Episode Report Card Demian: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kicking The Crap Out Of Private Dolt
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.27.2002
The Sole enters the elevator to find Belinda waiting for him. He tells her that Phoebe will need a dress for that evening's affair. Belinda spins around as various party frocks morph onto her body. The first is a simple, snug, one-shouldered column The Sole rejects as "too safe." The second is a garish, rhinestone-studded, short-skirted red thing that shows me more of Belinda's sweaty breast rolls than I ever needed to see. The Sole rejects this as a bit much. The last is not so much a frock as it is a pair of flimsy black scarves tied to conceal just enough boobage to avoid arrest, over a black, midriff-revealing wraparound skirt that's riding far too low on Belinda's hips for my comfort. "Perfect," announces The Sole, and I think the evil is affecting his eyesight. Belinda tries to get in his pants. He tells her to make like a tree. The Sole blazes out of the elevator car, followed shortly by Belinda, squiggling.
Manor. Raige slams the phone down in the parlor, having successfully located the remains of the Brothers Mandylor. Costas and Louie are "Rick and Nathan Lang," respectively, "buried November 22, 1942, at the local V.A." Wrong! Wrong! We've already established they died the same day as the Dolt, which the nameplate on the WALL OF HONOR identified as November 24. Also, if they did end up in the Presidio's military cemetery, it would have been after the war, when the United States began a program of repatriating the remains of some of the Pacific dead in 1948. It certainly wouldn't have been in 1942, especially because the fucking battle for Guadal-fucking-canal didn't end until February of 1943. Five minutes and a search engine, fellas. Try it some time. Piper and Raige make sure they have the summoning spell, and prepare to leave just as TPTB ring the Dolt's bell. The Latin teacher is in some sort of trouble. The Dolt must orb to her apartment at once. Piper tells him to do so -- they can meet up later once the Latin teacher's been sorted. Costas and Louie quietly poke their transparent heads through the front wall to eavesdrop as the Dolt orbs out.
After Piper and Raige exit the scene, Costas and Louie withdraw their heads for a brief confab on the front lawn. Question: If they're ghosts, why are they casting shadows onto each other? Bad lighting designer. Do it on the paper. "Because nothing pushes a Whitelighter over the edge faster than losing a charge," Costas determines that they'll follow the Dolt. Costas and Louie waft away.