Voodoo

Vodun

written by Bruce Zimmerman

Set in Louisiana, this is the first "on-the-road" episode of the new season. Molly is doing a benefit concert to help establish a college scholarship program. The program's first recipient is the big brother of an old friend of Annie's. Their families lived next door to one another in Jamaica several years ago.

When weird things start happening, as they invariably do, the blame seems to go logically enough to the neighborhood's local voodoo queen. Without saying a word, this woman plays her part beautifully. Molly and Annie both experience several unsettling "visions" of events and situations that are not real - a hotel fire, drowning, vertigo, and nearly falling from great heights. It turns out, however, that the voodoo practitioner is Annie's friend Sally who doesn't want her big bro to go away to med school in New York. She thinks that by scaring Molly the singer will cancel the benefit concert and thus the scholarship money.

Although Molly is Sally's target, there is a mix-up with the hair that Sally has picked up from her mother's salon floor to make the voodoo doll. The unexpected result is that Annie is also linked to Sally's "Molly-doll". In the end it is Sally's brother, not Annie, who talks her out of doing anything drastic. Accidental tragedy is averted by Clu's once-in-a-lifetime diving catch of the falling doll.

Clu, still on vacation from college, makes yet another guest appearance this week. Carey wavers between appearing respectably older than the other kids and acting just as goofy as his little brother. Jack, to repeat the standard phrase, is skeptical. Needless to say, he thinks voodoo is all in Annie's head. And Annie, in good Fi-fashion, leaps automatically to the most far-fetched conclusion possible and refuses to give any credence to Jack's attempts to find alternative explanations. Granted, in typical Fi-fashion she's also right and Jack is there for her in the end even if he doesn't believe in the power of voodoo.

This episode features the song "What You Do" sung in sound check by Molly as the climactic scene plays out.



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