Episode Report Card Demian: C- | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Charmed Again, Part The First
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2001
The frisky kids are just about to start ripping each other's undies to shreds when Fruma-Shax whirls in over to the side. Oh, wait. Silly me. Rose doesn't wear underwear, does she? Rose spots Shax first, breaking from her sordid embrace while calling out the boy toy's name. Shane turns just in time to receive a Flaming Ball Of You Will Be Unconscious Now, Yes? in the chest. He's flung backwards into a pile of metal. Fruma-Shax re-aims and flings an FBOD at Rose. Rose -- get this -- orbs out of the path of the FBOD, which passes through the air in which she just stood to vanquish the stucco finish on the wall behind her. She immediately orbs back in. Shax...confused. Very, very confused. Phoebe, never the brightest bulb on the tree, seconds that emotion. Rose takes this opportunity to get the hell out of there, leaving behind her unconscious-and-possibly-bleeding boyfriend. That's class. "She orbed," Feebs gapes as Fruma-Shax whirls on out after Rose's retreating form. Cole grabs Phoebe's hand to squiggle the two over to the Helipad Of Fornication Delayed's interior. Indoors, Rose scuttles across a catwalk as Fruma-Shax whirls in opposite. At that moment, Phoebe and Cole squiggle their way in in front of her. "What the hell?" Rose shrieks. Yes, Rose. Exactly. Cole pounds Shax with one FBOD after another, giving Rose time to make her escape. Cole orders Phoebe to recite the vanquish. She quickly complies. In case you forgot:
Evil wind that blows,
That which forms below,
No longer may you dwell:
Death takes you with this spell.
Oof. Shax disappears, but not before he manages to toss an FBOD into Cole. Cole hurtles backwards through a railing and into space, wailing all the way. Halfway down to the lower level, he squiggles out in mid-air. The railing pipes clatter to the floor alone. Phoebe screams his name, and he squiggles back in behind her on the catwalk. He's a little winded, but otherwise okay. Phoebe throws herself on him. "That was close." "Too close," he agrees. "But I'm more worried about your innocent." They peer about dumbly, and we cut to commercial.
Back from the break, we're back in the Manor. The Dolt's having difficulty with the whole concept of Rose orbing. Piper, quietly wiping dishes at the sink, is having difficulty with the whole concept of business as usual. Phoebe, Cole, and the Dolt chatter about the possibility of Rose being a Whitelighter without knowing it while Piper slams some plates around. Phoebe orders the Dolt to consult TPTB on the issue. Piper rolls her eyes. After the Dolt orbs away, Cole offers to check in "with the other side" to see what they know down there. Phoebe's none too pleased with this idea, but relents. Piper grinds her teeth. After Cole's squiggled away, Phoebe approaches Piper. "Are you okay?" Piper snits, "Yeah. We could have another funeral tomorrow. I mean, the dishes are out, and we pretty much know who to invite." They bicker. Piper: "Just tell me one thing: Are you insane, or just stupid?" Nah. Too easy. Phoebe claims she was simply saving an innocent. Piper counters she was actually "trying to get [herself] killed, which is something [their] family does best." She flings a dishrag off to the side and rants a bit more about their true destiny being "to die," and lays into Phoebe for making The Source's role in said destiny easier. Bling blah grief-cakes. Phoebe apologizes, and they hug.