Season 3 (aired 2001) Back to BOS

The Honeymoon's Over (3.01) | Back to top
Written by Brad Kern
Directed by Jim Conway

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. 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 in the realms of the whitelighters for a month with no word, leaving her sisters to worry what's happen to her.

Special Musical Guests:
Bare Naked Ladies

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Magic Hour (3.02) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by John Behring

Piper learns from Leo that they have about twenty-four hours to secretly marry before his superiors come down on them. After finding a ritual that may be the answer, Prue supports using it while Phoebe believes performing the ritual may be selfish and have future consequences. As the Halliwells seek an answer to Piper's problem, they encounter a young couple, Christopher and Brooke, that have been cursed by a jealous warlock that wants Brooke's love for himself. The Charmed Ones find that Christopher is cursed to be an owl during the day and Brooke to be an wolf during the night.

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Once Upon a Time (3.03) | Back to top
Written by Krista Vernoff
Directed by Joel Feigenbaum

Phoebe comes across a young girl, Kate, that is being terrorized by trolls because she is protecting a fairy they seek to harm. Although Prue and Phoebe believe the young girl needs the help of the Charmed Ones, Piper goes on strike from helping innocents until the 'Powers That Be' allow her and Leo to be together again. While Prue and Phoebe try to save Kate and the fairy from the trolls, Cole attempts to gain access to the Halliwell Manor to get the Book of Shadows...

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All Halliwells' Eve (3.04) | Back to top
Written by Sheryl J. Anderson
Directed by Anson Williams

As the sisters get ready to celebrate Halloween, the Grimlocks return from the dead to seek revenge on the Halliwells. As the Grimlocks start to attack, the girls are sent through a time vortex that lands them in Virginia during 1670, leaving Leo and Darryl to fight off the Grimlocks until the Halliwells return. In the past, the sisters learn that a good coven of witches summoned them to help rescue a young woman that is due to give birth to a magical child. But the mother is being held in the home of an evil witch that Cole travels to the past to help.

Special Musical Guests:
Snake River Conspiracy

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Sight Unseen (3.05) | Back to top
Written by William Schmidt
Directed by Perry Lang

Piper and Phoebe are worried that Prue has become too obsessed with the evil triad since returning from the past and learning that someone was sent back to destroy their family line. So when Prue comes home to discover someone has broken into the Manor, she immediately believes its something supernatural send by the triad, while her sisters believe that it may be an evil of a human nature from the clues discovered by Darryl. Cole is upset to learn that the triad has sent another agent to destroy the Halliwells. Piper feels that her inability to have a romantic evening with Leo is the result of interference from Leo's bosses.

Special Musical Guests:
Marvelous 3

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Primrose Empath (3.06) | Back to top
Written by Daniel Cerone
Directed by Mel Damski

Cole uses magic to lead Prue to what appears to be a man suffering because he is capable of feeling the emotions of others around him and can not control his empathic power. Prue casts a spell to remove this power, but unknowingly helps this cursed demon, Vincerus, to gain his ability to harm innocents again, while gaining the empathic ability herself. As Prue struggles to control her newly gained power, Vincerus seeks to kill the one that cursed him. Piper expresses concern that her relationship with Leo isn't normal enough, while Phoebe and Cole can't help falling in love with each other.

Special Musical Guests:
Idol

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Power Outage (3.07) | Back to top
Written by Monica Breen and Alison Schapker
Directed by Craig Zisk

A member of the Evil Triad reminds Cole that he's to destroy the Charmed Ones and not to romance Phoebe or they will kill him. Cole decides to use the sisters petty arguments against them by enlisting the help of Andras, the spirit of rage, who causes their normal disagreements to spiral out of control. Once the sisters begin using their magic against each other in anger, the Power of Three is lost leaving the Halliwells without their magic and defenseless.

