Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Murphy's Luck
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.29.2000
Magazine. I find out that it has the lame moniker 415. That won't do. Since that's a number, I think it would be apt if we called it No. Magazine, since Prue Halliwell will be working there. Photo Editor is looking at Prue's photo of Maggie and starts frothing at the mouth because it's come out blurry. Prue makes excuses. Photo Ed throws a monster tantrum. Here are the highpoints from his rant: "WHAT am I supposed to put with the article? SERIOUSLY, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO, HUH?" "You're SORRY? I gave you a CHANCE! I BELIEVED in you! And THIS is what I get? You're a FRAUD!" "No, YOU LOOK! You're FIRED! No, you're WORSE THAN FIRED! I WILL MAKE SURE NO ONE EVER HIRES YOU AGAIN!" "Now, GET OUT! GO! RUIN SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE!" Bwa ha ha! And whatever! Sure, Prue screwed up, but isn't he at fault for assigning what is suddenly a life-or-death task to an untested free-lancer? What, the magazine is going to press that afternoon and they don't already have this little puff-piece photo? Anyway, Prue stumbles out into the hallway. She says to herself that she'll "get through this" and "everything'll be fine." Mummy Clean orbs in behind her and whispers (in her voice), "No, it's not. He's right. I'm a fraud. I only hurt people."
Halliwell Manor. Foyer. Phoebe enters with Prue's camera stuff and greets Leo and Piper. Piper asks where Prue is. Phoebe says she's at the magazine. Leo tells her that she needs to be found -- a Dark Lighter might be after her. He probably saw the spell she cast for Maggie. Piper tries to call Prue, but the connection fails. Phoebe tells Leo that she met with Maggie, and St. M believed she was "cursed." Leo: "She probably was until Prue turned her luck around." He elaborates that there's a certain type of Dark Lighter that causes future White Lighters to commit suicide before earning their wings. Phoebe thinks that if the Dark Lighter is involved in a suicide, it must be murder. Leo says that the Dark Lighter never kills his victims, just compels them to off themselves. This Dark Lighter wants to destroy Prue to dissolve the effects of her good-luck spell and leave St. M unprotected. Phoebe pooh-poohs the suggestion that Prue would ever consider suicide. Just then, the Foreshadowed Roll of Film rolls out of the armoire. Pheebs picks it up and shudders out a vision. It's Prue in a babushka and a barn jacket, crying and taking pictures while standing on a freeway overpass. Phoebe admits that Piper and Leo are right: Prue might be susceptible to the Dark Lighter's manipulations, and thus be in danger. Except she doesn't say "susceptible" or "manipulate" or "thus" because, well, this is Phoebe we're talking about here.