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"Out of Mind, Out of Sight", also known as "Invisible Girl",〔(BBC episode guide )〕 is the 11th episode of Season One of the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. In the episode, an invisible force is attacking people at the local school and Cordelia may be in danger. The relationship between Buffy and Cordelia grows closer. ==Plot== Cordelia is talking excitedly with Harmony when Buffy bumps into them, spilling her Slayer paraphernalia. Buffy makes up an excuse about borrowing it from Giles for a history project. After her English class, Cordelia arranges to meet with the teacher the next day to talk about her paper. In the boys' locker room, Mitch, Cordelia's boyfriend, is attacked with a baseball bat and taken to hospital. Buffy enters the boys' locker room while Willow and Xander distract Snyder about suing the school and find the word "LOOK" spray-painted on the lockers. In the school cafeteria, the Scooby Gang suspect a ghost is responsible. As Buffy approaches her, Harmony is pushed down the stairs by an invisible force and injures her ankle. Snyder is worried that Harmony might sue him. Buffy runs off to follow an invisible source of laughter. The invisible thing bumps into Buffy before escaping. As the Scooby Gang disperse, Buffy follows the sound of a flute. In the library, Giles is surprised by Angel, who offers to get a book of prophecies. In a flashback sequence, Cordelia and Harmony discuss a lecture and ignore another girl, Marcie Ross. Cordelia wins the May Queen award. Looking over Willow's list of missing children, Buffy suspects Marcie when she sees she played the flute. Buffy finds Marcie's hideout. While Buffy is looking at Marcie's yearbook, Marciewho is invisibleis standing behind Buffy with a knife. Buffy leaves the hideout, unaware. Marcie then finds Mrs. Miller, Cordelia's literature teacher, and chokes her with a plastic bag. Cordelia arrives a short while afterwards and saves Mrs. Miller. An invisible hand writes "LISTEN" on the blackboard. As Willow looks over Marcie's yearbook, she sees it is full of the generic "Have a nice summer!", showing Marcie had no friends at all (according to Xander, ''Have a nice summer'' is "the kiss of death"). She is horrified to find her own greeting to Marcie: "Have a great summer!" Both Xander and Willow are appalled to realize that, although they had never heard of Marcie, they each had four classes with her the previous year. In a flashback, Marcie is sitting in her literature class as she attempts to answer a question posed by the teacher and is looked over in favor of her classmates, even though she had her hand up. Her hand then starts to fade away. Giles realizes that Marcie did not willingly become invisible, but was ''made'' invisible due to people never noticing her existence. Regardless of Buffy's assumptions of the Hellmouth, Giles states that, according to quantum physics, reality can be shaped and altered due to society's perception: as Marcie was perceived as invisible, she literally became invisible, thus is not a mystical cause. Willow and Xander are in guilt for Marcie's plight after discovering their inadvertent roles. As the Scoobies think back to Harmony and Mitch, and flick through Marcie's yearbook, they find Cordelia's picture, horribly defaced. They realize that Marcie is after Cordelia, whom she resented for constantly being the center of attention; suddenly the latter walks into the library asking Buffy for protection. They explain to Cordelia who is following her and decide to use her as bait and to have Buffy bodyguard her. As Cordelia is getting dressed, she tells Buffy that despite her popularity, she feels she does not have a single real friend and feels lonely. Using recorded flute music, Marcie lures Willow, Xander and Giles into the boiler room where she closes the door and opens the gas, then grabs Cordelia as she is changing. Buffy follows Cordelia and finds her unconscious. Marcie injects Buffy with a sedative and renders her unconscious Buffy and Cordelia wake up; they are tied to some chairs. They see the word "LEARN" written on a curtain, and Marcie says that Cordelia is the lessonor will be after Marcie surgically disfigures her face. Buffy kicks the instrument tray at Marcie and frees herself from the ropes. In the boiler room, Angel rescues the Scooby Gang and closes the gas valve. Buffy realizes that she must use her other senses to fight an invisible enemy; she concentrates, listening to Marcie, and knocks her into a curtain before knocking her out. After Buffy frees Cordelia, two mysterious FBI agents arrive from nowhere to haul Marcie away. The day after the May Queen coronation, Cordelia thanks the Scoobies for helping her. Marcie is taken by the FBI to a school of invisible students. She sits down in class and opens her textbook, called ''Assassination and Infiltration'', of which she approves. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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