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Love Hurtsedit

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Charmed
Season 1, Episode 21
Episode Information
Air date May 19, 1999
Written by Chris Levinson
Zach Estrin
Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by James Whitmore
Production Code 4298020
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Love Hurts is the 21st episode of Charmed.

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[edit] Summary

Piper finally learns the supernatural truth about her lost love Leo, when he returns to San Francisco to ask the Halliwell sisters to protect an innocent woman who is being stalked by a demonic suitor. Piper evokes a spell to switch powers with Leo, when he is gravely injured by a poison arrow of a darklighter, in order to use his gift of healing to save his life, but the spell also switches Prue and Phoebe’s powers. With the mixed up powers the Charmed Ones are weak against their enemies, but the power of three prevails. Piper must say goodbye to Leo because he is a whitelighter.

[edit] Plot

Daisy is startled entering her car, drops a bag and cuts her hand on broken glass. Leo heals her hand. Alec, a Darklighter, appears. He is after Daisy and Leo has cloaked her. Daisy flees. Alec conjures a crossbow and shoots Leo. Leo orbs to the manor.

Prue and Phoebe are planning a vacation in Cabo San Lucas. Piper calls from the attic; she has found Leo with an arrow in his shoulder. Leo admits that he really is a Whitelighter. Leo warns Phoebe and Piper that the arrow is poison-tipped. Prue returns to the attic with several bandages, and uses her power to remove the arrow. Leo tells the sisters about Alec and Daisy. Alec was originally after Daisy to seduce her and produce Darklighter spawn. However, the two fell in love, a thing quite unusual for Darklighters, until she found out what he was. Alec, like most Darklighters, has the touch of death.

Andy and Darryl are together at their desk when Prue calls Andy. Andy can't talk now, as Darryl knows he's hiding something, so Prue offers to meet at Quake. Andy tells Prue to be careful, as Internal Affairs is after them. Prue tells Andy about Daisy; he offers to review security cameras to find Daisy.

Leo is bandaged up, but the arrow's poison is slowly killing him, and he can't use his healing power on himself. With his powers fading, he is losing his ability to cloak Daisy.

Alec orbs into Daisy's hotel room and won't leave her alone. The motel manager knocks, and then unlocks the door. Alec kills the manager as Daisy flees through the fire escape. Andy and Prue arrive, and Prue flings Alec across the room. Alec black-orbs away.

Piper has found a power-switching spell in the Book of Shadows, and thinks she can use it to switch her powers with Leo so she can heal him. With Prue and Phoebe all present, Piper casts the spell. Kit walks in and Piper tries to freeze her, but can't. Suddenly, Prue touches Phoebe has a premonition of Kit apparently knocking over a lamp. Kit walks up to the lamp and Phoebe tries to shoo her away, and in the process flings the lamp. Piper must have Leo's healing power, but she doesn't know how to use it.

Andy calls and says that Daisy has bought a bus ticket.

Inspector Rodriguez grills Andy about the scene in the hotel. Rather than answer, Andy turns in his badge and his gun.

Daisy reaches the bus station and finds Alec everywhere she turns. Prue and Phoebe walk in. Prue knows that her telekinesis was originally triggered by anger, so she's trying to goad Phoebe into getting angry. Finally, she remembers that during high school, Phoebe was known as "Freebie."   Phoebe knocks some magazines off a rack. Prue has a vision of Daisy cowering in the ladies' room. Prue and Phoebe confront Alec in the ladies' room. Alec conjures his crossbow. Phoebe tries to fling it out of his hand, but only causes all of the taps to come on and all of the soap to squirt out of the dispensers. Prue admits that she hit Grams' car several years ago--an accident for which Phoebe took the heat. Phoebe flings Alec into a stall. Alec drops the crossbow. Prue picks it up, takes aim and shoots, but Alec black-orbs away. The two sisters bring Daisy to the manor.

Andy has sent flowers to Prue and the card says he needs to see her. Prue leaves to meet with Andy while Daisy and Phoebe go to the attic. They find Leo dead and Piper crying. Daisy tries to leave, but Piper convinces her to stay.

Andy tells Prue that he has turned in his badge and is suspended for two weeks. He warns her to be careful, and that it's best that they not be seen together, lest Rodriguez find out about the Charmed Ones.

Piper, upset, cries over Leo's body. She has tried to heal him several times, but can't figure out his trigger. She collapses on his body and tells him that she loves him.  Suddenly, her hands start to glow, and Leo revives.  He tells her that love triggers his healing power, but she had to find that out for herself. They come down stairs and prepare to call Prue when Alec black-orbs in. He grabs Piper and offers to spare her life if the sisters let him have Daisy. Prue comes in behind him. Alec tosses Piper aside, grabs Daisy and black-orbs out.

Leo feels too weak to use his powers, so the four leave their powers switched. Leo coaches Piper on how to sense a charge. Piper finds Daisy and Phoebe and Prue go after her while Piper stays with Leo. They find Daisy and Alec in a cemetery, where Alec is about to sacrifice Daisy. Prue casts the power-switching spell, acquiring Alec's death touch. Phoebe draws Alec toward Prue. Prue uses the death touch on Alec and switches their powers back just before he dies.  Prue later says that she never had to feel so much hate before--and doesn't want to ever feel it again.

The sisters and Leo switch their powers back. Leo himself was once human, an Army medic in World War II. He died in the war and was made a Whitelighter. He would give it all up for life with Piper, but she thinks that would be too much a loss for him.

