Season 2 (aired 2000) Back to BOS

Witch Trial (2.01) | Back to top
Written by Brad Kern
Directed by Craig Zisk

It's been quiet since Andy's death and the sisters try to put it behind them. Piper decides to open a nightclub, Prue throws herself into her work at the auction house while Phoebe, who is still unemployed, starts looking into their family heritage. A powerful demon named Abraxas steals the Book of Shadows and resurrects some of the Charmed Ones old foes by reading all the spells backwards. 

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Mortality Bites (2.02) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zach Estrin
Directed by John Behring

After Phoebe has a horrifying premonition of herself being executed, the sisters decide to travel to the future to try to avert Phoebe's fate. While there, they learn that their powers have grown and that witches are being persecuted for the use of their powers. 

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The Painted World (2.03) | Back to top
Written by Constance M. Burge
Directed by Kevin Inch

Prue finds some mysterious words on an unusual painting at the auction house. When she repeats the message a spell is cast sending her into another dimension trapped within the painting along with a dangerous warlock. Meanwhile, Phoebe tries to enhance her intelligence with witchcraft to compete with other job applicants all in a plan to earn extra cash to repair Prue's car. 

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The Devil's Music (2.04) | Back to top
Written by David Simkins
Directed by Richard Compton

Business at the nightclub is taking off-and so are some of the patrons. After Piper books the band Dishwalla to play, some female fans start disappearing during their performances. 

Special Musical Guests:
Dishwalla

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She's a Man, Baby, a Man! (2.05) | Back to top
Written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by Martha Mitchell

As a heat wave descends on San Francisco, Phoebe begins to have exotic dreams that end in the killing of her dream lovers. After Morris asks Prue for help solving the killing of four men, Phoebe fears she may be a Succubus. Prue suggests that she cast the spell to attract and destroy the Succubus by fire and have Piper's power ready to stop time in case Phoebe is correct. Fortunately for Phoebe she was mistaken, but unfortunately for Prue the spell turns her into a man. Piper books the Cranberries to play at P3.

Special Musical Guests:
The Cranberries

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That Old Black Magic (2.06) | Back to top
Written by Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew
Directed by James L. Conway

An evil witch (Tuatha) that kills good witches, is accidentally set free from the cave she was entombed in for two hundred years. The Halliwells learn from Leo that only the Chosen One, a teenage boy named Kyle, has the ability to destroy Tuatha by using her own magic wand against her. Prue, meanwhile, has a run in with the smarmy head of an internet auction site that is interested in purchasing the wand, while Piper has to decide between continuing to see Leo or starting a new relationship with Dan.

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They're Everywhere (2.07) | Back to top
Written by Sheryl J. Anderson
Directed by Mel Damski

Prue, Piper and Phoebe are faced with more warlocks than they can handle when they help Eric, a young man who has cracked a baffling code to reveal the location of an ancient tablet which contains the significant events of the future. They must protect not only Eric but his father as well. Also, concerned that the men they are interested in might be warlocks, Prue and Piper cast a spell to read minds.

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P3 H2O (2.08) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by John Behring

At the summer camp where their mother died, the sisters learn that the water demon responsible is still drowning people in the lake. With the help of Leo and their mothers former Whitelighter, the Charmed Ones must vanquish the demon or be destroyed by it as well.

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Ms. Hellfire (2.09) | Back to top
Teleplay by Constance M. Burge and Sheryl J. Anderson
Story by Constance M. Burge
Directed by Craig Zisk

The Halliwell sisters are targeted by a hit woman known as Ms. Hellfire who is killed by Prue in the attempt. Prue goes under cover to find out who hired her, flirting with a cold-blooded criminal to do so. Inspector Morris finally learns the Halliwell secret.

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Heartbreak City (2.10) | Back to top
Written by David Simkins
Directed by Michael Zinberg

A demon sets out to destroy Cupid and all his recent love matches, putting the relationships of the Charmed Ones in danger. Cupid come to the sisters to gain their aid in vanquishing the demon. Watch sparks fly between Cupid himself and Phoebe!

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Reckless Abandon (2.11) | Back to top
Written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by Craig Zisk

Phoebe finds an abandoned baby boy and takes him home after having a vision of a ghost trying to kill him. The sisters learn that it isn't easy taking care of a baby. Searching for the parents they learn a vengeful spirit has methodically killed all of the men in the child's family and is bent on killing the baby.

