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* AssholeVictim: It's hard to say Coach Marin didn't deserve his fate 100%.
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* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale.
* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that [[PuttingThePeeInPool Jonathan peed in the pool]] moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's "Earshot".
* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that [[PuttingThePeeInPool Jonathan peed in the pool]] moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's "Earshot".
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* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker TearJerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale.
* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that [[PuttingThePeeInPool Jonathan peed in the pool]] moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's"Earshot"."[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]".
* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that [[PuttingThePeeInPool Jonathan peed in the pool]] moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's
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* AFatherToHisMen: What Marin pretends to be, saying he cares about his boys by feeding them after their transformation. If he gave a damn about them in the first place, he wouldn't have been exposing them to steroids.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marin tries to act like a typical hardass but caring coach. He's actually deeply insane.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marin tries to act like a typical hardass but caring coach. He's actually deeply insane.
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* {{Grievous Harm with a Body}}: Angelus escapes Buffy by throwing Gage into her.
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* {{Grievous Harm with a Body}}: GrievousHarmWithABody: Angelus escapes Buffy by throwing Gage into her.
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* SelfDisposingVillain: The coach gets knocked into the pit and is eaten by his own monsters.
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* SelfDisposingVillain: The coach gets knocked While trying to kill Buffy, Marin falls into the pit and is eaten by he's been keeping his own monsters.fish monsters in.
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** PlayedForDrama: The Coach is willing to use dangerous experimental treatments in order to win a ''state championship''
---> '''Coach Marin:''' Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, you weren't even standing in line, were ya.
* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes. When facing possible gang rape by fish monsters, she makes a comment about what that will do to her damaged reputation in school.
---> '''Coach Marin:''' Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, you weren't even standing in line, were ya.
* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes. When facing possible gang rape by fish monsters, she makes a comment about what that will do to her damaged reputation in school.
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** PlayedForDrama: The Coach believes it's important to win...even if this means continually exposing teenagers to a steroid gas that transforms them into vicious, mindless beasts.
-->'''Buffy:''' Why?\\
'''Marin:''' What kind of question iswilling to use dangerous experimental treatments in order to win that? For the win! To make my team the best they could be! Do you understand we have a ''state championship''
---> '''Coach Marin:'''shot at the state championship?\\
'''Buffy:''' Do you understand that I don't care? It's over! There's not gonna be any swim team.\\
'''Marin:''' Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, youweren't didn't even standing stand in line, were ya.
did you?\\
'''Buffy:''' No. I was in the line for shred of sanity.
* SlutShaming: Combined withUsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}.UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming. Cameron and Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes. When facing possible gang rape by fish monsters, she makes a comment about what that will do to her damaged reputation in school.
-->'''Buffy:''' Why?\\
'''Marin:''' What kind of question is
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'''Buffy:''' Do you understand that I don't care? It's over! There's not gonna be any swim team.\\
'''Marin:''' Boy, when they were handing out school spirit, you
'''Buffy:''' No. I was in the line for shred of sanity.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The coach feeds the nurse to his boys when she talks of quitting.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The coach feeds the nurse to his boys when she talks of quitting.quitting.
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* MrFanservice: Nicholas Brendon gets to show off his rather impressive body in a couple scenes. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Cordy, Willow, and most of us aren't complaining.]] Additionally, Gage is portrayed by WentworthMiller, and gets a few shirtless scenes as well.
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* MrFanservice: Nicholas Brendon gets to show off his rather impressive body in a couple scenes. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Cordy, Willow, and most of us aren't complaining.]] Additionally, Gage is portrayed by WentworthMiller, Creator/WentworthMiller, and gets a few shirtless scenes as well.
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* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that Jonathan peed in the pool moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's "Earshot".
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* BrickJoke: The Scoobies remember that [[PuttingThePeeInPool Jonathan peed in the pool pool]] moments before Xander dives into it. Also the Willow PerpSweating Jonathan gag gets repeated in Season 3's "Earshot".