Andy and Darryl meet at a noisy construction site. Inspectors Rodriguez and Anderson are watching and using a long-range microphone, but the noise makes the microphone useless. Rodriguez, however, hears Andy mention Prue.  Anderson wonders how that's possible. Suddenly, Rodriguez' eyes turn fiery red and he sonic screams.  The sound penetrates Anderson's earphones, and he falls dead on the steering column.

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[edit] Co-Stars

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] To Exchange Powers

What's mine is yours,
What's yours is mine,
Let our powers cross the line.
I offer up this gift to share,
Switch our powers through the air.

[edit] Notes

  • Phoebe uses her hands and eyes when she has Prue’s power.
  • Leo heals and makes Daisy invisible to Alec, and mentions that Darklighters have a Death Touch.
  • Leo doesn’t use Piper’s power.
  • Prue mentions Piper’s men in the Series so far: a Warlock (Jeremy), a Ghost (Mark), a geographically undesirable handyman (Leo) and a very dorky grad student (Josh).
  • Despite it being made clear in future episodes that Leo cannot heal the dead, Piper was able to revive and heal Leo who was dead. However it is never been claimed that Leo was really dead. Like Paige once mentioned, your brain has to be dead before you are totally dead. This makes it possible for Leo to be healed.
  • In this episode Leo states that darklighter arrows are poisonous and eventually deadly to whitelighter, which is why Prue had to use her telekinetic power to remove it. However in future episodes, the arrows are no longer poisonous and deadly to witches, only whitelighters. However, Leo never said it was fatal to witches, just that it was poisonous.
  • Leo tells Piper that he was born in San Francisco, was involved in WWII, and that he was bandaging a mate’s head when he felt a deep pain. When he woke up, he was surounded by a group of elder whitelighters (The Elders) and they made him a Whitelighter.
  • Leo offers to clip his wings for Piper, but she doesn’t let him.
  • Prue reminds Phoebe of her nickname in high school “Freebie” to make her angry and trigger Prue’s power. The nickname will be mentioned again in Hyde School Reunion.
  • At the end of this episode we know that Inspector Rodriguez is a demon who kills Inspector Anderson.
  • In this episode Piper learns to heal and sense with Leo’s power, but in Season 5 Siren Song, she says that she doesn’t know how to sense although she is able to easily heal Phoebe after a little encouragement from Leo.
  • In this episode Piper only displays healing and sensing, but when she switches powers with Leo again in season 5, she displays orbing (which she masters after one time orbing with Paige), healing (which she seems to have no trouble using) and sensing which takes Leo's help and meditation to use.
  • Inspector Rodriguez mentions that Prue is 5’3” and a brunette.
  • With their powers mixed up, Piper gains Whitelighter abilities, Leo can freeze time, Phoebe is telekinetic and Prue has premonitions. For a short time, Prue gains Alec's power: the Touch of Death.
  • When Piper and Leo's powers later get mixed up again she ends up with orbing (which she has no trouble controling), sensing (which she can't control) and healing (which she has no trouble controling) while Leo ends up with both molecular immobilization and molecular combustion. Unlike in this episode, that time they take on each other's roles with Leo even ultimatly vanquishing the demon with molecular combustion.
  • This episode scored 5.7 million viewers.

[edit] Quotes

Leo: (to Daisy) Don't worry, Daisy. He can't see you. Don't say a word, just leave quickly.
Alec: Don't listen to him sweetie, don't do it. (She runs off.)
Leo: She's already gone.
Alec: I love her, Leo. Much like you love your little witch. What's her name? Piper?
Leo: Dark lighters aren't capable of love, Alec.
Alec: This one is. I love Daisy and you are keeping me from her. It's only a couple of days ago all I had to do was think about her and bang! I'd be there with her. Then suddenly she vanishes from my radar. Cloaked by a white lighter. By you.
Leo: Then if you know I cloaked her, then you also know that you won't find her as long as I live.
Alec: Yes, well, I have a solution for that. (He gets out his crossbow and shoots Leo.)
:Phoebe: We have to get the arrow out.
Leo: No, don't touch it, it's tipped with poison.
Phoebe: How are we suppose to get it out if we can't touch it? (Prue enters the attic.)
Prue: You came to the right girl. You ready? (Prue uses her powers to push the arrow out.) Okay, I brought everything that I could find, I just didn't know what to use on a ... what is he again?
Piper: A White Lighter.
Phoebe: Yeah, they're sorta like, you know how Peter Pan has Tinkerbell? They're sorta like that minus the tutu and the wings. He guides witches.
:Phoebe: Leo, I brought you some food in case you're ... you do eat right?
Leo: Yes, Phoebe, I eat. How's Piper?
Phoebe: Oh, you know, she's dealing. I mean, it's not everyday that you find out that the guy you're seeing isn't human. Although, in Piper's case.
:Prue: This is a good sign. The spell must have worked. That means Phoebe and... (She touches Phoebe and has a premonition.) Oh, I think I just had one of Phoebe's premonition thingies.
Phoebe: Really? What did you see?
Prue: (She points to a lamp.) That shattering. (Kit jumps on the table where the lamp is.)
Phoebe: Kit, no! (Phoebe puts her hand up and she makes the lamp fly against the wall and smash.) Did I just do that?
Prue: Uh huh, and I saw it. So, okay, you're moving things, I'm having premonitions and Piper can't freeze which means...
Piper: Am I gonna get yelled at?
Prue: It switched all of our powers?
Phoebe: It's a supernatural freaky Friday.

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