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Which Prue Is It Anyway?

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Phoebe and Piper run into the attic and see Prue multiply.

Which Prue Is It Anyway? is the 16th episode of Charmed.

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[edit] Episode Information

Season 1
Episode No. 16
Written By Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed By John Behring
Production No. 4398015
Original Airdate March 3, 1999

[edit] Summary

When Phoebe has a terrifying premonition of Prue being stabbed to death, Prue takes the drastic step of saying an incantation to multiply her strength by three. The spell surprisingly results in the creation of two additional Prues to fight the enemy, an ancient Lord of War. Meanwhile, Piper and Phoebe try to wean Prue from her selfish and headstrong habit of always taking matters into her own hands, while Phoebe vents her aggression with a martial arts training program. Meanwhile, a suspicious medical examiner drops a bombshell on Andy.

[edit] Plot

Two men are sparring in a boxing ring. A mysterious third man meets with one of the boxers, Luther Stubbs. Luther had killed a man in the ring three years ago. Without warning, the mysterious man draws a sword and kills Luther, saying he is after his killer instinct.

Phoebe is also sparring, but with a dummy. She has been taking self-defense classes to hone her fighting skills; she wants to make up for only having a passive power. The other sisters meet her and Phoebe manages to grab Prue by the arm. She has a vision of Prue dying at the hand of a man with a sword. Phoebe draws the sword she saw, but cannot find it in the Book of Shadows.

Helena Statler meets with Prue and Claire at Buckland Auction House. She says that she and her brother have amassed a large collection of antiquities, and is thinking about having Buckland's sell them. Prue is apprehensive when Helena says the collection is located in the Warehouse Flats, but with Claire glowering over her she agrees to go.

Phoebe at last finds the sword; it belongs to the Lords of War. The sword renders its bearer invulnerable to the weapons of man and steals power. Phoebe and Piper read in the Book of Shadows that when a Lord of War is disgraced, he must steal his powers back--including the power of a firstborn witch, since they are always the most powerful. They fear that one of them might be after Prue.

Prue meets Helena at the Warehouse Flats with her collection. One of the items is a pillory; Prue puts her arms in it, and it suddenly closes. The mysterious man seen at the beginning of the show appears, and Helena introduces him as her brother, Gabriel--a Lord of War.  The Statlers know that Prue is a witch, and trapped her arms because they suspected she channeled her power through them, as did one of her ancestors, Brianna Warren.  However, Prue opens the pillory with her power, much to the Statlers' surprise; they didn't know she channeled her power through her eyes. She throws Helena against a wall, then swings a halberd at Gabriel. The halberd doesn't even scratch him, and Prue makes a break for the door. Gabriel throws his sword at her and misses, allowing Prue to make good her escape.

Phoebe finds Gabriel in the Book of Shadows. Brianna Warren had taken Gabriel's sword during the Crimean War, disgracing him, and now he must steal his powers back. Trying to find a solution, the page turns to an incantation to triple a witch's strength, which Prue says. The spell summons two more Prues. Phoebe provides the Prues with sweaters in order to tell them apart: one pink, one blue, and one black for the real Prue.

Andy comes to the manor, claiming a social call. Pink-Prue answers and he gives her tickets to the Bay Area Musical Awards.

Real-Prue and pink-Prue go to Buckland's. Pink-Prue gets Gabriel's address. Claire confronts pink-Prue about the incident at the warehouse. Claire takes the sheet with Gabriel's address. Real-Prue leaves with Claire.

Pink-Prue runs into Gabriel. Gabriel throws a flash canister. Pink-Prue is temporarily blinded, but uses her power to nickGabriel in the face with his own sword. Enraged, Gabriel runs pink-Prue through with the sword. He expects Prue's power to flow into him via his sword, and is surprised when nothing happens. He realizes that he's been tricked. Real-Prue feels the pain. Andy finds pink-Prue in the morgue and goes to Phoebe. Phoebe asks what color sweater was "Prue" wearing; it was pink. Blue-Prue walks in, followed by real-Prue, and Piper freezes the room while real-Prue hides. Andy doesn't know what to think. Blue-Prue doesn't know about the concert.

Piper, Phoebe and the two remaining Prues plan to confront Gabriel at his house. Helena and Gabriel, meanwhile, plan to face the Halliwells at the manor. The three sisters make further plans, excluding blue-Prue from of the conversation. Piper and Phoebe eventually talk real-Prue out of attacking the Statlers at their house. They come out to discover blue-Prue has headed for the Statlers' house.

Blue-Prue takes Helena hostage in a torture device and demands the sword in exchange for Helena's life. However, Gabriel realizes this Prue is a clone as well, and instead kills Helena, then comes after clone Prue. Real Prue and Phoebe are heading for Gabriel's house when real-Prue feels Gabriel killing the clone.

