Truth or Cares

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Truth or Cares

Season 4

Episode 9

Air date

May 13, 2022

Production

Prod. code

409

Writer(s)

Carolyn Townsend

Director

Eduardo Sanchez

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Truth or Cares is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Charmed and the sixty-eighth episode of the series overall. It aired on May 13, 2022.

Synopsis[]

Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) is surprised by someone important from her past and tries to keep the peace when they collide with her present. Mel (Melonie Diaz), Kaela (Lucy Barrett) and Dev (guest star Kapil Talwalkar) are on the trail of the Unseen, while Jordan (Jordan Donica) and Harry (Rupert Evans) seek assistance from a different powerful trio.

Plot[]

TBA

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

Leonard Roberts as Dexter Vaughn
Veronica Long as Dani
Vic Michaelis as Euny
Doralynn Mui as Pam
Felix Solis as Ray Vera

Co-Starring[]

Rohain Arora as Handsome Man
Melissa Riemer as Grim Wraith #1
Petar Gatsby as Grim Wraith #2
Paula Price as Voice of Trunksie

Magical Notes[]

Spells[]

To Raise the Dead
- Because magic was reversed, Maggie Vera cast this spell to kill everything that shouldn't be alive, which removed the magical animation of Trunksie and sent Dexter Vaughn back to the Veil.

Potions[]

Essence of Wolfsbane
- A poison that, due to magic being imbalanced and reversed, brought Maggie's stuffed elephent to life.
Pressurized Mumford Trap
- Sunny used this potion to shrink a church into a snowglobe in order to trap Mel Vera.
Mumford Trap Releasing Potion
- Brewed by Kaela Danso and Dev Banerjee to release Mel and Sunny from the trap.
Unity Bowl Curse Removal Potion
- Brewed by Jordan Chase and Harry Greenwood to lift the curse on the bowl. However, the potion was a fake, and designed to explode when the final ingredient was added.

Powers[]

Clairvoyance: Used by the Graiai sisters to know and see everything.
Claw Extension: Used by Sunny to fight Mel, and later threaten her.
Emotional Inception: Used by Maggie in an attempt to incept Trunksie with sleep. However, due to a magical imbalance causing her powers to work in opposite, she instead made Trunksie more alert and angry.
Healing: Used by Jordan to heal Ray Vera.
Molecular Acceleration: Used by Mel to heat up a door handle to prevent Sunny escaping the church, and later to heat up a pipe in order to fight Sunny.
Manifestation: Used by Kaela to manifest a dagger so that Mel can defend herself against Sunny.
Portal Creation: Used by Kaela via the Command Center to create a portal for Sunny to leave. Used offscreen by Harry to reach Jordan in a forest.

Artifacts[]

OG Book of Shadows: The original Vera Book of Shadows, brought forward in time by Mel. After the Unity Bowl was destroyed, a new page on the bowl was created/revealed in the book.
New Book of Shadows: The recreated Book of Shadows. Maggie used the book to find the spell to raise the dead.
Unity Bowl: An ancient stone bowl able to lift any curse, but will curse if disturbed by human hands. Both pieces of the bowl were found, and helped Ray break his curse after drinking from it, before Jordan destroyed it.

Trivia[]

The episode title is a reference from the game "Trunksie: Truth or Cares - Make Your House A Happy Home".
- It may also be a reference to the game "Truth or Dare".
Duncan returns in this episode. They were last seen in The Tallyman Cometh.
Macy Vaughn was mentioned. She was last seen in I Dreamed a Dream….
Marisol Vera was mentioned. She was last seen in Spectral Healing.
Brynn was mentioned. She was last seen in You Can't Go Home Again.
Knansie is indirectly mentioned. She was last seen in The Source Awakens.

Answered Questions from Previous Episode(s)[]

How is Kaela a witch and a Charmed One when her biological parents are non-magical?
- When Kaela had cancer, she received Macy's stem cells, which made her a witch and a Charmed One.
How did Harry bring Dexter back from the Veil?
- While it isn't completely clear, Dexter explains that him helping Harry leave the Veil somehow caused him to cross over as well. However, he was just a corporeal spirit, rather than truly alive, and his presence caused all magic around him to reverse and work oppositely until he eventually returned to the Veil.

Unanswered Questions[]

What did Jordan release by smashing the bowl?

References to the Original Charmed[]

Kaela wrote on the globe to warn Mel. Prue, Piper, and a warlock named Malcolm did the same to send a message to Phoebe on the outside of a painting they were trapped inside.
Due to a magical imbalance, magic in the vicinity of Vera Manor was thrown off and worked in reverse, including Maggie's powers. In "The Crimson Spell", a novel written for the original series, a coven of warlocks used a spell to make Prue, Piper, and Phoebe Halliwell's powers work oppositely, such as Piper freezing herself instead of her surroundings, or Prue pulling rather than throwing an object.
Kaela discovers that her magic originates from a stem cell donation, provided by Macy. In the original series, three monkeys, and the doctor, Curtis Williamson, gained the Charmed Ones' powers, after a transfusion of their blood.
Pam revealed Jordan's true feelings about his relationship with Maggie by redirecting it back to him. Paige once used a spell to make Piper feel the emotions she had suppressed through Phoebe's power of empathy.
The resurrection spell began with "Angels of Death". In the original show, two Angels of Death have appeared on separate occasions.
Maggie's stuffed elephant, Trunksie is brought to life and targets her and her fathers. In the original series, Prue and Phoebe used a ninja doll as a poppet to heal a dying Piper, but a consequence of their spell is that the doll is brought to life, and begins attacking patients and staff members in the hospital.
- Similarly, Piper's son Wyatt once used his powers to bring his toys to life in order to search for his father in "Payback's a Witch".
- Previous to that, in the aforementioned episode, Phoebe casts a spell to make Wyatt's teddy bear Wuvey speak, which gave Wyatt the idea to bring his toys to life.
- In "Secrets and Guys" Phoebe, who is Maggie’s counterpart in the reboot is seen putting her old stuffed toys into a box for donation, one of them being an elephant.
Mel and Sunny being trapped in a shrunken building inside a snow globe is similar to the original series when the Charmed Ones got trapped in a doll house version of their house several times.
- It is also similar to when Prue, Phoebe and Victor were trapped in a snowy playground inside an ice cream truck in the episode "We All Scream for Ice Cream".
Kaela draws a dagger on her jeans and manifests it into Mel's hands. In the original series, in the episode "Coyote Piper", an old classmate of Piper's tells her "you used to sit in the back of the class drawing pictures on your jeans".
Jordan brews a potion in this episode, with Harry assisting him by retrieving an ingredient from an Ogre in Philippines. In the original series, Leo brews a potion to vanquish Grimlocks, with Darryl assisting him by passing him the thyme and protecting him from the Grimlocks.
The Graiai in this episode are a trio of magical Seers. In the original series, the sisters encountered countless trios of magical creatures such as the Stillman sisters.
- The Charmed Ones in the original show encountered three different Seers and three different Oracles throughout the series.

Production Notes[]

The episode was watched by 0.34 million U.S. viewers.

Quotes[]

“	Most people aren't strong to see it. Even when you show them.	”
	— Pam, to Jordan^[src]

“	The Lost One is bound by a curse times three, which can be broken by the Bowl of Unity. Once risen, the Lost One will exert its power. The magical world changing within an hour.	”
	— Pam's prophecy^[src]