Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Suddenly Katya!
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.23.2005
Manor. Aftermath. Up in the nonexistent attic, Raige has joined the ladies just returned from Hell for a processing summit that's almost immediately disrupted by Karcy's insistence that she and Haaate leave the Manor, like, yesterday. The upshot of the subsequent bickering is that somehow, both Phoebe and Haaate have silently realized that Katya's morphed into Darcy form, and as Haaate, promising to join her friend soon, lingers in the nonexistent room with Phoebe and Raige under some hastily concocted pretense or another, the perplexed Piper leads Karcy downstairs.
Down in the main hall, there's a bit of unfunny business involving Piper and the Dolt's Psycho-related Issue Of The Week before the Dolt excuses himself and disappears into the kitchen. Piper, left alone with Karcy, makes increasingly distrustful-sounding small talk with the purported coed until Phoebe descends the stairs with Haaate. As Haaate and Karcy exit, Piper grunts, "I hope you know what you're doing." "Trust me," Phoebe replies.
Out on the front porch, Karcy's expression immediately hardens, and she snatches a fistful of Haaate's hair as she gloats, "This is getting to be way. Too. Easy." With that, Karcy morphs back into Katya form and swarms off the porch with Haaate.
Down in Hell, Katya swarms in to that back chamber and slings Haaate onto her ass. Darcy, having regained consciousness at some point, scampers over as Haaate assures her, "I'm okay." "Not for long," Katya grins. Haaate once more insists she wants nothing further to do with Pandora's Box, but Katya disputes that assertion, claiming that, with time, Haaate will come to covet her powers over the Box's many sorrows just as Pandora herself did. As Katya "can't allow that to happen," Haaate must now die. Haaate rises defiantly to her feet and perkily suggests that Katya won't have a choice in the matter. Katya giggles at this before snorting, "You think you can stop me?" She then wings her remaining dagger at Haaate's head. Haaate just as quickly tosses out her right hand and shouts, "Dagger!" in the process sending the weapon into the wall with some orbing telekinesis. Pretty sneaky, Raige. "But guardians can't orb!" Katya cries. "No," Haaaige sasses, "but Whitelighters can -- and into anything they want, too." "Or anybody," she adds with a self-satisfied smirk, right before she's assaulted by a swirling cloud of glowing golf balls that swiftly shifts her back into Raige form. Poor Darcy's about to pass out from all of the magical morphing hijinks this evening. Raige tosses Darcy a reassuring glance, spits out a few quippy remarks, and hurls a vanquishing vial at Katya's feet. Considering what a formidable demon Katya supposedly is, the vanquishing portion certainly does take her out fairly quickly. She barely has time to wail before exploding into gouts of flame that just as rapidly dissipate. With tonight's demonic threat thus dispatched, Raige summons the Box with her orbing telekinesis and presses it into Darcy's palms, instructing Darcy to make sure she gives the thing to Haaate. Raige would do it herself, she explains, but there's "someone [she has] to see." With that, Raige waves her arm around while calling out, "Home!" Darcy dematerializes in a cloud of orbs that whisks her...
...back into the nonexistent attic. Amusingly enough, the orb cloud's forward motion forces Darcy to sort of trot a bit across the floor once she rematerialands in the room. The gals plus Haaate quickly determine that Darcy is who she claims to be, and Phoebe retrieves the Box from Darcy's grip to pass it back to the still-reluctant Haaate. Long story short, Haaate eventually accepts full responsibility of her Destiny or her birthright or whatever, and lifts the lid to recapture all of the evil she'd earlier released. Soon enough, the foul black strings stream into the nonexistent room through every available entrance and, after swirling around the women for a bit, dive into the Box, which snaps shut of its own accord once the evil's safely inside. Life-affirming smiles all around. Yawn.