Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Apocalypse Not
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.10.2000
Halliwell Manor. Sunroom. Piper is getting more distraught over Prue. Phoebe doesn't help much by blathering about the "eleven planes of existence" that they'll need to search for their sister. Piper wonders if it's "too late" to save Prue. Phoebe crosses the room to comfort Piper, showing these really ugly purple patches on the ass of her first-day-of-school hard denim jeans that she's paired with a wee turquoise camisole top. Leo orbs in. He has a message for them from his bosses. They've been talking to the Source. The Halliwells will have to work with the "suits" in order to save Prue. The bosses on both sides are urging a meeting. It's up to the Ps to decide whether they want to work with minions of hell. Phoebe complains about having to make this decision. Leo says that his bosses are "big on free will." Phoebe decides "yes" right away, without asking Piper or anything. Leo: "You can't just get in bed with evil!" Leo tells them that they are risking their lives, because the suits will most likely betray them. The docile Ps declare that "anything is worth it" to save their sister. Leo warns them that they'll be working with beings that are "higher up" than demons this time. Piper just wants Prue back. Leo loses the argument.
Horsemen Field. Piper and Phoebe wait there, clad in ugly pleather pimp jackets. The Ts arrive. Green Tie: "Let's do business." Piper shakes his hand. Bad blue screen lightning F/X flashes. The skies grow dark as the shadow of a large anvil blots out the sun.
Halliwell Manor. Sunroom. The three Ts and two Ps meet and size each other up. Black Tie gets all freaked when Pheebs moves a houseplant off a table. Like chill, dude. She, in turn, clutches her pearls when Green Tie reaches into his jacket for a pen to take notes. We get it; they're tense. Leo mutters to Piper, "It's bad enough that you're working with them, but did you have to bring them here?" Piper reasons that the manor is where the Ps are "strongest and safest," and besides, the Ts didn't offer their headquarters as a meeting place. Leo says that it's strange that the guys gave up their "home-field advantage"; they must be "planning something." Piper patronizes, "Of course. They're EVIL." Pheebs suggests that everyone reconstruct the sitch in the alley. The Ts and Ps argue over who was standing where as they position tchotchke markers on the tabletop. They finally agree on who stood where. Phoebe and Piper have a brainstorm. They pluck some pussywillow stems out of a floral arrangement and show the Ts that the participants in the vanquishing showdown had created a pentagram with Prue and Orange Tie in the middle. So Prue and OT must be in a vortex. They move on to the next question: how can they open it again? Black Tie gets antsy to leave, so he delegates to the other Ts, "Good. Keep it up. Page me when we have the answer." He books. Leo decides to follow him, and orbs off despite Piper's whispered protestations. Yellow Tie wonders who Leo was. Piper: "None of your business." Oh, sassy. Piper asks Green Tie and Yellow Tie how they can help solve the vortex dilemma. Green Tie tells them that their chant helped open the vortex along with the Ps' spell. He entendres to Pheebs, "I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours." Pleez. Piper tells them that she's going to the kitchen to whip up some more potion. Yellow Tie follows. Does she mind? Piper: "Yes, I do." Talk to the palm, cuz Piper's the bomb!