Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sin Francisco
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.18.2001
Cut to the street outside the "Bay City Motor Cars" showroom. Various S.W.A.T.-team types scamper around behind parked cars while, for some reason, hordes of rubberneckers mingle on the sidewalks right behind them. Prue, Phoebe, and Darryl enter. Prue insists she be allowed inside the dealership. Darryl tells her she's being foolish. Miss Phoebe If You're Nasty's distracted when she spots Officer Package working crowd control off to the side. While Prue and Darryl bicker about proper procedure in a hostage situation, Phoebe scuttles off to assault the cop. Prue haughtily takes matters into her own hands, crossing the police barricade to dash into the showroom. Darryl wildly orders the S.W.A.T. team not to shoot while confusedly scanning the crowd for Phoebe. Poor Duhrryl. He's so lost. As usual. Inside the showroom, Prue approaches the reverend, who has a revolver pressed against the neck of a salesman. Startled, the reverend spins around and aims the gun at Prue. Prue tosses some TK in the general direction of the weapon, but manages only to wiggle the pastor's arm a little bit. Prue: "Um. Uh oh." The pastor re-aims and fires.
Outside, the assembled extras gasp, wail, and moan at the sound of the gunshot. Darryl grabs a megaphone and calls for Prue. There is no answer. More gasps and solemn mutterings of the "peas and carrots" variety from the assembled extras. Various shots of various cops, extras, and newsmen. The "tension" "mounts." Finally, Prue exits the showroom with the salesman, calling out, "Fine. Fine. Everything's under control." She foists the salesman on some waiting paramedics and sends a couple of cops into the dealership to retrieve the now-unconscious minister, whose ass she has kicked. She -- do I have to say it? -- proudly mugs for the assembled news crews before Darryl intervenes, hustling her off to the side. He notes with alarm that the bullet grazed her arm. She passes it off as nothing to worry about. Darryl's not buying it. "I've never seen you run away from danger, Prue," he tells her, "but I've never seen you run towards it, either. Do you have a death wish?" Prue buys a clue, finally realizes she's been hit with Pride, and orders Darryl to pack the pastor off to an anonymous location until she can vanquish Kenickie. "Now where is my sister?" she wonders aloud, all Alpha-witch.
Cut to the interior of the S.W.A.T. van. Miss Phoebe If You're Nasty macks loudly with Officer Package. She grabs at his clip-on tie, which comes off in her hand. They regard the clip-on briefly before shoving their tongues down each other's throat again. Snicker. She rips his shirt open, then breaks from the kiss to retrieve a strip of ten condoms from her jacket. I hope they're of the extra-large variety because, believe me, Officer Package really does seem to need them. "Good thing I came prepared," she smiles, before tearing one of the condoms off the strip with her teeth. Officer Package is way too into this whole thing. Before the heavy petting can progress to full-on fornication, however, Darryl and Prue pull open the van's doors. "Officer!" Dr. Scott! "Phoebe!" Brad! Rocky! Uhnh! Darryl tosses the cop out of the van while Prue wrestles Phoebe back into the dead Muppet. "Are you out of your mind?" Prue demands. "Well, if you're gonna go crazy," Miss Phoebe If You're Nasty perks, leaving us to infer the "what a way to go" bit. Prue's not having it: "Yeah, well my sin isn't nearly as fun as yours." And that, folks, is a shame. Prue might as well be a nun for all the action she's seen this season. Then again, maybe "shame" isn't the word I was looking for. Any suggestions? Phoebe inquires as to the nature of Prue's sin. Upon learning that it's Pride, Phoebe smirks and notes, "You don't seem all that different." "Back at ya," Prue snorts. Word. On both observations. Prue wraps Phoebe in her jacket and drags her back to the manor in order to revise their strategy.