> SEASON THREE
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa
Milano. Brian Krause, Julian McMahon and Dorian Gregory also
Starr.
3.01 Episode #45, "The Honeymoon's Over"
Prue and Phoebe are faced with the disappearance of Piper
and Leo who have traveled off to "his" world for a while
learning of several strange murders that leave an inverted
triangle on the forehead of the victim. When the earthly
Halliwell's witness one of these murders, barely fighting
off the demonic attacker themselves, they must lie on the
witness stand to protect their Wiccan identities. Their lies
put the Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner (new cast
member Julian McMahon), and Phoebe's hot crush, in danger.
While ending the terror, Phoebe discovers her new active
power of levitation. Eventually, all is back to normal and
Leo asks Piper to marry him. After a heart-to-heart with her
sisters, Piper says yes! But, will the Powers That Be OK
with their wedding plans?
Directed by Jim Conway
Written by Brad Kern
Original Air Date: October 5, 2000
3.02 Episode #46, "Magic Hour"
Piper tries to secretly plan her wedding day so that The
Council cannot stop her and Leo from tying the knot while
the sisters befriend a cursed couple who turn into an owl
and a wolf during the night hours. Turns out a sorcerer
became fond of Brooke, the wolf girlfriend, and cursed the
couple when he found out his love was in vain. The cursed
lovers are considering their last resort to end the curse,
their deaths. While the sisters try to undo the lovers situation, wedding plans
are under way. Piper and Leo think its safe to get hitched
and are performing their secret ceremony with a ghostly Grams overseeing the nuptials.
Unfortunately, it appears that Cole, Phoebe's new found
flame, may have spilled the beans to The Powers That Be and
Leo is twinkled to sparkling dust just before the ceremony
can be completed.
Directed by John Behring
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Original Air Date: October 12, 2000
3.03 Episode #47, "Once Upon A Time"
Piper is heartbroken, angry and stubbornly declares a strike
against The Powers That Be that whisked Leo away while
Phoebe stumbles upon a troubled young girl who is harboring an imaginary fairy
princess. With the help of a little fairy dust, that reverts Prue and Phoebe to true
childlike behavior, they realize
that evil trolls really are attacking her in the "tweens,"
the in-between spaces, like doorways, windows and the
ultimate "tween" at midnight,
in-between day and night. Piper finally agrees to help, but,
the trolls have changed the girl into a fairy and have taken
her and the fairy princess to a mystical cave. With the help
of a spell so they can see their imaginary friends and foes,
the witches follow a guiding fairy to the trolls cavern.
With a little Phoebe-flight, Prue-throwing and
Piper-freezing, the trolls are soon gone in a puff of smoke.
Yet, the young girl wants to run away from home and stay a
fairy. In a heartfelt effort, Piper confesses her own loss
of faith and convinces the little girl to come back to the
Earthly realm. Although Piper is still heartbroken, she
realizes that her stubbornness almost cost a little girl her
life. The Powers That Be are impressed with Piper's courage
and let Leo return, giving the couple a chance to prove
their love won't get in the way of protecting the innocent.
Meanwhile, Phoebe's new friend Cole appears to be a
supernatural fiend after the Book of Shadows.
Directed by Joel Feigenbaum
Written by Krista Vernoff
Original Air Date: October 19, 2000
3.04 Episode
#48, "All Halliwell's Eve"
It's All Hallows Eve and a few of
the Charmed One's nemesis have returned from banished-land.
In the middle of a battle with bad guys Prue, Piper and
Phoebe are whisked through a time portal into Colonial
Virginia where a small town is on a witch hunt for an unborn
baby. Unknown to the sisters, Cole is also back in time
making deals with an evil mistress who has captured
Charlotte, a mother-to-be caring an unborn child believed to
have powers that will last for ages. A small coven of good
witches have cast a spell to retrieve the Charmed Ones to
help them save the baby and mother, but he Halliwell sisters soon learn
that they have no powers in the past. Trusting the Colonial Wiccan magic and the help of an
unknown hero who sacrifices his life, they finally save the
mother-to-be and the baby is born. As the Charmed Ones
prepare to leave they learn the baby is their own great great grandmother, Melinda
Warren. They just saved themselves. When they return to
present day the Charmed Ones immediately have to combat
demons that were awaiting their return. When the coast seems
clear, all head to the P3 to celebrate Halloween. Prue bumps
into a present day version of their unknown Colonial savior and Cole, inappropriately
dressed as an angel for Halloween, continues his deceptive
romance with Phoebe.
