Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Biting the hand that snatches food from their mouths
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.08.2004
…a rather dowdy-looking chick getting slammed into a brick wall in the middle of a debris-filled alleyway. The bald demon who'd smacked her up snickers and advances upon her as she scrambles to her feet, snatching at a length of pipe she swings around as a club while backing towards a filthy mattress leaning against another wall. The mattress morphs into another demon, who smirks and sneers and whatnot until she clocks him one with the pipe, sending him first into a Dumpster before knocking him to the alley floor. Raige and Big Gay Chris orb in to flip a potion vial at the bald demon, who promptly erupts into flame and howls and wails and Hell. An absolute mountain of a man unexpectedly flears in behind the imperiled dowd, snatches her up in one of his massive arms, and rips off her necklace before tossing her to the ground. "Got it!" he sneers before flearing out. The shapeshifter's all, "Shit," and squiggles out as well. Raige and Big Gay Chris assist the dowd to her feet while making with the necessary introductions. The three orb back to the Manor, where the dowd introduces herself as "Tali" and thanks them for saving her life. It was at this point that I recognized the actress from a particularly dismal episode of C.S.I. Miami I had the misfortune to recap two years ago. She played the spineless assistant to a sadistic anthropology professor who eventually snapped and offed the guy with, like, a staple remover. No, seriously.
In any event, Raige responds to The Spineless Dowd's gratitude by admitting they likely did not save her life, as the demons seemed not to want it. Chris adds that the guys seemed more interested in The Dowd's necklace. "My grandmother's amulet!" she cries, hands flying to her now-bare neck. "Is it magical?" Chris wonders. "Not at all," she replies as the shot cuts to reveal that this scene's being captured by the crystal camera thingies for display on the flat-screen TV in the demonic studio. For some asinine reason, the Witch Wars logo obliterates Raige's response to this bit of The Dowd's news, like, the hell? We're supposed to believe Johnny and Elaine are airing a live feed? How brain-dead do they think we are? Whatever! The camera pans back from the flat-screen TV to take in the mountainous demon as he bitches about The Dowd's worthless necklace. "Why did you want us to steal it?" he snipes at Johnny Demonic, who tosses an odd little smile over his shoulder as he notes that the primary goal of the evening's first challenge was to get the Charmed Ones involved. We discover the reason for the odd little smile when the camera continues to pan back through the screen of an immense projection TV. Johnny exchanges a few words with the shapeshifter before facing his camera and exhorting the viewers at home to stay tuned. Our camera cuts away from the immense screen to reveal a bar packed with various demonic sorts who cheer and holler as the Witch Wars logo flashes onto the projection screen before we cut to the commercial break.