All Hell Breaks Loose

All Hell Breaks Loose is the 66th episode of Charmed and the finale of season 3. This is also Shannen Doherty's last episode as Prue.

Summary
Phoebe and Cole are in the Underworld and are forced to strike a deal with Tempus and travel back in time to before it was revealed to the world that magic existed. They travel back succesfully but the episode ends with Prue and Piper lying on the floor from when Shax threw them, neither of them moving, one or both of them possibly dead.

Plot
The sisters lead a befuddled Dr. Griffiths into the manor. Phoebe got a premonition of Griffiths being attacked by the Source's assassin, Shax. Phoebe consults the Book of Shadows for a vanquish. Griffiths concludes that this is a practical joke and is ready to leave when Prue feels a chill. Suddenly, a massive tornado bursts through the door and knocks Prue and Piper to the ground. The tornado turns into Shax. He's about to blast Griffiths, but Prue pushes him out of the way, and the blast hits her and sends her flying through the wall. He blasts Piper through the wall as well and has Griffiths in his sights. Phoebe returns from the attic just in time and repulses Shax with a spell. Leo orbs in and heals Prue and Piper. Phoebe and Leo stay with Dr. Griffiths while Prue and Piper leave in search of Shax. Just a block from the house, Shax tries to attack them from behind. He tries to blast Prue, but she deflects it back at him. Piper blasts him. Unknown to the sisters, Elana Dominguez, a reporter for KCSF, is in the area and films the whole scene live. Griffiths is still badly shaken, but the sisters convince him to keep quiet. Prue thinks something doesn't feel right about their last encounter with Shax; she doesn't think they really vanquished him. However, Piper recalls that she's already taken out two demons with her new power. Prue is still skeptical; she doesn't think they'd need a vanquishing spell if their active powers were enough to handle Shax. Leo points out that the sisters' ancestors weren't nearly as powerful as they were. However, he orbs up to check with the Elders.

Phoebe wants to turn Cole back to good, over her sisters' objections. She has concocted a potion that will reverse the spell Raynor put on him to stir up his demonic side. She tweaked the Belthazor summoning spell to send her down to the underworld. Prue and Piper are skeptical, especially since Phoebe won't be able to contact them if something goes wrong. Phoebe appears in the underworld to find Cole laying on a straw bed. When Cole sees Phoebe, he grabs her by the neck.

Elana plays her tape for her boss and several of her colleagues. Her bosses initially aren't sure if it's real. However, fearful of being scooped, they send after the witches. Prue has a bad feeling, which becomes worse when a neighbor admonishes her daughter to stay away from Prue and Piper. Darryl gets a bad feeling too after seeing Shax's attack on TV, and calls the manor to warn the sisters. Prue turns the TV on to find footage of their battle--and Elana standing outside the manor.

A crowd of reporters and onlookers besieges the manor as Darryl approaches. His captain wants to question the sisters. Leo orbs in; the Elders are aware of the situation and want the sisters to figure out how to minimize the damage, fast. Piper thinks it's a sign their Charmed careers are over, but Prue thinks it's just one more test in a year filled with them. Prue and Piper want to head to the hospital to get Griffiths, believing Shax will take another run at him.

However, Leo can't orb them there lest Whitelighters be exposed as well. They fight through a gauntlet of reporters and onlookers, including a self-proclaimed witch named Alice Hicks. Leo reports that Shax can only be vanquished with the Power of Three Cole warns Phoebe to leave before he kills her. Phoebe throws her potion and she and Cole embrace. She wants him to take her back to the manor, but Cole fears that the Source is still after him.

Prue and Piper rush Dr. Griffiths out of the hospital. Just as they feared, Shax attacks, and they again repel him with the spell, but Elana is there filming them. The crowd around the manor grows larger and louder. Prue and Piper are stunned that Elana knew where they were, but Darryl thinks she put a tail on their car. The sisters' fax machine is filling up with interview requests. Prue turns on the TV to find Dr. Griffiths talking to the press, and others start spreading gossip to the press as well. Leo, on the advice of the Elders, proposes to seek the aid of Tempus; evil has also been exposed, and Tempus might be able to help by resetting time. Alice breaks into the manor, and Prue flings her back out, wounding her pride. It turns out Elana put Alice up to this, in hopes of getting into the manor herself for an interview.

Prue thinks that Cole can get in touch with Tempus. Leo is reluctant to orb to the underworld; Prue and Piper won't be able to call for him in case things get much worse. However, Piper isn't worried; everything should work out once time resets. Leo orbs out. Cole wants to get Phoebe out of danger; apparently something has happened to merit the Source coming down himself. Leo orbs in and warns of the exposure. He asks Cole to contact the Source to try to find Tempus. Cole is skeptical at first, but Leo tells him that this is the reason the Source has come. Leo suggests that Cole pass this off as his idea. The Source is reluctant, and still angry with Cole. The Source also knows that Cole is really trying to save Phoebe, and only agrees to summon Tempus if Phoebe remains in the underworld. He also warns that one of her sisters is about to be killed. Image:Piperdies.jpg|thumb|right|Piper dies]] Prue and Piper put a table against the door in case the reporters barge in. Alice shoots into the manor with a high-powered rifle, blowing away much of Piper's midsection. Alice is promptly arrested. Leo is still in the underworld, and cannot help. Prue tries to drive Piper to the hospital, but the crowd obstructs them and Elana peppers Prue with questions. At last, Prue starts flinging the crowd away. The crowd scatters, and Prue and Piper rush to the hospital. Dr. Griffiths attends Piper, but is unable to save her. Cole tells Phoebe of the Source's terms, and that one of her sisters is dead. As Prue cries for her sister, a SWAT team approaches. One tries to apprehend Prue, but she flings him away and bars the door. Leo orbs in and is grieved to find Piper dead. He returns to Cole and Phoebe, and Phoebe immediately knows what's wrong. She agrees to the Source's terms, provided that Cole warn Prue and Piper of Shax once time is reset. The Source also agrees, but secretly orders Cole detained and Phoebe killed. right|300px|Piper dies Just as the SWAT team fires a bullet at Prue, Tempus resets time. Piper is alive again, and Dr. Griffiths is again in the manor with the sisters, though this time Phoebe is not coming down from the attic. Shax attacks again, blasts Prue and Piper and then Dr. Griffiths as well.

