Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Astral Monkey
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.03.2000
Studio. Evan Stone goes through the motions of a martial arts fight with three stunt men, in a scene that's just slightly more ill-conceived and unbelievable than the Phoebe Fu we've seen on this show. The director yells "cut" and "print." Prue struts up to Evan and bitches that she's now being stalked by photographers. Evan: "It'll blow over! You're a normal, red-blooded American girl with nothing to hide, right?" Ow. Owen wishes that anvil that just pinned him in his armchair could have "blown over" before impact. Evan continues, saying blah blah don't fight it yada yada energy thrown at it wah wah let it go right on by prattle. Prue is intrigued by his "wax on, wax off" approach (dude!), but wants him to issue a statement to the press denying that she's involved with him. Evan: "You kidding? I'm working the bad-boy image." Huh? By sending flowers? The hell? I continue to suspect that he's working the "straight boy image." Prue pleads for Evan to do something, anything. He gets on his cell phone and calls an Evil Tabloid as a gossip tipster, affecting a lispy, effete, incredibly bad British accent, with a tip that he and Prue have just left to dine at a certain restaurant. Prue thanks him. Shannen's lame subplot comes to its merciful end.
Cut to Dr. W and his next victim. The camera pans from the doctor cutting up the body to a table littered with firearms. Dr. W explains that he's ending the life of a "bad man [who] sold guns to children." Then he quips about how "heartless" the guy was, while -- get this -- holding up the guy's heart and tossing it in his cooler. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Halliwell Manor. Kitchen. Piper looks out the window while holding a chimp. She sees that the press is leaving, so Prue must have "done something." Phoebe is mixing up an elixir "to get us out of them." She pours some into a baby bottle. Leo feeds it to chimpanPrue. Pheebs holds up a banana. ChimpanPrue TKs it across the room. Suddenly a golden mist floats off of the monkey and the banana drops to the floor. Leo and Piper think that Phoebe's potion is successful. The doorbell rings. Piper gets it (natch). It's Darryl, blathering about Dr. Williamson's organ-stealing spree around town. He's not using anesthetic or stitching his victims up anymore, and he's using his powers to sneak the organs into hospitals without being caught. Piper tells Darryl not to try to kill Dr. W, because Dr. W is too powerful. Darryl accepts the warning grudgingly and stomps off. Piper lifts the hospital prison ward print-out from her jacket pocket and, using the victim information Darryl just gave her, figures out who's next on the list of potential donors. She calls Phoebe and Leo into the foyer, and tells them that they have to find Prue. Piper knows where Dr. W is.