Reckless Abandon

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“Reckless Abandon”
Charmed episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 11
Guest stars Stephanie Beacham
   (Martha)
J. Kenneth Campbell
   (Elias)
Hillary Danner
   (Alexandra)
Lochlyn Munro
   (Jack)
Written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by Craig Zisk
Production no. 4399032
Original airdate January 27, 2000
Episode chronology
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"Heartbreak City" "Awakened"

Reckless Abandon is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed.

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Detective Morris puts his job on the line when he allows Phoebe to take a seemingly abandoned baby home so the Charmed Ones can protect him from a vengeful ghost Phoebe has seen in a terrifying vision. When Prue and Piper discover that the ghost has systematically been killing off the men in the family, they ask the matriarch to help find the reason for the murders before the baby boy meets the same fate. Meanwhile, Jack tries to persuade Prue to accompany him on a business trip and Piper's relationship with Dan takes an exciting turn.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • Elias Lundy: a vengeful spirit that terrorized the Van Lewen family

[edit] Spells

  • To Banish a Spirit: Pour this mixture over the departed bones: a palmful of pomegranate seeds, ground into a fine paste, a pinch of comfry root, a pinch of blood meal, a pinch of clematis seed, a pinch of dried rhubarb leaf. Mix well, add a chalice of twice blessed water and boil. Or, you must destroy the object of the curse.

[edit] General Information

A child is the finest and most innocent of all innocents. It is therefore unlawful and unnatural to use magic to change what is in the nature of a child. Before casting a spell that affects a child, the witch must ask herself "Am I doing this for the child or am I doing this for myself?"

For the witch who is bothered by the noise of a child and would seek to use magic to bring forth peace and quiet, this tome can only say one thing: sometimes a baby just has to cry.

[edit] Episode stars

[edit] Co-Stars

  • Rolando Molina as Hernandez
  • Albert Stroth as Uniform Cop
  • Ric Coy as Gilbert van Lewen

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode reunites Shannen Doherty and Stephanie Beacham, who previously worked together on the series Beverly Hills 90210.
  • Prue exhibits an awful lot more control over her powers in this episode than ever before or ever again after, moving the multiple purse contents without using her hands or eyes, working the sink sprayer while her hands are full and she can't see it, as it's behind the baby, and making the skeleton of Elias rise out of the ground.
  • In the episode The Power of Two it is explained that the only way to vanquish a ghost is to have another spirit recite a spell, which Prue could have done in her astral form. This episode contradicts the previous though in that the Charmed Ones now say that you can vanquish a ghost by pouring a potion on the ghost's remains. The only other time this method is mentioned again is in the episode Love's a Witch.
  • The ghost character Elias Lundy was inspired by the central ghost figure in the book The Haunting of Hill House, which was later made into several films: House on Haunted Hill in 1959, The Haunting in 1963, The Legend of Hell House in 1973, The Haunting in 1999, and House on Haunted Hill also in 1999.

[edit] International titles

  • French: L'Héritier
  • German: Drei Hexen und ein Baby (Three witches and a baby)
  • Spanish: Abandono atropellado

[edit] External links

Preceded by:
Heartbreak City		 Charmed episodes Followed by:
Awakened
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Neutral: Avatars | The Hollow | Firestarters
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