Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Apocalypse Not
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.10.2000
Black-out screen. The Apocalypse countdown is now fifty minutes and counting. I don't think I can grip the armrests on my chair any more loosely. Cut to Horseman Headquarters. Bleach Blond Menial runs into the operations room in his undershirt and exposes Leo as a phony. Leo orbs out.
Halliwell Manor. Kitchen. Leo orbs in. Phoebe and Piper greet him and inform him that they have Prue's rescue plan figured out. Leo wonders if they're "sure." He's been spying. Piper: "What did you do? They'll think we don't trust them." (Hey, wait. Didn't Piper already know from a previous scene that Leo was following Black Tie? Yeah, I thought so.) Leo responds, "You shouldn't. They are the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse." He tells them that an attempt to save Prue could "bring about the end of the world." The docile Ps gape.
There's a cute commercial playing in Atlanta promoting the WB affiliate. These teens walk through some suburban front yards in their baggy-ass jeans while talking about how they've walked in on their parents "doing it" and how mortified they were. One girl saw her mom "doing it" in the bedroom and was "traumatized." A guy notes that his folks "do it every night." The gang walks into one of the girl's houses and she wails, "Mom! By yourself?" Cut to the mom, sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn in front of a TV touting the WB logo. She says, "Hi, guys!" and we cut back to the teens covering their eyes, their mouths perfect Os of abject horror. The ad always tickles me.
Halliwell Manor. Sunroom. Leo and the docile Ps argue some more. Leo reiterates his exhortation not to collaborate with the Horsemen because it will bring about the end of the world. The suits represent strife, famine, and death; when they're united with "war" the apocalypse will occur. Phoebe, even more moronic than usual, states her belief that the steps to avert Y2K "bought more time on the whole apocalypse thing." I really shouldn't smack my forehead with my palm that hard, but this is my only logical response to statements like this. Leo counters with some even more preposterous blather that "the monks who converted the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar made some critical errors." Such as a FIVE AND A HALF MONTH GAP error -- the true start of the millennium is seven o'clock that very night. Whatever! Leo tells them that they will be assisting the horsemen in destroying the world if they keep the appointment in the alleyway. Piper still insists on saving her sister. Besides, with Prue's help the Ps can vanquish the horsemen. Leo informs her that only the Source can vanquish the horsemen. Piper grits, "We'll still need Prue to beat them." Leo sighs and realizes that she's not listening to him. He concludes his argument by saying that he "loves" Prue also, but as the Halliwells learned earlier in the "Futurama" episode LINKIT (note, no reference to "Awakened" here, although it's more apt), "sometimes there are more important things than saving your sister."