On their anniversary of becoming witches
Prue, Piper and Phoebe face a bizarre demon who pulls the Book
of Shadows into another dimension and begins reversing each
spell, causing vanquished demons to return and slowly erasing
the sisters powers. In addition, Prue's guilt over Andy's tragic
death left her weak and reluctant to save their powers.
Eventually the sisters converge on the most powerful night known
to witches, the same night they became witches, and join the
power of three to create the power of one recapturing the Book
of Shadows and banishing the demon away in a puff of smoke.
Continuing their teamwork, Prue and Phoebe refinance the house
to financially support Piper's dream of starting a new night
club.
Soundtrack: Luscious Jackson - Ladyfingers
2.02 "Morality Bites"
Writer: Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Director: John Behring
Air Date: 10/07/99, 12/02/99, 7/27/00
Phoebe has a horrifying premonition of her own execution. The
sisters cast a one-time-only spell to go to the future and
change Phoebe's fate catapulting all three into the bodies of
their future selves. Piper finds she has a lovely daughter and a
failed marriage to Leo. Prue, a leather-clad blonde with lots of
money and power, has little love in her life. Meanwhile, Phoebe
learns she used her witchcraft to kill a man who was a brutal
murderer. Using her witchcraft to punish the guilty has cost
more than her own life, it has also spurred a powerful
politician to turn the incident into a futuristic witch-hunt for
all witches. Despite their efforts Prue and Piper can't save
Phoebe from being burned at the stake, but instantly the sisters
are back in 1999, all safe and sound. Learning their lesson, the
Halliwell sisters vow not to become the future selves they met.
Soundtrack: Stroke 9 - Tail Of The Sun
2.03 "The Painted World"
Writer: Connie Burge
Director: Kevin Inch
Air Date: 10/14/99, 12/16/99, 6/22/00
Prue
discovers someone trapped within a painting at the auction house
and unwittingly repeats the Latin spell hidden under the picture
casting her into another dimension with a man who's been stuck
there for 70 years! Meanwhile, Piper asks their new neighbor for
help renovating her new night club and Phoebe secretly casts a
smart spell to help her compete for a new job. When Piper also
gets stuck in the painting, Phoebe's new smarts enable her to
read the Latin spell to free them all only to be tricked by the
man in the painting. The man is really a warlock. He saves
himself and then torches the painting. Although the smart spell
is over, a cunning Phoebe tricks the warlock and his warlock
lover into the painting with her. Piper freezes the warlocks
within the painting while Prue, Piper, Phoebe and the cat escape
back into the real world.
Soundtrack: Collective Soul - Needs
2.04 "The Devil's Music"
Writer: David Simkins
Director: Richard Compton
Air Date: 10/21/99, 12/30/99, 8/24/00
Piper books special musical guest star Dishwalla at her night
club only to learn that the band's manager (guest star Larry
Holden) has made his own evil arrangement. Prue, Piper and
Phoebe find out the band's manager has made a demonic deal to
trade female groupies in exchange for fame and notoriety.
Meanwhile, Piper struggles emotionally with her feelings when
Leo (Brian Krause) returns to help the Halliwell sisters save
the fans and their young neighbor Jenny who have all fallen prey
to the demon.
Soundtrack: Gordon - Fortified Grapes, Dishwalla -
Counting Blue Cars, Dishwalla - Find Your Way Back Home,
Dishwalla - Stay Awake, Dishwalla - Until I Wake Up
2.05 "She's A Man, Baby, A Man!"
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Director: Martha Mitchell
Air Date: 11/04/99, 1/06/00, 8/17/00
The Halliwell sisters realize that Phoebe's bizarre dreams about
murdering men are connected to a demon femme fatale called a
Succubus who is really killing men and draining their
testosterone to reproduce. Prue unwittingly casts a spell to
catch the demon and turns into a guy! Posing as bait for the
man-killer, Prue goes by the name Manny. Soon the Succubus zeros
in on Prue, who finds her maleness has rendered her powerless to
the demon's feminine charms. Phoebe uses her psychic connection
to the Succubus to help Manny, who's really Prue, reject the
demonic charms and bring back a very relieved and womanly Prue.
Enriched by her experience as a man Prue convinces Piper to ask
Leo out to the Animal Rights benefit concert starring the
Cranberries.
