Red Rain

**Red Rain** is the twenty-first episode of the first season of *Charmed* and the twenty-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 12th, 2019.

## Synopsis

THE EYE OF THE STORM — Galvin (Ser'Darius Blain) discovers that something bizarre is happening with the patients that are being brought into the hospital. Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) gets a clue about how to keep The Source from taking over. Meanwhile, both Macy (Madeleine Mantock) and Galvin do something no one could have predicted. Melonie Diaz, Rupert Evans and Nick Hargrove also star.

## Plot

Walking down the stairs, Maggie can hear Parker calling out to her for help. When they go to a now empty warehouse, Maggie sees demon blast marks, and as she walks up to it, she hears Parker calling out to her again. She says a spell and uses her evolving powers to listen to what happened in the room.

In the attic with Harry, Maggie employs her new staff to go to an empathic plane to find where Parker is. Parker tells her that Charity is the last elder alive and is on the run.

Galvin calls Macy, asking her to come to the hospital where he is helping out at, because he thinks what is infecting everyone is demonic. He gives her a blood sample to find out. While they are at the hospital, an unconscious Niko (Ellen Tamaki) is wheeled by them, much to Mel’s surprise. When they go to her room and read her charts, Harry says that the symptoms are affecting the areas of her brain that have to do with memory.

Maggie tries to use her powers to hear her thoughts, and it is all jumbled together like it is coming in at once. Mel feels guilty because it is all as a result of her spell. Greta comes in and tells them to leave and notices that Niko is wearing the ring Mel gave her.

In the university’s lab, Macy matches the sample from the hospital to the harbinger demon, causing her to panic. She tells her sisters that, when they killed Hunter who had the Harbinger inside him, it made it airborne, infecting everyone. During the conversation, Macy gets a text from Galvin saying that the first patient has attacked a doctor and, like the prophecy says, people are turning evil.

Galvin comes up with the idea to use the spell he was going to use to take the evil out of Macy to get rid of the Harbinger out of the townspeople. Before he does the spell, he and Macy have a heart-to-heart. Galvin looks to Macy sadly and says the last step of the spell is the sacrifice: the spell works, and everyone is back to normal, but Galvin is dead.

Harry and Maggie find Charity in a hidden garden and say they will protect her. It turns out, though, that Parker was tricking Maggie so they would lead him to her. Maggie can get through to Parker long enough to tell him he did not kill his mother and that she loves him. He begs her to vanquish him, but she cannot, and he gets away.

When using power from the vortex, Charity is worried that Fiona will find them. Fiona does show up and blasts Charity and leaves. Harry tries to heal Charity, but it does not work. She dies in his arms; the last elder is dead.

When Macy, Mel, and Harry find where they are raising the source, Fiona lights the flame (herself) but suddenly begins to die, because Macy had stripped her immortality. Fiona dies, and the source flame goes around the tree that Alistair has Maggie tied to.

Parker shows up and attacks his dad. And as he was just about to take on the source, Macy’s eyes go black while she says, “You’re not the only one.” She uses her powers to take the origin blade out of Parker and into herself. She steps into the flame taking the source. When she walks in, she holds on to her yin yang necklace that helps her find her way back from the darkness. But when she comes out, it is gone.

Macy kills Alistair, orbs them back to the house, fixes Niko and makes it so that none of the townspeople remember what happened. She goes to do something — leaving behind Harry and her worried sisters.

Macy goes to where Galvin is lying and tells him she will fix him and everything, as his eyes open.

## Cast

* Madeleine Mantock as Macy Vaughn
* Sarah Jeffery as Maggie Vera
* Ser'Darius Blain as Galvin Burdette
* Ellen Tamaki as Niko Hamada
* Nick Hargrove as Parker Caine
* and Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood

Recurring Cast* Virginia Williams as Charity Callahan
* Craig Parker as Alastor
* Leah Pipes as Fiona Callahan
* Carlena Britch as Greta
* Robert Hayley as Nurse Sam
* Jessica Garcie as Nurse Abby
* Kevin Haaland as Shep
* Maya Macatumpag as Doris
* Megan Drew as Barback #1
* Dan Ginnane as Barback #2
* Melville Jarrett III as Nurse

## Magical Notes

### Book of Shadows

* Mel found a Memory Restoring Spell while looking through the Book.

### Spells

* *Chiriji*
	+ Galvin performed this ritual to cure the many Hilltowne innocents from the Harbinger's virus, sacrificing himself in the process.
* *Deathbolts*
	+ Fiona used this spell to kill Charity, and later threatened to cast the same spell on Maggie.
* *Kinetic Blast Spell*
	+ Maggie Vera used the effects of this spell through her staff to subdue Charity Callahan.
* *Psychometry*
	+ Maggie used this spell to see a past event involving Parker merging with the Origin Dagger by his father.
* *The Sacred Flame Igniting Spell*
	+ Fiona used this spell to light the Sacred Flame.

