Reptile Boy
Sunnydale High is boasting a new cultural exchange program --students from other countries
being hosted by local families, and a celebration of culture's dance is being plan. Everything is
swell until Xander finds out that Buffy's student is a guy. At a school museum trip, a 500-year-old
mummy, holding a cursed seal which serves as a warning to any who wake her, is on exhibit.
When everyone leaves, dimwitted student Rodney tries to take the seal. It breaks, and the mummy
arises, grabs him, kisses him and mummifies him. When Rodney turns up missing, Buffy, Giles,
Xander and Willow go to the museum to look for clues and find him mummified, and a man with
a knife jumps out at them. Giles tries to decipher what's left of the seal, but they are ancient
pictograms.Buffy's exchange student arrives at the bus station, only to meet the same fate as
Rodney. From this latest kiss, the 500-year-old mummy transforms into Ampata, a beautiful
Peruvian teenage girl who pretends to be the exchange student. Xander goes gaga over her and
Giles asks her to help him decipher the seal. She says the picture of a man with a knife represents
a bodyguard. As Xander hangs out with Ampata, the knife guy shows up again, looking for the
rest of the seal. Ampata, shaken, tells Giles to destroy it, but Giles wants to go back to the
museum to find the missing parts. Knife guy returns in the ladies' room, and Ampata finally kisses
and mummifies him, too. Xander takes Ampata to the school dance, and Buffy discovers the real
exchange student's mummified corpse in her trunk. She and Giles realize Ampata’s the mummy. It
seems she was in a similar situation to Buffy's -- she was chosen to defend her people, and was
killed at 16. Meanwhile, things are getting hot and heavy at the dance with Xander and Ampata,
but she is starting to turn back into a mummy. She must kiss someone quickly or it will be too
late. She runs away from Xander and goes to the museum to try to break the seal that Giles is
about to restore. Buffy saves Giles before Ampata kisses him, but gets thrown into the tomb.
When Willow tries to help, Xander intervenes and offers his own life instead. Buffy escapes from
the tomb just in time to pull the now-mummified Ampata off of Xander, and the poor guy's dance
partner breaks into pieces.