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'''Jonathan:''' (confused) What? No! I snuck in yesterday and... peed in the pool.\\
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Subverted. Willow mentions that she and Xander "played doctor." Then it's revealed that Willow meant that she looked up diagnoses for Xander in a text book.
-->'''Willow:''' (''to Buffy, after Xander said the way they "played doctor" was wrong'') How did you play doctor?
-->'''Buffy:''' (''evasively'') [[BlatantLies I...never have]].
-->'''Willow:''' (''to Buffy, after Xander said the way they "played doctor" was wrong'') How did you play doctor?
-->'''Buffy:''' (''evasively'') [[BlatantLies I...never have]].
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In the library, Cordelia Chase sketches the creature that Xander saw before running off "like a woman". Buffy and Willow return, having been informed that Cameron and Dodd were the two best swimmers on the Boys' Team; after them was Gage. Buffy is assigned to shadowing Gage - suspecting that he will be attacked next - while Willow interrogates Jonathan under a lamp. According to Jonathan, he indeed wanted revenge, but achieved it in a very different way: by relieving himself in the pool, oddly enough. Xander, who has been teased for his cowardice by Cordelia, overhears Marin and Snyder chatting. They need another swimmer, or they won't be eligible for competition; they don't even care if the guy can swim a stroke, so long as he shows up for practice. The next day, Gage grows suspicious of Buffy when she follows him around. At the Bronze that night, Buffy is confronted by Gage; she attempts to cover it up, but fails. She tells him that his life is in danger, but he ridicules her by calling her a "psycho bitch" and a "head tripper", unknowing of what Buffy really is. He leaves, only to encounter Angelus in the parking lot. They complain briefly about Buffy, then Angelus "vamps out" and bites him...intending to "turn" Gage and recruit him for his war against Buffy. However, seconds later, Angelus stops and spits the blood out. Buffy comes to Gage's rescue. A now-fearful Gage lets Buffy walk him home, while Buffy wonders why Angel spit the blood out.
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In the library, Cordelia Chase sketches the creature that Xander saw before running off "like a woman". Buffy and Willow return, having been informed that Cameron and Dodd were the two best swimmers on the Boys' Team; after them was Gage. Buffy is assigned to shadowing Gage - suspecting that he will be attacked next - while Willow interrogates Jonathan under a lamp. According to Jonathan, he indeed wanted revenge, but achieved it in a very different way: by relieving himself in the pool, oddly enough. Xander, who has been teased for his cowardice by Cordelia, overhears Marin and Snyder chatting. They need another swimmer, or they won't be eligible for competition; they don't even care if the guy can swim a stroke, so long as he shows up for practice. The next day, Gage grows suspicious of Buffy when she follows him around. At the Bronze that night, Buffy is confronted by Gage; she attempts to cover it up, but fails. She tells him that his life is in danger, but he ridicules her by calling her a "psycho bitch" and a "head tripper", unknowing of what Buffy really is. He leaves, only to encounter Angelus in the parking lot. They complain briefly about Buffy, then Angelus "vamps out" vamps out and bites him...intending tries to "turn" Gage and recruit him for his war against Buffy.vamp him. However, seconds later, Angelus stops and spits the blood out. Buffy comes to Gage's rescue. A now-fearful Gage lets Buffy walk him home, while Buffy wonders why Angel Angelus spit the blood out.
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* CouldSayItBut: Principal Synder does not tell Willow to alter Gage's grade just to "look over the number"
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* CouldSayItBut: Principal Synder does not tell Willow to alter Gage's grade just to "look over the number"number".
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* RushedInvertedReading: Buffy attempts to watch over Gage. When he turns around to look at her, she looks back at her upside magazine
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* RushedInvertedReading: Buffy attempts to watch over Gage. When he turns around to look at her, she looks back at her upside magazinemagazine.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Subverted. Willow mentions that she and Xander "played doctor." Then it's revealed that Willow meant that she looked up diagnoses for Xander in a text book.
