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Charmed

Season Five

A Witch's Tail (Part 1)

With Cole gone and demonic activity light, there is finally a sense of relaxation around the Halliwell manor. While Paige finally gets her promotion to social worker, Phoebe is about to finalise her divorce from Cole, and Piper and Leo are looking forward to the birth of their daughter. But the Halliwell sisters are reminded of their duty as Charmed Ones when a mermaid-turned-human requests the witches’ help. The mermaid has made a pact with an evil sea hag, that will end with the sea hag stealing the mermaid’s immortality is she doesn’t find love as a human. Paige sets out to get the mermaid’s boyfriend to profess his love, but Phoebe is distracted by the return of the love of her own life - and Piper suddenly finds herself stricken by panic attacks, at the thought of facing up to the evil that killed her mother....

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A Witch's Tail (Part 2)

Things aren’t looking good for the Charmed Ones. They may have saved their innocent, but Phoebe is now a mermaid and is determined to stay that way - even when she finds herself pursued by a demon who wants to steal her new-found immortality. Piper, meanwhile, is still suffering from panic attacks in the face of danger but, knowing she is needed if Phoebe is to be saved, she banishes her fear the only way she knows how - by casting a spell. Unfortunately, this leaves Piper completely fearless and she ends up putting both her own life and her baby’s in danger by going after the demon alone. It is left to Paige to come up with a solution to Phoebe’s problem - but can she do so in time to save Piper?

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Happily Ever After

When an evil witch escapes from a magic mirror and discovers there are three witches alive who are more powerful than her, she decides to get rid of the Charmed Ones by making fairy tales come to life. So very soon, Paige finds herself being hunted by an axeman who wants to cut out her heart, Piper has to protect her newly-resurrected grandmother from the big bad wolf, and Phoebe finds she has no choice in whether or not she goes to the ball in her glass slippers. However, as the Charmed Ones try to fight against the roles in which they have been cast, the fairy tales they are re-enacting are in danger of being altered forever. Can Piper, Phoebe and Paige ensure that their stories end happily ever after?

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Siren Song

Still trying to prove to Phoebe that he is using his powers only for good, Cole rescues a woman from a burning building. However, in doing so, Cole attracts the attentions of a Siren - who tried to kill the woman, a future white-lighter, in the first place. Soon, the Siren’s song has both Cole and Phoebe enchanted - with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Piper, Paige and Leo are trying to both stop the Siren and help their innocent, but are having more trouble than usual. In order that her parents might understand each other’s roles and powers better, Piper and Leo’s unborn child has switched their abilities. Now Piper is a white-lighter, with charges to protect, and Leo finds himself having to write spells and blow up demons. Will they learn to control their new powers in time to help Phoebe and Cole?

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Witches In Tights

The Charmed Ones are called upon to protect an elder named Ramus, who is due to retire and pass his powers onto a new elder at that evening’s equinox. However, a demon named Arnon is determined to steal Ramus’ powers before they are released and, to help him do so, he enlists the aid of Kevin - a young man who has the power to make his drawings come to life. Bullied by his peers, Kevin draws himself as a superhero called The Aggressor - an alter ego that Arnon wants to use to obtain Ramus’ powers. However, Kevin is determined not to help Arnon with his evil plans, and puts his powers to good use by drawing three new superheroes. Which sees the Charmed Ones end up in some very unusual costumes indeed....

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The Eyes Have It

Worried that she hasn’t had a premonition in some time, Phoebe resorts to desperate measures - consulting a gypsy fortune-teller. However, when a premonition arrives during their meeting, it is seen by the gypsy rather than by Phoebe. The gypsy refuses to share the premonition with Phoebe, but Phoebe can tell that it scared the woman. Then, when the fortune-teller turns up dead, apparently a victim of a killer that has been targeting gypsies, the Charmed Ones decide to investigate. A run-in with the fortune-teller’s killer confirms that he is demonic - and that he is a gypsy hunter. But will Phoebe’s premonitions return in time to stop him killing again?

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Sympathy For The Demon

When Cole comes to the Charmed Ones for help, claiming that he is being tormented by evil, Paige is the only one willing to help him. She decides to strip Cole of his powers, but in doing so, Paige unwittingly plays into the hands of Cole’s tormentor - the fear demon, Barbas. Using Cole’s powers, Barbas manages to escape from purgatory - where he was banished by Prue - and then proceeds to get his revenge on the Charmed Ones. Locking Piper, Phoebe and Paige inside the manor, Barbas plays on each of the sisters’ deepest fears. But can they overcome their fears in order to finally vanquish the demon that killed Prue?

