Awakened (Charmed episode)

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“Awakened”
Charmed episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 12
Guest stars Brian Krause
   (Leo)
Matthew Glave
   (Dr. Williamson)
Andrew Ducote
   (Nathan)
Lochlyn Munro
   (Jack)
Written by Valerie Mayhew and Vivian Mayhew
Directed by Anson Williams
Production no. 4399033
Original airdate February 3, 2000
Episode chronology
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"Reckless Abandon" "Animal Pragmatism"

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Piper orders illegal fruit from outside the country that gives her Oroya fever, a rare disease normally only seen in parts of South America. She is sent to the hospital, but slips into a coma as the disease progresses. With little hope for her recovery, Prue and Phoebe cast a spell to transfer the disease to a ninja doll, resulting in Piper's amazing recovery. But a side effect of the spell brings the ninja doll to life, who then infects several people with the disease by stabbing people with its blade. Piper insists that Prue and Phoebe have no choice but to reverse the spell, halting the spread of the disease but putting Piper back into a coma. As she dies with Dan, Prue, and Phoebe at her side, Leo heals her, disobeying his orders not to interfere.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • Dr. Curtis Williamson: Ever since Piper miraculously recovered from Oroya Fever, Dr. Curtis Williamson had been researching an antidote for the same. Whilst injecting chimps with blood samples taken from the sisters, he accidentally injected himself with a complete combination of their bloods, in the process gaining their powers. Realizing his abilities, Dr. Williamson began stealing organs (from criminals) to give to waiting organ transplant patients. Being only a mortal, in the end he couldn't handle the witches' powers, and they drove him insane. (Astral Monkey)

[edit] Spells

  • Awakening Spell: Troubled blood with sleep’s unease, remove the cause of this disease. Sleep eternal never more, and shift this source of illness borne. To this poppet, whom none shall mourn.
  • To Reverse Awakening Spell: What was awakened from its sleep, must once again slumber deep. Return the disease to whence it came, so life can ease back to the same.

[edit] Episode stars

[edit] Co-Stars

  • Daniel Reichert as Dr. Seigler
  • Monica Allison as Nurse
  • Faith Salie as Second Nurse
  • Chuti Tiu as Asian-American Nurse
  • Louisa Abernathy as Angie
  • Jennifer Massey as Female Reporter #1
  • Lisa Ann Grant as Female Reporter #2

[edit] Trivia

  • Is the seventh and final appearance of Lochlyn Munro as Jack.
  • Leo clips his wings to save Piper.
  • Leo says he can't physically heal Piper because she wasn't hurt fighting evil. This proves to be just mandated by The Elders because later in the series, he does heal the Charmed Ones several times even if they were not hurt fighting evil. He was even able to mostly heal the half-demon/half-human Belthazor later in the third season. [Note: he probably could not have healed Piper not only because the wound is not caused by a demon, but also because it is technically self-inflicted wound. He mentioned in another episode that he cannot heal self-inflicted wounds.]
  • This is the second time that Piper dies, first time was in Deja Vu All Over Again.
  • Piper's spell backfire causes her to move at a very fast superhuman pace. This power is one that Piper actually could develop later in life as her powers effect movement and speed. She displays this power again in the episode Gone with the Witches.
  • Prue and Phoebe only recite the first part of the awakening reversal spell ("What was awakened from its sleep, must once again slumber deep") instead of the full spell ("What was awakened from its sleep, must once again slumber deep. Return the disease to whence it came, so life can ease back to the same")
  • Prue learns to control her astral projection power at will to project to the house to look for the spell to reverse the Awakening spell.
  • When Piper is moving at superhuman speed, the lights flicker when she is moving, which shows that they obviously sped up footage.

[edit] International titles

  • French: Le fruit défendu
  • German: Fieber (Fever)
  • Spanish: Al despertar
Preceded by:
Reckless Abandon		 Charmed episodes Followed by:
Animal Pragmatism
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