Season 8 of Charmed

This article presents the guide of the épsiodes of the eighth season of the Televised series Charmed .

Episode 1: a New Life

original Title : Still Charmed & Kicking
Number (S) : 157 (8-1)
Scenario writer (S) :
Realizer (S) : James L. Conway
Diffusion (S) :

: December 3rd 2005

Audience (S) : 2.972.160 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) : James Read (Victor Bennett), Janice Dickinson (in its own role), Jennifer Rhodos (Penny Halliwell), Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson).
Summarized : At the end of the seventh season, the Halliwell sisters had to be made pass for dead escaping the police force like from the demons. In this episode place has taken care of the manor of which Victor occupies himself. The sisters, after having changed several times of magic disguises, throw a fate to keep only one appearance. Only those which are close to them will see which they is really. A band of demons starts to doubt that they died well and a young witch enters in scene. In this episode, Phoebe becomes acquainted with Dex, which works with the Bay Mirror and it has a premonition where it sees that they are married…

Episode 2: Tracked

original Title : Mischievousness in Wonderland
Number (S) : 158 (8-2)
Scenario writer (S) : Brad Kern
Realizer (S) : Mel Damski
Diffusion (S) :

: December 3rd 2005

Audience (S) : 2.972.160 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) : Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson)
Summarized : Haas, a demon which doubts that the Halliwell sisters died well, wants to tighten to them a trap, helped by Black Heart. They decide to divert the tale Alice with the Country of the Wonders to kidnap teenagers. The young witch, seen in the preceding episode, is called in fact Billie and it practices the magic recently. It has like being able telekinesis. She discovers that the sisters did not die and she asks them to teach him all that they know about sorcery. During this time, Paige explores a new way and Piper despairs not to succeed in carrying out a normal life. To note that Phoebe tells the episode with the manner of Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City and thus makes a wink with this series.

Episode 3: Beyond Appearances

original Title : Run, Piper, Run
Number (S) : 159 (8-3)
Scenario writer (S) : Cameron Litvack
Realizer (S) : Derek Johansen
Diffusion (S) :

: December 3rd 2005

Audience (S) : 2.972.160 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) : Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson), Beatrice Rosen (Jenny Bennett/Maya Holmes).
Summarized : Piper was badly inspired by choosing its magic disguise, it in fact took as a starting point a photograph which it had seen in a magazine. The problem is that the young woman of which it took appearance exists, that it names Maya Holmes and that it is sought by the police force for murder… During this time, Paige tries to learn in Billie certain things and Phoebe wants to save the exposure of works of Dex at the time of an earthquake, which she had beforehand seen thanks to a premonition.

Episode 4: the Elected official

original Title : Desperate Housewitches
Number (S) : 160 (8-4)
Scenario writer (S) : Jeannine Renshaw
Realizer (S) : Jon Avoided
Diffusion (S) :

: October 7th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.700.000 televiewers - 12,4% of market shares
Invited (be) : Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson)
Summarized : Piper is irritated by the competitions between the mothers concerning their children and particularly by one by it: Mandy. This one, had by a demon, hopes well to seize Wyatt because him only to make reappear a powerful demon can help it which the sisters overcame in the past… During this time, Paige thinks that Dex lies to Phoebe and is thus interfered what does not look at it. Billie involves Léo at the school of magic and they realize that it became the HQ of the demons…

Episode 5: Ressucitées…

original Title : Rewitched
Number (S) : 161 (8-5)
Scenario writer (S) : Rob Wright
Realizer (S) : John T. Kretchmer
Diffusion (S) :

: October 7th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.700.000 televiewers - 12,4% of market shares
Invited (be) : Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson)
Summarized : Since one moment, people are done attacked not far from a hospital, Billie deal with this démoniaque problem but are followed by the Murphy agent… Piper organizes a speed dating in P3. Billie throws a fate on Phoebe and Dex and those leave to marry! The sisters are tired to claim to be someone else and end up forgetting who they are really. They decide to take again their true appearance and will find the Murphy agent. They accept to help it in various businesses but him, in against part, must them help, which it will make while making believe that to protect them, have had made them pass for dead.

