Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | 104 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Coyote Not-So-Ugly
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2001.01.11
Halliwell Manor. Phoebe and Prue lay SlutPiper down on a sofa, and Prue tells Phoebe to fetch Leo. Phoebe's a little unnerved, because Prue hasn't fully explained her plan. Prue urges Phoebe to trust her, and sends her on her way. Prue places the knife on the mantel, sets the magic green bottle at the ready, and leans in for a little heartfelt monologue directed at her possessed sister on the sofa. I won't bother transcribing it. Suffice to say, Prue promises Piper that whatever happens, Prue will find a way to bring Piper back. Shannen gets all teary. Aw. Not. Prue stands, says, "Please forgive me for what I'm about to do," and flings the knife via TK into SlutPiper's chest. SlutPiper snaps back to consciousness and screams. Phoebe and the Dolt rush in at that moment.
Prue runs to Phoebe and pulls her down behind another couch as the Dolt rushes to SlutPiper's side. The Dolt snits that he can't heal the dead, and pulls the knife from SlutPiper's chest. SlutEssence emerges from the gaping wound, and enters the Dolt. Prue informs SlutDolt that he now has the power to revive Piper. SlutDolt rises to his/her/its feet, and Brian Krause makes me hate him more than I previously thought possible with the way he handles SlutDolt's characterization in this next bit. There was some small semblance of continuity in the way Andrew Bowen and Holly Marie Combs played the possession angle, with Bowen bringing a sort of malicious, mischievous glee to the part, and Combs tapping into her inner bad girl as a continuance of that. Krause has chosen to ignore this, and turns SlutDolt into a simpering, sibilant, effeminate pantywaist pansy -- a clue-free straight man's idea of what men act like when they're pretending to be women. I despise him.
Anyway, Prue quickly makes a deal with SlutDolt. The sisters will suffer SlutDolt to live and will hand over the magic green bottle if SlutDolt revives DeadPiper. SlutDolt considers this for a moment, and agrees. SlutDolt repeats the incomprehensible Latin of Piggy. When Piper awakes with a gasp of surprise and pain, Prue tosses the magic green bottle at SlutDolt, who moves to a corner of the room and crushes the bottle beneath his/her/its foot. Phoebe and Prue huddle with Piper on the couch and begin to recite the earlier dispossessing spell. SlutDolt attempts to stop them with a bolt of alchemist energy, which Prue deflects to the mantel mirror, shattering the glass. The sisters finish the spell, and SlutEssence pours from the Dolt's body, coalesces briefly, and then explodes. The Dolt leaps into White Lighter action when Prue informs him that Piper is still bleeding, and his special tingly touch mends both Piper's wound and the tear in her red PVC slut top. Piper and the Dolt embrace as Phoebe and Prue look on.