Episode Report Card Demian: C | 275 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Dolt, Be Not Proud
By Demian | Season 8 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2005.11.27
The Only Hospital In San Francisco. Piper, looking suspiciously Piper Of Death in that long black coat of hers, storms through the hallway with an aggravatingly glittery Raige to assault the ER's receiving nurse. By the way, all of the other gentlemen in the city have been de-Doltified during the break, what with the spectacular round of Dolt abuse just prior to the commercials having cut off the effects of Piper's spell. The nurse is, of course, rudely dismissive, so Piper's rudely aggressive in return, snatching the phone away from the woman and demanding to see her husband right now. A nearby doctor, overhearing the argument, warily steps over to give Piper the bullet on the Dolt. They need to perform an "exploratory laparotomy," you see, to find out why the Dolt's bleeding out internally. Piper freaks and freezes everyone in the hospital. After taking a moment to collect herself, she flicks her hands around to break the freeze and asks if she can see the Dolt before they take him into surgery. The doctor looks doubtful, but Piper's glare of determination guarantees we're soon...
...panning across various machines that go "Ping!" before landing on the Dolt's battered and hastily stitched together Frankenface as Piper enters the otherwise deserted ward from elsewhere to take his hand. He flutters his eyes open, and Piper whispers a few urgent words of encouragement until an off-screen voice intrudes to announce they're ready to escort Frankendolt up to the OR. The shot cuts out to the hall as a team of orderlies wheels Frankendolt away. Raige, who'd been speaking with a uniformed police officer, carefully picks her way over to Piper's side with both an incredibly stupid assertion and an incredibly stupid idea. "Things like this don't just happen to us," she insists and no, Raige, things like this do happen to you all the time. Just ask your spicy blackened parents if you don't believe me. Moron. "What if this isn't just an accident?" she continues, ignoring me. "What if there's something demonic behind it?" The cops have the monster truck's driver in custody, Raige reveals, and she intends to interrogate the gentleman herself. "How does that help [Frankendolt]?" Piper tiredly inquires. "If there's something magical going on here," Raige reasons, "maybe something magical can fix it." Despite her underlying belief that Raige is grasping at straws, Piper encourages Raige to "see what [she] can do." As for Piper, she's off to figure out another way to cheat Death.