Charmed (season 4)

Charmed Season 4
DVD cover art
No. of episodes	22
Broadcast
Original channel	The WB
Original run	October 4, 2001 (2001-10-04) – May 16, 2002 (2002-05-16)
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1	February 28, 2006 (2006-02-28)
Region 4	November 3, 2005 (2005-11-03)
Season chronology
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List of Charmed episodes

The fourth season of Charmed, an American supernatural drama television series, began airing on October 4, 2001 on The WB. Airing on Thursdays at 9 P.M., the season consisted of 22 episodes and concluded its airing on May 16, 2002.

This season also saw the introduction of Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews - half-sister to Prue, Piper and Phoebe - and a slight alteration of the opening sequence, due to the third season departure of Shannen Doherty as Prue.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the complete fourth season in a six-disc boxed set on February 28, 2006.

Synopsis

Following Prue's death at the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose" season 4 brings the arrival of Paige Matthews - half sister to the Halliwells. The girl's mother Patty had a love affair with her whitelighter Sam and discovered she was pregnant. Knowing she would never be able to keep the baby she gave her child to a local church so she would be given to a kind family.

Most of the first half of the season sees Piper and Phoebe coping with their sister's death, learning to accept Paige and teach her in the ways of witchcraft while learning best how to use their own expanding growing powers which they'd received towards the end of the prior season's episodes. They also focus on destroying The Source once and for all. Phoebe and Cole go through many difficulties in their relationship, such as Cole finding his place once he becomes human. The Charmed Ones must also deal with the new positions they find themselves in; Paige goes from being an only child to having two siblings as well as trying to fill the shoes of Prue, Piper must deal with becoming the oldest sister and head witch giving her more responsibility and Phoebe, who previously had been care-free, becomes the middle sister and must mediate between her two sisters, as well as starting her first full-time job as an advice columnist.

The second half of the season finds Cole fighting once again with the evil inside him, only this time it is The Source. Although he plans to rebuild the underworld and destroy The Charmed Ones, the human inside plots to convert Phoebe and have her rule by his side as his Queen. We are also introduced to The Seer who has an evil agenda of her own.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
• Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
• Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews (Introduced in "Charmed Again Pt. 1"; replaces Shannen Doherty)
• Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
• Julian McMahon as Cole Turner (Does not appear in "Size Matters", "A Knight to Remember", "Trial by Magic" and "Womb Raider")
• Dorian Gregory as Darryl Morris (Does not appear in "Hell Hath No Fury", "Enter the Demon", "Size Matters", "A Knight to Remember", "Brain Drain", "Muse to My Ears", "Trial by Magic", "Lost and Bound", "The Three Faces of Phoebe", "The Fifth Halliwheel", "Saving Private Leo", "Bite Me", "We're Off to See the Wizard" and "Long Live the Queen")

Recurring cast

• Jennifer Rhodes as Penny Halliwell
• Finola Hughes as Patty Halliwell
• James Read as Victor Bennett
• Debbi Morgan as The Seer
• David Reivers as Bob Cowan
• Rebecca Balding as Elise Rothman