-->'''Willow:''' (''to Buffy, after Xander said the way they "played doctor" was wrong'') How did you play doctor?
-->'''Buffy:''' (''evasively'') [[BlatantLies I...never have]].
-->'''Willow:''' (''to Buffy, after Xander said the way they "played doctor" was wrong'') How did you play doctor?
-->'''Buffy:''' (''evasively'') [[BlatantLies I...never have]].
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* BlackComedyRape: Buffy after being thrown to the fish monsters.
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* BlackComedyRape: Buffy after being thrown to the fish monsters.monsters, fighting them off, then [[KickTheSonOfABitch throwing their coach - who threw her in - in with them.]]
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* MrFanservice: Nicholas Brendon gets to show off his rather impressive body in a couple scenes. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Cordy, Willow, and most of us aren't complaining.]]
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* MrFanservice: Nicholas Brendon gets to show off his rather impressive body in a couple scenes. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Cordy, Willow, and most of us aren't complaining.]]]] Additionally, Gage is portrayed by WentworthMiller, and gets a few shirtless scenes as well.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Gage is much nicer than the rest of the Swim Team, and even has a bit of ShipTease with Buffy. It doesn't help him.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Xander wearing [[WalkingSwimsuitScene nothing but speedos]].
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* {{Fanservice}}: Xander wearing [[WalkingSwimsuitScene nothing but speedos]]. SMG dripping wet in the sewers showing off some cleavage.
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* PerpSweating: Willow gets quite hooked on this.
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* PerpSweating: Mild and geeky Willow gets quite hooked on this.enjoys interrogating Jonathan (with desk lamp) when the Scoobies suspect him of murder. The gag is repeated again in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot}} Earshot]]".
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* FishPeopleFishPeople: The Sunnydale High swim team mutates into fish dudes due to their coach giving them illegal, Soviet fish-based steroids. Unusually for monsters in a Buffy episode, they all lived HappilyEverAfter in the ocean — although they did lose their human personalities, so the swim team essentially died.
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* SelfDisposingVillainSelfDisposingVillain: The coach gets knocked into the pit and is eaten by his own monsters.
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* ShoutOut: Cordelia thinks Xander will get turned into the creature from ''TheBlueLagoon''. He corrects her by saying it's ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.
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* ShoutOut: Cordelia thinks Xander will get turned into the creature from ''TheBlueLagoon''.''Film/TheBlueLagoon''. He corrects her by saying it's ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.
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* VerySpecialEpisodeVerySpecialEpisode: The swim team is given a drug which is constantly referred to as a steroid but ends up turning them into fish.
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* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes.
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* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes. When facing possible gang rape by fish monsters, she makes a comment about what that will do to her damaged reputation in school.
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* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale. Coming as it does at the end of the season, just after the arc-heavy "I Only Have Eyes for You" and just before the season finale, and having a somewhat lame rubber-suit fish-monster, it wasn't that well received.
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* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale. Coming as it does at the end of the season, just after the arc-heavy "I Only Have Eyes for You" and just before the season finale, and having a somewhat lame rubber-suit fish-monster, it wasn't that well received.
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At the beach, the Sunnydale High swim team is celebrating their latest victory, while Xander complains about having such a celebration just for the swim team. Buffy sulks on a rock, watching the ocean. A guy named Cameron Walker approaches Buffy and starts sputtering out poetic words. Buffy tries to scare him off, but he says he's looking to talk. Meanwhile, Jonathan Levinson is being dunked in a bucket of ice water by members of the team. Buffy rescues him and scares off the two bullying swimmers. The bullies, Dodd McAlvy and Gage Petronzi, walk off and talk about how weird Buffy seems to them (not knowing about her being the Slayer). Then Dodd stops, while Gage Petronzi keeps walking. Gage then smells something bad but keeps going. He walks by without seeing Dodd's skin, which is lying on the ground but with nothing left inside. We see a creature walk through the sewer.
