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Buffy, Xander and Willow are at Buffy's place vegging out in front of the tv.  Buffy is happy that there seems to be a hush over Sunnydale...no recent vampire or demon activity.  We cut to a girl breaking out of a second floor window at a big house.  She falls to the ground and runs away, cutting through the cemetary.  She is chased and caught by a bunch of college age guys dressed in monk's robes.  One of them pulls back his hood and says "Callie, where are you going? The "party's" just getting started".  The guys drag her back to the house. At school the next day, Buffy is telling Willow about how she can't stop thinking about Angel.  Cordelia tells Xander about the college guy she's dating, and Giles tells Buffy that now is the time when she must train more, and hone her skills, now that she's got time to do so.  Buffy feels weighed down with all of the responsibility.  After school, instead of going to the Library for training, Buffy dawdles outside with Xander and Willow.  Cordelia's college guy Richard (who is the same guy who caught Callie in the cemetary the night before) shows up with a friend, and tells Cordelia about a little "get together" at the frat house the following night.  Richard's friend Tom sees Buffy and invites her too.  She kind of likes him, but declines because she's "sort of involved".   On patrol that night, Buffy finds a broken bracelet in the cemetary.  Angel startles her, and says that there's blood on the bracelet...that he can smell it.  She tries to get around to asking him out for coffee or something, but he rounds on her, telling her that they could get out of control if they were to date.  After an intense almost-kiss, Buffy leaves.  At school the next day, Buffy is depressed about her lack of a life, and agrees to go when Cordelia tells her that she can't go to the frat party unless Buffy goes too.  Cut to the Frat house where Callie is chained to the wall, being taunted by the frat guys who're chugging Bruskies in their monk robes. In the library, Buffy shows the gang the bracelet, and Xander "volunteers" Buffy to patrol that night, in his own way of keeping her from going to the frat party.  Buffy lies, however, and says her mother isn't feeling well.  She gets Giles's okay to "stay home" that night, but intends to go to the party.  Willow decides to help Giles look for the origin of the bracelet, and Xander follows Buffy and Cordelia to the party.  Richard gives Buffy and Cordelia drinks upon their arrival, but Buffy declines hers when she finds out there's alcohol in it.  Cordelia goes off with Richard, and Buffy just stands there being a wallflower until Tom comes and dances with her.  During their dance, Buffy has a slight attack of the guilts from lying and avoiding her responsibilities, but Tom tells her she should enjoy herself and stop being so mature all the time.  Buffy finally gives into pressure and drinks one of the alcoholic drinks thrust at her.  Xander, who had snuck into the party, has been found out and is being treated like a new pledge.  The frat boys dress him up in a bra and wig, and make him dance all around the room.  At the library, Willow has traced the bracelet to Kent, a school for girls.  She pulls their paper up on the web and finds an article about a missing girl named Callie.  She also finds a history of missing girls...going back a number of years almost to the day each year.  Meanwhile, Buffy is feeling woozy and lies down on a bed in one of the upstairs bedrooms (Buffy has obviously never heard any of the hard facts about frat parties and abandoned bedrooms, I guess), where Cordelia is also there, passed out.  It turns out that they've been drugged; they wake up in the basement/dungeon chained to the wall next to Callie.  Back at the library, Giles has called Angel to the library to find out where in the Cemetary Buffy found the bracelet.  He tells them it was near the south wall, which Willow realizes is near the frat house.  She blurts out that Buffy is there with Cordelia (see Great Moments, below).  Xander, upon leaving the frat house, notices that Cordelia's car is still there, and stays to investigate.  In the dungeon, the frat guys are performing a ceremony in which the girls are to be offered to "Makida, the Dark Lord".  Makida is a big reptile-looking demon who the frat guys offer three sacrifices to each year, and who rains blessings down upon the Delta Zeta Kappas.  Meanwhile, Giles, Willow and Angel have arrived and met up with Xander.  Dressed in a robe like the frat guys are wearing,  Xander knocks on the door and gets it unlocked.  He punches out the guy who let him in, and Angel and Willow and Giles rush in (what?! see Flaws, below).  They create a commotion that is heard downstairs, and Tom sends most of the frat guys up to deal with it.  While the gang's fighting upstairs, Cordelia has been unshackled to feed to Makida.  Buffy breaks free from her chains and knocks Tom out.  She kills Makida with a sword just as the gang breaks into the dungeon.  They round up Tom and the Frats, and take them upstairs, leaving Giles with Buffy.  She apologizes for lying, and he apologizes for pushing her too hard.  Later, at the Bronze, Xander reads from a paper that the Frat guys all got consecutive life sentences (that was quick) and that former Delta Zeta Kappas were suddenly losing their profits, businesses, and were committing suicide.  Angel shows up and asks Buffy to coffee sometime...if she wants.  Buffy, trying to be cool, says sure, but then leaves.    Flaws:   Um..hello?! I wanna know how Angel leaped over the threshold of the Frat house to punch out some Frats when he hadn't been invited.  Numerous people have made the argument that since it wasn't actually a *home*, Angel didn't need an invitation....but that argument doesn't hold water when you look at other similar scenes.  For instance in s3 of Angel, Angel needs an invitation into Fred's room at the hotel.  In s4 of Buffy, Spike needs an invitation to Willow's dorm room.  A Frat house should be the same deal. Humans live there.  He should need an invite. Thoughts on the Episode:  I kind of liked this one.  Mostly, I'll admit, because of the interplay between Buffy and Angel.  The scene with them in the cemetary got me every time I rewound it to watch it :), and I loved seeing him get all jealous over Buffy having had a date to the party.  Other than that, it was also just kind of a good episode.  No Oz in this one, but we do get a glimpse of Jonathan at the end.  Best Line/Best Moment: This is actually kind of two categories.  This episode marks the first of the "Great Moments" in Buffy history.  I guess actually, technically, the first "great moment" occurred in the last episode of season one, when Buffy "quit" Slaying, and had a great dramatic moment, but this is the first one I'm going to document.  Great Moments are parts of Buffy History that you will always remember, for some reason, as something really cool, or really funny, or just plain old good acting.  This moment is in honor of the confrontation in the library when Willow tells Giles and Angel that Buffy's at the frat house party, and not home with her mother.  This was the first time we saw Willow be anything other than soft spoken and shy...indeed, she wailed on both Giles and Angel, putting them down for the way they were each treating Buffy.

"Reptile Boy"

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