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The Honeymoon's Over

From Charmed

Piper returns after a month in The Heavens.

The Honeymoon’s Over is the 45th episode of Charmed and the Season 3 Premiere.

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[edit] Episode Information

Season 3
Episode No. 01
Written By Brad Kern
Directed By James L. Conway
Production No. 4300045
Original Airdate October 5, 2000

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Special Musical Guests

[edit] Featured Music

"Pinch Me" by Barenaked Ladies

[edit] Summary

Prue and Phoebe come to Darryl's rescue just before he is about to be murdered by a mortal protected by a supernatural entity known as a Guardian demon. Although they manage to vanquish the Guardian, the girls have to lie to Cole Turner, an Assistant District Attorney, in order to keep the family secret, which sets the mortal killer free. Meanwhile, Piper worries her sisters because she has been away with Leo "Up There" for a month with no word, leaving her sisters to worry what's happen to her, when Piper and Leo finally do return, they are distraught over the sobering reality that they can no longer be together.

[edit] Plot

Prue flips through the Book of Shadows by the light of a single lamp. A noise startles her and she turns and swats, to discover that she has flung Phoebe into an old bed. Piper has been away "Up There" with Leo for a month. Darryl calls about a murder suspect, Emilio, whom he's tracking. Darryl is following Emilio through a rave. Emilio carves an inverted triangle into his victims' foreheads. Prue opens the Book to the page on the Guardians, which use that same sign and offer protection to murderers who steal souls for them. Prue tries to warn Darryl off, but he pursues anyway.

Darryl emerges into a back alley and looks for Emilio, but Emilio clobbers him. Emilio is about to carve the rune when a young woman spots him, panics and runs. He overpowers her and carves the rune, and his Guardian absorbs her soul through a similar rune on his forehead.

Prue and Phoebe find the girl too late, but not too late for Darryl. Prue flings Emilio back and his Guardian appears. Prue flings an iron bar right through the Guardian, but a second try aims for the rune and the Guardian bursts into flame.

The police arrive and a paramedic examines Darryl. The paramedic congratulates the sisters on fighting off the attacker but they can't exactly say how they did it. Darryl suggests they concoct a story, else Emilio walks, and they'd best concoct it fast, because the ADA is coming. The ADA identifies himself as Cole Turner and asks the sisters if they saw anything; Phoebe, smitten, says she did.

The arraignment begins with Judge William Hamilton presiding. Cole stands by the police report and the eyewitness testimony. The public defender pounds on the absence of the alleged murder weapon. Cole does his best, but the judge drops the charges.

Phoebe and Prue talk at the manor. Phoebe seems taken with Cole. Leo and Piper orb in arguing; Piper wants to be together whatever "they" think, but Leo has cold feet. Piper freezes Leo and heads for P3. Phoebe starts to scold Leo, but Prue calms her down and asks Leo to ask "them" about the Guardians.

Piper finds the booze almost gone and the books all messed up. She had thought she was gone for a day, but was in fact gone for a month. Prue asks Piper about "up there" and she reports mostly good and peaceful feelings, until "they" told Leo and Piper to stop seeing each other.

Phoebe is on campus and Cole taps her shoulder. She turns and high-kicks, but Cole catches her leg. He notes that the judge is called Free Willy for his high release rate, and asks for her help in building a better case. Phoebe has a premonition from Cole's business card of Emilio carving the rune into Cole's forehead.

Phoebe discovers her new power

Emilio enters Judge Hamilton's office and asks for a new guardian. Hamilton conjures an athame and sends Emilio after Cole. Emilio finds Cole in the police parking garage and clobbers him from behind. He raises the athame as Prue and Phoebe squeal in. Phoebe tries to high-kick Emilio and discovers her power of levitation. Prue flings Emilio back as Phoebe falls back down. Prue launches the athame into the Guardian's rune.

Leo practices a marriage proposal before a bathroom mirror and Piper overhears. Piper walks in and asks about the Guardians, but Leo forgot. Leo wants to go downstairs, but Piper insists on talking right there. Leo asks Piper to marry him. Piper runs downstairs. Leo thinks that a marriage would be a holy union that even "they" could not break apart. The marriage will have to be secret, an elopement, "not exactly Cinderella" as Piper says. Piper says this doesn't feel right and will not marry Leo under these conditions.

Darryl has interrogated Emilio in vain. Cole tells Emilio that he knows someone is protecting him, and he wants Emilio to tell that someone that Cole will bring him down.

