| "Forever Charmed" | |||||||
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 A triquetra, symbol of the Power of Three, flashes over the screen in the final moments of the series. |
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| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 22 |
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| Written by | Brad Kern | ||||||
| Directed by | James L. Conway | ||||||
| Guest stars | Marnette Patterson (Christy Jenkins) Drew Fuller |
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| Production no. | 62015-08-178 | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 21, 2006 | ||||||
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Forever Charmed is the last episode produced and aired of the eight seasons of the WB's Charmed. As the second part of the double-episode series finale in the last season of Charmed, it originally aired on May 21, 2006 and was seen by over four million households, a peak for the twenty-two series episodes in the 2005-2006 season.
The episode involves time travel, nostalgic family visitations and a reprise of various important historical background situations, as well as a glimpse of the future to other progeny of the Charmed Ones.
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Synopsis
After the cataclysmic battle that demolished the Halliwell Manor in the ending of the prior episode (i.e. Part I), Piper and Leo go to Phoebe’s apartment where the Book of Shadows has been safeguarded since the forces of evil invaded the manor. While she and Leo look for some kind of solution that will let them bring the sisters back, Billie also returns to consciousness amidst the wreckage and orbs to Magic School where she confronts Dumain, revealing Christy is dead. Dumain suggests she project herself back into the past and save Christy.
Piper and Leo arrive at Victor’s and Piper breaks the news the their father. Victor reveals he knows about the cupid Coop and Piper realizes in a sudden moment of clarity that Coop can help them—he has a ring which allows him to traverse time. She summons Coop and asks to borrow his ring so she can go back in time. Coop agrees, but warns it doesn’t always work as desired and is left with Victor and his grandchildren.
Leo goes with her and keying on Phoebe before she has been injured planning on using her visions powers, they go instead into 1975, where they meet a young Victor and Patty in bed, when Piper was three and Phoebe hasn’t been born yet—leaving one to believe it was the night that she was conceived. Later, they try to explain things to her parents, without giving away too much, and finally have to reveal that Paige and Phoebe are dead and that they’d become the famous-across-history Charmed Ones.
Mother Patty suggests they use their family magic to get Piper to where she needs to go. The three of them take the ring and try to go to Grams where they can form a three-generation power of three, but end up in a future where Piper and Leo are old, and find that they have been waiting for them to show and even baked cookies anticipating their second time travel overshoot. Their future geriatric selves give some advice to the time travelers and sooth their nerves since now they know they succeed.
The old Piper and Leo reveal it’s 50 years in the future and that Piper needs to focus on who she wants to get to with her heart, not her head, and they must work together to get rid of the Hollow. They try again and visit the Manor again at a time to see Grams talking with a young Piper from the other room before they reveal themselves. After young Piper leaves, they introduce themselves and Grams faints meeting her recently deceased daughters' shade. Piper reveals that Patty is dead to Patty at that time, and moreover that she and Victor will divorce and she will have Paige with an old flame comes about later in the episode. The later thought is received as a likely benefit by the earthy mother.
The demon Dumain walks Billie through the process for her to travel back into the past. When he mentions she has to focus on the time of the existence of the Triad, she suspects something is up and finally realizes she’s been manipulated. Dumain tells her go back and ask Christy, so she’ll understand.
While Patty tries to wake Grams, Leo points out that he could be taken away again by the Angel of Destiny if they reset and reconstruct the events around and on the day of the great battle. Grams wakes up, Piper makes introductions and tells her she must help save the Charmed Ones as a part of the power of three. Meanwhile, Billie projects herself back into the past at the Manor, just at the time as the past Billie and Christy arrive. She tries to warn them against fighting, but both argue with her and then past-Billie sends present-Billie flying in a moment of temper and goes on to fight the Charmed sisters side by side with Christy as before. The battle starts to play out as before, but then Piper, Grams, and Patty arrive off to one side to cast a spell which drives the Hollow out of all five of them prematurely. The present-Billie and present-Piper merge with their past selves in the past timeline, and then Billie and Christy teleport out before they can be overwhelmed since they no longer have the magic boosting aid of the Hollow.
The Angel Of Destiny who brought Leo arrives only to take him back again punctuating that they’re back where they started again three sisters vs. two, but at least the Hallow is out of it. Then, the future Wyatt and Chris appear, to reveal someone has screwed up their future. Billie and Christy are walking and quarreling and Christy doesn’t care or believe they’re being used and staying true to her programming goes off on her own.
Chris and Wyatt explain that Wyatt lost his powers in the middle of a demon fight and cast a spell that brought them back to the present. This clue allows Piper to figure out that Billie and Christy stole Wyatt’s power at that point in the future using the Hollow. With the end of the Hollow, the magic and events no longer coincide. To add confusion, Coop arrives and Wyatt recognizes him as “Uncle Coop,” and then Chris and Wyatt take their grandmother Patty to see the present Victor while Grams stays with the Charmed Ones to plot and plan. Victor is confused and finally Patty finds out they’re separated when Paige is mentioned.
Christy tells Dumain that Billie has abandoned them, but believes there’s a way to revive the Triad without her. Grams is working on a potion, when the mortal parole officer Henry arrives to talk to Paige. Coop insists on confessing his love to Phoebe, but Phoebe can’t handle it (Assumedly thinking it another forbidden love) and goes to talk to her sisters after giving him the ring back in emotional distress. Opportunistically monitoring the situation, Dumain teleports in to grab Coop and the ring, while Billie shows up and asks to talk to the three of them.
