Episode Report Card Demian: C | 11 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Charmed Again, Part The First
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2001.10.04
Anyway, the boy toy, whose name is Shane, quickly apologizes and asks if she'd like to move the party to a juice bar or something. She says it's fine; she appreciates the atmosphere at P3, and has ever since she started going there a year ago. "After," she begins, then thinks the better of continuing. Shane pries. Rose caves. She's so easy. She's adopted -- but that's not the bad part. She loved her adoptive parents very much, but now they're dead. And now I can't get the sound of Brenda Blethyn screeching "SWEEE'AAHHT!" in Secrets and Lies out of my head. Thanks for nothing, Rose. Anyway, after Rose buried them, she embarked on a search for her birth mother that led her to the church in which her abandoned baby behind was found by some random nun. At one point, she thought she might be related to the Glamorous Ladies of Halliwell Manor, but she ended that line of inquiry once she learned that the sisters were orphans as well. She still feels "connected" to them, however. Rose has been absently doodling on a cocktail napkin during this, and the penciled shape thus far is a circle. Shane, who's sort of dishy in an eager-little-puppy-dog way that you know means he won't age well, presses for more details. Rose admits that her continuing sense of connection with the sisters compelled her to attend that morning's funeral. This line of thinking trails off into the embarrassed confusion of an overshare overshared. "Okay, you sound like a total freak," she mutters. "Good job, Paige. Way to go." Shane cuts her short with a kiss. She eases away from it. "Don't hurt me, okay?" she pleads softly with an appealing touch of vulnerability. "I can't handle any more right now," she continues. Shane makes with the liquid brown puppy-dog eyes you totally want to hate him for but can't. He kisses her again. Rose caves again. She "wants to show [him] something," and rises from her stool with her jacket. He hastily pulls a couple of bills from his pocket and tosses them onto the table. The camera follows the money, and Rose's absent-minded doodle is revealed to be a triquatra.