Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Head Games
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.07.2001
Once he's gone, Piper kicks her feet up and down in their restraints and calls for the Dolt. McMurphy tells her to can it with the Dolt-calling. "You're making me crazier than I already am." Phoebe Bibbit trails towards the alcove, munching on a cookie. Piper begs her to enter the alcove and untie her. Bibbit does so while talking and chewing at the same time. There's a distracting smear of chocolate on the corner of her mouth. Once Piper has been freed, Bibbit snaps her head back and gasps with her eyes closed. Piper thinks she's having a premonition, but Randle's just being erratic and psycho. Bibbit then releases McMurphy. At this point, I should mention that Bibbit and McMurphy have altered their hospital-issue scrubs into bordello-issue slut tops. Bibbit's shirt is sleeveless with spaghetti-strap ties over a visible black bra. McMurphy has on a scoop-necked belly shirt that frequently drops off of one shoulder or the other. Her breasts are unfettered. Piper's nuthouse togs, however, remain as sensible and concealing as her real-life clothing so often is. If, as some have argued, The Spource is utilizing Piper's true feelings about those around her to create this fantasy world, then even Piper thinks her sisters dress like trashy morons. Piper musters her troops for a foray into the attic. She's certain the BoS will be there, as Eeevil cannot affect it. The gals dash up the basement stairs.
On the second floor, Piper and McMurphy cautiously advance down the hall. Bibbit storms up behind them, toting a broom "for flying." Screams drift down from the attic, and the three rush the stairs. Upon entering the room, they find Cole strapped to a gurney with electrodes attached to his head. He's only in this scene, so no cunning Cuckoo's Nest nickname for him. A technician fiddles with a console, and Cole's body goes rigid as the shock courses through him. "You can't hurt me! I'm the mighty Belthazor!" His voice is a rasping, loopy purr as he slides into unconsciousness. Snicker. I like him even more as a delusional nutjob. It must be the scrubs. Piper breaks the broom over the technician's head as Bibbit baby-talks her way through "Stop it! He's not [Eeevil] anymore! He's good!" The technician flies across the room, knocking himself out when he crashes into a desk. Bibbit pecks Cole's neck repeatedly. Piper orders her to find the BoS. Bibbit retrieves it from behind a piece of equipment. It was hidden there, she explains, "to protect it from the doctors -- I mean, 'demons.'" She presents Piper with a spiral-bound notebook filled with childish scribblings. The only two entries are for the Ice Cream Man (a.k.a. the Molester) and Belthazor. Belthazor's entry is accompanied by what looks like a five-year-old's rendering of a cat's face. I'll go for the cheap shot and guess they let Alyssa decorate this prop herself. Piper snaps the notebook shut and addresses Bibbit. "You are nuts." Given that the Book is missing, Piper guesses that this manor isn't the Manor. A change of location might break the spell The Spource has cast on them all. "How come the spell didn't work on you?" asks buzz-kill McMurphy. Bibbit shushes her. "Don't question the rules!" Piper breaks the lock on the window, and the three escape by climbing down the trellis. Piper's the last to leave, and as she does so, The Spource enters to urge her to reconsider her actions. She sneers at him and disappears. A sly smile twists its way onto The Spource's lips as we cut to the three escapees darting out of an alley onto a sidewalk. Piper glances around, seeing nothing more than a brilliantly sunlit San Francisco afternoon. Unnerved by the seeming normalcy surrounding her, she momentarily considers returning to the nuthouse before she catches sight of a purse snatcher ripping off a little old lady waiting for a bus. The thief races out into oncoming traffic. Piper follows, despite the shouted warnings from Bibbit and McMurphy. A red convertible speeds towards her. She attempts twice to freeze it, to no avail. The car slams into her legs, and she shoots across the hood to shatter the windshield with her back. The driver squeals to a halt, throwing Piper to the pavement. Blood trickles from the left corner of her mouth.