Malcolm

From Charmed

Malcolm was a powerful warlock with the powers of X-ray vision and exclusive warlock power of Blinking. He fought a witch named Nell in the 1920s (strongly believed to be around 1929), and ended up getting trapped inside a painting for an eternity so he could not harm anyone else, which turned out to be 70 years. Malcolm tried countless times to attract the attention of anyone who could help him escape. Before he was trapped inside he had a lover named Jane. Jane took the painting to Buckland's Auction House posing as a distraught young woman who had inherited the painting. It is unclear how Jane knew that Prue Halliwell was a witch. Regardless Prue x-rayed the piece and noticed a Latin inscription behind the painting (known as a a pentimento, or a definitive underwriting) so she read it out hoping it would free him, but she was sucked into the painting.

When Prue entered the painting, Malcolm posed as an art historian who had fallen victim to a bitter break-up with a witch and had been trapped. He had written the words HELP on the window of the castle in the painting to attract Prue's attention. After Piper made the same mistake and ended up in the painting, Malcolm helped them dodge lethal spikes and fireballs to write NELL on the window for Phoebe to research. When she did, Phoebe found the spell to escape, wrote it on Kit's collar and threw her in for her sisters to use. Unfortunately, Malcolm got to Kit first, blinked to avoid Piper's freeze and escaped. Once he was in the manor he and Phoebe fought in hand-to-hand combat until he blinked away to find Jane. He vowed to kill Phoebe and give Jane her power of premonition (which she has always wanted) and take Piper and Prue's powers for himself.

Jane set fire to the painting but Phoebe dragged her and Malcolm into it and escaped with her sisters after Piper froze the two of them.

Malcolm trapped in the painting

Malcolm reading the escape spell on Kit's collar

[edit] Appearances

Malcolm appeared in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.

Season 2 -

The Painted World