Someone To Witch Over Me

From Charmed

Sarpedon. The Celerity Demonkinds cruel built-in appandage. This is part of their hands Agent Brody's Guardian Angel can clearly be seen behind him in this scene where Sarpedon does the unexpected and steals Paige's guardian instead.

Someone to Witch Over Me is the 141st episode of Charmed.

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Season 7

Episode No. 07

Original Airdate October 31, 2004

Key events:

This is the first episode where the name The Avatars is mentioned. It is given to Agent Brody when he is captured by the demon Sarpendon who is neurotic about the coming of "the new power", one of the several euphemisms used foreshadowing the advent of the Avatars in the greater story arch of season seven.

Leo Wyatt becomes an Avatar at the very end of this episode, even as the Elders try to make amends for the falling out that came to a head when they'd magically imprisoned him briefly during "Once in a Blue Moon". Much of the episode not involving Paige and Brodie involves Leo and his seduction by the Avatars, especially the avatar Alpha with an assist by Gamma.

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Paige joins Phoebe at the scene of a fire which they have been called to by Agent Brody who has been investigating several incidents in which someone survives dire peril, only to be killed shortly after, and thinks these incidents might be connected to the worrisome mysterious "the new power", which has been repeatedly heralded in mentions in the season seven story arch.

When a man jumps from the local explosions in the furiously burning building and somehow fortuitously (or miraculously) grabs a fire escape, even sliding rapidly down two floors and landing without injuries, Agent Brody (still not trusted by Piper nor Phoebe) radios to a helicopter flying overhead to keep their surveillance camera on him. As the crowd, vehicles and fire fighting fill the backdrop, the camera pans over one face watching the survivor with anticipation, the demon Sarpedon, who can move at the speed of light and has a frightening double bladed weapon issuing from his hands. (See photo at right)

Shortly after, as he senses the critical moment, the whole chaotic street scene freezes as a guardian angel appears behind the survivor where he is positioned to, and about to stop the confused survivor being directed away from the heat of the fire by a busy fireman — only to be met by a demon, Sarpedon, who draws the guardian angel into his amulet. Sarpedon departs at light speed. When the scene and all witnesses, including Brody and the witch sisters unfreeze, the lucky survivor who would have been stopped by the captured guardian angel, instead continues his step off the curb and into a crosswalk directly in front of a large fast moving truck which hits and kills him.

Soon after in the demonic underworld Sarpedon summons another demon, his mentor Aku, and challenges him to a fight. Aku quickly wounds Sarpedon while barely raising a sweat but nonetheless condescendingly notes with a hint of approval that Sarpendon's fighting has improved. Both Celerity demons can move at the speed of light, so are individually very powerful. Sarpedon says he needs to collect more guardians to protect him from the new power.

Piper suggest to Phoebe that Leo should take a vision quest (as Phoebe had done in "The Legend Of Sleepy Halliwell"). Phoebe thinks this idea is risky, but begins to prepare a potion.

Paige goes to Brody and he shows her a photo of the survivor, taken from the helicopter; it shows a bright light where the guardian angel had been. Brody guesses that the bright figure is a guardian of some kind and that he himself has powerful guardians.

The floating heads taunt Leo atop the Golden Gate Bridge. Leo orbs away and the floating heads turn into Avatars. They want Leo to join them and make plans to persuade him. Piper and Phoebe call for Leo, but he doesn't want to be around the manor. The sisters persuade him to take his vision quest.

Paige orbs Brody into a burning building and then orbs out; he asks his guardian which way to go and jumps. He falls onto an awning and has only minor injuries. Paige says a spell and the scene slows; Brody's guardian angel appears, and so does Sarpedon -- who takes Paige's guardian instead of Brody's. Paige becomes very accident-prone.

Leo takes Phoebe's potion and sees the scene of his death on Guadalcanal. He meets his spirit guide -- Chris. Chris tells Leo that he is Leo's root pain, killed by all that Leo had thought was good. Leo takes Chris's hand and Chris shows him the key scenes in his life: his union with Piper, the birth of Wyatt, and the birth of Chris himself. Chris tells Leo that he is supposed to be about good, that he needs to believe in good again.

Paige and Brody find the Celerity Demon in the Book of Shadows. He has a two-bladed knife and the ability to slow time.

Sarpedon fights Aku again and wounds him this time. He is after the other two Charmed Ones' guardians; Aku thinks that even this might not be enough to fight the Avatars.

Leo awakens for a moment but a floating head, unseen by the sisters, possesses him. Leo has another vision, of tombstones bearing family members' names and one of the Avatars. The Avatar tells Leo that the clash of good and evil is in vain and that it will lead in time to nothingness, a void.

Sarpedon bursts in and attacks, but Leo, Piper and Phoebe are protected by a crystal cage. Paige orbs to the attic and throws a potion, but it bounces off unbroken. Brody comes up after her; Sarpedon seizes him and bursts away.

Paige scries and finds Sarpedon and orbs to his lair, over Phoebe and Piper's objections. Piper and Phoebe leave the attic to make a vanquishing potion, with Leo still having his vision, but Sarpedon bursts in and stabs Phoebe. She grabs his amulet before falling down dead. Piper blasts Sarpedon but the explosion drives his knife into her; she dies as well. Leo emerges from his trance and the Avatar is still with him. Leo cannot heal Phoebe and Piper as an Elder, but he becomes an Avatar and is now able to heal them.

Leo has apparently improved, but does not admit to having become an Avatar.