Episode Report Card Demian: C | 11 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Charmed Again, Part The First
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2001.10.04
Cut to Hell. Literally -- we're in Hell, people. A black-cowled figure blazes his way into the cavern. Literally -- a sheet of flame creates his outline, from which he himself emerges. The shot cuts to a smoky outline reclining on some sort of altar. "May I be seen?" purrs the smoke. "Have you found Belthazor?" asks the guy in the robe. "No," comes the response from off-screen. "Something else." The guy in the robe wags a claw at the smoke, and the smoke flares into a bint. I would call her a slut, but I wasted that slur on the tertiary demon who killed herself in the pre-credits sequence of "Coyote Piper." So this scantily-clad tramp gets to be the Smoked Bint, and she's going to like it. Dammit. She's wearing a sequined bikini top that barely covers the very tips of her breasts, and some sarong-like sequined miniskirt that barely covers her unmentionables, as she strokes a crystal ball in a manner that suggests the ball is far better acquainted with said unmentionables than I ever would want to be. She's kinky trash, people. Anyway, continuing with her earlier line about finding something other than Belthazor, she avers that what she's seen is "more important than Belthazor." The guy in the robe doesn't like hearing that. "Nothing's more important," he insists. "Not even the Charmed Ones?" asks the Smoked Bint. The guy in the robe reminds her that they're dead. "Not all of them," she reminds the guy in the robe. The guy in the robe reminds her that "one gone" is sufficient, then bitches her out for failing to predict that the Dolt would save Phoebe and Cole from Hell. No, we never saw the Bint last season, and we never saw the rescue on-screen, and the chances are we never will. Just go with the demonic exposition. By the way, I think by now we've all realized the guy in the robe is The Source, so let's call a spade a spade from here on out.