Billie Jenkins
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Billie Jenkins is a fictional character
on The WB television series Charmed
. She was played by actress Kaley Cuoco
, and appeared in every episode of the series' eighth and final season.
For most of Charmed's final season, Billie was a young apprentice witch to the Charmed Ones, and the charge of the youngest sister, half-Whitelighter
Paige Matthews
. She was also concerned about finding her long-lost sister, Christy Jenkins
--not knowing that she'd been turned evil by the demons that kidnapped her 15 years earlier.
She is known as the 'ultimate power' in demonic circles because, along with her sister Christy's pyrokinesis
, her projection power enables her to time-travel, and vanquish demons long thought unvanquishable even by the Charmed Ones, in no small part because she can also amplify the powers of others.
, much to Paige's annoyance, as this is at the time when the Charmed Ones want to remain hidden. However her character is quickly established as a powerful witch who at first does not really want any help.
When Billie discovers Paige's secret, that she is a Charmed One, she quickly persuades the sisters to teach her everything they know about witchcraft in return for keeping their identities secret. This agreement works both ways, Billie keeps their secret while learning about her craft and carrying out magic-related tasks for the sisters.
Billie's back story involves the abduction of her sister, Christy Jenkins
, by mysterious demons with unknown intentions. This is Billie's main motivation for her constant training. Her main objective is to find out who kidnapped Christy and to save her if she is still alive while investigating why it happened in the first place. . Upon meeting with an Angel of Destiny, Billie is assured that her sister is alive and she will eventually find her. As the season progresses, her sister is revealed to have been kidnapped by the Triad, a trio of upper-class demons thought dead, because she is the key to the "Ultimate Power". This is revealed to be Billie herself, as stated by the Triad.
Billie is finally reunited with her sister after 15 years. She starts to teach Christy how to control her powers. When Christy is kidnapped by the demons that are sent by the Triad, Billie goes to rescue her sister, unwilling to lose her again. While they are both down in the Underworld, Billie persuades Christy to vanquish the demons. Together, with Christy's pyrokinesis
power and Billie's telekinetic powers, they kill the demons – creating the Ultimate Power that had been foreseen by the Triad.
However, neither Billie nor the Charmed Ones know that Christy is working with the Triad, the same trio of demons who sent Cole Turner
/Belthazor after the Charmed Ones. Christy's sense of morality has been badly warped; she thinks the Charmed Ones are actually evil. The Triad were persuaded by Dumain, an "imaginary friend" of Christy's who is really an upper-level demon, to let Christy be freed in hopes that she could turn Billie against the Charmed Ones.
It is originally believed that the Triad are the major threat the sisters are supposed to face. This is not the case, as Leo Wyatt
, Piper Halliwell
's husband, is not returned by the Angel of Destiny after two of them are vanquished. The remaining Triad member reminds Christy that Billie is the "Ultimate Power", and she must save her from the Charmed Ones, who have since been vilified. Through manipulating certain events, Christy manages to convince Billie that the Charmed Ones are on the verge of being corrupted by their power. Billie turns on the sisters, although she is reluctant to kill them.
Billie and Christy face the sisters in the Halliwell Manor
, with both sides empowered by the supernatural force called The Hollow. Because each side has taken in The Hollow and Billie and Christy have stolen Wyatt
's magic, their powers are evenly matched. The vast amount of power quickly spirals out of control, resulting in a massive explosion which obliterates the Manor and kills Phoebe, Paige, and Christy. Only Billie and Piper survive. After the battle The Hollow returns to its containment.
Following this destruction the Angel of Destiny brings back Leo, and notes this wasn't the way the battle was supposed to end. Piper finds Billie buried in the rubble and starts beating her, but Leo distracts Piper and allows Billie to escape. While Piper attempts to find a solution with Leo, Billie returns to the Magic School and finds Dumain, who tells her she can project herself back in time and save Christy. However, when Dumain tries to get Billie to go to the Triad first, she realizes that she's been used all along. She projects herself back in time to try to prevent the recent events and to persuade her sister to stop trying to kill the Charmed Ones.
Billie arrives at the Manor to find her past self and Christy heading downstairs to confront the Charmed Ones. She tries to warn them, but her past self throws her into the wall. Events would have carried on as before if it weren't for Piper who, with the help of Patty and Penny
, who had been recruited from different times in the past, banishes the Hollow before the explosion happens. With these events changed, and all the witches now alive, Billie tries to reason with Christy. However, Christy won't listen, even when Billie tells her Dumain tried to get her to go to the Triad first. A disillusioned Billie realizes her sister has turned into a killer.
