Episode Report Card Demian: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Charmed Again, Part The Second
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.03.2001
Police station. The Mummy enters with his video camera. He eyes Darryl. He eyes the captain. He eyes Darryl again. He s l o w l y approaches Darryl and e v e n t u a l l y hands over the videocassette. No mere words, but rather Searching Gazes Fraught With Significance, are exchanged. The Mummy leaves. Hopefully for good.
P3 After Dark. Throngs of dot-bomb yuppies throng the entranceway. Inside and downstairs, it's Weekly Summation Time, and wow, do they have a lot to cover. Seated around a low coffee table, Piper, Phoebe, Cole, and the Dolt toast each other. Phoebe joins in, despite the fact that she's sipping from a Perrier bottle and everyone knows toasting with water is bad luck. Piper's a study in blue. "We barely got through with the funeral before everything started going crazy," she notes. "It's almost as if we didn't get a chance to mourn." Of course you didn't get a chance to mourn. Mourning would be incredibly boring to watch for two hours. Phoebe suggests they "have the rest of [their] lives to mourn," which I interpret as a promise for more Scenes Of Breakdown in the near future. Rose pops in to say hey, jovially wondering if she gets free drinks now that she's related to the owner. First question I'd ask. In the current mood, however, her joking question is met with an awkward silence. She apologizes and makes to leave. The Dolt stops her, insisting she remain. Phoebe makes room for her on the sofa, and Cole and the Dolt make themselves scarce so the three can bond.
Long bonding short, Shane dumped Rose, and the only thing she appears to have in common with Piper and Phoebe at this point in their relationship is a shared sense of loss at Prue's death. Rose voices this sense in such a touching manner, Piper and Phoebe decide to drag her back to the house to "show [her] what good magic can do." Up in the attic, they arrange the large blue candles in a circle on the floor; then Phoebe and Piper recite the summoning spell used twice in the first half of this episode. Swirling Cloud Of Glowing Golf Balls, and it's Finola! Hi, Finola. Introductions are made. Finola the Spirit becomes Finola Incarnate and pulls Rose into a long, strong embrace. Rose gets a little emotional. Finola steps back, clasps Rose's hands in her own, and stresses, "Welcome home." Piper and Phoebe get a little emotional. Finola pulls Rose into another embrace, stroking her hair while flashing that rack of teeth at the camera. The last shot is of Rose in her dead mother's arms, moving through a little emotional into full-on verklempt as tears roll down her cheeks and I remain unmoved and we all fade to black.