Directed by Anson Williams
Written by Sheryl J. Anderson
Original Air Date: October 27, 2000
3.05 Episode #49, "Sight Unseen"
After the manor is burglarized, Prue becomes obsessed with learning more about the Triads
plans to destroy her and her sisters. What The Charmed Ones
don't know is that their predator is Cole. Unimpressed with
Cole's ability to get the Charmed Ones, the Triad sends in
an aggressive demon to speed up the attack. This new demon
is invisible and begins terrorizing the Halliwell sisters with random attacks. The attacks
inspire Prue to get tough and she creates a trap for the
demon in the attic. As the tension mounts, suspicion grows
and Phoebe actually wonders if Cole could be bad guy
material. Meanwhile, Cole appears to be trying to save the
Charmed Ones by setting traps for his new rival. Could he be
competing for the Triads approval or is it possible he's
protecting the Charmed Ones? Prue successfully captures the
invisible demon and creates a way to torture him for more
information. Just as he tells them the name of the demon
that the Triad has after them, he's whisked away. Assuming
all is safe, the sisters resume their lives until Prue is
viciously attacked in the darkroom. It turns out Prue's
suspicions were about more than immortal bad guys, some of
the bizarre attacks had been Piper's new bartender. A women who developed a strange
and deadly infatuation with being Prue.
Directed by Perry Lang
Written by William Schmidt
Original Air Date: November 2, 2000
3.06 Episode #50, "Primrose Empath"
When Prue tries to help a man struggling with unbearable
pain, her spell deviously backfires. Turns out the man was
far from innocent, he was a demon who had been cursed to
feel all the pain and suffering emotions in the world. Prue
was tricked, and ended up with the cacophony of human
emotions driving her insane and nearly unconscious. Piper
and Phoebe figure out their sisters predicament with Leo's help and plot to reverse Prue's
condition back onto the demon. Meanwhile, the now free demon
has realized that his curse could be banished forever if it
dies with Prue and begins a search for the Charmed Ones.
When the demon arrives at the Halliwell home, Piper and Phoebe's plan of attack fails, leaving Prue
vulnerably close to death from her suffering. Leo comes to
Prue, now huddled in a ball with her head in her hands, and
coaches her to face the cries of pain and suffering she
hears. Prue rallies her mental prowess and accepting the
suffering of all those in her head, regains her sanity long
enough to face the demon-man in a kickboxing style battle of
the minds that sends all the pain back where it belonged.
Unable to cope with the effect, the demon-man implodes
within his own inability to feel
for others while the Halliwell sisters rejoice at their good fortune.
Directed by Mel Damski
Written by Daniel Cerone
Original Air Date: November 9, 2000
3.07 Episode #51, "Power Outage"
As Phoebe begins to spend intimate time with her new
boyfriend, unknowing sleeping with the enemy, Cole has a new
scheme to destroy the Charmed Ones. He enlists the help of a
hate-demon to destroy the bond between the Halliwell sisters leaving them
powerless. The plan initially works, and as Prue, Piper and
Phoebe have horrible arguments that escalate into full blown
supernatural fights, their powers vanish. Confused, Piper
and Prue are able to rally long enough to solicit Leo's help
to figure out what happened. He enlightens them to the power
of their bond, and they make up, but Phoebe has run off to
Cole's for sympathy. When she arrives at his apartment he
turns into a demon and pulls a sacred dagger out prepared to
take Phoebe's defenseless life
right their while she snuggled in his arms, but, he can't do
it. Worse yet, after sending Phoebe back to her sisters to
make up and regain her powers, Cole is busted by the Triad
for his softhearted failure. He
is whisked to the Triad meeting place and just as he is
about to be destroyed, he uses the dagger he still held in
his hands to attack and kill all three Triad leaders. The Halliwell sisters apologize and
reunite while Phoebe wonders what's up with Cole and why he
seems to have faded away.
Directed by Craig Zisk
Written by Monica Breen and Alison Schapker
Original Air Date: November 16, 2000
3.08 Episode #52, "Sleuthing With the Enemy"
The Charmed Ones learn what we've known all along — Cole is
no saint. Phoebe has a growing suspicion about Cole's true
identity and that secret he's been keeping when she finds
him injured in his apartment. She begs Leo for help and when
he tries to heal Cole he realizes something's amiss. Phoebe
knows the truth but can't bring herself to vanquish the man
she's fallen in love with (we also find out he's
half-human). Good and evil join forces when Prue and Piper
head out to find Balthazar, vanquishing potion in hand,
along with a otherworldly bounty
hunter sent to kill the demon who destroyed the Triad. When
everyone figures out just who this demon is in human form,
they all converge on Cole's apartment... but Cole/Balthazar
grabs Phoebe and "shimmers" away. The bounty hunter finds
them in a mausoleum and tries to kill Phoebe for getting in
the way but Cole saves her life by killing him. Just before
Piper and Prue arrive Phoebe decides to spare Cole by
telling the world she vanquished him.
