Look Who's Barking

Look Who's Barking is the 65th episode of Charmed.

Guest Starring

 * Matt Battaglia as Cute Guy
 * Joe E. Tata as Inspector

Co Starring

 * Michael Bailey Smith as Belthazor
 * Dorenda Moore as Banshee
 * Newell Alexander as Widower
 * Jack Orend as Alchemist
 * Ashley Tisdale as Runaway Teen

Featuring

 * Dianna Miranda as Woman
 * Eric Castro as Man

Summary
At the beginning of the episode a man is killed by a screaming banshee bursting his blood vessels. Phoebe creates a page in the Book of Shadows about Cole's human form. She then has a premonition about a banshee killing a woman.

Plot
Phoebe, disappointed in Cole, is adding a page to the Book of Shadows about his human form, alongside the existing page on Belthazor. Piper hides in the basement, struggling to control her new blasting power. Neighborhood dogs begin barking and even Kit seems disturbed. Meanwhile, a man grieves for his deceased wife, and his dog starts barking; the walls shake, a white-haired female figure enters through the window, screaming, and the man dies in agony as her scream bursts his blood vessels.

The next day, Prue tells Phoebe of the man's death, and she has a premonition about a young woman dying the same way. Phoebe was still writing about Cole and suspects that he is responsible, but Prue doubts it. Still, the two prepare their vanquishing potion and summon Cole with the spell from the Book. The spell fails, but angers Cole enough to turn him into Belthazor.

Piper tries yoga meditations to control her power. Leo orbs in and startles her, causing her to blow up her tape player. He tries to calm her, and has trouble at first, but in the end she curls up with him.

Prue and Phoebe go to the scene of the man's death. The police think he was murdered. Phoebe tells the inspector on scene that she and Prue are witches, which persuades him to leave.

Cole visits an alchemist, worried about the sisters' apparent attempt to vanquish him. He is also trying to permanently suppress his human half. The alchemist puts a spell upon Cole's blood so he will resist the potion.

Prue points out the page next to the one that Phoebe is writing: it's about a banshee, a demon that feeds on pain. Leo describes the Banshee in detail. The Book gives no vanquish for a banshee, but it does give a tracking spell. Phoebe and Piper cast the spell on Prue, and think it has backfired when she turns into a dog. Prue-as-dog hides under the bed. The outcome of the spell makes sense to Leo: dogs can hear a banshee's call, and track her. When the banshee is found and vanquished, Leo thinks, Prue should return to human form. Leo orbs off to the Elders to ask how to defeat a banshee, but suggests Piper try blowing her up, something she is unsure she can do due to her lack of control over that power.

Prue-as-dog runs out the door, apparently after the banshee. Piper and Phoebe follow and the three find the young woman, a teenage runaway calling her family from a telephone booth. The banshee attacks, but the sisters intervene. Piper blasts the banshee, who retreats. Prue-as-dog pursues the banshee, but is hit by a car. Prue is not seriously injured; the driver of the car comforts her, and takes her into his home.

Piper worries both about Prue, from not knowing where she is, and about Phoebe, who heard the banshee's scream. Leo returns, and now he too worries. A banshee's scream normally has no effect on a witch, but if she is experiencing great emotional pain it will turn her into a banshee. The banshee attacks Phoebe in the attic, zeroing in on her grief for Cole. When Piper and Leo rush in the Banshee looks as if she is going to scream at Piper who blows her up and says "Shut her up" but Phoebe on the floor lies flat and transforms, now she is a banshee.

Piper is beside herself, now that Prue is a dog and Phoebe is a banshee, and even more so after Leo warns her: if Phoebe kills anyone, she will be a banshee forever. Leo again manages to calm Piper.

Phoebe-as-banshee stalks a young woman, who thinks that her date has stood her up; but the woman meets her date, and Phoebe screams in frustration rather than to kill. The scream draws the attention of Prue-as-dog, who stirs and barks to be let out.

Piper grabs the vanquishing potion and summons Cole. Cole claims not to love Phoebe and refuses to help. Piper, at Leo's urging, throws the potion, but the Alchemist's spell protects him. Prue-as-dog runs into the manor, barking, and Phoebe-as-banshee follows. Phoebe attacks and screams at Cole, driving him to such pain that he becomes Belthazor. Belthazor grabs Phoebe and shimmers away.

Phoebe and Belthazor fight desperately at the mausoleum. Prue hears Phoebe's scream and leads Piper and Leo there. Belthazor at last turns back into Cole and tells Phoebe that he loves her. Phoebe screams again, but then returns to human form. Her recovery also restores Prue, though her hip hurts from being hit.

Phoebe still wants nothing to do with Cole, but Cole tells Phoebe of Raynor's plan to turn him by making him kill a witch. He shimmers away, leaving Phoebe undecided about him.