Leo tells the sisters what "they" told him about the Guardians. "They" think the court itself is subject to some demonic conspiracy. The sisters realize that the judge is probably a demon. Emilio is to be arraigned in night court in an hour and the sisters and Leo go to the courtroom. Cole asks for a word with the sisters, but the judge turns him down. Piper freezes the courtroom and realizes that the judge, the PD, and the bailiff are all demons. They hide in the jury room. The demons try to break in. Prue flings them back and the sisters run out. Phoebe gains some control of her levitation. After a scuffle, the judge summons several Guardians and retreats into his chambers.

Cole, who has only pretended to freeze, shimmers into the judge's chambers and gestures. He shimmers out and the sisters find the judge already in flames. They come out and Phoebe knocks Cole out, so as not to have to tell him of the scuffle.

The Barenaked Ladies play P3. Piper meets Leo and says she thought she might die in that courtroom. She agrees to marry Leo.

[edit] Power Usage

Person Using Power Power Being Used Object/Person Affected Location
Prue Telekinesis Phoebe Attic
Prue Telekinesis Emilio Alley behind the Rave
Prue Telekinesis Wooden Stake Alley behind the Rave
Leo Orbing Piper Manor *
Piper Molecular Immobilization Leo Manor
Leo Orbing Himself Manor
Prue Telekinesis Door Manor
Phoebe Premonition Cole's Card Campus
Judge "Free Willy" "Materialize" Athame Judge's Chambers
Phoebe Levitation Herself Parking Garage
Prue Telekinesis Emilio Parking Garage
Prue Telekinesis Athame Parking Garage
Leo Orbing Himself Manor
Leo Orbing Himself Piper's Room **
Piper Molecular Immobilization Innocents Court Room (didn't work)
Piper Molecular Immobilization Innocents Court Room
Judge "Free Willy" Fire Ball Door Court Room
Prue Telekinesis Door Court Room
Prue Telekinesis Public Defender Court Room
Piper Molecular Immobilization Emilio Court Room (didn't work)
Piper Molecular Immobilization Emilio Court Room (didn't work)
Judge "Free Willy" Fire Ball Prue Court Room
Prue Telekinesis Fire Ball Court Room
Phoebe Levitation Herself Court Room
Judge "Free Willy" Fire Ball Prue Court Room
Prue Telekinesis Fire Ball Court Room
Cole Turner Shimmering Himself Court Room
Cole Turner Shimmering Himself Judge's Chambers
Cole Turner "Pyrokinesis" Judge "Free Willy" Judge's Chambers
Cole Turner Shimmering Himself Judge's Chambers
Cole Turner Shimmering Himself Court Room
Piper De-Molecular Immobilization Innocents Court Room


  • Leo's powers are connected to his emotions. He orbed into Piper's room very fast. And earlier when he was down his orbs were much slower.
  • Phoebe develops the power to levitate!

[edit] Magical Artifacts

  • Athame - A ceremonial knife

[edit] Magical Notes

[edit] Up There

  • Time moves much slower than on Earth. Piper thought she was gone only one day but was actually gone for a whole month.
  • The longer you are back on Earth the less you remember of your visit.

[edit] Book of Shadows

  1. To Lure an Evil Spirit is before the page on Famous Books.
  2. The page on Famous Books is before the page to Destroy a Succubus.
  3. The page to Destroy a Succubus is right before the page on Nell.
  4. The page on Nell is before the page "To Call Blood to Blood".

[edit] To Lure an Evil Spirit

[edit] Famous Books

[edit] Guardians

[edit] Evil Beings

  1. Emilio

[edit] Vanquished

  1. Emilio's First Guardian by Prue and Phoebe.
  2. Emilio's Second Guardian by Prue and Phoebe.
  3. Judge "Free Willy", murdered by Cole's fireball.

[edit] Innocents

[edit] Saved

  1. Darryl by Prue and Phoebe.

[edit] Lost

  1. The girl at the rave was murdered by Emilio and her soul consumed by his Guardian.

[edit] Background Notes

  • A month has past since the Season 2 finale.
  • Julian McMahon joins the regular cast as Cole Turner.
  • Phoebe dyes her hair blonde this season.
  • In the last episode it was The Council that was discovered but in this episode they call them The Triad, but The Triad and The Council are different.
  • Phoebe wears a white top with a star in both this episode and in the Season Finale All Hell Breaks Loose.
  • Phoebe develops the power of Levitation in this episode.
  • Leo proposes to Piper in this episode.
  • Prue doesn’t use her Astral Projection power.
  • Series creator Constance M. Burge left her executive producer post for the series at the beginning of this Season over a disagreement in story plotting with fellow executive producer Brad Kern.
  • This is the second highest rated episode of Charmed in the entire series.

