| Charmed Season 2 | |||
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| No. of episodes | 22 | ||
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| Original channel | The WB | ||
| Original run | September 30, 1999 – May 18, 2000 | ||
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| DVD release | |||
| Region 1 | September 6, 2005 | ||
| Region 4 | July 21, 2005 | ||
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| List of Charmed episodes | |||
The second season of Charmed, an American supernatural drama television series, began airing on September 30, 1999 on The WB. Airing on Thursdays at 9 P.M., the season consisted of 22 episodes and concluded its airing on May 18, 2000.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the complete second season in a six-disc box set on September 6, 2005.
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The second season of Charmed is again characterized by the series writers' mantra: "Charmed is a show about three sisters who just happen to be powerful witches, not three witches who happen to be sisters". This formula enabled the Executive Producers' stable of writers to gradually build on the sisters' magic, while spending the show's main entertainment minutes dealing with the human dilemma of the complications and vicissitudes that busy lives lay on anyone. Like the first season, the sisters fight different forces of evil each episode, and the show continues to focus on how such things impact the sisters' attempt to live normal lives, as far as such is possible.
Darryl Morris, Andy's police partner before his death, becomes a more prominent character as he begins to learn about the sisters' secret lives and helps them out in certain situations. The season also introduces two characters: neighbours Dan Gordon and his niece Jenny.
Piper, becoming frustrated with the limitations of her relationship with whitelighter Leo Wyatt, is drawn to Dan, creating a love triangle that lasts the majority of the season. She also opens a nightclub 'P3' which takes over from Quake as a place for the sisters to meet when not at the manor. It also allowed the show to introduce musical guests either in the opening or ending of each episode. Phoebe decides to return to school to complete a degree in Psychology and Prue leaves her job mid-season to follow her dream of becoming a photographer. She also has a brief relationship with Jack Sheridan whom she meets at Bucklands before leaving.
This season also sees the sisters' powers growing as they begin to gain more control over their powers. Phoebe learns to command premonitions, Piper selectively freezes objects, and Prue gains the power of astral projection. They also begin to learn how to write and cast their own spells and to create their own vanquishing potions.
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| 23 | 1 | "Witch Trial" | Craig Zisk | Brad Kern | September 30, 1999 | 4399022 |
| The sisters face a demon called Abraxas, who steals the Book of Shadows and undoes some of the spells they've cast (in reverse order), releasing old vanquished enemies of the Charmed Ones and forcing them to remember the vanquishing spells from memory alone. The sisters have one chance to recapture the Book of Shadows or they will lose their powers forever. The Halliwells meet their new neighbors, Jenny and her uncle Dan Gordon, who debut in the series as supporting characters. Phoebe and Piper learn through the Wiccan community that because their anniversary of receiving their powers falls on the equinox, a wiccan holy day, their abilities will be temporarily augmented and their powers permanently so. | ||||||
| 24 | 2 | "Morality Bites" | John Behring | Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin | October 7, 1999 | 4399025 |
| Prue and Piper use their powers to stop a dog from repeatedly defecating on their entry walk, even though this counts as magic for personal gain. When Phoebe has a vision of herself being burnt to death, the sisters travel ten years into the future (to February 26, 2009) to learn what happened and why, and Prue finds herself as a blond with a ruthless business reputation. Phoebe is in prison facing an imminent execution appointment and Piper discovers that Leo is her ex-husband, and they have a daughter. The girls discover that Phoebe used her powers to kill a murderer, causing a local D.A. named Nathanial Pratt to begin modern day witch trials as a platform for political office. Prue and Piper want to save Phoebe at any cost, but Leo feels that using their powers to save Phoebe will be a tipping point causing rhetoric to become legislation outlawing magic. | ||||||
| 25 | 3 | "The Painted World" | Kevin Inch | Constance M. Burge | October 14, 1999 | 4399023 |
