Episode Report Card Demian: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT There's A New Source In Town
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.06.2002
Raige storms over to the sun porch. Phoebe gently shakes her head to indicate that there's nothing any of them can do to help the Dolt. Raige rages, mouthing off about Phoebe's apparent passivity in the face of Source-sent death. Cole tells her to calm down. The Glamorous Ladies haven't been defeated yet. Raige rails that The Source knew the gals would be prepared for a fight, so he sent something up to steal their powers. He also knew that the Dolt could heal them should they injure themselves in battle, so The Source sent something to take care of him as well. "He knows what we're going to do before we even do!" Raige pouts. Phoebe weakly offers, "I still have my power." "Great," Raige replies. "Two down..."
"One to go," sneers The Source. Behind him, D'Eartha's gazing into the future in that cloudy-eyed way of hers. "What do you see?" The Source asks as he sets the OZ down on a table. "Nothing," is the reply. "I see nothing. No magic. No life. No world. The Hollow will consume everything." The Source snarks that if there's no future, then he doesn't need D'Eartha hanging around anymore, does he? D'Eartha pleads with him to find another way to kill the gals. The Source is having none of this arguing, and threatens once more to get rid of D'Eartha. She dials it back, promising to "serve [him] even until the end," but we all know she's lying. The Source entrusts her with The Hollow as he blazes out to recruit another demon to steal Phoebe's powers. D'Eartha grips the OZ, and the milky cataracts roll back into her eyes.
Up -- way up -- in the Manor, Piper and the Dolt have a brief scene wherein he urges her to flee the Manor and she promises to remain by his side even unto death. Yawn.
Bimbo Boudoir. Cole rifles through his jackets in the closet and emerges with a small box. Phoebe barges in to look for her "potion book," but stops dead in her tracks when she sees what Cole has in his hands. And now we enter the love-among-the-ruins portion of the evening's entertainment. Cole presents Phoebe with a new engagement ring to replace the one she threw down the drain. Where he got the money for it, I'll never know. Phoebe urges him to flee the Manor. Cole promises to remain by her side even unto death. I admire the fact that Cole's bluish-grey turtleneck really brings out his eyes.
Down in the hall, the doorbell rings. Raige strides over to answer it, batting aside Piper's concern that "now is not the time for guests." It's Darryl and Collagyn, called to the Manor by Raige so that she can attempt to set things right as far as the custody case is concerned. Raige asks Darryl to escort Collagyn to the sun porch. Piper bitches Raige out for having screwed-up priorities during a time of crisis. Raige coolly tells Piper to stow it. Helping Collagyn might be Raige's last opportunity to do something good in this life, and she's going to take advantage of that opportunity whether Piper approves or not. Having delivered this little speech, Raige spins on her heel and joins Darryl and Collagyn in the other room. Darryl senses something amiss, but Raige tells him not to worry about it. She instructs Collagyn to face the windows, then crosses to the Book of Shadows on a nearby table. Raige recites the vanishing spell she last used on Billy the Clear. A little Tinkerbell cloud of fairy dust dances across Collagyn's battered face, wiping away the various cuts and abrasions while restoring her make-up. Pity it didn't fix her upper lip as well. Collagyn's delighted, for she cannot afford this sort of Lancôme makeover on her clerk's salary. Darryl urges Raige to let him know what's going on. He's known the Ladies long enough to realize that something is "seriously wrong" if Raige is using magic when it's not strictly necessary. Raige simply shakes her head, telling him to see to it that Collagyn gets her son back. Darryl and Collagyn leave.
Phoebe and Cole enter with a plan to retrieve the powers already lost. Phoebe believes "the spell to call for a witch's powers" might be strong enough to summon The Hollow from Hell. Piper gamely agrees to give it a try. She sends Cole to watch over the Dolt, and heads over to the Book with Phoebe and Raige. Cole perches on the coffee table and stares at the unconscious Dolt for a moment before gasping and wiping out of the scene. He wipes back in down in the Chamber Of D'Eartha. "Where am I?" he demands. "Back in your once and future life," she responds. "Even now I can see the void where your demon half used to exist," she claims. "It longs to be complete again." Cole's not having any of this. He wants to know how she knew he was still alive. The vision D'Eartha had while clutching the OZ revealed that she and Cole were meant to "do great things together." Cole asserts that he no longer consorts with those of a demonic nature. D'Eartha thinks he'll reconsider his position once he's heard what she has to say. The Source has been "corrupted" by The Hollow and must be destroyed. She proposes that Cole absorb The Hollow and return to the Manor to capture The Source's powers, thereby allowing a defenseless Source to be vanquished by the Glamorous Ladies. After all of this, she will place The Hollow back in the OZ and assist in returning it to its crypt. Piper and Raige's powers will be restored, the gals will get The Source monkey off their collective back once and for all, Cole will be able to carry on as his adorable mortal self, and both sides in the battle of good and Eeevil will be assured a future. Cole ponders his options for a moment, then crosses to D'Eartha to accept The Hollow. She flips open the lid, and the swarm of black pellets swoops into his eyes, nose, and mouth. Cole's not as much of a pussy as the Darklighter was about the whole thing, either. He simply gasps a bit before settling down. The camera pans into his face as we hear Piper, Phoebe, and Raige recite the following from sun porch above: