EPISODE

22. All Hell Breaks Loose

After the sisters save a doctor from the Source's personal hitman, they're exposed as witches. As a result, Phoebe and Cole get trapped in the Underworld, where they reluctantly make an agreement with the Tempus to go back in time to before the sisters' secret is exposed. However, that causes Phoebe, Cole, and Leo to be stuck in the Underworld while Prue and Piper get sent back in time and get caught in a life or death situation while Phoebe is forced to make a difficult decision to stay where she is or to go help save innocents and her sisters.

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Prue and Piper bring a doctor to the manor, to protect him from a powerful demonic assassin named Shax, who was sent by The Source. When Shax breaks into the manor, he throws Prue and Piper through a wall, causing them to almost die, until Leo arrives with enough time to heal them. Phoebe uses a vanquishing spell on Shax but it does not kill him. While searching for Shax out in the streets, Prue and Piper are caught on live television using their powers, thus exposing themselves as witches. Phoebe goes to the Underworld to find Cole and while there, they are forced to strike a deal with Tempus to travel back in time to before it was revealed that magic existed. They travel back successfully but Phoebe, Cole, and Leo are now trapped in the Underworld, leaving Prue and Piper lying unconscious on the floor from when Shax blasted them in his initial attack.

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