| Prue finds some mysterious words on an unusual painting at the auction house, which, when said aloud, send her into another dimension within the painting. There the supposed innocent she finds and is determined to save is actually a warlock cursed into the painting by a witch, and he is hoping to get out of the painting to reunite with his fellow warlock lover. When Piper accidentally becomes trapped in the painting while trying to find Prue, its up to Phoebe, who has cast a knowledge boosting spell for a job interview, to save them. | ||||||
| 26 | 4 | "The Devil's Music" | Richard Compton | David Simkins | October 21, 1999 | 4399024 |
| Worried about cash flow in the struggling new P3 club, Phoebe and Prue conspire to take on a zero interest loan behind Piper's back, trusting that she will be able to make the club successful. Leo gets the manager of Dishwalla, Carlton, to bring the band to the P3 club, fully aware that the manager has made a pact with the demon Masselin, who grants him fame and fortune in exchange for innocent souls. Detective Darryl Morris doesn't know this, but suspects that Carlton is involved in a string of mysterious disappearances of young women from Dishwalla's past concerts. On the night of the concert, Phoebe acts as bait for Masselin, and the sisters manage to feed him a potion which kills him, releasing all his victims. | ||||||
| 27 | 5 | "She's a Man, Baby, a Man!" | Martha Mitchell | Javier Grillo-Marxuach | November 4, 1999 | 4399026 |
| As a heatwave descends on San Francisco, Phoebe begins to have erotic dreams that end in the killing of her dream lovers. The sisters find out that she is psychically linked, through her powers, to a man-killing sexual predator demon known as a 'succubus' that drains men of their testosterone. When they cast a spell, hoping to find and then vanquish the succubus, it turns Prue into a man. | ||||||
| 28 | 6 | "That Old Black Magic" | James L. Conway | Valerie Mayhew & Vivian Mayhew | November 11, 1999 | 4399027 |
| A trio of film students are the victims of a heart-stealing evil witch, who escapes from over two hundred years of entombment, hunting for her magical scepter. Leo returns to help get the staff into the hands of the only person who can use the wand for good, the Chosen One, and bumps into Piper who has a new love interest: Dan. Trying to put the awkwardness aside, Leo, Piper and Phoebe find the Chosen One, who turns out to be a reluctant teenager named Kyle, while Prue stumbles across the magical scepter. Ignoring Leo's warnings, the Halliwell sisters attempt to find and defeat the witch and barely escape with their lives. Protected only by a fake courage potion concocted by Prue, Kyle saves the day, destroying the evil witch by using the magical scepter. The victory becomes bittersweet when Leo faces Piper's choice to end their difficult romance and begin a new one with Dan. | ||||||
| 29 | 7 | "They're Everywhere" | Mel Damski | Sheryl J. Anderson | November 18, 1999 | 4399028 |
| Prue and Piper give in to their fears that the men in their lives may be Warlocks and cast a mind-reading spell to find out the truth. Meanwhile, a group of brain-zapping Warlocks called The Collectors are after Eric Bragg (Misha Collins), who has translated ancient tablets that detail the location of an ancient book of prophecies, known as the Akashic Records, that contains all historical events in the past and future. The collector demons are responsible for giving Eric's father, Ben Bragg his affliction during which Phoebe doing volunteer work, meets both men. During the build up of conflict in the plot, eventually Eric destroys the actual stone tablets, storing the knowledge of the book's location to his own mind and becoming prey to the Collectors, who want the power of the Akashic Records. Using Eric's father as bait, the Collectors (One of whom is his physician, Dr. Stone) lure Eric to them in a park and then trap and zap an overly quick Phoebe when she tries to help Eric out. Following just behind and too late, but still able to use the magic induced by the mind-reading spell Prue and Piper use their ability to read each others minds, as well as those of the warlocks to outmaneuver the warlock blink powers and with a timely double freeze and repositioning, trick the Warlocks into zapping each others brains, which uncontrolled continues until they zap each other right out of existence. | ||||||
| 30 | 8 | "P3 H2O" | John Behring | Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin | December 9, 1999 | 4399029 |
