Love Hurts

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Piper, Phoebe and Prue find Leo wounded on the floor.

Love Hurts is the 21st episode of Charmed.

[edit] Episode Information

Season 1

Episode No. 21

Written By Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin and Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Directed By James Whitmore

Production No. 4398020

Original Airdate May 19, 1999

Power Switching Spell: 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] 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. Piper calls from the attic; she has found Leo with an arrow in his shoulder. Prue frantically gathers supplies from the bathroom. Leo warns Phoebe and Piper that the arrow is poison-tipped. Prue returns to the attic and uses her power to remove the arrow. Leo tells the sisters about Alec and Daisy: they had been in love, a thing quite unusual for Darklighters, until she found out what he was. Alec has the power of death in his hands.

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 orbs away.

Piper has found a power-switching spell in the Book of Shadows. With Prue, Phoebe all present, Piper casts the spell -- and it works too well. Kit walks in and Piper tries to freeze her, but can't. Prue 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 reminds Phoebe of her high school nickname of "Freebie" and 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 and Phoebe draws it to her. She shoots, but Alec 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. 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 admits that she loves him and her hands begin to glow. Leo revives. She had to find that love was what triggered the healing power and she had to find this out for herself. They come down stairs and prepare to call Prue when Alec orbs in. He threatens Piper's life, but Prue comes in behind him. Alec tosses Piper aside, grabs Daisy and orbs out.

Leo feels too weak to use his powers, so the four leave their powers switched. Leo coaches Piper on how to find 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. 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 the powers back just before he dies.

The sisters and Leo switch their powers back. Leo has told Piper that Daisy is a future Whitelighter. 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 -- and then turns demonic and kills Anderson.

[edit] Guest Stars

Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
Michael Trucco as Alec
Carlos Gomez as Insp. Rodriguez
Lisa Robin Kelly as Daisy

[edit] Co-Stars

Don Brunner as Insp. Anderson
Tom Yi as Motel Manager

[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.
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.
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 do it.
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.

[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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