Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT PreBitched
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.21.2001
The first shot after the break is of the Blob's screaming mouth. Ew. The camera pulls back to give me a lovely view up his nostrils, then pulls back further to reveal that he's sporting a cane stuck through his chest. Black Blob Spray in the attic. Cut to the three Ps lined up according to age, gazing impassively at the spot the Blob had occupied. "Well, that's number eight," Prue sighs. Phoebe bitches that "it's not fair" for the Blob to cheat death nine times, when death is permanent for everyone else on the planet. She proposes that they try to capture the Blob at the moment of his next death and multiply the pain of that by nine. After a brief discussion, the three decide they have a workable plan of action, and head off to prepare for it.
Flashback to the stairs outside the attic. Bad Bangs Piper finds the brown jar on the carpet and lifts it as she gazes at the locked attic door. Prue enters the stairwell below and softly murmurs, "Hey." She asks Piper if she's all right. Piper chokes up a bit and sits on the stairs, allowing that, no, she isn't all right. She sobs a bit as she explains that nothing in her life prepared her for dealing with the details surrounding the loss of a loved one: the doctors, the lawyers, the funeral arrangements. Prue approaches her and says gently, "For what it's worth, the service today was beautiful," adding further fuel to the argument on the boards that Piper is the always the gofer in the family. Piper barely manages to choke out, "She would have liked what you said." "Do you think she heard?" Prue asks. Piper does. Prue places her hands on Piper's arm and urges her to come downstairs. In the parlor, Phoebe sits silently on the couch. As Prue and Piper enter, Piper wonders what Grams "was doing up there." Prue tells Phoebe that Piper believes Grams was in the attic before her stunt double tumbled down the stairs. Phoebe replies that it isn't possible, as Grams had always told them "the attic was sealed off." Piper sets the brown jar down on a table as she comments that she'd still "like to know what [Grams] was doing." Phoebe changes the subject with "What are we doing?" Prue asks for an explanation. Phoebe reminds her sisters that the only reason they came together was because of Grams's illness. Now that Grams is dead and Prue is getting married, there's no reason for the three of them to remain in the manor. Piper proposes that they hash it out over dinner. Prue begs off, telling Piper she's expected at her fiancé's that evening. Phoebe takes this opportunity to drop the New York City bomb. "Grams always said we all have a purpose," she says as she hoists a bag and moves towards the front hall. "Maybe we'll have an easier time finding it on our own." The three look at each other for a moment, then Phoebe exits. Prue excuses herself and heads upstairs as Piper begins to cry again.