Bruja-Ha

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Bruja-Ha

Season 3

Episode 10

Air date

April 18, 2021

Production

Prod. code

310

Writer(s)

Joey Falco and Blake Taylor

Director

Joe Gallagher

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Bruja-Ha is the tenth episode of the third season of Charmed and the fifty-first episode of the series overall. It aired on April 18, 2021.

Synopsis[]

CONTROLLING THE CHAOS – As the Charmed Ones (Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery and Madeleine Mantock) try to contain what was unleashed from the Tomb of Chaos, they discover who created it... and why. Also starring Rupert Evans.

Plot[]

Six days after the scorpions appeared at Vera Manor, Macy is chasing down a Worm Monster. A man exits a club and is nearly eaten by the monster, but Macy manages to vanquish it. Back in the Command Center, Harry is having trouble activating the Stone Tablet. The map alerts a new rift opening in Germany. Maggie is tasked with chasing down the new monster. Though appearing tired and overwhelmed by monster chasing and school work at first, she soon exits the Command Center looking fully energized.

Joséfina introduces Mel to the Bruja's Ladder, a spell she combined with Elder magic and brujeria. The spell can bind a creature and neutralize their powers. Joséfina wants to join her cousins on their mission, but Mel declines, knowing it is dangerous for her to face monsters without powers.

Harry tries to heal Macy's given from her battle with the worm monster, but her allergy repels his effort. Frustrated and angry at the situation, Macy goes home. Meanwhile, residual blood from the monster drips down from Macy's jacket and transforms into a new worm monster.

Meanwhile, Maggie tracks down the monster and has a premonition of herself being attacked by the monster. The vision causes her to have a panic attack; she remedies it with Emotional Inception to give herself confidence. Back at the Command Center, a new rift opens, forcing Mel to go on the mission, where she defeats a Tentacle Creature. Right then, a pair of people magically appears and starts attacking her with Sound Emission. Seeing they are immune to her powers, she retreats to the Command Center, but they instantly follow. After failing to contain them with a containment spell and them taking Harry's powers, she tries Joséfina's Bruja's ladder, which successfully neutralizes them.

Macy tries to bind her wound at home but the toxin from it causes her to collapse. Meanwhile, Maggie faces off against the monster which mimics her moves. When she finally sees the monster resembling her appearance, she tries to escape but realizes she never took a marble with her. Trying to restore her confidence also fails due to the fatigue and overwhelming fear. Seeing both of her sisters in danger, Mel sets off to find Maggie while Harry goes home to help Macy; Joséfina volunteers to watch the strangers.

Harry saves Macy by feeding her healing potion. After she wakes up, Macy realizes they can now touch and take the moment to enjoy the closeness. Mel saves Maggie from the doppelgänger, and they defeat it together. Back at the Command Center, Joséfina tries to communicate with the strangers, with sporadic success. While the strangers do not speak, their humming causes the tablet to glow. Feeling it proof that they mean no harm, she reverses the spell. They instantly approach her with hostile looks.

In Germany, Maggie confesses to Mel that she has been using her power to boost her confidence. The constant monster hunting has run them all ragged. Maggie failed her last psych test and still has a paper due. Mel encourages her to ask for help.

Macy and Harry enter SafeSpace to find everyone unconscious. Maggie and Mel find Joséfina on the floor in the Command Center and the strangers 'attacking' whomever is conscious. Mel joins Harry and Macy while Maggie looks for remedies to help Joséfina, who wakes up and tells them what she knows about the strangers: they are not evil, but merely trying to understand the world. The regenerated worm monster appears behind Maggie. The strangers open the Tomb of Chaos and send it through, and then restore Harry's powers.

The strangers, now able to speak, introduce themselves as the Perfecti — two utterly perfect beings created by ancient magical tribes over twenty thousand years ago. In that time, there was no government, institutional structure or Charmed Ones, only unchecked magic. Monsters and chaotic beings rampaged the Earth. The Perfecti were tasked with creating the Tomb and imprisoning all of the creatures. After their work was done, they placed themselves in the Tomb and slumbered until seven days ago when Macy read from the tablet. The Perfecti offer to take over capturing the escaped monsters and fixing the tomb's rifts, much to the Charmed Ones' happiness. Macy asks them about the allergy they are afflicted with and if they know how to cure it. The Perfecti admit that they do know a way.

The next day, Maggie books a session with a psychiatrist for herself. Harry and Macy talk about their problem with immortality. Mel encourages Joséfina to see herself as a witch, and shows her a recreated version of the Book of Shadows. One of the pages has the Bruja's Ladder added in it.

The Charmed Ones meet up with the Perfecti and open a portal to destinations unknown.

Cast[]

Co-Starring[]

Tally Robin as Creepy Girl
Justin Stone as Guy
Karen Khunkhun as News Anchor
Clint Carleton as Faceless Man / Tentacle Creature
Crystal Mudry as Young Safespacer #1
Jennifer Li as Young Safespacer #2

Magical Notes[]

Spells[]

Containment Spell
- Used by Mel to trap the Perfecti. Although contained, the Perfecti still managed to breach the spell to steal Harry’s powers.
Mode-Shifting Spells
- Used by Mel to change the map back to its normal viewing mode; this allowed her to quickly identify the location of her sisters, Maggie & Macy.
Spear Spell
- Used by Maggie to give her baton a spearhead.
The Bruja's Ladder
- Mel used this spell to bind Mo and Aladria, while Josefina unbound them in hopes of having them unlock her powers.