Directed by Noel Nosseck
Written by Peter Hume
Original Air Date: December 14, 2000
3.09 Episode #53, "Coyote Piper"
Poor Piper. She was a geek in high school and 10 years later
is facing the reunion. Desperate to show how she's changed,
Piper frets over not being able reveal the coolest things
about herself — you know, the whole "I'm a powerful witch
and in love with a Whitelighter"
thing. Guess she'll have to settle for owning P3, site of
the reunion debacle. Just as the nasty homecoming queen is
undermining Piper's confidence once again after all these
years, the insecure witch is possessed by a she-demon with a
very outgoing personality (who knew Piper was into dancing
on bars?). While Prue and Leo try to figure out what the
heck is going on, Phoebe struggles with her decision to save
Cole and lie to her sisters. She goes on a fact-finding
mission into Cole's past, but is called away to help Prue
kick that squatter-demon out of Piper. In order to to vanquish the demon, Prue has
to throw a dagger into Piper's chest, nearly killing her.
The demon transfers into Leo, who then helps save Piper's
life.
Directed by Chris Long
Written by Krista Vernoff
Original Air Date: January 11, 2000
3.10 Episode #54, "We All Scream for Ice Cream"
Prue gets déjà vu when she hears an ice cream truck playing
an eerily familiar tune. She watches as a little girl is
drawn toward the sound. Prue drags Phoebe toward the sound
to see what the little girl's up to and they arrive just in
time to see her pulled in to the mysterious ice cream truck
by an otherworldly force. Prue and Phoebe follow the truck
and find themselves in a whitewashed world of snow,
playground and forest, and they soon discover that the real
evil is "the nothing" which snatches people up and wipes our
their existence. Why was the song familiar to Prue? Phoebe
gets a flash and sees a young Prue being saved from the
whitewashed place by their estranged dad. Being good
witches, they help rescue three kids trapped in the ice
cream truck world… only to discover they've helped to free
mini-demons and endangered the innocent ice cream truck man.
The only one that can help them understand what's going on
is their dad. Phoebe reveals that she's kept in touch with
him and he's in
San Francisco
.
Prue is dead-set against asking his help, but dad does
reveal that the truck's melody is used to lure young demons
to capture. As a young girl, Prue heard the song and was
drawn in but her dad saved her. It was also the reason their
grandmother made him leave. The Halliwells set out to find the ice cream truck and
the freed mini-demons hunt it down to destroy it. Prue and
Dad Halliwell go back to
whitewashed world to find the ice cream truck man and dad
ends up saving Prue from "the nothing" again. They fix the
truck and put the mini-demons back where they belong.
Directed by Allen Kroeker
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Original Air Date: January 18, 2000
3.11 Episode #55, "Blinded By the Whitelighter"
A powerful ancient warlock, Aames,
is killing off good witches and stealing their powers. A "Whitelighter,"
Natalie, warns the Charmed Ones and Leo of Aames. They find out that the
warlock has the ability to clone himself,
deflect the powers of others, and to shape shift. While
Natalie decides to check in with the Elders, the Charmed
Ones decide to go after Aames.
The girls find him and begin to fight, but a "Darklighter"
appears, Aames kills the "Darklighter,"
steals his crossbow and disappears. Back at the Manor,
Natalie, being a strict 'by the book Whitelighter' chastises Leo for his unprofessionalism when handling
the Charmed Ones. Both she and Leo orb out and when they
reach the Whitelighter sanctuary, she informs him that she will determine if his
feelings for Piper are interfering with his work. Phoebe
calls Leo and confesses that she allowed Belthazar/Cole to escape. Leo
storms out of the room, but collapses when he feels a witch
dying. Natalie orbs in and informs Leo and the girls about Aames' grand plan. He's trying
to lure a Whitelighter so that
he can kill them with the crossbow and absorb their power.
With their powers he can can kill all the Whitelighters, leaving all
witches unprotected. Leo feels his emotions are getting in
the way and asks Natalie to protect the Charmed Ones.
Natalie puts the girls through a witch boot camp and devises
a plan, using herself as bait, to draw out Aames. The girls follow the
plan, defeat the warlock and get the crossbow, but feel it
was too easy. As Natalie is holding the bow it starts to
dissolve and Aames appears. He
stabs Natalie and orbs out with her. The Charmed Ones call
Leo and he tells them he has a plan, but it would involve
breaking some rules. Using Natalie's power Aames makes his way to the
sanctuary. The girls are waiting for him and take him by
surprise. They defeat him and as their reward for saving the
sanctuary, the Elders allow Piper and Leo to finally become
engaged.