| Prue traumatized by witnessing her mother's drowning when in elementary school, must face her greatest fear so that the sisters can destroy a water demon when they revisit the youth camp where their mother mysteriously drowned. In the process, they meet a stranger from their mother's past, who turns out to be her former whitelighter, Sam—who they find out was also her secret lover Sam Wilder. | ||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Ms. Hellfire" | Craig Zisk | Sheryl J. Anderson & Constance M. Burge | January 13, 2000 | 4399030 |
| On the morning of Friday the thirteenth, a mortal woman, Ms. Hellfire, invades the manor with a submachine gun and makes an assassination attempt on the three sisters' lives forcing Prue to repel the four slow motion depicted deflected bullets back to the leather clad hit woman, killing her in the manor. Consequently, the sisters are forced to finally reveal their secret lives and witch powers to their friend Detective Darryl Morris and begin investigating her background with him, as he figures he can only keep things under wraps for 24 hours. Prue breaks out with a new power of astral projection during a stressful work conference with a new boss. Meanwhile, a bomb goes off in Darryl's face while partnered with Phoebe to rescue the last woman on the hit list- Marcie Steadwell, leading Prue to leave Jack covering for her at work and go with Piper to check out the hit girls apartment where they find numerous wigs, a great wardrobe and paraphernalia to aid disguises. From flowers Impulsively trying on a long black leather trenchcoat, the two find they've been approached by gangsters and so on the spur of the moment Prue decides to go undercover as the mysterious hitwoman, they know is called as Ms. Hellfire to meet with gangster boss Bane Jessup. Jessup is acting as an intermediary hiring the hits for the evil demon Barbas, whom the Charmed Ones banished to Limbo in a prior encounter. They soon find out that Barbas, the demon of fear, has taken control of Prue and is making her try to kill both sisters Phoebe and Piper before the hour of Midnight. Piper and Phoebe left the witch practitioner Marcie Steadwell at Darryl's protection, to go and find Prue.They confront the enchanted-Prue and force her to astrally project so they can reveal a litany of sisterly venialisms and convince her they are not imposters. Restored to herself, Prue insists then on finding Barbas and dealing with him instead of waiting for midnight. | ||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Heartbreak City" | Michael Zinberg | David Simkins | January 20, 2000 | 4399031 |
| A Demon named Drasi steals Cupid's powerful love ring and sets out to destroy all his recent love matches. But when the relationships of the Charmed Ones break, Cupid must convince the Halliwells to help him get it back before a world of Hate is created, which results in Cupid dying. A dateless Phoebe comes to the aid of Cupid, when a demon of hate named Drazi steals Cupid's powerful love ring and sets out to destroy all his recent love matches. Cupid's future looks bleak as he watches the couples he's paired go from loving mates to sparring enemies and the bad vibes are spreading into the relationships of the Charmed Ones. Prue uses her newly discovered power of astral projection to help Piper and Phoebe kill Drazi, but Drazi returns from the dead to wreak havoc on the love lives of the Charmed Ones a second time. Phoebe convinces Piper to freeze the demon of hate and return Cupid's love ring. The second time they try, the demon is banished forever. All returns to normal in the love lives of the Charmed Ones and many others. Even Phoebe gets a thank you kiss from Cupid that leaves her smiling. | ||||||
| 33 | 11 | "Reckless Abandon" | Craig Zisk | Javier Grillo-Marxuach | January 27, 2000 | 4399032 |
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Phoebe finds an abandoned baby at the police station and convinces Darryl to let her take him home. Although the sisters find that taking care of baby Mathew is hard work, they all end up loving him. However, they don't know that Mathew's parents are dealing with a ghost that wants revenge on Mathew's grandmother, because he loved her so much that he stalked her, so she killed him and buried him in her yard. He kills every male in her family including her two oldest sons and her husband. Mathew's father got rid of Mathew for his own safety. The ghost kills Mathew's father, leaving Mathew's mother and grandmother not knowing where Matthew is. The girls try to help get rid of the ghost but the ghost proves to be too powerful. Prue and Phoebe attempt to pour a potion over his bones, which will vanquish him, but they fail. Instead Mathew's grandmother kills herself, which vanquishes the ghost. Prue, Piper and Phoebe say goodbye to Mathew, and return him to his mother. |
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| 34 | 12 | "Awakened" | Anson Williams | Valerie Mayhew & Vivian Mayhew | February 3, 2000 | 4399033 |