Powers[]

Emotional Inception: Used by Maggie to calm herself down whenever she is panicked or stressed.
Empathy: Used by the doppelganger to read Maggie's fear.
Flight: Used by the Perfecti to move around in the form of bright white, glistening orbs.
Foresight: Used by Maggie to see where the doppelganger was.
Healing: Used by Harry in an attempt to heal Macy, but they were blasted due to the allergy.
Immunity: Used by the Perfecti to withstand Mel's molecular attack.
Invisibility: Used by the worm monster.
Molecular Acceleration: Used by Mel to vanquish a monster and later to burn Mo and Aladria, but failed.
Orbing: Used by Harry to give Macy flour and flowers.
Portal Creation: Used by the Command Center/Witchboard to travel between places and around the world. Also used by the Perfecti to breach the Command Center and then later to drive the worm monster back into the Tomb of Chaos.
Power Absorption: Used by the Perfecti to temporarily steal Harry's powers.
Power Granting: Used by the Perfecti to return Harry's powers.
Regeneration: Used by the worm monster to reform itself from its blood after its original body was completely destroyed.
Resistance: Used by the tentacle creature to fight through Mel's heating abilities briefly and later used by Mo to break through Mel's containment spell.
Shapeshifting: Used by the doppelganger to transform into Maggie.
Sound Emission: Used by the Perfecti to communicate before learning how to speak, to release a deafening hum that hurt Mel's ears and to generate sound waves that were used to open the Tomb of Chaos.
Telekinetic Energy Generation: Used by Macy to correctify her aim as she pushed the knife into the monster.
Telepathy: Used by the Perfecti to obtain knowledge through touch.

Artifacts[]

Stone Tablet: The tablet was seen lying on the table in the Command Center.
Book of Shadows ~2021~: Mel's recreated version of their magical tome, the Book of Shadows. Mel finally showed Josefina and one of the entries is Josefina's spell The Bruja's ladder.

Trivia[]

This is the second episode of the series originally titled not in English.
- The title roughly translates to "Witch Haha".
Marisol Vera was seen in a photograph. She was last seen in Don't Look Back in Anger.
Dr. Lawrence was mentioned. He was last seen in You Can't Touch This.
Harry briefly loses his powers and becomes a mortal, but seemingly does not experience the rapid-aging side effects as he did when his powers were previously stripped.
In this episode, Mel Vera tossed a glowing, blueish-turquoise potion directly in front of the Perfecti when casting the Containment Spell, while in Deconstructing Harry, she blew a powder directly in Abigael's face before reciting the incantation. Seemingly, if the spell isn't being cast by all three sisters, the potion/powder works in conjunction with the incantation to enact the containment.
The vocal effects for the Worm Monster are performed by an uncredited actor.

Continuity Errors[]

Harry temporarily turns into a mortal due to lack of his powers, but he is not subject to rapid aging as he was in Surrender.

Answered Questions from Previous Episode(s)[]

Will the Charmed Ones overcome their infection?
- As of now, they have found a way to cure it, but according to the Perfecti, there are risks involved.
What did the tablet unleash?
- It caused more rifts in the tomb to open and eventually woke the Perfecti from their slumber.

Unanswered Questions[]

Will they succeed in curing their allergy?
Why did the portal back to the Command Center remain open when Mel tried to evade the Perfecti? That being said, does this mean that The Elders and the Perfecti have some sort of connection?

References to the Original Charmed[]

Maggie's fears manifest in the form of a doppelgänger, which also happened to Phoebe, in "Sand Francisco Dreamin'".
- Also, Maggie using magic to suppress her fear relates to Piper using a spell to suppress her fear in "A Witch's Tail, Part 2".
Harry loses his powers and briefly becomes mortal. The same thing happened to his counterpart, Leo, when the Elders clipped his wings.
The cover of the newly assembled Book of Shadows, recreated by Mel, resembles the book, in the original series.
The Perfecti are comparable to the Cleaners from the original series, having been chosen by the entirely of the supernatural world and granted immense powers to be able to maintain order and balance. The Cleaners were chosen by both good and evil and given immense powers to be able to keep magic hidden from humans.
- As noted by other viewers they're also comparable to The Avatars from the original series.
Mel's acceptance of Josefina's skills mirrors Piper not trusting Paige's abilities when the Charmed Ones were reconstituted.
After destroying the worm monster, it was able to regenerate/replicate itself through the residual goo stained on Macy's jacket. Similarly, the Slime Demon was able to reform itself after Piper blew up its main body.

Production Notes[]

The episode was watched by 0.43 million U.S. viewers.
This episode aired on Jordan Donica's 27th Birthday.

Quotes[]

Mel: I know, as women, we feel the need to handle everything ourselves.
Maggie: Because we want to project strength in a world that refuses to acknowledge our power.
Mel: Yes. But the most powerful thing we can do is ask for help. Maggie, you don't have to face every monster alone.

Mo: Hold on to your broomsticks.