Runaway Teen
After the death of a grieving widow, Phoebe gets a premonition. ''' It's of a young girl, crying in a phone booth. The windows shatter and the girl throws her hands up to her face. She screams and blood starts falling down her fingers, her blood vessels all bursting. ''' Awhile later, this poor girl, who must have been 15 or 16 years old, sure enough was found crying in a phone booth trying to get a hold of her parents. Her mom answers and the young girl cries more into the phone. She admits that she never should have run away and that she wants to come home. Her mom asks where she is and the young girl replies, "I don't know...somewhere in San Francisco." But the Banshee arrived too quickly and she shattered all of the glass in the phone booth, zeroing in on this young girl's pain. However, a dog jumped up onto the Banshee allowing Piper and this girl just enough time to escape.

Widower
This older man was grieving over his lost wife, Catherine, the night the Banshee began attacking. His dog, Misty, barked and barked from the upcoming danger however it was proven useless. The Banshee flew through the crying man's windows (on the third floor of his apartment building) and screamed into his face, bursting each blood vessel in his body and drowning him in his own blood.

Inspector
This Inspector worked on the widower's case after he was murdered by a Banshee. Darryl allowed the sisters access to the crime scene explaining to the inspector that they were "specialists." After the inspector continued to ask what kind of "specialists" the sisters were, he joked about them being psychics, with arson, or even with the Feds. Phoebe gave up hiding and told him that her and her sister were witches and that they believe a demon killed the man. He laughed slightly and walked out of the scene.

Woman
This woman was being stalked by a banshee for her heart was strongly aching. The woman weaved in between cars in the parking lot, and the Banshee slowly creeping up on her until the woman turned the corner and saw her beloved, Ramon. The Banshee quickly ran off to scream again.

Man
This man named Ramon was waiting by his lover's car, on the night Phoebe was turned into a Banshee.

Cute Guy
When the sisters cast the spell to track a banshee, Prue inadvertently gets turned into a dog. She leads her younger sisters to find the banshee by being able to hear her high-pitched calls. When Phoebe becomes a banshee, Prue is able to hear her calls and runs quickly after her. Unfortunately, she runs right into the middle of the street and gets hit by a car. The driver leaps out of his car and rushes to Prue's side, desperately calling out for help. After awhile, he is able to get Prue back to his place, where Prue sees him dusting off an expensive camera and talking on the phone about how the vet said someone needed to watch the dog. He also mentions an idea about writing an article about irresponsible pet owners (due to the lack of Prue's dog-tags). When she showed signs of getting up, the cute guy hurried back to her side to take care of her, even feeding her imported beer (an interest they both have in common). When Prue started barking again, the cute guy was first worried about waking his neighbors but then decides to let her out. Somehow, Prue loses her rescuer and at some point gets turned back into her human self. That night, the cute guy shows up at P3 and this time Prue rushes to his side having said to her sisters, "how could I resist a [journalist] who put up fliers to find me."

Book of Shadows

 * 1) Prue and Phoebe cast the Belthazor Summoning Spell
 * 2) Piper and Phoebe cast the To Track A Banshee spell.
 * 3) Piper casts the Belthazor Summoning Spell

Evils

 * 1) Banshee, is a reasonably rare demon with distinctive white hair, and a high pitched scream that can burst glass and blood vessels, killing a mortal, or turn a witch pre-disposed to emotional pain into a Banshee.

Vanquished

 * 1) By Piper using her Molecular Combustion power.

Featured Music

 * At the start: The Corrs, "Give Me a Reason"
 * At the end: The Corrs, "Breathless"

Quotes

 * Phoebe: Oh, she's such a pretty dog.
 * Piper: Well, what else do you expect?
 * Leo: A doberman?
 * Prue (as a dog): (barking at Leo)
 * Leo: Easy! (stepping back)

:Phoebe: This is worse than I thought.
 * Piper: I never imagined anything like this could ever happen to us.
 * Phoebe: All I know is this can't go on much longer.
 * Piper: (sighs) So, what we are gonna do?
 * Phoebe: (sighs) Rock paper scissors?
 * Piper: No way, you already lost.
 * Phoebe: Two out of three!
 * Piper: Uh-uh. (handing out Phoebe a plastic bag)
 * (Prue as a dog comes out from the bushes after answering the nature's call)
 * Phoebe: This is so humiliating.

:Leo: Are you okay?
 * Piper: Am I okay? Prue is a dog and Phoebe is a banshee, I'm not even in the vicinity of okay!!

:Piper: (touching Prue's hair)
 * Prue: What are you're doing?
 * Piper: I think you've got fleas.
 * Prue: You know what, that is so not funny cause I think I do.
 * Piper: I think you do.
 * Prue: Okay, [you have] no idea how hard it was being a dog, okay, I mean, peeing outside, eating everything and anything, and just (sniffing) smelling everything,...
 * Piper: Must have been "ruff!" (rough). No pun intended. (smiling)
 * Prue: Aha... aha... Well, at least I got to meet a really cute guy.
 * Piper: You met a guy?
 * Prue: Mmhmm. (nods)
 * Piper:As a dog?!
 * Prue: Mmhmm. (nods)
 * Piper: How?!
 * Prue: Well, he ran me over.