Billie returns to the Manor and tells the Charmed Ones that she now realizes Christy and Dumain have been using her. The sisters are skeptical at first, but hear her out. Using her powers to project herself and the Charmed Ones to the Triad before they called up the Hollow, they find Dumain and Christy have also traveled back to warn them. The Charmed Ones vanquish the Triad with potions, and Piper blows up past and present Dumain. Billie begs Christy one last time to reject evil. Instead, in an act of rage, Christy launches a huge fireball at Billie and the Charmed Ones. Billie is forced to kill her in self-defense by telekinetically deflecting the fireball back at Christy. With her entire family now gone (Carl and Helen had been murdered by demons sent by the Triad), she breaks down as the Charmed Ones comfort her.
When the Charmed Ones start to write their story down, it is revealed that Billie remains a close family friend and the sisters' strongest ally. She is seen in the finale babysitting Phoebe's two oldest daughters. Out of the three sisters, she was closest to Phoebe, because even though Paige was her Whitelighter, Phoebe was the one who was always there for Billie and always saw the best in her. Phoebe was also the Charmed One who most strongly protested killing Billie after the secret of the "Ultimate Power" was revealed.
Though Billie and Christy were both witches, albeit ones that manifested their powers later in life than normal, their parents had no magical powers and were mortal. Both of their parents were the product of unions between a witch and a mortal, resulting in normal mortal children with latent witch genes. It is confirmed that Billie's grandmother was a witch.
At first the power activated subconsciously, while Billie was suppressing her emotions, transforming an object without her intention. She transformed fresh flowers into dead ones after saying her parents are going to "suck the life out of this place" and then the plants literally got the life sucked out of them. Then accusing her parents of being "coldhearted assassins", accidentally transformed them into just that. Upon gaining greater control over the power she displayed the ability to transform a dying Penjing tree into a younger, healthier version of itself at the 'beginning of its cycle', cleanse The Charmed Ones of evil influence, create illusionary duplicates of herself and her sister and also amplify Christy's power to the degree that it could incinerate a demon thought unvanquishable. Another powerful application of this power was to allow Billie to transport herself through time by force of will.
Initially, Billie was more interested in fighting demons than learning her craft. However, under the Charmed Ones' training, Billie becomes a fairly skillful witch with potion-making and spellcasting abilities rivaling those of the Halliwells.
Billie uses a more modern form of scrying
than the Charmed Ones. While the Charmed Ones waved a crystal over a giant map, Billie attached her scrying crystal to her computer's mouse. This allowed her to scry on Internet maps. When she found her target a red square appeared on the area. This was used as a form of GPS, allowing Billie to pinpoint the location of the target.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
on The WB television series Charmed
Charmed
Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
. She was played by actress Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...
, and appeared in every episode of the series' eighth and final season.
For most of Charmed's final season, Billie was a young apprentice witch to the Charmed Ones, and the charge of the youngest sister, half-Whitelighter
Whitelighter
A Whitelighter is a fictional character featured on the WB television series Charmed. These beings are former human mortals who are given a second chance at life in order to serve under an angelic group known as The Elders as guardian angels for good witches and other future...
Paige Matthews
Paige Matthews
Paige Matthews is a fictional character from the television series Charmed. One of the featured leads, Paige is introduced at the start of season four as the fourth Halliwell sister and youngest Charmed One one of the most powerful witches of all time. The character was portrayed by Rose McGowan...
. She was also concerned about finding her long-lost sister, Christy Jenkins
Christy Jenkins
Christy Jenkins is a fictional character from the television series Charmed. The character was primarily portrayed by Marnette Patterson in eight episodes in 2006, with the character as a whole appearing in ten episodes of the eighth season.-Television:...
--not knowing that she'd been turned evil by the demons that kidnapped her 15 years earlier.
She is known as the 'ultimate power' in demonic circles because, along with her sister Christy's pyrokinesis
Pyrokinesis
Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words and , was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in Firestarter...
, her projection power enables her to time-travel, and vanquish demons long thought unvanquishable even by the Charmed Ones, in no small part because she can also amplify the powers of others.
Character background
Billie Jenkins is introduced in the show's eighth season as a young college student, who is also a witch who pays more attention to demon fighting than to her education. At first she is introduced as a new charge for Paige MatthewsPaige Matthews
Paige Matthews is a fictional character from the television series Charmed. One of the featured leads, Paige is introduced at the start of season four as the fourth Halliwell sister and youngest Charmed One one of the most powerful witches of all time. The character was portrayed by Rose McGowan...
