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Charmed | 1.02
Episode Guide - Season 1
1.02 I've Got You Under My Skin
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The Plot
The sisters are determined to keep a check on their powers - well, Prue and Piper are since Phoebe is happy to use her power of premonition to anticipate getting hit upon in Quake. Piper, on the other hand, finds it difficult to reconcile being a witch with being a good person, and a documentary on the Salem witch trials doesn't help matters.

Morris and Trudeau are investigating the disappearance of four young women, all of whose last known sighting was at Quake. The latest is Piper and Phoebe's friend, Britney, who was also last sighted at the restaurant.

Prue picks up her relationship with Andy, but regrets sleeping with him on their 'first' date, and is headhunted for a job at Bucklands auction house, which she criticises over the phone as being "stuffy", without knowing that her potential new boss in the lift with her.

Phoebe recognises New York photographer Stefan at Quake, and he gives her the address of his studio, suggesting that she model for him.

At the studio, Britney is tied up, when Stefan reveals that he's actually Javna, a demon who feeds on the life force of the young to gain eternal youth. Once he's finished feeding on her, Britney has become an old woman.

Doing a food run for the church, Piper and Phoebe discuss Piper's fears about their newly discovered powers, when Phoebe has a premonition about the winning lottery numbers which she tells an old couple filling in their ticket.

Later, Piper steels herself to enter the church, in order to prove her theory that only the good can enter churches. She escapes unscathed, but afterwards she meets an old woman who has the same tattoo of an angel on her hand that Britney did.

Prue has been called back for a second interview, and Rex Buckland introduces her to Hannah Webster, another of the house's specialists, and asks Prue to comment on several objects. Hannah 'accidentally' knocks some paint over Prue, who manages to deflect it, but appears to get away with it. However, after she's gone, Hannah says Prue is "either the luckiest woman alive or a witch."

Phoebe has taken up Stefan's modelling offer, but has a premonition and tries to leave, only to be grabbed before she can drive off.

Piper and Prue read the Book of Shadows to discover what Javna is, and when Britney collapses after seeing Stefan's address on a napkin from Quake, they realise that Phoebe is in danger.

The pair arrive outside Stefan's studio, and hear Pheobe's scream coming from inside. Once inside, Piper frees Phoebe, while Phoebe uses a mirror to reflect Javna's power before all three use a chant from the Book of Shadows to defeat him. Back at the Manor, Britney reverts to her younger self.

Having seen Stefan leaving Quake on a security tape, Morris and Trudeau arrive at the studio, only to find that he's vanished, leaving Andy contemplating Prue's involvement in another unsolved crime.

Back at Quake, Stefan's previous victim has no recollection of her meeting with Phoebe, who eagerly digs out her lottery ticket in anticipation of winning a fortune, only for the numbers to change before her eyes. Looks like her dress will have to go back then...

Notes
According to the Book of Shadows, Javna feeds one week out of every year, stealing the life force from the young to gain eternal youth.

According to Piper, the prophet Mohammed invoked the Hand of Fatima centuries ago to banish Javna back to "wherever the hell he came from."

The chant of the week to destroy him is "Evil eyes look unto thee/May they soon extinguished be/Bend thy will to the Power of Three/Eye of Earth, evil and accursed."

Neil Roberts who plays Rex Buckland played Brother Michael in Babylon 5: 'Desconstruction of Falling Stars' and Tuling in the Doctor Who audio story The Land of the Dead.

Bailey Luetgert, under the name Bailey Chase, played Graham Miller in Buffy, making his first appearance in 'The Initiative'. Barbara Pilavin has also appeared in Buffy as the Old Woman in 'Anne'.

The Power of Three
Prue throws Andy's alarm clock out of the bedroom window in the pre-credits sequence.

She also sends the lift at Bucklands straight to the 12th floor since she's running late for her interview. Called back, she somehow deflects the paint that Hannah 'accidentally' knocked over. Finally, she throws Javna into a wall at Stefan's studio allowing Piper to free Phoebe.

Piper panics in the kitchen at Quake and manages to freeze everything when Andy enters.

Phoebe has a premonition of Alec chatting her up at Quake and another of the winning lottery numbers. She also sees herself tied up in Stefan's studio, but he manages to catch her before she can drive off.
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
Other Actors/Atresses
Neil Roberts as Rex Buckland
Leigh Allyn Baker as Hannah Webster
Michael Phillip as Stefan/Javna
Julie Araskog as Darlene
Bailey Chase as Alec
Todd Feder as Clerk
Tamara Lee Krinsky as Tia
Ralph Manza as old man
Marc Shelton as Pastor Williams
Cynthia King as Britney
Barbara Pilavin as Old Britney
Ben Caswell as Max Jones
Lou Glenn as Carpenter

 

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