Episode list

See also: List of Charmed episodes

№	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
67	1	"Charmed Again (Part 1)"	Mel Damski	Brad Kern	October 4, 2001 (2001-10-04)	4301801
Piper and Phoebe grieve over the death of Prue, who was killed by the demon Shax which in turn destroyed the Power of Three and left the sisters vulnerable. But at Prue's funeral, their long-lost and previously unknown sister Paige appears, who happens to be half-whitelighter, half-witch. Meanwhile the Source, who realizes that the Charmed Ones might be reconstituted with Paige as the third sister, assigns Shax to kill her. Just in the last minute as Paige joins the sisters at the Manor, she gets her powers and together the three are able to avenge Prue's death by vanquishing Shax.
68	2	"Charmed Again (Part 2)"	Mel Damski	Brad Kern	October 4, 2001 (2001-10-04)	4301801
After Piper, Phoebe and Paige – the newly reconstituted Charmed Ones – vanquish Shax, Paige flees in a panic after discovering what she can now do. The Source of All Evil prepares to vanquish the Oracle for giving him false information; however, she tells him of an alternative course of action: he can sway Paige to the side of evil during the Window of Opportunity. At the Manor, Piper and Phoebe are helping treat Leo's bruises after he attacked Shax the night before. Piper is upset that her mom never told them about Paige. The Inspector agrees to keep the sisters secret in return for his life. When Cole reveals that the Source has come to earth, Piper and Phoebe decide to find Paige, and fast, before the Source can get to her. They decide to start at the Church that she was left at as a baby. The Source has already possessed Paige's boyfriend Shane in an attempt to subvert Paige for evil. Before leaving to visit the Church, Phoebe has a breakdown from the grief at Prue's death and trying to hold Piper together and being worried about losing the leader of the Charmed Ones. Piper decides that they need to protect Paige for Prue's and their mother's memory. Paige goes the Church where she was left and talks with Sister Agnes, the nun who she was trusted to. The Source (as Shane) attempts to take Paige from the Church, but is not allowed in by the gargoyles. Paige leaves with him, and before Piper and Phoebe can warn her about his possession, he telekinetically slams them backwards into the Church and runs away with Paige. They find her at work, Leo orbs her to the Manor for safety. Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Cole celebrate the arrival of Paige into their lives at P3, and begin to mourn their lost sister.
69	3	"Hell Hath No Fury"	Chris Long	Krista Vernoff	October 11, 2001 (2001-10-11)	4301069
New to the witchy world of The Charmed Ones, Paige is learning to control her new telekinetic powers and steals the Book of Shadows from Phoebe and Piper to use the spells for personal gain suffering consequences that include a magical breast augmentation. Meanwhile, Piper's inability to deal with her sister's recent death makes her vulnerable to the Furies, female demon vigilantes who lure her into their fold because of all the anger she holds inside. Phoebe, Paige, and Leo come up with a plan to make Piper human again and during a confrontation, Phoebe tells Piper that she's angry because she feels abandoned. Paige then tells Piper that Phoebe wasn't the sister who abandoned her; it was Prue. Piper then attacks Paige as Leo orbs them to Prue's grave. While there, Paige tells Piper that she knows what she's going through and that it's okay for her to hate Prue for dying on her and leaving her alone because she felt the same way after her parents died. Piper then angrily starts pounding the grave, yelling at Prue and begging her to come back. With all her grief released, Piper falls to her knees, sobbing as she turns back into a human while Leo comforts her. At the end of the episode, Piper visits Paige at work where they talk. Piper tells Paige that she's dealing with the grief. Paige tells her that even though it'll never be okay that Prue's gone, but it will get better to deal with. Piper then tells Paige that she's going to have to learn the rules of being a witch. When Paige's boss comes over wondering why Paige's work isn't done and sees Piper, he asks who she is to which Piper replies that she's Paige's sister.
70	4	"Enter the Demon"	Joel J. Feigenbaum	Daniel Cerone	October 18, 2001 (2001-10-18)	4301071
Paige makes a major blunder when carelessly mixing potions for Piper while secretly wishing she could be in Phoebe's shoes training for combat, and ends up actually switching bodies with Phoebe. While the two sisters try to reverse the spell and struggle to harness each other's powers, they must battle a Zen Master's powerful disciple who has turned evil against his mentor and opened up a portal between two worlds.
71	5	"Size Matters"	Noel Nosseck	Nell Scovell	October 25, 2001 (2001-10-25)	4301070