Episode 6: the Weight of Last the

original Title : Kill Billie: Vol.1
Number (S) : 162 (8-6)
Scenario writer (S) : Elizabeth Hunter
Realizer (S) : Michael Grossman
Diffusion (S) :

: October 14th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.700.000 televiewers - 13,2% of market shares
Invited (be) : Jason Lewis (Dex Lawson)
Summarized : While trying to fight a demon, a memory returns to the memory of Billie: 15 years before, his/her sister was removed. The sisters have some problems with the press. Phoebe says the truth to Dex and they conclude that their relation cannot continue like that, for the moment at least. (But it is the last episode of Dex alias Jason Lewis). Piper and Leo dispute. Billie is well defined to make the light on the kidnapping of his/her older sister…

Episode 7: Protected the

original Title : The Lost Picture Show
Number (S) : 163 (8-7)
Scenario writer (S) : Andy Reaser and Doug E. Jones
Realizer (S) : Jonathan West
Diffusion (S) :

: October 14th 2006

Invited (be) : Scott Jaeck (Sam Wilder),
Summarized : Vaklav is a demon which imprisons people on a parchment by photographing them. One of its “prisoners” escapes to him. Meanwhile, and in spite of the relations tended between the father and the girl, they inquire together into disappearances at the sides of the Murphy agent. On their side, Piper and Léo will see a magic marriage guidance counsellor and this one reverses their personalities: Piper is thus found in the body of Leo and conversely… Phoebe, as for it, goes in a bank of sperm to choose a donor for the girl whom it would like to have so much…

Episode 8: the Woman is the future of the Man

original Title : Battle off the Hexes
Number (S) : 164 (8-8)
Scenario writer (S) : Jeannine Renshaw
Realizer (S) : LeVar Burton
Diffusion (S) :

: October 21st 2006

Audience (S) : 2.915.120 televiewers - 13,2% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Zira wants to get rid of its démoniaque superior to seize the power. When Billie threads a belt and is found transformed into super-heroin, one realizes that it is the belt of Gaia. Zira sees in it its means of making a success of and of getting rid consequently occasion of all the men by the means of the effects that the belt has on Billie. Piper obtains Liz Phair for a concert in P3 whose funds will go to the victims of the Katrina hurricane. Phoebe has a whole series of amorous meetings and Paige, while wanting to help a young person in difficulty, meets a police officer: Henry…

Episode 9: the Antidote

original Title : Hulcus Pocus
Number (S) : 165 (8-9)
Scenario writer (S) : Liz Sagal
Realizer (S) : Joel J. Feigenbaum
Diffusion (S) :

: October 21st 2006

Audience (S) : 2.915.120 televiewers - 13,2% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : A virus is propagated through all the magic community. Infected into a version “mastodon” of itself transforms itself then will end up dying while exploding. The sisters deal with this problem. Billie is found infected and the sisters, to save it, infect themselves… Henry gives to Paige a baby to be kept, which is a good excuse to re-examine it and the latter is given the responsability to find the father of the baby because the mother is in prison. Piper and Leo are on the point of leaving to the ski and Phoebe does not believe any more in its premonitions…

Episode 10: the Force of the Destiny

original Title : Vaya idiot Leo
Number (S) : 166 (8-10)
Scenario writer (S) : Cameron Litvack
Realizer (S) : Janice Cooke-Leonard
Diffusion (S) :

: October 21st 2006

Audience (S) : 2.915.120 televiewers - 13,2% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : The Angel of Death returns visit in Piper. She thinks that she will die but the Angel will explain to him why it is for Leo that it is there. Piper refuses to believe that and is ready with very to save her husband. During this time, Phoebe helps Billie at the school of mgie, they try to question demons which could put them on the track of the disappearance of Christy, the sister of Billie. At the time of an car accident, Leo is seriously wounded and is in danger of death. Piper requires explanations on behalf of the Angel of Dead but it can to only advise him to speak with people who know each other there better than him in the great intention. It then makes come a Founder and a Misadventure, the latter can nothing say to him and seem to know something that they do not want to reveal. Piper is irritated. It obtains a track all the same. Using her sisters, she calls upon an Angel of the Destiny and makes a market with this one. Its only means of saving Leo is to lose it…

Episode 11: Mr. and Mrs Smith

original Title : Mr. & Mrs. Witch
Number (S) : 167 (8-11)
Scenario writer (S) : Rob Wright
Realizer (S) : James L. Conway
Diffusion (S) :

: October 28th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.900.000 televiewers - 13,6% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : The parents of Billie come to visit him and this one shows them never not to have sought Christy. One discovers that Billie has a new capacity, that of projection, and that at the expense of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins… Piper films what occurs to the manor for when Leo returns because she is persuaded that she will be able to make it return (to defrost it in fact) but for that it will be necessary to face the great battle that their the Angel of the Destiny announced… Phoebe realizes that to leave the house could be a good option for it.

