The actual perpetrator finally ends up being a disgruntled lunch girl who poisoned the scholars’ meals, however there’s a crimson herring the place Buffy encounters nerdy Jonathan (who had written a cryptic letter apologizing for what he was about to do) within the clocktower assembling a rifle. In a really bizarre twist, he was solely planning to kill himself, however contemplating that this Buffy episode was initially meant to air per week after Columbine, the combo of a scholar with a high-powered rifle and a plot to mass homicide college students led to a delay.
It doubtless didn’t assist that Xander requested his friends, “who hasn’t simply idly considered taking out the entire place with a semi-automatic?” The inconsiderate query was completely in keeping with the stupidity of his character, however this line was a bit an excessive amount of to placed on the air just one week after Dylan Klebold had, actually, tried to take out his entire college utilizing (amongst different issues) a semi-automatic pistol.
