Writer: Dana Reston
Director: Stephen Cragg
Regular Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers); Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris); Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg); Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase); Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles).
Guest star: Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers); Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy); Robin Riker (Catherine); Jim Doughan (Mr. Pole); Nicole Prescott (Lishanne); Amanda Wilmshurst (Senior cheerleader); William Monaghan (Dr. Gregory).
It's Cheerleading tryouts, and Cordelia, Buffy, and a quite/unpopular girl by the name of Amy make as alternates, not officially in the squad. If cheerleading tryouts wasn't a disaster with a girl tourching her hand then the many un-explained accidents falling on cheerleaders at Sunnydale did. Suspicions falls that a 'witch' is involved in the whole sceme - it explains Cordelia's temporary blindness and one cheerleader having her mouth closed; but the question is who? This theory is proved correct during a chemistry lab when they spill a potion on Amy's skin and it turns blue - that bingo, she is a witch.
Suspicion falls on to Amy, a girl who wants to be a cheerleader badly. It seems that Amy's mother was a very popular cheerleader and her mother wants her to be a cheerleader. So badly that she starts casting spells in the attic against one by one girl in the squad. Buffy and Giles suspect that Amy is the witch and goes to confront the mother about Amy's secret side when there is barely few minutes left for her to survive. What makes it soo interesting is that when they go to see Amy's mother - it was actually Amy that was home. Seems like Amy's mother switched their bodies and used Amy's body to go and reminise her high school
days.
Buffy, Giles and Amy (in her mother's body) go to the school and get ready to transfer the souls into their rightful bodies and Buffy her strength. Buffy then gets up and fights with Amy's mother and just then Amy's mother casts a spell to put in a dark place, Buffy ducts and the spell bounces off the mirror and strike on Amy's mother - locking her where she wants....inside her prized trophy at Sunnydale as 'Catherine the Great' where she will be a cheeleader ...forever.
