Mace Lombard Movies
- 1999
In the fourth season opener, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Willow (Alyson Hannigan) have entered college in Sunnydale and set about choosing courses. Despite a roommate who snores, Willow is confident in the new intellectual environment, but Buffy feels unsure of herself and completely out of place. Soon, she meets Eddie (Pedro Balmaceda), another insecure freshman clutching his favorite book, Of Human Bondage. After they part ways, Eddie is attacked by a group of vampires led by Sunday (Katherine Towne), a punkish vampire on campus. Later, Buffy realizes that Eddie was not in class and goes to his dorm room only to find his things missing, except for the book. While on slayer patrol, a newly vamped Eddie lures Buffy into a confrontation with Sunday. In other plot developments, Xander (Nicholas Brendon) has not entered college, but gone on a trip across America, ending in Oxnard and a stint in a male strip club -- as a dishwasher. Buffy also meets Riley (Marc Blucas), a psychology grad student who will factor more prominently in her life in the future. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1999
Riley (Marc Blucas) likes Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar). He even punches Parker (Adam Kaufman) for making disparaging remarks about her. Despite his masculine confidence as an Initiative Commando -- an elite sect of the military that hunts and studies monsters -- he is nervous about asking Buffy out. He even goes to Willow (Alyson Hannigan) for advice. This leads to Riley proffering some cheese squares for Buffy at a party. Needless to say, they are both unaware of each other's secret night life. Meanwhile, Spike (James Marsters) -- or "Hostile 17," as he is now called -- is languishing in a holding cell in the Initiative's underground compound below Riley's fraternity house. Spike soon breaks out and attacks Willow in her dorm room. Mysteriously, he is unable to bite her. ~ All Movie Guide