| Piper has illegally purchased a crate of fruit smuggled into the U.S. from South America and becomes infected by a rare and deadly virus, caused by a bite from a fly from the crate of smuggled fruit. She collapses suddenly at the P3 nightclub and is taken by ambulance to the hospital, and later falls into a coma. With Leo being powerless to help under orders from the Elders, Prue and Phoebe cast an "Awakening spell" to cure Piper, transferring the infectious agent to a ninja action figure, which Phoebe disposes of in a Hazardous Materials basket. Unfortunately and unknowingly, the action figure "wakes up" becoming animate and begins stabbing people with his plastic sword and spreading the deadly not normally infectious disease to others in the hospital. The nightclub is closed down and quarantined by the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) who pull Phoebe and Prue into isolation along with Piper; and the media become involved. The three decide they need to reverse the spell, and Prue has use her new astral-projection power consciously for the first time to get the counter spell from the Book of Shadows. When they cast it, Piper slips back into a coma and becomes disassociated from her body, where she meets Leo in some ethereal plane and he heals her. After the medical staff in ICU have "called" her time of death, Piper's heart monitor begins bleeping again, and she sits up fully recovered a second time—to the mystification of the medical staff. Prue decides to quit her Job and end her relationship with her boyfriend Jack. Leo gets suspended by the Elders for healing Piper, and he resolves to fight for Piper's love now that he's mortal. | ||||||
| 35 | 13 | "Animal Pragmatism" | Don Kurt | Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin | February 10, 2000 | 4399034 |
| A trio of mortal girls in Phoebe's college class transform three animals (Snake, Pig, and Rabbit) into hunky semblances of men, with the help of a book of love spells and a tape recording of Phoebe's corrected (24-hour) spell. Two of the animals decide they want to stay human however, so they snakebite and kidnap two of the girls and lock the other in a cage, and set out to find Phoebe at P3, leaving behind them a violent trail of dying people. Once at P3, in an attempt to change them back into animals, a spell gone awry changes everyone at P3 into animals, which Phoebe has to fix before the police arrive. They end up making the two animals permanently human so they can be sent to prison. Meanwhile Piper tries to deal with both Dan and Leo wooing her for Valentine's Day, while Prue plans to do nothing all day and tries to adjust to being newly unemployed and dateless. | ||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Pardon My Past" | John Paré | Michael Gleason | February 17, 2000 | 4399035 |
| One of Phoebe's past lives comes back to haunt her, literally, and she learns that in 1924 she was seduced by the dark side as well as a warlock named Anton. She attempts to steal her cousin's powers (who are the past lives of Piper and Prue) and that they were the ones who killed her in the past, which is now haunting her present. Evil Phoebe comes into the present and is protected by an amulet not allowing present Phoebe to come back, but Piper and Prue manage to save Phoebe in the end by tricking past Phoebe into killing Anton and then removing the choker, but to get it back on before their Phoebe is killed. Piper finds out that in her past life she was married to Dan, but Leo was her former lover and Prue was a successful photographer back then. | ||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Give Me a Sign" | James A. Contner | Sheryl J. Anderson | February 24, 2000 | 4399036 |
| A demon known as Litvack orders his henchmen to kill Bane Jessup (Antonio Sabato Jr.), who Prue helped to put behind bars when Bane tried to have the Charmed Ones killed. Bane kidnaps Prue but all he wants is help from her. Meanwhile, Phoebe casts a spell that will give Piper a sign when it comes to choice of her true love. | ||||||
| 38 | 16 | "Murphy's Luck" | John Behring | David Simkins | March 30, 2000 | 4399037 |
