Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Farewell, My Liver
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.13.2004
Raige slinks past Kerr to reveal that the back of her dress is just as poorly constructed as the front, what with the puckering seams and the bunching at her pits and all, and they really could have done better, couldn't they? She touches up her lipstick as Kerr jokingly opines, "You know, you may not blend in very well in that outfit, 'Lana,'" before he turns back to the phone book in search of the Missing Mullen's listing. Raige smirks, "As long as we're down here, we might as well have a little fun." Kerr mumbles something about survival being somewhat higher his list of priorities than amusement, just as he lands on Eddie Mullen's number. They barely have time to jot down the address before sirens hit the soundtrack and a New York City squad car pulls up outside the shop. Kerr, thinking fast, hustles Raige over to a window overlooking the alleyway. Again with the HORNS! and the DRUMS! as the mook from the last scene kicks in the shop door while the camera tilts to yet another disorienting angle. Raige and Kerr, unseen by the intruders, escape. The lead mook, apparently a cop of the dirtier sort, asks an equally corrupt and considerably older colleague, "Think they're after the Falcon?" "Isn't everybody?" the colleague world-wearily replies. "But if they think they're gonna get it before we do," he adds with a touch of menace, "they've got another think coming." The Jaunty Jazz Horns Of Wacky Wiccan Hijinks ramp up in volume as the shot cuts to...
...a slow, swirling overhead of Crossed, Double-Crossed lying where it last fell in the Not!warts Not-So-Great Hall. The camera spins abruptly to reveal Piper and Phoebe, quizzing a folder-toting Ann Cusack on Raige's whereabouts. Ann insists she hasn't seen Raige since the latter sent her off to retrieve the Mullen boys' records. Phoebe casually wonders how Ann got out of the Crystical cage, and Ann, in an amusingly smug tone of voice, confides, "She let me go after her cop friend exonerated me." "[The Doormat]?" Piper eyebrows. "Brody," Phoebe growls. "She brought him here?" Piper howls. Ann ignores Piper's outburst to note that Li'l Bulging Brody wanted to see the midget's corpse, before glancing over at said corpse and squinting, "That's odd." "That book," Ann continues, indicating Crossed, Double-Crossed. "It's been moved." Phoebe picks her way past Ann to retrieve it from the floor, but gasps when she's flung into a premonition. Well, it's a post-monition, really, but whatever. She watches Raige and Li'l Bulging Brody getting sucked into the novel for a moment before snapping out of it and leaping to her feet with a seriously freaked-out expression on her face. She fills Piper in on the sitch and insists they need the Dolt's help. Piper's all, "Ehhh, not so much," but Phoebe will brook no dissent and proposes they return to the Manor immediately, on the off chance they'll need to abuse the Book of Shadows. Ann agrees to keep an eye on the dead-eyed Psycho and poor, neglected Tiny Gay Chris before handing over the Mullen brothers' files. "Who are they?" Piper dims.