Episode Report Card Demian: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secretly INSANE Brody And The Warehouse Of Doom
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.15.2005
Finally, Raige and Brody amble into the nonexistent room, ready to head off on their torturous jaunt to the absolute worst afternoon of Brody's life. Raige, by the way, looks improbably good in her tightly buttoned lavender velvet jacket, white turtleneck, pink plaid miniskirt, and off-white leggings with matching knee-high boots. It sounds like it should be a great big mess, I realize, but she really does look better than she has in months. In any event, the Dolt leaps to the center of the room from behind Piper and Phoebe's NIPPLES to explain how everything's going to work. Secretly INSANE Brody, needless to say, gets shirty and very, very loud when he learns that the Avatarlicious Dolt will be enabling his subplot this evening. "How do I know he and the other Avatars aren't going to change the past?" Brody demands, before qualifying, "Make it look like they want it to?" The Dolt attempts to assure him that the Avatars are incapable of altering past events, and besides, even if somebody tried to screw with it all, Brody would be aware of any changes, anyway. Brody scoffs, for he'll never take an Avatar at his word, do you hear him? NEVER! Raige intervenes, arguing that they have little choice but to go along with the Dolt, as it's the only way they'll ever know what really happened to the Dead Brodys. Piper and Phoebe's CLEAVAGE look very, very concerned for a very, very long moment before Brody relents.
The Dolt instructs Brody to close his eyes and concentrate on the worst afternoon of his life. While Brody does just that, Raige interrupts the proceedings for a moment to wonder how, exactly, they'll return to the present. "You'll get back when he finds the truth," notes the Dolt. "Of course," Raige peeves with an aggravated roll of her eyes. Shut it, Raige. Your manic mugging annoys me. The Dolt concentrates on a far corner of the nonexistent room and flings out both hands to toss a little invisible mojo in the corner's direction. Raige and Brody swivel to follow the invisible mojo's path as the vast sucking sounds of a great, swirling vortex hit the soundtrack, and "sucking" is terribly apropos here, because remember what I said earlier about the effects budget for this episode? Yeah. Brody tensely grabs at Raige's hand as the vastly sucky portal swoops open, and, as Piper, Phoebe, and the Dolt eye the time-traveling duo from the far side of the room, glowy tendrils reach out from the vortex's center to envelop Raige and Brody and drag them from the attic into a blurry black smear through the portal, which snaps shut the second they've passed. "Now what?" Piper wonders. "Now we work on you," Phoebe's NIPPLES insist as they resume their Book abuse in search of the power-switching spell.