Special Musical Guests:
Fastball

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Sleuthing with the Enemy (3.08) | Back to top
Written by Peter Hume
Directed by Noel Nosseck

After suffering a serious injury at the hand of the Charmed Ones, Cole disappears leaving Phoebe to worry. As the girls prepare a potion to destroy Cole's demonic form, Belthazor, they encounter Krell, a demon bounty hunter sent by the Source to kill Belthazor. Piper reluctantly agrees with Prue to join forces with Krell to find Belthazor so they can vanquish him, as Phoebe searches for information as to the current whereabouts of Cole.

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Coyote Piper (3.09) | Back to top
Written by Krista Vernoff
Directed by Chris Long

An alchemist called Kierkan creates Terra, a life essence from his own blood that can possess and control humans. When Terra desires to escape from Kierkan's control, she moves to another host body until she can come across one of the Charmed Ones, who she plans to use to destroy her creator once and for all. Piper falls victim to Terra's power, as she is dreading attending her tenth year high school reunion and discovers she has a limited amount of time before the toxic qualities of the life essence kills her soul for good. Meanwhile, Phoebe researches Cole's family history while Prue tries to help Piper get through her reunion.

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We All Scream for Ice Cream (3.10) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by Allan Kroeker

While Piper goes searching for her father, after hearing news that he's been seen in town, Prue is driven to learn the name of song whose melody is stuck in her head. She discovers the source is an ice cream truck that appears to be abducting children. As Prue and Phoebe attempt to stop the ice cream man from grabbing a little girl, they find themselves sucked into a wintry world within the truck that is inhabited but the Nothing - a force that pulls its victims out of existence. Believing the children need their help, Prue and Phoebe free them, only to discover it was a mistake and they will need the help of their father in order to set things right.

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Blinded By The Whitelighter (3.11) | Back to top
Written by Nell Scovell
Directed by David Straiton

The Halliwells encounter Natalie, a whitelighter who recently lost her most powerful charge to a warlock named Eames. Natalie informs the girls that Eames now has the power of deflection which can be used to negate the girls power leaving them vulnerable to attack so they should proceed with caution. The sisters ignore Natalie, running off the banish Eames not only to fail, but to discover he's plotting to eliminate all whitelighters and witches and they just helped him get the next item in his master plan.

Special Musical Guests:
Box

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Wrestling With Demons (3.12) | Back to top
Written by Sheryl J. Anderson
Directed by Joel J. Feigenbaum

The girls try to get Inspector Morris' help to protect an innocent from a possible demon attack after Phoebe has a premonition. Getting there before the attack, Prue is available to prevent the killing but lets the demon, Tom, escape when she realizes she dated him in the past. A little research leads the girls to discover that humans can be turned into demons through a sinister recruitment and training program that strips the person of their humanity, but before the process can be completed, the individual must kill an innocent. Prue sees an opportunity to restore Tom's humanity, but her sisters think they might be better off by just banishing him.

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Bride And Gloom (3.13) | Back to top
Written by William Schmidt
Directed by Chris Long

As Piper and Leo make plans for their wedding, Cole returns to try work things out with Phoebe and Prue is kidnapped when a shape shifting warlock poses as her date. Without anyway to find Prue, Phoebe turns to Cole for help, even though he will have to risk his life to do so. Meanwhile, Prue is to be married to the warlock as part of the Priestess Dantalian's plan to obtain the Book of Shadow. Once married, Prue will turn to evil and because her magic is interconnected with her sisters and the Book of Shadows they will turn to evil also, allowing anyone of an evil nature to finally possess the magical tome.

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The Good, The Bad And The Cursed (3.14) | Back to top
Written by Monica Breen and Alison Schapker
Directed by Shannen Doherty

During a trip to an old ghost town with her father, Phoebe becomes magically linked to Bo, an individual from the town's past and begins to experience the effects his injuries. As Piper and Prue try to figure out how help Phoebe, Leo learns that Piper hasn't told her father that he is a white lighter. When Bo suffers from a gunshot wound, Phoebe also falls victim to the potentially fatal wound. The sisters discover that the town is cursed and stuck in a time loop, doomed to repeat the same day over and over. Prue finds herself having to work with Cole in the past to attempt to break the curse and heal Bo in order to save Phoebe.

