Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Head Games
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.07.2001
Chamber Of The Smoked Bint. Skippy the DBH and his faithful companion dump Cole a couple of yards away from The Spource, who is so deeply engrossed in the task at hand that he doesn't acknowledge their presence. The Bint rages over, demanding an explanation for the intrusion. Skippy kicks Cole onto his back and glares at her. A slight smile flickers across her face, and she instructs the DBHs to leave Cole there. "I'll be sure you get the credit," she smirks. Skippy refuses to leave without his bounty. In that case, the Smoked Bint tells them, the two DBHs will have to wait. She jiggles back over to The Spource's side. The intrepid Dolt has witnessed the entire exchange from a hiding place off to the side. "I have a surprise for you, Piper," The Spource drones before he, the Bint, and Piper herself are engulfed by the White Flare.
Nuthouse. We are treated to a Piper POV as she approaches The Spource through the sun room. He opens the door to the garden, which is in far better condition than the one at the real Manor. Crappy CGI butterflies notwithstanding. "Crappy" actually doesn't do justice to how lousy they are. You know the scene in 9 to 5 where Lily Tomlin has her pot-induced fantasy of offing Dabney Coleman, and little two-dimensional Disney-esque woodland creatures gambol and gallivant at her feet as a little Disney-esque sparrow perches on her finger and they indulge in a whistling duet? The butterflies look like that, only less artfully animated. I suppose it cost too much to hire a butterfly wrangler. What? Stop giggling. Butterfly wranglers are thick on the ground in southern California. Or so I've heard. Anyway, Dolt Ratched assures Piper that "there's magic in the real world too." The Spource leans in to add that Piper's friends have dropped by for a visit. Becca leads a gaggle of ladies down the garden path to Piper's wheelchair, blondes up front, ethnics in the rear. Piper's about to burst into tears, as these are the first people in this fantasy to behave as she remembers. Wendy emerges from the throng with an infant swaddled in Piper's furry one-piece shower gift. She allows Piper to hold the infant. Piper's womb throbs, and she loses it. The Spource tells the ladies they'll have to go. Wendy gently retrieves her child from Piper's arms, and she and the others reluctantly leave. Piper is wracked with shuddering sobs. Naughty Dolt Ratched tells Piper that this life of two-dimensional butterflies and friends can be hers if she just recites that one small spell. He presses a pad of paper and a pen into her hands, telling her to write the relinquish down from memory. He kisses her on the head and returns to the sun porch as the White Flare obliterates them both.
Attic. Raige stands by the Book, which is open to facing pages entitled "Mind Link" and "To Break a Mind Link," respectively. Phoebe busies herself lighting a circle of candles on the floor. Raige is having second thoughts about the enterprise. "I have enough trouble being in my head, much less someone else's." Phoebe reassures her that their minds won't be in Piper's body, simply their consciousness. "Kind of like astral projection," she explains. Once they've completed their mission, they can use the "reversal" to get back out. She takes Raige's hand in her own, and the two kneel inside the circle of candles. They recite: