Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT That Plot Hole Episode
By Demian | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.06.1999
Grams proposes binding the Ps' powers once Phoebe's been born in order to protect them all from Nazi Nick. This should buy them even more time to break the pact Finola entered into that afternoon. Prue slits her eyes in confusion and splutters something along the lines of, "Duh! You did that already!" Piper supposes this must be the reason none of them remembers having powers as children. Now it's Grams's turn to be confused. When, exactly, did her granddaughters receive the Power of Three? Just this year. Without the pact having been broken? Yep. Well, why would Grams have done something as asinine as unbinding their powers when the threat still exists? Unless she died, which of course would automatically...oops! Grams inhales, rises from her chair, spins around for a moment, then smiles and shrugs, "Guess I'm not going to make it to the next millennium, huh?" Motor-mouth Phoebe prepares to drop the daisy cutter of doom on Finola's poor head as well, but Grams shuts her up. Finola and Grams mustn't learn anything more about the future; nor should the Glamorous Ladies attempt to alter their past. They were sent back in time for one purpose only. Should they tamper with the space-time continuum, chaos will erupt and the oceans will turn into blood and the Beast shall walk upon the Earth and cats will lie down with dogs and blah blah I already saw this in Back To The Future. Cut to the chase, ladies. Finola proposes un-blessing the ring in question. The Glamorous Ladies agree to ransack the hotel room for the offending piece of jewelry while Grams tosses together a bit of doggerel to send them back to 1999. Phoebe's surprised that Grams has the ability to compose so powerful a spell. "We're witches, dear," Grams blithely replies. "We can do anything." Yeah. Except dress yourselves. Ow! Who said that?
Nicky Nastinazi's Den Of Iniquity. Phoebe and Prue jimmy the lock and steal the ring. Scene.
Manor attic. The Ps pass the ring to Finola, who vows to break the blessing and return it to the hotel before Nicky realizes it's gone. Off to the side, Phoebe scrawls a quick note warning her mother to stay away from large bodies of water on February 28, 1978, and shoves it into the Book of Shadows. Our intrepid heroines say their weepy goodbyes and stand in the center of the room. Grams hurls a lit match into a smoking bowl and intones the following:
A time for everything
And to everything its place:
Return what has been moved
Through time and space.