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1Piper and Leo prepare for a ski trip. Henry asks Paige to look for a parolee's baby while he tracks down his father. Phoebe grows disillusioned with her life and her powers. When Agent Murphy asks Piper and Phoebe to track down a Krychek demon, they find the usually inoffensive demon enraged and completely disfigured, and later Billie sees the Krychek die and another demon undergo a similar mutation. It turns out a virus is causing this, and Billie gets infected.
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4* DespairEventHorizon: Phoebe comes to believe her premonitions of having children one day will never come true and loses faith in her powers.
5* FreudianExcuse: Henry wants to prevent the baby from going to a foster home because he was in one as a child, and it wasn't a happy experience.
6* HulkingOut: The infected become more muscular, demonic looking, and powerful. The term is even lampshaded.
7* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Phoebe's last premonition takes her six years into the future, where she talks to herself about her doubts over ever having a child.
8* ParentalAbandonment: The baby's mother is going to prison; the father is stable, but he doesn't even know about the kid. Henry is struggling to find the man, and Paige ultimately resorts to magic.
9* PatientZero: The demon known as Patient X. He was immune, but he became a carrier.
10* RaceAgainstTheClock: The virus is terminal; the more powerful the infected, the faster they die. The sisters go into overdrive to fix this after Billie is infected.

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