Pardon My Past

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“Pardon My Past”
Charmed episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 14
Guest stars Tyler Christopher
   (Anton)
Jeanette Miller
 &nbsp
 (Adult Christina)
Written by Michael Gleason
Directed by John Pare
Production no. 4399035
Original airdate February 17th, 2000
Episode chronology
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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Phoebe is haunted by a spirit in her past life. To find out why, she visits 1924 where she discovers that one of her past lives, P.Russul, is a pyrokinetic witch who romanced a warlock named Anton. Similarly, while in the past, Phoebe sees that the past lives of her sisters were former relatives of hers and out to destroy her and all her future lives before she can become completely evil. Prue and Piper must then stop their past lives' curse in the present before Phoebe falls victim to it and dies.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • Anton: An ageless warlock from the early 20th century who had a love affair with P. Russell, a past life of the Charmed One Phoebe Halliwell.

[edit] Artifacts

  • Cursed 1920s Necklace: A necklace blessed by the warlock Anton to block the powers of any witch that tries to do past Phoebe harm.
  • Power Increasing Potion: A potion given to Past Phoebe to increase her powers so she could fight Past Prue and Piper.

[edit] Spells

  • Past Life Spell: Remove the chains of time and space, and make my spirit soar. Let these mortal arms embrace, the life that haunts before
  • To Switch Past Lives: In this time and in this place, take this spirit I displace. Bring it forth while I go back, to inhabit a soul so black
  • To Switch Past Lives Back Again: In this time and in this place, take this spirit I displaced. Bring me forth while she goes back, to her soul so black
  • To Curse P. Russell:Evil witch in my sight Vanquish thyself. Vanquish thy might in this and every future life.

[edit] Episode stars

[edit] Co-Stars

[edit] Trivia

  • Brian Krause (Leo) is finally added to the opening credits.
  • Phoebe's Past Life died February 17, 1924
  • One of the past lives Phoebe sees in the 1920s is Anton's portrayal of Leo. However, that particular Leo seemed to have died before February 17, 1924 because the Leo that we know was born in May 6, 1924, signs up as a volunteer medic during World War II, marries his childhood sweetheart at the age of 18, and dies heroically in 1944 at the Battle of Guadalcanal, afterwards becoming a Whitelighter. This is quite possible, since Phoebe never actually meets past Leo. (Anton glamours into past Piper's former lover, past Leo.) Past Piper, is currently married to past Dan. We actually do not know where past Leo is.
  • It is possible that Leo's past life (in the 20's) died soon after P.Russell (Phoebe's past life) between the months of Feb - Apri 1924 and was reborn in May 1924, married in 1942 at 18 years old and died at Guadacanal in 1944, then became a Whitelighter for the next 60 years. So in theory, P.Baxter's former lover was not Leo's previous life, but his second past life. 1. Name Unknown (P.Baxter's Lover) 1900s-1924 2. Leonardo Wyatt (Soldier) 1924 - 1944 3. Leo Wyatt (Whitelighter) 1944 - Present Day.
  • According to this episode, all of Phoebe's future lives are doomed to die in their early 20s unless they too can somehow stop the curse from affecting them. They end up saving present Phoebe by putting the necklace on her, but the rest of her lives are still doomed to die in their early 20s. Unless this didn't occur to the Halliwell sisters, it seems strange that they didn't make a point of writing something in the Book of Shadows warning Phoebe's future selves.
  • It was known that, up until the Charmed Ones were born, the Warren/Halliwell witches have only Telekinetic, Molecular Immoblization and Premonition powers, but this episode contradicts that. It is possible that this is because two of the 1920's Halliwell cousins (Prue and Phoebe's past lives) were hybrids of different magical families who possess pyrokinetic and cryokinetic powers, with Piper's past life being the only "normal" Halliwell witch, with the power to freeze.
  • When Phoebe trades souls with her past life, they also transfer their powers, but that isn't right because the spell works only on souls. And it is stated several times over the course of the series that their magical powers are in their blood, so technically Phoebe from the present should have had Phoebe's powers from the past and vice versa.
  • Technically, Piper is great grandmother to herself.
  • In this episode, we see in the family tree that Piper was born on 07 Aug 1973. However, in the episode 'Sleuthing with the Enemy', Phoebe says that Piper is a Gemini.
  • Piper's Past Life was Grams' mother, so Prue's Past Life was more than likely named Phoebe (Patty told Phoebe she named her after her favourite aunt) also Phoebe's Past Life was dead before Patty was born and was evil.
  • When the sisters and Leo see the family tree, it shows that Grams died in the 1960's, but she actually died in 1998.

[edit] International titles

  • French: Sœur contre sœurs
  • German: Verflucht in alle Ewigkeit (Cursed for Eternity)
  • Spanish: Perdona mi pasado
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Animal Pragmatism		 Charmed episodes Followed by:
Give Me a Sign
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