Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Apocalypse Not
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.10.2000
Apocalypse Countdown. Three minutes to go.
Alleyway. The docile Ps meet up with the Ts. Green Tie knows that they "know who we are." Phoebe: "Yeah. We came anyway. On our side, that's a sign of good faith." Yellow Tie: "Let's just do it." GT asks Pheebs, "Ready?" Phoebe replies, "Bring it on!" They shake hands. Phoebe shudders with a psychic vision. It's in color, unlike Phoebe's usual B&W prophesies, because the image is stock footage of a mushroom cloud that must have been filmed long ago in color, and it's so terribly expensive to de-colorize film. The Ps and Ts take their places on the points of the pentagram, and start to chant. Phoebe stops Piper from reading their spell. She realizes, "Leo's right. I saw what's going to happen. We can't do this, we can't be selfish." BT tells them to keep chanting; they don't want to "kill" their sister. Phoebe tells him that "more is at stake than sisterhood." The Ts get upset at the Halliwells for breaking the deal. Suddenly a cloudy red puddle opens up at the center of the pentagram and lightning bolts emit, zapping the horsemen in their heads. Phoebe grabs her spell page, and urges Piper to read with her; they might be able to get Prue out of this open vortex before the horsemen are destroyed completely. They read the spell as Piper tosses out some potion. A bad blue screen image of Prue leaps out of the void, straight into the docile Ps' arms. Orange Tie pops out also, only to get zapped in the face along with the other horsemen. They all vanish in flames. Prue thanks her sisters for saving her life. They hug.
P3AD. The Halliwells are all sitting in a conversation nook. Phoebe looks pretty smashing in a black cocktail number, while Prue's in an orange top and a print skirt. Piper takes "worst dressed" with her green ruffled long-skirted interpretation of what Laura Ingalls might have worn to the prom, paired with boots (natch). Phoebe, sitting posed on top of the backrest of a sofa, complains that the oblivious, frat-boy two-stepping extras haven't even given them "a thank you" for "saving the world." Shout-out? Just then, Leo appears. He's gentlemanly enough to apologize for having been "hard on" the docile Ps. Phoebe: "We sort of made it hard on you, too." Um, SORT OF? Whatever! Piper tries to speak, but Leo says that everyone was "just doing [their] jobs." Phoebe asks if there's anything else. Leo expositions that the Source realized there was still too much good in the world for his evil plan to work, due to the docile Ps' selfless act of sacrificing their sister to spare the planet, and that's why he killed that team of horsemen. Piper: "So he's giving up?" Leo: "No, he'll just try that much harder." Prue says she's glad their do-gooding is getting attention. Phoebe asks him to stay and have a drink. He demurs, believing that the sisters need some time together, just the three of them. He leaves. The Ps all dogpile on the couch together, and Prue makes the rest of the scene about her, pouting a bit about her sisters leaving her to die in the vortex. Piper and Phoebe say they're sorry. The bartender, holding Phoebe's ethical query book, walks up and asks them to "vote" on the "rescue five strangers or a sibling" question from the first scene of the episode. Piper: "Neither. Play party games on your own time. Get your ass back to work." Actually, the Ps all say in LotD-learned unison, "Five strangers."