Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Prat House
By Demian | Season 5 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.12.2003
…Phoebe's therapist acquaintance opens his office door to greet Piper and the Dolt. The therapist's played by John Rubinstein, whom most of you will know as Linwood Murrow from Angel, but the guy's got an impressive list of television, stage, film, and composing credits that stretches back thirty-five years and includes a Tony Award for Children Of A Lesser God, so I'll be respectfully referring to him as Dr. Rubinstein. Thanks for asking. Piper titters nervously as she enters the dark book-lined office with her husband. They cross to the waiting leather sofa and plant themselves on opposite ends. The body language is pretty amusing -- Piper's turned slightly away from the Dolt with arms and legs tightly crossed, while the Dolt's affected a more affable, open-to-the-possibilities slouch that's betrayed by the pinched snappishness in his tone of voice. Awkwardness ensues. Piper and the Dolt disagree when asked if they've been bickering a lot lately, but do agree that their problems have nothing to do with The Percolated Infant. "Why don't you tell me about your childhood?" Dr. Rubinstein encourages as he leans forward to pour out a glass of water. Piper heaves a tremendously put-upon sigh and flicks out a freeze, sending the Dolt into an immediate and pissy tizzy. "You can't freeze the doctor!" he yelps. "He's on the clock!" Piper pffts and rises to announce that she'll be following Phoebe's ill-conceived advice and composing a spell to hurry things along. Otherwise, she snipes, they'll be spending their next few years in therapy. The Dolt protests weakly for a bit, then caves.
Manor. Zack's blinked in to pimp-smack Nancy around the parlor. Just as he pins her against the wall to O.J. her throat with his dagger, Raige orbs in from The Bay Mirror with Phoebe in tow. Phoebe promptly latches onto a brass candlestick to brain Zack with the thing, and wow. That almost looked real. And very, very painful. Raige scampers over to Nancy to orb out through the ceiling as Zack drags Phoebe into a screamy, hair-pulling girl-fight on the floor.
The Prue Halliwell Memorial Bimbo Boudoir Of Paisley Tit Slings And Other Fashion Atrocities, currently occupied by Raige. Raige orbs in and eases Nancy onto the bed. "You okay?" Raige asks. "I'm fine," Nancy replies before adding with a proud smile, "You've really got that orbing thing down, don't you?" "Who are you?" Raige squints. "Someone from your past," comes the cryptic response.