Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | 168 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Sin Francisco
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2001.04.19
Up in the attic, the BoS conveniently has an entry on the matter at hand. Doesn't it always? The difference, though, is that the Deadly Bath Beads in the BoS are color-coded according to the sin they contain, whereas the Deadly Bath Beads we've actually seen are white. I must compliment the Props department on their Seven Deadly Sins research. The definitions in the book and the accompanying colors are almost entirely accurate. The only exceptions are the colors assigned to Lust and Sloth, which should be dark blue and light blue, respectively, rather than pink and blue. But I quibble. Anyway, the discussion the three have basically reiterates what the BoS has to say, so here's the entry. "Demonic Infectors keep Crystal Boxes that contain ball of each of the Seven Deadly Sins, bottled at The Source and by The Source. These Demons, who were once human and consumed by Sin in Life, use Sin balls to corrupt paragons of Good. Infectors target a victim's predisposition to Sin and magnify it with a Sin ball, leading to the victim's Self-destruction within hours. The Sin balls can only be dëempowered [sic] by destroying the Infector." Everyone got that? Good. Also: "Sin balls." Snicker. The Dolt notes that no one is immune to sin. He also manages to intone the phrase "Balls of Sin" without cracking a smile. Prue guesses Pike was infected by the Deadly Bath Bead of Greed, and that her earlier scrying actually targeted said Deadly Bath Bead destroying Pike's "good nature." Piper proposes writing a spell to counteract the infection, should Kenickie hit another innocent. Prue reminds her that "sin can't be removed -- magically or otherwise. It's part of all of us." "Even you?" Piper replies with a wiggle of her eyebrows. Her sister allows that not even she, The Great And Powerful Prue, is immune, but hastens to add her sin is "nothing that anyone would notice but [her]." Do I have to dignify that nonsense with a response? Didn't think so. And I'll leave it to you good people to debate the idea of sin as an infection, should you care to do so.