Episode Report Card Demian: B | 242 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Charmed Again, Part The Second
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2001.10.04
Cut to an apartment building on "Portero Avenue." There's no Portero Avenue in San Francisco. I checked. I think they just recycled the street sign from last season. Up in Chez Rose, The Shource regards Rose's pet parakeet, who does not appreciate the attention. At all. Rose natters at the bird for a bit, trying to calm it down, then turns to gather her belongings before heading out to her office. The Shource gives the parakeet one last dirty look, then asks, "So aren't you going to tell me what happened last night?" Rose nervously dismisses it all as "nothing." The Shource, whose bangs have been gelled straight up into the air for some reason, crosses to her, slyly trying to pry the details out of her. "Let me put it this way," Rose replies, "when I told you I wanted to find out who I was, I didn't want to find out I was a freak. Can we just talk about this later?" The Shource tries a different approach. "Hey," he slimes, "I never got a chance to thank you for taking such good care of me." Going by his tone of voice, that statement should have a "babe" tacked on the end. They move in to kiss each other, but the parakeet flutters out a warning. The Shource gets the exact same look of irritated enmity in his eyes that I do whenever I encounter pets and small children. "Oscar!" Rose chides, but the bird isn't having it. Rose assures The Shource that they can pick up where they left off when she returns from work that evening. As she rises to cross to the door, he waves his right hand behind her back. The hand glows, and from that, we are to assume he's just "read" her "soul." "I know how much you want to be at that placement hearing," he notes. Rose stops dead in her tracks. "How do you know about that?" she asks. He covers by inventing a conversation they never had. "A little boy, abusive dad" go the details. "You said nothing gets under your skin more than that." Rose clearly doesn't remember the discussion, but as the specifics are spot-on, she just nods her head in agreement. She invites The Shource to join her for lunch, and tells him to make himself at home in her apartment. He agrees to meet that afternoon. Once she's left, he turns to stalk over to the parakeet. The beetle eyes flip into place, and the parakeet vanishes in a veil of flame. Smell ya later, Oscar. With the bird's perch still smoldering, The Shource blazes out of the apartment.