It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 2

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It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World Part 2 is the 134th episode of Charmed.

Evil Phoebe and Paige

[edit] Episode Information

Season 6

Episode No. 23

Original Airdate May 16, 2004

Production Code: 4301134
Writer: Curtis Kheel
Director: James L. Conway

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Phoebe has been shot for parking in Mrs. Noble's driveway, but Leo heals her in time. Leo explains that Gideon messed up the cosmic balance when Phoebe and Paige went to the evil world and their evil opposites didn't come through. As a result, their world is now too good; every little infraction is a capital offense. Phoebe and Paige go to the hospital to join Piper. Leo goes after Gideon. Chris stays behind to watch Wyatt.

Gideon goes to Barbas and claims that Wyatt is a threat to both of them. Gideon says that a great evil must corrupt the good world to restore the balance. He offers to do this if Barbas will keep the Charmed Ones distracted.

One of Leo's fellow Elders finds Leo trying to sense Gideon. The Elder tells Leo that while many of them shared Gideon's concerns about Wyatt being too powerful, Gideon should have never acted alone. He warns Leo that he risks doing further damage if he goes after Gideon alone. However, Leo is determined to hunt down Gideon himself.

Phoebe and Paige enter the hospital and find lots of patients with severed limbs. This turns out to be for various minor offenses. They also notice that the sun never sets in this world. Piper has been affected by the cosmic shift and seems quite cheerful in spite of being in labor. As they leave, one of the hospital employees proves to be Barbas. Gideon orbs in and suggests playing to Piper's fear of losing her sisters.

Chris scries for Gideon, but can't get a fix on him. He suggests that Leo bust himself back down to Whitelighter again once he goes back to his world--but he isn't leaving until after he figures out why Wyatt turned evil. Leo realizes that Gideon's concerns about Wyatt were actually a self-fulfilling prophecy. He suspects that in Chris' future, Gideon took Wyatt away for several months and tried to kill him. He also thinks that the shock of having to constantly defend himself at such a young age was what turned Wyatt evil.

At Magic School, Phoebe and Paige try to contact their evil counterparts. They report that their world is entirely too evil, just like the normal world is too good. Every good deed is a capital offense, and it's always night. They think that if they can snap their Pipers back to themselves and get their evil twins in the good world, they might be able to shift the balance back.

Barbas gives Piper a vision of Paige and Phoebe being vanquished by the Elders for speaking ill of Gideon. She casts a spell, and now Phoebe and Paige are as excessively cheerful as everyone else. Instead of going after Gideon, they are going to attend the birth of baby Chris.

Leo suspects that Gideon somehow made Piper cast the spell, so he goes to the hospital to ask her if she'd seen him. In the empty hall Barbas gives him a vision of Wyatt morphing from a small baby to a full-grown man -- the evil Wyatt that Chris was trying to stop. Wyatt orbs Excalibur into his hands and stabs Leo with it.

In the attic, Chris hears the footsteps of an unseen figure. He moves to flee with Wyatt but the figure flings him back. Gideon appears with a knife. As he approaches Wyatt, Chris dives after him. Gideon stabs Chris and orbs away with Wyatt. Leo is unable to heal Chris in time. Gideon orbs Wyatt to Barbas's lair. Barbas tries to stab Wyatt but he orbs away.

Leo tells Paige and Phoebe that Chris is dying; the news breaks Piper's spell. Paige orbs to the manor but is greeted by a SWAT team, Darryl and Inspector Sheridan. They demand that she turn in Chris.

Good Leo meets evil Leo at Gideon's mirror. They realize that Gideon is hiding in the underworld, and that Barbas is working with him. Wyatt is orbing all over the underworld and vanquishing demons with little more than a glance.

A teary-eyed Paige calls for Leo. When he gets there the SWAT team and Inspectors Sheridan and Morris come out of the room that Chris is in. When Leo asks what they're doing there Sheridan simply responds, "Nothing, we didn't have to." Leo looks at her confusedly. Darryl adds, "I'm sorry Leo." Leo runs into the room to see that Chris is very weak. He asks him to hold on and not to give up. Chris responds with a weak, "You either." Then his head falls back on the pillow and he dies. His body fades away. Leo trashes the attic in anger, but Paige calms him down. He realizes that Gideon is using Barbas to commit an act of great evil. Paige suggests that Leo intercept Gideon's call for Barbas.

