Astral Monkey

Astral Monkey is the 20th episode of the second season and the 42nd overall episode of Charmed.

Summary
A doctor, who treated Piper when she was dangerously ill with Oroya fever, has been trying to uncover the reason for her miraculous recovery and accidentally acquires the powers of all three Halliwell sisters during a blood transfusion. In a desperate effort to save his dying sister, the doctor uses his new powers to harvest organs from former jail ward patients. Prue and Phoebe help Piper put an end to the doctor’s violent house calls. However, the doctor soon starts to go insane from the weight of his powers in his mortal body, and the Charmed Ones must make a tough decision... Meanwhile, Prue gets a job photographing a handsome actor and ends up in the tabloids.

Characters
Characters in bold appear for the first time in the series.
 * Prue Halliwell
 * Piper Halliwell
 * Phoebe Halliwell
 * Darryl Morris
 * Leo Wyatt
 * Dr. Curtis Williamson
 * Evan Stone

Potions
Power Stripping Potion-The sisters used power stripping potions to remove the monkeys' of their new powers. Piper offered one to Williamson, but he refused and attacked her, forcing her to kill him.

Powers
Telekinesis Molecular Immobiliztion

Artifacts

 * Scrying Crystal- A magical pendant used for scrying. The Charmed Ones try to scry for Dr.Williamson but it fails.

Mortals

 * Dr. Curtis Williamson
 * Evan Stone

Featured Music

 * "Then The Morning Comes" by Smash Mouth
 * "Letting The Cables Sleep" by Bush

Notes and Trivia
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 * The title of this episode is likely based on Astral Projection and the monkeys from the hospital.
 * Dan does not appear in this episode.
 * Prue gets a new car, a black 2000 BMW X5.
 * In this episode Phoebe trains the monkeys for: one to cover his eyes, another his ears and the last one his mouth. In "Sense And Sense Ability" the sisters get infected by a magical monkey and each lose one of their senses.
 * Dr. Williamson's appearance towards the end of the episode is nearly the same as when Cole gets posessed by the Source: sweaty, bloodshot eyes. This is likely because mortals can't handle having magical powers.
 * Neither Prue nor the doctor use Astral Projection, but the monkey with Prue's powers does.
 * We see here Dr. Williamson getting "infected" with magic. In "Hulkus Pocus", the consequences of mixing the blood of magical beings and mortals is seen again.
 * On the streaming website, Netflix, the ending song is changed.
 * This is one of the few episodes without evil beings in it.
 * It's interesting to note that this episode and Awakened, the two episodes that Dr. Williamson appears in, there are no evil beings.

Glitches

 * When Dr. Williamson freezes the other doctor when he walks in to his lab, the frozen doctor can be seen moving slightly.
 * When Piper pulls out the list of jail patients from her pocket, it is different than the list from the computer which the sisters printed in the hospital. Piper said there was a "Dr. C. Williamson", but on the paper from the hospital was written only Dr. Williamson.

Quotes

 * Piper: I got another letter from Dr. Williamson.
 * Phoebe: Williamson? Isn't he the specialist that treated you for Oroya fever?
 * Piper: That would be him.
 * (Phoebe opens the pantry.)
 * Phoebe: Oh that was months ago. What does he want?
 * Piper: He wants me to come in for blood work so he can make sure I'm cured.
 * Phoebe: An angel brought you back to life. Trust me, you're cured.


 * (Phoebe's kneeling down with her head in the closet throwing clothes out on the floor. Leo orbs in and kneels down really close to Phoebe.)
 * Leo: (thinking it's Piper) Ever done it on a cloud?
 * Phoebe: I don't know, does a feather bed count?
 * (Leo quickly stands up.)
 * Leo: Uh, Phoebe. I thought you were Piper.


 * Prue: Yeah. Exactly like this. Wait, is this the same Dr. Williamson?
 * Piper: Yeah, he's been sending me requests for weeks and he called this morning and said he wanted to see me.
 * Prue: What?
 * Phoebe: Wait, you didn't tell me he called you.
 * Piper: Well, there was nothing to say. I hung up on him. Do you think he found out about our powers?
 * Prue: B.o.S.
 * Phoebe: B.o.S.? Oh, Book Of Shadows! Book of Shadows!


 * Piper: Okay, then, so what are you suggesting? (Prue and Phoebe look at each other.) You guys wanna vanquish him? You can't be serious, he's, he's not a demon, he's a human being.
 * Prue: Not anymore.
 * Piper: But, okay, we can't use our powers to punish anyway you know that.
 * Prue: Piper, we're not punishing, alright, we're saving lives. All you have to do is freeze him.
 * Piper: And then what? You're gonna move him in the path of an oncoming bus, drop a building on him, kill him? (Leo walks in.) Leo, tell me you found something, anything.
 * Leo: Sorry. I don't think there's any way out of this one.
 * Piper: I don't believe this.

International Titles

 * French: Médecine Occulte
 * Italian: Le Tre Scimmie (The Three Monkeys)
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Macaco Astral (Astral Monkey)
 * Polish: Astralna Małpa
 * Russian: Obez'yanka iz astrala (Monkey From the Astral)
 * Czech: Astrální projekce (Astral Projection)
 * Slovak: Nebezpečná krv (Dangerous Blood)
 * Serbian: Astralni Majmun
 * German: Hexenblut (Witch Blood)