Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Groundhog Slay
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.25.1999
...that of Andy. Prue's sitting on the hanging park bench from before, but the surroundings are bathed in mist. Anyway, the upshot is that Andy's gone to that Great Big House Of Beef In The Sky, but Prue can't hang around. She's not clear on what's going on, so Andy explains that he broke his promise, as he came to the Manor that night, and it turns out they weren't meant to stop Phoebe's premonition. He strokes her hair as he tells her that it's okay, as General Hospital is his destiny, but hers is to continue on for two more seasons. I may have added a detail or two there. Andy goes on that she needs to keep the time loop from resetting, or the three of them will be killed, "and I will have died in vain." Yes, except you'll be alive again, dimwit. Well, sorry, but I always thought one of the advantages of heaven was that there wouldn't be any dumb people. Prue says she'll kill Rodriguez for this, but Andy chides her not to, as she's a good person who does good things. They share a last lip-light kiss, and then Andy fades away in an effect that's more Dolt-reminiscent than he deserves. Prue, tears in her eyes, hears the voices of her sisters calling her.
Prue comes to, and her sisters hoist her to her feet. She sees Andy's corpse and, not completely herself yet, gapes in shock. Piper explains what happened, and says Andy was trying to help them. Prue, looking at Rodriguez, gets nine kinds of steel in her eyes as she says that he'll succeed, and asks for the Book of Shadows, which Phoebe retrieves for her. Prue opens to the spell to accelerate time, causing Rodriguez consternation. Phoebe points out if they break the time loop, they won't be able to save Andy, but Prue says she knows. The three Ps get to their feet, and Prue recites:
Winds of time, gather round
Give me wings to speed my way
Rush me on my journey forward
Let tomorrow be today.
The hands of the grandfather clock starts to race ahead. Tempus, puzzled, looks at his watch, which speeds forward to just past midnight. He screams in frustration, then flares back down to Hell. So that's how he hooked up with Quentin Tarantino. Rimshot!
The grandfather clock has just finished chiming midnight as Prue steps forward. She spares another glance at Andy's corpse, and then tells her sisters just to untie Rodriguez. Understandably, they're not fond of that plan, so Prue does it herself with a wave of her hand. She tells him to leave. He sneers, "You stupid witch," but starts to go. Then he does that macho stop-and-straighten-the-jacket thing, for which he REALLY needs to die. He turns, and his eyes are all red again. He sends a bolt at Prue, but she simply holds up her hand in a money shot, and the bolt reverses course to vanquish him. The scenery breathes a sigh of relief while hoping William Shatner never gets desperate enough to guest star. Phoebe raises her eyebrows at the smoky ruin, and Prue intones, "We may not be murderers, but we're no angels either." This is an example of a special dramatic technique called "wardrobe foreshadowing." Prue walks over to Andy's corpse, and cries as "Calling All Angels" starts up. I'm just wondering how they're going to explain this one to the police.