Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blinded by the Dolt
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.24.2001
SkyCam On Crack over the Transamerica Pyramid again, then cut to P3 After Dark. Natalie's off to the side, scribbling. The gals are at the bar, writing out vanquishing spells for each of Beavis's powers. Prue is handling the cloning bit, Piper the transmogrification. Phoebe's left with the deflection, and comments that her spell came out "a little country-western: 'I am rejectin' your deflection.'" Piper and the rest of North America groan in unison. More bitching about The Iron Fist Of Natalie. A joke about getting Natalie laid is made. Prue cuts in to note that they have to admire Natalie's dedication to her job. The Whitelighter in question walks over to the bar, reviews the vanquishing spells, and announces that she's drawn up a plan of attack. She will use herself as bait, with the sisters lying in wait nearby. Once Beavis fades in, she'll orb out, and the sisters will get the crossbow. Piper tells Natalie that she can't place her life at risk like that. Natalie thanks her for her concern. Piper snots back, "My concern is not for you." She attempts to modify that bitchy crack with "at least, not only for you." Nope. Didn't work. Shut the fuck up, Piper. Natalie assures them that she's gone through every "permutation" on her legal pad, and there is no way for her plan to fail.
The clearing from earlier. The Witchkebab lies dead on the ground. The Ps hide in the bushes as Natalie orbs in. She kneels over the Witchkebab and passes her hands over the Witchkebab's corpse. Beavis fades in. Natalie calls, "Now!" and orbs out as Beavis lets fly with an arrow. Prue TKs the crossbow out of his hands. He glowingly fades out, and Phoebe announces that it was Beavis's clone. Piper retrieves the crossbow, and the three sense something wrong about the whole situation, as it all went down entirely too easily. Back at the manor, Natalie greets the Ps in the front hall as they return. Piper hands the crossbow over to her, and she does not immediately disarm it as one would expect her to do. The sisters share their concerns with her, telling her that Beavis did not try to resist them at all. "I flung, he fled," Prue notes.
Natalie tells them not to worry about it, blathers about following The Rules and whatnot, and thanks them for their help. She prepares to orb out, but stops, and quizzes the sisters again on Beavis's actions. Piper tells her again that they simply retrieved the weapon and left without seeing Beavis again. The gears in Natalie's head start grinding slowly as she gazes down at the weapon in her hands. "The crossbow," she says, and on cue said crossbow disappears into a cloud of smoke, from which Beavis materializes. Didn't consider transmogrification in your "permutations," did ya, hon? Beavis grabs Natalie from behind, a Darklighter arrow in his left hand. Prue tries to TK him. He deflects it back to her, and she destroys a coffee table after flying back into the parlor. Piper tries to freeze him. He deflects this back, and Piper destroys a cabinet after flying back into the parlor. Phoebe, getting the hint, does nothing but cower in fear. Beavis plunges the arrow into Natalie and fades out sharply with her. The sisters stare, stunned, as we fade out slowly to commercial.