she almost did.  Then she looks up at nothing, says "the seal", and takes off for the museum.  We also see a clip of Giles arranging the seal back in order, at the mummy exhibit.  THEN Buffy shows up and tells Willow about Impata.  If Giles was gonna drop her off, and then go to the museum, the above scene shouldn't have happened in that order.  In no way would Giles have been at the museum putting the seal together before Buffy arrived at the Bronze, it just doesn't mesh. Thoughts on the Episode:  I never really liked this episode too much...I'm not sure why, it just didn't hold much appeal for me. This IS the first time we see Oz, though...so there's a high point.  We also are introduced to Jonathan, a nerdy student at school who shows up in numerous episodes over the next four seasons.   The one good thing about this episode...there is a tender moment between Buffy and Xander at the end where they reflect upon their friendship.  Best Line:  Xander to Impata, after she tells him she likes him too:     "You're not a praying mantis, are you?  Sorry... someone else."

"Inca Mummy Girl"

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