Season Three

the third season...

3.1 The Honeymoon's Over (41' 24")

While Piper and Leo are away, Prue and Phoebe must face a series of demons known as Guardians, who protect mortal murderers in exchange for the souls of innocents.

3.2 Magic Hour (42' 35")

The sisters must find a way to break a curse which turns a man into an owl by day and his girlfriend into a wolf by night, while Piper and Leo attempt to wed without The Powers That Be finding out.

3.3 Once Upon a Time (42' 20")

Prue and Phoebe try to save a little girl and a fairy princess from evil trolls while Piper goes on strike.

3.4 All Halliwell's Eve (41' 16")

On Halloween, the sisters are pulled back in time to the 1600s to save a witch and her soon-to-be-born child from the hands of an evil witch.

3.5 Sight Unseen (42' 34")

After the house is robbed, Prue becomes increasingly paranoid over attacks from the Triad, and the mysterious threat Belthazor poses.

3.6 Primrose Empath (42' 06")

Prue begins experiencing the powers of an empath, thanks to a demon, but she soon loses control.

3.7 Power Outage (41' 41")

In an attempt to destroy the Charmed Ones, Cole enlists the help of Andras, a demon who magnifies anger into rage.

3.8 Sleuthing With the Enemy (42' 22")

When the sisters discover that Cole is Belthazor, Phoebe must make one of the toughest decisions of her life: either vanquish her boyfriend or keep an extremely dangerous demon alive.

3.9 Coyote Piper (40' 59")

Prue and Phoebe have their hands full when Piper is possessed by the evil life essence on the day of her high school reunion.

3.10 We All Scream for Ice Cream (40' 49")

The sisters trace a mysterious ice cream van who abducts children, but the evil may not be who they initially suspect. Meanwhile, the girls' dad Victor comes for a visit.

3.11 Blinded by the Whitelighter (41' 33")

The sisters must stop a warlock from executing his plan to steal specific powers from witches in his attempt to kill every whitelighter in the world.

3.12 Wrestling with Demons (41' 48")

Prue discovers that her former college boyfriend is being led down the path to becoming a demon, and the sisters must risk their lives in an underworld wrestling ring to save his soul.

3.13 Bride and Gloom (42' 37")

An evil priestess teams up with a warlock to take Prue's hand in marriage to turn the Charmed Ones evil and therefore, the Book of Shadows evil in order to take possession of the tome.

3.14 The Good, the Bad and the Cursed (40' 49")

Phoebe becomes psychosomatically linked with a murder victim from 1873 who is stuck in a time loop. Prue and Cole set aside their differences to save Phoebe's life.

3.15 Just Harried (40' 50")

Prue loses control of her astral self, who gets framed for murder and ruins Piper and Leo's wedding in the process.

3.16 Death Takes a Halliwell (41' 18")

A group of demons called Seekers terrorize several innocents in an attempt to find Cole. The Angel of Death makes a visit and only Prue can see him.

3.17 Pre-Witched (42' 16")

A familiar-turned-warlock tempts the Charmed Ones to kill him nine times so that he can obtain immortality. Piper and Leo plan on moving out of the Manor, leading to flashbacks of Grams' considering to prevent The Power of Three from forming prior to her death.

3.18 Sin Francisco (41' 01")

The Charmed Ones are infected with the Seven Deadly Sins, leading them to self-destructing activities.

3.19 The Demon Who Came In from the Cold (41' 04")

Cole goes undercover, reuniting with his Brotherhood colleagues to stop a corporate merger that will benefit the Underworld.

3.20 Exit Strategy (41' 15")

The Brotherhood and a mind-controlled Cole plot to steal an amulet from a couple of witch practitioners. Meanwhile, Piper develops a new ability.

3.21 Look Who's Barking (41' 02")

A heartbroken Phoebe is transformed into a Banshee and Prue is transformed into a dog, forcing Piper to gain more confidence in her capabilities as a witch.

3.22 All Hell Breaks Loose (40' 52")

Prue and Piper inadvertently expose magic to the public while attacking the demon Shax. Phoebe goes to the Underworld to free Cole of his mental hold. After Piper is killed by a fanatical hippie, the Charmed Ones are forced to make a deal with The Source of All Evil to reverse the exposure by rewinding time, not knowing the dire consequences of this agreement until it's too late.

Character Review: Prue

Prue had trouble with the right balance of work and play during her entire life as a Charmed One. She spent a lot of time and energy becoming a more powerful witch, referred to sometimes as the "superwitch" and "Wicca Wonder" of the family. This is probably because when they were very little and their mother died, Prue was the one who took care of Piper and Phoebe, though she played more of a fatherly role than a maternal role, with little patience for Phoebe in general for much of their lives until Phoebe turns it all around for herself. The warlock Zile kidnapped Prue and was married to her by the dark priestess, Dantalian. Because of this dark bond, Prue became evil and turned on her sisters. When Zile was vanquished by the Charmed Ones, the evil hold on her was released. In the Season 3 premiere, Prue first displayed martial arts skills on-screen while battling a court room full of demonically-possessed humans. In an episode of Season 3, she had her first battle with a demon without using her powers and performed highly skilled martial art feats due to her temporarily acquired empathic powers. Although Prue's martial arts skills were a talent introduced earlier on in the beginning of Season 3, their progression as the season went on garnered speculation on how her skills became superior even to the martial arts skills of Phoebe, who by then had more than two years of training, in such a short period of time. Another skill of Prue's that the series never revealed how she acquired or mastered was her gunslinger techniques. Prue also seemed to have magical troubles, even with non-magical beings. She was kidnapped by former gangster Bane Jessup, to help him fend off against the Ordo Malorum. On another occasion, Prue started having recurring dreams of a dangerous man named T.J. that hung out in a nearby bar, without knowing that her astral form was being used by her repressed emotions to get away from her responsibilities. After a murder outside the bar was blamed on Prue, the police started to look for her. At Piper and Leo's wedding, the police came after Prue, and T.J. crashed the wedding on a motorcycle to rescue her. Phoebe talked Prue into getting herself together and Darryl, Leo and Cole found the real killer. As if those other troubles weren't enough, Prue was affected by some of her sisters' own spells, which caused her to be transformed. Once, when Phoebe started to get hot flashes linked to visions of men being killed, the sisters learned that a Succubus was hunting in San Francisco. They cast a spell to attract the Succubus, which turned Prue into a man ("Manny"). Prue was then able to lure the Succubus to her doom. Also, when the sisters discovered a Banshee demon was killing people who were grieving, they cast a spell to track the Banshee, which ended up turning Prue into a dog. Even after her death, Prue continues to be the "Superwitch" with whom Paige especially feels that she must compete against.

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