| Prue, on probationary assignment as staff photographer of a magazine is assigned to get a timely picture of a local celebrity do-gooder, Maggie/Madeline Murphy, that has been targeted by a variety of darklighter. The darklighter has the telepathic power to read thoughts and can also implant them, and their mission is to cause potential future whitelighters to commit suicide. Prue uses Astral projection to intervene in the control the darklighter is asserting even as the victim is poised on the edge. She slips and Prue's astral projection can't hold on to the woman's wrist more than a few moments. When their grips fail, Prue falls back to her body in time to use her telekinetic power to divert the falling woman so she lands on a canvas awning and not splat on the ground. The darklighter then targets Prue and she begins a monumental streak of bad luck — gets fired, has car die, etc. — suffering punishing doubts as the darklighter busily fills her thoughts with negatives; as the audience is privy too since he vocalizes them walking behind her, unseen, using Prue's voice in a bald male body. Leo gets his wings back when he feels the cost of not being able to help is too great. Also Piper and Leo renew their relationship while Piper distances herself from Dan Gordon while he is in New York City. | ||||||
| 39 | 17 | "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans" | Kevin Inch | Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Robert Masello | April 6, 2000 | 4399038 |
| The sisters great aunt Gail warns the sisters of a demon that has been robbing graves out of town. She convinces them to help, however Gail and her two other elderly witch friends have concocted a magic potion to steal the sisters powers. Gail and her friends awaken an old demon- the demon of vanity, make him a new body and give him the sisters powers, in exchange for their youth. He makes Gail young again, but kills Gail's friends. He then forces Gail to introduce him to other elderly people, offering them youth in exchange for their souls. Prue, Piper and Phoebe realize what is happening and get their powers back, and vanquish the demon, even though Piper feel sit would be better off if she were no longer a witch but decides that she will remain a witch as long as Prue and Phoebe want to. Piper ends her relationship with Dan in this episode. Leo is absent as a main character. | ||||||
| 40 | 18 | "Chick Flick" | Michael Schultz | Zack Estrin & Chris Levinson | April 20, 2000 | 4399039 |
| Piper and Leo attempt to have a normal date, but find it difficult because of Leo being a "white lighter" and Piper being a witch. Prue and Phoebe find the demon of illusion, who spreads violence to mortals by casting spells on them to make them angry and violent. When he tries to attack the three sisters, he pulls Phoebe's long time crush Billy, a horror movie hero, into the real world. The demon sends two horror movie killers, an axe murderer and bloody Marry, into the real world, sending them to kill the charmed ones. The sisters and Billy kill the attackers and are able to destroy the demon by burning the film role when he is in the movie. Billy and Phoebe say goodbye, and Billy returns to the movie world. | ||||||
| 41 | 19 | "Ex Libris" | Joel J. Feigenbaum | Peter Chomsky & Brad Kern | April 27, 2000 | 4399040 |
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When Piper finds Leo and Dan brutally fighting at P3, she discovers that Leo was married in his past life and decides to visit her. Phoebe finds that her friend Charlene has been murdered and suspects demons are behind it. Prue meets a man who stands at a bus stop everyday and learns that he is searching for someone who may have witnessed his daughters murder, and is willing to tell the police. Phoebe meets Charlene's ghost and realizes Charlene doesn't know she's dead. Once the charmed sisters are able to convince Charlene that she is dead, they try to determine who killed her. They see that the demon killed her because she was close to proving demons to be real. Phoebe decides to retrace Charlene's last steps. She is grabbed by the grim reaper like demon and pulled into a small room. Prue astral projects into the room, while Charlene's ghost fights the demon. Prue finishes the spell, vanquishing the demon. Charlene's ghost then haunts the man that murdered the girl, until he becomes so frightened that he admits to everyone what he did. He is arrested, and the girls father is able to move on. Charlene's ghost passes on as well. |
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| 42 | 20 | "Astral Monkey" | Craig Zisk | David Simkins & Constance M. Burge | May 4, 2000 | 4399041 |
| Prue gets her face on t.v, because pictures taken by the paparazzi make people believe that she is dating a popular actor. Meanwhile the doctor that helped treat Piper when she had the fever that she almost died from, Dr. Williamson, has done research using the sister's blood, with three monkeys which he named after the sisters. The monkeys have the girls' powers, and the "Prue monkey" uses its telekinesis to inject Dr. Williamson with a needle containing each of the girls' blood, which gives Dr. Williamson all of their powers. While Prue takes pictures of the actor, the "Prue monkey" astral projects in front of her, and then leaves. When telling her sisters about it, they piece together that the monkey is from the