Directed by David Straiton
Written by Nell Scovell
Original Air Date: January 25, 2000
3.12 Episode #56, "Wrestling With Demons"
The Charmed Ones suspect a demon is offing innocents. Prue
and Darryl follow the next intended victim as protection.
While in an alley a demon hurls a ball of fire at the
victim, but the attack goes awry when Prue steps in. The
demon runs off and Prue realizes that the demon is actually,
Tom, a boy she dated in college. The girls find out Tom is a
recruit of a "Demon-Academy," where recruits loose their
humanity to become demons. Prue decides to visit Tom's
mother, while Piper and Phoebe stay at the Manor to work on
a spell to locate Tom. Phoebe confesses to Piper that she
let Cole/Belthazar go and she's
been working on a "Lost & Found Spell" to find him. Prue
talks to Tom's mother and finds out more about the
"Demon-Recruiter." The girls cast the spell, discover where
Tom is, ambush him and drag him back to the Manor. They find
out he's still human, but he has to kill an innocent to
become a demon, the girls allow him to escape and follow him
to the "Demon-Recruiter." They offer the "Recruiter" a deal,
they will fight for Tom's humanity, and if they win they
leave with Tom, if they lose the "Recruiter" gets Tom and
them. He accepts the offer and Phoebe tells Prue about Cole.
While Phoebe and Prue are in the Wrestling Ring, the
"Recruiter" stabs Piper in the back and leaves with Tom.
Prue and Phoebe kick some demon butt, take Piper to Leo (so
he can heal her), and tell Darryl to take Tom's mother to
the Manor. Everyone meets at the Manor and the "Recruiter"
tells Tom to kill his mother, he can't do it and kills the
"Recruiter" instead. Later Prue and Phoebe talk about Cole,
but Prue still feels betrayed by her sister and neither one
knows how to mend their relationship.
Directed by Sheryl J. Anderson
Written by Joel Feigenbaum
Original Air Date: February 1, 2000
3.13 Episode #57, "Bride And Gloom"
A shapeshifting warlock pretends
to be Piper and borrows Prue's lipstick. The warlock
"Blinks" to an undisclosed location and gives the lipstick
to an evil priestess in order to be used in a spell. With
one kiss Prue will be paralyzed and the priestess will marry her to the warlock.Cole makes contact with Phoebe and she meets
him at the crypt, while Piper is busy planning her wedding
with Leo. Phoebe tells Cole that it's over and she doesn't
care for him anymore, Cole tells her that he loves her and
it's his human side that allows him to love, since demons
can't love.The warlock kisses
Prue, and transports her to the priestess in order to
perform the ceremony. She congratulates the warlock with a paralyzing kiss and reveals her
plan; by turning Prue evil the Charmed Ones will become evil
and this will alter the Book of Shadows so she can steal the
book and all the power in it. Phoebe and Piper discover Prue
is missing, Phoebe begs Cole to
help find her and kisses him. Phoebe and Piper are lured to
the dark side and relish their new powers. Cole materializes
and warns Phoebe that a priestess is on her way to steal the
book. Piper and Phoebe capture her and begin to torture her
to tell them where Prue is. Leo orbs in, startles them, and
allows the priestess to escape. In a fury the girls freeze
Leo and shatter him into a billion pieces. They then blink
to where Prue is. The priestess wakes up Prue and her
husband, the warlock then shifts into another Prue. Now
Piper and Phoebe have to battle two Prue's. They make a
guess and destroy the warlock, thus shattering the spell and
vanquishing the priestess. Back at the Manor, they discover
that the Elders saved Leo and the wedding is still on.
Phoebe goes back to the crypt to thank Cole, but she also
tells him she can't be with him.
Directed by Chris Long
Written by William Schmidt
Original Air Date: February 8, 2000
3.14 Episode #58, "The Good, The Bad And The Cursed"
When Victor, the girls' father, takes Phoebe to a ghost
town, she sees the ghostly figure of an Indian boy, named
Beau. When Beau is punched, by a cowboy, he falls right
through Phoebe and at that moment she becomes psychically
and physically linked to him. Back at the Manor, Phoebe
tells her sisters and Leo about her vision and she finds out
that she is sharing Beau's injuries. Leo and Victor leave,
and the girl's discover that the town is stuck in a time
loop, on an alternate plane of existence, cursed to relive
the same day forever. All of a sudden, Cole/ Belthazar shows up to talk to Phoebe. As Phoebe tries to tell
Cole and her sisters that their relationship is over, she
receives a premonition of Beau being shot in the back. She
falls to the ground with the same gunshot wound in her back.
