The Power Of Three Blondes
From Charmed
The Power Of Three Blondes is the 115th episode of Charmed.
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[edit] Episode Information
- Season 6
- Episode No. 04
- Original Airdate October 12, 2003
[edit] Episode Guide
The Charmed Ones--or so it appears--come into the attic saying that Phoebe had felt an entire family being wiped out by a demon. They are somewhat more provocatively dressed than normal. "Piper" tries to take hold of the Book of Shadows, but it slams shut and leaps away from her onto the floor. "Piper" lunges for the Book, but it slides away from her again. The "Charmed Ones" morph into three evil sisters: Mabel, Mitzy and Margo Stillman. They plan to steal the identities and powers of the Charmed Ones. They teleport out a perfume-like potion as the real Piper comes into the attic. She looks surprised to see the Book on the floor.
Piper is making final preparations for a band due to play at P3 that night, but asks Jack, the new bartender, to be there for the sound check; she wants to be home when Wyatt wakes up. Phoebe arrives and offers to take Piper to lunch. Suddenly, Phoebe's empathy power kicks in; she whispers to Piper that Jack was eyeballing her. Phoebe shoos him away. Just as Piper and Phoebe are heading out, Chris orbs in. He says he has a lead on who sent Leo to Valhalla. Piper asks Chris and Phoebe if they left the Book on the floor last night. Both deny it, but Chris remembers something similar happening in his past. He thinks someone might be after the Book, but Piper and Phoebe don't take it seriously.
Paige has a new job at a fruit packing plant. Two gremlins, which only she can see, shove a stack of crates and nearly kill a coworker. It's the third accident in a month.
The Stillmans are staying in a house across the street; they murdered the family who lived there. Margo thinks she'll get Piper's powers, and wants to use Piper's freezing power to stop the aging process. However, Mabel tells Margo that she'll get Piper's identity while Margo will get Paige's. Mabel pours a brown liquid into a bowl and casts a spell allowing her to look in on the manor; only Piper is there. She plans to cast an "identity theft spell" that will make the entire world think the Stillmans are actually the Halliwells. However, all three Halliwells have to be in the manor for it to work. Mitzy is excited about the prospect of being able to orb, but Margo reminds her that as the youngest sister, she'll get that power. Mitzy and Margo get in an argument. Just then, a vacuum cleaner salesman shows up. Mabel conjures an athame and kills him with it. She then convinces Mitzy and Margo to put aside their differences for the moment.
Piper is trying to feed Wyatt when Leo orbs in. He badly misses Wyatt, and says he's been secretly orbing into his room to be with him personally, though as an Elder he watches over him all the time. He orbs back out just as Paige comes in. She mentions the accident at the fruit-packing plant. Piper asks if Paige left the Book on the floor. Paige denies it, and heads up to the attic to find out how to vanquish the gremlins.
Jason is in town again and Phoebe's empathy is still too strong for her to be close to him, but she's beginning to find some control. They make plans for a date that night.
Phoebe comes to the manor, bringing the Charmed Ones together. They cast the identity theft spell. Mabel assumes Piper's identity, Mitzy assumes Phoebe's and Margo assumes Paige's. They test the spell by calling for Chris, who orbs in. Mitzy and Margo try to hit on Chris. They give him the athame they used to kill the salesman and claim it came from the astral plane.
Mitzy submits an article written in eyeliner, and comes on to Jason right in the middle of the office.
Piper finds out that she supposedly fired the band, and heads out to the club to straighten things out. Paige and Phoebe are trying to brew a vanquishing potion for the gremlins when they discover the Book won't let them touch it. They call Chris, but he doesn't respond. Suddenly, they both get calls on their cell phones--Paige has supposedly organized a rally for better pay and shorter hours at the packing plant, while Phoebe has seemingly written an article supporting multiple sex partners and suggesting that alcohol cures depression.
Piper is unable to convince the bouncer that she's the real Piper. Just then, Mabel comes out with Jack after having sex in the back room with him. She spots Piper and hides, but Piper doesn't see her. Piper freezes the room to get around the bouncer and tries to talk to the bartender, but he doesn't recognize her either. Meanwhile, Paige shows at the plant to find Margo leading a strike. A security guard asks for Paige's ID, and Paige obliges. When the guard sees Margo's picture on what should be Paige's ID, he hustles Paige out the door.
The evil sisters come into the manor and find Chris. He seems to be suspicious--and just in case, Mabel conjures a knife to kill him. It turns out that he was merely perturbed at being sent on a wild goose chase about the athame, which was not from the astral plane. Mabel orders Mitzy and Margo to keep their hands off Chris.
All three of the real Charmed Ones are forcibly thrown out of their jobs. As Phoebe is thrown out the door of The Bay Mirror, she looks up and sees an ad promoting her column--but her picture's been replaced with that of Mitzy. The real Charmed Ones orb back to the manor and find the Stillmans leafing through the Book. Just as Piper is about to freeze them, the Stillmans cast the To Call a Witch's Power spell and steal the Charmed Ones' powers. Mabel blasts Piper into the wall, severely injuring her leg. Phoebe kicks down Mabel, but Mitzy levitates and kicks down Phoebe. Margo swings a lamp at Paige, but to the surprise of both Paige orbs out of the way. The real Charmed Ones orb out.
