Episode Report Card Demian: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Coyote Not-So-Ugly
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.10.2001
Commercials. I like how the marketing people behind the campaign for The Gift make it look like Katie Holmes has a huge role in the movie for the spots they run on the WB, but completely ignore her presence in the film in the spots they run on every other network.
Back in the club, "New Sensation" by INXS plays as Prue and Phoebe again try to figure out a way to get SlutPiper back to the manor. Prue grabs SlutPiper by the arm to drag her out of the club, but SlutPiper fights back. Sister-on-sister smackdown ensues, to the delight of the lusty lads of the class of 1990. Yawn. Prue finally knocks SlutPiper out with a karate chop to the neck, as Missy snits in the background, "I knew they weren't really that close." Shut up, Missy. Justin, concerned, walks over to offer his assistance. Prue has Justin grab the unconscious SlutPiper in a fireman's carry, and they flee the club.
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.