Episode Report Card Demian: F | 218 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Enter The Stench
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2001.10.18
Chinatown. Piper enters the den of her herb dealer, who, by the most amazing coincidence, is the very same Master Kwan of Dragon Blade fame. Phag bickers with the counterman, also known as Son Of Kwan. Seems the good Master is out of town at the moment. Son Of Kwan runs the show in his father's absence, and will not comply with Phag's request for the Dragon Blade -- a "family heirloom" they keep in a frame high up on the wall of the shop. Phag presents him with the note Gold-Tooth Charlie penned for the Master, but Son Of Kwan doesn't read Chinese. Piper interrupts all of this to ask for "a sprig of wormwood." Phag shoots Son Of Kwan a filthy look as he turns to take care of the Anglo dog. She then leaps onto the counter, pauses long enough to get reaction shots from Piper and Son, and springs up onto the wall to grab the Dragon Blade from its frame. She lands back on the counter and flies over Piper's head to crash out through the window. Understandably startled, Piper tosses her hands into the air, accidentally freezing the Son Of Kwan. Ignoring him, she exits the shop to follow Phag through an alley festooned with banners inked in Mandarin. Piper blows up some trash to get Phag's attention. "Who are you?" Phag demands as Gold-Tooth Charlie emerges from a darkened doorway to call her name. He steps past a puddle of alleyway grime, not noticing the leering mug of Not Cho in the water beneath his feet. Phag wags the purloined dagger at her father as Not Cho leaps up from the puddle with his blade drawn. He skewers Gold-Tooth Charlie while sliming at Phag, "I told you I was just getting started." Not Cho then vanishes back into the puddle with Phag's Pa, who remains shish-kebabbed on Not Cho's sword. Phag screams, "No!" as she runs towards them. Piper scuttles after her into the commercial break.