Leo can't heal Phoebe, because it's Beau who is hurt. So
Cole suggests that he will shimmer to Beau and bring him
back to the manor to be healed. Prue doesn't trust Cole and
forces him to take her along. Prue and Cole travel to a town
straight from the Old West and find Beau. They discover that
a man named Sutter wants to kill Beau for killing one of his
men and to keep the town under his power. Beau realizes that
the only way to break the curse is turn himself in and hope that the townspeople stand up to
Sutter and save his life. Sutter drags Beau into town and
begins to whip him, Phoebe feels every lash. Prue and Cole
try to rally the townsfolk to save him. The townsfolk step
in and save Beau, the curse is broken. Prue and Cole travel
back to the Manor and Phoebe confesses that she still loves
Cole and asks him to stay, despite what Prue and Piper
think.
Directed by Shannen Doherty
Written by Monica Breen and Alison Schapker
Original Air Date: February 15, 2000
3.15 Episode #59, "Just Harried"
While Piper 's praying for a
demon-free wedding day, Prue is haunted by dreams. In her
first dream she meets, T.J., a handsome stranger, at a biker
bar and as she leaves the bar she fights off an attacker.
The next morning, the attacker in Prue's dream ends up dead
and the police have witnesses that describe Prue as the
suspect. Back at the Manor, while Piper gets ready, an
exhausted Prue tells Phoebe about her dreams. She then goes
upstairs to rest and falls asleep. In her second dream, T.J.
tells Prue the cops are after her for murder. The cops show
up, arrest Prue and she wakes up. The wedding begins and
Darryl tells Prue and Phoebe that Prue's wanted for murder, the girls decide to tell
Piper after the wedding. All of a sudden, T.J. bursts
through the door on his Harley, Prue collapses and "Dream
Prue" materializes, she jumps onto the bike and rides away.
Piper calls the wedding off. Phoebe summons "Dream Prue" and
discovers that she is Prue's inner desires that Prue has
suppressed. Phoebe convinces her to go back inside original
Prue, she wakes up and the cops arrest her again. Meanwhile
Cole, Leo and Darryl find the real murderer and the charges
are dropped. Piper changes her mind about the wedding and in
front of Cole, Darryl, Prue, Phoebe, her mother, her father
and grandmother, Piper finally marries Leo.
Directed by Mel Damski
Written by Daniel Cerone
Original Air Date: February 22, 2000
3.16 Episode #60, "Death Takes A Halliwell"
Prue sees a woman, with a strange black shadow following
her, she takes her picture and yells to warn the woman, but
the woman runs away. Meanwhile some demons, Seekers, are
trying to find Belthazar/Cole.
They go to his apartment, bite the landlady and drain her
knowledge of Cole. They discover she knows someone who might
know where he is. While Prue develops the photo and
discovers the shadow has vanished, an Inspector interrogates
Phoebe about Cole. He tells her the landlady is dead and
that Cole killed her. Prue arrives as the Inspector leaves,
and notices that the woman, with the shadow, is leaving with
him. Prue follows the Inspector, while Phoebe goes to warn
Cole. The woman is dropped off at the Inspector's office,
where the Seekers are waiting. Prue follows her and finds
the Seeker's hovering over her body. They disappear and the
mysterious shadow becomes the Angel of Death. Cole and
Phoebe revisit his apartment. Phoebe gets a premonition of
Prue watching the Seekers kill the Inspector. Cole goes to
the crypt and waits for the Inspector, Prue astral projects
herself there. The Inspector arrives at the crypt, followed
by the Seekers and is knocked unconscious in a fight. As the
Seekers attack Cole, the Angel of Death appears and Prue
fights him. Cole sends a blast to the Seekers and they
disappear, the Angel leaves. They take the Inspector back to
the Manor, where he regains consciousness and runs away.
While Cole waits at the Manor, Piper and Phoebe follow the
Inspector and Prue summons the Angel. He arrives and tells
her that he's not good or evil just inevitable. She is
unconvinced and he takes her with him on his next journey.
