Episode Report Card Demian: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secretly INSANE Brody And The Warehouse Of Doom
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.15.2005
A brief, ovary-free opening travelogue swings us around the Golden Gate Bridge for a couple of passes before cross-fading over to Prescott Street as a seemingly endless parade of guest-star names scrolls by at the bottom of the screen. And what does a seemingly endless parade of guest-star names mean? No money for the special effects. Yeesh. "I don't know what happened," Raige claims as she passes into the dining room to set her groceries on the table. "I told Kyle you were an Avatar at breakfast," she continues, turning to face Piper and the Dolt. "He seemed okay with it." "You should have warned us you were gonna tell him," Piper chides. "I would have if I had known what he was gonna do!" Raige protests, and, yeah. The Dolt should have revealed what happened the first time Brody learned of the Avatarliciousness now filling the Manor, but the Dolt's an idiot, so let's gloss over all that to continue with the scene, shall we? The three natter about The Trouble With Brody for a bit, and the nattering involves, of course, the familiar tale of Little Brody watching the Avatars kill his parents all those many years ago, and we've heard variations on this conversation at least ten times already this season, so let's get to the point: "In all fairness, he was only five years old," Piper reminds Raige. "Who knows what really happened?"
Cue Phoebe, for some asinine reason, for she's as clueless as the rest of them regarding the deaths of Ma and Pa Brody. As Phoebe joins the others for the mini-processing summit already in progress, Piper opines that it's a good thing The Bulging One's out of potions. "Still doesn't solve his problem," Phoebe counters. "And until somebody does," she adds, turning to Raige, "I would assume that you're not gonna go along with the Avatars, right?" "What do you have up your sleeve?" Raige eyebrows. Turns out Phoebe's cunning plan for the evening involves cribbing from "A Paige From The Past" by sending Brody back in time to find out what really happened to his parents. Raige wonders what will happen should Brody confirm the Avatars did indeed off his mother and father. "Then we'll kill the Avatars and help him move on that way," Phoebe blithely proposes. Yeah, good luck with that one, honey. "The sooner we help Kyle find out the truth," she continues, ignoring me as is her wont, "the sooner we can all move on." "'Move on' to what?" Piper suspiciously side-eyes. "The future the Avatars promised us," Phoebe replies, adding "the one I saw in my vision" for good measure. "We all didn't see that," Piper needlessly reminds her. Phoebe gets a frisky glint in her eye and coos, "Yes, but you could -- if you and I swapped powers." Oh, this should work out well for everyone involved. Not. Piper seems to agree with me, for her response is an immediate and incredulous, "What?" Phoebe babbles that the power-swap will last the briefest of moments -- only long enough for Piper to receive Phoebe's Touched By A Cordelia premonition -- and that it's no big deal. Piper, realizing that both Phoebe and the Dolt are ganging up on her, reluctantly agrees to the switch, but adds, "If the Avatars are exonerated and I see what Phoebe saw then we'll talk about it." They turn their attention to Raige, who rolls her eyes, scrunches up her nose, and snots, "Fine. I'll talk about it, too." Piper sighs as the shot cuts...