Reptile Boy

Infobox Television episode
Title=Reptile Boy


Series=Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season=2
Episode=5
Airdate=October 13 1997
Production=5V05
Writer=David Greenwalt
Director=David Greenwalt
Episode list=List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
Prev=Inca Mummy Girl
Next=Halloween

"Reptile Boy" is episode 5 of season 2 of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Plot

A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and chased into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, Buffy's gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles presses her to train harder, but she just wants to be a teenager. The next day at school, Cordelia introduces Buffy to two college guys, one of whom invites Buffy to a party. She turns him down, claiming she is involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol and meets Angel, who smells blood on a bracelet on the ground. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she does not know what she wants in life. She runs off, upset.

Buffy decides to go to the frat party with Cordelia. She chooses not to tell Giles or Angel about her date. Later that night, Giles and Willow discover that the bracelet is from Kent Preparatory School, just outside of Sunnydale and where Buffy is partying. Angel appears and asks about Buffy. Willow tells the two men why Buffy lied to them. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.

At the party, Buffy tries to avoid drunken frat guys. Xander has sneaked in to protect Buffy, but other partygoers recognize him for a crasher and dress him up like a girl. Meanwhile, Buffy relents and decides to accept a drink. Drugged, she stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is lying unconscious. When they wake up, they find themselves chained in a basement as an offering for a reptile demon named Machida. Cordelia is chosen as the first victim, but Buffy distracts the demon and breaks out of her chains.

Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They enter the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy kills the demon, and the frat guys are arrested. Afterwards, everyone gathers at The Bronze. Angel appears and asks to have coffee with Buffy sometime. She plays it cool.

Acting

Starring

* Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
* Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
* Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
* Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
* David Boreanaz as Angel
* and Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

Guest starring

* Greg Vaughan as Richard Anderson (as Greg Vaughn)
* Todd Babcock as Tom Warner
* Jordana Spiro as Callie Anderson

Co-starring

*Robin Atkin Downes as Machida
* Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
*Christopher Dahlberg as Tackle
*Jason Posey as Linebacker
*Coby Bell as Young Man

Production Details

Music

*Act of Faith - "Bring me on"
*Clement & Murray - "Devil's Lair"
*Clement & Murray - "Graffiti Sound"
*Clement & Murray - "If I Can't Have You"
*Clement & Murray - "Secrets"
*Clement & Murray - "Wolves"
*Louie Says - "She"

Translations

* French title: "Dévotion" ("Devotion")
* Italian title: "Macabra festa" ("Macabre party")
* German title: "Der Geheimbund" ("The secret society")
* Japanese title: "気持ち悪い男の子" ("Kimochi Warui Otoko no Ko" - "Bad-Feeling Boy")
* Portuguese title: "O rapaz réptil" ("Reptile boy")
* Spanish title: "Chicos Reptiles" ("Reptiles Boys")

Quotes and Trivia

* In his DVD commentary for this episode, writer/director David Greenwalt says that when he wrote the episode he thought that he had invented a great demon name, Machida. He later realized that he had seen "Machida" written on a piece of filming equipment used on the show. Machida is the name of a city in Japan.

Continuity

Arc significance

* At the end of the episode, Buffy agrees to have coffee with Angel, which marks the beginning of their formal dating relationship.
* This episode marks the first of several fraternity-related supernatural incidents, most of which occur from Season Four to the end of the series.
* This episode has Cordelia reiterate her preference for older boys, as was first mentioned in "The Harvest".
* When Willow, Xander, Giles, and Angel storm the fraternity, Angel goes into the household without being invited, despite being a vampire. This is because the fraternity brothers are only temporary residents.
* Cordelia references this episode in the Season 3 episode "Homecoming", when she and Buffy are chased by monsters: "Why is it every time I go somewhere with you, it always ends in violence and terror?"

Timeline

*Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

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