You Can't Go Home Again

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## Production

### **Director**

Liz Kruger

**You Can't Go Home Again** is the second episode of the fourth season of *Charmed* and the sixty-first episode of the series overall. It aired on March 18, 2022.

## Synopsis

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE – As the new Charmed One (Lucy Barrett) comes to terms with her powers, she finds herself resistant to accepting her destiny. Mel (Melonie Diaz) becomes protective and insistent on everyone embracing the new Power of Three, while Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) is apathetic and aloof. But the girls must find a way to accept each other when a new threat starts tracking them. Also starring Rupert Evans and Jordan Donica.

## Cast

* Sarah Jeffery as Maggie Vera
* Lucy Barrett as Kaela Danso
* Jordan Donica as Jordan Chase
* and Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood
* Emily Bader as Chloe
* Jed Rees as Man in the Hat
* Gabrielle Rose as The Vittra
* Mya Lowe as Brynn
* Jessica Hayles as Sunny

Co-Starring* Nevin Burkholder as Security Guard
* Brendan Riley as Carlos
* Michael Crouse as Bartender/Barista

## Magical Notes

### Potions

* *Binocu-lotion*
	+ Mel rubbed the lotion on her hands in order to allow her to use them as magical binoculars so she could spy on Kaela without her knowing.

### Powers

* **Healing:** Used by Harry and Jordan to pretend to heal poison out of each other's systems, and later together in order to heal Brynn.
* **Magic Sense:** Used by the Vittra to track Kaela through her butterflies.
* **Manifestation:** Used by Kaela accidentally to manifest butterflies from the murals on her bus and pictures on her jacket, and later purposefully manifest a slingshot from a drawing she made on Maggie's jacket.
* **Molecular Manipulation:** Used by Mel to heat the clasp of the Vittra's bag to prevent her opening it, and to freeze an umbrella the Vittra used to attack Maggie.
* **Portal Creation:** Used by Mel and Maggie via the Command Center to travel to Philadelphia and back.

### Artifacts

* **Book of Elders:** Harry adds Mel, Maggie, and Macy's names to the Book of Elders. The book magically adds space for Kaela, which Harry later fills.
* **Patient Spider:** Used by the Tallyman to spy on Jordan and Harry.
* **Tracker Bracelets:** Used by Maggie to track Jordan to a cabin in the woods outside of Newport.
* **Vittra's Bag:** The Vittra uses the bag to release Seymour's deadly tentacle to attack her victims.

## Trivia

* The title may be a reference to Thomas Wolfe's novel.
* A leprechaun first appears in this episode.
* Michael Maize guest starred as the leprechaun Frank. He also guest starred as the demon Zyke in the original series.
* Macy Vaughn is shown for the first time ever since her death in "*I Dreamed a Dream…*" in a flashback.
* Roxie appears in the episode watching Jordan and Harry, but the actress herself was not visible to the audience because of the screen.
* Annie was mentioned and shown in the photo. She was last seen in *Not That Girl*.
* Joséfina Reyes is mentioned. She was last seen in *Not That Girl*.
* Marisol Vera is mentioned. She was last seen in *Spectral Healing*.
* Ray Vera is mentioned. He was last seen in *Don't Look Back in Anger*.

### Continuity error

* In the Book of Elders, it is written that the Lord sisters before the Vera-Vaughn Charmed Ones, however, in "*Breaking the Cycle*", the Lords were listed in between the Parkes and the Adams sisters.

## Answered Questions from Previous Episode(s)

* What will Kaela say to Mel and Maggie's proposal?
	+ Kaela initially refused and tried to return to her magic-free life, but later decided to accept it to find answers.

## Unanswered Questions

* What will the Charmed Ones do with Seymour?
* Is the Tallyman the man in a hat?
* What is the significance of the spider that was watching the old cabin?

## References to the Original Charmed

* Mel suggests in one of her voicemails to Kaela since there's a two-year age difference between them, she could easily not remember her mom being pregnant especially if she was pregnant with her before Maggie. In the original series, Patty Halliwell told Piper and Phoebe they were too young to realize she was pregnant with Paige before she was given up at birth.
* While talking to her adoptive mother on the phone, Kaela is researching humans suddenly becoming witches. Though not exactly the same case, Paige researched history about witches after she embraced her role as the new Charmed One.
* Harry and Jordan meet a leprechaun in this episode. Leprechauns first appeared in the fifth season of the original series.
	+ In the original series, leprechauns were extremely short, whereas in the reboot they apparently have the same height range as humans. This may be a gag on one particular case in Season 6 of the original series when an evil witch cursed a leprechaun into becoming very tall.
* The Vittra were a supposedly extinct group of women who hunted down witches that revealed magic to humans in order to destroy them to prevent more exposure. In the original series, many factions of the magical world worked to keep magic from being exposed by any means, such as the Libris demons in season 2, and the Cleaners in season 6; in fact, keeping their existence a secret from mortals was one of the few things good and evil did actually agree upon and were willing to work together to accomplish.
* Seymour bares a resemblance to the Beast from the original series.

## Production Notes

* The episode was watched by 0.45 million U.S. viewers.
* Liz Kruger, who was a showrunner for the second and third season, returned to direct and co-write this episode.
* This episode with the leprechaun was released the day after the Feast of Saint Patrick.

## Quotes

**Magical nursery rhyme about the Tallyman:** "♪ Tallyman, Tallyman, // He keeps count. ♪ // ♪ Tallyman, Tallyman, // Don't step out. ♪ // ♪ If you're good ♪ // ♪ Then he pays. ♪ // ♪ If you're not ♪ // ♪ Then he slays. ♪"

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