Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Death Takes A Tango Lesson
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.14.2001
The Hardest Working Cemetery in Show Business. Inside the Mausoleum's mausoleum, Cole announces that, in the interest of Phoebe's safety, he would do best to disappear for a while. Phoebe counters that she's more concerned for her sanity than her safety, insisting that she can't handle another enforced separation. Cole reminds Phoebe that demons unknown are after him, and if they killed his former landlady, chances are pretty good they'll be coming after Phoebe herself eventually. Phoebe again tries to persuade him to remain, but he's not having it. Cole moves to leave the Mausoleum's mausoleum, but Phoebe stops him with a profession of her love. "If holding onto that [love] means I have to fight a couple of demons along the way," she states, "then bring 'em on." Cole moves back to her side while reminding her that they have no clue what they're supposed to be fighting. Phoebe pulls him into an embrace, reassuring him that they'll figure things out together. "Trust me," she tells him, "avenging an innocent feels pretty damn good." And so, the attempted rehabilitation of the Colethazor continues. Cole smiles above Phoebe as we cut to a Prue POV of Reese's car parked in the rain. Inside, Reese and Ruth go through her photos of Prue on the beach. Ruth can find "nothing remotely suspicious" in the photos. "Unless you consider hot pink pedicures subversive," she adds with a smirk. Snicker. Ruth goes on to note that she can't really picture the Halliwells as merry murderesses. Reese tells her to carry on with the surveillance nonetheless, leading her to ask him what he's hiding from her about the case. Reese prevaricates, allowing nothing by way of response. Ruth urges him to take the night off and get some sleep. He replies by telling her to drop the Halliwell dossier off at his office on her way home. Ruth rolls her eyes, wishes him a good night, and steps out of the car. Prue switches off the SUV's engine and gets out to follow her.
Cut to the former Chez Belthazor. Cole and Phoebe jimmy the lock on the door, and slide under the crime scene tape to enter the apartment. Why he didn't just squiggle them on over from the cemetery is anyone's guess. Phoebe spots a rather small bloodstain on the carpet and mutters, "Oh, God." Cole instructs Phoebe to use the back of her hand if she wants to try to induce any premonitions, as she shouldn't be marking up the place with her fingerprints. But leaving fingerprints all over the front door is okay, I guess. She begins to run her hand over various objects as he crosses to peer into his former bedroom. Phoebe moves to his side and asks if there's anything wrong. They share a nice little scene wherein Cole reminisces about feeling "normal for the first time" in the apartment when he would wake up next to her in bed. At such moments, he tells her, he "started to believe [his] own lie" about their relationship. Phoebe strokes his cheek, reminding him that the relationship is no longer a lie, and that they "can have a life together." When he asks her how that would be possible, she responds, "By taking out the bad guys who would take it away from us." Cole smiles a bit sadly, not really believing her. As much as I like him and the two of them together, something about this exchange makes me think he's not going to make it through the rest of the season. Phoebe turns and runs the back of her hand along Cole's former demonic cupboard and is tossed into the premonition she'd been looking for. Prue, Reese, FetusHead, and Moe are in some sort of chapel. Moe bites into Reese's skull to commence with the brain sucking, as Prue gasps in shock and turns away. Phoebe fills Cole in on the details of her vision, and he recognizes the demons as "Seekers." "Seekers"? That name is so lame it's confined to a motorized wheelchair that it operates by blowing into a little tube at its mouth. Anyway, Cole doesn't know how to vanquish the brain-sucking vampires. Phoebe proposes a little BoS research, and the two head back to the manor.