Deconstructing Harry

**Deconstructing Harry** is the fourth episode of the second season of *Charmed* and the twenty-sixth episode of the series overall. It aired on November 1, 2019.

## Synopsis

FRIEND OR FOE — Macy (Madeleine Mantock) and Mel (Melonie Diaz) join forces with Abigael (Poppy Drayton) to track down the Assassin; Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) starts her new gig and has a breakthrough when she reaches out to help Jordan (Jordan Donica). Harry (Rupert Evans) discovers a horrifying secret.

## Plot

At the beginning of this episode, the girls have Abigael contained, and Macy and Mel take Abigael to Montana, where the assassin brought her to try to find him. There are Kyons there, which are creatures that can’t see but can hear you.

They escaped them and see that the assassin has taken the Queen of the Kyons, but they are not sure why. Abigael also reveals that her last name is Cain, and she is Alistair's daughter and Parker and Hunter's half-sister. She also says that she was the one who was trying to unite the demon bloodlines.

Maggie is with Jordan, and Maggie hears Jordan say I love you, and you saved my life, and she thinks she is reading his emotions, and her powers are coming back. She later sees him saying it to her girlfriend as she is returning his keys and realizes she is getting a new power, foresight, like Phoebe’s premonitions in the original.

Harry is translating the Book of Elders and finds a passage saying that were it states the elders created Whitelighters at a high cost. Harry and Maggie find a box that has keys and a letter from Tulime Institute, and he goes there. Harry talks to the woman in the message and finds out she is a whitelighter. Helen explains that the elders had to make an evil version of her, which was the premium cost for the creation of Whitelighters, which answers the question as to why the assassin has Harry's face.

The girls make a tracking potion to find the Kayon Queen. Mel drinks the potion, and it links her to the Kayon, and she goes through a portal to see it, and the girls follow her.

They end up in a room where the leads of all of the supernatural creatures are being kept. While Mel is under the influence of the potion, she releases all of the creatures. She communicates with the Kayon queen, and it walks away from her. Macy gets separated from the others, and Harry comes and tells her he can orb again, and she tells the others to leave through the portal.

Maggie and Mel later get back to the house and see Harry there, and they ask her where Macy is. He tells them it was not him to took Macy but his Darklighter.

## Cast

* Madeleine Mantock as Macy Vaughn
* Sarah Jeffery as Maggie Vera
* Poppy Drayton as Abigael Jameson-Caine
* Jordan Donica as Jordan Chase
* and Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood / Harry Greenwood's Darklighter

Co-Starring* Christin Park as Swan
* Ashley Roxburgh as Lola
* June B. Wilde as Nurse

## Magical Notes

### Spells

* *Password Spell*
	+ Accidentally used by Harry to find a safe behind a drawer in the Command Center.
* *Veras' Containment Spell*
	+ Used by Macy and Mel to contain Abigael and later by Macy to disable the containment spell around Abigael.

### Potions

* *Tracking Potion*
	+ Used by Mel to track the Kyon Queen. Consuming the potion seemed to give her characteristics of the Kyon, such as shrieking.

### Powers

* **Black Orbing:** Used by Harry's Darklighter to appear and take Macy. In an unknown way, he was able to disguise it as Harry's Orbing.
* **Foresight:** Used by Maggie, while shaking hands with Jordan, to glimpse into the future, predicting that Jordan would thank his girlfriend for finding his car keys.
* **Healing:** Used by Helen to heal Harry.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Used by Macy and Abigael to form and hurl fireballs.
* **Conjuration:** Used by the Book of Elders to conjure a spider from its pages to lead Harry and Maggie to a safe hidden in the Command Center.

### Artifacts

* **Book of Elders:** A magical tome left by the Elders. Harry accidentally cast a password spell that led him to a safe behind a wall.
* **Book of Elders Cypher:** An item used to translate the Book of Elders.
* **Jordan's Ring:** Gave Maggie a vision of Jordan telling Lola he loves her.
* **Power Cuff:** Used by Macy to disable Abigael's powers.
* **Surveillance Compass:** Used by Mel in attempt to track the Kyon Queen, but it failed.
* **Transportation Traps:** Used by Harry's Darklighter to capture magical creatures.

## Trivia

* The title of this episode is a reference to "*Deconstructing Harry*", a 1997 American comedy film.
* Alastor was mentioned. He was last seen in *Red Rain*.
* Hunter Caine was mentioned. He was last seen in *Ambush*.
* Parker Caine, Niko Hamada, Marisol Vera and Knansie were mentioned. They were last seen in *The Source Awakens*.
* Dexter Vaughn was mentioned. He was last seen in *You're Dead to Me*.
* It is revealed that Abigael is behind the deaths of Kara Willis, Mary Chapman and many other witches, as she gave to demons (including Rat Demons) a poison that Harry's Darklighter shot her with. This also makes her guilty of kidnapping and attempting to kill Layla Chapman, as she wanted to burn a witch at the stake in order to rise as the new Demon Overlord in the demonic society.
* This is the first mention of Abigael's mother in the series.
* Maggie's cover story to Jordan has her and her sisters recently moving to Seattle from Pittsburgh.
* This episode seems to retcon information previously given about banshees. In *Kappa Spirit*, banshees are said to be a type of ghost, however in this episode one of them is capable of being held captive by Harry's Darklighter.
* The monitor mentioned a Griffin dominant beta, a Golem soldier, a Basilisk alpha, an Abiku, a Kelpie, a Shuck, a Harpie, a Strige alpha, and a Lich alpha.
* When the Darklighter came for Macy Vaughn, there was no smoke around his orb, making it easier for him to trick Macy into believing he was Harry.

