Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chick Flick
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.19.2000
Halliwell Manor. Kitchen. Piper looks really pretty in a white sweater and her hair loose around her shoulders. She's making toast, because she can't remember last season when she actually had chef's training. Phoebe enters, wearing yet another messenger bag, jeans, and a baby tee that strains the words "Miami High Mermaids" tightly across her chest. She asks rhetorically, "What's up with guys?" Piper has no response. Phoebe blathers about a still-born lunch date she just had with "a guy from lab -- totally melatonin boy." Piper: "That bad?" Phoebe elaborates that she was "trying desperately not to fall asleep," because I guess the writers weren't sure that the viewing audience knew what melatonin is. Pheebs adds that she kept "thinking about yesterday." Piper brings up her worry about the mysterious demon again. But -- get this -- Phoebe's really obsessing about Billy from the B-movie. She wants a guy like that "to exist in [her] reality." Just then, Leo orbs in. He kisses Piper, who rather cruelly rubs her relationship with "one of the good guys" in Phoebe's face. But Leo's "here to talk about bad guys." He came to "warn" the Charmed Ones. Piper goes all self-referential again: "Let me guess. Fill in the blank. It's the demon of --" Leo: "Illusion. He uses magic to create violence in society. They told me that he's here to make San Francisco his treat." Who are "they"? And can "they" write scripts for this show full time? That comment was terribly pithy. Leo then describes the illusion demon. Phoebe assures Leo that the lazy Ps vanquished him the night before. Leo asks if they're sure; if the vanquishing really took, "they" wouldn't have sent him. Piper sides with Leo, believing that the demon is still around. Phoebe suggests that Piper call Prue while Pheebs consults the BoS. Then they'll all make a trip to the revival theater.
Revival movie theater. The Halliwells strut down the aisle. On screen, Poodle Skirt Girl calls out for "Billy." Piper: "Now what?" Phoebe: "Last time we saw the demon, we vanquished him on row six." Prue sees Blackie in B&W close-up on the movie screen, and notes, "Now he's in act three." Heh. Blackie cackles at them, "Actually, I was just leaving. I should have known that the disappearing demon routine wouldn't fool you for long." Prue says all he did was "piss [them] off." She tries to telekinnect with him, but nothing happens. Blackie: "Silly Wiccan! Tricks are for kids!" Hee. Piper tries to freeze him. Nothing happens. Blackie hisses: "This is the world of illusion. The movie world is my reality. Your powers, like mine, cannot cross between the two."