Gideon lures Wyatt by using Leo's voice and catches him in a crystal cage. Barbas walks in to witness Wyatt's death. Just as Gideon raises his athame, "Barbas" grabs it, stabs Gideon and morphs into Leo. Gideon protests that he was only acting out of concern for the greater good. Leo retorts that killing a child is never in the interest of the greater good--and that Gideon was actually the reason for Wyatt turning evil. He calls the mirror, where evil Leo and Gideon are waiting. Leo starts blasting Gideon with electricity.

In the hospital, a surgeon cheerfully informs Phoebe and Paige that Piper is hemorrhaging. When Phoebe demands that he go back into the operating room, the surgeon calls for security. As the guards approach, the world starts to change. The happy, sunny scene gives way to nighttime; everything is back to normal. The confused surgeon promises to do what he can.

Gideon is electrocuted. The two Leos smash Gideon's mirror so their worlds can never cross again. Leo takes Wyatt and heads for the hospital. At the hospital, Phoebe, Paige, Leo and Wyatt see a healthy baby Chris, and are relieved to find out that Piper made it.

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Gideon, the Elder: One of the most powerful Elders with mutilple powers including invisibility, telekenisis, molecular combustion, thought projection, etc, Gideon was entrusted with the creation of Magic School and was awarded the position as headmaster for the institution where young magical beings can learn about magic. While he originally pushed for the Elders to allow Piper and Leo to get married, once Wyatt was born, Gideon's attitude toward the couple changed drastically. He feared that all of the power that Wyatt possessed would cause him to turn evil and become an unstoppable threat. Gaining the sisters' confidence, Gideon used his position as a friend of the family to get close to Wyatt. But first, he hired a team of Darklighters to get Leo out of the way. He conspired with his evil counterpart in a parallel dimension to distract both the good and evil Charmed Ones so that he might kill Wyatt. The sisters realized his plan in time and stopped him, but only temporarily. Conspiring with Barbas, who used his powers to distract the sisters and Leo, Gideon managed to kidnap Wyatt, killing Chris in the process. Angered by his son's death, Leo tracked down Gideon in the Underworld and killed him. Unlike other Whitelighters and Elders, when Gideon orbs his orbs are purple.
Barbas: See Barbas

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[edit] To Create Happiness

Call now the powers,

blessed be,

to make my sisters happy!

[edit] Trivia

The episode title is a play on words referring to the title of the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Future evil Wyatt calls for Excalibur, first seen in the episode "Sword and the City", which might mean (since Chris changed his path) that he has full knowledge and use of it in the future.
When future evil Wyatt called for Excalibur, it appears in a swirl of white orbs, which should have been black orbs if he's evil.
Another title used by The WB for this episode was Nice Girls, Naughty Girls in Australia.
Adult Chris dies in this episode, but Piper gives birth to baby Chris in the final scene. We also find out that Chris was named after Leo's father, Christopher Wyatt.
This is the first and only time that the doors to the Halliwell Manor are not closed at episode-end for a season finale, instead, the doors to the recovery room in the hospital are closed. Chris however does magically close the Manor doors earlier in the episode when he throws Darryl out.
The hospital elevator is the same one used in Cole's apartment building, as well as the one used in Miles's building, whom Phoebe also dated.
This is the second (and last) season to have twenty-three episodes instead of twenty-two, the first season being season five.
Wyatt uses Molecular Combustion in this episode to vanquish two demons in the underworld. Some are led to think this is Pyrokinesis, but that involves moving fire with his mind (similar to the telekinesis power possessed by Prue Halliwell) but he didn't do this.
This is the first and only time a Power of Four spell has been used.
Is the second and last episode of the series to hold a UK ratings certificate of "15" for violence, the strongest rating the series received.
Leo uses telekinetic orbing in this episode to call for the mirror as elders can. Also most half-whitelighter half-witch beings like Paige, Chris, and Wyatt should be able to do this.

[edit] International titles

French: Pour l'amour d'un fils(For the love of a son)
German: Gute und Böse Welt (Good and Bad World)
Spanish: Es un mundo malo, malo, malo

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