Each week, the God-heavies at Valentine, Inc unite two destined souls who the Fates decree at risk for being parted forever.  This week’s episode passes judgment on arranged marriages!

The Soulmates

• Morgan – perfume technician lab geek with an appropriately huge protuberance of a nose
• Nisha – waitress and delivery girl for her parents’ diner
  

Nisha delivers lunch to Morgan and they strike up a weekly friendship that one day turns into a near nooner until Nisha runs out of the lab…and Morgan’s life.
 
The Problem

Nisha’s Indian parents have arranged her upcoming marriage.  The Oracle predicts the hubby will be faithless and Nisha will bear six children, be lonely and miserable, and eventually commit suicide.  Cultural commentary?  Let’s hope not.  Who knows if the happiness stats for any variety of marriage yield more positive results than another.

The Plan

The group poses as wedding videographers and instigates the couples’ reunion but Nisha’s cultural ties are too strong to break.

  They eventually convince Morgan to crash the ceremony where he declares his love for her in a superlong speech about sandwiches.  Who doesn’t love sandwiches?  Nisha finally asks for her father’s acceptance of her relationship but it takes her mother’s intervention so they can life happily ever after.

Cue Bollywood Dance Sequence!!!!!  (No seriously, there was a Bollywood Dance Sequence.)

The Internal Drama

Grace/Aphrodite’s estranged husband, Ari/Ares God of War barrels into town and offers Danny/Eros a job using love to lure politicos into war like the good ol’ Trojan days.

Danny/Eros agrees to hide his mom’s affair with her ex-husband Ray who is revealed as Hephaestus, God of a whole buncha things like fire, technology, and craftsman which make him a good handyman.  All he asks Ray in return is to fix the lust gun.

Danny/Eros promptly uses the gun on Kate, the mortal romance novelist who helps the company unite couples.  Kate makes a beeline for the first male she sees – Ari.  Luckily Leo/Hercules intervenes and they kidnap Kate before she can bed the warlord. 

Again – I  hate the idea of the gun taking away free will!  It’s basically got roofie bullets.

The Cliffhanger

The Oracle shows Phoebe that a future holds a bloody ending for Grace/Aphrodite.