, much to Paige's annoyance, as this is at the time when the Charmed Ones want to remain hidden. However her character is quickly established as a powerful witch who at first does not really want any help.
When Billie discovers Paige's secret, that she is a Charmed One, she quickly persuades the sisters to teach her everything they know about witchcraft in return for keeping their identities secret. This agreement works both ways, Billie keeps their secret while learning about her craft and carrying out magic-related tasks for the sisters.
Billie's back story involves the abduction of her sister, Christy Jenkins
Christy Jenkins
Christy Jenkins is a fictional character from the television series Charmed. The character was primarily portrayed by Marnette Patterson in eight episodes in 2006, with the character as a whole appearing in ten episodes of the eighth season.-Television:...
, by mysterious demons with unknown intentions. This is Billie's main motivation for her constant training. Her main objective is to find out who kidnapped Christy and to save her if she is still alive while investigating why it happened in the first place. . Upon meeting with an Angel of Destiny, Billie is assured that her sister is alive and she will eventually find her. As the season progresses, her sister is revealed to have been kidnapped by the Triad, a trio of upper-class demons thought dead, because she is the key to the "Ultimate Power". This is revealed to be Billie herself, as stated by the Triad.
Billie is finally reunited with her sister after 15 years. She starts to teach Christy how to control her powers. When Christy is kidnapped by the demons that are sent by the Triad, Billie goes to rescue her sister, unwilling to lose her again. While they are both down in the Underworld, Billie persuades Christy to vanquish the demons. Together, with Christy's pyrokinesis
Pyrokinesis
Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words and , was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in Firestarter...
power and Billie's telekinetic powers, they kill the demons – creating the Ultimate Power that had been foreseen by the Triad.
However, neither Billie nor the Charmed Ones know that Christy is working with the Triad, the same trio of demons who sent Cole Turner
Cole Turner
Cole Turner is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed, portrayed by series regular Julian McMahon between seasons three and five. McMahon returned for a guest appearance in the show's seventh season, for its 150th episode. Charmed is a series which focuses on three good witches,...
/Belthazor after the Charmed Ones. Christy's sense of morality has been badly warped; she thinks the Charmed Ones are actually evil. The Triad were persuaded by Dumain, an "imaginary friend" of Christy's who is really an upper-level demon, to let Christy be freed in hopes that she could turn Billie against the Charmed Ones.
It is originally believed that the Triad are the major threat the sisters are supposed to face. This is not the case, as Leo Wyatt
Leo Wyatt
Leonardo "Leo" Wyatt is a fictional character from The WB television series Charmed, portrayed by Brian Krause. A possible breakout character included in the writing initially as a love interest beginning in the seventh episode of the first season that initially set Phoebe and Piper quarreling and...
, Piper Halliwell
Piper Halliwell
Piper Halliwell is a fictional character from the television series Charmed. One of the featured leads, Piper is introduced in the series as a witch and, more specifically, a Charmed One one of the most powerful witches of all time. The character was portrayed by Holly Marie Combs throughout the...
's husband, is not returned by the Angel of Destiny after two of them are vanquished. The remaining Triad member reminds Christy that Billie is the "Ultimate Power", and she must save her from the Charmed Ones, who have since been vilified. Through manipulating certain events, Christy manages to convince Billie that the Charmed Ones are on the verge of being corrupted by their power. Billie turns on the sisters, although she is reluctant to kill them.
Billie and Christy face the sisters in the Halliwell Manor
Halliwell Manor
Halliwell Manor is a fictional house, an important setting for the WB television series Charmed. Members of the Halliwell family have owned the Manor property for four generations...
, with both sides empowered by the supernatural force called The Hollow. Because each side has taken in The Hollow and Billie and Christy have stolen Wyatt
Wyatt Halliwell
Wyatt Matthew Halliwell is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed. Charmed is a series which focuses on three good witches, the prophesied "Charmed Ones", sisters who battle the forces of evil. In present day scenes, infant Wyatt is portrayed by twins Jason and Kristopher...
's magic, their powers are evenly matched. The vast amount of power quickly spirals out of control, resulting in a massive explosion which obliterates the Manor and kills Phoebe, Paige, and Christy. Only Billie and Piper survive. After the battle The Hollow returns to its containment.