The Inspector is at the funeral of his friend and the
Seekers approach him. He tells them that he'll go with them,
but not to harm the people here. Prue and Phoebe follow them
into a crypt. The Seekers barricade the door and begin to
feast on the Inspector. The Angel and Prue arrive and the
Angel forces her to accept that she can't do anything to
save him. The Seekers and the Angel disappear and the girls
go back to the Manor where Cole is in full fight with the
Seekers. They cast a spell to destroy the Seekers. Prue goes
to the beach to contemplate her mother's death the Angel
shows up and says her name. She asks how knows here name, he
replies that he looked on his list and saw that he was
supposed to take her life in the Crypt, but Cole saved her.
Prue is shocked, but she accepts that death is inevitable
and the Angel disappears.
Directed by Jon Paré
Written by Krista Vernoff
Original Air Date: March 15, 2001
3.17 Episode #61, "PreWitched"
Newlyweds Piper and Leo are ready to move out of the Manor,
but it could have a big effect not only on the Halliwell sisters relationship but on their supernatural jobs
as well. If the power of three is necessary for fighting all
the evil that has a nasty way of finding them, what happens
when one sister is across town in her newlywed nest? When
Piper makes the announcement "by-the-way style, the decision
reminds them all of what life was like before they knew of
their powers. In a series of flashbacks, the girls remember
back to when Grams was alive — the only thing keeping them
together was their stubborn grandmother
. Prue was getting married, Piper was facing a bank
job she didn't like and a life taking care of Grams, and
Phoebe was out of control -- shoplifting and fighting with
her sisters. Secretly, Grams was poised to prevent the
squabbling girls from getting their powers. As she's about
to perform the spell, she dies. Six months later the Halliwells get the power of
three. As the Charmed Ones are heading down memory lane,
they discover a new demon loose in town. He was a witch's
"familiar" (her black cat actually) and when he assumed
human form and killed her, he became a warlock. Each sister
kills him in separate incidents, and they return home to
find him at their doorstep. After killing him again, they
turn to the Book of Shadows for answers. This leads them to
contact the dead witch for details, and they realize that
since he was a cat, he needs to be killed nine times (the
whole nine lives thing) and if he is, he becomes immortal.
Bad idea! While fighting to preserve their relationship
through the impending move, the girls also figure out a way
to finish off the catty warlock — make him feel the pain of
all his nine deaths and he'll really kick off this time.
Piper and Leo are all packed up when Piper discovers the
potion Grams had conjured up to take back their powers. She
realizes that she can't move out and Leo reluctantly agrees.
Prue and Phoebe have a solution of their own — Piper and Leo
take Prue's larger room and Phoebe moves out of their
bathroom, giving the newlyweds a little more privacy. It's
one big happy family…
Directed by David Straiton
Written by Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin
Original Air Date: March 22, 2001
3.18 Episode #62, "Sin Francisco"
A demon uses his power, the seven deadly sins, to bring "The
Source" seven innocent souls. Prue and Phoebe stumble upon
the demon's henchman taunting an innocent infected with
Greed, they fight him and in the fight he drops a box filled
with white orbs. The henchman escapes and reports back to
the demon, while the possessed innocent runs out into
traffic and is killed. The girls
take the box and look it up in The Book of Shadows. The Book
says the box contains each one of the seven deadly sins and
there is no magical way to overcome the sin once it has
infected someone. All of a sudden the demon appears, grabs
the box, infects everyone with sins and disappears: Phoebe
has Lust, Prue has Pride, Piper has Gluttony and Leo has
Sloth. The Charmed Ones discover another victim, a priest
infected with envy, holding a man hostage at a car
dealership. Prue and Phoebe go to the dealership, while
Piper and Leo try to find a cure for their sins. Prue saves
the hostage, is grazed by a bullet and tells Darryl to hide
the priest, while Phoebe tries to seduce an officer. Prue
drags Phoebe away and Darryl suspends the officer. Back at
the Manor, Prue and Phoebe find that Piper has been shopping
like crazy and Leo's been napping in front of the TV. Leo
goes upstairs to take another nap and the girls go to the
attic to try to figure out what to do. The officer, infected
with Anger, comes to the Manor and fights with Phoebe and
Piper. Phoebe and Piper are knocked unconscious and Prue
knocks out the officer, but before Prue can help her
sisters, the demon appears and takes her away. Piper regains
consciousness and begs Leo to help; Leo overcomes his sin
and helps both girls. They discover that magic can't undo
the sin, but an act of pure unselfishness can. Piper, Leo
and Phoebe go to the demon lair to save Prue. They discover
the box with the orbs, freeze the demon, vanquish him by infecting him with the remaining sins
and save Prue.
Directed by Joel Fiegenbaum
Written by Nell Scovell
Original Air Date: April 22, 2001
3.19 Episode #63, "The Demon Who Came In From The Cold"
Cole is back in Phoebe's life and he's considering giving up
his powers for her. As they're walking down the street a
crazy man starts to yell about the Brotherhood of the Thorn.
