The Three Faces of Phoebe

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“The Three Faces of Phoebe”
Charmed episode

Past, present and future Phoebe look for advice on marrying Cole in The Three Faces of Phoebe
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 14
Guest stars Brian Krause
   (Leo Wyatt)
Dorian Gregory
   (Darryl Morris)
Julian McMahon
   (Cole Turner)
Debbi Morgan
   (The Seer)
Harry Van Gorkum
   (Kurzon)
Frances Bay
   (Old Phoebe)
Samantha Goldstein
   (Young Phoebe)
Andrew Ableson
   (Jax)
Christian Keiber
   (Scott)
David Reivers
   (Bob Cowan)
Jason Matthew Smith
   (Demon #1)
Written by Curtis Kheel
Directed by Joel Feigenbaum
Production no. 4301080
Original airdate February 14, 2002
Episode chronology
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"Charmed and Dangerous" "Marry Go Round"

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Phoebe gets pre-marital cold feet and casts a spell to find out if she should marry Cole, which conjures a young, innocent Phoebe from the past and an old, cynical Phoebe from the future to the manor to help her make up her mind. Meanwhile, Cole is unable to control the evil growing within him as the Source takes over his entire being and the Seer prepares for his rule of the underworld.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • The Source: see The Source
  • The Seer: see The Seer
  • Kurzon: an ancient and powerful demon, and rival to the Source. The Source banished him from the Underworld for inciting a failed coup.

[edit] Spells

  • To Vanquish Kurzon: Hell threw you from its inner core, but earth won't hold you anymore. Since heaven cannot be your place, your flesh and blood we now erase.
  • To Hear One's Heart's Desire: Write a question of the heart on a piece of paper, then light it with a flame. My love is strong, my spirit weak. It is an answer that I seek. A question burns within this fire, so I may hear my heart’s desire. Drop the burning paper into a container.

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode's title is a play on words for the book and film titled The Three Faces of Eve, which dealt with multiple personality disorder.
  • This marks the third time Alyssa Milano changed her hair in Season 4. This time she cut her hair shoulder length and cut her bangs like they were in Season 6 with her pixie cut.
  • This is the first episode to show Paige able to orb herself and others from one location to another.
  • During the scene where Phoebe is wistfully staring at Belthazor's face in the Book of Shadows, a How to Summon Balthazor spell is immediately visible to the left of it. In the episode Look Who's Barking, Phoebe is seen placing pictures of Belthazor's human form on that same page, but the summoning spell is a few pages after the Banshee page, which doesn't make sense; all information concerning a demon should be grouped together, not scattered throughout the book.
  • In the beginning of the episode Piper makes a big breakfast for everyone, saying that they vanquished the Source the night before. However, when Paige gets her promotion she says she cast the spell on Caroline last week, which was also the night they vanquished the Source and also we see them celebrating at P3 after vanquishing the Source which would not have given Phoebe time to get her hair done.
  • Actress Frances Bay, who plays old Phoebe, previously acted with Alyssa Milano in the final episode of the series Who's the Boss?. Since filming this episode she lost the use of her right leg in a car accident.
  • We learn in this episode that Phoebe's favorite fairy tale is Cinderella.
  • This episode also leads to believe that Leo has some type of power(s) beyond his Whitelighter powers in the future, since old Phoebe told present Phoebe to have Leo send her back. Although old Phoebe could have just wanted Leo to orb her to the Elders and then they could send her back. Another theory is that Leo did send her back, as he later becomes an Elder.

[edit] International titles

  • French: Face à son destin
  • German: Die Frage aller Fragen (The Question of all Questions)
  • Spanish: Las tres caras de Phoebe
Preceded by:
Charmed and Dangerous		 Charmed episodes Followed by:
Marry Go Round
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