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When Sunnydale High's librarian Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) is ordered to
organize the school's talent show by new principal Snyder (Armin Shimerman), he
thinks he finally has reached hell on earth - & it's not made any better by
the fact that during the rehearsals one of the students is killed & her
heart ripped out.
Giles & hsi favourite students Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Xander
(Nicholas Brendon) & Buffy, Vampire Slayer (Sarah Michelle Gellar) are
quick to pick out a prime suspect of their own, Morgan (Richard Werner)
&/or his ventriloquist dummy Sid, & they even manage to lijnk the case
to some demon legend Giles finds in his old books.
And indeed, Sid soon proves to have a life of his own, while Morgan grows
ever weaker. So Xander decides to steal Sid from Morgan to give Buffy a chance
to confront Morgan without his dummy ... but then, whe finds Morgan dead, while
Xander finds the dummy has mysteriously disappeared ...
Soon it's a showdown between Buffy & Sid, but after they have hit each
other with everything but the kitchen sink, they have to realize they are
fighting on the same side, as Sid is actually a demon hunter who was cursed to
spend his existence as a puppet years ago, & he thought Buffy was the demon
who has killed both the girl at the talent show and Morgan.
This means though the demon is still at large, & he might be someone in
the talent show's cast - and he is hunting for a brain (!). But while Sid,
Buffy, Xander & Willow still try to figure who the demon might be, Giles is
already preoccupied with getting the show rolling, & so caught up in his
work that he doesn't realize that small-fry-stage-wizard Marc (Burke Roberts)
is using his guillotine-trick just to get easy access to Giles' brain (quite
literally). Only in the last minute can Buffy, Sid & company intervene
& kill the demon once & for all - just before the curtains rise for the
talent show ...
Despite some funny moments a rather incongruent episode: The first
2 thirds include pretty much every ventriloquist-dummy-come-to-life cliché
imaginable - & it has been done better - while the last third is just some
run-of-the-mill Buffy-fights-demon finale with the dummy thrown in just for
good measure. Unfortunately though, the plottwist connecting these 2 parts is
unconvincing, &, what's more, not very interesting.
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