Bite Me

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"Bite Me" is Episode 18 of Season 4 on the television show Charmed.


Paige joins a vampire colony in Bite Me
Paige joins a vampire colony in Bite Me

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[edit] General information

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

With hopes of unseating Cole as the ruler of the Underworld, a Vampire Queen orders her fanged charges to attack Paige and turn her into a blood-sucker to get a Charmed One on their side. Paige's undead transformation isn't sealed until she takes her first victim, and the Vampire Queen urges her to feed on her two sisters, Phoebe and Piper.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • Grimlocks: Grimlocks are demons who steal the sight of innocent children, and use their sight to see the auras of good people, whom they must kill.
  • Harpy Demons: A Harpy is a lower-level demon who has the power to shoot electric bolts from her fingertips. Harpies are immune to a witch's power unless it's The Power of Three.
  • Furies: Furies are mythical demons that act as judge, jury, and executioner to anyone they consider an evil doer. They can go after a shoplifter as soon as a murderer and they take great pleasure in the kill. When they focus their thoughts on someone, they force him to hear the cries of all his former victims. The smoke of a Fury will kill bad people, but in good people, it will open a portal of unexpressed fury, it builds until it consumes their humanity and turn them into a fury. Furies normally move around by smoke-type of demonic teleportation.
  • Vampires: Vampires are underground, blood thirsty demons who attack their victims in either human or bat form. Their victim, however, does not become a vampire until they bite their first prey. They have been exiled from the Underworld for centuries by the Source for trying to overthrow him, led by their ruler, the Vampire Queen. When a person is bitten by a vampire (either in bat or in human form), he or she will become one as well, although the real transformation into a vampire only takes place once blood is spilled/sucked. Paige was turned into a vampire in season four, but didn't bite an innocent, so she didn't transform fully. Vampires are immune to witch's powers, but can be killed by the Power of Three and traditional means like stake through the heart, fire, and holy water, and they explode when vanquished. Vampires can also be killed by killing the vampire who sired them, or by killing the Vampire Queen.

[edit] Spells

  • To Vanquish a Harpy: Claw of pain we have to sever. Demon you are gone forever.

[edit] Guest stars

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode's title is actually a phrase used to insult someone. In the case of the episode plot tie-in, it is also what a vampire does when it attacks a victim. also Paige actually says "Bite me" to Cole after he is rude her because she orbed into his apartment.
  • Phoebe discovers she is pregnant in this episode.
  • At one point Leo says that Vampires were ostracized from the Underworld for centuries, that as far as he knew, they're a part of a whole different network now. This is a reference to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which had recently jumped networks, from The WB to UPN.
  • A new Vampire Queen is shown later in the series denoting that there are various vampire covens, each with a queen of their own.
  • When Piper and Phoebe are in the graveyard and Phoebe leans on the tombstone, there are dead leaves all over the top of it. Later in the scene, it's clear.
  • When Paige is leaving P3 you can see the lot has puddles all over it but when she falls the ground after the first bite it is dry, then when the camera pans out after the attack it has puddles again.
  • When the Fury shows up for Cole's meeting, she has regular hands and not talons. Furies don't get talons until after their first kill, but since the people at the meeting seemed to be the leaders of their group this wouldn't make sense for the Furies to be represented by a novice member. Also, it wouldn't make sense for the Fury to be at the meeting considering they punish evil people, although they may only punish evil humans.
  • When Phoebe and Piper chased the Grimlock Leader, he ran and then shimmered out which has never being shown in previous episodes with them.
  • When Piper is reading through the Book of Shadows to find whoever hurt Paige she mentions Manticores, and they actually appear in a later episode Little Monsters. They also pass the Phoenix page, but by the way they talk of it, it suggest they mean an actual Phoenix bird, rather than the Phoenix Demons from Season Six episode, Chris-Crossed.
  • This is one of the rare occasions when Piper display martial arts and gymnastics. She does a cartwheel and kicks a Harpy Demon to the floor, during the opening scene.
  • This seems to be the only appearance of Harpy Demons, this may be because Cole's demonic assistance, Julie, vanquished the Harpy Queen, perhaps pushing the Harpy race into extinction or at least chaos.

[edit] International titles

  • French: Le baiser du vampire
  • German: Beiss mich (Bite me)
  • Spanish: MuĂ©rdeme

[edit] External links

Preceded by:
Saving Private Leo		 Charmed episodes Followed by:
We're Off to See the Wizard
Charmed
Main: Season summaries | Episode guide | Multimedia | Terms | Trivia
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Evil beings: Darklighters | Warlocks
Neutral: Avatars | The Hollow | Firestarters
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