Episode 65

[Piper Halliwell]

Look Who's Barking

Phoebe, disappointed in Cole, is adding a page to the Book of Shadows about his human form, alongside the existing page on Belthazor. Prue tries to comfort her. Piper hides in the basement, struggling to control her new blasting power.

Neighborhood dogs begin barking and even Kit seems disturbed. Meanwhile, a man grieves for his deceased wife, and his dog starts barking; the walls shake, a white-haired female figure enters through the window, screaming, and the man dies in agony as her scream bursts his blood vessels.

The next day, Prue tells Phoebe of the man's death, and she has a premonition about a young woman dying the same way. Phoebe was still writing about Cole and suspects that he is responsible, but Prue doubts it. Still, the two prepare their vanquishing potion and summon Cole with the spell from the Book. The spell fails, but angers Cole enough to turn him into Belthazor.

Piper tries yoga meditations to control her power. Leo orbs in and startles her, causing her to blow up her tape player. He tries to calm her, and has trouble at first, but in the end she curls up with him.

Prue and Phoebe go to the scene of the man's death. The police think he was murdered. Phoebe tells the inspector
on scene that she and Prue are witches, which persuades him to leave.

Cole visits an alchemist, worried about the sisters' apparent attempt to vanquish him. He is also trying to permanently suppress his human half. The alchemist puts a spell upon Cole's blood so he will resist the potion.

Prue points out the page next to the one that Phoebe is writing: it's about a banshee, a demon that feeds on pain. Leo describes the Banshee in detail. The Book gives no vanquish for a banshee, but it does give a tracking spell. Phoebe and Piper cast the spell on Prue, and think it has backfired when she turns into a dog. Prue-as-dog hides under the bed. The outcome of the spell makes sense to Leo: dogs can hear a banshee's call, and track her. When the banshee is found and vanquished, Leo thinks, Prue should return to human form. Leo orbs off to the Elders to ask how to defeat a banshee, but suggests Piper try blowing her up, something she is unsure she can do due to her lack of control over that power.

Prue-as-dog runs out the door, apparently after the banshee. Piper and Phoebe follow and the three find the young woman, a teenage runaway calling her family from a telephone booth. The banshee attacks, but the sisters intervene. Piper blasts the banshee, who retreats. Prue-as-dog pursues the banshee, but is hit by a car. Prue is not seriously injured; the driver of the car comforts her, and takes her into his home.

Piper worries both about Prue, from not knowing where she is, and about Phoebe, who heard the banshee's scream. Leo returns, and now he too worries. A banshee's scream normally has no effect on a witch, but if she is experiencing great emotional pain it will turn her into a banshee. The banshee attacks Phoebe in the attic, zeroing in on her grief for Cole. When Piper and Leo rush in the Banshee looks as if she is going to scream at Piper who blows her up and says "Shut her up" but Phoebe on the floor lies flat and transforms, now she is a banshee.

Piper is beside herself, now that Prue is a dog and Phoebe is a banshee, and even more so after Leo warns her: if Phoebe kills anyone, she will be a banshee forever. Leo again manages to calm Piper.

Phoebe-as-banshee stalks a young woman, who thinks that her date has stood her up; but the woman meets her date, and Phoebe screams in frustration rather than to kill. The scream draws the attention of Prue-as-dog, who stirs and barks to be let out.

Piper grabs the vanquishing potion and summons Cole. Cole claims not to love Phoebe and refuses to help. Piper, at Leo's urging, throws the potion, but the Alchemist's spell protects him. Prue-as-dog runs into the manor, barking, and Phoebe-as-banshee follows. Phoebe attacks and screams at Cole, driving him to such pain that he becomes Belthazor. Belthazor grabs Phoebe and shimmers away.

Phoebe and Belthazor fight desperately at the mausoleum. Prue hears Phoebe's scream and leads Piper and Leo there. Belthazor at last turns back into Cole and tells Phoebe that he loves her. Phoebe screams again, but then returns to human form. Her recovery also restores Prue, though her hip hurts from being hit.

Phoebe still wants nothing to do with Cole, but Cole tells Phoebe of Raynor's plan to turn him by making him kill a witch. He shimmers away, leaving Phoebe undecided about him.

Prue has a date--the guy who cared for her earlier when she was a dog.

[RexAndHannah1]

Banshee Phoebe was scary!