### Powers

* **Emotional Energy Manipulation:** Used by Maggie, with the help of the empathic staff, to fight Parker.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Used by Alastor who was only minimally phased when Parker threw a dagger into his side.
* **Telepathic Empathy:** Used by Maggie to read Niko's mind, communicate with Parker on an empathic plane, and feel that Parker's humanity was still in him.
* **Telekinesis:** Used by Macy to take the Origin Dagger from Parker and place it in herself, and move Parker out of the way.
* **Temporal Stasis:** Used by Mel to freeze the hospital in order to get to Niko.
* **Temporal Acceleration:** Used by Mel to accelerate the growth of a plant.
* **Airborne "Touch of Death" Virus:** This virus was made airborne after the Harbinger was destroyed along with Hunter Caine in *Ambush*. Those infected would bleed from the eyes, nose, mouth and ears and be driven to a state of hostility.
* **Healing:** Used by Harry in an attempt to heal Niko, and later attempt to heal Charity.
* **Supernatural Strength:** Used by Parker to fling Mel and Maggie across the Gardens of Latebra.
* **Phase-Shifting:** Used by Parker to avoid Mel's blades.
* **Power Augmentation:** Used by Harry, through the power of the Vortex Viribus, to complete the process of growth for a plant.
* **Smoking:** Used by Parker.
* **Portal Creation:** Used by Fiona.
* **Orbing:** Used by Harry.
* **Flaming:** Used by Alastor to teleport himself and Maggie.
* **Advanced Incineration:** Used by Macy as the Source to vanquish Alastor.
* **Fading:** Used by Macy as the Source to teleport.
* **Remote Fading:** Used by Macy as the Source to teleport her sisters and Harry without having to touch them.
* **Memory Erasure:** Used by Macy as the Source to wipe the memories of every mortal in the town.
* **Reality Warping:** Used by Macy as the Source to make sure every mortal (including Niko) would be fine.
* **Resurrection:** Used by Macy as the Source to resurrect Galvin.
* **Remote Hearing:** Used by Harry to hear Macy's call.

### Artifacts

* **Double Blades:** Mel used them to fight Parker.
* **Empathic Staff:** Maggie used it to fight Parker.
* **Origin Dagger:** Macy used it to transfer the power to herself.
* **The Sacred Flame:** Converted to the Source in Macy.

## Trivia

* Parker Caine and Galvin Burdette return in this episode. They were last seen in *Source Material*.
* Greta returns in this episode. She was last seen in *Surrender*.
* Hunter Caine was mentioned. He was last seen in *Ambush*.
* Julia Wagner was mentioned. She was last seen in *Source Material*.
* Galvin, Alastor, Charity and Fiona Callahan die in this episode.

## Answered Questions from Previous Episode(s)

* Will the Source finally reveal himself?
	+ The Source is born within Macy.
* How will the Charmed Ones prevent the prophecy now that most of the Elders are dead?
	+ By finding Parker, Galvin sacrificing himself to save the Harbinger's victims, and Macy taking in the power of the Source.
* Will Charity survive?
	+ Charity was killed by Fiona.
* Has the Harbinger been released?
	+ The Harbinger was released the same time as Hunter and possessing him to trick the sisters into releasing its power.
* What did Fiona mean about the Vortex Viribus being there for her?
	+ As the arrival of the Source nears, Fiona was meant to use the Vortex Viribus' power to fuel her own and ignite the Sacred Flame.

## Unanswered Questions

* What does Macy have in plan?
* What will happen now that Macy is the Source?
* Will Parker be able to come back?

## References to the Original Charmed

* Macy becoming the Source by taking in the Sacred Flame that controls all magic was similar to Prue becoming the host of The All in the comics.
* Galvin sacrifices his life in a ritual to drive out the Harbinger of Hell in order to free innocents who were infected by its deadly virus. In the original, Andy Trudeau sacrificed himself to save the Charmed Ones from being killed by the demon, Inspector Rodriguez.

## Production Notes

* The episode was watched by 0.63 million U.S. viewers.

## Quotes

**Harry:** *"The human spirit is far stronger than any prophecy."*

**Macy:** *"It wants to tip the scales of evil."*
**Galvin:** *"Tip the scales of evil? What does that even mean?"*
**Macy:** *"It means we fall."*

**Maggie: (to Charity)** *"We're here to protect you. Even though you make me sick."*
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