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Episode #45 (Season Premiere): "The Honeymoon's Over"
Original Airdate: 10/05/00 Alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies ("Pinch Me") perform in a season opener that finds Prue feeling a little jumpy now that they know the Evil Triad was behind most the attacks of the past two years. 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! Episode #46: "Magic Hour" Original Airdate: 10/12/00 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. Episode #47: "Once Upon a Time" Original Airdate: 10/19/00 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. Episode #48: "All Halliwell's Eve" Original Airdate: 10/26/00 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 Episode #49: "Sight Unseen " Original Airdate: 11/02/00 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 vacuously 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. Episode #50: "Primrose Path" Original Airdate: 11/09/00 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. Episode #51: "Power Outage " Original Airdate: 11/16/00 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. Episode #52: "Sleuthing With The Enemy " Original Airdate: 12/14/00 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. Episode #53: "Coyote Piper" Original Airdate: 1/11/01 Piper 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. Episode #54: "We All Scream For Ice Cream" Original Airdate: 1/18/01 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. Episode #55: "Blinded By The Whitelighter" Original Airdate: 1/25/01 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. Episode #56: "Wrestling With Demons"Original Airdate: 2/1/01 When Prue discovers that one of her ex-boyfriends (guest star Marco Sanchez) is being led down the path to becoming a demon, she, Piper and Phoebe risk their lives in an underworld wrestling ring to save his soul. 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. Episode #57: "Bride And Gloom" Original Airdate: 2/8/01 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. Episode #58: "The Good, The Bad And The Cursed" Original Airdate: 2/15/01 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. Episode #59: "Just Harried" Original Airdate: 2/22/01 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. Episode #60: "Death Takes A Halliwell" Original Airdate: 3/15/01 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. Episode #61: "Pre-Witched" Original Airdate: 3/22/01 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… . Episode #62: "Sin Francisco" Original Airdate: 4/19/01 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. Episode #63: "The Demon Who Came In From The Cold" Original Airdate: 4/26/01 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. Episode #64: "Exit Strategy" Original Airdate: 5/3/01 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. Episode #65: "Look Who's Barking" Original Airdate: 5/10/01 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. Episode #66: "All Hell Breaks Loose" Original Airdate: 5/17/01 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. 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 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.  |