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22 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 12, 200442 mins
Reeling from the loss of their future son Chris, an overprotective Piper and an obsessed Leo are forced by Phoebe and Paige to attend a Hindu wedding, where they inadvertently receive the powers of the Hindu's Ultimate Lovers, Shakti, the Goddess of Creation and her lover, Shiva, the God of Destruction. Phoebe and Paige must keep them from consummating their obvious new passion or according to Hindu dogma and legend, the world will be destroyed if they love one another again. Meanwhile, Barbas hatches a plot to distract Piper and Leo, well aware that Leo is hunting him and enlists a hoard of lesser demons to kidnap baby Chris. Paige finds that the remaining staff at Magic School is packing up in preparation for shutting down, and resolves to take action for it to remain open. Phoebe meets her ghost writer at the Bay Mirror and discovers that Leslie is a guy. Back at the manor, Inspector Sheridan and a reluctant Darryl Morris confront Leo and Paige in the nursery and Leo blasts her across the room knocking her unconscious then leaves. Barbas proves able to influence Leo and uses projective telepathy to implant beliefs and causes him to attack an elder who is actually on his side.

Episode 2
Sun, Sep 19, 200442 mins
Paige almost loses her fight to save Magic School when a bored student accidentally conjures Lady Godiva and Lord Dyson, a demonic land baron who feeds off repressed emotions. In the past, due to Godiva's ride, he was starved of repressed feelings and died of starvation, but bringing him to the present allows him to gain power. Paige has to send them back, or it would change the history as it is known. A new power starts to contact Leo, who believes he is losing his mind. They manage to send the two back, but change history as being in the present made Dyson powerful enough to kill Lady Godiva before her ride and change history. The Charmed Ones manage to summon the two again and try to vanquish Dyson, figuring if he is vanquished Godiva can be sent back alone. Finally, they succeed by having him feed off of Leo's repressed anger which overloads him and vanquishes him. Paige has the student that first summoned Godiva send her back and is able to prove to the Elders that they should keep Magic School open. In turn, they make her the new Headmistress.

Episode 3
Sun, Sep 26, 200442 mins
Against Piper's wishes, Paige and Phoebe summon Grams for Chris' wiccaning that will protect him from evil while he grows. However, Wyatt gets attacked in the nursery by a masked demon that Leo begins pursuing with single-minded abandon and resolve. Meanwhile, Wyatt feels threatened that his younger brother is getting all of the attention and uses magic on him. In order to prevent sibling rivalry, Grams casts a spell on Wyatt and Chris, but inadvertently makes the sisters act like teenagers again. The Charmed Ones father, Victor, comes to the house and he decides to summon Patty to help him reverse the spell.

Episode 4
Sun, Oct 3, 200442 mins
On a search to find witches who have been disappearing, Paige encounters Captain Black Jack Cutting, an infamous 18th century pirate who is searching for the Fountain of Youth to reverse a curse. FBI agent Kyle Brody helps Darryl and Inspector Sheridan to find the Charmed Ones.

Episode 5
Sun, Oct 10, 200442 mins
Half-blood Kevin Casey vows to become a full-powered demon, Sirk, by shedding his human half, which requires murdering all his man kin. Paige casts a spell to block killing, but the Angel of Death can't accept his list of doomed being blocked, which might throw the universe off balance. So he overrules the sisters, recruiting Piper till further notice as his ghostly deputy.

Episode 6
Sun, Oct 17, 200442 mins
The Elders' suspicion of Leo causes them to assign a new Whitelighter to the Charmed Ones. However, when the new Whitelighter is nearly killed by beasts, the Elders blame the attack on Leo. Trying to prove Leo's innocence, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige discover that the beasts are actually themselves, transformed by the blue moon. Kyle tells Paige his story in reference to the new power. And the sisters, after seeing the floating heads themselves, believe that Leo is not so crazy after all.

Episode 7
Sun, Oct 31, 200442 mins
Kyle convinces Paige to help him solve a mysterious string of accidents, only to discover that the demon Sarpedon is capturing innocents' Guardian Angels and using them to protect himself from the forthcoming threat of the Avatars. Consequently, Paige's Guardian is captured by the demon and she becomes accident prone. Meanwhile, Piper and Phoebe convince Leo to go on a vision quest in an attempt to come to grip with the visions and visitations he has been experiencing. He resists the arguments and blandishments of Avatars Alpha and Gamma, who appear to reason with him during the vision quest. Back at the manor, Sarpedon gets a drop on the sisters and a battle ensues where Piper and Phoebe die. In order to bring Piper and Phoebe back to life, Leo agrees with and becomes an Avatar.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 14, 200442 mins
While trying to solve a murder at Magic School, Paige and Agent Brody are sucked into an unfinished 1930's gangster novel. Their unknown 'plot' is three fold, 1. find the original author of the novel, 2. find the famed Burmese falcon and 3. not be killed by the criminal element that is also seeking the fabled bird. Meanwhile, Phoebe, Piper and Leo follow their noir adventure and rewriting the novel to save their sister and Agent Brody.