Soundtrack: The Cranberries - Promises, The
Cranberries - Just My Imagination, Filter - Take A
Picture, Orgy - Blue Monday
2.06 "That Old Black Magic"
Writer: Valerie Mayhew and Vivian Mayhew
Director: Jim Conway
Air Date: 11/11/99, 3/09/00
A trio of film students are the victims of a heart-stealing evil
witch (guest star Brigid Brannagh) who escapes from over 200
years of entombment hunting for her magical scepter. Leo returns
to help get the staff into the hands of the only person who can
use the wand for good, The Chosen One, and bumps into Piper with
her new love interest, Dan. Trying to put the awkwardness aside
Leo, Piper and Phoebe find the Chosen One who turns out to be a
reluctant teenager named Kyle while Prue stumbles across the
magical scepter. Ignoring Leo's warnings, the Halliwell sisters
attempt to find and defeat the witch and barely escape with
their lives. Protected only by a fake courage potion concocted
by Prue, Kyle saves the day destroying the evil witch by using
the magical scepter. The victory becomes bittersweet when Leo
faces Piper's choice to end their difficult romance and begin a
new one with Dan.
Soundtrack: Paula Cole Band - Free, Bree Sharp - Show
me
2.07 "They're Everywhere"
Writer: Sheryl J. Anderson
Director: Mel Damski
Air Date: 11/18/99, 3/16/00, 8/31/00
Prue and Piper give in to their fears that the men in their
lives may be Warlocks and cast a mind-reading spell to find out
the truth. Meanwhile, a group of brain-zapping Warlocks called
"Collectors" are after a young man, Eric (guest star Greg
Mehlman), who has translated ancient tablets that contain all
historical events in the past and future. Eric destroys the
actual stone tablets, limiting the knowledge to his own mind and
becoming prey to the "Collectors" who want the power of the
tablets. Using Eric's father as bait, the "Collectors" lure Eric
to them and zap Phoebe when she tries to help out. Prue and
Piper use their ability to read each others minds and trick the
Warlocks into zapping each other right out of existence saving
Eric, his father and a bewildered Phoebe. Luckily, Prue and
Piper find out their recent flames are not Warlocks, although
Jack (guest star Lochlyn Munro) has been playing tricks on Prue
with his twin brother. Piper takes a romantic leap of faith and
heads off for the weekend with Dan.
Soundtrack: Sugar Ray - Every Morning, Sugar Ray -
Falls Apart
2.08 "P3 H20"
Writer: Zach Estrin and Chris Levinson
Director: John Behring
Air Date: 12/09/99, 3/02/00, 8/10/00
Don't go near the water. The Halliwell sisters face the truth
about their mother's death years before when they revisit the
long-closed summer camp and lake where she mysteriously drowned.
Prue, Piper and Phoebe witness two more present-day violent
drownings and meet Sam (guest star Scott Jaeck), a homeless man
who they find out was once their mother's White Lighter. To save
the young campers who are returning to the newly opened camp,
Prue must face her greatest fear and follow in her mother's
fatal footsteps to destroy a watery demon. Meanwhile, Leo and
Piper learn that they aren't the first White Lighter and witch
to fall in love.
Soundtrack: Melissa Etheridge - Angels Would Fall,
Sarah McLachlan - I Love You
2.09 "Ms. Hellfire"
Writer: Constance M. Burge and Sheryl J. Anderson
Director: Craig Zisk
Air Date: 1/13/00, 4/30/00, 8/03/00 (8PM)
When the Charmed Ones barely escape an attempt on their lives by
a mysterious hit woman known only as "Ms. Hellfire," Prue
assumes the assassin's identity in order to find out who hired
her. While Piper and Phoebe race against time to protect the
next potential target on the hit list Prue's undercover work
gets her entangled with a ruthless criminal (guest star Antonio
Sabato, Jr.) who ultimately leads the Halliwell sisters to a
confrontation with their old enemy, Barbas (guest star Billy
Drago).
Soundtrack: Earth To Andy - Still After You, Moby -
Find My Baby
2.10 "Heartbreak City"
Writer: David Simkins
Director: Michael Zinberg
Air Date: 1/20/00, 6/15/00, 9/07/00, 2/8/01
A
dateless Phoebe comes to the aid of Cupid (guest star Michael
Reilly Burke) when a demon of hate named Drazi (guest star
Clayton Rohner) steals Cupid's powerful love ring and sets out
to destroy all his recent love matches. Cupid's future looks
bleak as he watches the couples he's paired go from loving mates
to sparring enemies and the bad vibes are spreading into the
relationships of the Charmed Ones. Prue uses her newly
discovered power of astral projection, to help Piper and Phoebe
kill Drazi, but Drazi returns from the dead to wreak havoc in
the love lives of the Charmed Ones a second time. Phoebe
convinces Piper to freeze the demon of hate, returning Cupid his
love ring, so that the second time they try the demon is
banished forever. All returns to normal in the love lives of the
Charmed Ones and many others. Even Phoebe gets a thank you kiss
from Cupid that leaves her smiling.
