Centennial Charmed
From Charmed
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- Season 5
- Episode No. 12
- Original Airdate January 19, 2003
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Paige tries to vanquish Cole by turning invisible and blowing him up from inside. She blows him up, but he reassembles and blows her out a window. She orbs away and lands in the harbor. Now she's orbing every time she sneezes.
Paige feels crowded, having been an only child for 25 years, and wants to find her own place to live.
An Avatar has come to Cole, who has agreed to join them. After he becomes Avatar, he tells the other Avatar what he really wants. He alters the past so that Paige never met her sisters. Paige, however, sneezes and orbs at that moment and avoids the effects. She returns to find P3 shuttered. Her powers don't work. She calls for Leo, who arrives but doesn't recognize her; but he realizes that Paige is his charge because he heard her call.
Leo orbs Paige to the junkyard where Piper is hunting demons. Piper is obsessed with revenge on Shax, who killed Prue. She and Leo are divorced. Paige recognized the demon that Piper was interrogating as a Lazarus Demon, and when he resurrects, Piper blasts him.
The other Avatar begs Cole to undo the spell. He informs Cole that he is not an Avatar here -- he has gone back to being Belthazor. Cole tells the Avatar that it was as Belthazor that he and Phoebe were at their best.
Cole lives at the manor with Phoebe, as King and Queen of the Underworld. A crowd of demons have thrown him a surprise birthday party. One makes a remark about Cole's age and The Seer vanquishes him. Phoebe comes downstairs in a slinky red dress and Cole compliments her -- raising Phoebe's suspicions. Up to now, Phoebe is not happy with Cole.
Paige attempts to contact Phoebe and tell her of the changed reality. Phoebe calls for her bodyguard -- Darryl. Paige escapes and Leo orbs her away. Leo takes her to the cemetery and shows her a particular headstone, reading "Paige Matthews." Leo had learned from the Elders that the Source had Paige killed. Piper joins them after burying the Lazarus demon.
Cole remembers his experience in the original reality, much of it different from the altered reality. The Seer is puzzled by his behavior, especially when he sees Phoebe going upstairs with another demon. The Seer stops him, telling him he and Phoebe both have their affairs, and showing him one of his, a blond demon-girl named Darla.
At the ruins of P3, Paige tells Piper and Leo of how her timeline goes. Realizing that Cole is Belthazor and not invincible in this reality. They agree to try to vanquish him.
At the manor, Cole comes upstairs and finds Phoebe in bed with the demon. He vanquishes the demon and argues with Phoebe. She tells him that she's only still with him to protect Piper. Phoebe leaves the room. Cole follows and runs into Piper, who blasts him. Leo and Paige orb in and Paige cuts a piece of Cole's flesh for the vanquishing potion. Cole tries to hurl an energy ball but Phoebe stops him. Leo orbs Paige and Piper away. Phoebe realizes that Paige was telling the truth.
Piper, Paige and Leo slip into the manor and Phoebe warns them to leave. Cole shows up and blasts Piper, Paige and Leo. He draws the potion bottle towards him. Phoebe, at Paige's urging, grabs an unconscious Piper's hand as Paige takes her other hand. The Power of Three is restored, and so are Paige's powers. Paige orbs the potion to her hand. Phoebe takes the bottle and throws it at Cole.
The rightful timeline is restored. Paige, however, is still orbing when she sneezes.
The sisters go to Cole's apartment and find it abandoned. Cole is gone for good.
[edit] Trivia
- Cole is vanquished on his 118th birthday.
- Phoebe smokes in this episode.
- Cole reappears as a guest star in The Seven Year Witch, the only time he appears after his final vanquish, other than in a flashback in Generation Hex.
- In this episode we see the Lazarus demon, which we saw him before in Marry-Go-Round.
- Shax was never vanquished in this alter reality and successfully killed Paige.
- This episode is Julian McMahon's final episode appearing as a Series Regular. Although he would again Guest Star in the 150th Episode, The Seven Year Witch.
- Debbie Morgan resumes her role as The Seer, despite being vanquished at the end of the fourth season in Womb Raider, this is her final appearance in the series.
- This is the first time we meet Darryl's wife Shiela.
- Michelle Branch is the Special Musical Guest and performs "Goodbye To You" at P3.
- The actress who plays Eve is different to the actress who originally played her in the earlier episode, The Eyes Have It.
- When Paige meets Leo in P3, Leo says that "All hell is breaking loose out there!". This is a reference to the last episode of Season 3, All Hell Breaks Loose, the episode when Prue died.
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