Reckless Abandon

"Reckless Abandon"

Reckless Abandon is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed.

Synopsis

Detective Morris puts his job on the line when he allows Phoebe to take a seemingly abandoned baby home so the Charmed Ones can protect him from a vengeful ghost Phoebe has seen in a terrifying vision. When Prue and Piper discover that the ghost has systematically been killing off the men in the family, they ask the matriarch to help find the reason for the murders before the baby boy meets the same fate. Meanwhile, Jack tries to persuade Prue to accompany him on a business trip and Piper's relationship with Dan takes an exciting turn.

Book of Shadows

Enemies

Elias Lundy

A vengeful spirit that terrorized the Van Lewen family

Spells

To Banish a Spirit

Pour this mixture over the departed bones: a palmful of pomegranate seeds, ground into a fine paste, a pinch of comfrey root, a pinch of blood meal, a pinch of clematis seed, a pinch of dried rhubarb leaf. Mix well, add a chalice of twice blessed water and boil. Or, you must destroy the object of the curses wrath.

Episode Stars

• Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
• Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
• Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
• Greg Vaughan as Dan Gordon
• Dorian Gregory as Darryl Morris

Co-Stars

• Rolando Molina as Hernandez
• Albert Stroth as Uniform Cop
• Ric Coy as Gilbert van Lewen

Trivia

• This episode reunites Shannen Doherty and Stephanie Beacham, who previously worked together on the series Beverly Hills 90210.
• Prue exhibits a lot more control over her powers in this episode than ever before or ever again. She moves multiple purse contents without using her hands or eyes; works the sink sprayer while her hands are full and she can't see it, as it's behind the baby; and making the skeleton of Elias rise out of the ground. This could be explained, however, that Prue would have intimate knowledge of both the contents of her purse and the sink sprayer, and their locations. Her grandmother (Penny Halliwell) was able to telekinetically move Prue and Piper through several rooms while immobile in That 70's Episode.
• In the episode The Power of Two it is explained that the only way to vanquish a ghost is to have another spirit recite a spell, which Prue could have done in her astral form. This episode contradicts the previous though in that the Charmed Ones now say that you can vanquish a ghost by pouring a potion on the ghost's remains. The only other time this method is mentioned again is in the episode Love's a Witch.
• The ghost character Elias Lundy was inspired by the central ghost figure in the book The Haunting of Hill House, which was later made into several films: House on Haunted Hill in 1959, The Haunting in 1963, The Legend of Hell House in 1973, The Haunting in 1999, and House on Haunted Hill also in 1999.
• This is the first episode where the sisters become temporary foster parents to a baby. They will do this again in the season six episode Little Monsters and the season eight episode Hulkus Pocus.
• The baby who the sisters care for is named Matthew. This is Paige's last name, although with an 's' at the end, and Wyatt's middle name.

International titles

• French: L'Héritier (The Heir)
• German: Drei Hexen und ein Baby ("Three witches and a baby" This is a play on words on the movie "Three Men and a Baby" / "Drei Männer und ein Baby".)
• Spanish: Abandono atropellado

External links

• TV.com episode guide