Following this destruction the Angel of Destiny brings back Leo, and notes this wasn't the way the battle was supposed to end. Piper finds Billie buried in the rubble and starts beating her, but Leo distracts Piper and allows Billie to escape. While Piper attempts to find a solution with Leo, Billie returns to the Magic School and finds Dumain, who tells her she can project herself back in time and save Christy. However, when Dumain tries to get Billie to go to the Triad first, she realizes that she's been used all along. She projects herself back in time to try to prevent the recent events and to persuade her sister to stop trying to kill the Charmed Ones.
Billie arrives at the Manor to find her past self and Christy heading downstairs to confront the Charmed Ones. She tries to warn them, but her past self throws her into the wall. Events would have carried on as before if it weren't for Piper who, with the help of Patty and Penny
Penny Halliwell
Penelope Halliwell is a recurring, supporting fictional character from the WB television series Charmed that acts in our world from beyond death....
, who had been recruited from different times in the past, banishes the Hollow before the explosion happens. With these events changed, and all the witches now alive, Billie tries to reason with Christy. However, Christy won't listen, even when Billie tells her Dumain tried to get her to go to the Triad first. A disillusioned Billie realizes her sister has turned into a killer.
Billie returns to the Manor and tells the Charmed Ones that she now realizes Christy and Dumain have been using her. The sisters are skeptical at first, but hear her out. Using her powers to project herself and the Charmed Ones to the Triad before they called up the Hollow, they find Dumain and Christy have also traveled back to warn them. The Charmed Ones vanquish the Triad with potions, and Piper blows up past and present Dumain. Billie begs Christy one last time to reject evil. Instead, in an act of rage, Christy launches a huge fireball at Billie and the Charmed Ones. Billie is forced to kill her in self-defense by telekinetically deflecting the fireball back at Christy. With her entire family now gone (Carl and Helen had been murdered by demons sent by the Triad), she breaks down as the Charmed Ones comfort her.
When the Charmed Ones start to write their story down, it is revealed that Billie remains a close family friend and the sisters' strongest ally. She is seen in the finale babysitting Phoebe's two oldest daughters. Out of the three sisters, she was closest to Phoebe, because even though Paige was her Whitelighter, Phoebe was the one who was always there for Billie and always saw the best in her. Phoebe was also the Charmed One who most strongly protested killing Billie after the secret of the "Ultimate Power" was revealed.
Though Billie and Christy were both witches, albeit ones that manifested their powers later in life than normal, their parents had no magical powers and were mortal. Both of their parents were the product of unions between a witch and a mortal, resulting in normal mortal children with latent witch genes. It is confirmed that Billie's grandmother was a witch.
Powers and abilities
Billie is an upper-level witch, though not as powerful as the Charmed Ones. She has the power of telekinesis, the ability to move objects with her mind. It is suggested that she learned to master her powers quickly as she used her telekinetic powers to enhance her natural acrobatic and fighting talents so that she could perform flips and other gravity defying maneuvers. Billie told Paige she hadn't had her powers for "that long"; most likely being a year at the most. As she grew as a witch a second latent power manifested: the ability of projection. This power was initially identified as the ability (as Phoebe put it) to turn people and things into whatever comes to mind without a spell or potion, but was later revealed to be a greater power to manipulate reality and time itself.At first the power activated subconsciously, while Billie was suppressing her emotions, transforming an object without her intention. She transformed fresh flowers into dead ones after saying her parents are going to "suck the life out of this place" and then the plants literally got the life sucked out of them. Then accusing her parents of being "coldhearted assassins", accidentally transformed them into just that. Upon gaining greater control over the power she displayed the ability to transform a dying Penjing tree into a younger, healthier version of itself at the 'beginning of its cycle', cleanse The Charmed Ones of evil influence, create illusionary duplicates of herself and her sister and also amplify Christy's power to the degree that it could incinerate a demon thought unvanquishable. Another powerful application of this power was to allow Billie to transport herself through time by force of will.
Initially, Billie was more interested in fighting demons than learning her craft. However, under the Charmed Ones' training, Billie becomes a fairly skillful witch with potion-making and spellcasting abilities rivaling those of the Halliwells.
Billie uses a more modern form of scrying
Scrying
Scrying is a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in a medium, usually for purposes of obtaining spiritual visions and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. The most common media used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals,...
than the Charmed Ones. While the Charmed Ones waved a crystal over a giant map, Billie attached her scrying crystal to her computer's mouse. This allowed her to scry on Internet maps. When she found her target a red square appeared on the area. This was used as a form of GPS, allowing Billie to pinpoint the location of the target.