Murphy's Luck

"Murphy's Luck"

Murphy's Luck is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed.

Synopsis

Prue lands her first professional assignment photographing "The Unluckiest Woman in San Francisco", but the job quickly turns into a rescue when Prue finds the woman suicidal and desperate to escape the recent string of tragic incidents which are being deliberately caused by a Darklighter. When the Darklighter takes revenge on Prue by whispering torturous messages which only she can hear, Phoebe and Piper race against time to save their sister from her own desperate suicide attempt, and Leo makes a selfless sacrifice in order to put an end to the Darklighter's powers.

Book of Shadows

Enemies

• Spirit extractor

classification: demon method: rips souls from human victims rendering victims suggestible to demon’s will.

Spirit killer classification: darklighter method: forces good souls into suicide through telepathic sugestion. very dangerous.

Spirit mover classification: ghost method: intercepts those spirits moving through the astral plane and bends them to their own demon purpose.

Spells

• To Give Good Luck: From this moment on, your pain is erased. Your bad luck as well. Enjoy your good luck Maggie, you’re free from this hell.

Episode Stars

• Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
• Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
• Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
• Greg Vaughan as Dan Gordon
• Dorian Gregory as Darryl Morris
• Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt

Trivia

• The episode title is a play on words for the phrase Murphy's Law.
• Leo mentions that someone could try indexing the Book of Shadows, but the only one to try it is Paige, who doesn't even appear in the series until season four.
• Leo becomes a Whitelighter again in this episode.
• Prue gets a job at 415 Magazine as a photographer. 415 is actually the area code for San Francisco, which is where the series is supposed to take place.
• When Prue is looking out onto the freeway on the bridge, you can distinctly see the downtown Los Angeles area.
• Prue creates her first self-made spell in this episode. Previously, Phoebe had been the only one to do this. However, Phoebe mentions that her own first creations didn't work.
• Piper finally decides to be with Leo instead of Dan (THANK GOD!!!) in this episode.
• When Leo orbs in on the bridge he says "I've got to go... now.". If you look at his lips he never says "now".
• This is the first episode, or series of episodes, to include someone from "The Mummy" movies (in this case, Arnold Vosloo). The second was Oded Fehr, who played Zankou in season 7.

International titles

• French: Mauvais sort ("Bad Luck" or "Bad Spell")
• German: Vom Pech verfolgt (Ill-fated)
• Spanish: La suerte de Murphy