Inca Mummy Girl

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“Inca Mummy Girl”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 4
Guest stars	Kristine Sutherland    (Joyce Summers) Ara Celi    (Ampata) Seth Green    (Oz) Jason Hall    (Devon) Danny Strong    (Jonathan)
Written by	Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer
Directed by	Ellen S. Pressman
Production no.	5V04
Original airdate	October 6, 1997
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"Inca Mummy Girl" is Episode 4 of Season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.

[edit] Plot synopsis

Ampata’s surname, 'Gutierrez', is named after Joss Whedon’s personal assistant, Diego Gutierrez. The original script reveals the surname was originally 'Duarte'.

To prepare for Sunnydale High's cultural exchange program, Buffy visits an Incan exhibit with her schoolmates. She is paired with an exchange student with whom her mom signed her up. Xander becomes jealous when he learns that she will room with a guy.

After everyone leaves the museum, a class clown breaks the seal on a mummy while trying to steal it. The princess wakes up, for the curse is broken, and pulls the unfortunate student into her coffin. She mummifies him by a kiss on the lips. When the Scoobies rush to the museum, they encounter a sword-wielding guard and the remains of the missing student.

Buffy's exchange student arrives at the bus station, and the mummy girl sucks out his life, too. The 500-year-old becomes a beautiful teenager, and Xander is smitten when the Scoobies arrive at the bus station. Giles asks the girl, who has assumed the name Ampata, to decipher the seal, but she tells him to destroy it. This bodyguard appears again and again, but is then killed in the ladies' room by Ampata's kiss.

Xander asks Ampata to the dance to enliven her. She gladly accepts. Willow is downtrodden to find her crush with another girl when the guitarist (Daniel "Oz" Osbourne) at the Bronze notices her. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles open Ampata's trunk and discover the real Ampata's body. Giles tries to piece together the seal while Buffy tries to save Xander from Ampata's deadly kiss. But Ampata feels too much for Xander and leaves for the museum. She tries to stop Giles from putting the seal back together. Buffy saves Giles, then Ampata starts to deteriorate as she tries to feed off Willow. Xander puts his life on the line as Ampata crumbles.

[edit] Acting

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[edit] Main cast

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
• David Boreanaz as Angel

Although credited, Boreanaz does not appear in this episode.

• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

[edit] Guest stars

• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
• Seth Green as Oz

[edit] Also starring

• Ara Celi as Ampata
• Jason Hall as Devon
• Henrik Rosvall as Sven
• Joey Crawford as Rodney
• Danny Strong as Jonathan
• Kristen Winnicki as Gwen
• Gil Birmingham as Peru Guy
• Samuel Jacobs as Peruvian boy
• Patrese Borem as Young Woman

[edit] Music

'Dingoes Ate My Baby' was the fictional musical front for the real-life band Four Star Mary.

• Christophe Beck - "Ampata's Kiss"
• Four Star Mary - "Fate"
• Four Star Mary - "Shadows"

[edit] Translations

• French title: "La Momie inca" ("The Inca Mummy")
• Italian title: "La prescelta" ("The chosen one" (feminine))
• German title: "Das Geheimnis der Mumie" ("The secret of the mummy")
• Japanese title: "インカ帝国のミイラ王女" ("Inka-Teikoku no Mīra Ōjo" - "The Mummy Princess of the Incan Empire")

[edit] Timing

• Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

[edit] External links

• Inca Mummy Girl at the Internet Movie Database