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At the beach, the Sunnydale High swim team is celebrating their latest victory, while Xander complains about having such a celebration just for the swim team. Buffy sulks on a rock, watching the ocean. A guy named Cameron Walker approaches Buffy and starts sputtering out poetic words. Buffy tries to scare him off, but he says he's looking to talk. Meanwhile, Jonathan Levinson is being dunked in a bucket of ice water by members of the team. Buffy rescues him and scares off the two bullying swimmers. The bullies, Dodd McAlvy [=McAlvy=] and Gage Petronzi, walk off and talk about how weird Buffy seems to them (not knowing about her being the Slayer). Then Dodd stops, while Gage Petronzi keeps walking. Gage then smells something bad but keeps going. He walks by without seeing Dodd's skin, which is lying on the ground but with nothing left inside. We see a creature walk through the sewer.
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil Coach Marin.
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* KarmicRape: KarmicRape + LaserGuidedKarma: The fate of the evil Coach Marin.
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* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale.
* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale.
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* BodyHorror
BodyHorror: The swimmers are turned into fish-monsters, which involves them having to painfully rip off their own skin.
* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale. Coming as it does at the end of the season, just after the arc-heavy "I Only Have Eyes for You" and just before the season finale, and having a somewhat lame rubber-suit fish-monster, it wasn't that well received.
* BreatherEpisode: Between the tearjerker "I Only Have Eyes For You", and the season finale. Coming as it does at the end of the season, just after the arc-heavy "I Only Have Eyes for You" and just before the season finale, and having a somewhat lame rubber-suit fish-monster, it wasn't that well received.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, Gage is [[PrisonBreak Michael Scofield]], and Sean is [[{{ER}} Doctor Ray Barnett]]. And hey, Nurse Ruthie is [[TwoAndAHalfMen Berta]]!
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-->"Great. This is just what my reputation needs: that I did it with the entire swim team."
** Then, after the coach ends up in their clutches instead: "Wow. They really love their coach."
** Then, after the coach ends up in their clutches instead: "Wow. They really love their coach."
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** Then, after the coach ends up in their clutches instead: "Wow. They really love their coach."
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-->'''Buffy:''' Wow. They really love their coach.
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The Scoobies investigate the deaths of the school swim team.
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At the
The next day, Willow Rosenberg is teaching a class, and as she is walking around checking people's work on their computers, she sees Gage playing solitaire on his computer with naked women on the cards. She tells him off, but he doesn't seem to care. After class, Principal Snyder tells Willow that they can't get a new teacher for a while, and that she will have to continue covering (which pleases her). Willow then informs Snyder that Gage is failing because he doesn't show up for tests or do homework. Snyder is not interested; he tells her that, as Gage is on the swim team, he shouldn't be expected to do homework or take tests. Snyder demands that Willow change Gage's grade from an F to a D. Buffy comes to school with Cameron, and he tries to grope her. She hits his head against the steering wheel and breaks his nose. Snyder happens to see this; he and Cameron blame Buffy for the altercation. Cameron tells the Swim Team Coach and Snyder that Buffy was leading him on; the Coach, after telling Nurse Greenleigh to "take care of my boy", turns to Buffy and tells her she shouldn't dress so provocatively.
Later, Buffy rants to Rupert Giles and her friends about the incident with Cameron. Giles informs her that they found Dodd's remains on the beach. Cameron hits the sauna and\ hears some weird noises. The Coach bursts in and announces that Cameron has had enough. While everyone studies in the library, Xander goes out for a drink. Heading for the vending machine, he bumps into Cameron. Xander teases him for getting beaten by Buffy after he tried to paw her. Cameron heads off to the cafeteria for a snack, while Xander tries to decide between grape and orange soda. Cameron screams, and Xander rushes into the cafeteria. He finds the place in shambles, with Cameron's skin on the ground. Xander turns around and finds himself face-to-face with the creature responsible: a Gill Monster.