They hear her out and she explains about the Triad, being duped and manipulated and repentant and then future-Chris and Wyatt show up and reveal that Dumain is involved. Phoebe calls for Coop, who can’t respond, and Chris and Wyatt reveal that Coop was sent so Phoebe could fall in love with him, and it wasn’t a forbidden love. They explain that in the future they’re as one and all she has to do is think about him to summon him. She does so and he appears, in great pain. He reveals Dumain took his ring and they plan to go back in time.
Dumain is talking with the Triad in the past, when present-Dumain and Christy arrive, but the Charmed Ones and Billie arrive as well a moment later and the Charmed Ones destroy the Triad again with vanquishing potions, and Piper then blows up Dumains with her blasting power. The Halliwells explain that Billie sent them back, and Paige takes the ring. Christy accuses Billie of betraying her and she throws a huge fireball which Billie deflect back and it destroys her. Realizing her entire family is gone, Billie immediately breaks down while the sisters comfort her.
All the Halliwells are reunited at the Manor and Wyatt has his powers back. They reveal Billie has gotten back her own way and needs some time alone. The Angel of Destiny arrives again with Leo and reveals that this reality was how the battle was supposed to end, and now it’s all worked out. Leo pulls Piper into an embrace where they passionately kiss and begin making out. Victor and Patty arrive with the children and Coop reveals he can take everyone back to their own proper times and Chris says if they arrive just before they left, they won’t remember what they’ve learned. A family reunion takes place in the sun room of the Halliwell manor, with the young Wyatt and Chris (played by Combs' son, Finley Donoho), the two boys as young men, Victor Bennet, Grams and Patty.
Later, Piper comes down and says they should write everything down in the Book of Shadows. Each writes down what they’ve experienced and we see what will happen in the future. Coop and Phoebe marry and have three daughters, and Phoebe publishes a best-selling book. Billie is shown babysitting two of Phoebe's girls, showing that she and the sisters have made amends and it is quoted that she continues to help them and is considered their strongest ally. Henry continues to look after his parolees and has a son (Henry Jr.) and twin daughters with Paige, who continues to help the next generation of witches as a whitelighter.
Piper and Leo have a third child, a daughter, the assumed foreseen girl, Melinda (seen in the last minutes of the show). Piper also opens a restaurant (a long standing desire) and Leo goes back to teaching at Magic School, until his retirement.
The episode ends with an elderly Piper reading their saga to her granddaughter, then going upstairs with an elderly Leo past the pictures of all their family, past and present, on the walls (excluding Prue, either in adult or child form). The other grandchildren come into the manor and Piper's granddaughter uses her powers to swing the doors closed one final time, thus showing she has inherited Prue's powers of telekinesis, as she uses the same hand motion as Prue and the familiar chime sound is heard for the last time along with the symbol of the Charmed Ones, the Triquetra.
Main guest stars
Enemies
- Christy Jenkins - Main agent of Dumain and so the Triad, eventually killed by a deflected fireball by her sister Billie.
- Dumain - both his future and past selves are blown up by Piper
- The Triad - vanquished by the Charmed Ones using potions
Allies
- Penny Halliwell -A witch and grandmother of the Charmed Ones
- Patty Halliwell - A witch and mother of the Charmed Ones
- Coop -A Cupid, Pheobe's true love, and revealed as her final husband.
- Wyatt Halliwell-Piper and Leo's first son, most powerful witch/whitelighter. All the demons wanted to turn him evil in fear of his power.
- Chris Halliwell-The second son of Piper and Leo, not as powerful as his brother.
- Billie Jenkins -A witch and a student of the Charmed Ones. Also the sister of Christy Jenkins.
Neutrals
- Angel of Destiny - The grand overseers of destiny.
Production Details
Main cast
- Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
- Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
- Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews
- Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
- Kaley Cuoco as Billie Jenkins
Guest Stars
- Victor Webster as Coop
- Jason & Kristopher Simmons as Wyatt Halliwell
- Tanner Fox as 10-year old Wyatt
- Kathleen Teresa Scott as Melinda Halliwell
- Sierra Paris as Phoebe's unnamed daughter 1
- Adair Tishler as Phoebe's unnamed daughter 2
- Julia Di Angelo as Piper's granddaughter Prudence
- Jordan Timsit as Piper's grandson Matthew Halliwell
- Alexis Raich as Younger Piper
Notes
Of the previous main characters in the show, Prue Halliwell, Cole Turner and Darryl Morris did not appear in the episode. As executive producer Brad Kern explained, Darryl could not be fitted into the plot, while bringing back Prue would have centered the episode on her instead of on the main cast.[1] However, according to the commentary on the DVD, his reasons for not asking Shannen to return were for "various reasons." While acknowledging criticism for not using photographs of Shannen Doherty in the episode, Kern pointed out a Screen Actors Guild rule that the use of an actor's photograph in a television episode in which the actor does not appear still entitles the actor to a full episodic fee, thus showing one photograph of Doherty would have resulted in one of the returning previous main characters not being able to be afforded.[2] As for Cole's absence, Kern explained that the budget cuts along with Julian McMahon's busy schedule did not allow for either a reprisal or a photo of Cole.
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