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The Faculty - Plot summary

The Faculty is about a fictional high school, Herrington High (said to be located somewhere 'in the middle of Ohio'), at which the faculty and staff become taken over by parasitic aliens. In turn, the faculty then infects the students with the organism. A rag-tag group of six students resists, including: Zeke Tyler (Josh Hartnett), a loner and genius repeating his Senior year because he didn't care about graduating, whose parents travel constantly so as to 'get away from their big bastard mistake,' and who sells, among other illegal items, a cocaine-like drug of his own creation to his fellow students; Stan Rosado (Shawn Hatosy), a jock who decides Senior year to quit the football team and focus on his academics; Stan's girlfriend Delilah Profit (Jordana Brewster), a popular yet vindictive girl who is the editor in chief of the student paper; Casey Connor (Elijah Wood), an outcast picked on by the students at Herrington, who has a crush on Delilah, and who is intelligent and a photographer for the school newspaper; Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell (Clea DuVall), a female outcast who claims to be a lesbian in order to distance herself from people, and has a crush on Stan; and Marybeth Louise Hutchinson (Laura Harris), the new girl at school, claiming to have come from Atlanta to live with relatives because her parents had died in a car crash, and who has a crush on Zeke.

The aliens who take over the school do so by injecting a parasitic organism into the ear, which takes over the brain and creates what appears to be a different version of the person- one that desires to spread the parasite as much as it can. The faculty sends the entire student body to the nurse for ear inspections, where they are taken over by the parasite. Before this, however, Casey has figured out their plot (he and Delilah are hiding in the teacher's lounge closet when they see the nurse taken over by the parasite), and he warns Stokely, Delilah, and Stan. Joined by Zeke and Marybeth, who overhear them talking of aliens in the science lab, they are all convinced of Casey's theory when Mr. Furlong (the science teacher) enters the room and attempts to infect them with the alien. Zeke pulls out a pen filled with his drug, and jams it into Furlong's eye, which then dissolves the alien inside his brain.

Thus, they all leave the school, which has become completely infected, and go to Zeke's house with a sample of the parasite, where they verify that Zeke's drug is diuretic/desiccant and drys the alien out. They all do the drug to prove they are not taken over, and Delilah fails the test (having already been infected), and then destroys most of Zeke's supply of drug before getting away. Stokely, however, believes that killing the queen alien (the one who started spreading the parasite) will destroy them all. With the remainder of his drug, the remaining five go to the school (where the entire town is watching the school football game) and use the drug on Principal Drake, killing her. It doesn't work, and Stan is taken over. Zeke and Casey go to Zeke's car to find more of the drug, where Casey serves as the decoy and Zeke must fight Miss Burke (Famke Janssen), who is infected; he decapitates her by driving into a bus.

At the same time, however, Marybeth reveals herself to be the queen alien by changing into a large creature, and Casey and Stokely have to fight her in the gymnasium. Zeke returns with more of the drug, only to fight Stokely infected too. He and Casey fight Marybeth, but Zeke is knocked out, leaving only Casey. Marybeth then delivers a speech about how she crashed onto Earth, came to their school, found all of them alienated and unhappy, and so started infecting them in order to create a better life for the entire world, one of harmony and acceptance. Casey fights the alien by running through the back of the gym's bleachers after triggering them to collapse against the wall, and the alien (having chased him) is trapped there. Casey then stabs the drug into her eye, killing her.

After this, these six adolescents are completely changed- Zeke applies his genius to schoolwork; Stan and Stokely become boyfriend and girlfriend; Stokely changes her appearance and is happy now; Delilah and Casey become boyfriend and girlfriend; Casey is more accepted at school and Delilah is no longer vindictive.

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