In the library, Cordelia Chase sketches the creature that Xander saw before running off "like a woman". Buffy and Willow return, having been informed that Cameron and Dodd were the two best swimmers on the Boys' Team; after them was Gage. Buffy is assigned to shadowing Gage - suspecting that he will be attacked next - while Willow interrogates Jonathan under a lamp. According to Jonathan, he indeed wanted revenge, but achieved it in a very different way: by relieving himself in the pool, oddly enough. Xander, who has been teased for his cowardice by Cordelia, overhears Marin and Snyder chatting. They need another swimmer, or they won't be eligible for competition; they don't even care if the guy can swim
The following day, Buffy sits in on swim practice along with Cordy and Willow. The three girls wonder what could be killing off the swimmers. Buffy suspects Gage had steroids in his blood, or something else that might have attracted the monsters. Cordelia comments on a cute new addition to the team, and then realizes that it's Xander. He walks over and informs them that he just made the team. Willow tells Buffy that Jonathan wasn't responsible for the swimmers' deaths, but instead got his revenge by relieving himself in the pool. At the beginning of swim practice, Gage stops in mid-lap to wave and smile at Buffy. Cordelia is delighted that she's dating a member of the Sunnydale swim team, while Buffy and Willow tease him for being almost naked. Later, the team soaks in the sauna. Xander continues to babble, but no one pays attention. Claws come up through a grate, but still no one pays attention.
While Buffy waits for Gage to exit the boys' locker room, she hears him yell. She charges in and finds him with a Gill Monster! Gage suddenly cries out in pain and falls to the ground; he rips open his shirt, followed by his skin, and becomes a Gill Monster himself. As Buffy fights the two monsters off, one grabs her from behind and bites her in the arm. Suddenly, Coach Marin saves Buffy just by bursting into the room; although Marin is alone and unarmed, the Gill Monsters flee. Buffy is sent to Nurse Greenleigh's office. Marin is told that members of his team are becoming Gill Monsters. Buffy and Giles go hunting for Gill Monsters in the sewers, but fail to find any. Meanwhile, Xander again hits the sauna; there he asks where and how he can get some steroids. His fellow swimmers tell him that he's already getting some, right here and now; it turns out the steroids are in the steam from the sauna.
Nurse Greenleigh tries to end Marin's experiments; the Coach has been attempting to improve his swim team's performance, by supplying them with steroids via the sauna-steam. To keep her from exposing him, he drops her through a grate into the sewers; there the Gill Monsters devour her. Xander warns everyone that he's had three exposures to the steam, and is in danger of becoming a Gill Monster himself. Buffy has Giles lock up the rest of the swim team, while she goes to talk with Coach Marin. She confronts him and demands information about the steroids he's been giving them, telling him he'll go to jail. Instead, the coach pulls a gun on Buffy and forces her into the same hole where Nurse Greenleigh was killed. The coach explains to Buffy that, while his monsters have already had their dinner, she's there because "boys have other needs."
Xander and Cordelia help round up the Boys' Swim Team members. Xander enters the locker room to check and see if he's becoming "scaly." A Gill Monster who used to be Shawn emerges from the locker room and jumps in the pool. Cordy, thinking it's Xander, laments about his fate. Xander suddenly reappears beside her, right before "Shawn" attacks Cordy - just missing her. They flee back to the library. Xander decides that, since Buffy hasn't returned, he should go after her. He meets up with Coach Marin and fights him for the gun (which Marin has, for some reason, left on the other side of the room beyond his reach). Xander disarms Marin, who is twice his size, and knocks the coach out. Xander looks down into the hole and sees Buffy, up to her waist in fetid water, surrounded by Gill Monsters who are about to attack and slaughter her. He pulls her out before they can do so. (Note this is the second time - in one and the same episode - that someone has conveniently shown up at the last possible moment to save Buffy, of all people, from certain doom.) Then Coach Marin bashes Xander's head with a pipe wrench from behind, incapacitating but not killing him. Marin then tries to do the same with Buffy, but Buffy ducks and trips him, accidentally causing him to fall into the hole. She tries to catch him, but fails. Being no match for the Gill Monsters in their element, Buffy can only observe as they close in and rip the Coach to pieces...literally biting the hand that feeds them. Xander recovers just in time to join her in witnessing Marin's demise.