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A Witch In Time

When Phoebe has a premonition that Miles, her new boyfriend, will be caught up in a police shoot-out and killed, she immediately races to the rescue, saving his life. However, Phoebe soon realises that Miles is still in danger, as she suffers a further premonition of his death. Phoebe vows to do all she can to protect Miles, despite Piper and Paige’s suggestion that it may simply be Miles’ time to die. Meanwhile, Cole is visited by a warlock from the future - who claims he was sent back in time by Cole’s future self to warn him that Phoebe would be killed by her constant attempts to save Miles’ life. Cole doesn’t trust the warlock - and quite rightly so, as the warlock then hooks up with his own past self in an attempt to destroy the Charmed Ones. And all this was possible because Phoebe changed the future by saving Miles - but will Phoebe sacrifice Miles in order to save herself?

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Sam I Am

Paige is given her first charge as a whitelighter - a lonely old man named Sam, who is very familiar to Piper and Phoebe. They recognise Sam as their mother’s whitelighter, Paige’s father. Paige isn’t pleased when she finds out who Sam really is, and despairs of the fact that he is refusing her help - especially as a darklighter is on Sam’s trail, attempting to kill him. Things get worse when Cole, in an attempt to anger the Charmed Ones, teams up with the darklighter and sends him after Paige and Leo. Soon, Sam is the only whitelighter left standing - but he has lost faith in himself, as well as his healing powers. Will he regain them in time to save his long-lost daughter’s life?

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Y Tu Mummy Tambien

In another bid to get the Charmed Ones to vanquish him, Cole teams up with a demon named Jeric, who has been leaving a trail of dead witches all over town as a result of his quest to find a new body for his former lover, Isis. With witches being the only ones powerful enough to contain Isis’ spirit, Jeric kidnaps Phoebe and casts a spell which sees Isis take over Phoebe’s body. But then Cole shows up and offers Paige in exchange for Phoebe. So Jeric transfers Isis’ spirit into Paige’s body and mummifies Phoebe. And as only Isis can un-mummify Phoebe’s body, Piper is left with a choice - between which sister’s life to save....

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The Importance Of Being Phoebe

Things are going very badly for the Halliwell sisters at present. Phoebe is being sued by a reader and is in danger of losing her job, Piper’s club has been shut down by a health inspector, and then Paige has a car accident and finds herself arrested for dangerous driving. That’s one coincidence too many for Phoebe, who realises that Cole must be behind these recent misfortunes. Phoebe’s instincts prove to be correct - but it seems that these events are all part of Cole’s master plan. Kidnapping Phoebe, Cole sends a shape-shifter to take her place and steal the deeds to the Halliwell manor, from where Cole plans to rule the Underworld once more - with Phoebe as his Queen....

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Centennial Charmed

In a final attempt to win back Phoebe, Cole accepts the unlimited power offered to him by the avatars and uses it to cast a spell that alters reality. Blaming his and Phoebe’s break-up on Paige and the resurrection of the Power of Three, Cole uses the spell to wipe all memories of Paige from Piper and Phoebe’s lives. Luckily for Paige, she is orbing at the time the spell takes place, and so instead of being completely wiped from existence, she finds herself orbing back into the existence that Cole has created - and it’s not a nice place to be. In this existence, Phoebe and Cole are together and in charge of the manor, Piper and Leo are divorced and Piper is still trying to avenge Prue’s death, and Paige was killed by The Source before she could even meet her sisters. Can the real Paige restore things to the way they were?

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House Call

Piper, Phoebe and Paige are being driven mad by the poltergeist-style activity that has been occurring around the manor. Leo assures them they don’t have a ghost - that the manifestation which has been bothering them is just a result of the negative energy left in the house after numerous demon vanquishings. But the sisters want this evil presence gone, and summon a witch doctor to get rid of it. The witch doctor does his job, but Leo notices him acting suspiciously while he’s in the manor - after which the Charmed Ones start acting very strangely indeed. Leo discovers the witch doctor has put a hex on the Charmed Ones, which has caused them all to become dangerously obsessed with one aspect of their lives - obsessions which cause both Phoebe and Paige to endanger innocents....

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Sand Francisco Dreaming

Phoebe receives a wake-up call in the middle of the night from an innocent requesting help. But this is no ordinary innocent - the man in question is a Sandman, who is responsible for making sure the people of San Francisco dream. Now someone is killing Sandmen - which has resulted in people all over the city experiencing anger when they’re awake that they should have dealt with in their dreams. And when Phoebe tries to protect the Sandman, she is given an extra dose of dream dust, which causes her dream attacker - a figure in a mask with a chainsaw - to come to life. Soon, Piper, Paige and Leo’s dreams have also become reality and they find themselves having to confront their dream issues. But can they do so in time to save the Sandman?

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Baby's First Demon

Piper and Leo’s son may have only just been born, but already demons and warlocks are queuing up to kidnap him. Luckily, the baby’s magic powers provide him with his own protective force-field and Paige has devised an alarm system to announce the presence of evil in the manor. But when Piper learns of a plot to sell her son on the demon market, she decides that the Charmed Ones need to take action. Unfortunately, Piper finds herself unable to leave her baby so soon, and Phoebe is tied up in negotiations with her new boss at work. And so Paige decides to put an end to the plot herself, by disguising herself and heading to the demon market in a bid to find out who is after the baby. However, it isn’t long before Paige gets into trouble and Piper and Phoebe are called on to rescue her - leaving Piper’s son virtually unprotected....

