WB-When Cole (Julian McMahon) realizes that he must eventually give in to his evil destiny, he attacks the Charmed Ones in the hope that they will vanquish him forever and end his suffering. Meanwhile, Paige (Rose McGowan) gets her first charge as a Whitelighter and is shocked when the angry, self-pitying man she is supposed to protect turns out to be the father she never knew. Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and Brian Krause also star. Joel Feigenbaum directed the episode written by Alison Schapker & Monica Breen.
TV Guide- The elders give Paige her first assignment as a whitelighter, but they won't allow Leo to tell the novice that her charge is someone connected to her past. Meanwhile, Cole gets a proposition from two ethereal beings who are neither good nor evil. The Flaming Lips perform in the episode.
TV Tome-Paige gets to know the Whitelighter in her, when she meets her first charge, a man named Sam, unbeknownst to her is actually her real father. Meanwhile Cole tries every possible way to get himself vanquished by the Charmed Ones. Piper and Leo have problems in finding a magical creature that does the babysitting part, and things go bad to worse when they're poisoned by a Darklighter, leaving Sam as the only one who can save them.
