1x12 The Wendigo - Charmed Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x12

Episode: 01x12
Title: The Wendigo
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 4398011
First Aired: Feb. 03, 1999

Season 1 » Episode #12 - The Wendigo

Summary: Piper is attacked by a vicious beast. Andy goes on a stakeout with an FBI agent who is hunting the creature. Prue hires Phoebe to work at the auction house, but Phoebe's vision of a terrible car crash immediately sends her off on a mission to find a long-lost child.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Inspector Andy Trudeau	played by Ted King (II)
Ashley Fallon	played by Jocelyn Seagrave
Billy Waters	played by Billy Jayne
Harriet Lane	played by J. Karen Thomas
Laurence Beck	played by Charles Chun
Claire Pryce	played by Cristine Rose
Auctioneer	played by Richard S. Wolf
Teri Lane	played by Christina Milian
ER Doctor	played by William Dixon

	Season 1 / Episode 12: - The Wendigo Piper Halliwell: Describe it? Okay... big, scary, strong... kind of like a cross between a werewolf and Charles Manson.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - The Wendigo Inspector Andy Trudeau: I'm not altogether convinced it's a quote-unquote creature. The blood types, the full moon, the stolen hearts that feels like ritual. And ritual is human. Could be just one sick mind behind these crimes.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Piper is trying to use the wooden spoon as a jack handle, the spoon cracks off in a diagonal splintered break, the next time you see the spoon, it is a flat break with tiny splinters on top.
CONT: Piper breaks off a wooden spoon in the car jack, the scene cuts to her sisters talking to her on the phone, and when it cuts back the spoon is no longer broken and splintered.
FAKE: When Prue and Pheobe are called home by a very sick Piper she says "I'm miserable" then rips off her bandage, and for a split second removes the graying wendigo skin that is under the bandage.
CREW: When Prue first fires the Flare gun at the Wendigo the tree lights up and you can see a crew member behind the tree.
CONT: Agent Fallon's hands are empty when she kills Billy but in the next shot, her hands are down at her sides and she's holding a purse.

TRIVIA

The first time that one of the sisters (Piper) turns into something evil.
The term "vanquish" pertaining to killing or destroying evil beings is used for the first time.
The Wendigo is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.