Soundtrack: Ginny Owens - I Wanna Be Moved, Melanie C
- Ga Ga
2.11 "Reckless Abandon"
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Director: Craig Zisk
Air Date: 1/27/00, 4/13/00, 12/28/00
Detective Morris puts his job on the line when he allows Phoebe
to take a seemingly abandoned baby home so the Charmed Ones can
protect him from a vengeful ghost Phoebe has seen in a
terrifying vision. When Prue and Piper discover that the ghost
has systematically been killing off the men in the family, they
ask the matriarch (guest star Stephanie Beacham, "Sunset Beach")
to help find the reason for the murders before the baby boy
meets the same fate. Meanwhile, Jack tries to persuade Prue to
accompany him on a business trip and Piper's relationship with
Dan takes an exciting turn.
Soundtrack: Pocket Size - Human Touch, Martina
McBride - I Love You
2.12 "Awakened"
Writer: Valerie Mayhew and Vivian Mayhew
Director: Anson Williams
Air Date: 2/03/2000
When Piper suddenly comes down with a mysterious and
life-threatening illness that appears incurable, Prue and Phoebe
ignore the code which prevents witches from using spells for
personal gain and cure Piper with an "Awakening spell." The
spell has an unfortunate side effect of spreading the dangerous
disease to other patients in the hospital. Determined to save
innocent lives, Piper puts her own life in danger insisting her
sisters help her reverse the spell. Unable to watch Piper die,
Leo risks his own code of ethics saving Piper at the last
minute. Altered by life's recent events, Prue says good-bye to
her job and Jack. Piper learns she spoke Leo's name in the
hospital after he saved her and she has some explaining to do to
Dan which gets even more complicated when Piper learns Leo's
White Lighter wings were clipped for saving her life. Unfettered
by his recent suspension from his job, Leo tells Piper his
mortality will allow him to fight to win her love back.
Soundtrack: Citizen King - Under The Influence, Tori
Amos - Lust, Bush - The Chemicals Between Us, Everything
But The Girl - Five Fathoms
2.13 "Animal Pragmatism"
Writer: Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Director: Don Kurt
Air Date: 2/10/00, 6/08/00
Warner Bros. recording artist Janice Robinson guest stars on
this Valentine's Day episode where Phoebe's new college buddies
use a book of spells to turn a pig, snake and rabbit into 24
hour manly dates. Their romantic intentions turn scary when the
former beasts begin attacking innocent students and plot against
their creators to maintain their two-legged status. Piper's
attempts to escape the night club for a romantic Valentine's Day
dinner with Dan is interrupted when Phoebe's attempt to reverse
the spell turns all the patrons into animals. Prue, who is
trying to adjust to her new unemployed lifestyle, joins her
sisters at the night club and assists them in turning the
patrons back into people. The snake and the rabbit did-in their
own pig buddy when he protested their violent ways and after The
Charmed Ones caught the two the police were ready to take them
away to spend the remainder of their human lives in jail.
Eventually, Piper heads off to her romantic evening with Dan
despite a brief fantasy about Leo, who's constant presence and
new job at the night club are making Dan very uneasy.
Soundtrack: Judith Owen - I Promise You, Janice
Robinson - Nothing I Would Change, Janice Robinson -
Finally Taking Over You, Janice Robinson - The Search
For Love
2.14 "Pardon My Past"
Writer: Michael Gleason
Director: J. Pare
Air Date: 2/17/00, 5/21/00
Phoebe is haunted by her past life as a devious witch back in
the roaring 1920's and casts a spell to visit her past life
finding Piper married to Dan and Prue a successful photographer.