Episode 9
Sun, Nov 21, 200442 mins
Leo reveals to Piper that he is an Avatar, despite the warnings from Alpha and Beta that Piper should find out in her own time. A huge disaster ensues as Leo tells Piper just as she is adding touchy ingredients to a potion cauldron, which then blows up. Leo inadvertently rewinds time, and Alpha and Beta appear at that moment and freeze subjective time. In a frozen interval he is taken to task by Alpha and Beta and once again they attempt to dissuade him from revealing he is become an avatar to Piper. He stubbornly maintains Piper will be able to handle it. All three sisters have some trouble with the news leading to Phoebe and Paige calling on Kyle for help, but his reaction to the news causes disastrous results. The Avatars take Leo to task but allow time to be rewound to before Leo tells Piper.
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 28, 200442 mins
The Avatars insist that Leo protect Kira, a seer, because she has information that can help them destroy the demons and help the sisters reconcile themselves to the Avatars. Kira shares with Phoebe a vision of a future in which there are no demons, leading the sisters to consider the possibility that the Avatars might be good and allowing Leo the opportunity to admit he is an Avatar. Kyle and Paige find themselves in opposition to Leo, Piper, and Phoebe. Zankou is released by a congregation of lesser demons fearing the Avatars and the sisters. Zankou invades the manor and kills Kira.

Episode 11
Sun, Jan 16, 200542 mins
Kyle is hell-bent on revenge his archaeologist parents' murder on the avatars, Piper on stopping him as Leo now is one and the sisters want their pacification project to work. Kyle agrees to Paige showing him the traumatic past, when he learn indeed that Jack and Brody where killed by demons who sought in vain to seize the Pharaonic potions to vanish avatars, but now Kyle manages to save one. Demonic mastermind Zankou watched that and manages, when Phoebe and Piper switch powers shortly to settle doubts on the avatar project, to divert those to two separated passing-by commoners, gambler Ronny and Denise, who refuse to abstain from personal gain but must be persuaded to return the charmed magic.

Episode 12
Sun, Jan 23, 200542 mins
While the Avatars prepare to transform the world into a Utopia, the Charmed Ones work overtime eliminating demons as part of the alliance. Kyle remains skeptical and quarrels with Paige stimulating questions in which they inform the Charmed Ones that the human world must be put to sleep so that they can kill any remaining demons. Although Kyle now knows the Avatars didn't murder his parents, he still doubts their good intentions. He calls the Elders for help but is instead kidnapped by Zankou. In order to convince Kyle to help him stop the Avatars, Zankou summons and vanquishes the demons who murdered Kyle's parents. In return, Kyle reluctantly agrees to help Zankou stop the change by placing a paranoia spell on Piper, Phoebe and Paige. During the Utopian transformation, Kyle uses Paige's paranoia to lure and kill an Avatar. However, he pays a high price for his actions as he's killed by Beta as he kills her. As a result of his death, the Avatars include the Charmed Ones in the sleep spell so they can't interfere.
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 30, 200542 mins
While the Charmed Ones enjoy their new conflict-free world, Leo learns that in order for the Avatars to protect their Utopian world, they also control everyone's destiny by deciding who lives and dies. Wanting to stop the Avatars, Leo joins forces with Zankou to undo the change. Paige receives a special surprise and Leo's fate relies on the Elders. In the end, Leo's death shocks the sisters back to reality and they team up with Zankou to stop the Avatars. Using information that Zankou found in an ancient tomb, they make the Avatar killing potion and confront the Avatars with it. The Avatars, realizing that humanity is not ready for them yet, use the last of their power to rewind time to when Utopia started. Doing so breaks the Utopia spell and returns all those killed by the Avatars, including Leo who is stripped of his Avatar powers, but still remains an Elder. The Avatars are too weak to rewind time far enough to save Kyle and Paige goes to his apartment where she is shocked to find him apparently alive. The Elders have made him a Whitelighter for his actions against the Avatars and he says a final goodbye to Paige before orbing out.
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 13, 200542 mins
The newest professor hired by Paige at Magic School is an ex-demon which comes with an interesting life story.

