Episode Report Card Demian: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Sex And The Single Dolt
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2004.02.22
Attic. Raige flings something into her love potion, which unexpectedly erupts, belching out a cloud of foul black smoke. Phoebe, scrying for me from a perch on Aunt Pearl's settee, suggests that "maybe it just wasn't meant to be." "Phoebe!" Raige howls, outraged. "Come on," Phoebe leads, "you weren't thinking the exact same thing?" Raige cops to a moment of doubt before insisting, "Chris is meant to be," as she angles around the potions table to approach Phoebe with a pair of stubborn fists on her hips. "Not if he changed too much by coming here," Phoebe argues. "You know, messed up his own timeline?" She sighs and adds, "I think we just have to face the reality that Chris's destiny might have been just to come here and warn us about [the Psycho], and that's all." Except for the fact that Big Gay Chris explained in the pre-credits sequence that were he not born, he would never have been able to warn them about the Psycho. So I guess this evening's Dolt Sex is pretty much a foregone conclusion, and Phoebe's a moron, right? Right. Raige suddenly glances off to the side and jumps in surprise before offering a guilty-sounding "Hey."
Phoebe and the camera follow her gaze to spy Big Gay Chris himself, lounging against the doorframe, his face partially obscured in shadow as a bright white stream of light rather photogenically pours into the room from the window behind him. The backlighting's giving him a little halo here, and that homewrecker Feigenbaum better watch his fucking back. Phoebe instantly apologizes for the above bit of speculation on her part, letting the scrying crystal drop to the map as she does so, but Chris kindly assures her it's okay. He's been plagued by his own doubts as of late as well. He also admits he's been feeling a little wonky. "It feels like I'm…I'm floating?" he explains. "Like I'm not really here, you know?" The three puzzle about this for a moment before the scrying crystal starts spinning quickly around of its own accord on a set of map coordinates. "Never seen it do that before," Raige harrumphs. "Maybe that means there's more than one?" Phoebe guesses before bolting to fetch Piper. Chris offers to help, but Raige insists that he remain in the attic to finish the potion. "When we come back, your parents will be in the mood," she assures him, as if trying to convince herself of that as much as she is Chris. They sort of gaze at each other, quietly calling bullshit, but Chris ambles over to the table anyway as Raige exits into the upper hall.