The future of the Charmed Ones is uncertain, with Phoebe trapped in the underworld and Prue and Piper badly injured, or possibly dead.

Magical Beings

 * Shax
 * The Source

Innocents lost

 * Dr. Griffiths

Mortals

 * Alice Hicks
 * Elana Dominguez
 * Cameraman
 * News Editor
 * News Director
 * Captain
 * Lawyer
 * Susie Johnson
 * Susie Johnson went to school with Prue in 10th grade and after the sisters exposed themselves on national television, KLSF 6 interviewed her. She said that she knew for a fact that Prue cast a spell on her boyfriend to make her break-up with her. She called Prue "evil."

Book of Shadows

 * Although the page was never shown, Phoebe does get a spell from it and the page was later seen in the DVD extras

Potions

 * 1) Phoebe uses a potion to reverse the spell Raynor cast on Cole.

Spells

 * 1) Phoebe casts the "Shax Vanquishing Spell" but it just banishes him.
 * 2) Phoebe rewords the "Magic to Magic" spell to send herself to Cole. It is believed that Piper (and maybe Prue) cast this spell on Phoebe.
 * 3) Prue and Piper vanquish Shax with the "Shax Vanquishing Spell".

Shax Vanquishing Spell

 * Evil wind that blows,
 * That which forms below,
 * No longer may you dwell,
 * Death takes you with this spell.

Powers

 * Shax / Appear / Himself / Manor
 * Shax / Aerokinesis (AK) / Prue / Manor
 * Shax / AK / Piper / Manor
 * Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor
 * Leo / Heals / Piper and Prue / Manor
 * Shax / Appear / Himself / Outside Manor
 * Shax / AK/ Prue / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / AK/ Outside Manor
 * Piper / Blow Up / Shax / Outside Manor
 * Leo / Orb / Himself / Manor
 * Shax / Appear / Himself / Outside Hospital
 * Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor Conservatory
 * Prue / TK / Alice Hicks & Doors / Manor
 * Leo / Orbs / Himself / Cole's Lair
 * The Source / Flames / Himself / Underworld
 * Prue / TK / Reporter & Camera Man / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / Man with Sign / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / Two Men / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / Two Men / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / Man / Outside Manor
 * Prue / TK / SWAT #1 / Hospital
 * Prue / TK / SWAT #2 / Hospital
 * Leo / Orb / Himself / Hospital
 * Leo / Orb / Himself / Hospital
 * Leo / Orb / Himself / Cole's Lair
 * Shax / Appear / Himself / Manor
 * Shax / AK / Prue / Manor
 * Shax / AK/ Piper / Manor
 * Shax / AK/ Dr. Griffiths / Manor
 * Shax / Disappear / Himself / Manor

Featured Music

 * After opening credits: Depeche Mode, "Dream On"

Glitches
After this, Prue desperately tries to drive out and get Piper to the hospital, yet is blocked by the crowd and of course the reporters, who proceed to ask her what's going on when surely they should have some idea what's wrong after someone stood on a van in the middle of the crowd and fired at the house.
 * The sisters are exposed as witches, yet the Cleaners, introduced in season 6 as beings protecting magic from exposure, not only did they not appear but were not even so much as mentioned here, not by Leo nor by the Elders. But destiny prevented them from cleaning up the exposure, instead letting Tempus die reversing the problem because Prue was fated to die as a result so that her half-sister Paige Matthews could fulfill her destiny to join her sister witches. Another reason to allow Tempus to die would be to restore the balance of power after one of the Charmed One's is killed. Other than the Cleaners there is no evidence of demonic measures to hide magic, as also a demon (Shax) got exposed, such as the demon Libris.
 * A couple of logistical stump factors were deliberately played to aid the process which made way for the events of this episode to occur due to Shannen Doherty's departure:
 * Piper developed her molecular combustion towards the end of the season, only two episodes before this point. Had this power developed earlier, she would have mastered the controls and would be able to freeze and/or combust at will, leaving her easily capable of freezing Shax, giving Prue the window she would need to get herself and Dr. Griffiths out of the line of fire. Although this may have not been possible for Piper as she was merely recovering from being thrown to the floor by Shax, seconds before Prue got up and pushed Griffiths out of the line of fire.
 * A case of more direct stump continuity would be the crazed wannabe witch Alice Hicks. For one thing, she is allowed to sneak by all the cops, reporters, and locals to come into the Manor through the back of the sun room, leave the way she came while crying after being sent out by Prue with very little questioning and no hassle from the police, and even come back and climb up a van with a rifle to be able to shoot Piper, before police finally pay attention long enough to detain her.
 * Piper's line of: -We dodged another bullet- early in the episode is ironic as it's her who gets shot later in the episode.

International Titles
Spanish (Latin America) - De Regreso en el Tiempo Spanish (Spain) - El Infierno se Desata French (France) - Adieux Serbian (Serbia) - Пакао

Uncredited Cast

 * Laura Silverman as Susie
 * Gary Lane as Bystander at Hospital (uncredited)
 * Larry Lane as Bystander at Hospital (uncredited)