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By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.12.2000
Bane’s nightclub. A brief expository scene tells us a couple of things: Antonio Sabato, Jr. looks really hot despite his state-asylum buzz cut. And he’s playing a kinder, gentler mob boss who lets a deceitful underling off the hook for taking money from him with the warning: "Don’t lie to me again. Live and learn." Whatever! Bane spots La Femme Brinda strutting into his club at gunpoint. They walk up to each other. Antonio matches Shannen’s monotone acting style by unenthusiastically mouthing, "Wow you are more beautiful than I imagined do you like roses." La Femme Brinda "would have preferred orchids." Bane thinks LFB’s "beautiful AND honest." Honestly rude! They walk upstairs to an alcove. Bane’s club is so much cooler than P3. LFB sits down next to Bane and takes off her coat, careful not to let one of her boobs slip out of her plunging-neckline vinyl dress while on camera. Bane blathers about how he’s been courting her "with messages" for a while, and she’s been "a tease." Then he bitches that she didn’t complete the Halliwell hit that morning. LFB says she didn’t have "a clean shot." He asks about the Steadman hit. LBF: "It was a blast." Thank you, Roger Moore. Bane compliments her on "her style" but reminds her that she still has to take out the Halliwell sisters by midnight. DJ walks up the stairs and serves them champagne. LFB asks Bane who hired her. Bane says, "You know." LFB: "Of course." Just then, Prue’s cell phone rings. She answers it. It’s Jack, still using Prue’s office because he’s at her desk, wearing Time/Life operator headphones. Jack bitches about Prue leaving that morning. Prue hisses back at him that she’s with "a client." Jack overhears Bane giving her a glass of champagne. Jack bitches even more, and reminds her about the deadline of their team project. Prue closes her eyelids and passes out, still clutching the cell phone in one hand and the champagne in the other. Edwina and Patsy would be very proud. Astral Prue, in her black vinyl hooker dress, appears in front of Jack at the auction house, but Jack doesn’t notice her. Prue awakens from her trance, shuddering and moaning, in front of Bane. He’ll have what she’s having! Just kidding. Prue hangs up on Jack, and Bane takes away her champagne. He tells La Femme Brinda that she needs to leave and complete the hits she’s been hired to do. He’ll drive her. As LFB walks downstairs, Bane tells DJ to meet with the "client" while they’re gone.