Phoebe and Piper don't take Paige seriously when she has a weird feeling about a creepy old house, landing Phoebe in the clutches of a hideous demon and shrunk to a powerless five inches tall. When Paige and Piper also walk into the demon's trap, his collection is complete.
72	6	"A Knight to Remember"	David Straiton	Alison Schapker & Monica Breen	November 1, 2001 (2001-11-01)	4301072
Paige's favorite (self-made) childhood fairy tale— which she could never remember being able to recall parts of, in particular magic spells— suddenly becomes real, bringing her face-to-face with a past life as an Evil Enchantress from Medieval times and into the arms of a knight in shining armor. Phoebe and Piper go back in time to save her and end up trapped in the Dark Ages. At the same time the sisters have to periodically fight an electrical demon who is plaguing them, but for which they need a Power of Three spell to vanquish, and Paige lives across town and it hasn't attacked when they are all together. Phoebe and Piper are trapped in the Dark Ages after trying to save the world from being ruled by evil, leaving Paige and Leo to rescue them.
73	7	"Brain Drain"	John Behring	Curtis Kheel	November 8, 2001 (2001-11-08)	4301073
The Source sends a chameleon demon into the manor that Cole unmasks, but not before he has lurked around at least three days as a lamp spying out the girls' secrets. Why he wants the information and what he wants to do with it becomes a hot topic of debate. The Source then kidnaps Piper after setting an ambush in an alley and alters her perception of reality: she wakes up seemingly in an insane asylum called "Halliwell Hospital" where she has no powers, and Leo is one of the attendants. Paige and Phoebe are fellow patients, and where Prue was a patient who was healed and left while the attending psychiatrist is the Chameleon demon, Graft (in reality it is the Source who has killed Graft). He has discerned that her deepest secret is that she never wanted to be a witch, and having captured her to the underworld she is being ensorcelled by the demon and the Oracle. Consulting the Book of Shadows when Cole returns from questioning a demon and learning she is in the underworld, Phoebe has a premonition seeing The Source defeating Paige and herself with Piper's power of over speeding molecules (blasting). Her sisters must find a way to stop her from giving up her powers to the Source, while the three or more days the demon had spied in the house has armed him with some realistic and underlying guesses at their psychic weaknesses and fears, which he stands on their heads in order to break down Piper.
74	8	"Black as Cole"	Les Landau	Abbey Campbell & Brad Kern & Nell Scovell	November 15, 2001 (2001-11-15)	4301074
In the midst of mulling over his marriage proposal, Phoebe comes face-to-face with Cole's demonic past when a widow tracks him down seeking vengeance for her husband's murder. Meanwhile, Paige encourages Piper and Leo to test their readiness to become parents.
75	9	"Muse to My Ears"	Joel J. Feigenbaum	Krista Vernoff	December 13, 2001 (2001-12-13)	4301075
Phoebe, Paige and Piper must stop warlocks who are enslaving the world's muses to use their divine creative inspiration for evil. In the midst of the assault, Cole becomes testy about Phoebe's rebuffing his marriage proposal and is concerned that without his demonic powers he can no longer protect the love of his life.
76	10	"A Paige from the Past"	James L. Conway	Daniel Cerone	January 17, 2002 (2002-01-17)	4301076
Haunted by her parents' deaths, Paige travels with Leo back in time to find out why she survived her parents when they perished. Meanwhile Piper and Darryl must prevent the marriage of Phoebe and Cole, whose bodies are inhabited by outlaw ghosts from the 1950s that escaped from a time portal—and somehow keep them out of jail as well with Darryl's help. Paige tries to let her parents know how much she loves them and promises she will never let them down again. Her parents confess that they feel like she is lost, but they don't know how to help her. Paige calms them down saying that they had given to her all she wanted. Paige believes that if they stay home that evening her parents will stay alive, but while they are driving home the accident happens after all as Leo had warned her she couldn't change the past. Paige orbs out of the car and finds herself lying on the pavement while her parents die in the flaming car. Paige realizes that the reason why she survived all those years ago is because she had orbed out of the car and Leo tells her it was because of her Charmed destiny. She always had the magic inside her. Meanwhile Cole and Phoebe rob a diamond ring and a wedding gown and head to the Chapel to get married at last since they never managed it in the 1950s before dying. Both of them feel how the real Cole and Phoebe would like to get married themselves, but Piper and Darryl stop the wedding right in time. When Cole intends to shoot Darryl shoots him causing the ghost leave Cole's deadly wounded body. Leo and Paige return from the past just in time to cure Cole. The ghosts are sent back to the time portal. When Piper and Phoebe ask Paige how she's feeling, Paige says she wishes that her parents could see what she has become. Leo then shows up with the ghosts of Paige's parents who tell her that they had been watching her all through her life and are proud of who she has become and most importantly that she kept her promise to her parents for once in her life.
