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
Phoebe crosses to plant a wet one on Cole's lips as Prue sighs, "Well, at least we saved one." Phoebe breaks the liplock to tell her demon boyfriend, "Well. You just reached innocent status." She continues, turning to beam at her sisters, "To Prue, no one is more important." Prue makes with the "aw, shucks, t'weren't nuthin'" face as the Dolt orbs in behind her. Piper scolds him for arriving there a little too late to be of any use. The Dolt reveals TPTB ordered him to stay away, as Prue had An Important Lesson To Learn. Prue's all "message received," and exits. Piper takes the Dolt by the hand and leads him over to the fugly Gandarium lamp. In the background, Phoebe and Cole share a devilish look of glee and scamper off together out of the frame, presumably to fornicate. Piper tells the Dolt she's decided to drop her issues with the lamp, as "life is too short" to bicker endlessly about such things. "If you like it," she says, "I like it." The two embrace, inadvertently knocking the fugly lamp to the floor. It shatters. Piper: "Now I like it even more." Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
NOT.
Fade to the beach. Prue, sweater-clad with a knit cap pulled down to her ears, sits on the rocks, staring at the waves. Death pops in for a little visit. "Contemplating the tides?" he asks. "Can't control them any more than you can control me." Prue, changing the topic entirely, tells Death she now understands that he isn't evil, but she still doesn't understand why she wasn't supposed to help Reese at the chapel. Death reminds her that she was "alone and outnumbered" at the time. She insists she still could have fought the Suckers anyway. "And you would have lost, Prue," Death replies. Prue asks how he knew her name. She was next on his list, apparently, right after Reese. She would have died had she not stopped resisting Death. Wrap your minds around that one. There must have been several bongs circulating the writers' room when they hashed out this scene. Heh. "Hashed." Get it? I need help. Prue, having focused her anger on the Angel of Death, left herself unguarded against the "real evils of this world." This, supposedly, is the "bigger picture" Death discussed with her earlier. No, I don't get it, either. I don't come up with this crap; I just write about it. Death senses that Prue needs more of an answer than that, and asks her what's wrong now. She allows that she's been angry with him for so long, she doesn't "know how else to be." "You grieve," he responds, "and then you move on." Whatever. He eyes her evenly, then smears out. Prue finally cries for her mommy as we fade to black.