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Charmed
Season 3, Episode 14

Prue and Cole in the Wild West.
Episode Information
Air date	February 15, 2001
Written by	Monica Breen and Alison Schapker
Directed by	Shannen Doherty
Production Code	4300058
Credits
James Read	Victor Bennett
Michael Greyeyes	Bo Lightfeather
Kimberly Norris	Isabel Lightfeather
Ed Lauter	Sutter
Blake Gibbons	Gil
Alan Davidson	Buck
Steve Larson	Slade
Scott Beehner	Cal
James Lashly	Bartender
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The Good, the Bad and the Cursed is the 14th episode of the third season and the 58th overall episode of Charmed.

SummaryEdit

For a complete plot of The Good, the Bad and the Cursed, go here.

When Phoebe feels the pain of an injured American-Indian trapped in a time loop of a deserted town she visits, Prue and Cole enter the time loop (which is stuck in the mid-1800s) to save the man, and Phoebe, from death at the hands of a local thug.

CharactersEdit

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

Magical NotesEdit

Book of ShadowsEdit

Time LoopsEdit

A Time Loop is a Period of Time that repeats itself over

and over again ad infinitum. Sometimes a Loop is

localized to a specific place or group, but at other

times a Loop's effects can be felt globally. A few magical

beings are powerful enough to create Time Loops, such as

Tempus, the Devil's Sorcerer. But the causes of a Loop can

also be more Cosmic. For Example, certain spiritual

traditions believe that a great Evil or great Injustice can be

cursed into a Time Loop until righted. Once the evil has been

eliminated or the injustice has been corrected, Time will

stop repeating itself and again move forward for those

who were trapped in the Loop.

Time Loops exist in a parallel plane in the same physical space as the location in which they are discovered.

PowersEdit

Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor Dining Room
Prue / Tk / Cole / Manor
Phoebe / Premonition / - / Manor
Leo / Orbs / Himself / Diner
Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor Living Room
Leo / Heals / Phoebe / Manor Living Room (failed)
Cole / Shimmers / Prue / Manor Living Room
Leo / Orbs / Piper / Manor Living Room
Cole / Shimmers / Prue / 1873 Ghost Town
Leo / Orbs / Piper / Manor Living Room
Cole / Shimmers / Himself / Old Church
Cole / Shimmers / Himself / Old Church
Prue / TK / Bullet / Old Church (she didn't see the bullet though)
Phoebe & Bo / Premonition / - / Manor and Old Church
Prue / TK / Sutter / Outside Sherriff's
Cole / Energy Ball / Cowboy / Saloon
Cole / Shimmers / Prue / Manor Living Room

BeingsEdit

Magical BeingsEdit

Bo Lightfeather-A psychic with the ability to see into the future. The injustice of his murder created a Time Loop. Phoebe accidently created a psychic link with him, causing her to experience all the injuries and pain he does, and if he was killed, so would she be.

MortalsEdit

Episode StillsEdit

Behind the ScenesEdit

Notes and TriviaEdit

Darryl does not appear in this episode.
Cole stakes his claim in Phoebe's life and in the family's as well.
Bo Lightfeather has premonitions, but he has them through his dreams, this will happen to Phoebe on occasion.
When the Charmed Ones time-traveled to Colonial Virginia in "All Halliwell's Eve", they didn't have access to their individual powers because technically they hadn't been born yet; nevertheless, in this episode, as it wasn't really a time travel to the past, but to a parallel physical plane of existence, Prue and Cole could use their powers.
This is the second episode that Shannen Doherty directed, the first was "Be Careful What You Witch For". The next episode was All Hell Breaks Loose.
This is the second time that Phoebe channels her premonition power through someone else, this happened once before with a Succubus.
This is the first time that Phoebe has been shot, directly or indirectly. She gets shot again, in "It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 1".
The title of this episode is a reference to the film The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966).
The black crow at the end of the episode is possibly a reference to Prue's future death, as crows are most notably associated with death.
Victor finds out that Leo is a Whitelighter.
This episode scored 5.2 million viewers.

GlitchesEdit

When Phoebe and Victor are walking through the ghost town in the background on the porch, there is a water bottle, left there by either a cast or crew member.
When Cole first shows up at the manor, he has a slight beard and mustache. But once he and Prue shimmer to the town, he's clean shaven and then has the beard and mustache again.
In the living room after Phoebe was shot, Prue's arms are crossed, then when in the next cut, her arms are at her sides.
While in the town, Prue picks up the clothes of a guy, but she is clearly wearing a modern woman's shirt.
When Sutter's men go to find Bo, as they're on their way riding their horses, you can see "Prue" awaiting on her horse outside the building, and then the scene changes to Prue playing with the revolver inside the church.
When Sutter falls from the horse after Prue shoots, and runs, you can clearly see that it's not actor Ed Lauter, but a stuntman, and then it's Lauter again.

QuotesEdit

Leo: Piper, he's gonna kill me when he finds out.

Piper: Oh, don't be ridiculous, you're already dead.

Victor: Don't get me wrong, Leo. I want this marriage to succeed. That's why I'm warning you. But there are dangers out there worse than demons and warlocks. You do know about them, don't you?

Leo: Well, yeah, sure.

Victor: Well, the dangers I'm talking about, you're not even gonna see coming. The thing I'm talking about will just sneak up on you and destroy your marriage if you're not careful. Leo, do you know what a Whitelighter is?

Victor: You can't trust the Whitelighters, Leo. They're sneaky little bastards.

Cole: Gotta hold my hand.

Prue: This already sucks.

(Prue holds his hand and they shimmer out.)

Phoebe: Well, don't get mad at me, I've been shot.

Prue: Hi. What am I? A potted plant?

(receiving a call from Piper)

Leo: (to Victor) I've got to go. Now. And you're not going to like how I have to go, either.

(Leo orbs out)

International TitlesEdit

French: La Ville Fantôme (City of Ghosts)
Russian: Khoroshiy, plokhoy i proklyatyy (The Good, the Bad, and the Cursed)
Serbian: Dobro, lose i ukleto (The Good, the Bad and the Hunted)
Czech: Dobro, zlo a nemrtví (The Good, the Bad and the Undead)
Slovak: Dobrý, zlý a polomŕtvy (The Good, the Bad and the Half-dead)
Spanish: El bueno, el malo y el no muerto (The Good, the Evil and the Undead)
Spanish (Latin America): El bueno, el malo y el fantasma (The good, the evil and the ghost)
Italian: I Fantasmi del West (The Ghosts of The West)
German: Stadt der Geister (City of Ghosts)

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