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One evening at Herrington High School in [[Ohio]], a few teachers, the head football [[Coach (sport)|coach]] and the [[school principal|principal]] leave after discussions about the school's budget. Having left her keys behind, Principal Drake ([[Bebe Neuwirth]]) returns to retrieve them. In her office, she is barred from leaving by the Coach Willis ([[Robert Patrick]]) who becomes increasingly erratic, then impulsively stakes a pencil through her hand and Drake facially slashes Willis with keys. Drake flees to the main school doors andonly bumpsto intofind the handles chained upand drama teacher Mrs. Olsen ([[Piper Laurie]]) whomis sheoutside pleadsand withcan't toassist helpDrake. herWillis escape.is Seeingthen theambushed coachby runningDrake towardshiding herin a room, Drakesmashing makesa itjar outsideon his head, seizes his keyset and shutsgrabs scissors for a weapon. Drake runs to the doors with Mrs.Willis Olsen'sat help.her Aftertail, lockingunable theto coachimmediately infind the schoolcorrect key allows Willis to get upclose, and obstruct door closure but Drake successfully closes the padlock. Olsen then consecutively stabs Drake with the scissors, seeminglywith killingan heremotionless face, revealingand reveals that Olsen is in cahoots with Willis.

The following morning, the film's protagonist students are introduced. Casey Connor ([[Elijah Wood]]), a dedicated but perpetually harrassed and routinely bullied [[photographer]] for the school newspaper, is the unappreciated friend of Delilah Profitt ([[Jordana Brewster]]) (the paper's [[editor-in-chief]] and head [[Cheerleading|cheerleader]]). Delilah's boyfriend Stan Rosado ([[Shawn Hatosy]]) is contemplating quitting the school's football team to pursue more academic ambitions, to Delilah's disapproval. Zeke Tyler ([[Josh Hartnett]]), a student repeating his senior year who sells, among other illegal items, a powdery [[MDMA|ecstasy]]-like drug he manufactures and distributes, is confronted by Miss Elizabeth Burke ([[Famke Janssen]]), who expresses concern for him over his illegal activities. TransferNaive transfer student from [[Atlanta, Georgia]]; Marybeth Louise Hutchinson ([[Laura Harris]]), attempts to befriend self-styled outcast Stokely "Stokes" Mitchell ([[Clea DuVall]]), who deliberately confirms rumors of lesbianism even though she has a crush on Stan and is a fan of science-fiction novels. Marybeth, on the other hand, develops a crush on Zeke.

Concerned about Casey's suggestion that everyone at the school could potentially be infected, Zeke takes everyone he trusts to his house where he performsexamines and experiments with a captured alienCasey's creaturespecimen. He determinesdiscovers that it needs water to survive and can be killed by his drugs because it is a [[diuretic]]. Zeke makes everyone take some of his drug to prove they are human and unaffected. Delilah is revealed as infected, and she destroys Zeke's lab and most of his drug supply before escaping.

Acting on Stokes' speculation that killing the queen alien would revert everyone to normal, the group returns to the school, where their [[American football|football]] team is playing a game and infecting opposing players. Believing Principal Drake to be the queen, they isolate her in the gym and killfatally shoot her. Stan goes outside to see if it worked, but is infected by the coach. Zeke and Casey go to Zeke's car to retrieve more of Zeke's drugs. Casey leads infected students away from Zeke, who encounters Miss Burke in the parking lot and seemingly kills her when he makes his escape.