Episode 15
Sun, Feb 20, 200542 mins
Leo is reluctant to join Piper on the family vacation she planned to distract him while he waits for the Elders to decide his fate. Anyhow, the family is mobilized when Darryl seeks help for his retired former police mentor Mike, now a security agent, who was arrested and locked in a mental asylum due to nightmares about his beloved Marie in a fire in an ill-reputed nightclub which burnt down over a century ago. Although his diabolic pact-dictated death is on hand, Drake volunteers to go there by spell with Phoebe. They find themselves caught, with all party guests there, in a daily time-loop ending in the club's fire. Club owner count Roget has been waiting all that time to steal the way back by impersonating Drake, so the Charmed team must come up with complex hexing.

Episode 16
Sun, Apr 10, 200542 mins
Leo's anxiously waited judgment by the Elders for his avatar episode finally arrives. To his stunned horror, the verdict is not to impose a punishment but a mandatory 'test', which will determine whether his fate is to resume duty as an alder, without mortal ties, or to join his family as a regular mortal without any supernatural powers. Therefore he's dropped, memory-wiped, in a Texan small town, where his war medic background kicks in, and Elder Odin tries to steer him away from the Charmed Ones forever. Drake spends his last hours before his contractual midnight demise inspiring the sisters to look for Leo while even Piper seems ready to give up love, but Cole has his own agenda for Drake.

Episode 17
Sun, Apr 17, 200542 mins
Zankou sends his underworld henchmen after the Charmed Ones so he can gain access to the power of the Nexus trapped under the Manor. To protect his parents Wyatt shrinks them and imprisons them in a doll house in the attic that is an exact replica of the Manor.
Episode 18
Sun, Apr 24, 200542 mins
Leo cleverly helps the clueless Elder deal with budding white lighter Paige's frustration over the tinnitus-like 'toothing' phase of hearing calls for help. It takes the power of three to help out with the problem reported by Nina, the protector of Hope, the newly assigned keeper of Pandora's Box, who is still most vulnerable to demon Katya, who plots with colleague Lucius to make Hope open the vessel of global misery. Things are complicated as Katya masterly uses her powers as shape-shifter and Hope, a campus student nowhere near ready for her task, cares more for her demon-abducted roommate Darcy.
Episode 19
Sun, May 1, 200542 mins
Leo already takes as a fish to water in his new job as magic school headmaster. He also coaches Paige as budding white lighter, who despairs as her next charge, Mitchell Haines, bitterly refuses to use his powers or even accept guardian help. Meanwhile demon Imara plots to challenge Zankou as source of evil, which requires Charmed powers, and taps in to those by switching souls with Phoebe, who finds herself locked in a magical cage by her minions. The fake Phoebe kills upper demons to steal their powers, which brings Darryl's PD interim, Inspector Sheridan, on the charmed ones' trail as serial murder suspects.
Episode 20
Sun, May 8, 200542 mins
While the sisters dismiss Piper's grumbling that something must be really wrong with distracted toddler Wyatt, Leo sharply observes and duly suspects a demonic influence, as turns out kid whisperer Vicus, who plots to corrupt the formidably powerful Charmed son trough his cuddly bear while posing as imaginary friend. A spell meant by Piper to solve the riddle only managed to conjure near-adult Wyatt from the future, but Vicus gets to him too. Super-dad Leo however knows how to handle his boy at either age.
Episode 21
Sun, May 15, 200542 mins
Zankou plans to get hold of the Book, but finds that impossible until the sisters' confidence, which it defense depends on, is seriously shattered. So he engages a necromancer alchemist to haunt them, first Phoebe, into despair by reviving the corpses of crucial innocents they failed to save to haunt them. Each time a sister is weakened, Zankou steals more power, until he can take the book from them. Meanwhile police inspector Sheridan refuses to take Darryl's word that the sisters are innocent in the many cases they mysteriously appeared about.
Episode 22
Sun, May 22, 200542 mins
Zankou has stolen the book of shadows, and moves into the mansion, from which the powers-deprived sisters fled to magic school. He plans, with a band of demons, to take possession of the Nexus and become the ultimate Source. The trio decides they can't win but bring the boys to grandpa Victor, as they will die trying to destroy the Nexus while it's in Zankou with a backstop spell. Meanwhile inspector Sheridan is outranked by late Kyle's former supervisor, Homeland Security agent Keyes, who lays siege to the mansion, just at the explosive finale.