The next day, everyone recaps; Xander and the surviving swim team members are given prescribed treatment Giles had the hospital toxicology lab come up with to ensure that the steroids don't take effect. Meanwhile, the Gill Monsters swim out into the ocean.
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* FaceMonsterTurn: The Swim Team guys who become the fish monsters seem to lose any of their personalities and are reduced to a pack of mindless animals.
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* JerkJockJerkJock: Most of the Swim Team. Gage is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, not that it does him any good.
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* ShirtlessScene: Holy ''crap,'' [[MrFanservice Xander.]]
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*EatenAlive: Poor Nurse Greenliegh's fate.
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach.
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach.Coach Marin.
*MeaningfulName: The coach is called Karl MARIN. (as in [=MARINe=] biologist)
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'''Jonathon:''' (confused) What? No! I snuck in yesterday and... peed in the pool.\\
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* MonsterOfTheWeek / MonsterOfTheAesopMonsterOfTheAesop: The swimmers turn into monsters for consumming steroids.
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* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and the Coach blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes.
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* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and the Coach Marin blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes.
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* WeWillMeetAgain: A heroic version with Buffy saying "This isn't over" when the coach forces her into the grotto at gunpoint.
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* WeWillMeetAgain: A heroic version with Buffy saying "This isn't over" when the coach Coach Marin forces her into the grotto at gunpoint.
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach, further cementing this episode's status as kind of a piece of crap, unsuccessful BreatherEpisode between "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Becoming".
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach, further cementing this episode's status as kind of a piece of crap, unsuccessful BreatherEpisode between "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Becoming". coach.
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* SovietSuperscience: The formula the Coach and Nurse Greenleigh use to strengthen the swim-team and turn them into fish monsters is apparently based on Soviet experiments done on the Olympic swim-team that came to light after the end of the Cold War.
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-->Great. This is just what my reputation needs: that I did it with the entire swim team.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A combination of Angelus not liking the taste when he attacks a member of the swim team and Buffy fighting him off saves a potential male victim. Buffy then further subverts traditional gender roles by walking the victim home.
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* BullyingADragon: Cameron got off lucky with only a broken nose trying to rape the Slayer.
* CouldSayItBut: Principal Synder does not tell Willow to alter Gage's grade just to "look over the number"
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach, further cementing this episode's status as kind of a piece of crap, unsuccessful BreatherEpisode between "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Becoming".
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* KarmicRape: The fate of the evil swim coach, further cementing this episode's status as kind of a piece of crap, unsuccessful BreatherEpisode between "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Becoming".
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* RushedInvertedReading: Buffy attempts to watch over Gage. When he turns around to look at her, she looks back at her upside magazine
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* SkewedPriorities: Cordelia as per usual. When she finds out that two members of the swim team are dead, she worries about the state championship. Later, when Xander is about to be turned into a monster, she's more worried about dating a monster
** PlayedForDrama: The Coach is willing to use dangerous experimental treatments in order to win a ''state championship''
* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and the Coach blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes.
** PlayedForDrama: The Coach is willing to use dangerous experimental treatments in order to win a ''state championship''
* SlutShaming: Combined with UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blaming}}. Cameron and the Coach blame Buffy's attempted rape on her "leading him on" and wearing sexy clothes.
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* SaveTheDayTurnAway: A rare aversion where, after saving Gage, Buffy does something she's almost never done in the series and walks him home.
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* SaveTheDayTurnAway: A rare aversion where, after saving Gage, Buffy does something she's almost never done in the series and [[GenderInvertedTrope walks him home.home]].
