<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) is trapped in the underworld, while her sisters Prue (Shannen Doherty) and Piper (Holly Marie Combs) have been left for dead by a demonic assassin. Like every Charmed season finale, the episode ends with the manor&rsquo;s stained-glass front doors magically closing. This time, its windows shatter. Charmed was never the same again.&ldquo;All Hell Breaks Loose&rdquo; marked not only the departure of Prue, but also Doherty, who played the character for the show&rsquo;s first three seasons but quit during the summer hiatus, amid reports of a cast feud. Whatever really happened behind the scenes, the third season finale provides one heck of a farewell for Doherty and her character &ndash; and, fittingly for an actor who&rsquo;s always taken Hollywood on her own terms, Doherty directed the episode herself. Yes, she directed her own death scene, months before she officially quit.As a rabid Charmed fan, I found Doherty&rsquo;s departure earth-shaking. Prue wasn&rsquo;t always the most likable character, but she was the most dependable: a grounding force. Her struggles felt raw and real. Prue battled to forge an identity beyond &ldquo;mother figure&rdquo;. An entire episode was dedicated to the fact that she couldn&rsquo;t say &ldquo;I love you&rdquo;. For her to suddenly leave right when the show was finding its feet felt cataclysmic.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">I take comfort in the fact that Doherty&rsquo;s hand is evident throughout her final episode, not least in its remarkably sober tone. Doherty would later dismiss Charmed as &ldquo;a show for 12-year-olds&rdquo;, but during her time on the series she constantly pushed it to go deeper, darker. She got her wish with &ldquo;All Hell Breaks Loose&rdquo;, an &ldquo;exposure&rdquo; storyline that revealed how bad things could get for the witch sisters if their powers were revealed to the world. Piper is shot by a Wiccan wannabe and Prue holds a bloody vigil by her hospital bed before the military moves in, and tragedy strikes with the arrival of a demonic assassin.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">I still get chills watching Doherty&rsquo;s portrait of grief in a show that often treated death with cartoon flippancy. Charmed continued without Prue, to both its detriment and benefit. Her ghost hung over the remaining five seasons and, 20 years on, &ldquo;All Hell Breaks Loose&rdquo; remains the show&rsquo;s finest hour; it never bested it, which seems right. RIP, Prue.Josh still has recurring dreams about a reunion starring all four sisters.

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