The Witch

Buffy decides to try-out for Cheerleading despite Giles attempts to persuade her otherwise. Willow's friend Amy is trying out as well because her mother was a former cheerleading champion. During the try-outs, a girl's hands catch on fire and Buffy puts them out. No one has any idea what is going on though and cheer continues on. As the results come in, Buffy finds herself as first alternate, Cordelia on the squad and Amy a third alternate.

At Driver's Ed training, Cordelia crashes the car into a fence and then almost gets run over by a truck. Buffy saves her and finds that Cordelia's pupils are gone. In biology class, another member of the cheerleading squad finds herself unable to speak because her mouth is gone. In the library Giles comes to the conclusion that witchcraft is the cause of all these weird occurrences. The gang suspects Amy and decides to test and see if she is a witch. Amy realizes that they are on to her and puts a spell on Buffy that makes her act as if she were seriously drunk the next day.

At cheer practice, Buffy continues to act looped and throws the captain across the gym. She is kicked off the squad and Amy takes her place. As Xander and Willow rescue Buffy from doing any more damage, she faints in their arms. When she awakens, her life is slowly fading away because of the spell. Giles suspects she only has a few hours left and they head over to Amy's house to find a spell to stop her. When they get there, Buffy realizes that Amy's mother, Catherine, is the one who is the witch. She apparently switched bodies with her daughter because she wanted to relive the days of her youth. Giles finds the spell to stop her and they quickly rush back to the science lab where they will have the right materials for the job.

At the basketball game that night, Amy senses that they are trying the spell and hurries to stop them. The spell is completed just as she arrives and the two switch back to their old bodies. Buffy is revived and fights with Catherine. Catherine starts a spell to send Buffy to hell but Buffy knocks down the overhanging mirror from the teacher's and Catherine is affected by the spell. The next day, everyone is back to normal and Amy and Buffy are back to being alternates. Amy tells that she's living with her dad and loving every second of it. As they pass by the trophy case, we see Catherine's eyes moving.