77	11	"Trial by Magic"	Chip Scott Laughlin	Michael Gleason	January 24, 2002 (2002-01-24)	4301077
While serving on a murder trial, Phoebe has a premonition that reveals the defendant is innocent despite the overwhelming evidence against him. As she desperately stalls in the jury room, Piper, Paige and Leo frantically try to discover the real killer in time to free the wrongly accused man.
78	12	"Lost and Bound"	Noel Nosseck	Nell Scovell	January 31, 2002 (2002-01-31)	4301078
When Paige discovers that an 11-year-old runaway is a Firestarter Witch, she whisks him to the manor for safekeeping, but the gang soon discovers that his foster parents are, in fact, demon bounty hunters. Thus, they protect him while trying to teach him how to use his powers for good rather than evil. Meanwhile, Cole has his hands full when Phoebe begins reverting into a 1950s housewife when she puts on Grams' cursed wedding ring, Leo and Piper discuss about binding their future child's power and Cole is fired from the job Paige got for him, unable to avoid using violence in his everyday life.
79	13	"Charmed and Dangerous"	Jon Pare	Alison Schapker & Monica Breen	February 7, 2002 (2002-02-07)	4301079
The Source (of all evil) is getting obsessed and desperate to find a way to defeat the Charmed Ones so he breaks an ancient agreement between the highest level beings on both the sides of Good and Evil when he unleashes the Hollow — a magical vapor-like cloud that consumes all magic power, but which oddity of magic can be taken into a magical being (inhaled, semi-possessed) to augment their powers for a time — to use against the Charmed Ones. One problem with the Hallow is that it continues to consume all magical power that it can tap, so must not be let out of a special container crafted to keep the magical universes safe. By violating this law, the Source threatens all of magic (and all life), which causes the Seer to decide that supporting him was beyond the pale and she begins to cast about for a means to cancel his control of the Hallow and replace him with someone she sees a great future for herself, as his adjunct: She and Belthazor (Cole) in one possible future make a great future for both sides with Belthazor at her side, so she begins to plot by abducting Cole to manipulate events to make him the next Source against his will and bring about the demise of the current Source. The Seer convinces Cole that taking the Hollow into his body is the only way to save Phoebe, but she doesn't tell him that he will become the Source. When the Source attacks the girls Cole covers Phoebe with his body to save her from the energy ball which makes him absorb the Source's powers, and thus also the Source himself to the Seer's greatest pleasure, but unknown to the Charmed Ones. With Cole now having the Source's power, he fends him off while the sisters say the vanquishing spell and the Source is vanquished. The Seer returns the Hollow into its box with Phoebe's help. At the end , the sisters and Leo are at P3 celebrating and they toast a drink to Prue for finally avenging her death once and for all.
80	14	"The Three Faces of Phoebe"	Joel J. Feigenbaum	Curtis Kheel	February 14, 2002 (2002-02-14)	4301080
Phoebe gets premarital cold feet and casts a spell to find out if she should marry Cole, which conjures a young, innocent Phoebe from the past and an old, cynical Phoebe from the future to the manor to help her make up her mind. Meanwhile, after the defeat of the Source, Kurzon, an upper level demon and former rival to the Source tries to take over the Underworld in the power vacuum. Cole is unable to control the evil growing within him as the magic of The Source begins taking over his entire being and his human half is fighting violently to save himself and his love towards Phoebe. the Seer prepares for his rule of the underworld for she had foreseen this, and further, has no interest in helping him delay or defeat his "destiny". When Phoebe is trying to talk to her younger and older selves she remembers the charming prince she was dreaming of when a young girl and strongly believes that Cole is the one, while the older Phoebe is adamantly refusing to talk of their future in order not to affect it anyhow. Phoebe can't guess why her older self slapped Cole on seeing him and refuses to tell why. But when Cole is attacked by Kurzon and can't use his powers in front of the girls, the older Phoebe sacrifices herself to save his life saying that it was the answer she was looking for as she dies. The older Phoebe hides the future hoping that Phoebe will help Cole fight the evil and can save him before it's too late unlike her when she refused Cole's proposal before getting married as she had found out who he really was. Only Cole knows about it, but he never tells Phoebe about that conversation with her older self. His human half still lives in him, but the Source is getting stronger and more dependent on the Seer.
