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Charmed
Season 3, Episode 18

Prue, Leo and Piper are infected with Pride, Sloth and Gluttony respectively.
Episode Information
Air date	April 19, 2001
Written by	Nell Scovell
Directed by	Joel J. Feigenbaum
Production Code	4300062
Credits
Kevin Weisman	Lukas
Michael Rodrick	Officer Dean
JF Pryor	Demon Courier
Julio Herzer	Pastor Tremble
Jim Jansen	Professor Kass
Roark Critchlow	Robert Pike
Danny Ricardo	Reporter
Kimberly Wallis	Anchor
Beverly Sotelo	Reporter
Orgy	Musical Guest
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Sin Francisco is the 18th episode of the third season and the 62nd overall episode of Charmed.

SummaryEdit

For a complete plot of Sin Francisco, go here.

When the sisters fight a demon cursing people with the seven deadly sins, they must first save themselves and Leo from succumbing to the powers of their own sins.

CharactersEdit

Characters in bold appear for the first time in the series.

Magical NotesEdit

Book of ShadowsEdit

The Seven Deadly SinsEdit

Demonic Infectors keep Crystal Boxes

that contain balls of each of the Seven

Deadly Sins, bottled at The Source and

by The Source. These Demons, who were

once human and consumed by Sin in Life,

use Sin balls to corrupt paragons of Good.

Infectors target a victim's predisposition

to Sin and magnify it with a Sin ball,

leading to the victim's Self-destruction

within hours. The Sin balls can only be

disempowered by destroying the Infector.

Identifying the Seven Deadly SinsEdit

Pride

an excessive Belief in Oneself

Envy

the Desire for what Others have

Gluttony

the Desire to Overly Indulge

Lust

a craving for pleasures of the body

Anger

uncontrollable fury

Greed

a Craving for Material Wealth or Gain

Sloth

the Avoidance of Work

SpellsEdit

Piper uses magic to receive her purchases faster. (unseen)

PowersEdit

Telekinesis: the power to move things with the mind
Energy Ball: a deadly power to create balls of mystic energy
Shimmering: a teleportation power
Orbing: a teleportation power
Premonition: the power to see the past and future
Molecular Immobilization: the power to slow down molecules until they stop
Healing: the power to bring people back to health and restore objects to prestine condition

ArtifactsEdit

Scrying Crystal - A magical pendant used for scrying. Used by Prue to scry for unnatural evil. (Unseen)

InnocentsEdit

Evil BeingsEdit

Lukas: A Demonic Infector who was in possession of The Seven Deadly Sins.
Demon Courier: A low-level demon who worked for Lukas.

MortalsEdit

Flower Delivery ManEdit

He delivered flowers to the manor for Piper from Piper and was hit on by a lust infected Phoebe.

ReporterEdit

This reporter was working on the Roger Tremble story explaining to the media his demands and that if they were not met he would murder his hostage.

AnchorEdit

This pretty woman directed viewers to Bay City Motor Cars and asked questions to the reporter who was covering the Pastor's crime scene.

Female ReporterEdit

This woman asked Prue what made her go in and save the Pastor and his hostage's life. She also asked if she worked for the police.

Notes and TriviaEdit

Cole does not appear in this episode.
Prue doesn't use her Astral Projection power.
Phoebe doesn't use her Levitation power and her Premonitions weren't seen.
Prue and Piper's powers didn't work properly because they were infected by the sins.
The 7 Deadly Sins infected:
- Pride: Prue Halliwell.
- Gluttony: Piper Halliwell.
- Lust: Phoebe Halliwell.
- Sloth: Leo Wyatt.
- Anger: Officer Dean.
- Envy: Pastor Roger.
- Greed: Robert Pike.
Lukas said Pride is the one Sin you can't beat, it's the only one that can't be beaten by a selfless act.
Leo noted that he'd been doing constant vigilance for 60 years.
This is the only time that Leo orbs with only Prue. The only other occasion that he orbed with Prue, he orbed with all of the sisters "up there" to stop Eames (Blinded by the Whitelighter).
Along with Sand Francisco Dreamin', this is one of two episode titles that refer to the Charmed Ones hometown of San Francisco.
Holly and Roark Critchlow, who plays Robert in this episode, would later star together as a married couple in the movie "Point of Entry".
Darryl says to Prue "what have you got a death wish or something?" possibly foreshadowing her upcoming death.
Roark Critchlow later appears in Pretty Little Liars as Tom Marin. PLL also stars Holly Marie Combs.

GlitchesEdit

When the first innocent was attacked by the demon Prue telekinetically moves the Sin box to the other side of the street where it bumps into the sidewalk. In the next scene when the innocent runs out to get the box it was lying in the middle of the street.
When Piper freezes Lukas, the belt of his coat can be seen flapping in the wind of the vortex.
When Lukas is going to infect officer Dean, you can see 2 balls, but when he closes the box, there are none.
In the Book of Shadows entry uncontrollable is spelt without a "r" and disempowered misses the "s".
Leo claims that the sin box was probably the inspiration for Pandora's box. However, in "Little Box of Horrors" it is revealed that the legend about Pandora's box is real.

QuotesEdit

Darryl: (to Prue) You know I've never seen you run away from danger, but I've never seen you run toward it either!

Darryl: ( to Prue) What do you have some kind of death wish or something?

Prue: I'm doing it again, aren't I?

Prue:You're right, I'm sorry.

Piper: Drop the humility crap and give me my sister back.

Prue: I don't get it, you, Leo and Phoebe committed selfless acts and got rid of your sins, but I committed many selfless acts and had to wait for Lucas to be vanquished to get rid of mine.

Piper: Well Lucas said that Pride was the only sin that could not be beat. Anything you did while under the influence of the sin was for the greater glory of Prue. I guess what he meant was that there is no selfless act to Pride.

Prue: But I jumped into a bottomless pit to save the pastor.

Piper: Yes, but you did that to win.

Prue: What did the Elders have to say?

Leo: I don't know...

Prue: What do you mean you don't know?

Leo: Well I got tired halfway up there so I came back.

Phoebe: Guess what? My Ethics Professor kicked me out of class.

Prue: What? Why, what happened?

Phoebe: I don't know, I don't know. One minute I was telling him why my paper was late, and the next thing, I knew I was . . . unzipping his pants with my teeth.

Prue: Oh! Oh, Phoebe you do know that charming the pants off someone is just a figure of speech, don't you?

Episode StillsEdit

International TitlesEdit

French: Les Sept Péchés Capitaux (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Czech: Hříšné San Francisco (Sin San Francisco)
Slovak: San Francisco, mesto hriechu (San Francisco, a City of Sin)
Russian: San Francisco - gorod grekhov (San Francisco - a City of Sins)
Spanish (Spain): Pecados en San Francisco (Sins in San Francisco)
Spanish (Latin America): Los pecados (The Sins)
Serbian: Greh Francisco (Sin Francisco)
Italian: La Scatola dei Peccati (The Sins' Box)
German: Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins)

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