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
Casa Del Sole. The gals plus the Dolt stomp through the apartment searching for the absent Sole, rudely rousing Grandma from her nap. Grandma takes one look at the Dolt, rolls her eyes heavenward in despair, and heads into the kitchen to rustle up a ham and Swiss on a kaiser roll. Raige asks if Phoebe tried calling The Sole's office. Phoebe admits that she's come to believe he doesn't have an office. Belinda squiggles in through the French doors to note icily that The Sole does indeed have a place of employment. Phoebe inquires as to her husband's whereabouts. Belinda replies that he's somewhere "safe" from Phoebe. "All right," Raige snots, ready for a smackdown. "Do you want to punch her or should I?" Phoebe glances Raige's way, but says nothing. Belinda and Phoebe circle each other, sniping. Belinda basically calls Phoebe a breed sow, Phoebe basically calls Belinda a whore, and then we get an all-too-brief catfight. Belinda hurls an FBOD that Phoebe avoids by levitating up towards the ceiling. The FBOD vanquishes a vase on the mantelpiece. Phoebe flings out her hand, spraying a stream of fire in Belinda's direction. Belinda cartwheels to safety. Pippihontas attempts to intervene, but Phoebe tells her to cram it. Another spurt of fire from Phoebe's palm sends Belinda skittering backwards up the wall, where she screams and shrieks and eventually explodes, leaving a heart-shaped scorch mark where her ass had been. "Homewrecker," Phoebe sneers in triumph. Raige, from behind a column, says, "Um, Phoebe? Okay, you're scaring us." The Dolt adds that flamethrowing is "an upper-level demonic power." Phoebe gapes, wondering what's going on. Grandma pauses on her way back to the Barcalounger with her sandwich to smack Phoebe in the teeth. Phoebe starts to shudder before squiggling a bit and disappearing through the floor.
Chamber Of D'Eartha. Phoebe squiggles in from above and wobbles uneasily on her feet while taking in her surroundings. D'Eartha's face snaps into focus, and she urges Phoebe to breathe. She reveals that she summoned Phoebe to her chamber via "dark magic." Phoebe nervously backs away from her, her hands jittering with fear. When D'Eartha continues to advance, Phoebe tries to fry her with a gout of flame from her palm. D'Eartha simply smiles as the flames lap harmlessly at her body. "Feels good, doesn't it?" D'Eartha asks. "Or more precisely, evil." D'Eartha manages to get Phoebe to realize that her husband is the new Source, and employs her considerable powers of persuasion to bend Phoebe to her will. "It's time to embrace your new family -- your new destiny," D'Eartha suavely argues. "Otherwise [The Sole] and your son will die. All of demondom will rise up against them to destroy them and you." Phoebe looks either perplexed, conflicted, constipated, or some unsightly combination of the three.