Episode Report Card Djb: C+ | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Something Borrowed, Something Prue
By Djb | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.07.2001
Back at the manor, Piper flips through the Book of Shadows, turning to Leo to point out that the pages are changing. Leo notes that the "Hemlock Killing Spell" doesn't belong in there, and Piper takes the first step down her long road of pure evil when she smirks, "It does have possibilities." He starts to berate her, but stops abruptly when Piper disappears suddenly from the couch, reappearing a moment later in the kitchen. How insanely Barbara Eden of her. He follows her in and accuses her therein: "You blinked." She didn't, she claims. "Only warlocks do that." Phoebe walks back in, and Piper explains what just happened. Phoebe responds that it sounds "so cool," except for that fact that if we're going to blink something on this show into The Land Good Costuming Taste Forgot evermore, it should probably be the egregious knit one-button sweater vest with the blue Hawaiian lei trim Phoebe is now wearing. I'm cold too, but we're not going to feel the tropics by sewing their neckwear onto our tops, okay, Bahama Mama? Leo frets that blinking is "a warlock's power," and that it would be dangerous for them to try it ever, ever again, and Phoebe retorts that the dang warlocks are always stealing powers from them, so why not give it a try the other way around? Oh, and she wants to give it try, with the blinking. Piper tells her just to "think and blink." Phoebe disappears. And take the damn sweater with you. They both try it, and Leo chases them to the front porch of the house with the warning, "You're blinking. The book is changing. The book is changing because of you. It is an extension of you." Piper twitches and smiles, "I should care about that. But I don't." Which is totally, totally crazy that she said that, because since this episode started, I've somehow managed to type this recap with one hand while embroidering that very sentiment on a decorative throw pillow -- embossed with the Charmed logo -- with the other. Crazy.
Leo chases them back into the house, warning that they can't give into the powers of evil blah blee blarg, and Piper runs to answer a ringing doorbell. Leo tries to confide in Phoebe, "Lose the shirt, and not because I want what's underneath, either." Oh, crap. That's me. What he really leans in and confides is, "I need your help." Phoebe announces quite loudly and, I might add, rather amusingly, "I am so tired of helping people." Quite the far cry in personal responsibility from her days when all she wanted to do was help people who just "gotta let it out, gotta let it out." Oh, crap. There was the Teen Steam joke I promised y'all weren't going to hear. Just be glad I'm steering clear of Eva Savalot, then. We'll see how long that one lasts.