Pre-Witched

"Pre-Witched"

Pre-Witched is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed.

Synopsis

Now that Piper and Leo are married, Prue, Phoebe and Piper are faced with the possibility of being separated as the newlyweds plan to move out on their own, and the episode flashes back to an earlier time before the sisters knew they were the three most powerful witches the world has ever known. In between flashback, a new Warlock tries to make the Charmed Ones kill all nine of his lives in order to become immortal, and thus unstoppable.

Book of Shadows

Enemies

Familiar Warlock

When a witch's Familiar decides to become a Warlock, it mixes a series of potions together in order to give it human form. The Familiar's witch then is magically sacrificed once the transformation is made, causing whatever powers the witch possessed to be transferred in the process. Once this is done, the new Warlock must then destroy all nine of its previous lives in order to gain a 10th life of immortality. This must be done before midnight of the next New Moon.

Spells

How to Perform a Seance

To perform this ritual you will need six candles white and purple in color and a white cloth. In addition, you will need to sweeten the air by burning Cinnamon, Frankincense, and Sandalwood. As the fire burns, concentrate on contacting the Spirit and Chant the Spell that follows. If you know the mortal name of the deceased, adjust the words accordingly.

Beloved unknown spirit, we seek your guidance. We ask that you commune with us and move among us.

To Vanquish a Familiar Warlock

Must be cast at the very moment the warlock physically feels his ninth death.

'Nine times this evil's cheated death, felt no pain and kept his breath. This warlock standing in our midst, let him now feel what he has missed.'''Italic text'Italic text'

Episode Stars

• Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
• Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
• Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
• Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt

Co-Stars

• Marc Bossley as Officer
• James Sie as Shoe Salesman

Trivia

• This episode's title is the first to play on the words of the television series Bewitched, the second (and final) being Season Eight's Rewitched.
• We discover that Grams was going to permanently remove the Charmed Ones' powers as opposed to just bind them, but was unsuccessful as she died before that could happen.
• The Charmed Ones know that they must not use their powers in public, yet they do this several times in this episode and many other episodes too.
• We see that Leo and Piper bumped into one another briefly in one of the flashbacks before they actually met.
• Piper used to be a bank teller before becoming a manager at Quake.
• Piper recalls the time she and Prue shared a high-end apartment in North Beach, California until Grams became sick and was hospitalized in 1997. It was previously mentioned in the series pilot, although the location was not revealed until this episode.
• Grams reveals that Piper's favorite dessert is Double Chocolate Decadence Cake.
• The Charmed Ones make a reference to Kit the Cat (their Familiar) possibly becoming human. This eventually happens in the episode Cat House in which Kit becomes Katrina, a good being who cares for fellow Familiars until they are ready to be assigned to a witch of their own. However, in this episode, Kit is referred to as male and in Cat House, Kit becomes a woman. In other episodes of Season 1 and 2, Kit is referred to as female.
• Although the episode consists of several flashbacks, every past scene is entirely new with little stock footage actually seen.
• Piper kills the familiar turned warlock 2 times, Prue 3 times, Phoebe 3 times, for the ninth death one throws sharp object, other potion, they cast spell so 1 point for the Charmed Ones.
• In this episode, Piper doesn't know exactly how to make the vanquishing potion for the Familiar Warlock, and says "All I've come up with is mud." In a future episode (The Power of Three Blondes), Paige becomes just as confused, and comes up with, yet again, "mud", or, as she refers to it, "vanquishing goo".
• This is the last time we see Prue cast a Power of Three spell.
• The flashback scenes in this episode take place about 6 months before the first episode Something Wicca This Way Comes.
• In this episode Grams puts the Book of Shadows in the wooden box which Prue tells Piper that it hold all of their ritual stuff, But in Something Wicca This Way Comes Phoebe finds the Book in a smaller silver box.

International titles

• French: Nos meilleures années (Our better years)
• German: Aller guten Dinge sind Neun (All good things are nine; Changed German saying "All good things are three" which is similar to "The third one is a charm".)
• Spanish (Spain): Pre-Embrujadas
• Spanish (America): Pre-Embrujo

External links

• TV.com episode guide