Episode Report Card Demian: F | 218 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Enter The Stench
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2001.10.18
Once there, Alyssa quickly whips up a recreation of the original mixture. Piper asks if she's certain no other ingredients are needed. "Just the powdered toadstool," Alyssa breathily shrugs. I do not even know why I'm bothering to ask this, but the order in which ingredients are added to a potion is important, correct? If so, would the crackheads in charge of continuity please refer to the original scene of the body-switching? Powdered toadstool was the second-to-last ingredient before the changeover, with the anthrax being the last. Got that? Jackasses. Rrrgh. Anyway, Alyssa grabs a pinch of whatever, clasps hands with Rose, and the two recite, "I want to be me again" before Alyssa dumps the powder into the pot. Explosion. Puff of steam and smoke. Glowy Tints moving hither and yon. You know the drill. Once Phoebe and Raige are back to themselves again, Piper reveals the brilliant idea she had out in the sun porch. Piper proposes she switch bodies with Gold-Tooth Charlie, as he is "the only person who knows how to enter Limbo." Um, not true, Piper. There's also Not Cho, but I suppose I can understand why you wouldn't want to swap with him. The Dolt debates the merits of the plan with Piper, finally agreeing with her that they have no other options. Piper grabs a pinch of the powder and states, "I want to be the Zen master." Well, that's certainly dodgy. She couldn't summon his Glowy Tint by name? She could end up in Thailand being so non-specific. Anyway, she dumps the pinch into the pot. Explosion, puff of steam and smoke, Glowy Tints moving hither and yon.
Down and out in the non-existent metaphysical realm, Piper-Tooth Charlie shudders up against the "tree trunk." Up and over in the kitchen, Holly Marie Combs snaps back, then settles into her method of indicating the soul-switch, which aims for "mellowed, centered, and wise" but unfortunately ends up somewhere around "heavily sedated." Morphine Holly tells Raige and Phoebe, "You have a very brave sister." She then confabs with Phag about the Dragon Blade's whereabouts. They realize that Not Cho must have taken it with him. Meanwhile, Not Cho demands to know what just happened to Piper-Tooth Charlie. Piper-Tooth babbles something about blacking out momentarily. Not Cho's not having it. "Who are you?" he asks. Piper-Tooth raises himself up nobly and bluffs, "I am one with the universe." Not Cho laughs in his face. He knows Phag's Pa too well to be taken in by the attempted deception, he claims. He also knows Phag's Pa does not possess the power to switch bodies. "You must be one of the witches," he spits. He realizes that means Morphine Holly and her posse will soon be arriving to reclaim her soul. He brandishes the glowing green dagger. "The question is, how are they gonna get your soul back when I've got it?" Not Cho presses the tip of the dagger against Piper-Tooth Charlie's chest, and the Glowy Tint Of Piper melts down into the blade. Piper-Tooth Charlie slumps into Unconscious Meat-Puppet Charlie as Not Cho twiddles the dagger around in his fingers and grins. Commercial.