Go Fish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode)
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| "Go Fish" | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 20 | ||
| Directed by | David Semel | ||
| Written by | David Fury Elin Hampton | ||
| Production code | 5V20 | ||
| Original air date | May 5, 1998 | ||
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| Episode chronology | |||
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| List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes | |||
"Go Fish" is episode 20 of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Plot
The Sunnydale High Swim Team is celebrating their latest victory with a bonfire party at the beach. Buffy sits on a rock watching the ocean, alone and apart from the other partygoers. Cameron, a member of the swim team, approaches Buffy and seems interested in her romantically, but their exchange is interrupted when Buffy breaks up two other swim team members, Dodd and Gage, as they are bullying Jonathan. The two bullies go down to the water's edge while Jonathan storms off, humiliated at being rescued by a girl.
The next day, Principal Snyder informs Willow that there have been difficulties in finding a computer science teacher to replace Ms. Calendar and that she will need to continue filling in. This pleases Willow, but Snyder also informs her that she must give Gage, who is slacking off in her class, special treatment because he is a member of the swim team.
Meanwhile, Buffy comes to school with Cameron; he makes sexual advances that are unwelcome and Buffy put him off by slamming his head (nose-first) against the steering wheel. Snyder happens to be in the vicinity and witnesses the event, but he accepts Cameron's version of events and worries only about Cameron's ability to compete after the minor injury to his nose, as does Coach Martin, who is in charge of the swim team and tells Cameron to hit the steam room.
Later, Giles informs Buffy that Dodd's remains were found on the beach; the Scooby Gang is in research mode trying to determine what killed him. Xander goes out for a drink and bumps into Cameron, who had still been on school grounds in the steam room; Cameron snaps at him and calls Xander a loser. Xander then takes the opportunity to ridicule Cameron for striking out with Buffy. Cameron rubs his elite status due to his swim team membership in Xander's face and goes to the cafeteria for a snack. A moment later, Xander hears him scream and goes to investigate, finding a ransacked cafeteria, Cameron's skin and humanoid sea creature.
In the library, Cordelia tries to sketch the creature that Xander saw before running away. Buffy and Willow return, having been informed that Cameron and Dodd were the two best swimmers on the boys' team; after them was Gage. Having little else to go on, Buffy shadows Gage as the potential next target while Willow interrogates Jonathan. While Willow gleans nothing from her interrogation of Jonathan, Gage grows suspicious of Buffy when she follows him around. At the Bronze that night, Gage confronts Buffy about her shadowing him; she tells him, after trying to cover and failing, that he may be in danger. He does not believe her and leaves, only to encounter Angelus in the parking lot. Buffy fights Angelus off, noting as she does that Angelus was spitting out Gage's blood rather than drinking it.
The following day, Buffy, Willow and Cordelia sit in on swim practice, speculating on the meaning of Angelus' behavior. Gage waves to Buffy, feeling friendlier to her for having saved his life, and the girls discover that Xander has joined the swim team in an effort to get information from places the girls wouldn't have access to.
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