Episode 12: Holdup

original Title : Payback' S.A. Witch
Number (S) : 168 (8-12)
Scenario writer (S) : Brad Kern
Realizer (S) : Mel Damski
Diffusion (S) :

: October 28th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.700.000 televiewers - 13,6% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Billie tortured a demon to ask him questions about the dispartition of his/her sister. It is not the first which she tortures and they want this to avenge… Paige, Henry and Billie belong to the hostages at the time of a holdup in a bank. Here is an good occasion for the demons to be avenged… On its side, Piper, with the assistance of Phoebe, organized a festival for the three years of Wyatt but an incident occurs and Piper shows Phoebe, and it has only with half wrong…

Episode 13: the House of the Headstocks

original Title : Repo Manor
Number (S) : 169 (8-13)
Scenario writer (S) : Doug E. Jones
Realizer (S) : Derek Johansen
Diffusion (S) :

: October 28th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.500.000 televiewers - 14,4% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Three démones and a demon have escaped, years ago, with the King of the slaves and, under the crook of the demon, the démones tried during all these years, to resemble the Charmed Ones and to learn how to use their capacities. Being finally ready, they will be able to pass to the action and with this intention, to help itself of the mini counterpart of the manor… Paige asks for the assistance of a MUSE, a Fée and of a Leprechaun to help Henry so that it can honor its go because it hopes to announce to him that it is witch and wants it in best possible mood. At the end, Phoebe moves and Piper cannot be prevented from retaining its tears…

Episode 14: the Sceptre of the Zodiac

original Title : 12 Angry Zen
Number (S) : 170 (8-14)
Scenario writer (S) : Cameron Litvack
Realizer (S) : Jon Avoided
Diffusion (S) :

: November 4th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.500.000 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : A demon wants to seize the stick of Bouddah to spread the Evil. Piper must be occupied some considering Billie is on the trace of his/her sister, that Phoebe hangs the toothed rack and that Paige explains to Henry why it cannot do what it wants with her capacities and the magic.

Episode 15: the Battle of Christy

original Title : The Last Temptation off Christy
Number (S) : 171 (8-15)
Scenario writer (S) : Liz Sagal
Realizer (S) : John Kretchmer
Diffusion (S) :

: November 4th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.500.000 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Billie found his/her sister but Christy is odd. One realizes that it is a “teaser of fire”. Demons want to seize it… Piper falls on Greg with which it had left during its separation with Leo in the sixth season (see episode 10 of season 6). Paige receives the visit of an English going down from a great line of wizard who announces to him that they must marry… From the end, Henry requests the hand of Paige.

Episode 16: the Ring with the Finger

original Title : Engaged and Confused
Number (S) : 172 (8-16)
Scenario writer (S) : Jeannine Renshaw
Realizer (S) : Stuart Gillard
Diffusion (S) :

: November 4th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.500.000 televiewers - 12,9% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Demons wanting to thwart their powerful enemy, warn Piper that those which are after them name… the Triad! The sisters thought that the Triad had been overcome by Cole years ago… Christy plays the victims but works with the Triad! During confrontation, the sisters eliminate two from the three protagonists but since Leo does not return, they deduce from it that it was not the great battle and that something of other must prepare… Phoebe makes the meeting of Coop, Cupid which the Founders sent to him so that it can find the love because they feel indebted. At the end, Paige marries Henry.

Episode 17: Noxons

original Title : Generation Hex
Number (S) : 173 (8-17)
Scenario writer (S) : Rob Wright
Realizer (S) : Michael Grossman
Diffusion (S) :

: November 18th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.242.400 televiewers - 9,8% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Two ex-students of the school of magic who knew Leo come to the manor and claim its assistance. Leo not being there, Piper proposes to help them, even if young people are a little reticent. They are continued by the Noxons demons, which are impossible to overcome and which one can just banish in another plan. The parents of Billie are of return and they are assassinated… Christy kills the last member of the Triad, and consequently shows Piper occasion in front of Billie… Paige is absent because it is in honeymoon with Henry.

Episode 18: Treason

original Title : The Torn Identity
Number (S) : 174 (8-18)
Scenario writer (S) : Andy Reaser
Realizer (S) : LeVar Burton
Diffusion (S) :

: November 18th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.400.000 televiewers - 10,6% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Piper, with the assistance of Paige, tracks the second Noxons demon to question it because it was engaged by somebody. On its side, Christy wants to overcome it because it killed his parents. It tries to render comprehensible that in Billie and Billie starts to think like his/her sister… Whereas Piper and Paige went in hell, Christy accompanied them by force and tried to overcome the demon. Piper had to use its capacity against it… Billie takes the defense of his/her sister against Piper. The latter, since the preceding episode, thinks that Billie and Christy are the people to be overcome but his/her sisters are not of the same opinion. At the end, when the sisters succeed in questioning the demon, the Jenkins sisters arrive and destroy it, thus destroying the demon impossible to overcome! Piper sees its confirmed suspicions there, his/her sisters are a little disturbed. During this time, Paige asks for the assistance of Coop to solve a problem with Henry and it is found projected in its head! Coop thinks of having found the man ideal for Phoebe.

