Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Murphy's Luck
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.29.2000
Promo for the flick Black and White. I know it's only four months into the year, but Bijou Phillips already has my vote for "Worst Film Newcomer of 2000" for her reading of the line, "Hi, Daddy. I been to the lie-berry!" I don't think I need to see the movie for further proof, although that clip of Mike Tyson bitch-slapping Robert Downey, Jr. amuses and intrigues me.
Halliwell Manor. Sunroom. Phoebe bitches at the unruly inanimate cell phone, "She is too in the calling area, damnit!" Piper asks her if she tried the magazine. Phoebe says she was told Prue left "a half hour ago." And Prue can't ever, ever go back there. Or Photo Ed will machine-gun her in the lobby. Piper asks Pheebs to keep trying to reach Prue's cell phone. Then she asks Phoebe to elaborate on her vision. Was it from the past or future? Phoebe knows it was from the past because Prue looked to be "about 20." (Yeah, Vaseline on the lens has that effect.) From this information we also know that -- this week at least -- Prue is 28. Which makes her younger than Phoebe, who was 29 in "Pardon My Past." Uch. My head is throbbing. Aleve Lady! Come back! All is forgiven! Piper then reasons that the vision must have been around the time of the "other car accident." Leo asks for exposition. The docile Ps fill him in. Turns out that Prue was driving with Phoebe and ran a red light. Phoebe: "We didn't even hear the other car honk." (That inconsiderate other driver, going forward on green, not even bothering to warn any approaching cars who sped through the stop light! Not.) Phoebe was the only one who was hurt; she was in the hospital for over a week. Piper says that Prue "never forgave herself" and Grams gave her grief about it besides. The Ps add that Grams was always "hardest on Prue" and prevented Prue from going to school back East to become a photojournalist because she knew the sisters needed to stay together and become the Charmed Ones. Phoebe finds it hard to believe that Prue would ever consider suicide, though. All the vision showed was Prue looking very sad while taking pictures from the overpass; it might not have meant that she was planning to jump. Leo informs the Ps that a Dark Lighter "can do anything, mess with her, take her back to the same dark place and make her do something that she wouldn't otherwise do." Piper reasons that if they can't find Prue, they need to locate the Dark Lighter. Leo says they're not able to do that -- only a White Lighter can, since they're able to "sense each other." The phone rings. Phoebe answers, "Prue?"
Cut to Prue, on the phone in her rental sedan. Piper: "Is it her [sic]?" Phoebe asks Prue where she is. Shannen gives her usual catatonic mumble delivery, but since her character's having a nervous breakdown it's a just a wee bit slower and incoherent: "I'm really . . . no . . . but I can't start my car and . . . this day just really sucks ." Phoebe tries to give her the big about the Dark Lighter, but interference cuts her off. Prue: "I . . . I just lost my job and . . . can you guys please come get me?" Phoebe tries to talk again. Prue can't hear her. We see Mummy Clean behind the car, throwing bad vibes at the cellular phone. The connection is cut off. Shannen gets out of the rental and struts forlornly down the street. MC follows.