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Episode Guide - Season 1
1.01 Something Wicca This Way Comes
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The Plot
Someone in San Francisco is killing women, with the latest killing bringing the total to three in three weeks. All the victims have had the same tattoo and all have been killed by a double-edged knife. Inspector Andy Trudeau suspects a link to the occult as the knife is used by witches to direct energy. His partner Darryl Morris dismisses the theory.
At the house that she and her sisters have inherited from their grandmother, Phoebe Halliwell returns from New York to a less than ecstatic welcome from her eldest sister Prue, and not just because middle sister Piper kept her arrival secret.
During a storm, the girls' old spirit board, rediscovered by Prue while searching for a circuit tester spells out the word 'ATTIC', although Prue and Piper initially believe that Phoebe pushed the pointer herself.
Phoebe tries to unlock the attic door which neither Prue nor Piper have been unable to open since they moved into the house. Just as she walks away, the door opens and in an old chest Phoebe finds 'The Book of Shadows', a book of witchcraft. After reading an incantation from the book, Phoebe tells her sister that the three are witches and that now is the time to receive their powers - telekinesis, the ability to stop time and premonition.
Meanwhile, the hooded figure who murdered the most recent victim finishes his watch outside Halliwell Manor.
The next day, Phoebe argues with her boss and ex-fiancee, Roger, the source of the friction between her and Phoebe. After she walks away, his pen leaks out and then squirts him in the face.
At her chef's audition Piper is about to tell Chef Moore that she didn't have time to finish when everything freezes around her. After passing, she runs into her boyfriend Jeremy Burns, a journalist covering the murders for the San Francisco Chronicle. Phoebe has a premonition of a car hitting some teenage boys skating and crashes her bike to prevent it hitting them.
At the hospital to pick up Phoebe, Prue runs into former boyfriend Andy, who is still investigating the murders. Phoebe persists with her witch theory, eventually convincing the sceptical Prue after further demonstrations of Prue's powers.
Jeremy takes Piper to an abandoned building and pulls a knife on her, revealing that it he has known that Grams' death would release the sisters' power. After Jeremy sparks fingers from his hand, Piper freezes him and manages to escape, making it back to the Manor where she tells Prue and Phoebe that Jeremy is the killer.
The girls try a spell from the Book of Shadows, but Phoebe has a premonition that it hasn't worked, despite thorns bursting through Jeremy's body. While Prue attempts to go for help, Jeremy shows up and forces his way into the Manor. Prue uses her power to fend him off while the sisters barricade themselves into the attic. As Jeremy moves their barricades out of the way, Prue remembers the inscription on the back of the spirit board and their chanting destroys Jeremy.
The following day, Andy shows up to ask Prue out to dinner. She tells him to call her. As he leaves he notices that she's holding the Siamese cat that belonged to the last murder victim.
Notes
Melinda Warren had three powers - she could move objects with her mind, see the future and stop time. Before she was burned at the stake, she vowed that each generation of Warren witches would grow stronger and stronger, culminating in three sisters - the most powerful witches of all.
The inscription on the spirit board reads: "To my three beautiful girls/May this give you the light to find the shadows/The Power of Three will set you free/Love Mom." Until Phoebe's return, none of the sisters had any idea what it meant.
The incantation that Phoebe reads aloud from the Book of Shadows is: "Hear now the words of the witches/The secrets we hid in the night/The oldest of gods are invoked here/The great work of magic is sought/In this night and in this hour/I call upon the Ancient Power/Bring your powers to we sisters three/We want the power/Give us the power".
The witch murdered at the start in named as Serena Fredrick in the novelisation.
Chris Flanders, who plays Chef Moore, guest starred as Matthew Winslow in the Angel episode, 'The Ring'.
The Power of Three
Unsurprisingly for the first episode there is plenty of power usage on display in this episode:
Prue causes Roger's pen to link and his tie to strangle him, transfers cream into coffee and causes the stock in the pharmacist's to fly off the shelves. She also gets to slam Jeremy into the wall at Halliwell Manor.
Piper freezes Chef Moore during her audition and then Jeremy in the lift.
Phoebe has a premonition of a car accident and that Jeremy is still alive.
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Credits
Associate Producer: Peter Chomsky
Camera Operator: Michael Frediani
Casting: Vicki Huff
Co-Producer: Sheryl Anderson
Costume Designer: Molly Campbell
Created By: Constance M. Burge
Directed By: John T. Kretchmer
Director of Photography: Tom del Ruth
Edited By: Derek Berlatsky
Executive Producer: Constance M. Burge
Executive Producer: E. Duke Vincent
Executive Producer: Brad Kern
Produced by: Spelling Television
Producer: Les Sheldon
Production Designer: Dean Edward Mitzner
Stunt Coordinator: Hannah Kozak
Written By: Constance M. Burge
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Other Actors/Actresses
Eric Scott Woods as Jeremy Burns
Matthew Ashford as Roger
Francesca Cappucci as Reporter
Charmaine Cruz as Nurse
Chris Flanders as Chef Moore
Hugh B. Holub as Pharmacist
Salem Hannigan
Shawn Christopher
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