Episode 19: the Key of the Dreams

original Title : The Jung and the Restless
Number (S) : 175 (8-19)
Scenario writer (S) : Cameron Litvack
Realizer (S) : Derek Johansen
Diffusion (S) :

: November 18th 2006

Audience (S) : 2.400.000 televiewers - 14,2% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Piper is persuaded that it will be necessary to overcome Billie and Christy but its sisters, especially Phoebe, do not feel ready. Christy always tries to convince Billie which the sisters “lost their way”, that they were corrupted by their capacities and which they became egoistic. There is a little truth in all that but without more. Piper questions a Founder and this one, although not knowing if Jenkins are really the great threat, acknowledges to him that could be the case. Billie throws a potion with the feet of the sisters and those fall into a deep sleep, thus reaching the world of the dreams. Billie, thanks to a crystal, will penetrate in the various dreams of the sisters to see which are their real concerns…

Episode 20: Le Monde with back

original Title : Gone with the Witches
Number (S) : 176 (8-20)
Scenario writer (S) : Jeannine Renshaw
Realizer (S) : Jonathan West
Diffusion (S) :

: November 25th 2006

Audience (S) : 3.200.000 televiewers - 14,5% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : Dumain, old “friendly imaginary” of Billie and Christy when they were small, makes its appearance. It always was more than that. Christy listening and tries to persuade Billie to completely join them because Billie resists still a little. The Triad was not really overcome because it still remains in the form of spirit. To eliminate the Charmed Ones would tip the scales of the Good towards the Evil and would allow them to return for good… The sisters send leprechauns to supervise the school of magic and Dumain, the indicator, makes so that they are attacked by demons then sends Billie and Christy to save them. The lLeprechauns do not include/understand why they were sent to supervise good people. Why the Halliwell sisters did send them to make their dirty job in their place? Billie approaches still a little more Christy… At the time of a meeting of the magic creatures, Dumain sends demons to attack them and, thanks to the infos collected by Billie, it makes use of last of the sisters to bewitch them: Paige wants to be found, Phoebe wants to sleep with Coop and Piper maintains the house while waiting for that Leo returns. The nose in their obsession, they does not help the magic creatures which come to require helps of them. Billie and Christy will then be given the responsability to help them. Everyone is found in the attic of the manor and the dispossessed sisters are made tancer by the magic creatures which do not believe any more in them. Billie and Christy attack them, they escape by carrying the Livre from the shades and find in Hell…

Episode 21: the call of Nothing

original Title : Kill Billie: Vol.2
Number (S) : 177 (8-21)
Scenario writer (S) : Brad Kern
Realizer (S) : Jon Avoided
Diffusion (S) :

: November 25th 2006

Audience (S) : 3.300.000 televiewers - 15,3% of market shares
Invited (be) :
Summarized : The sisters are in escape in Hell… Billie and Christy are with the manor. The Triad informs Dumain that so that Jenkins can kill Halliwell, they need Nothing (see episode 13 of the fourth season). Dumain is reticent but the Triad wants nothing to hear. The sisters are helped by two demons which teach them that the Triad did not die and that it is necessary that it is eliminated for good. It is not a good thing for them either which it returns. They throw a glance at the school of magic and inform the sisters that Billie and Christy will seize Nothing! Remembering the effects of Nothing, they are shocked a little. Piper does not hesitate: she wants Leo. She thus will call upon Nothing so that it comes to infect them, but the Jenkins sisters recite the formula at the same time… The sisters will overcome the Triad but Dumain flees. When the five witches find themselves with the manor, the ultimate battle bursts, devastator…

Episode 22: Forever Charmed

original Title : Forever Charmed
Number (S) : 178 (8-22)
Scenario writer (S) : Brad Kern
Realizer (S) : James L. Conway
Diffusion (S) :

: November 25th 2006

Audience (S) : 3.400.000 televiewers - 19,9% of market shares
Invited (be) : Finola Hughes (Patty Halliwell), Jennifer Rhodos (Penny Halliwell), James Read (Victor Bennett), Victor Webster (Coop), Marnette Patterson (Christy Jenkins), Wesley Ramsey (Wyatt Halliwell (adult)), Drew Fuller (Chris Halliwell (adult)).
Summarized : Piper and Billie, two the only surviving ones of the battle, want to recover their respective sisters. Piper uses the ring of Coop to go up time and Billie its capacity of projection. Piper travels with Leo (yes it returned!) but they have some minor problems. They will succeed in embarking Patty (the mother of the sisters) and Penny (the grandmother of the sisters) and with them three, they should be able to reconstitute the Capacity of the Three to make leave Hollow before the great battle does not take place. That will function but then, the Angel of the Destiny, which had brought back Leo, will come to take it again because the battle will remain to be made… The sisters will succeed and one will finish by a first impression of the future of each one of them… To note that the episode is centered enough on Piper and Leo.

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