Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Reckless Abandon
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.26.2000
The "great taste of white bread"? What the?
P3AD. Piper serves coffee to Alexandra. Phoebe doesn't think the ghost was able to follow them. Uh, duh. Alexandra: "Blah blah chauffeur was obsessed with Sister Kate yadda yadda carved their initials on the oldest oak of the estate yaw yaw he attacked her wah wah Sister Kate's husband killed him and buried him under the tree flap flap the ghost's been killing Van Llewen males ever since and making it look like accidents blather, rinse, repeat." Basically, the Evil Ghost won't rest until he gets the baby. But we knew that. Moving on.
BAH. Hallway. Prue, with Matthew in her arms, waits for the elevator. Jack runs up. He just convinced the VP to send them both to New York. Prue tells him that "children under two fly for free." Jack gapes. She tells him she won't be going to New York, since she has to take care of the baby. They leave.
Halliwell Manor. Kitchen. Piper tells Phoebe that Prue's on her way home. Phoebe's cooking up a potion to vanquish the ghost while complaining to Piper about Baby Matthew "rejecting" her -- he "always opens his mouth or his bowels when she's around." I'll skip that one. Piper provides today's Lesson of the Day: "It takes a lot of time to learn how to care for a child, and a lot of work." Piper, to her credit, is relieved that they have some time off from baby-sitting at the moment. Phoebe whines that she "misses" the baby. Piper grudgingly admits that she does, too. Aw. They decide to process. Phoebe expositions that she found out in the BoS that they can either vanquish the ghost by digging up his corpse and applying the potion, or they can "destroy the object of his obsession." Piper balks at killing Sister Kate, and goes to get some shovels. Prue walks in with Matthew, and the Ps all speak goo at him. They fight over who gets to stay home and watch him while the others fight the ghost. The doorbell rings. It's Darryl, telling them that "time's up" and he has to take the child to Social Services. Prue convinces Darryl to lie and tell everyone that the baby was "kidnapped" so Darryl can be "a hero" by returning the child to his mother. Ah, Prue's Wacky World of Morals; population: none. Darryl will babysit for them also.
Van Llewen Estate. The ghost is throwing lightning bolts at Sister Kate and demanding to know where the baby is. The Ps pull up in Piper's SUV. The lazy Ps decide to walk around with shovels and try to locate the chauffeur's corpse while Piper goes into the house to protect Sister Kate from the ghost. Phoebe finds the oak, and starts to dig. Ah, but since they're the lazy Ps, they throw down their shovels and Prue telekinetically lifts the bones out of the ground without getting her hands dirty. Piper walks into the room with the ghost and freezes the lightning bolts. Evil Ghost starts to shriek because Phoebe and Prue are messing with his corpse. He runs to the window and spots the lazy Ps. He zaps his bones back into the ground, and the lazy Ps run off in fright.