Charmed and Dangerous

Charmed and Dangerous is the 79th overall episode of Charmed.

Plot
The Seer has a vision of The Source's planned attack on the Charmed Ones. In her vision, he is vanquished. To avert his own death, the Source plans to take in the Hollow.

Piper wants to leave all of the sisters' possessions to Leo in case anything happens to them. Just then, Phoebe mentions she and Cole have found a way to vanquish the Source. Phoebe has created a spell that uses the magic of the entire Warren-Halliwell line against the Source. Leo orbs away to tell the Elders.

Phoebe isn't sure about Piper writing a will, but Piper doesn't want to leave anything to chance; Prue arranged to leave everything to them, and had she not done so, they'd still be tied up in probate court. Phoebe touches Cole and has a premonition of him being hit by a fireball to protect her. She tells Piper about it, but doesn't want to tell Cole, since the demon who threw it is one she hasn't seen before--one with only half a face. Since Cole is fully human now, she wants to keep him away until she can find out who it is.

Paige receives a woman, Carolyn, at social services. Carolyn is trying to gain custody of her son, but has made a lot of mistakes in her life and has recently gotten out of an abusive relationship. Paige and Darryl encourage her not to worry. Suddenly, Paige's phone rings--it's Piper, alerting her about Phoebe's premonition. Paige can't get out of the office yet. Meanwhile, Phoebe hustles Cole out the door.

The Guardians of the Hollow, one good and one evil, are playing chess, when the Source shows up. The Source vanquishes the good Guardian and removes the Hollow from it's storage place. It is contained in a small black box. The evil Guardian tries to talk the Source out of unleashing the Hollow, but the Source opens the box and the Hollow enters the evil Guardian. The Source sends him to absorb powers and bring them back to him.

Piper and Phoebe are looking in the Book of Shadows, when the evil Guardian shimmers in. He throws an energy ball at Phoebe, sending her flying into a mirror. Piper tries to blast him, but the Guardian absorbs her power. Piper grabs an athame on the table and throws it at the Guardian, vanquishing him. During the scuffle, Phoebe is injured by a huge glass shard stuck in her back. She nearly dies, but Leo is able to heal her. Piper discovers that she's somehow lost her powers. She finds the Guardian in the Book. When Leo sees this, he's greatly alarmed. He tells Piper and Phoebe about the Hollow. It's a powerful force that absorbs all magic. The last time it was unleashed, good and evil had to join forces to contain it. Piper and Phoebe suspect that the Source was desperate enough to release it, and will likely send another demon after them. If that happens, their powers won't do any good, since that demon will certainly have the Hollow as well.

Carolyn hasn't shown up for her hearing, worrying Paige and Darryl. Paige fears Carolyn's boyfriend has tracked her down. Just then, Phoebe rings in to warn her about the attack from earlier. Paige heads for the manor and asks Darryl to stall for time.

Piper and Phoebe are making a potion, when Cole comes back. Phoebe finally tells Cole of her premonition and describes the demon she saw. Cole tells Piper and Phoebe that the demon is the Source.

In the Underworld, the Source is testing out Piper's powers. The Seer is concerned, but the Source is determined to get all of the Charmed Ones' powers. The Seer fears that the Hollow will eventually consume the Source, but the Source won't hear of it. He summons a Darklighter and puts the Hollow into him. The Source orders the Darklighter to kill Leo.

The sisters are readying for the Source's expected attack. They've set up a crystal cage, and Piper has made a potion to replicate her blasting power, while Phoebe has her vanquishing spell ready. Leo orbs in and confirms everyone's worst fears--the Source has unleashed the Hollow. He also says they need good and evil magic to contain it again and restore Piper's powers. Just then, Darryl calls-- Carolyn's boyfriend found her and gave her a savage beating. Darryl managed to delay the hearing for an hour.

The Darklighter attacks in the manor and shoots Leo with his crossbow. Paige tries to orb the crossbow, but the Hollow steals her power. The Darklighter targets Paige, but Phoebe vanquishes him with a potion. Piper pulls the arrow from Leo's stomach. She wants Leo to switch powers with Phoebe, so Phoebe can heal him, but Leo is afraid the Source could come back before then. Phoebe is worried; it seems as if the Source is one move ahead of them.

The Seer has a vision of everything being destroyed, unless the Source puts the Hollow ack in the crypt, but the Source is determined to kill the sisters.

Cole gives Phoebe an engagement ring with a large diamond on it. Darryl brings Carolyn to the manor. Her face is covered with cuts and bruises. Paige casts a spell to heal Carolyn's face, and tells Darryl to get her to the judge and get her boyfriend off the streets.

