Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | 168 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Sin Francisco
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2001.04.19
Scantily-clad Kerr Smith in a fleabag motel. "Rated R for Strong Violence/Gore, Language, Sexuality." April 27th at a theater near me, you say? I am so there.
"Accident" aftermath. Detective Darryl and two other police investigators quiz the bus driver. The suit gets a name: "Robert Pike." A rather attractive cop quizzes Phoebe. I happened to pause the tape at this point, and the cop looks like he's shoved a couple of socks down the front of his pants. It's either that or -- to quote Madeline Kahn -- "Woof!" Further along, Prue gazes on in an approximation of stunned horror and grief as coroner's assistants prepare to load the very dead Mr. Pike into an ambulance. Darryl saunters over to her, noting the police often see "suicides" of this nature. Prue insists that it wasn't suicide. Pike was "demonically driven into the street," she asserts, and reminds Darryl that she has more than enough experience in such matters to know of what she speaks. Darryl gives her the rundown on the deceased. Pike was a very successful investment broker and philanthropist, married with two kids. Prue announces that "something must have changed him," and shows Darryl the box Pike died for, which she has stowed away in her purse. A couple of bath beads glow dully inside. Darryl asks Prue if she knows what the bath beads really are. She doesn't, she allows, but she's certain they're dangerous. Over in Phoebe's neck of the street, Officer Package finishes up his questioning by asking Phoebe out on a date. Her face breaks into a toothy grin and she snickers a bit in embarrassment. She turns him down gently, telling him she already has a boyfriend. "I'm not surprised," he replies mildly, grinning back at her. Darryl interrupts the unseemly flirtation, and Phoebe moves to Prue's side. Phoebe asks Prue if she's okay. Prue regrets that they weren't able to save Pike. Phoebe supposes there was nothing they could do without knowing more about Lukas and what the bath beads really are. I raise my hand to point out that, had Piper been present, she could have frozen the whole scene before the "bus" "plowed" into "Pike," but these people never listen to me anyway.