The Romeo and Juliet Sleeping Potion is a potion that is used to send someone into a temporary, death-like trance. When ingested, the potion slows down the person's heart rate and breathing for thirty minutes, allowing them to pass off as a dead body. However, this potion involves some risk for the person who drinks it.
Overview[]
In "The Enemy of My Frenemy", Harry Greenwood asked Jordan Chase to assist in a mission to infiltrate one of the morgues of the Faction at a warehouse of the Medical Research Technology of Idaho. Once there, Harry gave Jordan a potion that would temporarily slow down his heart rate and breathing, allowing Harry to infiltrate the morgue without looking suspicious. Jordan drank the potion, and nothing happened at first, but he eventually collapsed, allowing Harry to put his body in a body bag and enter the morgue.
Trivia[]
- This potion is named after William Shakespeare's play of the same name. In the play, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that has a similar effect of "temporary death" but with a duration of two and forty hours.
- The reboot series did not explain the risks involved in this potion, but it may have been implied that the temporary trance may in some cases pass into biological death.
- Romeo and Juliet appeared in the comics continuation of the original series as a couple that came to Phoebe Halliwell for help. When Shakespeare wrote their story with a quill from the feather of a phoenix, the couple were unwittingly cursed into an endless cycle, where they repeatedly met, fell in love, married, and then separated by a tragic death in every lifetime. After being married by Phoebe, this curse was apparently lifted.