Sam, I Am

Sam, I Am is the 9th episode of the fifth season and the 97th overall episode of Charmed.

Summary
Paige gets her first charge. She later finds out it is in fact her biological father, Sam Wilder. Cole, finally accepts that he and Phoebe won't come back together, and creates a plan to let the sisters come after him and kill him. He wants them to be so blinded by hate that they'd vanquish him. He convinces Ronan, a Tracker, to help him, which Ronan accepts in return for help in killing Sam.

Characters
Characters in bold appear for the first time in the series.

Trackers

 * Related to the darklighters, trackers are harder to kill
 * as they are unaffected by those means used to dispose
 * of darklighters. With their distinctive markings, trackers
 * pick off weak whitelighters to help thin the ranks of good.
 * The tracker will never give up once it has a whitelighter
 * in its sights. The only chance for the survival depends on
 * vanquishing the tracker.

Tracker Vanquishing Potion
Phoebe made a Vanquishing Potion for Ronan. When Cole called him and he Black Orbed in, Piper tried to blow him up, but he was made Immune to it by Cole. Phoebe then said he wouldn't be Immune to the potion, and threw it, but he was Immune to it as well.

Cole Turner Vanquishing Potions
While shot by the Tracker, Paige came up with an idea to vanquish Cole: combining three potions. The sisters created three potions, as strong as the one they used on the Source. Before going up against Cole, they tested it on the letter opener with Cole's acidic blood on it, and the potions completely destroyed it. However, Cole still survived after the combination of the three potions.

Powers

 * Regeneration: Used by Cole to heal himself after being shot.
 * Telekinesis: Used by Cole to fling the two robbers.
 * Energy Balls: Used by Cole to kill the robbers. He later used it to attack two Avatars. He later used it to vanquish Ronan.
 * Fading: Type of Teleportation used by the Avatars, the Elf Nanny and Cole.
 * Orbing: Type of Teleportation used by Leo, Paige and Sam.
 * Black Orbing: Type of Teleportation used by Ronan.
 * Apportation: Used by the Elf Nanny to apport a quill and parchment.
 * Molecular Combustion: Used by Piper to blow up Ronan's arm. She later tried to blow him up, but he was made Immune to it by Cole.
 * Healing: Used by Leo to heal Sam. Sam used it to heal Paige and Leo.
 * Conjuration: Used by Cole to conjure a new arm for Ronan.
 * Power Granting: Used by Cole to grant Ronan Immunity to witches' powers and potions.
 * Shapeshifting: Used by Cole to shapeshift into Sam and back into himself.
 * Ronan's Darklighter Arrows are tripled.
 * Force Field: Used by Piper's baby to protect Piper from within the womb.
 * Sensing: Used by Paige to sense Sam.

Artifacts

 * Darklighter Arrows - Ronan used these arrows to shoot Sam, Paige, Leo and Piper's baby. After Cole granted him Immunity, Ronan's arrows were tripled, causing him to be able to shoot Paige, Leo and Piper's baby (although the baby protected itself, using a Shield) at the same time.
 * Darklighter Crossbow - Used by Ronan to shoot Darklighter Arrows with.

Magical Beings

 * Sam Wilder - Paige's biological father. He was made Whitelighter again after going to the Afterlife. As he was a step away from losing his wings, he disappeared from the "radar" of the Elders. The only way to find him, was through a blood relative (Paige), thus being Paige's first charge. At the end of the episode, they helped each other with dealing with Paige being left at a church after her birth.
 * Ronan - A Tracker. He helps Cole with his plan at the agreement that Cole would help Ronan get Sam in return for attacking the Charmed Ones. He shot Paige and Leo (and tried to shoot Piper's baby) with his Darklighter Arrows. Cole hoped it would blind the sisters by hate that much that they would vanquish him. After Ronan has done his bidding, Cole refuses to let him attack Sam, gave him chance to walk away (and get shot in the back), and then promptly vanquishes Ronan.
 * Elf Nanny - Piper and Leo interviewed her for a job as Piper and Leo's nanny.
 * Alpha and the Avatar of Force - Avatars. They wanted Cole to join them.

Mortals

 * Trevor - Paige's ex-boyfriend. She dumped him, saying their relationship wasn't going anywhere, but in fact, she did it because of her abandonment issues.

Notes and Trivia
thumb|300px|right|Sam, I Am WB Trailer
 * The WB title for this episode is Daddy Dearest.
 * Paige meets her biological father for the first time, he previously appeared in "P3 H2O".
 * Despite going into the afterlife with Patty in "P3 H2O", it is revealed that Sam is made a Whitelighter again.
 * The Avatars make their first appearance in the series in this episode.
 * This episode marks the first time we see Wyatt's force field from within the womb.
 * Paige said that potions she created to kill Cole were more powerful than the one they used on the Source. This is incorrect as the sisters never used any potions against The Source.
 * This is the first episode where the elf nanny is shown.
 * This episode states that Phoebe's favourite band is The Flaming Lips.
 * In this episode Cole goes evil again but by his own choice in an attempt to get the sisters to vanquish him. Even though it doesn't work he remains evil until he's vanquished by Phoebe in the season 5 episode "Centennial Charmed".
 * This is the second appearance of Scott Jaeck as Sam, he previously appeared in the season 2 episode "P3 H2O".
 * On T.V., this episode is called "Daddy Dearest."
 * The song that was playing when Paige and her real father were talking will play again at the end of the series finale.

References to other movies, books, mythology etc.

 * The title of the episode is a reference to words on a wooden sign in the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham (1960).
 * Piper says "You knew about this supernatural Jenny Jones reunion, didn't you?". This is a reference to Jenny Jones's talk show The Jenny Jones Show.

Glitches

 * In P3, when Piper and Phoebe are talking about nannies and the camera is on Piper, the people in the background disappear only to reappear in the next shot.
 * Paige's lipstick changed colour from a bright red from the beginning of the episode to a darker red right in the middle of the scene where the Darklighter attacks.

International Titles

 * French: Invincible (Invincible)
 * Czech: Jsem Sam (I Am Sam)
 * Slovak: Sam ostal sám (Sam Left Alone)
 * Russian: Khranitel' dlya khranitelya ("Whitelighter"/Curator [male] for "Whitelighter"/Curator [female]) 
 * Spanish (Spain and Latin America): Yo soy Sam (I Am Sam)
 * Serbian: Ja sam Sem (I Am Sam)
 * German: Unverwundbar (Invulnerable)

Episode Stills


Behind The Scenes
