Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Prat House
By Demian | Season 5 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.12.2003
Piper, who's remained silent through much of this, ambles over to a never-before-seen display case of wedding paraphernalia and scans the various mementos contained therein. Her eyes linger on a bride-and-groom wedding-cake ornament placed with suspicious prominence at the front of the cabinet before she turns to agree with her sisters' plan. "Although I don't know realistically how much we're gonna accomplish in one day," she adds skeptically. "So use magic," Phoebe urges. "Don't worry about the consequences -- you've already got 'em, in spades." Say it with me, gang: This should work out well. Not. Raige reveals that Darryl's agreed to baby-sit, so there's nothing keeping Piper and the Dolt from heading into therapy. Except for the Dolt's shockingly appropriate aversion to the idea, of course. It's a wonder anyone on the writing staff remembered the character is, after all, part of a generation raised to distrust analysis. Phoebe gives the pair a little pep talk, arguing that they "owe it to [themselves]" "after all [they've] been through" to take a little time out for professional help. Piper receives this all rather mildly, but the Dolt's pouty-face is monstrous. Shut it, git.
Meanwhile, Zack's apparently spent the night ransacking Nancy's house in search of her scrying tools, which he finally discovers at the bottom of a drawer. He smears the crystal with a bit of her blood from his dagger, then waves the thing over a map of the city while muttering, "Here, kitty kitty." The crystal presently slams down on a set of unspecified coordinates that appear to be in the general area of Russian Hill Park. "Gotcha," Zack breathes.
The Bay Mirror. Raige arrives at Phoebe's office to fret about Piper and the Dolt's current predicament for a moment until Phoebe's cell phone chirps. Noting that the call's originating from the Manor, Phoebe picks up to tease, "Piper! What are you still doing at home?" "It's not Piper," Nancy replies with more than a hint of urgency in her voice. "I'm an innocent," she continues as the camera switches back over to the house to reveal Nancy frantically riffling through the bathroom cabinets. Nancy tells Phoebe to hoof it back to the Manor pronto with Piper and Raige, as she's currently at the top of some warlock's hit list. "And bring [the Dolt]," Nancy adds, lightly fingering the gash in her neck. "I need healing." Phoebe warily plays dumb, but Nancy's not having it. "Where's the disinfectant?" she demands. "Didn't it used to be kept in Prue's bathroom?" Oh, that's just uncalled for. Like Prue was in greater need of industrial-strength antibacterials than her trampy youngest sister. Whatever! Phoebe hesitantly admits that they've transferred the disinfectant to the kitchen as Raige whispers, "What's going on?" The shot switches to Cabinet Cam in time for Nancy to finish, "Hurry, please! Before he kills me!" She slams the cabinet shut just as…