Phoebe is horrified to find out she was seduced by an immortal
Warlock named Anton to destroy Prue and Piper. The eerie attacks
on Phoebe's present life were brought on by a curse that Prue
and Piper cast on Phoebe in her past life destroying her in 1924
and all future lives. Phoebe's only hope is to find an enchanted
necklace that can protect her from the curse, but, when she goes
back in time to retrieve it she is trapped. Anton appears in the
present ready to join the evil Phoebe who now has the enchanted
necklace on to protect her while the present Phoebe is being
strangled to death back in time. Prue and Piper manage to divert
the evil Phoebe's powerful fireball rage onto Anton and as he
burns out of sight they tackle the evil Phoebe tearing the
necklace off her. When the good Phoebe is able to return they
immediately place the necklace back on her saving Phoebe from
their own curse to destroy her. The entire event was confusing
for Phoebe who is heartbroken by her past evil ways and Piper
who learned although she was married to Dan in a past life, Leo
was her lover. Piper apparently had to choose between Dan and
Leo before, and, Leo knew it all along.
Soundtrack: Owsley - The Homecoming Song, Wilco -
Can't Stand It
2.15 "Give Me A Sign"
Writer: Sheryl J. Anderson
Director: Jim Conner
Air Date: 2/24/00, 5/07/00, 8/03/00
The criminal mastermind, Bane Jessup (guest star Antonio Sabato
Jr.), returns rekindling the sparks between him and Prue. When
Bane narrowly escapes an attack by a powerful demon named
Litvack (guest start Steve Railsback) he kidnaps Prue planning
on forcing her to use her powers to save him from certain death.
After Piper and Phoebe discover Prue in a compromising situation
with Bane they are reluctant when Prue tries to convince them to
help her destroy the demon anyway. Meanwhile, the mutual
attraction for Prue and Bane is difficult for Prue to deny and a
spell that Phoebe cast to help Piper decide between Leo and Dan
only adds to her confusion.
Soundtrack: Marie Wilson - Making It Up As I Go
Along, Beth Hart - Just A Little Hole
2.16 "Murphy's Luck"
Writer: David Simkins
Director: John Behring
Air Date: 3/30/00, 7/13/00, 8/16/01
Prue gets her first professional assignment photographing "the
unluckiest woman in San Francisco" (guest star Amy Adams), but
the photo shoot turns into a rescue when Prue realizes the woman
is so tormented by her run of bad luck that she's willing to end
her own life. When Prue learns the woman's string of tragic
events are actually the work of a Darklighter (guest star Arnold
Vosloo) Prue soon becomes his next tormented victim. Piper and
Phoebe rush to save their sister from her own desperate suicide
attempt while Leo intervenes making a selfless sacrifice in
order to put an end to the Darklighter's powers.
Writer: Teleplay by: Javier Grillo Marxuach and Robert
Masello
Director: Kevin Inch
Air Date: 4/06/00, 6/29/00
Prue, Piper and Phoebe are visited by an
old family friend, Aunt Gail (guest star Anne Haney, "Mrs.
Doubtfire"). Aunt Gail asks the Charmed Ones to help stop a
demon named Cryto (guest star Cameron Bancroft, "Beverly Hills,
90210") who steals the skin from corpses. The Halliwell sisters
learn that their Aunt has betrayed them, trading their powers
for eternal youth and beauty. As the Charmed Ones plot to regain
their powers, Piper has doubts about wanting her powers back at
all claiming that being a witch is keeping her from a chance at
true love.
Soundtrack: The Eurythmics - 17 Again, Catatonia -
Valerian
2.18 "Chick Flick"
Writer: Zack Estrin and Chris Levinson
Director: Michael Schultz
Air Date: 4/20/00, 7/06/00
The Halliwell sisters battle a demon of illusions who begins
terrorizing the area by bringing horror film characters to life.
While releasing celluloid villains the demon accidental releases
Phoebe's favorite film hero, Billy (guest star Chris Payne
Gilbert), who remains in black and white. Enjoying his new found
ability to bring psycho killers from the screen to the real
world, the demon sends an ace murderer and knife-wielding corpse
to kill Prue, Piper and Phoebe. With Billy and Leo's help, The
Charmed Ones vanquish the killer characters and join the demon
in an on-screen battle of good vs. evil. Although Piper and
Phoebe almost get trapped when the movie prematurely ends, the
on-screen witches are able to conquer the demon on his own turf
and leap back to the off-screen world while Phoebe says a
heart-tugging good-bye to her two-dimensional boyfriend.
