Bad Eggs
Buffy runs into a cowboy vampire at the mall, then returns to her mom Joyce,
who is becoming increasingly annoyed about her daughter's lack of
responsibility. The next day at school in health class, the students are
asked to take care of an egg as if it were a baby, to teach them how much
responsibility it takes to be a parent. Giles warns Buffy about the vamp she
ran into -- he and his brother, the Gorches, are cowboy vampires, but he's
not sure why they've been drawn to Sunnydale at this time. But Buffy's head
is not into slaying or egg-raising these days -- she's ever more into the
dreamy Angel, and her nights at the cemetery have become nothing more than
make-out sessions with her undead man. When Buffy returns from her
non-productive investigation of the Gorches, she finds her egg baby shaking
-- she's wigged. A gross scorpion-like slimy creature bursts from it and
attacks her, but she manages to stab it to death. She calls Willow to let
her know what's happened, but Willow says her own egg baby is fine, and
there's nothing to worry about. But we see that Willow is lying, because her
own egg is indeed broken apart, and she has a spaced-out look on her face.
When Joyce enters Buffy's room and finds her fully dressed, she thinks she's
getting ready to sneak out and grounds her.
The next day at school, Willow gathers the gang for a monster autopsy. But
she and Cordelia, whose egg has also spawned a creature, wind up decking
Buffy and Xander and dragging them into a broom closet. Then, Willow, Cordy
and a bunch of other students and teachers head zombie-like to the basement
with shovels and axes. Even Joyce winds up getting possessed, when she comes
to school to fetch her grounded daughter and instead finds a spaced-out
Giles, who throws one of the creatures onto her.
When Buffy and Xander come to, they find a book which explains what's going
on. There is a creature in the basement called a bazor, whose offspring
attach themselves to human hosts and take control of their motor functions.
They follow a possessed student to the basement and discover Willow, Cordy,
Giles, Joyce, and a bunch of others harvesting eggs from a gigantic slimy
parasite. As Buffy looks for a weapon big enough to toast this mama bazor,
the Gorch brothers show up. One of the bazor's tentacles drags Buffy under
the floor, and suddenly all the babies fall off of their human hosts, who
then fall to the ground. Somehow Buffy emerges victorious and the Gorches
know they've met their match. The newly-unzombied Giles stumbles for an
explanation for what's happened to everyone, and tells the student body
there'd been a gas leak. Once Joyce gets her bearing, Buffy is more grounded
than ever. She's not allowed to leave her room, but that doesn't stop her
from making out with Angel, who she kisses from her window as he is perched
outside