Episode Report Card Demian: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Contrived, The Unrealistic, And The Overlong
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.14.2001
Cut to Sutter's office, where he flicks his bullwhip in slow-motion and shatters an empty bottle. The three flunkies enter and tell him they haven't been able to locate Bo. Sutter drawls out railroad-profit-related threats until Cal walks in to reveal he followed Isabel, Prue, and Cole to the abandoned chapel. Sutter orders the flunkies to get organized as we cut back to Prue. "The first thing we need to do is get that bullet out of you," she tells Bo as she kneels by his side. She warns him that what she's about to do is going to sting like a mo-fo. Prue TKs the bullet out of the hole in Bo's side, and he screams in pain. Flash-cut to Phoebe screaming as well. Flash again to Phoebe's newest premonition of Bo being whipped to the ground on the main drag by Sutter while Isabel, restrained by one of the enforcers, wails futilely in the background. Yokels, including Barkeep Barney, look on in impotent disgust. Sutter pulls out a gun and shoots Bo. Isabel screams. Chuckles stubs out his cigarette and puts away his checkbook to return for his one big scene. Lightning forks through the sky as Chuckles caws and puffs up and flaps his wings around all "Look upon me and despair, for I am the Great and Powerful Chuckles, and all y'all are officially fucked." You the man, Chuckles. Flash back to Phoebe gasping and gripping her side. Flash again onto Bo, who has received Phoebe's premonition. "I believe you," he tells them, and we cut to commercial.
Fade in on the manor parlor, where Phoebe is still gasping and howling in pain and terror while Piper and the Dolt try to comfort her. She shudders out her version of her vision, making excessive use of the word "horrible." She's asked if she believes Bo saw it all as well. She tells them she's certain he did. Victor demands to know what they do next. The Dolt tells him all they can do is wait. Victor launches into a tirade in which he basically denigrates the Dolt for being a useless, ineffective prat, standing off to the side while his baby dies on the couch. Piper attempts to tell her father to put a sock in it, but he's not having it. He again accuses the Dolt of doing nothing. The Dolt replies that he is "doing something by trusting [Victor's] other daughter, Prue" to take care of things. He tells Victor that neither Prue nor Cole will allow fatal harm to come to Phoebe. Victor snarks about being reduced to trusting a demon. The Dolt notes Cole's love for Phoebe. Phoebe herself attempts to allay her father's doubts, asserting through gasping sobs of pain that the demon loves her "as much as" she loves him. Victor shuts up, but still looks like he's not buying it.