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Charmed
Season 3, Episode 22

Prue and Piper are severely injured and left for dead.
Episode Information
Air date	May 17, 2001
Written by	Brad Kern
Directed by	Shannen Doherty
Production Code	4300066
Credits
Michael Bailey Smith	Shax and The Source
Matt Malloy	Dr. Griffiths
Mercedes Colón	Elana Dominguez
Marianna Elliott	Alice Hicks
Mark Bennington	Cameraman
Joe O'Connor	News Editor
Margaret Easley	News Director
Tommy Redmond Hicks	Captain
Rebekah Louise Smith	Susie Johnson
Lee Spencer	Lawyer
Joe Torrenueva	Reporter #1
John Torbett	Reporter #2
Gary Lane	Bystander #1
Larry Lane	Bystander #2
Episode Guide
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All Hell Breaks Loose is the 22nd episode of the third season and the 66th overall episode of Charmed.

SummaryEdit

For a complete plot of All Hell Breaks Loose, go here.

After saving a doctor from the attack of the Source's Personal Hitman, Shax, the sisters are exposed as witches to the entire world. Phoebe and Cole are in the Underworld and are forced to strike a deal with Tempus to travel back in time to before it was revealed that magic existed. They travel back successfully but the episode ends with Phoebe, Cole and Leo trapped in the Underworld and Prue and Piper lying unconscious on the floor from when Shax blasted them in his initial attack, neither of them moving, one or both of them possibly dead.

CharactersEdit

Characters in bold appear for the first time in the series.

Magical BeingsEdit

EvilEdit

GoodEdit

Innocents lostEdit

MortalsEdit

Susie Johnson went to school with Prue in 10th grade and after the sisters exposed themselves on national television, KLSF 6 interviewed her. She said that she knew for a fact that Prue cast a spell on her boyfriend to make him break-up with her. She called Prue "evil".

Magical NotesEdit

Book of ShadowsEdit

Although the page was never shown, Phoebe does get a spell from it and the page was later seen in the DVD extras

Shax, The Source's AssassinEdit

Demonic hitman called

out for only the top

assignments by

the Source.

Corporealizes out of

wind and air. Method

of attack is a ferocious

blast of wind that can

be lethal to it's victim.

SpellsEdit

Phoebe casts the "Shax Vanquishing Spell" but it just banishes him.
Phoebe rewords the "Magic to Magic" spell to send herself to Cole. It is believed that Piper (and maybe Prue) cast this spell on Phoebe.
Prue and Piper vanquish Shax with the "Shax Vanquishing Spell".

Shax Vanquishing SpellEdit

Evil wind that blows,

That which forms below,

No longer may you dwell,

Death takes you with this spell.

PotionsEdit

Phoebe uses a potion to reverse the spell Raynor cast on Cole

PowersEdit

Shax / Appear/ Himself / Manor
Shax / Aerokinesis (AK) / Prue / Manor
Shax / AK / Piper / Manor
Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor
Leo / Heals / Piper and Prue / Manor
Shax / Appear / Himself / Outside Manor
Shax / AK/ Prue / Outside Manor
Prue / Telekinesis / AK/ Outside Manor
Piper / Blow Up / Shax / Outside Manor
Leo / Orb / Himself / Manor
Shax / Appear / Himself / Outside Hospital
Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor Conservatory
Prue / TK / Alice Hicks & Doors / Manor
Leo / Orbs / Himself / Cole's Lair
The Source / Flames / Himself / Underworld
Prue / TK / Reporter & Camera Man / Outside Manor
Prue / TK / Man with Sign / Outside Manor
Prue / TK / Two Men / Outside Manor
Prue / TK / Two Men / Outside Manor
Prue / TK / Man / Outside Manor
Prue / TK / SWAT #1 / Hospital
Prue / TK / SWAT #2 / Hospital
Leo / Orb / Himself / Hospital
Leo / Orb / Himself / Hospital
Leo / Orb / Himself / Cole's Lair
Shax / Appear / Himself / Manor
Shax / AK / Prue / Manor
Shax / AK/ Piper / Manor
Shax / AK/ Dr. Griffiths / Manor
Shax / Disappear / Himself / Manor

Featured MusicEdit

After opening credits: Depeche Mode, "Dream On"