A demon materializes and drags the man into an alley. Phoebe
runs after them and is too late to save the man, but kills
the demon. Cole tells her that she just killed his brother.
Cole reveals that he is part of a sacred demon Brotherhood
and that there must be something really big going on. He
decides, despite Phoebe's pleas, to go undercover and find
out. Cole finds out that the Brotherhood plans to take over
a communication company, but the owner of the company is
having second thoughts. The Brotherhood decides to kill the
owner and take over his identity allowing the merger to
happen. Cole and the Charmed Ones come up with a plan to
save the owner meanwhile still convincing the Brotherhood
that Cole is evil. The plan goes off without a hitch, but
the Brotherhood is suspicious and they confront Cole and he
confesses that he's trying to double cross the Charmed Ones
and he'll lead them to the owner. The Brotherhood invades
the Halliwell home and with
Cole's help takes the owner away. The girls create a potion
made out of the old Cole/Belthazar flesh, thinking that because the Brotherhood is biologically
linked, they can defeat them using this potion. They go to
where the merger is taking place and find Cole waiting for them, they confront him and
discover that he's a Cole impostor. They vanquish him and
Cole arrives to tell them that he had to double cross them
in order for the plan to work, he
doesn't realize that the Brotherhood is spying on him. Cole
goes back to the Brotherhood one last time, but he promises
Phoebe he'll make it to her graduation party. While at the
Brotherhood, a superior demons knocks Cole unconscious and never makes it to Phoebe's
party.
Directed by Joel Fiegenbaum
Written by Peter Hume
Teleplay by Peter Hume and Daniel Cerone
Original Air Date: April 26, 2001
3.20 Episode #64 "Exit Strategy"
Cole is still unconscious and being held by the Brotherhood.
Rainer, a head demon and Cole's old mentor, reads his mind
and comes up with a plan to bring out Cole's evil side. Cole
wakes up and Rainer says he thought Cole was an intruder and
apologizes for blasting him, he then orders Cole to steal a
witch's amulet. Cole shimmers away, but he tells Phoebe
about the assignment and that he won't kill the witch, he
urges her to keep working on the potion to get rid of his
demon powers. Piper and Leo are standing in line for his
passport, when Piper develops her new power to explode
things. Cole steals the amulet from the witch and leaves her
unharmed, but Rainer comes back and kills her. Phoebe and
Prue find the witch, but are too late. At the Manor, Piper
is experimenting with her new power, while Phoebe and Prue
talk to Leo and find out that there are two amulets. If they
amulets are combined the wearer becomes invincible, but this
power doesn't work for Demons. Cole returns with the amulet
and Rainer sends him to get the other amulet. Rainer tells
him if he kills the witch, his reward will be his father's
soul. Cole shimmers out and tells Phoebe to help him before
he kills anyone. The girls find the witch with the other
amulet and defeat Cole and his demon friend. They take the
witch back to the Manor and she helps them to finish the
potion for Cole. Cole arrives at the Manor and he's taken to
the attic, downstairs a demon invades the house and the
girls vanquish him. Rainer appears in the attic, barricades
the door and knocks Leo and the witch out. The amulet falls
off her neck and Rainer forces Cole to kill her. Phoebe
tries to push the door open, but it only cracks open and she
watches as Cole kills the witch. Rainer disappears and Prue
blasts the door open. Phoebe tells Cole that he chose to be
evil and she doesn't love him anymore, she takes the potion
and smashes it at his feet. Cole shimmers away. Rainer gives
Cole his father's soul and Cole kills him for destroying
Phoebe's love for him. As he's dying, Rainer says that he's
won and that Cole is back to being the evil Belthazar.
Directed by Joel Fiegenbaum
Written by Peter Hume
Teleplay by Peter Hume and Daniel Cerone
Original Air Date: May 3, 2001
3.21 Episode #65 "Look Who's Barking"
A mysterious murder and a premonition has Phoebe convinced
Cole/Belthazar is on a killing
rampage. So Phoebe performs a spell to conjure up Belthazar, in order to vanquish
him, but the spell doesn't work. Meanwhile Piper is
struggling to handle her new power. Prue discovers that the
murderer is really a Banshee demon who seeks out people
whose souls are in pain and kills them with her screams.
They find a tracking spell, but it has to be performed on
one of the Charmed Ones in order to find the demon. Prue
volunteers and is transformed into a dog, "Prujo." Prujo begins to pick up the
trail of the Banshee, while Piper and Phoebe are in pursuit.
