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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Episode 01x06

Episode: 01x06
Title: The Pack
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 4V06
First Aired: Apr. 07, 1997

Season 1 » Episode #06 - The Pack

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 01x06 The Pack

Summary: A school field trip to the Sunnydale Zoo leaves Xander and a few other students enthralled by the spirit of hyena hybrids. This in turn causes them to become more aggressive and mean as they begin to act like wild animals. When Buffy and Willow notice Xander's change in behavior, Giles originally dismisses it as a teenage hormone issue. However, when the possessed students begin to do some unimaginable things, such as eating the school mascot and the principal alive, Giles becomes convinced that they do in fact have a mystical problem on their hands.

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01x06 The Pack (44:53) (Full Episode)

Hyenas On the Hunt (01:28)

Troublemakers Attack (03:10)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Principal Bob Flutie	played by Ken Lerner
Kyle DuFours	played by Eion Bailey
Rhonda Kelley	played by Michael McCraine
Tor Hauer	played by Brian Gross
Heidi Barrie	played by Jennifer Sky
Lance	played by Jeff Maynard
Dr. Weirick	played by James Stephens
Mr. Anderson	played by David Brisbin
Mrs. Anderson	played by Barbara Whinnery

Season 1 / Episode 6: - The Pack

Giles: I've been reading up on my, uh, animal possession, and I cannot find anything anywhere about memory loss afterwards.
Xander: Did you tell them that?
Giles: Your secret dies with me.
Xander: Shoot me, stuff me, mount me.

Season 1 / Episode 6: - The Pack

Giles: Xander's taken to teasing the less fortunate?
Buffy: Uh-huh.
Giles: And, uh, there's a noticeable change in both clothing and demeanor?
Buffy: Yes.
Giles: And, well, otherwise, all his spare time's spent lounging about with imbeciles?
Buffy: It's bad, isn't it?
Giles: It's devastating. He's turned into a sixteen-year-old boy. Of course, you'll have to kill him.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Buffy returns to the library dragging an unconscious Xander, a deadbolt can be seen on the right-hand library door. It was not there when she left (or at any time before this).
FACT: When Willow is watching the hyena footage on her computer in the library, most of the footage of the animals tearing at a carcass is actually of African wild dogs, not hyenas. Only the close-up footage initially is hyenas.
CONT: When Buffy picks Herbet the mascot up and walks with principal Flutie the 'razorback' is tied on by string, yet when they go to enter the room with his cage in it, the string has disappeared and the 'razorback' is lying against Buffy's chest.