Episode Report Card Owen: D | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Morality Bites
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.1999
Hobart Pen. Leo appears in Phoebe's cell. Phoebe asks where's the rest of the cavalry? Leo tells her they're not coming. Phoebe assumes she'll just "orb" out of there with him. Leo says no. He tells Phoebe that she really did kill a man. Phoebe: "What did I do? Premonition him to death?" Heh. Leo tells her that her power has grown. He gives her a newspaper clipping of Cal Greene's murder. She has a B&W vision: The baseball player walks past her in what looks to be a stadium hallway. Phoebe comes from behind him, puts her hands on either side of his head, and sends electric bolts through his brain while levitating the both of them. She drops him, and this is Cal Greene's brain on drugs with a side order of bacon and hash browns. Phoebe wails to Leo, "Oh my god! What have I done? Help me!" Leo orbs out. The scene ends with an overhead shot of Phoebe trapped in her cell. Pheebs, if there was ever a moment in your life to scream, "Khan!" this would be it.
Brandy loves her mascara so much she just bursts out into song! Too bad it's in a key way too high for her weak, whiny-ass voice.
Halliwell Manor. Day. Living room. The hard Ps go through the BoS. They find lots of new spells, and some little red bags attached to the pages. Prue finds a map of Phoebe's prison, and notices that some spells -- one to create money, one to erase memory, one to bind power, one to bend will -- are dog-eared. Prue figures out that their future selves were planning on using them to break Pheebs out of the Big House. But she's bothered because some of the spells are "clearly for personal gain." Piper doesn't believe that they'd "break the most basic of Wiccan rules." Prue thinks their future selves might -- to rescue Phoebe. Leo walks in. The Ps ask where Phoebe is. Leo says she's in prison, "where she belongs." The Ps wail on him in stereo. Leo argues that Pheebs' death will protect the greater good and stop the prosecution of others, in particular Melinda. Leo: "Phoebe has to die." Prue: "Like hell!" Tee hee. Piper freezes Leo, and tells Prue to relax. Prue gives the frozen Leo the stink-eye to end all stink-eyes. They tear out the spells they need to rescue Phoebe.
Hobart Pen. Guard watching Pratt on TV. Phoebe, within earshot, listens. "Tonight the witch will burn!" I can't shake the feeling that there's something else I'm supposed to be doing at the moment. Hmm. Oh yeah! Caring!
Piper and Prue in the SUV in front of some house. Piper's "gonna have to hurry" because Leo's going to "unfreeze and come home at any moment." Hey, the writers actually let me make a connection on my own as to where in the hell the Ps were! Ow, now my head hurts. Prue reminds Piper that they have less than an hour to save Pheebs. Piper approaches the house and looks inside the front windows. She sees Melinda playing "tea party" with her dolls. Piper looks at the binding spell page in her hand with a sad, conflicted look on her face. Ugh, ugh, I think I'm getting a migraine from all of the conclusion-reaching the writers are letting me do here. Leo appears in a blue light behind Piper. He says, "You can't do it, can you?" Piper says she can't, although her grandmother did it to her and her sisters "for protection." Cut back to Melinda. We have yet to find out what in the hell her power is, anyway. I'm guessing "speed hostessing," because she's pouring and slamming the imaginary tea down the dollies' throats like nobody's business. Leo tells Piper that he'll protect Melinda from persecution. Piper knows he will. Piper changes the subject to their marital history. Did he "clip his wings" for her? No, she wouldn't let him. They tried to make it work with their respective powers, but they weren't succeeding, then the witch trials started. Piper asks if they were happy, "just for a little while?" Leo says, "Very." Piper turns to face him. She asks him if he'll try to stop the Ps. He won't, and he understands what they have to do. Piper: "What are we going to do?" Leo: "What we always do -- talk about it later." She leaves. Well-acted by both actors, with HMC a stand-out as usual.