Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Murphy's Luck
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.29.2000
St. Maggie spots the lazy Ps and walks up to them. She thanks the Halliwells effusively for saving her life (natch). St. M asks if they really are angels. Phoebe responds that she's "just a student." Whatever that means. The producers must have thought that line that was quite a howler since it was in the promos for this episode. St. M blathers about how good she feels now, happy to be alive and able to help people again. She notices Prue's camera. Prue asks if she can take St. M's picture for the feature in the magazine. St. M accedes. Prue throws a chair in the middle of the hallway and poses St. M upon it. Without checking the light with a meter or anything, she just starts snapping away. Whatever. Phoebe takes this moment to reveal that she's "taking a psych class in school" and was wondering if St. M could elaborate on what caused her to go "out on the ledge." St. Maggie says that she just wanted the "voice inside [her] head to stop, the voice that said [she] was causing pain and trouble whoever [she] met, that everything was all [her] fault." She makes a teary face in Prue's camera frame. This is getting to Prue. St. M. concludes, "It was like I was cursed!" Phoebe responds, "Maybe you were." (Hmm. If she also masters the phrases "And how does that make you feel?" "Would you like a tissue?" and "Is this time good for you?" Phoebe might make a good psychologist after all.) Prue, shaken up, removes the film from her camera and gives the equipment to Phoebe. She's going straight to the magazine in the rental; Phoebe should take a cab home. Phoebe wants to go with. Prue LIES and says she's fine.
Halliwell Manor. Piper and Leo flip through the Book of Shadows. Piper expresses skepticism about his Dark Lighter theory, only to get her head bit off by Leo wailing that he should know from Dark Lighters cuz he'd been a White Lighter "for fifty years!" The cell phone rings. Piper gets it. It's Dan "Working On My Alibi" Gordon. He asks if Piper misses him. Leo whispers to Piper, "Is that Prue?" and Piper says aloud to Dan, "No." Ruh roh! Dan starts, but Piper assures him that she was "just talking to the cat." (Cat? Cat? When did the Halliwells have a cat?) Piper asks him how he's liking New York. Greg Vaughan looks out the window of his hotel room set and sees the skyscraper backdrop and hears the sirens on tape and remembers where exactly he's supposed to be. Then he asks Piper is there's something "wrong" in their relationship; he "senses" her pulling back. Piper LIES and assures him that they're okay. Dan tells her that she doesn't need to pick him up at the airport, and they'll have dinner when he returns. Piper says, "Bye." No love yous. No kiss noise. Just, "Bye." As much as I dislike Dan -- ouch. Piper apologizes for stonewalling with Dan. Leo says he understands. Dan has to get the boot in person, because that's what he "deserves." Just then, they find a page in the BoS explaining a Dark Lighter classification called the "Spirit Killer." Cut to Piper complaining, "You've got to be kidding." I think the best episode of Charmed ever would be an hour of that clip on continuous loop.