Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Astral Monkey
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.03.2000
Scummy apartment building. Parking lot. The Halliwells stand behind some police tape and watch Darryl "Can't Do Much-er Cop" Morris and other police personnel carry the drug dealer's body out. Darryl spots the Ps and walks over. What are they doing there? Darryl oh-so-compassionately-not expositions about "some lowlife" who was found sedated with his kidney removed. Hmm. I wonder if that other urban legend about the woman and the dog and the peanut butter and the unexpected guests is true also? Piper asks Darryl if the police have any leads. Darryl says that it must have been someone with medical training. Piper tells him to stop looking. Darryl: "Why?" Prue explains that the crime had a supernatural cause. Darryl does his usual "denial of demons" shtick, with his patented seconds-later give-in that buys the Halliwells some time to catch the bad guy before the cops do. Piper looks perturbed again. The callous Ps can't for the lives of them wonder why. Piper: "I was just thinking, if I'd just answered one of his letters."
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Halliwell Manor. Parlor. Hijinks. Monkeys run amuck as Phoebe tries to shepherd them into a corner. Prue argues with the press on her cell phone. Piper enters the room and expositions that she can't find anything in the BoS about "animals with powers or getting powers out of them." Then she worries aloud about Dr W; he already stole a kidney -- what will he do next? Prue gets off the phone. Flashbulbs start to go off in the front yard as the doorbell rings frantically. (Because I guess tabloid photographers are not only evil but also stupid, since there's really nothing to photograph from their vantage point.) Phoebe peers out the window and sees photographers everywhere. She starts pulling down the shades, grateful that the paparazzi won't have a chance to "see any magic." Yeah, the photographers join the TV viewers on that score. Just then, Leo orbs in. A chimp immediately jumps into his arms. Aw. Piper expositions to Leo that "the press is after Prue."
Kitchen. Everybody processes and takes a turn holding a monkey. Leo's shown up with "bad news" about Dr. Williamson. Since he's a mortal who's not strong enough to handle the Halliwell powers coursing through him, he will be destroyed by them and eventually go mad. Phoebe: "So our powers are in our blood and he injected himself with it?" Duh. Wasn't she in the hospital lab scene earlier? Didn't she find the Halliwell blood vials? Didn't she have the vision revealing Dr. W using the Charmed Ones' powers? Two and two makes four, dimwit. Anyway, Leo blathers on about Halliwell blood causing Dr. W to "go bad." Piper looks upset. Leo assures her that the sitch is "not [her] fault." The Halliwells just have to stop him before his behavior gets worse. The Ps state their plans. Phoebe will make a potion to separate the powers from the monkeys. Prue will get rid of the reporters by talking to Evan. Piper will talk to Darryl and let him know "what he's up against." Prue asks for Piper's help with the paparazzi. Piper opens the door and freezes the crowd. Prue slips past them, presumably towards her car. Piper unfreezes the throng. Shannen's "slam on the tabloids" subplot is rather toothless, no?