The Pack
Among the attendees at a school field trip to the zoo are Buffy and the gang, as well as the four biggest troublemakers in the school-Kyle, Rhonda, Tor, and Heidi-and Lance, the nerdy object of their scorn. The quartet leads Lance into the closed hyena exhibit. Xander goes after them to keep them out of trouble-and all save Lance find themselves imbued with the predatory spirit of the hyena. Xander starts to hang around with the quartet, acting very un-Xander-like-including verbally abusing Willow. The five of them devour Herbert, the school's new pig mascot, and later when principal Flutie brings Kyle, Rhonda, Tor, and Heidi to his office to accuse them of attacking the pig, they eat the principal alive as well. Giles digs up references to "Primals", animal worshipers who can draw the spirits of animals into themselves. The keeper of the Hyena House-to whom Giles and Buffy turn for help-is, in fact, one such Primal, and he attempts to draw the power into himself and out of the students. He succeeds, but then Buffy tosses him to the actual hyenas. Buffy discusses with Willow the subject of Angel, and Willow brings Xander up while at the Bronze. Xander was fully cured from the incident.
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