The Stillmans head to the attic; they want to find a way to kill the Charmed Ones. Mitzy scries, but can't find the real Charmed Ones because they aren't witches anymore. Margo is still angry that she didn't get all of Paige's powers. The Stillmans find they have an entry in the Book; it describes them as common witches who aren't worth vanquishing. They scoff because they have the Book and the Charmed Ones' identities.
The real sisters flee to a trashy hotel, and are forced to pay with cash because their IDs have been altered. Piper's leg is bleeding badly; Phoebe and Paige manage to staunch it with some alcohol and a bandage. Paige thinks that the sisters could get help from some magical creatures. She remembers the gremlins and orbs to the fruit-packing plant to fetch them. She threatens them with a vanquishing potion and sends them to fetch Chris.
Phoebe goes to the restaurant where she and Jason were to have dinner and finds him with Mitzy. Jason gives Mitzy a diamond necklace, and Mitzy starts groping him under the table. The real Phoebe punches Mitzy, and plants a premonition of all of them being in the manor again.
Mabel comes into the bedroom with Jack. They start going horizontal, only to find Leo in the room, holding Wyatt. Mabel talks Leo into taking Wyatt off her hands for awhile, and Leo and Wyatt orb away.
The real sisters orb into the conservatory. Suddenly, all the doors close and the fake sisters confront them. Chris orbs in. The real sisters try to tell Chris what's going on. Chris is confused. Paige tries to orb but Margo has cast a spell to keep whitelighters from orbing. Mabel blasts and misses several times.
The real sisters hide in the attic, where they find a chest full of old demons' weapons. They take positions. Piper shoots a crossbow bolt just as the fake sisters arrive after them. Mabel panics and freezes the room. Just as the Stillmans get ready to kill the Halliwells, Chris orbs in and kisses Mitzy; apparently they slept together. This enrages Margo, and she and Mitzy start arguing over Chris. Mitzy is going nuts from her empathy power. Mabel is angry as well; she ordered her sisters to stay away from Chris. Mitzy and Margo turn on Mabel. They go back and forth arguing with each other. Suddenly, a chandelier falls from the ceiling, the triquetra on the Book separates and the evil sisters lose their powers. The room unfreezes. The Halliwells deck the Stillmans (with Phoebe taking the necklace before decking Mitzy). It turns out that Chris had figured out the Stillmans' scam, and had deliberately provoked them into fighting with each other so they'd lose their powers. Chris hands the Halliwells the book--apparently when the Stillmans lost their powers, all of their spells were reversed as well. The Halliwells use the To Call a Witch's Power spell to take back their powers. After cleaning up the mess at the manor, the Halliwells bind the Stillmans' powers and turn them over to Darryl, who throws them in jail for murder. It turns out the Stillmans are wanted in eight other states.
Piper tells Leo that he's more than welcome to orb in and check on Wyatt when he wants to.
Paige sends the gremlins to the junkyard, while Phoebe and Jason make plans to talk over lunch.
[edit] Appendices
[edit] Stillman Sisters
- Mabel, Mitzy, Margo
- Common witches known for their
- small-time hustles and cons.
- Not worth vanquishing. If they
- become a nuisance, try a
- simple spell to bind their magic.
[edit] Spells
[edit] Mabel's Identity Theft Spell
- Blinking faces blank and ho-hum
- We are they, and they are no one;
- Grant to us the power of three,
- And turn them into nobody.
[edit] Results of the Spell
Mabel's Identity Theft spell makes the world believe that the casters (in this case, the Stillman Sisters) are the Charmed Ones, giving them the Power of Three and replacing any photographic evidence of the Halliwells' existence (see below). Additionally, the Charmed Ones are turned into "nobody"; unrecognizable by anyone.
 Mitzy's image replaces Phoebe's in the Ask Phoebe poster outside The Bay Mirror |
 Paige's ID for North Shore Citrus is altered with a picture of Margo |
 A photo of the Stillman Sisters replaces one of the Halliwells |
[edit] Notes
- Phoebe is able to plant a premonition when she's not a witch, and without any powers. However, it is possible that since she knew how to call for a premonition she could send someone a premonition as well ("The Power of Two"), ("Ordinary Witches").
- Margo created an "anti-orb" spell that prevents whitelighters from orbing.
- Although probably just for comic relief, it's questionable as to why any evil would be deemed unworthy of vanquishing.
- Mitzy says that they are "Charmed and dangerous", an allusion to the episode of the same name.
- Although confused as to why she wasn't able to orb, Margo eventually is able to use Paige's original Warren-witch power of telekinesis by closing up the doors in the conservatory.
- Mabel was unable to freeze anything until she got scared; this is similar to how Piper originally triggered her freezing power in the series premiere.
- The "To Call a Witch's Power" spell is used in this episode like in How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans, but in this episode, the required potion is not used.
- When the Stillman sisters fight with each other, the triquetra on the cover of the Book of Shadows splits, as it did in Power Outage.
- The sisters keep a trunk of "demon leftovers", a collection of weapons left behind by demons after they are vanquished.
- Margo stillman is popular for playing the villaness astronema in the hit show power rangers in space
- Picture of Piper and Leo's wedding is in a different place than the one with Mabel and Leo and picture with all 3 sisters is in a different place too.Shouldn't they just change faces with the real sisters?
[edit] Quotes
Margo/Paige: Did you sleep with him? (she talks about Chris and Margo/Paige)
Mitzy/Phoebe: No.
Chris: Yes.
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Mitzy/Phoebe: What? She thinks we are idiots!
Mabel/Piper: I didn't say that.
Chris: Yeah,but she felt it.My little empath feels everything.
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