Episode Report Card Demian: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Demon Who Came In From Thzzzzzzzzzzz
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.25.2001
Back from the break, demonic exposition. With actual demons this time around. Vornack has Cole slammed face-down on a table. The completely fake human "head" Cole presented belonged to the fairly fake homeless "prophet" Trig had been assigned to kill. Vornack asks Cole if he saw Trig. Cole lies that he didn't and politely asks after Trig's health. Blah blah Trig's nowhere blah to blah blah be blah found. Cole smoothly notes that with prophets shouting and a frat boy missing and the other frat boys so easily found, maybe it's a good thing he showed up when he did. Why did he kill the Andrews Sisters? They were going to kill The Source, and anyone close to him or it or them. Or whatever the hell The Source is. If that's so, why did Cole go into hiding? He didn't have any evidence to back up his allegations. What about the other rumors and such? Never mind for now. Vornack sends Hatchet Face off to check on Cole's story. She squiggles out with the glowing Cheshire eyes. Please give her a real name soon, because I kind of like her. Vornack complies with my request. They'll decide what to do with the Colethazor when "Klea" returns from checking out his alibi. Vornack approaches a large flat-screen monitor displaying a rotating three-dimensional image of a city intersection labeled "Location: Pier and Pescadero. Time: 8 AM." There is neither a "Pier" nor a "Pescadero" in San Francisco, just in case you were wondering. And I know you were. Admit it. The Colethazor wonders who the boys of Bi Krap are targeting this time. Vornack tells him to mind his own business, switches off the screen, and squiggles out. Cole snarks that Vornack "always was a tight-ass." With this frat thing you've got going on, you really shouldn't give me a set-up like that one, Cole. Tarquin and the Colethazor indulge in some quality time. Aw. I bet they were in the same pledge class together. "It's nice to have you back, Belthazor," Tarquin states. "I just hope it's for good." The Colethazor smiles brightly, "Me, too."
Back in the manor, Piper worries that three and a half hours have gone by since Cole's departure, and he still hasn't contacted Phoebe. She suggests the Dolt orb over to the Mausoleum's mausoleum to check up on his sister-in-law. The Dolt thinks it better if he stay in the manor until they figure out what the Boys of Bi Krap intend to do. Prue, who's been paging through the business section of the newspaper, finds an article on the proposed merger of Lebensraum and a company called "Metasatellite." Piper wonders if "Cole is risking his life to preserve stock portfolios." Prue reads further into the article and discovers the merger would create a global monopoly that will control "the world's information flow." Do we all understand how idiotic this little plot twist is? That the various communications companies around the world are a mix of privately-held corporations and government-run entities that could never come under the umbrella of a single monopoly? That at this point in time, it would be impossible for one American corporation to "control the world's information flow"? We do? Are we sure? Good. Moving on, then. "That sounds evil in and of itself," Piper notes of the merger, and I'm inclined to agree with her, but since the very premise is fatally flawed, I say, "What. Ever." The Dolt reads that one of the executives involved in the negotiations, a Frank Pirelli, has balked at the last minute. Prue guesses the Bi Kraps are going to do something naughty to Mr. Pirelli to ensure the merger goes through. Wouldn't Federal anti-trust laws kick in to prevent the deal from going through anyway? Argh. Prue wishes they had some way of contacting Cole. Piper grits out an order to the Dolt, telling him to orb to the Mausoleum's mausoleum right away.