Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Murphy's Luck
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.29.2000
Freeway. Piper pulls over to the side of the road. She and Pheebs get out of the SUV. Piper expositions that this is "around" the spot St. M chose. Phoebe reasons that Prue has to be around there somewhere. Piper spots Prue above them, standing at the railing of the overpass. Phoebe calls to Prue. Piper grabs Pheebs' hand and leads her up the embankment towards Prue's perch. Phoebe thinks they should drive. Piper: "No time."
Prue on the ledge. Mummy Clean sees them approaching. The docile Ps shout out all of the information about Maggie and the Dark Lighter and the curse. MC says to Prue: "There is no Dark Lighter. It's only [her]." Which isn't very clever of him; I'm surprised he didn't continue, "No, there's not a Dark Lighter standing right behind you whispering in your ear at all. Not at all. Really! Yeah, that's the ticket!" The docile Ps run nearer. MC loses his patience and shouts, "Jump, dammit! Jump!" Prue suddenly spins around and spots MC, realizing, "It's true!" She harshes on him, "You bastard! How dare you hurt people [mumble, mumble]!" Mummy Clean is flung to the other side of the overpass. MC assures Prue that she'll "jump for [him] sooner or later." He adds that he hasn't "lost anyone yet." Prue reminds him that he lost "two" that day. MC: "Blah blah you can't stop me!" Just then, Leo orbs in while running towards the Dark Lighter. He tackles him to the ground. Prue gapes. The docile Ps run up. Leo asks Prue if she's all right. She thinks so. The Ps hug. Piper looks over at Leo. Leo says that he has "to go now." He and the Dark Lighter orb out to hash out their yin/yang thing off-camera. Cut to Piper, realizing that she'll have to replace a bartender.
Halliwell Manor. Parlor. The sisters are all sitting pretty on the sofa, sporting denouement 'dos of ponytails in different stages of disarray. Prue is looking at the photo she developed from the eight-year-old roll of film. She notes that the overpass "hasn't changed much, has it?" Like they would have added a Wal-Mart and a Home Depot to it or it would have gone condo or something. Piper, very delicately, asks Prue to explain her mental state while she took the photo years ago. Prue admits that she was "in a bad place then, and was scouting for a shot." She found the bridge, and took a picture of it to remember that particular moment and how she was feeling. Ugh. Yeah, this is groan-worthy, but it could be far worse; in a word -- poetry. Piper: "You weren't gonna --?" Prue: "No, I'd never, ever do that." Phoebe wonders why she didn't develop the film. Prue didn't want to "relive the pain. But now I am, since a demon tried to take advantage of it." She adds, while walking with the photo over to a fire burning (in April, in California) in the other room, "But that was then." Prue flings the photo on the flames and I say along with her, "And this is now." Except she doesn't make a jerking-off motion like I do. Instead, Prue brings out a copy of the St. Patrick's Day issue of No. Magazine, turned to the Maggie Murphy feature page. I'm too stunned by the sheer inanity of this prop to try to imagine how in the world Prue got a second chance with the hard-ass Photo Editor because BWA HA HA! The "inner Maggie" photo Prue took is a shot of St. M with her head cocked to one side and resting in her hand. The layout is equally lame -- this photo superimposed onto a big green shamrock. And the "kicker" (tm Photo Ed) is the headline, "The Luck of This [sic] Irish." Dear God. I'm going to have to cope with Prue working at this retarded publication for probably the rest of the season. Anyway, Prue points to her credit and crows, "It's me! I'm a professional photographer!" Piper smiles and contemplates this development silently. Phoebe claps her hands wildly and ineptly in front of her face. The doorbell rings. Piper will get it (natch). Phoebe blanches, wondering, "What if it's Dan?" Piper says she'll have to tell him the truth -- nothing has changed just because Leo has his wings back. She heads to the foyer. Shannen and Alyssa improv. Alyssa points at the magazine prop and states, "This. Awesome." Shannen says, "I know." Paychecks earned, ladies. Go home already.