Episode Report Card Demian: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Enter The Stench
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.17.2001
The shot dissolves from the ladies rising into the mist to a shot of the clouds above a park in San Francisco. The camera pans down through the trees to land on Piper and Raige, strolling along a flower bed. Raige runs through the list of magical herbs, correctly defining the purpose of each. Piper turns to Phoebe and the Dolt, who lounge on a blanket on the grass with a picnic basket. "She got every one right!" Raige makes a gracefully modest curtsy, then crosses with Piper to kneel on the blanket. Raige reveals that the amplification of her powers in Limbo has given her a new outlook on her studies in the craft, and she is determined to excel in those studies to advance to that enhanced state as quickly as possible. Phoebe cautions Raige to maintain as normal a life as possible outside of her studies, and adds that should be easy with a dishy guy like Mason around. Raige tells them all that the strapping and never-to-be-seen-again lad ditched out on their follow-up date, because he thought Raige "wasn't comfortable in [her] own skin." She's cool with that, though. She's strictly a female female, and her future, she knows, will be in the home of a brave and free male who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl. Like. She! Cole squiggles in at that moment and approaches the four on the grass. Phoebe bounds to her feet to greet him. She wonders what that day's training schedule will involve. "Light sabers?" Shut up, Phoebe. Cole has other plans. He thought they might take the afternoon off for a picnic in "the south of France." She beams and moves in for a clinch. They squiggle out as we fade to black, and this shit-pile car-wreck of an episode finally grinds to a halt.
No previews, just the promise of a new episode next week. It can't possibly be any worse than this one was. I hope. Oh, one more thing: Bounty hunters! Scream, damn you! Scream!