Inside the tunnels, Buffy came down a flight of stairs. She looked around. She heard rats. One crawled across her shoes. She slowly started down the tunnels. There were lights at regular intervals. When she reached an intersection, Xander surprised her from behind.

"Did you see anything?"

Buffy exhaled in fright. "Xander, what are you doing here?"

"Something stupid. I followed you."

"Well, you-"

Xander interrupted, "I couldn't just sit at home and do nothing."

"I understand. Now, go away!"

"No!"

"Xander, you're gonna have to."

"Look, Jesse's my bud, okay? If I can help him out, that's what I gotta do."

Buffy considered, then nodded her head for him to follow. She started down the tunnel again.

"Besides, it's this or chem class."

Later, they reached the top of some stairs. Xander was refreshing his knowledge on how to kill vampires, "Okay, so, crosses, garlic, stake through the heart."

"That'll get it done."

"Cool! Of course, I don't actually have any of those things."

Buffy handed him a cross. "Good thinking."

"Well, the part of my brain that would tell me to bring that stuff is still busy telling me not to come down here. I have this, though." Xander turned on a flashlight.

"Turn that off!"

He quickly turned it off. "Okay! Okay! So, what else?"

"What else what?"

"For vampire slayage."

"Oh, fire, beheading, sunlight, holy water, the usual."

"You've done some beheading in your time?" Scary, much? But he was joking – partially.

"Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife..."

Xander laughed nervously.

"You're not loving this story," Buffy stated.

"No, actually, I find it oddly comforting."

In the library, Giles was alone for once. Ms. Calendar had a class to teach. He was reading from a volume. "'For they will gather and be gathered. From the Vessel pours life.' P... Pours life..." He turned the page back to the picture of Satan feeding power to a man. "'On the night of the crescent moon, the first past the solstice it will come...' Of course. That's tonight!"

In Ms. Calendar's computer class, Cordelia was struggling with her computer programming assignment. "No! It's supposed to find the syntax and match it. Or wait..."

"Are we going to the Bronze tonight?" Harmony, one of Cordelia's friends, asked.

"No, we're going to the other cool place in Sunnydale," Cordelia answered with frustrated sarcasm.

Harmony looked confused.

"Of course we're going to the Bronze. Friday night? No cover? But you should have been there last night. 'Cause I ran into Buffy..."

Willow overheard the conversation.

"...and can she be any weirder? She attacked me! Do you believe it?"

Harmony sighed. "I think we did this part wrong."

"Why do we have to devise these programs, isn't that what nerds are for?" She dropped her voice to a whisper, indicating to Willow, "What'd she do?"

Harmony looked at Willow's screen. She was surfing a newspaper archive website. "Uh, she's doing something else," she told Cordelia.

"Okay, and then pattern run, right? Or go to end? That's it!" Cordelia was trying to conquer the problem the computer was giving her.

"Maybe!" Harmony encouraged.

"So anyway, I come outta the bathroom, and she comes running at me. Screaming! With a stick! 'I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!' I swear!" Cordelia completely exaggerated the encounter with Buffy from the night before.

"Who?" a male student asked.

"Buffy!"

"The new girl?" Harmony asked.

"What's her deal?" the student asked.

"Well, she's crazed."

"Did you hear about her old school?" Harmony asked.

Cordelia and the boy both shook their heads.

"Booted."

"Well, I exhibit no surprise," Cordelia scoffed.

"Why was she kicked out?" the boy asked.

"Uh, because she's a psycho loony!"

Willow interjected, "No, she's not."

"What?" Cordelia was appalled that she dare speak to her, let alone interrupt her conversation.

Willow turned to them. "She's not a psycho. You don't even know her."

"Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?"

Willow turned away, eyes down.

"Do I horn in on your private discussions? No. Why? Because you're boring."

Willow got up and went to get her printouts.

"Okay, I think the program's done." Harmony thought she figured it out.

"Finally the nightmare ends! Okay, so how do we save it?"

Willow would passive-aggressively get her payback. "Deliver," she answered.

"Deliver? Where's that?" Cordelia searched the keyboard. "Oh!" She hit the 'Del' key, and her program disappeared. She stared at the screen in wide-eyed, open-mouthed horror.

Ms. Calendar was walking by, checking everyone's progress. She paused behind Cordelia. She pulled a pencil out from behind her ear and a small notepad out of her pocket. "Wasted an entire period, have you? You've earned a luxurious trip to thirty minutes afterschool detention." She scribbled something on the paper and tore it out. She handed it to Cordelia. "Tomorrow. After school. Be here."

"That – That's not fair! I had my work, Willow, she –"

"Didn't let you cheat off her this time. Good for her. Save your excuses, I'm not buying them." She continued her rounds of the classroom.

Buffy and Xander were still in the tunnels.

"They're close," Buffy stated.

"How can you tell?"

"No more rats."

Xander turned on his flashlight and spotted Jesse on the ground. "Jesse!"

"Oh, no!"

Jesse reacted, jumping up.

"J-J-Jesse!" Xander couldn't believe it. Their friend was found!

"Xander!"

The two embraced.

"Jesse, man, are you okay?"

"I am not okay, on an epic scale."

Buffy shone the light on the shackles around Jesse's ankle.

"We gotta get outta here!" Jesse said.

"It's cool, Buffy's a superhero."

"Hold on…" Buffy broke the shackles.

"Do you think anyone heard that?" Xander asked.

They saw shadows moving on the walls and started to run down the tunnel. Vampires came around the corner. Xander, Buffy and Jesse book it to another part of the tunnel.

"They knew you were gonna come. They said that I... I was the bait." Jesse informed.

"Oh, great, now you tell us." Xander was sure he wasn't the only one who found that to be bad timing.

They rounded a corner and were met by vampires.

"Oops!" Buffy.

"Oh, no, no, no, no!" By the sound of it, Jesse did not like that at all.

"Do you know another way out?" Buffy asked.

"I dunno. Maybe. C'mon!"

They ran again. At another intersection they saw glowing eyes to their right.

"Wait, wait. They brought me through here, there, there should be a way up. I hope!" Jesse lead them into a chamber.

"I don't think this is the way out!" Buffy cried.

"We can't fight our way back through those things. What do we do?" Xander asked.

"I got an idea." Jesse took on the form of a vampire. "You can die!"