## Continuity Errors

* It is shown that Abigael deliberately wanted to lure the Charmed Ones out to get even with them for the assassin's attack, but it is unclear how she was able to set up a trap where Macy and/or her sisters would find out about her whereabouts since she couldn't have known about the Command Center and the presence of a map identifying witches in danger. Moreover, Abigael herself was not in real danger and the farce at the depot shown in *Careful What You Witch For* was only her imitation.
* It will never be revealed how Harry's Darklighter was able to disguise his Black Orbing as Whitelighters' Orbing.

## Answered Questions from Previous Episode(s)

* Why is there a duplicate of Harry?
	+ The evil version of Harry is a Darklighter, created when Harry became a Whitelighter.
* Who is Abigael?
	+ Abigael is the daughter of Alastor, and half-sister of Hunter and Parker. She is also the "Demon Overlord", who is just a myth she used in order to unite the demons.
* Who is the Overlord?
	+ The Demon Overlord is a myth among demons, not existing as an actual figure, which Abigael used to her advantage to unite demons and prove she is not a weak woman.
* How will Maggie help Jordan?
	+ Maggie helped Jordan find a way to fund his boxing gym by having him apply to a project she was managing and giving him advice on how best to pitch his gym. Jordan used the pitch they worked on and was successful.
* Will they be able to translate the Book of Elders and restore their powers?
	+ As of now, they are searching through the book using the cypher.

## Unanswered Questions

* Where has Darklighter Harry taken Macy, and what does he have planned with her?
* Will Abigael become friends with the Charmed Ones?

## References to the Original Charmed

* The rebooted interpretation of Darklighters are officially revealed in this episode. In the original series, Darklighters were considered the evil counterparts of Whitelighters, though they shared no physical resemblance. In the reboot, Darklighters are identical twins to Whitelighters, existing as their dark halves.
	+ This is similar to the evil counterparts from the Parallel World in the original series.
* The Charmed Ones saw a Banshee in evil Harry's lair. The original Charmed Ones faced off against a Banshee in the third season of the original series, where Banshees were revealed to originally be witches, and Phoebe was briefly turned into a Banshee.
* The monitor in evil Harry's lair also mentioned a golem among his captives. In the original, Paige befriended a Golem who developed a conscience and tried to help them find Phoebe before his master destroyed him.
* This episode reveals that Whitelighters were first created in 1693 around the time of the Salem witch trials. In the original series, the Charmed Ones' ancestor, Melinda Warren, was burned at the stake during that period after she was outed by her warlock lover.
* With Maggie now having the power of foresight, this makes her more in line with her counterpart, Phoebe. Phoebe's power was known as premonition, which allowed her to see and feel past and future events.

## Production Notes

* The episode was watched by *0.66* million U.S. viewers.
* Based on Madeleine Mantock's tweet, during the confrontation with the Kyon Queen, Abigael was meant to generate an energy ball, but due to a VFX mistake, it was turned into a fireball instead. Although, it was later confirmed by the writers that it was actually supposed to be a fireball.

## Quotes

**Abigael:** *"Is this how you did it? Killed my father? Some dark mysterious potion in the family cooker?"*
**Macy:** *"Listen, Abigael."*
**Abigael:** *"No, no, I'm glad you killed them, my father and Hunter, they got what they deserved."*
**Macy:** *"Is that how you demons roll? Just stab each other in the back with no remorse, no sense of loss?"*
**Abigael:** *"Alistair had a relationship with a witch, my mother, and then he called me an abomination and cast me out. Hunter, Parker, I was smarter than both of them combined. The patriarchy is still alive and well in the Demon World."*

**Abigael:** *"Or maybe you just suck at this."*
**Mel:** *"Or maybe the antler doesn't have enough life force. The Kyon is dead, and the potion requires a living agent."*
**Macy:** *"A host."*
**Maggie:** *"Meaning?"*
**Abigael:** *"Someone has to drink it."*
**Mel:** *"Suck this, Abby!"*

**Mel:** *"Where's Macy?"*
**Harry:** *"What do you mean? She's not with you?"*
**Maggie:** *"What we... we saw her leave with you. Unless..."*
**Mel:** *"Oh, my God."*
**Harry:** *"It wasn't me. It was him. My Darklighter."*
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