DREAM SORCERER

THE PLOT     NOTES     THE POWER OF THREE     COMMENTS

PREVIOUS EPISODE     NEXT EPISODE

THE PLOT

Prue finds that she has a secret admirer at Quake, but she turns him down.  He then turns his attention to Skye, a waitress at the restaurant, who tells him that she's not allowed to date the customers.

Later, when she's asleep, Skye finds a hand clamped across her mouth - it's the guy from Quake.  He tells her this is her dream, but his fantasy - hence he can walk here but in real-life he's in a wheelchair.  He can do anything in dreams, and shows her by taking her up to the roof of a building and pushing her off.

Morris and Trudeau are investigating a death - Skye's.  Internally, it's as if she's fallen from a 20-storey building but there's no bruises, no forced entry and the windows are barred.

Phoebe finds a spell to attract a lover in the Book of Shadow and talks Piper into using it as well.  Prue declines to join them.

The admirer from Quake rings Prue at the Manor and asks her out.  She refuses, but later she falls asleep in the bath and finds him in her dream, during which he scratches her back and tries to drown her.  When she wakes, she finds that her back really is scratched, but by the following morning, the scratches have gone.

Trudeau tries to convince Morris that they have a serial killer on their hands - the FBI have three cases like theirs, all listed as jumpers but all found in a similar state to Skye.

The cops visit a dream lab, where Whitaker Berman, the guy from Quake, is involved in a project.  His girlfriend was the first of the FBI's unsolved cases, but he was at the lab the night Skye was killed and has witnesses and test data to prove it.  Later, Andy tells his partner that he thinks that Berman has perfected the art of "dreamleaping" in order to murder the women.

After meeting a guy at Quake the previous night, Phoebe is convinced that her spell has worked, but Piper dismisses it as hormones until a regular customer suddenly notices her for the first time.  The pair have dinner and she finds that she can nothing to turn him off her.

An overworked Prue falls asleep at Bucklands, and finds that Berman's in her dream again.  She tries to fight him off, and a phone call from Andy wakes her up.  Piper and Phoebe try to keep her awake over the phone as she drives home, but she crashes into a utility post. 

At the hospital, Prue slides into unconsciousness and Berman enters her dream again, but she uses her power to throw him off the building instead.

Morris and Trudeau return to the lab and demand that Berman be woken up, but discover that he has died - in the same way as his victims.  Morris promises never to doubt Trudeau again.

NOTES

Prue is 27.  According to Victor in Thank You For Not Morphing, Piper is about 24 and Phoebe about 21.

Piper and Phoebe's lust spell is: "I conjure three, I conjure thee/I'm the queen, you're the bee/As I desire, so shall it be."

J Robin Miller was Laura in the Buffy season one episode Nightmares.

THE POWER OF THREE

Prue throws Berman off the building, while Piper freezes Hans after he shows up at the Manor.

COMMENTS

Pretty average all told.  Skye might be cute, but she's Charmed's equivalent of Ensign Fodder reporting to the Enterprise bridge to be beamed down to Planet Certain Death.

It might have been better to have had her in the background for a few episodes before killing her off because as it stands, I'm not particularly bothered at her demise since the only reason she's here is to get killed off.  We also saw the idea of one of the sisters' friends popping up solely to fall prey to the villain of the week back in I've Got You Under My Skin.

Phoebe and Piper's lust spell could have been better used as well.  The idea's obviously old hat, but it could still have provided plenty of opportunity for a good comedy episode instead of just giving two of the sisters something to do while Prue battles this week's bad guy.

Speaking of this week's bad guy, the Dream Sorcerer wasn't the world's greatest villain either - a poor man's Freddy Kreuger, whose demise (and the method of it) was obvious from the start.

Back to the top

THE PLOT     NOTES     THE POWER OF THREE     COMMENTS

PREVIOUS EPISODE     SEASON 1 EPISODES     NEXT EPISODE