Private Enemy No. 1

Season 3

Episode 6

Air date

March 14, 2021

Production

Prod. code

306

Writer(s)

Aziza Aba Butain and Nicki Renna

Director

James Genn

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Private Enemy No. 1 is the sixth episode of the third season of Charmed and the forty-seventh episode of the series overall. It aired on March 14, 2021.

Synopsis[]

WHAT FEELS RIGHT – While Harry (Rupert Evans) and Macy (Madeleine Mantock) unravel the mystery of an ancient magical artifact, Mel (Melonie Diaz) helps Abby (Poppy Drayton) track down an unseen evil force, and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) deals with academic sabotage. Also starring Jordan Donica.

Plot[]

Maggie finds a video of an alien hunter named Elliot Larson who lives in Lake Tahoe. She thinks he might be connected to the creatures they have been battling after seeing a symbol in his video. Macy asks Harry to get with her to Lake Tahoe and be her partner in crime, and he agrees. Macy notices an orb that Elliot has, and she steals it when Elliot isn't looking. Harry looks at the orb and says he wants to figure out what is going on, and it possesses him, and he starts acting crazy. Macy revisits Elliot, and he says that Harry will go mad and die if he keeps the orb. Macy wants to take it away from him, but he does not want to give it to her. She can get through to him and get the orb back.

Mel has coffee with Ruby, but it is still difficult because they still can't touch each other. Ruby's friend Bella comes and hugs Ruby, and Mel becomes jealous. Abigael asks Mel to watch her sleep because she thinks a demon is trying to kill her in her sleep, and Mel reluctantly agrees. Abby's bed catches on fire while Mel is watching her, but she misses how it happened. Later in the night, Ruby knocks on Mel's door, and Abby interrupts them while they are talking. Ruby gets upset that Abby is with Mel. Mel thinks Abby did this on purpose and is angry at her and says she can stay one night but then has to leave. They later discover Abigael turning into a demon and trying to harm herself.

Maggie is about to begin her movement therapy clinic and is upset when nobody shows up. She realizes all of the names on the signup sheet are joke names, and she thinks Antonio, the student she has a rivalry with, is behind it, and she ruins a sign that he put up. She talks to him, and he says on the frats are playing pranks. She takes him out for a drink to apologize and has a vision of them in bed together.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Jason Diaz as Antonio Garcia

Guest Cast[]

Bethany Brown as Ruby
Alessandro Juliani as ShopToad lawyer
Chris Gauthier as Elliot Larson

Co-Starring[]

Jason Day as Primordial Demon
Scott Pocha as Malignant Demon
Ghazal Azarbad as Bella
Tina Rahimi as Student
Naiah Cummins as Opposing Counsel
Sylvi MacCormac as Plaintiff

Magical Notes[]

Spells[]

Catoptromancy Spell
- Used by Mel to watch over Abigael as she slept.

Powers[]

Foresight: Used by Maggie to see herself in bed with Antonio.
Limited Shapeshifting: Used by Abigael to shift to and from her demonic form.
Molecular Inhibition: Used by Mel to extinguish fires and defend herself from Abigael.
Orbing: Used by Harry to travel to places.
Pyrokinesis: Used by Abigael subconsciously to start a fire in her bedroom and later hurl fire at Mel in her sleep.
Telekinesis: First used by Abigael to open the balcony doors and to subconsciously drag herself out of bed and try to drop knives on herself in her sleep; later used by Macy to create a distraction.
Telekinetic Energy Generation: Used by Macy to defend herself from Elliot.
The Power of Three: It was merely activated in the sisters' hands as they were about to cast the Power of Three Spell in an attempt to vanquish a demon which turned out to be Abigael in her demonic form.

Artifacts[]

Mysterious Orb: Used by Elliott to calculate and translate symbols. The more he used it, the more addicted he became until it took his eyesight and eventually his life. The same thing almost happened to Harry, but Macy was able to talk him down and give up the orb.
Abigael's Totem: Abigael showed the totem to Mel after realizing she was being attacked by her demonic self.

Trivia[]

The episode title can be a reference to the phrase "Public Enemy No. 1."
- It can also refer to the fact that privately that oneself is their own private enemy to themselves as seen with Maggie and Antonio commenting on "Negative Voices in one's head" and the fact that Abigael's suppressed Demon Side tried to kill her while sleeping.
Abigael is once again the Demon Overlord.
Abigael's sister was mentioned. She was last mentioned in Triage.
Elliot mentions the lights in the sky resembled a stargate. Chris Gauthier previously guest-starred in an episode of Stargate: Atlantis, as well as the Stargate: SG1 film "The Ark of Truth".

Unanswered Questions[]

What is Abigael's subconscious trying to tell her?
What does Maggie's vision of herself being in bed with Antonio really signify?
Where is the “Magical Alcatraz”?

References to the Original Charmed[]

Abigael's "sleep-harming" loosely connects to Prue's astral projecting when she went to sleep.
Maggie's vision of a future in-bed incident with Antonio shares similarities to Phoebe seeing herself in bed with ex-boyfriend Clay, as well as marrying Dex Lawson seven seasons later.
In this episode, Maggie magically changes Antonio's phone number to sabotage his project. In the original series, Paige once cast a spell on a colleague as punishment for being a pervert.
This episode strongly mentions alien activity. While the original series mentioned little of aliens, the non-canonical novel Survival of the Fittest featured such events taking place. Women of different ethnicities and ages in San Francisco were abducted then returned home moments later with an obsession for exercise. One of the sisters, Piper, fell under the same thrall, albeit through an exercise commercial. Finally, all of the affected women gathered in a local park and performed a ritual that summoned forth a demon trapped in an otherworldly realm.
Alcatraz was mentioned. It was often seen during the guest starring credits and was the focused location of the episode "The Power of Two" where the sisters fought the ghost of Jackson Ward, a serial killer who was imprisoned and executed in the prison, and remained trapped there after his death.
Abigael attacks Mel with her power of pyrokinesis to which Mel responds with her Molecular Inhibition. In the original series, P. Russel and P. Bowen had a similar fight with their powers of pyrokinesis and cryokinesis.
It's revealed that Abigael unknowingly transformed into a demon and went feral. In the original series, the Charmed Ones turned into beasts under the blue moon and lost control of their actions.
The name of Elliot Larson is a reference to "Elliot Spencer" and "Christina Larson", both characters from the original Charmed.

Production Notes[]

The episode was watched by 0.40 million U.S. viewers.

Quotes[]

Jordan: Last year, life kicked our butts. This year, we're gonna kick its ass back.
Maggie: Hell yeah, we are!

Elliot: So, what did it smell like when those aliens portalled you through that beam of light?
Macy: Well, um. It was kind of, like, burnt marshmallow.

Antonio: You have this... natural way of connecting with people. It's pretty intimidating.
Maggie: But you always talk over me.
Antonio: I do... I come from a family of three boys, where if you didn't talk the loudest... you weren't heard.

Mel: I guess just seeing you hug instant muffin girl made me feel... Insecure.
Ruby: And seeing you with that demon spawn Abigael made me feel... the same.
Mel: I don't want Abby. I want you!