The Day the Magic Died

The Day the Magic Died is the 103rd episode of Charmed.

Episode Guide
The sisters are outside admiring an aurora borealis (not a thing usually seen in San Francisco). Piper stands up and passes out, and Leo can't heal her. The others get her to the hospital. She has toxemia. The doctor orders her on a no-salt diet and bed rest. Leo speculates that this is a state of mind, and that's why he couldn't heal her.

In the woods, a sorceror named Cronyn speaks of a prophecy as the aurora shines overhead. He sends his underling Stanley to attack the Charmed Ones with fireballs.

Gifts from magical beings pile up, and Paige and Phoebe find a unicorn in the kitchen. Paige tries to orb it out, but can't. Phoebe tries a spell and it doesn't work. Leo can't orb to the Elders. None of their powers work. The Book of Shadows is blank. They try to keep the news from Piper.

Stanley shows up at the manor and tries to attack Paige with a fireball, but the fireball fizzles. He attacks her physically, and Phoebe kills him with a carving knife. She and Paige frantically hide the body when Victor shows up with his new wife Doris.

Cronyn arrives at the manor and asks the sisters to help him save magic. He notes that both good and evil magic beings have lost their powers. Paige is skeptical, but Phoebe wants to meet with Cronyn. They agree to meet in a pizza pub.

Piper suspects something is up and that the others are hiding something. Leo ushers Victor and Doris out of Piper's room and spills the beans. Piper gestures but Leo doesn't blow up. Right afterwards, Piper's water breaks six weeks early.

At the meeting with Cronyn, Paige and Pheobe find themselves surrounded by demons, but they have come prepared with improvised weapons and a smoke candle, as well as the usual combat skills. Cronyn walks away as the fight continues.

Leo goes to fetch the other sisters, and then Doris stabs Victor with the knife. She is now alone with Piper. The other sisters interrogate a demon and realize that Cronyn is after Piper's baby. They rush back to the manor. Cronyn gets ther ahead of them and Piper is now in labor. Paige scrapes a bit of dust off the unicorn horn. Cronyn hears the unicorn's neigh and goes to investigate. Piper bashes Doris over the head and escapes, still in labor. Cronyn and Doris catch her on the stairs.

Phoebe and Paige come from the basement, where the unicorn is tied up, and confront Cronyn and Doris. Victor comes to and pushes Cronyn away from Piper. Paige throws the unicorn dust and she and Phoebe say the vanquishing spell.

Piper gives birth, and to everyone's surprise, the child is a boy.

Guest Stars
James Read as Victor Bennett

Richard Lynch as Cronyn

W. Morgan Sheppard as Merrill

J.P. Manoux as Stanley

Yan Birch as Kane

Cheryl Ladd as Doris

Powers

 * Elders / Summon / Leo / Backyard of Manor


 * Paige / Orbs / Herself / Manor


 * Paige / Orbs / Unicorn / Manor*


 * Phoebe / Levitates / Herself / Manor*


 * Leo / Orbs / Himself / Manor (not shown)*


 * Stanley / Fireball / -- / Manor*


 * Piper / Molecular Combustion / Leo / Manor*


 * Paige / Heals (Using Unicorn Dust) / Victor / Manor

* indicates that this power didn't work due to magic being down everywhere.

Spells
1. Phoebe ad libs a spell to get rid of the unicorn they found in the manor.
 * Take this beast
 * Before I end her
 * Ship her back
 * Return to sender

2. Paige and Phoebe recite a spell to vanquish Cronyn and Doris.
 * Beast of legend, myth and lore
 * Give my words the power to soar
 * And kill this evil evermore

Evil Vanquished

 * 1) Phoebe throws a knife at Stanley. He is killed, but does not explode as magic is down.
 * 2) Many demons are vanquished by Phoebe and Paige in the restaurant.
 * 3) Cronyn and Doris are vanquished when Paige and Phoebe recite a spell.

Quotes
Paige: These were mine and now they're yours. Chain mail top--from my clubbing days, steel-toed boots--from my mosh pit days, handcuffs (smirks)--from last Friday.

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Paige:(closes the door where the dead demon is) That was always my moto.Isn't that funny?

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Piper: Hi Phoebe,come,sit,talk with us, please.

Phoebe: Oh, I can't,I have a big meeting at work.Do you have any hairspray?

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Phoebe: On no.I can't levitate.

Leo: Something's wrong, something's wrong,I can't orb.

Trivia

 * Darryl does not appear in this episode.


 * The title of this episode is a reference to a line from Don McLean's song, American Pie, "The day the music died.


 * In the beginning of the episode Phoebe says, talking about Victor, that "He does get very Darrin Stephens about our whole magic things", making another reference to Bewitched. Like Samantha's husband infact Victor disapproves magic. Phoebe alredy talked about Bewitched in Lost and Bound.


 * Phoebe says to Paige "I see a head of dark hair" and Paige replies by saying "What did you expect a blond?", ironically Wyatt is blond all of the way through his childhood.