81	15	"Marry-Go-Round"	Chris Long	Daniel Cerone	March 14, 2002 (2002-03-14)	4301081
Cole and the Seer sabotage his and Phoebe's wedding, because he was told, by the Seer, that he and Phoebe would have a son, the most powerful sorcerer of all should they be married in a dark magic ceremony in the full of night. But if they were to be married the normal way on consecrated lands in the daytime, their son would be on the side of good, and would be the key leader bringing the end of the side of evil. He and the Seer try, several times to create an occasion for a spontaneous (and dark) wedding— switching wedding gowns with a fatty to put the sisters at each others throats; to induce sibling rivalry between Phoebe and Paige; and unearthing a notorious Lazarus Demon (played by Coolio) all as attempts to stop the big wedding planned by Phoebe. When the wedding is absolutely ruined and they are in the cemetery getting rid of Lazarus Demon, they find a chapel right there and Phoebe agrees to get married right there, according to all the rules of the dark magic ceremony, without knowing about them.
82	16	"The Fifth Halliwheel"	David Straiton	Krista Vernoff	March 21, 2002 (2002-03-21)	4301082
Paige Matthews, who feels like a fifth wheel among her happily married sisters and their husbands — Phoebe and Cole along with Piper and Leo—but becomes firmly convinced that Cole is still evil. The situation gets worse when Paige becomes convinced Cole's still a demon, while the new (temporary) Source and the Seer secretly plot to impregnate Phoebe using Cole's body. Meanwhile, the sisters try to save a columnist as Cole tries to get Paige out of the way through his demonic contacts in the underworld, reasoning.
83	17	"Saving Private Leo"	John Behring	Daniel Cerone & Doug E. Jones	March 28, 2002 (2002-03-28)	4301083
Two ghosts from Leo's past come back to haunt him, and they find the best way to hurt him is to go after his charges and the people he loves. After sixty years of searching, the two ghosts, brothers who enlisted beside and fought alongside Leo in World War II come after him seeking revenge because they felt he abandoned them. When they stab him and learn he is a whitelighter (whom they believe they can't kill), they turn this raging wrath on his loved ones and kill one of his charges, a school teacher destined to become a whitelighter herself, then after some maneuvers and counters, including a period when Leo loses his powers, they seek out and stab Piper in the manor's attic, so Phoebe and Paige must face the horror of losing another sister while futilely attempting CPR with a bleeding corpse. Without his powers, Leo is vulnerable and unable to save Piper, who becomes a ghost, but this proves to be a mistake for the evil ghosts: in her ghostly form, Piper is able to recite the Ghost Vanquishing Spell (a spell only another ghost can say) and destroys the Lang Brothers' spirits. After being reminded of all the good he's done, Leo's powers return and he's able to heal and resurrect Piper before her spirit moves on. He and Piper later go to the reunion of the battle Leo died in with Leo pretending to be his own grandson, and Leo finally learns to forgive himself for his mistakes after he meets all the people he saved in that battle, including the man he died saving who survived thanks to his sacrifice. Meanwhile, Cole Turner is taking up a prominent position in a law firm dominated by the demonic underworld, establishing himself in a fancy new house and continuing to keep the secret that he's come into the powers of the Source of All Evil and is the new source. He interviews for staff positions and hires the Demoness Julie who would love to work under the Source much more closely and often.
84	18	"Bite Me"	John T. Kretchmer	Curtis Kheel	April 18, 2002 (2002-04-18)	4301084
Cole is consolidating his hold on the San Francisco demonic underworld while keeping his magic secret from the sisters. He is holding meetings at their new high rise penthouse and has dictated a no-orbing-in policy there, which goes over badly with Paige, who is already suspicious of him. He awkwardly claimed they were painting his offices when almost caught out as Phoebe comes home unexpectedly, having Julie present and a gaggle of demons having to shimmer out just in time for him to magically set a romantic candlelit table. The next morning, with Phoebe ill, Paige orbs in about confer before work about Phoebe's indisposition, which the sisters believe is related to wounds from a Harpy attack, but Cole is dismissing an emissary from the vampire queen who lurks outside in the Penthouse hall eavesdropping with special hearing. The Vampire's want to rejoin the rest of demonkind, but Cole as the new Source rebuffs them. With the hopes of unseating Cole as ruler of the Underworld, a Vampire Queen orders her fanged charges to attack Paige and turn her into a vampire in order to get a Charmed One on their side. Paige's undead transformation isn't sealed until she takes her first victim, so the Vampire Queen urges her to feed on Piper and Phoebe. Ultimately Cole saves the day: after learning the Vampires whereabouts he flames to their lair and vanquishes the Queen with a fireball. This turns Paige back to normal and vanquishes the other Vampires. Cole considers killing Paige, but ultimately doesn't and leaves before anyone sees him. Piper tries to deal with being unable to get pregnant, while Phoebe learns that she is pregnant. Also, Piper finally becomes more receptive to Paige's suspicions about Cole.
