Episode Report Card Demian: B- | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Shape of...a smackdown!
By Demian | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.20.1998
Once he's gone, Phoebe snuffles and wails about how mean her big sister is. Shut up, git. Piper, with somewhat more control over her emotions, hisses, "Did you have to throw him so hard?" Heh. Piper wants to know why Prue had to resort to her telekinesis, anyway. "We could have just talked about it like normal people!" Prue, somewhat ashamed and more than a little misty-eyed herself, straightens her spine to counter, "We're not normal." Piper stalks off. Prue heads in the opposite direction. Phoebe clings to a door frame and weeps her way into commercial.
The "Beaumark." The Teflon Dad slumps into his suite and parks it on an armchair to fire up a cigar. The lights flash on, and The Wonder Trips emerge from an adjoining room to make with the menacing. "I was wondering when evil would rear its ugly head," Victor sighs. "Consider it reared," snarks Marshall. "I don't know what kind of people you're used to dealing with," he continues, "but I'd lay serious coin they aren't willing rip you into a thousand pieces and dance in your entrails." "Lay serious coin"? Christ. Between that phrase and the morphing appendages, whatever crush I'd been nursing for this guy has been sufficiently euthanized. Fritz steps up to the plate to bat some of his own threats Victor's way, but The Teflon Dad dodges each and every one of them. The only way The Wonder Trips can infiltrate the Manor is if they morph into his form, correct? Okay, we'll go with that. Well, after this evening's disastrous reunion, Victor's been banished from the Manor forever. There's no way Prue or Piper would allow him, or anything that looks like him, in the door. However, there is one dimwitted, harebrained little life support system for a pair of Fun Bags that Victor can still manipulate. Now, The Wonder Trips could carry through with their threats to eviscerate The Teflon Dad, but only he knows which "buttons to push" to get at Phoebe, right? So, do they have a new deal? Outwitted, The Wonder Trips acquiesce.
Manor, the following morning. A frosty silence greets Phoebe at the breakfast table, so she waves a white napkin around, asking for a five-minute truce. Prue and Piper reluctantly lift their eyes from their scrambled eggs to look at her. Phoebe hems and haws and eventually admits to the previous afternoon's premonition. Prue shakes her head in disappointment. Phoebe stammers that she kept the vision from her sisters because she selfishly did not want it to be true. However, she now realizes the error of her ways and blah and can they ever forgive her and wah and Prue hugs her. Piper, sickened, turns away from the saccharine scene and spots Victor's chrysolite ring on the floor in the hallway. Okay, she's not really sickened, but I can't think of any other logical reason why she'd turn her attention away from the reconciliation. Oh, wait. The script told her to. Right. She retrieves the ring from the carpet, and Prue guesses that it must have fallen from The Teflon Dad's finger when she biffed him into a wall. She tells the others she'll have it sent to his hotel, and sets it on the much-to-be-abused marble-topped table in the hall.