hospital. They go there, finding the monkeys and files about them, and steal the monkeys and the files. Meanwhile Williamson had become crazy and with his new powers he goes on a killing spree, killing ex-cons and taking their vital organs to give to his ill sister who needs a transplant. Leo explains to the sisters that their blood is inside him which is causing him to go crazy. Darryl tells Piper that they need to get rid of him, because he is killing people in horrible ways. After Prue's actor friend issues a statement that they are not dating, the paparazzi back off. The sisters attempt to give Williamson an antidote, but he destroys it and reveals his true strength. When they find him again he tries to kill them, but his attack backfires and he stabbed, and killed. Piper is grief stricken by the murder of a mortal, but Leo helps her to move on. The monkeys are cured and taken to an animal shelter. (This was the final episode to be written or co-written by series creator Constance M. Burge.) | ||||||
| 43 | 21 | "Apocalypse Not" | Michael Zinberg | Sanford Golden & Sheryl J. Anderson | May 11, 2000 | 4399042 |
| On the way to dinner, Leo and Piper are entangled in a sudden outbreak of road rage. Piper freezes the riot, and they spot a man with green tie who is immune to the freeze power and give chase. He soon escape, and reappears with three horsemen, one in red, another in yellow, and the last in black tie. The men with green tie reports on the encounter with Piper and the four decides to eliminate her. During the confrontation, things go wrong and both Prue and one of the men disappear to another plane. This unexpected and unexplained effect shakes both sides up. At Team Evil's Head Quarters, the three remaining horsemen receive a stressed, partially garbled message to cease hostilities and their operation, while Leo orbs back with news: the leaders on the other side, have approached the leaders of the good, asking and proposing to work together. Against Leo's advice, the sisters, using their free will (as championed by the elders), accept the offer conveyed via the elders and meet the three remaining horsemen. When the two sisters work together with the two horsemen, the third horsemen goes back to Head Quarters. Leo follows him to spy out. He manages to identify who the four are. Then Leo is discovered in the HQ and returns to the manor himself with his news. He identifies them as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Phoebe and Piper are conflicted between saving Prue and the world before the "real" millennium. | ||||||
| 44 | 22 | "Be Careful What You Witch For" | Shannen Doherty | Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin & Brad Kern | May 18, 2000 | 4399043 |
| A genie and a dragon warlock team up to get the Charmed Ones. The three sisters, encountering the genie, are warned by Leo that genies are tricksters, so they refuse to use their wishes. However, the genie grants them three wishes anyway, sneakily getting them to admit what they want or listening in on conversations. Prue wishes love could be like the first time, so she becomes 17 again, Piper wishes Dan could move on with his life, so he starts to age rapidly, and Phoebe wishes for an active power, so the genie steals the dragon warlock's power of flight and gives it to her. The genie, having granted the three wishes, is now free and it turns out that he wasn't actually interested in killing the witches, he just teamed up with the bad guy so that he could get his freedom. The warlock is mad that the genie didn't really do anything and stole his power to boot. He decides to go after Prue since she's a rebellious 17-year-old and has no power. Phoebe and Piper try to rescue their eldest younger sister, but the warlock stabs her and she dies. The genie sees this and feels bad, so he volunteers to go back into his bottle and give up his freedom, which would make their three wishes reverse and hopefully bring Prue back to life. He does so, and Dan goes back to his normal age, Phoebe loses the power of flight, and Prue goes back to her normal age but is still dead. Piper and Phoebe decide to let the genie back out of the bottle, get a new three wishes, and wish Prue alive, but the dragon warlock comes after them. They duke it out with the dragon warlock, get the genie back out of the bottle, bring Prue back to the life, and then use the power of three to vanquish the dragon demon. For their last two wishes they wish that Dan would forget all the awful crazy things he saw in the last few days and really be able to move on with his life, and they wish the genie free. Piper wants to get to know the rest of Leo's life, so when he is called away by "them" she goes with him. | ||||||
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