85	19	"We're Off to See the Wizard"	Timothy Lonsdale	Alison Schapker & Monica Breen	April 25, 2002 (2002-04-25)	4301085
Phoebe shares her pregnant status with Piper and Paige just when they'd braced themselves to tell her they believe Cole is a demon somehow again. Comically, Piper sidesteps their planned discussion instead of stressing Phoebe, while Paige ham-handedly wants to bull forward with their suspicions about Cole. In the underworld, Cole's assistant Julie is revealed to be a seductress demoness planted by The Seer who has twice suggested offing Phoebe and letting the Seer work her dark magic so she can bear your heir. The Source and the Seer are constantly at odds about Phoebe, who the Seer regards as the biggest threat to the new Source, for the sources powers can be defeated by the human side of the half-breed leader. Piper, Paige and Leo team up with a magical (and ambiguous) Wizard to stop the coronation of a new Source, not realizing that the new head of the Underworld is Cole and Phoebe is his Evil Queen-to-be. Phoebe is called by the Seer who tells her that Cole needs her and she has to be his queen if not to save him than at least for their baby's sake. Phoebe choses to stay with Cole without knowing what a monster is growing in her and what are the real plans of the Seer.
86	20	"Long Live the Queen"	Jon Paré	Krista Vernoff	May 2, 2002 (2002-05-02)	4301086
Phoebe has chosen to stay with Cole and take on the role as Queen of the Underworld, but a premonition of an innocent in danger compels her to rejoin her sisters. Word spreads that the Queen is responsible for saving an innocent and Phoebe and Cole may be facing a bloody coup, with the only solution to prove their dark allegiance being to kill Phoebe's family forcing Phoebe to choose between love and her destiny. Phoebe soon realizes that the Seer had been poisoning her with pure evil in the tonics she's been drinking to manipulate her into joining Cole's side. Feeling scared and betrayed, Phoebe hides out in the bathroom as her sisters arrive to vanquish Cole. A battle ensues between them after a failed attempt to trap him in the Crystal Cage and Piper pleads with Phoebe to come out and help them. Just as Cole is about to kill Piper and Paige, Phoebe comes out from the bathroom and Cole tells her that he's sorry, but it's for the best. Phoebe kisses Cole and tells her she's sorry too and places the last crystal down, trapping Cole and joins her sisters. Cole is stunned and Phoebe tells him she's sorry again. The sisters say the vanquishing spell as Cole tells Phoebe he'll always love her before he's vanquished. Phoebe then breaks down sobbing. The episode ends with Piper and Paige comforting Phoebe in her bedroom.
87	21	"Womb Raider"	Mel Damski	Daniel Cerone	May 9, 2002 (2002-05-09)	4301087
As the baby inside Phoebe grows stronger, symptoms arise that are not normal for an expecting mother. He uses her body against her will to perform dark magic when he feels threatened. In some cases, this results in dangerous actions against those around Phoebe, including Paige, a doctor, and even a police detective. Paige and Piper have understandable concerns about who or what this baby represents. Phoebe wants to believe there is good in him, but as the baby grows stronger, she feels only evil. With the Source destroyed, the Underworld is in need of new leadership. Dane has risen, but the Seer stops his coronation. She explains that the Source's son is the true heir to the throne. The demons question how he can rule considering he hasn't even been born yet. She convinces them to give her some time to show them how it will work. She enlists the help of a new demon, the Tall Man, and sends him to capture Phoebe. He comes back with Paige instead. The Seer knows Phoebe won't let her sister die, so she holds Paige in a magic proof cage. Phoebe has no choice but to go alone to the Seer to try to save Paige. Piper and Leo try to stop her, but she won't let them. The baby takes over completely, kills the Tall Man, and flames to the Seer. Once there, the Seer performs dark magic to transfer the fetus from Phoebe's womb into hers. Trapped in the cage, Paige and Phoebe watch as the true plan is revealed. The baby is not Phoebe and Cole's at all, but instead the instrument for which she will bring new power to evil and destroy the Charmed Ones. She was using Cole and Phoebe all along. Paige and Phoebe realize they only stand a chance with the