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Just Harried (3.15) | Back to top
Written by Daniel Cerone
Directed by Mel Damski

As the day of Leo and Piper's wedding arrives, Piper needs reassurance from her sisters that nothing will ruin her special day. Prue finds herself tired and disturbed by her recent dreams and doesn't realize that she's been astral projecting while asleep, to a local bar, where she has been seeing one of the regulars. On the night before the wedding Astral-Prue gets into a fight with a patron who later turns up dead, leaving Prue as main suspect of the murder.

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Death Takes a Halliwell (3.16) | Back to top
Written by Krista Vernoff
Directed by Jon Pare

While at the beach with Phoebe, Prue notices that a woman spying on them has a mysterious shadow lurking behind her. They soon learn the woman is involved with Inspector Davidson's investigation of Cole possibly killing his former landlord. Prue proceeds to follow the woman and discovers the shadow is really the Angel of Death and becomes obsessed with preventing him from taking the life of another innocent. Meanwhile, the girls learn that a pair of Seekers are responsible for the deaths and are extracting information to learn of Cole's whereabouts, which puts the girls and Inspector Davidson's lives at risk. 

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PreWitched (3.17) | Back to top
Written by Chris Levinson and Zack Estrin
Directed by David Straiton

Lacking privacy at the Manor, Piper concludes that she and Leo should move to their own apartment, leaving Prue and Phoebe to voice their objections about splitting up the Charmed Ones. As the girls work through their family problem, a witches' familiar turns against her, killing the young witch in the process. The familiar now in human form, encounters each the sisters where upon each vanquishes him. But the girls soon learn that the familiar-warlock continues to come back and if vanquished nine times will become immortal and beyond their power to destroy.

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Sin Francisco (3.18) | Back to top
Written by Nell Scovell
Directed by Joel Fiegenbaum
Aired: April 19, 2001

The sisters cross paths with a demon that attacks his victims by infecting them with one of the seven deadly sins in order to steal their souls. When the girls and Leo each become infected with one of the sins, they the must struggle not only to defeat the demon, but save themselves from succumbing to the powers of their sins.

Special Musical Guests:
Orgy

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The Demon Who Came In From The Cold (3.19) | Back to top
Written by 
Directed by Anson Williams

When Phoebe kills a demon that just murdered an innocent prophet, she learn the demon was one of Cole's brothers. Cole explains that he was hand picked by the Source to be in an elite demonic gang called the Brotherhood of the Thorn, and his brothers probably murdered the prophet so the plans of their current operation are not revealed. Against Phoebe's wishes Cole decides to return to the Brotherhood to discover their plan, so the sisters can formulate a plan to stop the Brotherhood.

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Exit Strategy (3.20) | Back to top
Written by 
Directed by Joel Feigenbaum

Cole agrees to steal a witch's amulet in order to convince the head of the Brotherhood that he is still evil. He completes his task without hurting the witch, but another demon kills her in hopes that Cole will be blamed for the murder. Meanwhile, Piper's powers begin to malfunction and she inadvertently blows up everything she points at.

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Look Who's Barking (3.21) | Back to top
Written by 
Directed by John Behring

The sisters hunt for a banshee that attacks people who are in deep sorrow, but when they perform a tracking spell, they inadvertently turn Prue into a Siberian husky. Meanwhile, Cole seeks an alchemist's help in reducing the human side of his soul.

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All Hell Breaks Loose (3.22) | Back to top
Written by 
Directed by Shannen Doherty

Chaos ensues when Prue, Phoebe and Piper are exposed on live television as witches when vanquishing a demon. Phoebe travels to the underworld to rid Cole of his evil inclinations and in their risky deal with the dark side to turn back time and reverse their sudden fame, each sister faces certain death at the cliffhanger end of the season finale.

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