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Awakened (2.12) | Back to top
Written by Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew
Directed by Anson Williams

When Piper becomes ill, Prue and Phoebe cast a spell to cure her ignoring the rule about using their magic for personal gain. As a result, the sisters unknowning spread the deadly disease to others and must undo the spell that saved Piper to set things right even if it kills Piper. Meanwhile each sister's life changes as Phoebe begins college, Prue quits her job and Piper learns that Leo has come back to fight for her love after his wings are clipped.

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Animal Pragmatism (2.13) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by Don Kurt

A trio of college girls looking for men on Valentine's Day turn to magic for a solution by transforming three animals into men with some indirect help from Phoebe. As the former animals decide that they want to remain human, they turn on the girls and start looking for Phoebe to work the magic needed to prevent them from returning to their animal selves. Piper's relationship with Dan is strained when she decides to give Leo a Valentine's card and Prue attempts to spend a day doing nothing now that she's out of work. 

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Pardon My Past (2.14) | Back to top
Written by Michael Gleason
Directed by Jon Pare

One of Phoebe's past lives comes back to haunt her as she learns that in the 1924 her past self was seduced by a warlock named Anton in attempt to steal her cousins' (Prue and Piper's past lives) powers. Phoebe soon discovers that the untimely death in her past life will led to her death in the present unless she can prevent it while Anton continues to to attempt to steal the powers. Piper discovers that in her past life Leo was a former lover and Dan was her husband.

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Give Me A Sign (2.15) | Back to top
Written by Sheryl J. Anderson
Directed by James A. Contner

A demon known as Litvack orders his henchmen to kill Bane Jessup, who Prue helped to put behind bars when Bane tried to have the Charmed Ones killed. Bane manages to escape and kidnaps Prue hoping her powers will help protect him. Prue refuses to help at first, but later gives in to her growing attraction for Bane. Meanwhile, seeing Piper difficulty in choosing between Leo and Dan, Phoebe works a little magic to help Piper find her true love.

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Murphy's Luck (2.16) | Back to top
Written by David Simkins
Directed by John Behring

After Prue prevents a Darklighter from killing a potential Whitelighter, she becomes the target for his anger. He curses her with with bad luck, driving Prue to the brink of insanity with telepathic urges to commit suicide. Piper, meanwhile, struggles to make a choice between Leo and Dan.

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How To Make A Quilt Out Of Americans (2.17) | Back to top
Teleplay by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Robert Masello
Story by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by Kevin Inch

The Halliwells' aunt asks the sisters for help when a number of corpses turn up in her town. But it turns out Aunt Gail is only interested in stealing the powers of the Charmed Ones in order to gain back her youth from the demon Cryto. When the sisters discover their powers have been taken from them, Piper sees this as a way to regain a normal life without witchcraft and hesitates to retrieve her lost powers.

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Chick Flick (2.18) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by Michael Schultz

The Charmed Ones encounter a demon who has the ability to make images from film come to life. He proceeds to send the silver screen's worst psychopaths against the Haliwell sisters, who must find a way to send them back to the reel world.

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Ex Libris (2.19) | Back to top
Teleplay by Brad Kern
Story by Peter Chomsky
Directed by Joel J. Feigenbaum

Phoebe meets a monster that kills innocent mortals when they get close to finding physical proof of the existence of demons. Meanwhile, Prue aids a father on a quest for justice in his daughter's murder, which occurred several years ago.

Special Musical Guests:
The Goo Goo Dolls

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Astral Monkey (2.20) | Back to top
Teleplay by Constance M. Burge and David Simkins
Story by Constance M. Burge
Directed by Craig Zisk

A doctor investigating the sisters' strange talents imbues three monkeys with their abilities, then accidentally receives all their powers at once, which threatens to drive him mad.

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Apocalypse, Not (2.21) | Back to top
Teleplay by Sheryl J. Anderson
Story by Sanford Golden
Directed by Michael Zinberg

The Charmed Ones face their most deadly, powerful challenge to date: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Circumstances force the sisters into an alliance with the super-demons after Prue and one of the Horseman are sucked into another dimension.

Special Musical Guests:
The Paula Cole Band

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Be Careful What You Witch For (2.22) | Back to top
Teleplay by Brad Kern, Zack Estrin and Chris Levinson
Story by Brad Kern
Directed by Shannen Doherty

The sisters have angered the Infernal Council so often that they want to teach the Halliwells a lesson. It involves a genie who is sent to grant them each a wish. However, the sisters are unaware there is are darker intentions at work. Prue wished to be 17 years old again, Piper's wish was for Dan to get over her and Phoebe's wish was to get a new active power...

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