Power of Three. Although the cage won't let magic escape, it will bring it in. They call to Piper with a spell. The three sisters watch, as the Seer becomes the new Source. However, she becomes temporarily overwhelmed by the baby's power, and the sister's realize that she cannot contain the unborn child's power either. With this they formulate a plan to overload the seer with the baby's power. They begin chanting the Power of Three spell. The Seer uses the baby's power to blast a blue energy stream at the sisters, but their shield holds. The seer then fires two streams at the sisters, which causes her power to overload. The Seer then loses all control, and begins firing blasts from all over her body, in every direction, vanquishing many of the demonic council and the dark priest, finally self-terminating in a massive explosion which takes out all remaining demons, leaving the sisters and the Grimoire untouched. With the Source of all evil finally destroyed and the Grimoire safely hidden by Leo, the sisters reflect on their losses. Piper tells Leo that the doctor informed her that they might have difficulty conceiving. With so much behind them though, she feels their future is bright.
88	22	"Witch Way Now?"	Brad Kern	Brad Kern	May 16, 2002 (2002-05-16)	4301088
The Charmed Ones must decide if they want to remain magical. Cole keeps coming to Phoebe, the latest through a psychic on television. Phoebe does a lost love spell, which transports her to the wasteland, where all vanquished demons go. She finds Cole, and The Angel of Destiny comes, offering the Charmed Ones a reward for vanquishing the Source - a life free of demons. Phoebe loves the idea - after all she has been through, she is ready to give up being a witch and live a normal life. Phoebe goes to tell Cole of their decision to give up their powers. She tells him they tried all they could to keep their love going, but love wasn't enough. They both need to move on. Paige is the only Charmed One who wants to keep her magic powers because without them, she wouldn't have sisters. She tells them to think of all the good they have done. She creates a spell to find Selena, a supposed witch-hunter. Piper wants to give up her powers because it was magic that led to her not being able to get pregnant. When Darryl tells them that they are under surveillance by an FBI agent (Jackman) who thinks it's odd they are witnesses for multiple crimes, Piper freezes him while Phoebe does her spell. When the agent comes into the manor, he has an amulet that makes him immune to their powers. He shows them files of pictures he has of them. He has researched them, and knows their genealogy, too. He tells the Charmed Ones he is looking for a witch-hunter named Selena, who is the latest serial killer. If they get her for him, he will give them the files. Being the good witches they are, they agree to help Jackman find Selena. Living in the wasteland, Cole must run from the beast who feeds off demon's powers. He wants Phoebe to get the Grimoire and save him. He refuses to move on without Phoebe. Cole kills the beast by taking the powers of other demons. He continues to come to Phoebe. When the Charmed Ones go to get Selena, they find it odd that she has bodyguards. The bodyguards try shooting them, but Piper freezes everything and they get Selena and take her to the manor. Jackman comes for her, and tells them that all witches are the same - just because they have powers they think they are better. Gives them a warrant for Selena's arrest, and says he will give them the files when she is in jail. They grow suspicious of Jackman, and Leo and Darryl tell them that Jackman is actually the witch-hunter and Selena the daughter of a witch. The Charmed Ones go after Jackman. Jackman is burning Selena at the stake, and has placed amulets all around, leaving them powerless. Phoebe uses her martial arts to fight him, and when Jackman pulls out a gun, Cole appears and switches Jackman and Phoebe's positions, forcing the bullet to strike Jackman, killing him. Cole tells Phoebe he will not give up on them, and will love her forever. Selena testifies on behalf of the Charmed Ones, and Leo tells them he orbed the files into a volcano. When the Angel of Destiny comes for their final decision, Phoebe says it felt good to save someone and she didn't like not having her powers, so they did not want to lose their powers. Piper agrees that it is who they are, and the Angel of Destiny accepts their decision and tells Piper that the decision to get rid of their powers wouldn't have changed her and Leo's personal destiny and as he looks at her stomach, tells her she'll find out soon enough what he means. Phoebe realizes what he's talking about and asks Piper and Paige if they get it they don't and Phoebe excitedly announces that Piper's pregnant. The episode (and season) ends with Phoebe and Paige hugging a completely stunned Piper.

References

External links

• List of Charmed episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Charmed season 4 episodes at TV.com
• Charmed at epguides.com