Episode Report Card Demian: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT There's A New Source In Town
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.06.2002
The Source makes threatening noises at D'Eartha, who subserviently drops her head, promising to support The Source in whatever he chooses to do. The Source then summons David Blaine, who materializes in a geyser of black smoke. Okay, it's not really David Blaine, but this guy looks enough like him to make me snicker at the memory of the Super Best Friends episode of South Park. David Blaine's a Darklighter, by the way. The Source orders him to off the Dolt. Before David Blaine can smoke on up to the Manor, though, The Source pushes his face into The Hollow's tin box. The swarm of black pellets shoots into Blaine's eyes and mouth as he howls in pain and tries to pull away. Once The Hollow has vanished into Blaine's head, The Source also instructs him to return to Hell with "a little gift." The Bollow sneers conspiratorially. D'Eartha regards this all silently, though from the dark expression on her face, we know she's going to do something drastic to The Source before the end of the evening.
Manor kitchen. Raige, clad in a hideous and distracting lace black top under which she appears to be wearing nothing more than a flesh-toned bra, arranges a circle of crystals on the floor. At least, I hope she's slung those boobs of hers into a flesh-toned bra. If I get a glimpse of one of her nipples through that thing, my head will explode. Piper's succeeded in concocting a potion that mimics her lost explosive power, and Phoebe has her little ancestors spell at the ready. The Dolt orbs in urgently to blurt out, "The Source released The Hollow." "Already on that train, honey," Piper replies. Snerk. The Dolt's not completely useless, however; he tells Piper that the only way to rein in The Hollow is for a force of good to join with a force of Eeevil to read the inscription on The Hollow's tin box. Phoebe frets that this information will be of use only if The Source drags the box along with him and the Ps can somehow find a willing force of Eeevil. Raige perks something about Belthazor that no one, particularly Cole, finds appropriate. Raige's cell rings, and she clomps into the dining room to take the call.
Darryl's on the line from The Loneliest Precinct House In The World. Collagyn sits on a chair behind him, gently daubing her face with a tissue. She looks like someone grabbed her by her fried split ends and repeatedly whacked her face into a brick wall. I can't say it's not an improvement on her appearance. Seems Collagyn's abusive ex found his way into her apartment. He's in jail, and she'll be fine, but her hearing's within the hour. Given Collagyn's history, she has about as much of a chance to regain custody of her son as Greta Van Susteren has of salvaging her reputation after going public about her FOX-financed plastic surgery. Darryl and Raige worry themselves just sick over this latest development, then hang up on each other. The Dolt wanders in to tell Raige she's needed in the kitchen. "You know, [Dolt], I have my charges too," she snipes, just as The Bollow smokes into the front hall. Raige calls out a warning, but The Bollow nails the Dolt in the stomach with an arrow from the Darklighter crossbow. Yes! The Dolt-kebab snipers to the floor. Raige shoots out her hand and screams, "Crossbow!" as Cole races in from the other room. He shouts something about her powers, but it's too late. Blaine winks out for a moment as the Hollow pellets suck up the orbing telekinesis. Blaine then winks back in as Piper and Phoebe arrive to join the fun. Piper immediately crosses to the Dolt-kebab as Phoebe shouts a warning to Raige. Raige ducks behind a wall. The Bollow lets loose another arrow in Raige's direction, but it embeds itself harmlessly in the woodwork by the stairs. Phoebe hurls a vial of Piper's latest potion at The Bollow, who howls and explodes. The Hollow holds Blaine's shape for a moment, then swarms out of the Manor. The Dolt-kebab pants and moans and wheezes as Piper glares at the oncoming commercial break.
Manor parlor. The Dolt-kebab sweats on the sofa. Piper's pushed the arrow through his back during the commercial break, and now grips the protruding shaft to rip it out of his body entirely. The Dolt screams and sweats and pants some more. Brian Krause really needs to avoid scenes in which his character is in emotional or physical pain. Whenever he grimaces or cries, he looks like a tow-headed chimpanzee. Raige moves to take the arrow from Piper's hand. Piper yells at her, "Don't touch that. You're a Whitelighter too." Piper tosses the arrow onto the coffee table and proposes that the Dolt trade powers with Phoebe so that Phoebe can heal his injury. Apparently, this is something they've done in the past. If so, it happened before I started watching this show, because I can't for the life of me recall this ever happening. In any event, the Dolt rejects this suggestion; if The Source appears, Phoebe will need control of her own powers to fight him. Piper's carefully maintained composure begins to fray. She orders Raige to work with Phoebe on finding some other way to heal the Dolt -- "a potion, an amulet, a spell. Whatever." Piper and the Dolt share a tender moment that leaves me unmoved. Shouldn't he be dead by now?