Soundtrack: Nina Gordon - Tonight & The Rest Of My
Life
2.19 "Ex Libris"
Writer: Teleplay by: Brad Kern, Story by: Peter Chomsky
Director: Joel Feigenbaum
Air Date: 4/27/00, 7/20/00, 2/01/01
Piper is interrupted from her excitement of booking Musical
Guest Star The Goo Goo Dolls at the night club by Dan who
informs her that Leo has a wife. While Piper discovers Leo has
secrets, Phoebe is trying to help Charlene (guest star Rebecca
Cross), the ghost of a fellow student who was killed by a demon
known as Libris (guest star Scott Lincoln) who wanted to stop
the publication of Charlene's thesis proving the existence of
evil. Charlene helps vanquish Libris before he can do harm to
his next victim, Phoebe, but Charlene is kept from crossing over
to the other world until she helps Prue capture a murderer.
Prue's friendship with a murdered girl's father turns out to
have a spiritual connection to Charlene and when Charlene helps
send the murderer to jail for his crimes both the murdered
girl's father and Charlene are able to find peace and Piper
faces Leo's previous life as a mortal by visiting the wife he
had in his previous life.
Soundtrack: Goo Goo Dolls - January Friend, Goo Goo
Dolls - Broadway, Faith Hill - That's How Love Moves
2.20 "Astral Monkeys"
Writer: Teleplay by: Constance M. Burge and David Simkins
Director: Craig Zisk
Air Date: 5/04/00, 9/14/00, 11/23/00
A
doctor (guest star Matthew Glave) who treated Piper when she was
dangerously ill has been trying to uncover the reason for her
miraculous and magical recovery. The doctor accidentally
acquires the powers of all three Halliwell sisters during a
blood transfusion and begins using his powers to harvest organs
from innocent victims in a desperate effort to save his own
dying sister. While Prue, Piper and Phoebe are trying to put an
end to the doctors house calls Prue is assigned to photographing
a handsome actor (guest star Jim Davidson) and ends up in the
tabloid newspapers.
Soundtrack: Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep,
Smash Mouth - Then The Morning Comes
2.21 "Apocalypse, Not"
Writer: Teleplay by: Sheryl J. Anderson
Director: Michael Zinberg
Air Date: 5/11/00, 11/23/00
Musical guest star Paula Cole performs at the club as Prue gets
into a battle with a strange supernatural man that sends her
into another dimension. While Piper, Phoebe and Leo try to
discover what's happened they learn that the evil she's trapped
with is one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse who's destiny
is to bring about the end of the world. Much to Leo's dismay,
the three remaining evildoers strike a pact with Piper and
Phoebe to work together to save Prue and the fourth horseman
from their demise in the other dimension. After wrestling with
the reality that saving Prue will bring about the end of the
world, Piper and Phoebe make the ultimate sacrifice and refuse
to help the remaining horseman save their friend...and Prue. The
selfless act actually saves Prue anyway and pulls both Prue and
the Fourth Horseman back to the real world where the Halliwell
sisters face the sacrifice they were about to make to save the
innocents of the world.
Soundtrack: Paula Cole Band - Amen, Paula Cole Band -
Be Somebody, Everything But The Girl - Compression
2.22 "Be Careful What You Witch
For"
Writer: Teleplay by: Brad Kern & Zack Estrin & Chris Levinson
Director: Shannen Doherty
Air Date: 5/18/00, 11/30/00
A fast-talking genie (guest star French Stewart, "3rd Rock from
the Sun") grants each Halliwell sister a wish in exchange with
an infernal evil counsel to set him free. Prue's wish for the
thrill of first love turns her into a rebellious and powerless
17-year-old, Phoebe's wish for an active power propels her to
flight and Piper's wish that Dan get over her turns him into a
dying old man. The adventure soon turns into a death wish when
Prue is attacked and killed by a dragon demon who is in cahoots
with the genie. Even Leo's healing powers couldn't bring Prue
back to life, but, the genie offers to go back in the bottle to
save Prue and return all to normal. When this still doesn't
bring their sister back Piper rubs the bottle releasing the
genie again and wishes Prue back to life so that The Power of
Three can vanquish away the dragon demon in a burst of flames.
Meanwhile, Dan's heartbreak is compounded by the new knowledge
that Piper is a witch. The Charmed Ones use there remaining
wishes to free the genie but make him mortal and give Dan peace
of mind by erasing his horrorifying experience and newfound
knowledge of evil away.
Soundtrack: Filter - I'm Not The Only One, Beth Hart
- Delicious Surprise, Modern English - Melt With You
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