Cole and Phoebe have an idea to get Piper and Paige's powers back--use the To Call a Witch's Power spell to get them back from the Hollow. Cole goes down to watch Leo, but the Seer casts a spell and Cole finds himself in the Underworld with her. She greets him as Belthazor, and proposes to help him and the sisters defeat the Source. The Seer tells Cole that if he takes in the Hollow, he can absorb the Source's powers, enabling the sisters to vanquish him. Once the Source is dead, the Seer then intends to help the sisters contain the Hollow again. Cole is suspicious, but the Seer tells him this is the only way to stop the Hollow from destroying everything. Cole agrees and the Seer puts the Hollow into him. The sisters are casting the To Call a Witch's Power spell, when The Source attacks in the manor. He blasts Piper with a fireball, knocking her out. Phoebe and Paige carry Piper to the attic and set up the crystal cage, but he merely orbs one of the crystals. The Source throws a fireball at Phoebe, but Cole shimmers in and runs in front of the fireball, thus absorbing the Source's power. Cole throws fireball after fireball at the Source, distracting him long enough for the sisters to vanquish him with Phoebe's spell. The Seer appears a moment later and she and Phoebe read an inscription on the Hollow box. It is, thus, restored to it's proper place and Piper and Paige have their powers back. Phoebe asks, at one point, where the Source's powers went and the Seer cryptically replies, "into the void". Paige can now heal Leo.

As the sisters, Leo and Cole celebrate at P3, we see Cole's eyes turn black, implying that he is now the Source.

Guardians of the Hollow

 * Thirty five hundred years ago,
 * The Hollow was unleashed on the world.
 * The Hollow is a force that has the power
 * to consume all magical powers, good or
 * evil and is impossible to destroy.
 * While roaming the earth The Hollow
 * nearly decimated all magic. Good and
 * Evil had to join forces and combine
 * their strongest magic to contain it.
 * It was placed in an ancient crypt and
 * is guarded by a representative from
 * both sides, an Angel and a Devil, for all
 * eternity.


 * The Hollow


 * Ancient beyond measure,
 * The Hollow is the most powerful and unstable force known
 * to magic. For an eternity, both good and evil have guarded
 * the release of The Hollow's un-stoppable, all-consuming hunger
 * for power.


 * Summoning Spell:
 * Ultirusque A Profogus
 * Addo Is Hic, Addo Is Iam.
 * Nos Dico Super In Concessus Vox
 * Bonus Quod Malum.


 *  The Seer 
 * An upper level
 * demon who has
 * been around for
 * thousands of
 * years. Because she
 * has the power to
 * see the future, she
 * is a top advisor to
 * the Source of all
 * Evil. In fact, she has served multiple Sources, choosing to
 * remain close to the ultimate power. She is a magical craftsman and
 * master at spells and tonics, but only kills when she has to.

Potions

 * 1) Piper says that she can create a potion to replicate her exploding power and it includes an owl feather and some milky white liquid that turns purple upon contact with another.

Spells

 * 1) Paige casts the Vanishing Spell on Carolyn Seldon to remove her cuts and bruises.
 * 2) The Charmed Ones cast the To Call a Lost Witch spell to retrieve their powers (failed).
 * 3) Phoebe finds a spell in the Book of Shadows that may be able to vanquish the Source.
 * 4) Phoebe and Seer cast a spell together to contain the Hollow.

Vanishing Spell
Let the object of objection

become but a dream

As I cause the seen

to become unseen

To Call a Lost Witch

 * Powers of the witches rise
 * course unseen across the skies
 * Come to us who call you near
 * come to us and settle here

To Call Upon Our Ancestors

 * Prudence, Penelope,
 * Patricia, Melinda ...
 * Astrid, Helena,
 * Laura and Grace.
 * Halliwell witches
 * stand strong beside us,
 * Vanquish this evil
 * from time and space.


 * To Contain The Hollow


 * This spell requires a force of Good and Evil to cast this spell in order to work.


 * Aboleo Extum Cavium Du Eternias

Carolyn Seldon
Carolyn Seldon was a vibrate young woman who was an innocent and "client" of Paige Matthews' while she worked at South Bay Social Services.

Neutral beings

 * The Guardians of the Hollow
 * Devil
 * Angel

Darklighter
A darklighter is summoned by the Source and is tricked into taking in the Hollow. The Source sends him to to kill Leo and when he orbs into the manor, he quickly shoots an arrow at Leo, hitting him right in the stomach. Paige tries to call for the crossbow but it had no affect. Phoebe soon comes rushing in and throws an explosive potion at him, successfully vanquishing him.

Vanquishes

 * 1) The Source kills the Angel with a fireball.
 * 2) The Devil is vanquished by Piper when she throws an athame at his neck.
 * 3) Darklighter is vanquished by Phoebe throwing Piper's exploding potion at him.
 * 4) The Source is vanquished with a spell cast by the Charmed Ones and by the crystal cage in the Seer's preminiton.

Power usages

 * * Paige orbs the crystals into a circle.
 * ** The Source utilizes both of Piper's powers simultaneously on the vase.