They find the Banshee and fight her, but the demon runs
away. Prujo runs after her, but
is hit by a car and taken to the vet by the driver. Since
they've lost Prujo, Piper and
Phoebe head back to the manor. At the Manor, Phoebe goes to
the attic and begins to cry, because she's still in love
with Cole, but can't forgive him for killing a witch. Leo
tells Piper that the Banshee demon is a witch consumed by
pain until she becomes evil and she can turn other witches
in to Banshees. At that moment, the Banshee demon crashes
through the attic window and attacks Phoebe, Piper destroys
the Banshee, but Phoebe becomes a Banshee and runs away. Leo
says that they have to stop her before she kills or she'll
be a Banshee forever. Piper figures out that the only way to
save Phoebe is to summon Cole/Belthazar and have him confess that he still loves Phoebe thus ending
her pain. Cole confronts Phoebe and a huge battle ensues.
When Cole tells her that he can't kill her and that he still
loves her, Phoebe returns to normal. While Cole explains how
he was forced to kill the witch, Prujo escapes from her captor and she turns back into Prue. Later
at P3 Phoebe tells Piper that she made a mistake about
giving up on Cole and that if anyone can bring him back,
it's her.
Directed by John Behring
Written by Curtis Kheel
Teleplay by Monica Breen, Alison Schapker and Curtis Kheel
Original Air Date: May 10, 2001
3.22 Episode #66 "All Hell Breaks
Loose"
The girls save Dr. Griffis, from a demon named
Shafts. Phoebe goes to the attic for a vanquishing spell,
Shafts bursts through the door and blasts Piper and Prue
through a wall. He tries to kill Dr. Griffis but Phoebe chants her spell making Shafts
disappear, she then summons Leo to heal Prue and Piper. Prue
feels that Shafts is still alive, so she and Piper search
for him. He attacks and Piper uses her power to blow him up,
unbeknownst to them, the scene is caught on tape by a news
reporter. The girls tell Phoebe what happened and convince Griffis to keep their secret.
Phoebe wants to use a potion on Cole to destroy his evil
side and asks her sisters to send her to Cole. She's face to
face with Cole and he grabs her by the throat, she smashes
the potion on his back and he kisses her. At a television
station, the reporter and her boss decide to air the tape
again and get an exclusive interview. At the police station
Darryl is accosted by his boss and sees the broadcast about
the Halliwells, he calls the
girls and tells them that their secret is out. The girls are
still not sure they defeated Shafts and go to the hospital
to save Griffis. As they take
him to safety, Shafts attacks and they finally vanquish him,
but the whole thing is caught on the news again. A mob
surrounds the manor and the girls find out that Griffis is giving a TV
interview. Leo tells them the only way to fix this is to
contact the Demon Tempest and have him turn back time. At
that moment a crazy person, Alice Hicks, barges into the
house and says she wants to join their coven. Prue uses her
power and throws her out. The girls tell Leo to find Phoebe
and ask Cole to find Tempest. Leo doesn't want to go down
below, because he won't be able to hear them if they need
help. Cole tells Phoebe, The Source has arrived and she has
to leave. Leo orbs in and tells them they've been exposed
and they need Tempest's help. Cole says he doesn't have the
power to summon Tempest, but The Source does. Leo suggests
they ask The Source for help since the demon world has also
been exposed. Cole visits The Source and The Source gives
Cole a deal. He'll order Tempest to turn back time, if
Phoebe stays below and crosses to the dark side. Cole argues
that she'll never do it, The Source counters, "Even to save the life of her
sister." Cole tells Leo and Phoebe the news and Phoebe tells
Leo to check on her sisters. Prue and Piper are barricading
the house, when Alice Hicks shoots Piper. Piper is injured
and Prue calls Leo, but he can't hear her, so Prue takes
Piper to the hospital. The crowd surrounds Prue's car and
she uses her power to move everyone out of her way. They get
to the hospital and Piper dies. Leo orbs in and Prue tells
him that he has to fix this. Leo tells Phoebe, Piper is
dead. Phoebe accepts the deal on one condition, Cole must
warn Piper and Prue about Shafts or they're already dead.
After the deal is set, The Source tells his minion to kill
Phoebe and prevent Cole from leaving. Time is reversed, Prue, Piper and Dr. Griffis are at the manor for the
first time. Shafts comes into the house and attacks the
girls, Phoebe is not there to send Shafts away or to call
Leo to heal her sisters. The demon kills Dr. Griffis and leaves Prue and
Piper to die.
Directed by Shannen Doherty
Written by Brad Kern
Original Air Date: May 17, 2001
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