The real culprit ends up being a disgruntled lunch lady who poisoned the students’ food, but there is a red herring where Buffy encounters nerdy Jonathan (who had written a cryptic letter apologizing for what he was about to do) in the clocktower assembling a rifle. In a truly weird twist, he was only planning to kill himself, but considering that this Buffy episode was originally meant to air a week after Columbine, the combo of a student with a high-powered rifle and a plot to mass murder students led to a delay.
It likely didn’t help that Xander asked his friends, “who hasn’t just idly thought about taking out the whole place with a semi-automatic?” The thoughtless question was perfectly in line with the stupidity of his character, but this line was a bit too much to put on the air only one week after Dylan Klebold had, in fact, tried to take out his whole school using (among other things) a semi-automatic pistol.
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