Episode Report Card Demian: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In the Arms of the Phoebeast
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.24.2002
Phoebe enters at this moment and immediately flings herself at the image of the priest with one of her judo kicks. The entire illusion winks out in various flashes of gold light, leaving Phoebe to fly through the air across the kitchen table. The monkey boy groans he "can't work like this" and pouts his way into a chair, where he thumps his stick on the ground, summoning a couple of St. Pauli girls and a tankard. The Glamorous Ladies roll their eyes. Raige wonders why Phoebe decided to return to the Manor after their dust-up at the newspaper. Phoebe vows "not to shun [her] Wiccan duties, no matter what." Remember that line. While she continues to keep her faith in The Sole, she came back to help them with "Merlin," as she dismissively calls the monkey boy. There's a tiresome "Merlin was a hack" joke, followed by an even more tedious Harry Potter joke, before the monkey boy rises to his feet to wax nostalgic for the days before The Source obliterated his kind from the earth. He longs for the days, you see, when wizards were thick on the ground, and he was at one with his family. He gets in the anvilicious "it's all an illusion without family" as The Mournful Reeds Of Subtlety In Scripting Lost thrum on the soundtrack. The gals share A Moment; then we scream our way down to Hell.
The priest apprises The Sole of the final preparations for the coronation. The Sole warns them all to keep an eye out for Monkey Boy. Speak of the primate, and he shall appear. Monkey Boy pops up and tootles, "Hello!" The priest sends a division of Mongoloids to chase him down the hall, then warns The Sole to leave immediately in the interests of security. The Sole spies the early signs of Raige orbing in with her sisters, and warns the priest to protect the dark book. He blazes out just as the gals complete their orb. Raige futzes with the burlap sack while Pippihontas and Phoebe dart over to attack the remaining guards. Pippihontas blows one up before being tackled to the ground by another. Yet another Mongoloid besets Phoebe. The priest TKs Raige across the room. Meanwhile, out in the hall, the Monkey Boy eludes a posse of guards to disappear around a corner. The Sole appears in front of them and, long story short, it's not really him -- it's a Monkey Boy illusion. The Monkey Boy zaps the Mongoloids with his wand, then dissolves The Sole doppelganger. Back in the chamber, Pippihontas head-butts her Mongoloid, wincing a bit at the pain involved in that act. Phoebe, who's beaten her Mongoloid unconscious, screams, "Now!" Pippihontas blows up the dark priest. A Mongoloid rises to his feet to conjure an FBOD in the palm of his hand, which he intends to drive into Raige's back. Phoebe whips her arm around defensively, and a massive spray of fire erupts from her outstretched palm like a flamethrower. The flames make quick work of the Mongoloid, who howls and wails and disappears in a veil of fire. Phoebe goggles at her hand as Pippihontas gasps, "What was that?" Phoebe hasn't a clue, and looks more than a little freaked out by the whole thing. The Monkey Boy barges in and orders Raige to steal The Grimoire. She summons it from the pedestal into her sack, and the gals orb out. Monkey Boy, of course, exits by winking into a flare of blue light.