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Just when Piper 'tempts fate' by stating it's Friday 13, the sisters get shot at- Prue manages to reverse the fatal bullets, but it turns out to be a mortal hit-woman, Mrs. Hellfire, who was hired to kill off 13 witches, one of which, over-enthusiastic novice Marcie Steadwell, they must help Darryl protect. While Bucklands new boss tells Prue she has to team up with Jack and sell $100,000 in 24h or both be sacked, she has to pretend to be the glamorous hit-woman to meet the sexy mafioso Jessup Bane, who the sisters rightly suspect to be a pawn of the demon of fear, Barbas.

First time that Darryl Morris learned that the sisters are witches.

Prue (Shannen Doherty) is the first sister to get a power upgrade. She gets the power of Astral Projection from this episode forward.

This episode was released on the 13th of January 2000, as the episode did take place on a Friday the 13th. But the airtime was premiered on Thursday the 13th, not Friday.

Originally the role of Bane Jessup played by Antonio Sabato Jr. in episode "Ms. Hellfire" was supposed to be filled by actor Richard Grieco but Charmed actress/producer Shannen Doherty objected to the casting and was quickly supported in that decision by fellow stars Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs.

2nd appearance of the Demon Of Fear(played by Billy Drago) however this is the first episode in which he is referred to as Barbas.

Hellfire is also a multi-platform, multi-target United States Army modular missile system. The name comes from the fact that it was originally intended to be a helicopter-launched fire-and-forget weapon (HELicopter FIRE-and-forget).

This episode is one of the very few times when one of the sisters, Piper in this case, calls Prue "Prudence," possibly because of the seriousness and danger of the situation.

User reviews


  • comment
    • Author: Aver
    The episode is rather light-hearted. When the sisters keep bickering under a full-on hail of gunfire, you get the idea that the stakes won't be too high. Still, it introduces two novelties : first, Prue starts to astral project, which means she now has a passive power besides her active one. (This is rather unfair to poor Phoebe, who regularly gets cheated in the power department: her strangled squeak at being described as "negligible" doesn't even sound so indignant, as if she partially agreed.) Secondly, Darryl Morris discovers the truth about the sisters. Quite unexpectedly, where Andy's reaction had caused a lot of drama, Darryl does not give them a hard time about it at all. In fact, he sort of blanks out once the word "magic" is out, refusing to know more --an attitude he will be faithful to, despite the Charmed Ones' and Fate's best efforts to involve him in creepy situations.

    The other interesting fact about that episode is that it reintroduces Barbas, the demon of Fear whom the sisters vanquished last year... and whom they will vanquish over and over again, until he becomes more a pest than a nemesis. Apparently it's not that easy to get rid of fear. And Billy Drago plays a deliciously sly Barbas.

    As for the main plot, it is coherent with Prue's character: when faced with too much stress, her subconscious finds interesting (and mostly troublesome) ways of going elsewhere --and she is also quite attracted to bad boys (Marry Go Round). At least she's having fun, and her clear attraction to Bane Jessup will be the object of another episode. Granted, there are some weaknesses, mostly based on the fact that once again Prue leads the episode while her sisters fill in the blanks (some scenes with the overenthusiastic witch really feel like padding.) Still, I have to smile when I watch Prue and Piper investigate Ms. Hellfire's flat : Piper rushes straight to the kitchen while Prue delves into the wardrobe. I guess Phoebe would have studied the bed!
  • comment
    • Author: Zetadda
    A hit-woman tries to kill the Halliwell sisters on Friday, 13th, shooting their house but she dies when Prue protects herself and her sisters from the bullets. They find that she was Ms. Hellfire, and Prue goes undercover to investigate why a mortal woman wished to kill them. Prue discloses that she was hired by the gangster Bane Jessup, who associated to the Demon of Fear Barbas, to kill the Halliwell sisters and other witches before midnight.

    In "Ms. Hellfire", Barbas returns but is again vanquished by the Halliwell sisters. Prue develops the ability of astral projection and the sisters disclose to Darryl Morris that they are good witches. I do not know how Prue was able to get the fortune of Ms. Hellfire to Buckland's Auction House. The silly Marcie Stedwell is annoying, and this episode is very weak. My vote is five.

    Title (Brazil): "A Sra. Hellfire" ("The Mrs. Hellfire")
  • comment
    • Author: VariesWent
    Ms. Hellfire deals with Bar as hiring assassins to destroy the Charmed ones and ten other witches before midnight. Prue has to sell her while inventory 31st work with her partner Jack and has developed astral projection. I'm glad Baras is back since he's my favorite demon scary, giving out bad puns and trying to stay on the mortal plane. It was clever to hire hit men since he failed last time yet I found hi a expertise in finding a killer for hire are terrible since she doesn't last three minutes with the witches. Another flaw in his plan is one of the women only thinks of herself as a wiccian would it still count of do they need to have to have a family tree dating to Salem is left in The air.

    Besides the flaws I found Prue feeling stressed lately needing to be in more then one place as true to character, even though she should be able to levitate not astral project, yet it works to show how torn and over worked she is. When some excitement comes her way to go undercover as Hellfire she jumps right into it without a second thought.
  • comment
    • Author: Goltizuru
    I really like this episode. I love to see how Prue's powers advanced.

    In this episode, it's Friday The 13th and the Halliwell sisters don't exactly have the best track record when it comes to that date. Not since they became witches, anyway. At the beginning of the episode, they are almost killed by a hit-woman. But Prue sent one of the woman's flying bullets, right back at her, so that didn't work out well for her. They find out that she knew they had powers and they also find out that nine out of the thirteen witches on her hit list, have been killed since midnight. Thirteen dead witches before midnight on Friday The 13th, ring any bells? Yes that's right, Barbas is back. The sisters must tell Darryl their secret so he can help them hid the woman's body. Prue and Piper go to the hit- woman's apartment and then some thugs come looking for the woman, named Ms. Hellfire. They thought Prue was her, so Prue pretended to be her, to find out who is working with Barbas. In the end, Barbas finds out that Prue is impersonating Ms. Hellfire and he tries to control her into killing Piper and Phoebe. Obviously, Piper and Phoebe were able to convince her not to kill them. In the end, Barbas didn't make his quota and was sent back to the vanquished-demon world. Also, Prue got a new power, astral projection. If she can move things with her mind, why not her body.

    Fun Fact: This episode was aired on the 13th of January, but a Thursday, not a Friday, but that's still pretty good.

    Overall, I give this episode a 9 out of 10.
  • Episode complete credited cast:
    Shannen Doherty Shannen Doherty - Prue Halliwell
    Holly Marie Combs Holly Marie Combs - Piper Halliwell
    Alyssa Milano Alyssa Milano - Phoebe Halliwell
    Greg Vaughan Greg Vaughan - Dan Gordon
    Dorian Gregory Dorian Gregory - Darryl Morris
    Billy Drago Billy Drago - Barbas
    Courtney Gains Courtney Gains - D. J., Bane's Right Hand
    Hynden Walch Hynden Walch - Marcie Steadwell
    Antonio Sabato Jr. Antonio Sabato Jr. - Bane Jessup
    Lochlyn Munro Lochlyn Munro - Jack Sheridan
    Carlo Castronovo Carlo Castronovo - Willis
    Tom Simmons Tom Simmons - Coroner
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