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
All The News That's Fit To Fuck Me. With Bodhi's help, Phoebe's drawn up a graph of concentric circles with the Psycho in the middle, surrounded first by immediate family members, followed by friends of the family in the outer ring. He instructs her to add everyone the Psycho's come into contact with over the last six months. Phoebe flusters and exasperates and boring! Bodhi finally give the Feebs something to chew on when he notes that if you've ruled out the immediate family, the likely suspects are "statistically" "white men between the ages of 25 and 50, usually someone you know, maybe even trust." You know. SNIDELY. Move it along already, people! Phoebe ponders this as Bodhi exits to fetch some coffee from the break room, which is, conveniently enough, currently occupied by the Shapeshifter. The Shapeshifter bonks Bodhi on the head with the athame's haft and assumes his form before heading back into the main office to chat with the distracted Phoebe, all the while smirking up at the hidden camera someone at some point inserted in the newspaper office's wall. Whatever.
Manor. The Dolt orbs into the foyer for a brief, paternally relevant scene with Big Gay Chris before Raige orbs in with The Spineless Dowd and the wedding ring, which Raige uses to scry for the Brute's location. The crystal quickly nails a point on the map, so Raige and the Dolt make to leave, placing Big Gay Chris in charge of The Spineless Dowd's protection. Yeah, this should work out well. Not. As Raige retrieves some potions from a side table in the hall and begins to orb out with the Dolt, the shot cuts to the same scene as projected on the wall of the Brute's lair, which seems to be some sort of sewer. He deactivates the projection, places the necklace on a nearby ledge, then hops up to a higher ledge to wait for them. Raige and the Dolt orb in, immediately realize they've been lured into a trap, and are shortly thereafter attacked by the Brute, who leaps down from his perch to smack up some Dolt ass. The Dolt, however, easily flips the guy onto his back. Riiiiight. Raige hurls a vanquishing potion into the Brute's chest, sending him to join this evening's prior two casualties down in Hell as the demonic crowd in the bar winces as one, all, "Oooh! That's gotta hurt!" Well, actually, one of them winced and said, "Oooh! That'll leave a mark," but again: Whatever.
Meanwhile, back in the sewer, Raige and the Dolt notice the discarded ruby crystal, which is projecting an image of the two of them from behind as they gaze at an image of the two of them from behind as they gaze at an image of the two of them from behind as they…you get the idea. "That's us," Raige breathes. Absolutely brilliant, our Raige is. The bar demons make "Busted!" faces as Raige and the Dolt scan the chamber for cameras. The crystal's projection suddenly cuts to an overhead shot of Big Gay Chris and The Spineless Dowd chatting in the Manor parlor. "Okay," Raige frowns, panic rising in her voice. "What's going on?" In the projection, Bahstan Rahb darklights into the room to level his crossbow at my pretty, pretty husband, and poor Drew Fuller. He reacts to being shot before the computer-generated arrow hits his side. Yeah, more the effects team's fault than his, but still. He's the one who ends up looking like an idiot. The Spineless Dowd shrieks in the projection as the Dolt orbs out of the sewer without waiting for Raige, who stoops to retrieve the crystal and the amulet before following him back to the Manor. Meanwhile, the bar crowd cheers as Bahstan Rahb sporks The Dowd with his athame. The Dolt and Raige arrive just in time for Rahb to sneer, "You lose," before he darklights out with The Dowd's rapidly cooling corpse. The bar crowd goes nuts with the chanting and the wooting and such before being swallowed by another commercial break.