Inca Mummy Girl
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
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| Written by | Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer | ||||||
| Directed by | Ellen S. Pressman | ||||||
| Production no. | 5V04 | ||||||
| Original airdate | October 6, 1997 | ||||||
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"Inca Mummy Girl" is Episode 4 of Season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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[edit] Plot
To prepare for Sunnydale High's cultural exchange program, Buffy visits an Incan exhibit with her schoolmates. She is paired with an exchange student with whom her mom signed her up. Xander becomes jealous when he learns that she will room with a guy.
After everyone leaves the museum, a class clown breaks the seal on a mummy while trying to steal it. The princess wakes up, for the curse is broken, and pulls the unfortunate student into her coffin. She mummifies him by a kiss on the lips. When the Scoobies rush to the museum, they encounter a sword-wielding guard and the remains of the missing student.
Buffy's exchange student arrives at the bus station, and the mummy girl sucks out his life, too. The 500-year-old becomes a beautiful teenager, and poses as the "Ampata," the boy who was supposed to stay with Buffy. (Everyone simply assumes that the information was wrong on her gender.) Xander is smitten with her, and the two begin a relationship. Giles asks "Ampata" to decipher the seal from her tomb, and she explains (reluctantly) that it describes a girl chosen to die to save her people, and a bodyguard who will keep her from straying from that path. She also tells Giles to destroy the seal completely; apparently it being rebuilt will end Ampata's life. This bodyguard appears again and again, trying to stop Ampata, until she finally manages to use her kiss on him in the bathroom, sucking out his life to keep herself from dying.
Xander asks Ampata to the dance to enliven her. She gladly accepts. Willow is downtrodden to find her crush with another girl when the guitarist (Daniel "Oz" Osbourne) at the Bronze notices her. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles open Ampata's trunk and discover the real Ampata's body. Giles tries to piece together the seal while Buffy tries to save Xander from Ampata's deadly kiss. But Ampata feels too much for Xander and leaves for the museum. She tries to stop Giles from putting the seal back together. Buffy saves Giles, then Ampata starts to deteriorate as she tries to feed off Willow. Xander shows up and insists that if she must feed on anyone, it should be him; despite Ampata's feelings for him, she is quickly deteriorating back into a mummy, and is willing to kill him to remain alive. Buffy shows up to fight her, saving Xander, and in the battle she weakens to the point of returning to her dead form.
[edit] Production
[edit] Starring
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
- Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
- Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
- Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
- Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
[edit] Guest starring
- Seth Green as Oz
- Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
- Ara Celi as Ampata Gutierrez
- Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
- Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
- Hendrik Rosvall as Sven
[edit] Translations
- French title: "La Momie Inca" ("The Inca Mummy")
- Italian title: "La Prescelta" ("The Chosen One")
- German title: "Das Geheimnis der Mumie" ("The Secret of the Mummy")
- Japanese title: "インカ帝国のミイラ王女" ("Inka-Teikoku no Mīra Ōjo" - "The Mummy Princess of the Incan Empire")
- Spanish title: "Inca La chica Momia " ("Inca Mummy Girl")
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Arc significance
- Inca Mummy Girl introduces Oz, who will be a regular character until Season 4.
- This episode also introduces Jonathan, a recurring character throughout the remainder of the series. Jonathan becomes part of the main villainous trio in Season 6.
- In later episodes characters will allude to "Inca Mummy Girl" (as they call her), as one of several examples of evil supernatural women Xander has fallen for (others being the demonic Ms. French and Anya).
- David Boreanaz is credited but his character, Angel, does not appear in this episode.
[edit] Reception
“Inca Mummy Girl” had an audience of 3.2 million households.[1]
[edit] Timeline
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1997 - Spring 1998 (non-canon = italic) |
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| Sunnydale, fall 1997 | B2.01 When She Was Bad |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997 |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.02 Some Assembly Required |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Tales of the Vampires: The Problem with Vampires |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: The Queen of Hearts |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.03 School Hard |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.04 Inca Mummy Girl |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.05 Reptile Boy |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy graphic novel: Dust Waltz |
| Sunnydale, October 1997 | B2.06 Halloween |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.07 Lie to Me |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: The Suicide King |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Colony |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Night Terrors |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.08 The Dark Age |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.09 What's My Line, Part One |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.10 What's My Line, Part Two |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: After Image |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Carnival of Souls |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.11 Ted |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.12 Bad Eggs |
| Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 | Buffy book: Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary |
| Sunnydale, 1997/8 | Buffy book: Blooded |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.13 Surprise |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.14 Innocence |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.15 Phases |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.16 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.17 Passion |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | Buffy graphic novel: Ring of Fire |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.18 Killed by Death |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.19 I Only Have Eyes for You |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.20 Go Fish |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | B2.21 Becoming, Part One |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | B2.22 Becoming, Part Two |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: Paint the Town Red |
[edit] References
- ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season." <http://home.insightbb.com/~wahoskem/buffy2.html>
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