Samuel Wilder
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Samuel Wilder is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed. He is played by actor Scott Jaeck.
Sam Wilder was a whitelighter. Not much is known of his life as a mortal, but he did receive New York's Teacher of the Year award for 1872. After becoming a whitelighter, one of his charges was Patty Halliwell.
During the end of her marriage to husband Victor Bennett, Patty fell in love with Sam and he fathered her fourth child. Fearing repercussions if their relationship were to be discovered by the Elders, Sam and Patty took their newborn daughter to a church and gave her up to a nun there. They requested only that her name start with a "P" like the rest of the members of the Halliwell family.
When a water demon began attacking children in the lake at a camp, Sam told Patty not to interfere because it was too strong. He feared for her life and tried to stop her. Patty was forced to freeze him with her powers of temporal stasis, but in the time it took her, the water demon attacked and killed Patty.
Blaming himself for the death of his charge and lover, Sam "clipped his wings" and stayed to live out his days at the camp, doing odd jobs there.
When the Charmed Ones start to investigate the water demon, Sam tries to use some of Patty's memory dust that he had been saving for years. In an effort to protect them, he wants to keep them away from the camp, but the sisters break the spell and return. Together, Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Leo and Sam are able to use Patty's plan of freezing and electrocuting the water demon to kill it. Sam, however, is mortally wounded during the fight.
Leo tries to heal Sam, but the Elders refuse to let him. Sam is content to die, however, and is reunited with Patty, whom the Halliwell sisters and Leo see as a specter, returning to greet Sam and take him into the afterlife.
Sam, though does not die, he is made a Whitelighter again and once again stops using his whitelighter powers. In Season 5, he is made Paige's first charge and at the same time she finds out who he is and understands what happened. He reappears in season 8, where Paige felt she again had to get over her issues with Sam. His James Dean-esque charge from the 1950s, J.D., required extra help, which is why Sam contacted his daughter for the case.
[edit] Episodes
- P3 H2O (Season Two)
- Sam I Am (Season Five)
- The Lost Picture Show (Season Eight)
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