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Lucky Charmed

When Paige casts a spell that she hopes will bring her good luck, she instead finds herself transported to a meeting between a group of Leprechauns. There Paige learns that a warlock has been killing Leprechauns all over the city and stealing their magical pots of gold - which the Leprechauns use to distribute luck to people. Seeing that Paige is a witch, a Leprechaun named Seamus requests her help in defeating the warlock. To do so, Seamus says that she will need good luck - so he passes some luck onto Paige, Piper and Phoebe. This good luck enables the Charmed Ones to track down the warlock, but the warlock reverses the sisters’ luck - so now everything starts to go wrong for them. Even worse, the warlock has given good luck to two demons and sent them to kill the Charmed Ones. Will the sisters’ good luck return in time?

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Cat House

Piper and Leo’s marriage is in real trouble and both Phoebe and Paige are feeling the effects, and so they send the couple to see a marriage counsellor. While there, Piper casts a spell to allow her and Leo to revisit their past and experience falling in love with each other all over again. But Phoebe and Paige also get caught up in this spell and find themselves thrust into the past, and having to be very careful not to alter events and change their futures. However, a warlock has also got trapped in this time-loop with Phoebe and Paige and he seems to be quite intent on killing Kit, the Halliwells’ cat. Phoebe and Paige realise that Kit’s death could cause a disastrous change in their timeline, but can they protect the cat until Piper and Leo resolve their issues and end the memory spell?

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Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun

The Elders are worried about the exposure of a trio of Nymphs, who have been chased into the city by a warlock, and request the Charmed Ones find them before anyone else does. However, the sisters' search for the Nymphs is complicated by rivalry between Piper and Paige over who should be the head witch in the house, and Phoebe's boss' desire to run a story about these 'Lady Godivas.' This leads to the warlock tracking down the Nymphs first and killing one of them, in a bid to find out the location of an eternal spring that the Nymphs protect. When Piper and Paige show up, the Nymphs decide that Paige should take their lost sister's place. And with Piper distracted by her desire to be head witch, and Phoebe suffering romantic complications at work, Paige embraces this new calling in life - and runs headlong into danger....

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Sense & Sense Ability

In order to get close to baby Wyatt, who she sense will be a force of great power in the future, the Crone steals one of the senses from each of the Charmed Ones. From Piper, she takes sight, from Phoebe hearing, and from Paige speech. With Piper blind, Phoebe deaf, and Paige mute, the Charmed Ones are vulnerable to demon attack - and the Crone keeps them busy fighting evil while she attempts to get Wyatt to relinquish his protective force-field. Leo manages to save Wyatt, but the Crone takes Leo prisoner and vows to return to the manor to complete her plan. Can the Charmed Ones learn to work using their remaining senses to defeat the Crone and protect Wyatt?

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Necromancing The Stone

It is time for Wyatt’s wiccaning - a traditional Halliwell ceremony - and Piper, Phoebe and Paige call upon Grams to conduct the service. However, Grams is non too pleased to discover the newest Halliwell child is a boy and refuses to perform the ceremony, citing her distrust of men as the reason. Piper, Phoebe and Paige soon discover the reason for Grams’ hatred of men when her old lover, a now-dead demon known as the Necromancer, returns to claim Penny Halliwell as his own. The Necromancer wants Grams to call upon the spirits of the Halliwell matriarchs - and to use their power to restore both of them to life. Will Penny be tempted to betray her family for love?

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Oh My Goddess (Parts 1 & 2)

Things finally seem to be going right for Piper and Leo, which is why Piper doesn’t want to believe that something terrible is on its way when Paige starts to have what seem to be prophetic dreams. But when two whitelighters disappear from duty, and Leo is called away by the Elders, all three of the Charmed Ones realise that something big is on its way. They soon discover that the Titans, a trio of ancient magical beings, have escaped after being encased in ice for thousands of years - and have set out to take revenge against the Elders, who were responsible for imprisoning the Titans in the first place. The Charmed Ones soon discover they are nowhere near powerful enough to fight the Titans, but luckily help is on hand from Chris Perry - who claims to be a whitelighter from the future. Chris says he has come back in time to change the future he knew - in which the Titans destroyed the Power of Three and took control of Earth. And when Leo discovers that most of the Elders have been killed by the Titans, Chris convinces him to take drastic steps to stop the Titans - by turning the Charmed Ones into goddesses and handing them the power that goes with this. Leo agrees that this is the only thing left to try, and turns Phoebe into the Goddess of Love, Paige into the Goddess of War, and Piper into the Goddess of Earth. But it isn’t long before this new power begins to go to the Charmed Ones’ heads....

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