Episode Report Card Demian: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Look Who's Barking
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2001
Manor parlor. Phoebe and Prue bicker a bit more about Cole’s supposed guilt in the murder of Misty’s Master. Phoebe reminds Prue that her premonitions are set off by whatever she’s holding at the time. Prue um-duhs, flipping the Belthazor page in the BoS over to reveal the entry for Banshees. Banshees brought on the vision, not Belthazor. Prue rather improbably wonders what banshees are. Doesn’t everyone know what a banshee is by the time they hit middle school? Or is that just the little Irish kids? The Dolt, calling from the stairway behind, announces that banshees are “demons who feed on souls in great pain.” Which they’re not, but I’ll go along with that definition because I’m too tired to argue. The two swivel on the sofa to greet him, and are surprised to note that Piper has ended her self-imposed exile. Piper reluctantly crosses to her sisters, wondering if they should be “wearing asbestos suits” to prevent possible injury. Prue smiles that if Piper can’t freeze them, she probably can’t blow them up, either. More information on the nature of banshees follows. The Dolt notes that “they’re pretty rare” and that “they hunt for their victims with a high-pitched scream -- something beyond our range to hear.” No one connects this to the baying of the hounds the previous evening, because that would make them smart, which they are not. Phoebe reads further from the entry. Banshees “locate a victim by hearing the inner cry. [They do] this by zeroing in on the waves of pain that emanate from the stricken.” The Dolt finishes up for her. Once a banshee has targeted an unfortunate, the “call turns into a scream that kills.” The Book contains no banshee vanquish, but it does offer a tracking spell. Phoebe proposes that they designate a “tracker.”
Attic. Designated tracker Prue stands in the center of a circle of candles. Phoebe asks Prue if she’s certain she wants the responsibility. It’s Prue, Feebs. Of course she wants the responsibility. Prue remarks not unkindly that neither Piper nor Phoebe possesses the ideal mental state at the moment to deal with the situation at hand. “Besides,” she notes, “it’s just a tracking spell. What’s the worst that could happen?” Yeah, we all saw the previews. Get on with it. Piper and Phoebe recite the following from the sidelines: