The Charmed Ones are still struggling to properly re-ignite the Power of Three, leading Maggie to suspect shenanigans on Abi’s part. While she’s investigating that, Macy examines the possibility of splitting Harry from his Darklighter, Jimmy, without killing either of them. Harry and Mel investigate a lead as to Jimmy’s whereabouts which yields some disturbing revelations.

After spending most of last episode staring vacantly off into space while idly kicking its heels, this week’s instalment has our protagonists actually doing things, albeit very slowly and painfully and being far slower on the uptake in one particular case than is healthy for supposed chosen ones.

With their Power of Three still on the fritz, Maggie convinces herself that Macy’s demon side wasn’t the only thing Abigael pulled out of her, and determines to go and find the dagger and do a spell on it to reveal exactly how it was used. Running into Jordan as she gets ready to set off gives her a nice excuse, but overall the whole escapade doesn’t quite go as planned, especially considering that her ex-fiancé is also at Abi’s place (and she’s not supposed to know) and that Abi has a fair bit more intelligence than a glass of water.

Macy meanwhile gets caught up with Justin as she tries every scientific solution she can think of to split Harry from Jimmy without harming either of them. Turns out Justin isn’t just a pretty face, he’s also a bit of a quantum mechanics whizz and has absolutely no intention of not continuing to pursues Macy both romantically and professionally. When she finally does hit on an answer thanks to a moment of Justin-spiration (sorry, it was right there) it isn’t quite what she’d initially thought of, but it may well be the best answer yet.

While all this is occurring, Harry is on a mission with Mel to rescue Jimmy from the clutches of the nameless bad folks. When they get where they need to be, they find the remnants of the lab they visited before that held all the various magical creatures. This is the subplot that bugs me the most this week because it becomes blindingly obvious about thirty seconds in what the baddies have been doing but it takes Mel and Harry a full ten minutes of scratching their heads to work it out. Between that and Harry’s selectively encyclopaedic/incomplete knowledge of magic and magical creatures, it all just feels a little dumb.

Verdict: At least things are happening, and nothing actively awful happens to/at Macy this week. Other than that, much the same as usual. 6/10

Greg D. Smith