[edit] Trivia

  • The hairclip Piper orbs back to 'Earth' with Leo in is a different one used in Be Careful What You Witch For when Leo and her first go 'up there'.

[edit] Quotes

Phoebe: What if she doesn’t? (A phone rings.)
Prue: Uh, that’s my fax. (She goes to get it.) Doesn’t what? (Phoebe puts her purse on.)
Phoebe: Wh-what if she doesn’t come back? (Prue picks up the Book of Shadows.) I mean, what if when her and Leo orbed out, it was for good?
Prue: Phoebe, that is ridiculous. (Prue leaves. Phoebe follows.)
Phoebe: No Prue. It’s not ridiculous. Think about it. We have not heard from her in a month. And that’s not like her.
Prue: All right. Look, Piper is not going to just ditch us, okay? We’re her sisters and neither is Leo. He’s our white-lighter too.
Phoebe: Darryl. Prue! (Prue uses her power to send Emilio flying on top of a dumpster. They run to check Darryl. The guardian arises from Emilio.) He’s alive.
Prue: Uh, I think I’ve found the guardian. (Phoebe and Prue stand up.)
Phoebe: Okay. Get rid of it.
Prue: Uh, oh.
(Prue uses her power to send a stick into the guardian, but it goes right through him.)
Phoebe: Wait. Didn’t the book say they were just like vampires?
Prue: I might have mis-read that part.
Phoebe: I’m sorry? (The guardian picks up the knife.) Okay. The rune. Aim for the rune. (Prue uses her power to send a stick flying into the guardian’s triangle on his forehead. He gets electrocuted and disappears.) Okay, if Piper ever comes back, I am going to kill her.
Darryl: You better decide fast. Here comes the ADA.
(A really cute ADA approaches them.)
Cole: Ladies. My name is Cole Turner and I'm the Assistant District Attorney assigned to this case. I was wondering if either of you saw what happened here.
(Phoebe raises her hand.)
Phoebe: I did!
Phoebe: All I know is Cole is an angel. He was awesome in that court room yesterday.
Prue: See something you like, sis?
Phoebe: Maybe, or maybe it's just nice to run into someone that's not a college boy. More years, less hormones.
Prue: Yeah, not a bad butt either.
(Piper and Leo orb in.)
Piper: We’ve been through this, Leo. I don’t care if they are. It’s not right and it’s not fair.
Leo: I know that, but it’s their rules.
Piper: Screw their rules. They’re wrong.
Prue: Piper…
Piper: Just a second. Leo, you better do something about this because this is not acceptable.
Leo: Piper, come on.
Piper: Oh. (She freezes him.) I’m gonna go to the club. Do not tell him.
(She leaves.)
Prue: Hi, welcome home!
Phoebe: Okay, what was that all about? I didn’t even get to bitch at her.
Prue: Yeah, neither did I.
(Leo unfreezes.)
Leo: We have to talk about it.
Prue: Leo, she left.
Phoebe: Yeah, so now I get to bitch at you. Listen, the next time you take my sister some place, please, call and let us know that you got their safely, okay. I don't care if it's up there--
Prue: Okay, oh, shh. Leo, uh, can you do me a favour and just go find out everything you can on guardians. They are demons. Okay, thank you, bye.
(Leo orbs out.)
Leo: Every time I see you, I love you even more. You're so beautiful. You're so special. I can't imagine my life without you. (Piper walks in.) Piper!
Piper: Leo, who are you talking to?
Leo: Me? Uh, nobody, just myself, you know.
Piper: Yourself? You were telling yourself how much you love you?
Leo: No, of course not. Uh, I mean, it's, it's not like that at all. Um, let's go downstairs and I'll explain.
Piper: Actually, no, we don't have time. Uh, did you find out anything about the guardians?
Leo: Uh, no, I forgot.
Piper: You forgot? Leo, what's the matter? Why are you acting so weird?
Leo: Can we go downstairs please?
Piper: No, why?
Leo: Okay, fine, um, here's good. Um, I've been thinking a lot actually about our situation.
Piper: Leo...
Leo: No, no, just let me finish. Um, I think I've come up with a solution, a way for us to be together no matter what they say. (Leo gets down on one knee and Piper's eyes widen. He takes Piper's hand.) Will you marry me?
Cole: You get anything out of him?
Darryl: Nope, he's not talking.
Cole: Yea? Seems to be an epidemic.

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