Behind the ScenesEdit

Notes and TriviaEdit

Prue dies for the third and final time in this episode. The first being in season one (The Power of Two) and the second in season two (Be Careful What You Witch For). She dies once in every season she was in.
Prue died least amount of times, but she is only sister to die permanently.
Continuing the Charmed season finale tradition, the manor's door is closed magically. This time, however, it is done by Shax as he leaves the manor.
This is the last episode of Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell.
This is the third and final episode directed by Shannen Doherty.
Piper's line: "We dodged another bullet" early in the episode is ironic as it's her who gets shot later.
Matt Malloy, who portrays Dr. Griffiths, also starred in an episode of House M.D. The episode was named Love Hurts, which is also a Season 1 Episode of Charmed. It also starred John Cho, who portrayed Mark Chao, in the Season 1 episode Dead Man Dating. Elizabeth Sung, who portrayed Mark's mother in Dead Man Dating also plays his character's mother in House.
When Griffiths appears in the interview on TV, he has noticeably more hair than in the rest of the episode (presumably a toupee).
When Phoebe goes to The Underworld to save Cole, Cole tells her that she's just made a huge mistake. That line possibly foreshadows the death of Prue at the end.
Piper dies for the fourth time in this episode.
This is the last episode to feature the Original Charmed Ones.
Each of the sisters has one power they do use and one they don't use in this episode.
- Prue uses her telekinesis, but doesn't use her astral projection power.
- Piper uses her molecular combustion power, but doesn't use her immobilization power.
- Phoebe gets a premonition, but doesn't use her levitation power.
This is the first episode where The Source of All Evil is seen on the show, and the only time Michael Bailey Smith appears as the Source.
Michael Bailey Smith appears as both Shax and the Source in this episode.
The CW's Supernatural also has a two-part episode titled All Hell Breaks Loose, which was also a season finale like this one.
It's shown in this episode, that Prue would risk losing her powers (by using them on mortals) to save Piper.
Although being mentioned, Tempus does not appear in this episode.
Almost twelve years since the episode, there is still much speculation about why Doherty left Charmed. The most common rumors involve conflict with members of the cast and crew, most notably Alyssa Milano and Brad Kern, though nothing has been confirmed.
Shannen Doherty posted in her Twitter feed that this was her favorite episode of Charmed.
This episode is tied with Charmed and Dangerous as the highest ranked episode of Charmed on TV.com. It currently holds a 9.6 rating
Tempus is finally vanquished in this episode, although by using his own power, which weakened him to death.
During season 3, the Charmed Ones vanquished 22 demons, five trolls, three warlocks, one darklighter, one priestess, one banshee and one life essence. In addition, Cole vanquishes seven demons and one mortal, while three demons and two darklighters vanquish each other - a total of 47 evil beings.
This episode scored 5.3 million viewers.

GlitchesEdit

The sisters are exposed as witches, yet the Cleaners, introduced in season 6, as beings protecting magic from exposure, not only did they not appear, but were not even so much as mentioned here, not by Leo nor by the Elders. There is also no evidence of demonic measures to hide magic (since the demon Shax was also exposed), such as the demon Libris.
There is no blood on Prue's hands when she leaves the house with Piper after she had been shot. Inside the house, Prue held Piper and looked at her hand full of blood.
When time resets, Prue says she felt a chill and the camera shoots to the stairs. Before the camera moves to Piper, a hand can briefly be seen coming down the stairs.

QuotesEdit

Darryl: Whoa, Prue, Prue. Even if you can save your innocent, that still doesn't save yourselves.

Prue: Yeah, I know that, Darryl, but first things first, alright? Try and buy us as much time as possible with your captain as you can. (to Leo) And you, why don't you get back up there and whitelight a fire underneath your bosses' butts.

Piper: Hello Leo, nice of you to orb in...where've you been?!

Dr. Griffiths: What are you?

Shax: The end.

Piper: Ahh, what happened?

Leo: You almost died, that's what happened.

Piper: Yeah, what else is new.

VideosEdit

International TitlesEdit

French: Adieux (Goodbye)
Czech: Rozpoutalo se peklo (All Hell Broke Loose)
Slovak: Pekelné sily (Hell's Powers)
Russian: Ves' Ad sryvaetsya s tsepi (All Hell Breaks Loose)
Serbian: Sav pakao na slobodi (All Hell at Large)
Spanish (Latin America): De regreso en el tiempo (Back in time)
Spanish (Spain): El infierno se desata (Hell Breaks Loose)
Italian: Il Segreto Svelato (The Revealed Secret)
German: Das Ende (The End)

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