Episode Report Card Demian: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Somewhere, Sigmund Freud spins in his grave
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2001.02.22
Phoebe and Prue enter Piper's room, and stop short in surprise. Piper tells them Patty is real, and fills her sisters in on TPTB's "gift" for the ceremony. Prue slowly approaches her mother. "It's been so hard on you," Patty states. "Unfair." Prue stammers out a "yeah," then corrects herself, telling her mother she simply wanted to honor Patty's memory. See what they did there? Huh? Did you? Okay, I'll shut up. Patty says that Prue did a better job keeping the family together than Patty herself ever would have managed to do, and the two embrace. Patty then moves to Phoebe. Patty expresses regret that she died when Phoebe was too young to remember her, and allows that Phoebe's had the roughest journey to adulthood of any of the three sisters. Patty tells the three she never really worried about them, though. "I had a premonition the day you were born," she says to Phoebe. The premonition was of that very moment, of the four of them reunited on Piper's wedding day. "What did you see next?" Phoebe asks. "I held you," Patty replies, and pulls the three Ps into a group hug. Nary a dry eye in Piper's boudoir, and while I can't say this scene was particularly well-written, I have to admit it was well played by all four women, especially Holly Marie Combs.