The sisters hatch a new plan--get the sword away from Gabriel and kill him with it. Phoebe has a vision and knows that Gabriel is coming.

Andy asks the medical examiner about pink clone Prue. The ME says that as far as he can tell, the woman is Prue Halliwell.

Gabriel breaks through a window of the darkened manor. He throws his sword, but it strikes only Phoebe's sparring dummy. He is now vulnerable, and the sisters attack. Piper freezes him, and Phoebe kicks him, knocking him against a wall. Prue flings his sword into his chest, vanquishing him.

Andy takes Prue to the morgue to show her the clone, but finds only the clothes that pink clone Prue was wearing. Later he opens a folder marked HALLIWELL, PRUE and removes a sheet mentioning black magic and witchcraft.

[edit] The Three Prues

Prue is attacked by the Lord of War

Prue casts the Charm of Multiplicity

3 Times the Strength

Regular Prue, Conservative Prue & Sexy Prue

The three Prues have enough strength to lift the marble statue

Majority Rules, 3:2

Gabriel blinds Pink Prue

Gabriel kills Pink with Crystal Sword

Pink's last word "Prue", and then she dies

Prue feels Pink's death

Blue lures Gabriel

Blue uses Helena as leverage

Blue means business

Blue's plan backfires

Prue feels Blue's death

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Co-Stars

[edit] Notes

  • Darryl does not appear in this episode.
  • The title of the episode is a reference to the TV series Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988).
  • The title is also the second consecutive title in the first season to have a question (and a question mark) in the title.
  • This is the only episode with Prue's name on the title.
  • This episode shows the first reference to Phoebe learning martial arts.
  • Gabriel wants to kill the primogenital Prue, to take revenge for her Great-Great-Great Aunt Brianna Warren.
  • Prue says to Phoebe that she’ll one day hear herself, and Phoebe says that she’ll be sassy and delightful.
  • Andy becomes suspicious of Prue, due to see her dead (Pink) body, and due to the concert tickets forget (Blue).
  • The Pink-Prue represents her super ego while the Blue-Prue represents Prue's id her inner desires.

[edit] Quotes

Prue: Okay, but Piper, she's ugly. (Grams' statue)
Piper: Majority rules, sis. Unless, you can move her.
(Prue tries to move her with her power. She can't.)
Prue: Oohh... okay, okay, that didn't work.
Piper: It's solid marble. It took eight of Phoebe's bouncer friends to move it. It's too heavy for you.
Prue: You know, my powers are still growing and one day...
Piper: You can move it into the basement. But until then suffer.
Piper: I'm gonna have to wash my hair in the kitchen sink if I want to get to work on time. Do you know which is the real Prue yet?
Phoebe: Oh, I don't know. It could be the upstairs bathroom hogging Prue, or the downstairs bathroom hogging Prue, or the sitting in the kitchen drinking all the coffee Prue.
Prue: Don't blame me, I didn't cast the spell.
Phoebe: Great, you're a clone.
Prue: Well, no, I'm not exactly a clone, I mean I do have all of Prue's memories up until the time she cast the spell, so, in a lot of ways I am Prue.
Piper: Then it is your fault.
Prue: No, it's not, and neither is the lack of hot water. (Prue walks away.)
Phoebe: Oh, you didn't. Geez.
Piper: This is ridiculous. This is like, this is like the "Parent Trap" with a B cup.
Phoebe: I think I might've just found a way to take some of the Disney out of our life.
Piper: Once you know where he lives, are you sure you have the power to do the job?
Prue: Observe. (to clones) Ladies, shall we?
(The 3 Prues hold hands and easily levitate Grams' statue)
Prue: Enough said?
Real Prue: Okay, alright, let us think, um, I got it. I will take Claire to the wrong address, pretend we've been stood up or something. You call the other one of us at Quake.
Pink Prue: I love it when I'm so decisive.
Real Prue: Okay, look, you go get the other Prue and take her to the manor. Okay, and we'll finish this. (She dials the phone.) Hey, yeah, Pheebs, it's me. No, the real one. I'm just checking in.
Pink Prue: We do that a lot don't we? Check in with our sisters, make sure they're okay. Don't you think if there were a problem, they would call us and let us know?
Real Prue: Phoebe, I'll call you back. I have to go yell at myself. (She hangs up.)
Phoebe: Do you have any idea what color sweater she was wearing when they found her? I know it sounds strange, Andy, but it's important.
Andy: I think the report said pink.
Phoebe: Thank God.
Andy: I just told you I saw your sister dead and you're relieved?
Phoebe: Andy, it's uh, no secret that we fought at times.
Andy: What the hell kind of answer is that, Phoebe?

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