Episode Report Card Demian: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Contrived, The Unrealistic, And The Overlong
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.14.2001
Manor parlor. The clock reads 12:20 PM, so again I don't understand where this whole sense of "urgency" is coming from. Victor helps Phoebe sip from a glass of water. She looks despondent, and Victor asks what's wrong. The camera zooms in slowly on her face as she shudders out, "[gasp pant shiver swallow choke pant pant wheeze shiver choke gasp swallow] I'm [wheeze groan gasp pant splutter shiver swallow choke pant pant gasp wheeze] dying." Mournful violin as Victor attempts to reassure her she'll be fine. The camera keeps zooming in on her face as she tells him, basically, no, she won't be fine. They've done a pretty good job on her make-up for this bit. Her pale face is plastered with the sheen of death-sweat, and her eyes are glazed and sunken with pronounced bags. Too bad it's taking her so goddamned long to wheeze out her lines, because it's a decently-played scene by the two of them otherwise. Victor again assures Phoebe that neither her sisters nor he are about to sit idly by and let her die. Piper and the Dolt orb in, with Piper asking Victor how Phoebe's doing. Victor firmly grips his one-way ticket to Denial and again insists, "She'll be fine." Piper lays it all on the line: Phoebe has to somehow will a premonition of Bo's death from the newspaper. Chances are good that Bo will pick up the vision and let Prue and Cole know they have until the sun sets to save him and, by extension, Phoebe. Phoebe weakly protests that she cannot summon premonitions of her own volition. Piper tells her she has to try, and hands her the broadsheet. Phoebe ineffectually grasps at it, shuddering and shivering some more.
Frontierland. Isabel leads the horses to the paddock as Prue and Cole hiss and scratch at each other. Prue expects him to get lost for good after this adventure is over, or the sisters will be forced to vanquish him. He counters that a vanquish is the only thing that will keep him away from Phoebe. Isabel pops over, asking if they're ready to meet her brother. Sensing the tension, she asks if they need a moment. Prue tells her everything's fine, and they head inside the abandoned chapel in which Bo has been hiding. Doves in the rafters. Painted-glass representations of medieval saints. An abandoned cross props a window shut, and while I don't really believe that's intentional, it does say a bit about the place of "the white man's world" in these people's lives in spite of itself. I think. I'm probably just reading far too much into it. As they approach the semi-conscious Bo, Isabel backstories again that she tried to remove the bullet herself, but it had lodged too deeply in her brother's flesh. Bo comes to and immediately bitches Isabel out for leading strangers to his hiding place. Prue tells him that she and Cole are the same people he dreamt about. Bo bitches at Isabel some more for revealing The Gift to some two-bit chaps-clad chippie and her pimp. Well, he doesn't say it exactly like that, but that's what he meant, I'm sure. Prue explains about Phoebe's premonitions. Bo's still not having it and pulls a knife on them, again ordering them to leave. Cole states firmly that he and Prue "are not going anywhere." Bo recognizes the Capital-E Eeeevil in Cole's eyes, and tells them Sutter has the same look in his. Cole rolls his eyes guiltily as Prue tosses a glare his way. Prue encourages Bo to look at her instead, as he won't find the Capital-E Eeeevil in her gaze. Isabel expositions about Sutter and the Time-Loop curse. Prue proposes a deal: if she and Cole can convince Bo they too have "gifts," Bo will accept their assistance. Prue orders Cole to squiggle, which he does from her left side to her right. Isabel and Bo gawp at him.