Notes and Trivia

 * The title is a reference to the phrase "armed and dangerous" which is used when the police is pursuing a suspect who is considered armed and dangerous.
 * This is one of the nine episodes with the series title, "Charmed", in it.
 * This is the second time that Leo is shot with a darklighter's arrow, the first time being in the Season 1 episode Love Hurts. This time he is healed by Paige, who was channeling his own healing power, when last time it was Piper, after she switched powers with him. He will be shot again in Sam, I Am (with Paige) and in The Courtship of Wyatt's Father.
 * This is the first appearance of Debbi Morgan as The Seer.
 * The Seer said she helped the Charmed Ones for her own future. This seems to be foreshadowing her intricate manipulation of Cole and Phoebe in future episodes in order to become The Source in the episode Womb Raider.
 * This is the first appearance of the Hollow on the show. It will appear again in Kill Billie: Vol. 2 and Forever Charmed.
 * When the Source flames into the Halliwell Manor and attacks the sisters, he blows up the wall that Prue was thrown into, resulting in her death in All Hell Breaks Loose.
 * The Source calls the Hollow "the Ultimate Power", but later, in season 8, the powers of Billie & Christy will be called the same thing.
 * This is the second time that Pandora's box has been mentioned, and it is already mentioned in Sin Francisco and will appear again in Little Box of Horrors.
 * In this episode (and later in Desperate Housewitches) the Source is played by Peter Woodward. Previously, he was played by Ben Guillory, and before that by Michael Bailey Smith (All Hell Breaks Loose).
 * When Cole comes in at the end of the episode to stop the Source, he runs in shimmering similary to the way Leo orbed in the season 2 episode Murphy's Luck.
 * Phoebe's levitation amped kick is the first and last time we see someone physically attack The Source.
 * This is the second time Paige casts the Vanishing Spell.
 * At the beginning of the episode Piper says "short of a darklighter, you win most likely to survive", and one shows up to kill him.
 * The Seer claims the Source went "into the void", she is making reference to the void left by Cole's demonic half being stripped of its powers. Unknown to the girls, he is now the Source.
 * This episode scored 4.7 million viewers and is tied with All Hell Breaks Loose as the highest ranked episode of Charmed on TV.com. It currently holds a 9.6 rating.
 * This was the first of five times that the Source was vanquished.
 * Paige wears a cream-coloured leather jacket she will wear again in The Fifth Halliwheel and A Witch In Time.
 * Originally there were more scenes. The scene where Piper was writing her will was longer. It included a part where Leo asks what he is going to do with the Book of Shadows, Piper tells him to give it to one of his charges. There was also a scene where Phoebe and Cole are writing the spell to vanquish the Source.
 *  In this episode the Source is vanquished by the Charmed Ones although his powers start to possess Cole instead.
 * At the end of this episode, this is the first time that Cole's eyes changed to show that he was the Source.
 * This is the first time the Source shows his real face.

Glitches
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 * When blown-up by Piper, the Source falls apart and then immediately reconstructs, when inside Cole the explosion makes him a swirling bunch of particles, similar to that of the Hollow.
 * The angel guardian of the Hollow mentions that good is winning, however there are considerably fewer light pieces on the chess board than dark. However she likely meant that good magic was winning.
 * The Source is impressed by Piper's powers when he takes them from the Hollow, and he uses them well himself, being able to simultaneously shatter a vase and instantly freeze the shards without another hand gesture. He is also able to master Paige's powers, by being able to orb a crystal from the cage to free himself, although he said he wanted all their powers he would have to be consumed and absorb Phoebe's powers similar to Billie and Christie's actions against Wyatt to take his powers without him having to use them against him.
 * Although the Source states Phoebe's powers were always the weakest, according to their father her power is the most desired gift of the family powers. This may only be because no one had Prue or Piper's second power: being able to be in two place at once or to cause explosions.
 * Also, while Phoebe has what is considered the weakest power, she is able to use them to dodge the Source's offensive powers such as the red Plasma ball in Charmed Again part 2 and in this episode dodges the direct fireball attack.
 * When the Source unfreezes the vase he blew up a piece falls on the stand where the vase stood on. The piece disappears as the camera pans up.
 * When the Seer disappeard after helping the Charmed ones, when the camera is panned back to Cole (when he says "A very evil person"), you can see some of the seer's hair at the left hand side of the screen.

International Titles

 * French: La Boîte de Pandore (Pandora's Box)
 * Czech: Čarovné a nebezpečné
 * Serbian: Začarane i opasne
 * Italian: Lo Scrigno (The Casket)
 * Spanish (Latin America): Encantadas y peligrosas (Charmed and Dangerous)
 * Spanish (Spain): Embrujados y peligrosos (Charmed and Dangerous)
 * German: Das schwarze Nichts (The Hollow)