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By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.05.2000
Gail Manor. The coven is brewing a potion from the "To Separate a Witch from Her Powers" page.
The SUV pulls up in front of the manor.
Amanda says, "They're here." The old ladies exposition some more about getting the powers and giving them to Cheeto. Gail pours the boiling concoction into a glass pitcher as she ominously coughs into her hand.
Parlor. Helen is insisting that the sisters have "another glass of iced tea." How much time has passed since the last scene? Because hot tea doesn't become ready to be iced all that quickly. Whatever! Gail also insists that the Ps all have a second glass. Prue asks who else knows about Cheeto. Gail admits that both Helen and Amanda are in the loop. Prue and Piper gape. The hell? If Gail's friends didn't know about Cheeto before Prue brought him up, they certainly would know about him NOW. Whatever! Amanda insists that they won't tell anyone about the Halliwells' status as witches. Piper makes a stink-face due to the beverage she's consuming, and replies: "That's good to know." Helen asks her what's wrong. Piper asks what kind of tea they're drinking. Gail, in yet another incredibly inept attempt at lying, replies that "it's a special blend" while she winks and twirls her handlebar moustache between her fingers. She then sends the Ps off to investigate an "old furniture warehouse on Route 10" where two of the skinned corpses were found. The sisters book out of there. Amanda bitches at Gail, because Cheeto insisted that the Ps stay in the house. Gail reasons that the sisters were "getting suspicious" but, after prodding, 'fesses up that "they're family and no demon is going to hurt them." Then she ominously coughs and tells the other women to join her in the basement, so they can call for the powers until the potion takes effect.
Abandoned furniture-warehouse parking lot. The Ps get out of the SUV. After a three-second inspection of the place, Prue wonders if the docile Ps notice anything. They don't. Are they thinking what Prue's thinking? Phoebe: "Wild goose chase?" Prue nods. Piper wonders why. Prue thinks Gail was in an "awful hurry to get [them] out of that house -- whoa!" She suddenly gets the vapors and steadies herself against the building. Phoebe makes the pearl-clutching gesture. (Shout-out?) Prue feels "light-headed all of the sudden." She stoops down. Phoebe does the patented Halliwell hand-fan movement and declares that she's "not feeling so hot, either." Holly Marie has received no lines or stage directions, so she just takes it all in.