Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | 241 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Little Monsters
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2003.11.16
The camera cuts away to pan across the ruins of the interior of some random house elsewhere in the city. Furniture's either overturned or stacked haphazardly, and many of the windows appear to be broken. Over at the foot of the staircase, Piper sits with her hands tied behind her back, evidently secured to the lowest part of the banister. The Hunchback Of Not!re Lame darts around in the shadows, watching her. Piper catches sight of him in the corner of her eye, and rather calmly calls out, "Hello? Who's there?" "I want the child!" The H Of Not! growls from the darkness. Piper mildly replies that she sort of figured that one out herself. The H Of Not! scuttles to another corner of the house and warns, "I don't want to hurt you, but I will if you don't do as I ask." Piper, who's been surreptitiously futzing with the ropes binding her wrists, smirks, "Who are you kidding? You need me, otherwise I'd already be dead." "Don't mock me!" The H Of Not! snarls, emerging into the general gloom of the main room, and now that we've seen his whole head, I can safely say I've seen grosser-looking creatures on Star Trek. The Shatner version of Star Trek. A scattering of wispy white hair sprouts from the top of his head, and his scalp is rather lopsidedly ridged. His skin has a greenish cast to it, but that's more likely an effect of the low lighting than anything else. All in all, not too scary. They are, however, funneling Seth Peterson's voice through a processor during all of this, so he does sound appropriately menacing. Anyway, Piper soothes, "Easy!" before wondering, "You're not a Manticore, so why do you want the kid?" "How'd you get him away from his mother, anyway?" The H Of Not! counters, not answering her question. "We vanquished her," Piper casually confirms, still working at those ropes behind her back. "You have no idea what you've done," he groans, taking a few steps towards her. She replies that they saved a baby from one demon, and she'll be damned if she's handing it over to another. "Then you'll die," he rasps. "The hell I will," Piper retorts with cocked brow. She finally unleashes a couple of Fingers of Discontent on her bonds, and they snap apart. She then flings both Hands in The H Of Not!'s direction, detonating something behind him that unleashes a smothering cloud of dust. Thus temporarily veiled from his sight, Piper scrambles to the front door, but the moment she gets within a couple of inches of the knob, an invisible shield sparks up and hurls her backwards through the air. She shrieks and scampers into the next room over to crouch behind something large. What? I have no idea what it is. It's too goddamned dark in there. Leave me alone.